Month: December 2012

On tonight’s episode of Search for Hidden Beasts with Ken Gerhard

Hey CC fans, tune in tonight @ 10pm EST/9pm CST for the latest episode of my friend Ken Gerhard’s ’s cryptozoology podcast – Search for Hidden Beasts! Tonight is the Cryptozoology 2012: Year in Review! As Ken puts it: “This show is for YOU the listeners… as I will be taking your questions live via the call-in number or chat room! We’ll also be discussing … Continue reading On tonight’s episode of Search for Hidden Beasts with Ken Gerhard

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Selections from ‘The Drake Manuscript’ The Histoire Naturelle des Indes, Natural History of The Indies, contains a collection of captioned water colour paintings of the Caribbean including 199 images of plants, animals, birds, fish, shells, Indian life, activities of the Spaniards and geographical sites with pages bound in 18th century blue morocco and was created sometime in the 1590’s.  It is one of the earliest … Continue reading

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Writing on the wall: Pictographs, tribal tales add to lore of Sasquatch Not far from the Tule River in Central California is a rock shelter used by tribal villagers long before the Sierra foothills began filling up with white settlers and gold miners. The shelter is known as Painted Rock by tourists and archeologists for its colorful array of centuries-old pictographs depicting the animal spectrum … Continue reading

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Winged Manta Ray Shaped Cryptid – Near Ashton, WV Lon Strickler of Phantoms and Monsters received the following email in reference to his post The Mothman Cometh: “Hi Lon, thanks for responding so quickly. Here are my drawings and report. Chris Holly reported my story pretty much verbatim, so I will repeat it here for you in a slightly different form. Date: Dec. 3, 2004 … Continue reading

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Ships’ Logs and Sea Monsters The Ministry of Defence does not keep any secret files on sea monsters reported by Royal Navy personnel, but crews of ships and submarines who make unusual sightings can record their experiences in official logbooks that are public records. This emerged as a result of a Freedom of Inform­ation request made to the MoD by marine bio­logist Sebastian Darby in … Continue reading

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Come join Cryptomundo and The Museum of the Weird for an afternoon and evening of fun and frivolity in Austin, Texas on January 26, 2013! Public Itinerary: 3PM-6PM: Tour of Museum and Speaker presentations(includes author book signings!) Confirmed Authors/Speakers/Researchers: Ken Gerhard: Author of Big Bird! Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters and co-author of Monsters of Texas Nick Redfern: Author of Wildman! The Monstrous and Mysterious Saga … Continue reading

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Bergman’s Bear In 1920, a Swedish zoologist, Sten Bergman, saw the skin of a Kamchatkan bear which he noted was exceptionally large, far beyond the size common to bears in the area. The hair covering the skin was short, in contrast with the long hair associated with normal Kamchatkan bears. It was also a deep black in color. Bergman also recounted several tracks which were … Continue reading

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Dr. Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA Study, Peer-Rejected (And my response)

Today across many Cryptid/Bigfoot focused websites and various social platforms, it was reported that Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA Paper has been rejected by a peer review journal, although I am not clear on whether it was rejected by editors or actual peers and haven’t actually seen any official rejection notice. However, at 3AM PST this morning, Igor Burtsev, the Russian scientist who originally leaked … Continue reading Dr. Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA Study, Peer-Rejected (And my response)

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ON AIR NOW – Ken Gerhard on Squatchdetective Radio

UPDATE – If you missed the live show, please download the episode here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/squatchdetective/2012/12/07/squatchdetective-radio.mp3 Chris Bennett and Steve Kulls now have the Squatchdetective radio show in a 90 minute format! Go Listen in! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/squatchdetective/2012/12/07/squatchdetective-radio Real Monster Hunter, Texas cryptozoologist  and author Ken Gerhard is appearing right now on Squatchdetective Radio with hosts Steve Kulls and Chris Bennett. Listen in as they discuss current events and … Continue reading ON AIR NOW – Ken Gerhard on Squatchdetective Radio

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A Cryptid Chronicles Book Review: In Search of Ogopogo: Sacred Creature of the Okanagan Waters Author: Arlene Gaal, 208 pages Sydney C. Squidney’s rating: 4/5 Bookshelves: cryptozoology, dinosaurs, extinction, lake-monster, monster-hunting, my-reviews, read, reference, research, sea-monsters  Originally posted at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/315087460 The review:A strong case for Ogopogo Author/Researcher Arlene Gaal is clearly passionate and dedicated to tracking the many sightings of the famous cryptid lake monster … Continue reading

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