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Friday, 13 September 2024

A Footprint Expert Meets Bigfoot

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      Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science  by Jeff Meldrum (2007), Forge Trade, 320 pp, paperback and Kindle.     Dr Jeff Meldrum is Professor o...
Sunday, 11 August 2024

When Roger Met Patty: Review

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  When Roger Met Patty  by William Munns (2014), Createspace Independent Publishing, Platform, 510 pp, paperback and Kindle.     In October ...
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Sunday, 12 March 2023

More on the Malayan Ape-Man

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      Who knows what mysterious creatures might walk out of the jungles of southeast Asia? Rumours abound of strange bipedal apes sequestere...
Saturday, 15 October 2022

A Bug-Eyed Monster off New Zealand

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      Readers will no doubt be familiar with the name of Ivan T. Sanderson who, along with Bernard Heuvelmans, was one of the founders of cr...
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Saturday, 6 November 2021

The 1983 Californian Sea Serpent

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       Personally, I consider sea serpents more credible than lake monsters. It's the logistics of it all. The sea is vast, and we move ...
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Saturday, 23 October 2021

A "Tree Crocodile" in Papua?

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       The jungle clad mountains and valleys of New Guinea, just north of Australia, have turned it into a vast patchwork of "ecologica...
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Monday, 27 September 2021

The Thylacine That Wasn't

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       When researching reports of mystery animals in Australia, the ones which give me the most headaches are not alien big cats (which sho...
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Sunday, 15 August 2021

Yes, There Really Are Pygmy Elephants.

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      Let's be realistic: the idea of a big hairy ape stomping around North America, all unnoticed by science, is weird. I'm not say...
Saturday, 3 April 2021

Up Close and Personal with Ogopogo

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     I was a foundation member of the International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) in 1982, even contributing to its peer reviewed journal, ...
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Thursday, 11 March 2021

Apes in North Queensland

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      The yowie, for those who are unaware, is the Australian version of the North American bigfoot. Of course, it shouldn't exist, beca...
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Friday, 5 February 2021

"Bunyips and Bigfoots" is Back!

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      Doesn't time fly! It was a quarter of a century ago - in 1996- that my book, Bunyips and Bigfoots, in search of Australia's my...
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Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Big Footprints in the Malayan Jungle

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      Last month I introduced you to the orang dalam , or "man of the interior", the bigfoot or abominable snowman of Malaya. To b...
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Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Introducing the Malayan Bigfoot

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      Throughout the world stories crop up of unknown bipedal apes which live solitary lives, and are largely nocturnal. The North American ...
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Monday, 31 August 2020

When Scientists Were Visited by a Yeti

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      The trouble with cryptozoology is that its data are all over the place - newspapers, magazines, websites, in fact, everywhere except i...
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Monday, 17 August 2020

Forgotten Bigfoots Around the World - a New Book

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      Everyone has heard of the bigfoot, or sasquatch of North America, but it is not so well known that reports of similar beings exist in ...
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Saturday, 1 August 2020

Lost 20th Century Sea Serpents

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     Last month I ransacked the digitalised archives of Singaporean newspapers for sea serpent reports of the 19th century, checked them ag...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2020

Lost 19th Century Sea Serpents

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     As I said in my May 2020 post, I thought I had finished with forgotten sea serpent reports, when Paul Cropper suggested I look at the n...
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Thursday, 4 June 2020

Half Snake, Half Crocodile, Fully Forgotten

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     Java: the most densely populated island in Indonesia, hills terraced right to the summit, miles and miles of incredibly beautiful scene...
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Thursday, 7 May 2020

The Amazing "Nestor" Sea Serpent of 1876

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     Ah, the irony! I had started this blog intending to use it for translations of foreign language articles on cryptozoology, along with s...
Friday, 20 March 2020

Introducing Three New Books

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     I am pleased to announce that I have just published three new cryptozoological books, made possible by the mass digitalisation of old...
Tuesday, 3 March 2020

The Footprint on the Cliff Face

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    If you visit Carnarvon Gorge, Central Queensland, as thousands do, you will come to a cliff face where the aborigines have carved the f...
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Wednesday, 12 February 2020

Last Forgotten Sea Serpents (1926 to 1931)

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     I know I've said this before, but this probably really is my last post on old sea serpent sightings. As before, they represent fore...
Tuesday, 4 February 2020

More Forgotten Sea Serpents, 1914 to 1926

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     Once more, I present a collection of sea serpent reports which have appeared in Australian newspapers, having been obtained from foreig...
Saturday, 25 January 2020

Forgotten Sea Serpents, 1905 to 1911

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     Here is the next installment of reports of sea serpents which had apparently been missed by previous researchers.
Wednesday, 15 January 2020

1903 Was a Good Year for Sea Serpents

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     1903 was a good year for sea serpents. Heuvelmans, in his classic compendium, listed a dozen cases for that year. However, here are a f...
Saturday, 4 January 2020

Forgotten Sea Serpents, 1900 to 1902

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     Would you believe it? I thought I had finished my cataloguing of forgotten sea serpents, but it turns out that I had overlooked a heap ...
Tuesday, 19 November 2019

The Gatton Yowie, 1998

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     Monday 9 February 1998: there I was, at my desk, minding my own business - or rather, my employer's business - when the phone rang....
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Sunday, 10 November 2019

Forgotten Sea Serpents of 1879

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     I am about to travel overseas, but first I might as well return to chronicling past sea serpent reports which have apparently remained ...
Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Two Unknown Bipedal Apes in the Congo

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    This may be my last translation. Charles Cordier (1897-1994) was a Swiss zoo collector who worked for the Bronx Zoo in New York. In th...
Saturday, 5 October 2019

The Last (Forgotten) Sea Serpents of the 19th Century

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     Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I have been systematically seeking out and publishing reports in Australian newspapers ...
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Saturday, 15 June 2019

The Great Koolunga Bunyip Hunt of 1883

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They sought it with thimbles, They sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-sha...
Monday, 10 June 2019

New Zealand's Mystery Animal

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     Going through my papers, I discovered a translation I made from the German more than forty years ago on the waitoreke , an alleged nati...
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Wednesday, 1 May 2019

The Beast of Gévaudan - Solved !

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     Between 1764 and 1767 a huge man-eater terrorised the region surrounding the southern French town of Gévaudan, claiming between 80 and ...
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Tuesday, 2 April 2019

Four More Forgotten Sea Serpents

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      Once again I shall continue with my program of publishing old "sea serpent" reports which had evaded the attention of earlie...
Friday, 1 March 2019

In a Dark Hut With a Mystery Monster

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     Crytozoological references can turn up in all sorts of odd places, and since these publications are likely to have vanished from public...
Saturday, 2 February 2019

Forgotten Sea Serpents of 1888 - 1889

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     Another month, so let's continue with the task of documenting nineteenth century sea serpent sightings which managed to avoid the g...
Wednesday, 2 January 2019

The Georgetown Sea Serpent, 1888

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     Did a sea serpent turn up in Georgetown Harbour in 1888? On page 573 of The Great Sea-Serpent  (1892), A. C. Oudemans features a list o...
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Tuesday, 4 December 2018

The Mongolian Wild Man's Last Stand

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     One reason for taking cryptozoology seriously is the possibility that a significant species is going extinct before science has even es...
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Saturday, 3 November 2018

Forgotten Sea Serpents, 1880 - 1886

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     I am back from America now, so I might as well get back to work. Just over a month ago I recorded four forgotten sea serpent reports fr...
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Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Sea Serpents Galore! (1869 to 1875)

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     Once more we venture into sea serpent territory. As I have mentioned before, the digitalised copies of old Australian newspapers contai...
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Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Bigfoot in the Andes?

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     It is now time for another venture into translation and bigfootery. The author of the following essay, written in 1963, was a journalis...
Tuesday, 5 June 2018

The Lake Minnetonka Monster

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This is a story 'bout Minnie the Monster.      Sorry! I couldn't resist that. Readers of my generation will recognize a parody of ...
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Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Giant Ape Attacks Hunters in Guatemala

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     There! That headline should have caught your attention. This month I have decided to take a break from my reviews of historic sea serpe...
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Sunday, 1 April 2018

The "Dimboola" Sea Serpent, 1913

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     Dimboola is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is also the name of a play written in 1969 and a movie based on it, and filmed on locatio...
Thursday, 15 March 2018

The Monster of Crescent Lake, Oregon

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     "Cressie" is the monster of Crescent Lake - in Labrador.  But North America alone possesses nine other lakes with that name....
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Friday, 2 March 2018

The Monster of the Everglades, 1901

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     Since the 1980s, Florida has been infested with an invasive species, the Burmese python ( Python bivattatus ), and early this century s...
Friday, 2 February 2018

Sea Serpents Galore ! (1850 - 1869)

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     Once more I enter the lists to rescue reports of sea serpents which earlier researchers had missed. Again, my method has been to trawl...
Monday, 1 January 2018

Sea Serpents Galore! (1834 to 1849)

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      In the last two months I copied forgotten 19th century sea serpent reports for Australia and New Zealand, so in the new year I shall ...
Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Sea Serpents Galore! (New Zealand, 19th Century)

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     In my last post I said that I was in the process of searching the digitalised versions of old Australian newspapers for sea serpent rep...
Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Sea Serpents Galore! (Australia, 19th Century)

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      Take note!  Most of what you are about to read in this post, and in those of the following months, have never been presented in any si...