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Fox News has a thing about Bigfoot. The sensationalizing news organization’s producers are drawn to the subject and repulsed by it. It is as if after they have made a programming decision to embrace the topic, they find themselves in a nightmare and turn on the concept they have created.
Fox News staff are enchanted [...]

Read: Bigfoot & Moneymaker on Fox Video »

Michael Rugg explains local Bigfoot sightings at the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton.
(Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Researchers convene to weigh evidence of Bigfoot
FELTON — They’re said to have a weakness for cinnamon graham crackers.
True or not, tidbits such as that, along with stories, sightings, theories and thoughts, will join more serious study when researchers, field investigators, eyewitnesses and [...]

Read: Bigfoot Discovery in Santa Cruz Mountains Today! »

While it is a long shot, there are still people today who report sightings of Dodo birds. Needless to say, even when new fossil remains are found of these avian wonders, the media tends to go a little dodo itself.
Reporter Ed Harris of Reuters learned from Julian Hume, a paleontologist at Britain’s Natural History [...]

Read: Going Dodo Over Tassie Tiger Doodoo and Dodo Bones »

A statue of the Mapinguari, an Amazon legend, in the Chico Mendes Park in the city of Rio Branco, Acre.
(Lalo de Almeida FOR THE NYT)
It’s stinky, hairy and mean – but is Amazon Big Foot real?
RIO BRANCO, Brazil: Perhaps it is nothing more than a legend, as skeptics say. Or maybe it [...]

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Little is known of what the Soviet Russians did on their Pamir Mountains’ “Snowmen” expeditions of the 1960s, especially if they contained non-Russian members.
What were their goals? What did they find? Was Tom Slick or one of his friends secretly involved in funding one such expedition?

Malcolm Slesser.
The death on Tuesday, June 26, 2007, announced today, [...]

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As the 40th anniversary of the Patterson-Gimlin footage nears, it is time to re-read a contribution of Darren Naish, Ph. D., formerly of the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK. Naish wrote a thoughtful blog on “Frame 352, and all that.”

In his lengthy essay, in one portion Naish specifically addresses anthropologist [...]

Read: 40th Nears: Reexamine Frame 352 »

In celebration and dedicated to my birthstate (Norfolk, Virginia: July 12, 1947; yep, my father was in the U. S. Navy)….here’s a June 29, 2007 review of Weird Virginia, a new book by Jeff Bahr, Troy Taylor and Loren Coleman.

Weird Virginia
As some have told me, I did come in with the era of modern “flying [...]

Read: Out Of The Ordinary: Weird Virginia »

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Maine officials taking big cat photo seriously
By Kathryn Skelton , Staff Writer
Friday, June 29, 2007
A photo making e-mail rounds Thursday [June 28, 2007] that shows what looks like a big, rare cat in a Sidney backyard is real, according to the Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife spokesman.
Whether that’s [...]

Read: New Maine Mystery Cat Photo Details »

3TV Exclusive: New Bigfoot video surfaces
Exclusive new videotape may show elusive Bigfoot creature
Bigfoot hunters are eating their hearts out. Cryptozoologists are hoping this new video may be the evidence they’ve sought. Skeptics are already dismissing it as another man in a monkey suit.
On a secret, secluded location in the north Texas woods, a video camera [...]

Read: New Bigfoot Video From Texas? »

Lewiston, Maine’s Sun Journal’s morning edition for Friday, June 29th, will be breaking the story of a new sighting and photograph of the following Mystery Cat.

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This new photograph was taken near Sidney, Maine, in the central part of the state. Game wardens feel it shows proof of a [...]

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Bigfooter Allen Foster takes a peek at the latest episode about reports of hairy hominoids in Malaysia on Destination Truth:
The “team” went to Malaysia to find Bigfoot.
The leader, Josh Gates, interviewed the Malaysia’s leading Bigfoot researcher, Vincent Chow.
Then they went to a local town near the last reported sighting and interviewed witnesses. Off into the [...]

Read: Destination Truth: Johor Bigfoot »

In the wake of “Krantz Is Dead: Comment to Anthropologist Hawks,” a couple updates are worthy of passing along.
The Associated Press dispatches on the Michigan search for Bigfoot, being published since yesterday afternoon, have been revised to note that Krantz is no longer living. The media mentions the “late Grover Krantz, a Washington State [...]

Read: The AP & Dr. Hawks Respond »

John Hawks, (Ph.D., 1999) an anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, writes a popular blog on all subjects he feels impact on anthropology. His contributions are usually intelligent and look at various sides of anthropological debates.
However, once in a blue moon, usually with tongue-in-cheek, Hawks writes about Bigfoot-related items, such as [...]

Read: Krantz Is Dead: Comment to Anthropologist Hawks »

This “new” Bigfoot video was taken in August 2002, on Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California.
You be the judge about the visuals here.
The videographer says this about what he caught on tape:
I discovered the area one day [while] taking my son out to give my wife at the time a break. I notice we were not [...]

Read: Newly Released Mt. Tam Bigfoot Video »

China finds new species of big, bird-like dinosaur
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – China has uncovered the skeletal remains of a gigantic, surprisingly bird-like dinosaur, which has been classed as a new species.
Eight meters (26 ft) long and standing at twice the height of a man at the shoulder, the fossil of the feathered but flightless [...]

Read: China Discovers Gigantoraptor Dinosaur »