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457 fossilized human footprints were found in western NSW, Australia. The prints are 23,000 years old, the oldest fossilized footprints ever found in Australia.
Could they have been left by a Yowie?

The 457 footprints, ranging from toddler-sized to a size 12 "bigfoot" print, were uncovered by earth scientists in a clay pan underneath sand dunes. [...]

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Marauding monkeys, llamas on the lam…
 
Brandon Reynolds, a reporter for the Style Weekly out of Richmond, VA, went in search of animals reported in places that they didn’t belong in Virginia. One of the stories he relates might even be Bigfoot related.
 
So when word got around the newsroom that monkeys had been sighted in [...]

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From our good friend Scott Corrales comes the following bit of news. Republished here on Cryptomundo with Scott’s permission.
INEXPLICATA
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
December 19, 2005
DATE: Sunday, December 18, 2005
SOURCE: El Once Digital
Has the mysterious Chupacabras returned to Entre Rios?
The strange deaths of deer in a hunting preserve in the department of Uruguay has become [...]

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Check out this cool comic book about Mothman. I just got my copy in the mail and enjoyed reading it. The artwork is really interesting. I give it two opposable thumbs up!

What happens when you put the creator, Chad Lambert, of the sold-out and first ever historically accurate comic book on [...]

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Following is the previously mentioned ordinance from Skamania County, Washington along with the amendment. 
Skamania County Ordinance
Ordinance No. 69-01
Be it hereby ordained by the Board of County Commissioners of Skamania County:
Whereas, there is evidence to indicate the possible existence in Skamania County of a nocturnal primate mammal variously described as an ape-like creature [...]

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Several years ago I either found a document on the web, or someone sent it to me that was a press release from the Department of the Interior & Fish and Wildlife Service that was titled Are We Ready for “Bigfoot” or the Loch Ness Monster? It was dated December 21, 1977. I do not [...]

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Although Scott Marlowe prefers the term swamp ape to skunk ape, the latter is the term usually used when describing Florida’s version of Bigfoot. On Tuesday, the Tampa Tribune ran a front page article detailing Marlowe’s search for the elusive primate.

Ape believer Scott Marlowe holds a casting of a footprint said to have been [...]

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A couple of reports out of Scotland the last few days…
First, the biggest earthquake to hit Scotland in 20 years struck about 11:30 PM last Saturday night. It was only a force-three quake. The article did contain some interesting "facts" however.
Earthquakes have even been suggested as a cause for one of Scotland’s most famous legends [...]

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First Perspective, Canada’s #1 source for Aboriginal News gives us an article today detailing several Bigfoot sightings from Manitoba, one from B. C. and another from Oregon by a honeymooning couple from Winnepeg.

Track 19 inches long and 11 inches wide across the toes photographered by Lynnel Sinclair in late spring 2001 near Grand Rapids, Manitoba
One [...]

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Drexel University student Aaron Sakulich wrote in The Triangle, the student newspaper, about a couple of reported cases from the World War I era of naval encounters with sea monsters.
Supposedly, the British patrol vessel Coreopsis came across a U-boat (UB-85) that had been attacked by a sea serpent. The submarine had come to the [...]

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Dave Lavender, of the Huntington W. Va. Herald-Dispatch, loaded up his family and made his annual trek to Point Pleasant. His 5-year-old son Jacob, official Mothman and Santa Claus Search Team member, left some heavy breath of anticipation on the Mothman Museum store front window.

…we headed out onto the [...]

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British soap star Amy Nuttall is in Edinburgh starring as Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady. And apparently she saw the Loch Ness Monster when she was six years old.

"For now, I’m delighted to be in Scotland again. My great great grandparents on both sides of my family are from [...]

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A request for Filmmakers Needing Public Domain Photos/Film For Completed Bigfoot Film.
I am one of the producers on the recently completed Sci Fi channel film Devil On The Mountain starring Lance Henriksen and Cerina Vincent. The film is a drama/horror film about a group of bank thieves and law officers teaming up to determine why [...]

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From Live Science comes an article by Cryptomundo commenter and managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer, Benjamin Radford. The Article details the pervasiveness of sea monsters on television and in the news today. Several of the items mentioned in the article have been detailed on Cryptomundo here in the recent past. From NBC’s Surface, to the [...]

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Tim the Yowie Man, the National Museum of Australia’s Resident Cryptonaturalist, has landed a regular radio gig. He will be hosting a travel show with Macquarie Regional Radioworks (MRR) on Sunday mornings that will be syndicated and broadcast on their stations in NSW, Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
The show, titled "Get [...]

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