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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...
Friday, 13 October 2017

The Monsters of the Murray - and the Macquarie

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     "Bunyip" is the name usually given to mysterious water monsters in the the outback of Australia, so it is not surprising it t...
Friday, 22 September 2017

More Forgotten Sea Serpents

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     Last month, when I was researching forgotten sea serpent reports from Australian newspapers of the 1930s, I discovered a number of repo...
Saturday, 26 August 2017

Antipodean Sea Serpents, 1932-9

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     In the past, I have written a number of posts on sea serpents, gleaned from Trove of digitalised Australian newspapers. I had thought ...
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Wednesday, 22 February 2017

More on the Chitral Yeti

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     If you look at a map of Pakistan, you will see, in the far north, a sliver of land squeezed between Afghanistan and Kashmir, with Tajik...
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Sunday, 2 October 2016

Really Gigantic Squid? 1. Official Records

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There is probably no apparition more terrifying than a gigantic, saucer-eyed creature of the depths with writhing, snakelike, grasping tent...
Saturday, 1 October 2016

Really Gigantic Squid? 2. The Big Ones That Got Away.

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     In Part 1 we learned that giant squid continue to grow more or less steadily throughout life, with about 6 per cent exceeding 50 feet i...
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Thursday, 7 April 2016

Big Birds Do Fly

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     I am gradually coming round to the idea that there is something in the legends of avian giants ("thunderbirds") flying over N...
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Sunday, 20 March 2016

Another Trove of Sea Monsters

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     When I originally decided to use the Australian National Library's  Trove  of digitalised newspapers to locate the original citatio...
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Wednesday, 3 February 2016

The Search for the Wild Man of the Pyrenees

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     It came as a bit of a surprise to me to see the amount of feedback I received from last month's translation of Sr. Javier Resines...
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Sunday, 3 January 2016

A Photo of the Wild Man of the Pyrenees?

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     Let me state up front that I find it extremely hard to believe that a bipedal primate, unknown to science, could exist up to the presen...
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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...
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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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