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Tuesday, 8 December 2015

The "Nemesis" Sea Serpent of 1900

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     In In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents , Bernard Heuvelmans mentioned two alleged sea serpent sightings reported in The Wide World Magazine...
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Sunday, 1 November 2015

More Forgotten Sea Serpent Sightings

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    Pity poor Dr Bernard Heuvelmans! He wrote In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents  before the advent of the internet, which means he had to care...
Thursday, 1 October 2015

The "Tresco" Sea Serpent of 1903

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      On pages 368 - 369 of In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents , Bernard Heuvelmans describes the sea serpent allegedly seen by the crew of the...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Another Queensland "Black Panther"

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     At last! People are using the "How to report a sighting" function at the top of this blog. On Saturday 15 August this year I ...
Friday, 7 August 2015

Up de Graff and the Giant Anacondas

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     The green anaconda, Eunectes murinus , the great water boa of the Amazon, is the heaviest, and one of the longest snakes in the world, ...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2015

The Barcelona Satyr, 1760

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     A couple of months ago I published a translation of Michel Raynal's article on the legendary "wild man of the Pyrenees"....
Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Journal of Cryptozoology, Volume 3

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     Volume 3 of The Journal of Cryptozoology  is now out, containing 97 pages, compared to 80 for the second volume and 62 for the first....
Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Mysterious Big Birds

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I have posted this essay on my Anomalies blog because, although there are a lot of reports of "thunderbirds", these specific acco...
Tuesday, 5 May 2015

The Wild Man of the Pyrenees

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     This is my 50th post, and it appears I shall have to go back to translating, because I have run out of English language material. It se...
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Friday, 3 April 2015

Lake Monsters - What They Aren't

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     They see them here, they see them there; they are - lake monsters. Now, far be it for me to reject or endorse every lake monster report...
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Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Footprints in the Sand

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     I am not a footprint aficionado . They are hard enough to interpret at the best of times. Perhaps I am being unfair, for they have thei...
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Friday, 6 February 2015

More on the Queensland Marsupial Tiger

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     The last I heard of Dr Ralph Molnar, he was looking for dinosaur bones in America, but during the 1990s he was the official Queensland ...
Saturday, 10 January 2015

"The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant?" - a Review

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Rebecca Lang (editor)(2014), The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant?" , Strange Nation Publishing, available from Amazon and other onli...
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Friday, 12 December 2014

Thylacine Fever in the Wonthaggi District

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     In my last post, I documented the "monster" which frequented the environs of the South Gippsland town of Wonthaggi in the yea...
Tuesday, 2 December 2014

At Last, the Double-Headed Bunyip of Tuckerbil Swamp!

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     Now that the National Library of Australia has digitalised a vast quantity of old newspapers and magazines under the title of Trove , I...
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Monday, 20 October 2014

The Wonthaggi "Monster"

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     Of all those researching mystery animals in Australia, none is more energetic, or more generous, than my friend, Paul Cropper, the co-a...
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Monday, 22 September 2014

A Thylacine in North Queensland?

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    Black panthers, cougars, even big, hairy apes roaming the Australian bush: that I can handle. But I confess that what I find most perple...
Friday, 15 August 2014

Strange Striped Animals in North Queensland

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     Alleged big cats are not the only mystery predators reported from north Queensland. Some of them have stripes, and a blanket explanatio...
Thursday, 10 July 2014

More Big Cats in Far North Queensland

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     Last month I described sightings of apparent big cats in North Queensland, mostly as reported in letters I had received in response to ...
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Friday, 13 June 2014

Big Cats in North Queensland

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     As readers of this blog will be aware, the presence of Alien Big Cats, mostly black, is no longer confined to the southern states of Au...
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Friday, 16 May 2014

The Original Deception Bay "Monsters"

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     Deception Bay is not far from where I live, but I can never hear the name without thinking, "monster". The reason is that the...
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Thursday, 10 April 2014

Still More Big Cats in Southeast Queensland

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     In my January post , I quoted a letter from Bruce Thomson, a senior conservation officer with the  Queensland Parks and Wildlife Servic...
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Saturday, 1 March 2014

Journal of Cryptozoology, volume 2

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     I have just finished reading volume 2 of The Journal of Cryptozoology , which was dated December 2013, but whose publication was slig...
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Video of Speech at Geelong

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     In my post of September 2013 , I gave the text of my speech at the Wool Museum at Geelong about bunyips and sea serpents in the local a...
Friday, 14 February 2014

The Year of the Sea Serpents, 1934

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     1934 was a very good year for sea serpents. Over a period of three months, they put in appearances all up and down the east coast of A...
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Sunday, 5 January 2014

More Big Black Cats in Southeast Queensland

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     In my last post, I described sightings of what appear to be "black panthers" in southeast Queensland. They mostly involved wi...
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Sunday, 1 December 2013

Big Black Cats in Southeast Queensland

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     I've heard them called zoology's flying saucers, because they turn up where they couldn't possibly be, then disappear befor...
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Friday, 8 November 2013

The Great North Queensland Tiger Hunt of 1923

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     You don't hear much about the legendary marsupial tiger of north Queensland, but it was all the rage in the first half of last cent...
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Thursday, 3 October 2013

Thylacines in Indonesian New Guinea - Further Evidence

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     My post two years ago on the possible existence of the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger in the Indonesian half of New Guinea appears to h...
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Monday, 2 September 2013

Bunyips, Sea Serpents, and Port Phillip

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      Last Thursday, 29 August 2013 the National Wool Museum at Geelong had three guest speakers give talks on cryptozoology to a public a...
Tuesday, 13 August 2013

A Trove of Sea Serpents

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     Last month I revealed how the digitalised newspapers of Trove can be used to research old "bunyip" stories. This month, I sha...
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Sunday, 21 July 2013

A Trove of Bunyips

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     Everyone in Australia has heard of the bunyip, but since it appears I have more readers in the northern hemisphere, I had better explai...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013

The Trouble With Eye Witnesses

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     A major drawback with cryptozoology - and a lot of anomaly research in general - is that it has to rely to a large extent on eye witnes...
Sunday, 5 May 2013

Littlefoot in Australia?

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     For a storyteller, there are only so many variations on the human condition you can invent. People with animal heads or other features ...
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Thursday, 11 April 2013

The Weird Little Visitor to Gayndah

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     I appear to be out of the loop as far as mystery animal reports are concerned. When the "bear" or "jongari" paid a ...
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Monday, 11 March 2013

The Cryptids of Mount Tamborine

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     I fell in love with Mount Tamborine as a very little boy - when my mother took me down the chasm walk (since closed), and I marvelled a...
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Wednesday, 6 February 2013

A "National Geographic" Cryptid

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     As every schoolboy knows, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel, The Lost World was inspired by the tepuis: the 100-odd mesas toweri...
Thursday, 24 January 2013

Snarls from the Tea-tree: A Review

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Snarls from the Tea-tree. Big Cat Folklore by David Waldron and Simon Townsend (2012), Australian Scholarly Publishing, available here . ...
Wednesday, 12 December 2012

More Tales of the Australian Bigfoot

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     In my last post, I mentioned that not everybody wants to have their name published when they report sighting a yowie. Indeed, I have n...
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Monday, 5 November 2012

Tales of the Australian Bigfoot

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     What is more unbelievable: a ghost, a flying saucer, or a yowie? Obviously the last. We know very little about the intermediate state o...
Monday, 15 October 2012

Carnivorous Plants in Central America?

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     The existence of insectivorous plants has long stimulated the imagination with the possibility that somewhere, in some remote corner of...
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Thursday, 27 September 2012

Thoughts on the Lake Labynkyr Monster

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     Would you believe it? People in the mainstream media actually look at these sites! Someone at 612ABC, the government radio station serv...
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Monday, 24 September 2012

The Whistling, Neck-Spouting Bunyip

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     As every Australian knows, the bunyip is the bogey of the bush and billabongs: a mythical monster never seen except in the fertile mind...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Another Deception Bay Sea Serpent

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     The best documented Australian "sea serpent" was an elongated, inquisitive mystery animal which frequented Deception Bay in t...
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Tuesday, 7 August 2012

My Coworker's Sea Serpent

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     By 2002, word had got around my workplace that I was interested in mystery animals, so one of my colleagues, Toni Womal approached me ...
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Thursday, 19 July 2012

What Was That Big Fish?

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      The megamouth shark is 14 to 18 feet long – a filter feeder not much shorter than the dreaded great white shark – but it remained und...
Saturday, 30 June 2012

An Extraordinary Underwater Sea Serpent

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     In the first week of 2003, I was lying in bed at night, when I received a phone call from a Mr Mike Cleary. He was seeking specific inf...
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Monday, 4 June 2012

What Terrifies a Congo Pygmy?

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    The Mbuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are hunter gatherers who live in a symbiotic rela...
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Monday, 7 May 2012

The Yeti of Pakistan. 1

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     In India a bandicoot is a large rat, in Australia it is a marsupial. Americans call an elk a moose, a red deer an elk, and a bison a b...
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The Yeti of Pakistan. 2. Eyewitnesses

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     Dr Magraner next provided details of three eye-witness reports. The sightings are so explicit, and at such close range, it is hard to ...