Just when everyone and their sidekick’s are experiencing superhero fatigue, there’s an online rumor concerning Paramount developing a Mothman film. “B-b-but someone already made The Mothman Prophecies. Why?” Hollywood’s run by no-talent marketers more interested in the bottom line than creating entertainment nor art. Run out of material? Scavenge another intellectual property, or folklore, and […]
Rather than merely enumerating accounts of bigfoot sightings throughout South America, Malcolm Smith makes a highly interesting read connecting Asia and South America with a thread of hairy hominids. There’s a je ne sais quois concerning these encounters, illustrating similarties betwixt them and those in Tibet. Meanwhile in Red China, they weren’t particularly interested in […]
Whatever happened to “Cressie”? It appears her first, and only sighting, happened in 1910 and Malcolm Smith’s keen to share his discovery. One thing’s for certain, Cressie’s absence isn’t due to trigger-happy hunters. Perhaps she waded ashore and waddled off to greener waters? Lake monsters aren’t bound to their respective lakes and lochs as outlined […]
A pre-announcement of the International Cryptozoology Museum’s (ICM)/International Cryptozoology Society’s (ICS) Third Annual International Cryptozoology Conference (2018). This is a short-term GoFundMe fundraising appeal being presented before the basic tickets go on sale. Okay. everyone: Dig deep, get funding. Maintaining the high quality of the Crypto Conference is not cheap, and these things don’t pay for […]
Malcolm Smith has compiled a whole new list of watery cryptids with which our readers are most likely unfamiliar. Continuing our watery adventure, we hear that a Researcher Eyes ‘Nessie’ for Sale. Who among our Nessie fans hasn’t wanted a plesiosaur skeleton of their very own? Gary Campbell of the Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register […]
Every culture has their native shapeshifters, and Nick Redfern is keen to find the common thread among this motley crew. Just don’t be too surprised by what bridges the gaps between these alien entities. But what about Humanoid Encounters? Rich Reynolds has found so many in the eponymous book, surely some of them are real! […]
No one denies giant squid lurk ‘neath the surf. From corpse-white specimens to battle-scarred whales, the evidence is plain but how big can these suckers get? Malcom Smith’s done the math, and they measure up with the tallest tales shared over the centuries. Haven’t you heard about The Big Ones That Got Away? You’re in […]
Modern cryptid hunters are often told the beasts they seek are simply too fantastic and outlandish to be real. Brent Swancer points to some real animals once considered nothing more than myths. Maybe there is hope for modern monster hunters yet. After all, if something as absurd as the duck-billed platypus turned out to be […]
Malcom Smith makes it pretty clear that he is very skeptical that a Sasquatch-like creature could live in the midst of population dense areas in the Pyrenees mountains, and he also reminds us that a “photo by itself does not prove anything.” The distant figure in the photo shot by a tourist in 2011 is […]
Malcom Smith sets out to uncover the true identity of the supposed sea serpent reported off the coast of Perth in 1900. Was it an actual sea monster or just a case of lazy journalism? And Karl Shuker is on the same track as he tries to solve similar cases of sea monsters From mini-rex […]