The paranormal world has lost another light in the passing of Sherry Hansen Steiger, wife to and co-author with the late Brad Steiger on over 60 books. Loren Coleman tells us that minister Sherry was a sole author, as well, and “an expert on health and healing, spirituality, and the unexplained.” A number of the […]

Loren Coleman pens a tribute to his friend, an ocean scientist who put his reputation on the line for cryptozoology. During his teaching career at the University of British Columbia, where he also held joint appointments in the departments of Physics and Oceanography, LeBlond also investigated sightings of unidentified marine creatures, with a focus on […]

Every year Loren Coleman awards a “Golden Yeti” to the cryptozoologist of the year. Narrowing down the candidates for 2019 has proven an impossible task and so this honor will be awarded to the following three undeterrable investigators:  Craig Woolheater, Lyle Blackburn, and Ken Gerhard. Thank you, gentlemen. And the good news just keeps on […]

A Tibetan Buddhist monk picks up a mandible in a cave in Tibet in 1980; it now turns out to belong to those archaic human relatives known as Denisovans, whose remains had only previously been found in Siberia, according to a May 1, 2019, paper in the journal Nature. “It blows my mind,â€� notes Dr. […]

Thirty-six years after the word was coined, the editors of Merriam-Webster have put “cryptid” in the dictionary. They define it as “an animal (such as Sasquatch or the Loch Ness Monster) that has been claimed to exist but never proven to exist.” Not exactly the most elegant definition, but nevermind. The word was coined in […]

Yesterday the journal Nature rocked the world of paleoanthropology by publishing the finding of a new species of fossil hominin based on fossils thought to be at least 50,000 years old found at Callao Cave on the northern island of Luzon, Philippines, by a teams of scientists led by Florent Détroit of the National Museum of Natural History […]

In August of 2018, Gordon Strasenburgh quietly passed away, leaving tough to fill voids in both cryptozoology and hominology. Strasenburgh was best known for his research into the origin of the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot, investigating fossil records and determining the closest match was not Gigantopithecus as popularly believed, but Paranthropus. Strasenburgh’s research continues to gather followers […]

Loren Coleman likes lists and so do we. In this post he covers several lists of new species of 2018, as well as items of a more cryptozoological nature. Switching hats, Loren, as an interpreter of twilight language, then covers the Top Synchromystics of the Year 2018: Jim Brandon and Alex Fulton. Tim Binnall has […]

A few items of cryptozoological interest beginning with Loren Coleman’s annual compilation of forthcoming books in the field, which includes works on the big muddy monster, Momo, Bigfoot, merbeings, mystery cats, and more. Michael Mayes, the author of Shadow Cats, looks back on the year and forward on the next year in The Year in […]

It’s a most wonderful time of the year…If like many of us in the Northern Hemisphere you are already missing the daylight and desperately seeking something to hold on to to get you through the next 3 months, take heart. Preparations are already underway for the Fourth Annual International Cryptozoology Conference. Loren Coleman is firming […]