Cryptic Account of Rare Animal Found in Kurdistan
The Voice of Iraq could use a better English-language translator and more garrulous journalists. I think the article below is saying that someone filmed a Komodo dragon-like reptile in western Duhok...
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Montauk Monster
Original 7/29 Gawker photo Richard published at Gawker published the original news item on Tuesday alleging that the above object had washed up on a Montauk, Long Island beach, and hinting that it may...
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California Group Claims to Have Bigfoot
Looks like a gorilla mask, a buffalo rug, and a bear paw to me Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. of Redwood City, California announced the alleged recent discovery of a deceased male Bigfoot in the woods of...
View ArticleBigfoot Story Confirmed as Hoax
Surprise, surprise. Last week’s story of the discovery of a deceased Sasquatch in northern Georgia has been debunked. When the block of ice enclosing the alleged body was melted, a rubber Bigfoot suit...
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Swedish Version of Loch Ness Monster Filmed
The Frösö Runestone British newspapers are quoting Swedish reports that Sweden’s version of the Loch Ness monster was recently filmed in Storsjön, Sweden’s fifth largest lake. Telegraph: SWEDEN’S...
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Snow Leopard Reported on the Loose in Poland
Snow Leopard (Not an April Fool’s joke:) Reuters several days ago carried Polish reports of a large cat roaming the countryside and killing farmer’s pigs in the vicinity of the town of Opole in Upper...
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Giant Snake Story
Cropped and enlarged “Boa” photo Despite the “internet sensation” claim, Ananova is really the only news source on this one. A photograph purporting to show a 55ft snake found in a forest in China has...
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Latest Bigfoot Hoax Photos
Another really bad game camera photo accompanied by an unpersuasive narrative of skepticism and reluctant public release. This time from Minnesota, a long, long way from the original theoretical range...
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Monster Photograph From Lake Windemere
Photograph allegedly taken by cell phone camera last week at Lake Windemere A pair of kayakers allegedly recently photographed a Loch Ness style of monster swimming in Lake Windemere near Bowness,...
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Mystery of the Kandahar Cougar
Brody thought this infrared image might be a caracal. Michael Yon mixes a front-lines combat story into his report of American sightings of an unidentified large cat in Kandahar province, Aghanistan....
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Remember the Kandahar Cougar?
NYM last September linked reports of sightings by US forces in Afghanistan of a mysterious large wild cat. Michael Yon (who I’m reluctantly linking, despite his being on my shit list these days for...
View ArticleLiving Mammoth Filmed in Siberia?
Two centuries and a bit ago, Thomas Jefferson entertained hopes that explorers might yet encounter Woolly Mammoths trumpeting in the remote Western wilderness. Frozen Mammoth remains found in Siberia...
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Megalodon Returns (Just in Time For Shark Week)
Alleged Nazi archives photo, dated 18 December 1942, of U-boats and very large shark off Capetown The Discovery Channel happens to be reporting, by the strangest kind of coincidence, just at the...
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Genetic Testing of Yeti Hair
Geneticist Bryan Sykes may have identified the mysterious Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. BBC story with video. Research by a British scientist has concluded that the legendary Himalayan yeti may...
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Loch Ness Monster Visible Late Last Year on Apple Maps
The Daily Mail reports that, late last year, an ordinary Briton playing with Apples maps decided to check out the satellite images of Loch Ness and found the above catfish-like image. Andrew Dixon,...
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No Yeti, But a New Bear
“7 Daughters of Eve” DNA researcher Brian Sykes and his Oxford team decided to look into Bigfoot-Yeti legends from many continents. IFL Science: In 2012, they put out a call to museums and individuals...
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Icelandic Panel Confirms Authenticity of 2012 Lake Monster Video
A 13-member truth committee appointed by the municipality of Fljótsdalsherad, Iceland recently voted seven to six that a video (see below) taken by Hjortur Kjerulf at a river near his farm in...
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Alligator Seen in Monongahela River
When Pennsylvanians refer to an “Allegheny alligator,” they normally mean Necturus maculosus, a foot-and-a-half long dark salamander, with external, Christmas-tree-like red gills. But this week there...
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Cryptozoological Map & T-Shirts
Disinformation links the Hog Island Press Cryptozoological Map of the United States, which is at least amusing. Some states haven’t got any imaginary monsters. Connecticut and Rhode Island, for...
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Tall Tale From the Old West
New Falcon Herald: Pikes Peak was the scene of a fraud perpetrated in 1876 by John O’Keefe, whose job was to take weather readings on the summit and signal them to the city below. O’Keefe’s tall tale...
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La Bête du Gévaudan
La Bête du Gévaudan (Aquatint engraving), 1764. Wikipedia: The Beast of Gévaudan [was] the man-eating gray wolf, dog or wolfdog which terrorised the former province of Gévaudan (modern-day...
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Giant Snakeskin Found in Maine, Confirming June Sighting of Huge Snake...
Bangor Daily News: Westbrook police are warning residents after a large snake skin was found near the Presumpscot River on Saturday. Police said a resident reported finding a shed snake skin along the...
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Wessie Identified as Green Anaconda
National Geographic reports that the Westbrook, Maine snakeskin has been identified as coming from a Green Anaconda. August 21st — Snakeskin story Westbrook officials sent a sample of the snakeskin...
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New Loch Ness Monster Photo
The Express: Amateur photographer Ian Bremner, 58, was driving around the Highlands in search of red deer – but stumbled instead across the remarkable sight of what appears to be Nessie swimming in...
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Yeti is Apparently a Bear
Himalayan brown bear Science: Hikers in Tibet and the Himalayas need not fear the monstrous yeti—but theyâ€d darn well better carry bear spray. DNA analyses of nine samples purported to be from the...
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Something Odd Shot in Montana
Great Falls Tribune: On May 16 a lone wolf-like animal was shot and killed on a ranch outside Denton. With long grayish fur, a large head and an extended snout, the animal shared many of the same...
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Tasmanian Tiger: Still Out There?
The last thylacine died in captivity in the zoo in 1936, or did it? People keep seeing them. Brooke Jarvis, in the New Yorker, wonders if the sightings are real, or if they simply represent...
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Indian Army Publishes Photo of Yeti Footprints
Better photos here: Guardian. Nepal Army says: “Just a bear.” link 32″ long is awfully big.
View ArticleNew (Supposed) Loch Ness Monster photo
Is this the Loch Ness Monster? pic.twitter.com/Blpnr8GgIH — Z-104.5 The Edge (@edgetulsa) June 24, 2020 It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a new one of these.
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