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“…one of the most important cryptozoological and Fortean books of all time…”

Read: Neil Arnold and Wildman »

Reportedly, “it is still alive.” But is it true?

Read: How Rumors Begin? “Bigfoot Captured in Ohio” NOT! »

Today, January 20th in 2008, Mike Rugg of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum used old fashioned sleuthing and high-tech photoshopping to solve the Pogonip Hoax.

Read: Today in Bigfoot History | 2008 | Mike Rugg Exposes Pogonip Hoax »

… a press conference called by Cliff Cook and the supporting testimony of his associate Chris Murphy. Murphy claimed to have found a bell shape (aka zipper pull tab) within the grainy film image and even took the time to hand craft a pretzel-like, clay model of this bell shape.

Read: Today in Bigfoot History | 1999 | Patty’s “Zipper” Exposed »

At his Loch Ness Mystery blog, Glasgow Boy provides us with his fourth and final installment on the famous (and highly controversial) 1951 photo taken by Lachlan Stuart, which purports to show an alleged Loch Ness Monster. GB begins… “On the 15th July 1951, readers of the British newspaper, the Sunday Express, were greeted with [...]

Read: Loch Ness and Lachlan Stuart »

In 2003, January 3rd, The New York Times printed a front page article reporting Ray Wallace’s “death bed” confession as the guy wearing a Bigfoot costume in the famous Patterson/Gimlin film.

Read: Today in Bigfoot History | The New York Times Declares Wallace is Bigfoot »

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The Complete Bibliography. Wikipedia does not have the full list. Here’s my attempt.

Read: Cryptozoologist, Fortean, Social Scientist, Museum Director Loren Coleman: A Complete Book List »

“First there was the infamous ‘Gable film’ video that purported to show the Michigan Dogman in attack mode, and then we had the tragic case of the Montana man fatally struck by two vehicles while dressed in what he hoped looked like a Sasquatch costume. Both of these rather bad ideas had one thing in common – – the perpetrators wore ghillie suits.”

Read: A Ghillie Suit Hoax? »

In a new post at Mysterious Universe, Micah Hanks begins… “It was indeed a scandal that shook the hallowed halls of the British Museum’s honorable geological department. Arthur Smith Woodward, then serving as the department’s keeper, had been approached with a rather curious set of bone fragments, allegedly retrieved and passed along to one Charles [...]

Read: The Piltdown Man Controversy »

It appears we were a little hasty in tagging this photo as a hoax.

Read: Update: Hoaxed Yowie Photograph »

Thanks to Cryptomundian Night Walker for bringing this to our attention…

Read: Hoaxed Yowie Photograph »

Wartime pranks and the Loch Ness Monster

Read: Nessie and April 1 »

A couple of people have asked me what kinds of cases and theories for the British Bigfoot appear in my new book, Wildman!, which is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of hairy man-beasts in the UK. Well, the easiest way to answer that question of cases and theories, is to share with you the “Contents” list…

Read: Wildman! – The Contents »

Sasquatch in the UK: My new book…

Read: Wildman! A Study of the British Bigfoot »

Loch Ness: The matter of hoaxing…

Read: Nessie: Honesty and Deceit »