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There’s a new flap underway. Take the Cryptomundo challenge: Visit some Bay Area parks and bring back a few good photographs. Besides sharing examples of recent sightings, here is a virtual guide to the “best-chance parks” to visit to observe these Mystery Cats.

Read: California’s Black Panthers »

I saw this one coming.
A chimpanzee escapes near the San Bernardino Mountains, California, and then the media finds itself being more open to publishing sightings of hairy primates in the area.
It is happening.
Of course, the media and the caregivers to Moe, the chimp escapee, are divided about whether they want these mystery sightings to be [...]

Read: Bigfoot? Lost Hiker’s “Monkey” Sighting »

What is one of the world’s rarest carnivores? It’s the linsang.
But what’s a linsang? Of the figurine collection above, can you pick out the linsang? (The answer is below, as I share images of almost a dozen of these animal replicas for this discussion, in the last third of this posting.)
During my trek in pursuit [...]

Read: Longing for Linsangs »

Black squirrels are a common topic here at Cryptomundo.
As fate would have it, I had a recent encounter of the black squirrel kind that set me to thinking about the origins of their pocketed appearances around the continent. Black squirrels in Harvard Square and at Kent State may be linked in more ways than [...]

Read: Black Squirrel Expedition »

There is news of a considered and thoughtful educational effort to do “black squirrel” research. Due to a growing population on Long Island, New York, a new “Black Squirrel Headquarters” has sprung up in the Lake Grove neighborhood.
Noting the black squirrels have also “colonized suburban Washington D.C.; Reedsburg, Wis., and Princeton, N.J.,” Bill Roe’s [...]

Read: Black Squirrel Research Funded »

2007’s Top Five Melanistic Deer Hot Spots in America
by Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist and coauthor of cryptozoological field guides.
In the tradition of my list of the top places to find melanistic squirrels in 2006, here’s a list of the top locations to see black deer in 2007.
1. Texas Hill Country, Central Texas.
It has been said that [...]

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The four day weekend is turning into a monster. No time to yourself. The turkey sandwiches, turkey stew, and turkey anything are getting old. The cries to go shopping are reaching new heights. All the football games were too predictable. There’s not been a good Sasquatch flap or decent African [...]

Read: Holmes & the Lost World »

I’ve spent some time here discussing melanistic or black squirrels.
It seems only logical, perhaps even nuts, to not ignore the significant publishing of an article in today’s New York Times regarding some squirrel lore that can be seen to unfold in the coming weeks. What is being set up is a testable experiment.

If a scholar [...]

Read: Ratatosk Predicts Red Sox Victory »

Remember my blogs at the end of last year, about black (melanistic) and white (albino and near albino) squirrels?
Those stories became some of the most popular (non-mystery photo) postings that have appeared here. See 2006’s Top Black and White Squirrel Locations, Yahoo’s Makes Us #1 With Salt & Pepper Squirrels, and Black and [...]

Read: Elusive as Bigfoot: White Squirrels »

Are they cougars, jaguars or nothing special?
Morehouse Parish residents — especially those in the northern part of the parish — periodically report seeing big cats, or of hearing their blood-curdling screams in the dark of night.
Whether or not panthers, cougars or some other large cat actually live in Morehouse Parish has been a matter [...]

Read: Big Black Cats in Louisiana »

With all the talk about pseudo-skeptiks here on Cryptomundo as of late, I thought that I would republish this post.
From January 18, 2006
Answering the Bigfoot Skeptics
Published on LiveScience.com today is an article written by a Cryptomundo commenter, Benjamin Radford, editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, entitled, “Rare Woodpecker Search Sheds Light on Bigfoot.” Going to the [...]

Read: Pseudo-skeptics and Pseudo-logic »

Perhaps I got it wrong?
“New” Borneo Animal “Discovered”
Back on December 5, 2005, I shared the news that apparently a new red-furred animal larger than a domestic cat had reportedly been discovered on Borneo, Indonesia.

On December 5, 2005, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced that they had discovered [...]

Read: Not Palm Civet But Flying Squirrel, Scientists Say »

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The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2006
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Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006
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Top Ten Creepy Fossil Finds of 2006
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The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2006
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The Top Cryptofiction Books of 2006

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Top Ten Cryptozoo Mystery Photographs of 2006
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2006’s Passings of Cryptozoologists and Others
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Read: Top Ten List of Cryptomundo’s Top Ten Lists of 2006 »

The Once And Future University of North Texas White Squirrel.
A Cryptomundo correspondent at Princeton University just passed this along:
I see that your salt-and-pepper squirrel article made the # 1 spot (always reserved for cute critter pictures) on The 9 at Yahoo.Com. — my absolute favorite, must-watch M-F wrapup of the weird and wonderful on the [...]

Read: Yahoo: “Salt & Pepper Squirrels” #1 »

Cryptozoologist Craig Heinselman of Peterborough, New Hampshire, shares a long commentary on his reaction to my recent blogs on black and white squirrels and more, which may be found by clicking here.

Heinselman writes:

Part of the interest as well in these “biological curiosities,” is that they can allow for correlations to perception of people to a [...]

Read: Biological Curiosities »