The strange doesn’t necessarily require cryptids or the paranormal. Simply finding something well out of its usual environment can be enough to leave us scratching our heads. This first example is from 2013 and involves a couple of college kids on a long road trip late at night, and a very large stag sauntering onto […]

We have the perfect prescription for anyone (all of us) needing respite from the endless disaster movie that is 2020-2021. Distraction! And by distraction we mean researcher and filmmaker Karac St. Laurent has released a new documentary–about a hairy, manlike creature in this New Hampshire town–as an homage to the cryptid documentaries of the the […]

A good friend of John Keel’s and many other forteans, Skylaire Alfvegren died of a tragic accident in her home outside of Los Angeles on August 27 at the age of 44. For years she was the associate editor of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Reader and a columnist for UFO Magazine. Her work appeared in The Believer, Fortean Times, and Hustler (where she […]

There’s a reason why iconic horror movie trailers often include scenes with children: Kids Are Terrifying. Not all kids, mind you, but the ones mixed up with the unexplained can keep you up at night. The “child” in this first story caused an exceptional amount of upset, being spotted at night on a major road […]

We’ve all read witness accounts of what surely must be Bigfoot encounters, only for them to be dismissed by authorities as run ins with bears. This story is for all the experiencers out there who doubt themselves, because unless the Hairy Man has gone on a bender and developed a beer pooch, there is no […]

Cropster treats his readers to an excerpt from cryptid hunter Tony Healy’s upcoming new release Monster Hunter. This portion of Healy’s memoir describes  his trek through Nassau among drug traders and wild hogs, often living off the kindness of others in 1979 Bahamas. Healy’s hunt was intended to uncover evidence of Chickcharnees, described as “magical, […]

A reconstructed home in Georgia, originally located in what is now a conservation area, has been a source of nonstop strange activity since a family moved into it in 2016. Most incidents are frightening but harmless, many involving family cellphones, as whatever is causing the anomalies likes to be heard and acknowledged. But as we […]

A trio of 4-legged mysteries today, starting with a big cat sighting out of Australia that includes a photograph. Unfortunately the photo only shows the latter end of the animal, so it could just as easily be a black lab as a black panther. Cryptid encounters seldom turn out with decent photographs though, and when […]

Cropster takes a page directly from his 2014 book Australian Poltergeist which he co-authored with Tony Healey. In this excerpt he describes an investigation involving a family tormented by a polt that may (or may not) have been focused on their unusual teenage son. No amount of relocating deterred the noisy spirit, which was eventually […]

It’s difficult to imagine a rock-throwing polt without also imagining Cropster there making notes, taking photos, and interviewing witnesses. But back in 2019 the government of Bhutan did not feel generous, and Fate decided to keep the intrepid investigator home at the dawn of what would become a pandemic. Nonplussed, Cropster got his story, and […]