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Updated at 11:15 PM, May 31, 2006, plus image. A capture of an image from the Japanese research team videotape of a one-meter long coelacanth taken off Indonesia on May 30, 2006. No date for the release of the video has been given. Robin Stobbs, a coelacanth researcher in South Africa, has informed me that […]

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This “Fence Fiend” was seen in Illinois merely days ago. It may still be out there. What could it be? There’s a breaking sighting that just occurred in the 309 Area Code region. Some encounters don’t easily sort out as a Bigfoot versus some kind of other cryptid, without going through hours of work, including […]

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As several of the readers here on Cryptomundo alluded to in the post about the latest trail cam photo of Bigfoot, the subject of the photo resembles the Phoenix Suns mascot. The Suns were formed in 1968 when it was determined the citizens of Phoenix needed something to do other than complain about the weather. […]

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The "what-are-theys" are happening faster than I can post them all before my trip to Texas this week to speak at the Bigfoot exhibit at UT. Now comes this Baffin Island mystery. Here’s another one for May 30th. Canadian Canoe reporter John Thompson, through a dispatch from Iqaluit writes: A mysterious skull discovered on the […]

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Now there’s something to eat in honor of John A. Keel. The Charleston Daily Mail is running a story on May 30, 2006, about Point Pleasant’s Village Pizza Inn making the “scariest pizza you’ve ever seen.” Apparently, it is a local secret as the specialty doesn’t actually appear on the printed menu — but it […]

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After posting the Trail Cam Bigfoot photo from Outdoor Life magazine, I decided to do a little followup. The person who sent in the photo was identified by name and location in the magazine. I did an internet search on the name and got a phone number. I called yesterday at 4 PM CST and […]

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There is a May 30, 2006, news item that is one of those tidbits that have you scratching your head. It is running in the China Daily under the headline "Bizarre Creature Puzzles Thousands." The entire article (note: it sometimes becomes a deadlink, having mysteriously vanished 12 hours after it was first published) reads: Thousands […]

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Known and remembered for his dozens of character roles, such as the angry high school principal in The Breakfast Club to the teacher in National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, actor Paul Gleason, 67, died May 27, 2006. Shortly before his death, Gleason appeared as the no-nonsense disbelieving Sheriff Halderman in Ryan Schifrin’s Abominable (2006), which aired […]

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Former newspaper reporter and current Wisconsin cryptozoological author Linda Godfrey was able to get the late 2005 sighting of Matt Wakeley in her new book, Hunting the American Werewolf, published in March 2006. But it wasn’t until recently that she was able to sit down with the eyewitness and turn his description into a forensically-correct […]

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Peter Brown (above with the LB1 skull) passes along word that another Homo floresiensis volume is due out soon. The book is Little People And A Lost World: An Anthropological Mystery (ISBN: 0822559838) by Linda Goldenberg Atkinson. It targets the juvenile readership, at 112 pages, from the Lerner Publishing Group in their Twenty-First Century Books […]

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In the June/July 2006 issue of Outdoor Life magazine, there is a game camera photo purportedly of a Bigfoot. Mike Tomesh’s alleged Trail Cam photo from Wisconsin. Here is the text accompanying the photo in the magazine. With a single mention of Bigfoot in the February 2006 issue of OUTDOOR LIFE, we suddenly found our […]

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Sometimes it causes me a little tribulation to announce the reprint of a new book, and this is one of those times. Not because of the contents of the book, not because of the original author, and not even because of the price. No, sometimes, I have feelings about seeing good books republished too quickly […]

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Ray Wallace lives on. Memorial Day weekend is a good time to reflect on the ones that have passed along, and notice their impact. Positively and negatively. It is also a time to renew the cry to remove the bad data, remove the fakery in our midst, remove the Wallace fake track photos from the […]

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As Loren alluded to in his comment here on Cryptomundo, and one of the points that Rick Noll made and I was trying to reinforce here on Cryptomundo, is that it takes patience and persistence. Hopefully, this post will give folks something to think about over the Memorial Day Weekend. This piece was authored by […]

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The following is a quote from Rick Noll that I wholeheartedly agree with. "I will say one thing right now – I am getting pretty tired of listening to the wild speculations about Bigfoot’s intelligence and very little disclosure as to really just how much time and effort was or is being placed on the […]

Read: Bigfoot Research: Failures in the Field »