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The North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research
Saturday, April 12, 2008
On April 12, 2008, the Greater Boston Bigfoot Institute (GBBRI) will celebrate its grand opening with the North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research (NASSR), which will feature two unique events.
Free Family Event
From 12:00 - 4:00 p.m., GBBRI will be open to the public, featuring family [...]

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Did someone in New Zealand get wind of the “Molester Blames Bigfoot” story of last week, and decide to float the following about? Humm, I guess I could have posted this on my “copycat effect” blog.
But it seems more likely that it is another one for the “humans-are-weird-animals” file.
BTW, there are three kinds of [...]

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No wild, captive, or zoological garden gorillas existed in the state of Maine in 1973. The above example of a zoo gorilla is for illustrative purposes only.
During July of 1973, the rural town of Durham, Maine, in Androscoggin County (and into nearby Cumberland County), was the site of several reports of a “gorilla.”
The following [...]

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This is amazing, if it is true:

Credit Cory Dortorow.
Boing Boing had earlier dealt with elephants as artists and linked to the National Geographic article on elephants as musicians.

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Ten years after the last “X-Files” movie hit theaters, the team behind the hit sci-franchise is tossing out some tidbits about the sequel, currently scheduled for release on July 25, 2008.
The film, which has not yet been named, will mark the return of David Duchovny as Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Scully, two FBI agents [...]

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The Daily Picayune of New Orleans, Louisiana, for December 4, 1892, published the following story, perhaps mistitled, “An Amphibious Monster.”
A most extraordinary story comes from Boise City, Idaho, which is said to be well authenticated.
It says that while three travelers were at the upper end of Lake Chelan recently one of them went into the [...]

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A wolverine has been captured on camera by an Oregon State student, Katie Moriarty.
Confirming new photographs (below) have been recorded from the Tahoe National Forest in California, during mid-March 2008.
Earlier, it was established this is the first wolverine verified in California since 1922.

Side view of a wolverine photographed by a remotely triggered camera at a [...]

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Two years ago, in 2006, ABC-TV obtained for screening a video of a large object in Lake Champlain that was said to be Champ, originally taken in August 2005. (Please read more here, here, and here.)

Now the entire video has become available, via YouTube.

What do you Cryptomundians see in the video?
(Please, for those that [...]

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I would like to apologize for a delay in sending out some of the books ordered by folks weeks ago. I thank many of you for your patience. Yes, several books have been sent out. Some have not.
While I had a small supply of books, which I wanted to offer at almost cost [...]

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The Greater White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura russula), shown above, is a small shrew found in Europe and North Africa, and related to the species newly discovered.
A new, endemic species of shrew Crocidura hikmiya, has been described from Sri Lanka. The new shrew is presently only known from mid-montane and lowland rainforests of Sinharaja.
This shrew was previously [...]

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A mascot inhabiting the Baseball Cryptozoo, with an identity from cryptozoology and hominology, gets a new name.

The Northwest Arkansas Naturals announced earlier this month that the name of their furry, baseball-loving Sasquatch will hereby be known as “Strike.”
Several hundred entries were submitted in the team’s “Name the Mascot” contest in January 2008. After the [...]

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According to a new article, “Biologists seek clues as bats die off,” by John Richardson, in the Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine, March 27, 2008, a mystery exists due to thousands of deaths this winter throughout the Northeast.

These little brown bats, a species common to Maine, show symptoms of white-nose syndrome – rings of white [...]

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6th Global Conference
Monsters and the Monstrous:
Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
Monday 22nd September - Thursday 25th September 2008
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human culture throughout history. In particular, the project will have a dual focus [...]

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Pelicans historically have held a bizarre place in animal folklore. The Physiologus says of the pelican that it of all birds loves its young the most.

The young pelicans in the Pieter van der Borcht (1545-1608) copperplate engraving (above) appear to be about to drink the blood of their mother; some versions of the story [...]

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Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks game warden Tracy Galvin displays the pelt of a mountain lion that was killed in Barber County last November [2007]. Galvin has been investigating the rumor that a mountain lion had been killed in Kansas for the past several weeks. This is probably the first confirmed [...]

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