In this first of a three part report, writer John Carlson describes how he came to be pals with explorer and cryptid researcher Adam Davies and the ensuing life altering experience in searching for Bigfoot. Next we have The Missionary, the Former Slave, and the Sasquatch. Long before the famed Patterson Gimlin film launched Patty […]
Name calling and discrimination are as old as–umm–well, we don’t know, but they’ve been around a long time. Nick Redfern reports on big fellas in the natural world who scared the bejeezus out of everyone and so ended up being called Monsters. People can be so mean. We can hardly blame the beasties When Monsters […]
We’ve got a veritable paranormal mardi gras to plan for when and if things ever get back to normal. First stop is Puerto Rico with Nick Redfern as our guide. You’ll be pleasantly surprised (or just horrified) to learn the island has more creeping around on it than just goat suckers. Reports of man-sized birds […]
The title is somewhat misleading as the chasing canine was on all fours keeping pace with an unidentified vehicle. It is only at the end of the encounter of uncertain date, as the startled motorists speed away into the African savannah, that the creature stands up on its haunches and seems to be a seven-foot-tall […]
This somewhat lengthy piece spanning from the 1960s onward is a bit of wild ride with the Hairy Man and his lesser known relations. Included with descriptions of military capture of Bigfoots, we have tales of swamp apes brought over from Florida for medical experimentation. There are reports of caves in the Caribbean inhabited by […]
A gentleman in North Carolina who sounds like an extremely capable outdoorsman recently experienced something that would make many of us turn to knitting as our activity of choice. Camped out in his tarp shelter, alone on a cloudy night, he briefly noticed an anomalous ball of light, which was then followed by a visit […]
This first set of stories comes from a young man growing up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. One story involves a skinwalker running alongside a car; another is about a shapeshifting coyote. Skinwalker Appears Twice in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona describes what happens if we look these abominations in the eye and let them […]
With nods to Rich Reynolds and the late John Keel, Nick Redfern presents a case for a “window area” in a little village in north-central England. Estonia and suburban Chicago are both backdrops for A Strange and Sinister Encounter with “Frog People”. This second Redfern contribution is as weird and inexplicable as what surrounded Ranton, […]
https://www.inverse.com/science/the-abstract-science-brings-sea-monsters-to-life In this podcast episode, Tanya Bustos discusses how the latest scientific discoveries have reignited the hunt for sea monsters, beginning with the first-ever photo evidence of a giant squid fighting with a shark, followed by the discovery of an unusual fossil from Antarctica that may have belonged to a real-life Loch Ness monster. One […]
A very interesting round-up of serpent stories of the lesser known varieties, starting with encounters by St. Columba in 6th century Scotland. Reports from this time were not only of saintly Nessie banishings, but included other unidentified water monsters that may have been whales, sharks, or even jellyfish. Then in Not A Lake Monster: A […]