cryptozoology

I was reading the wikipedia article on "paranormal" and it begins with this quote from Terence Hines, Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (2003) - The article then goes on to break down "Paranormal" into the categories of Ghost Hunting, Ufology, and Cryptozoology. Of which only the first fits...

I will be posting some scans of my Bigfoot/Cryptozoology articles i've collected over the last few years. These are for educational purposes only. Here is a scan I did of an Ivan Sanderson article. Tell me if it works, i am trying a new PDF hosting site. New Evidence of Abominable Snowman-...

Link: [Loch Ness Monster 'spotted' by walker as new pics spark Nessie debate] Excerpt: Posted b/c forum members may be interested.

"Scientifical Americans: Paranormal researchers and the public understanding of science" Presentation by Sharon Hill, via Skype Sponsored by CNY Skeptics Time: Wednesday, May 16, 2018, 7:00 PM Where: Manlius Library, One Arkie Albanese Ave, Manlius, NY, 13104 Event is Free and Open to the...

Bigfoot hunters sue state of California for denying existence of Sasquatch http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/02/bigfoot_hunters_sue_state_of_c.html https://www.sbsun.com/2018/02/12/crestline-woman-says-she-saw-sasquatches-in-lake-arrowhead-sues-state-to-get-species-recognized

Here's a fun YouTube video showing some sort of animal in a Russian home. It seems to be dressed up in a long hair wig and walks around bipedally while on a string leash. It's likely to be a monkey in costume. The hand is shown in close-up and the nails are typical for monkeys, but seems...

One problem I have with so called deep-sea cryptids is the propensity for folks to push the monster deeper and deeper all the way into the trenches. I mean fair enough we have discovered only a small fraction of the total ocean floor but some monsters, say, C. megalodon would have been pelagic...

The big thing here these days seems to be cryptids (and more specifically bigfoot). I have been criticized for having the audacity to not assume all claims come from frauds, and for actually looking at the claims. Apparently, this is not how one is "supposed" to do such research. Well, it...

Loren Coleman is soliciting item donations for his Crypto museum. I feel this is a bad move. He is going to get about 5000 worthless casts of alligator feet, and bear prints. We should all help him out and send in our best Cryptozoological trinkets. Why do you think he is also asking for...

This animal has been captured in Texas which locals are claiming might be a Chupacabra. I was not instilled with much confidence in the "wildlife expert" who said it is some kind of "canine." It doesn't seem to act like a canine, particularly in how it eats. Seems more a like a hairless...

What the heck is this site? It looks like stories made up from whole cloth or cryptofiction. http://cryptozoologynews.com/ The stories are reported only to this "source". They are not confirmed or investigated, just reproduced. But they are being cited in other news outlets. I'd like to dig...

Mario A. Cozzuol, Camila L. Clozato, Elizete C. Holanda, Flavio H. G. Rodriques, Samuel Nienow, Benoit De Thoisy, Rodrigo A. F. Redonod, and Fabricio R. Santos. (2013) A new species of tapir from the Amazon. Journal of Mammalogy. Where I first got the story. Exciting part: Cozzuol et al...

The Devil's Footprints are an enduring mystery that have occurred on more than one occasion. A comment from this Skeptoid site 'The Devil Walked in Devon' adds some interesting details to the nature of the mystery prints: From the 'Mysterious Britain' site it states: A comment adds yet...

I thought this was interesting; http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/03/loch-ness-monster-found-at-british-library.html A supposed medieval manuscript account and illustration of a Loch Ness monster - not necessarily THE Loch Ness monster, but a monster nonetheless...

One of the things I noticed about cryptozoology is that the creatures they are trying to find are all large vertebrates. Giving that the majority of undiscovered species are insects, you'll think they'd be interested in them too. I brought this up on the bigfoot forums and was told that new...

Saw this on Slashdot this morning... An NPR release about a team of archaologists in N. Korea finding their fabled "lair of the unicorn": http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/11/30/166265699/north-korea-says-its-archaeologists-discovered-a-unicorn-lair As well, according to the Slashdot...

Cryptozoology, unlike zoology, depends primarily on eyewitness accounts. Some cryptozoology enthusiasts understand that eyewitness testimonies are not definitive because of the potential problems inherent in such accounts. Other advocates accept, at least provisionally, sightings, and others...

The discussions we have been having on the Big Foot threads made me think about this topic and I just thought I would bring it up ? From what I have read and it isnt alot..Allegedly somewhere on the island of Sumatra (apparently in or near a National Forest) in Indonesia there is an un-...

The first time you watch it you can see it for sure - then when you read the proposed explanation you can see it for what it is. The brain it amazing for seeing what it wants to see! http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4116326/Woolly-mammoth-spotted-in-Siberia.html

This was funny while it lasted but, ultimately, it revealed how little Coleman checks his stories and is influenced by what he WANTS to believe so badly. Truly sad that he is still called upon as an "expert". In a nutshell, Loren quoted me (truthfully) from a parody website with gleeful...

Hey all, I just ran across this story via an email from a friend at work and wanted to know what the consensus was here on the jref boards. I couldn't find anything with the search function so I thought I'd post it...

Looks to be a pretty good summary of Orang Pendek lore in the Guardian today. As this might spur some discussion, I searched for a thread on this cryptid and came up empty. So I'm proposing this thread as a dedicated place for discussion of all things Orang Pendek.

Not the usual way this time. Apparently, a large black panther has been confirmed in southern Ohio (no links--got this from residents). They have footprints, scat, and photographs, confirmed by local zoologists. The current assumption is that someone had it as a pet, and when they realized they...

The 2000's have been a bad time for cryptozoology. Aside from the numerous pantsings the Bigfoot community has been getting (the Wallace confession, the Minnesota Iceman debunking, et al.), the BBC has trashed any possibility of Nessie existing, the Loveland Frog turned out to be much less...

We have tried to show that Bigfoot does not exist, but, because of the difficulty of convincing believers that that the existence of the beast is absurd, based on lack of evidence, I think it should be attacked based on evidence that does exist For example, evolution does not seem to promote...

This is in spite of a subculture of cryptozoologists and woos who argue that the Eastern Cougar still exists. As with Bigfoot, there are thousands of unsubstanciated sightings and non-confirmatory evidence... sometimes hoaxed. U.S. officials declare eastern cougar extinct

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20110218/od_yblog_upshot/kayakers-snap-photo-of-englands-version-of-the-loch-ness-monster Kayakers snap photo of England's version of "Loch Ness Monster."

So I had the TV on for noise today and as usual it's on the History Chanel (don't know why, it's rarely history these days) and they are running a "Monster Quest" marathon. I wasn't really paying attention until I noticed that they weren't going with the supernatural explanation. Suddenly I...

From http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0427/Loch-Ness-monster-is-real-former-Scottish-police-chief -- among other sites reporting this so-called "news". (As of this post, "Loch Ness" is trending #3 on yahoo's front page.) Loren Coleman is being quoted as "a leading experts [sic]...

The History Channel program on cryptozoology, MonsterQuest, has been cancelled after 4 years. The producer Doug Hajicek wrote a letter to Cryptomundo.