cryptozoology
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Nightmare Shark Caught Off Coast of Australia – Has Been Terrifying World for 80 Million Years
That nightmarish thing in the photo above isn’t a screen-used graboid prop from Tremors. Nope. That’s an actual creature that lives in our oceans…you know…that giant mass of water that you swim in when you vacation? Caught off the coast of...
Monster Hunter claims this is the Loch Ness Monster – Looks remarkably like…whatever you want it to be
Jonathon Bright, a paranormal investigator who’s started adding ‘Monster Hunter’ to his resume – because who WOULDN’T want ‘Monster Hunter’ on their resume – has started sharing a photo that might be the famous camera-shy creature that has...
Sasquatch Sightings in British Columbia!
Recently a company called Legend Tracker, that’s created an augmented reality adventure application, put out a call for video submissions to anyone who had footage of what they thought might be everyone’s favorite, but annoyingly elusive,...
Multiple Yeti Sighted In Russia!
Russia has become a hotbed of Yeti activity over the last couple of weeks. And what’s more awesome than seeing a Yeti? Seeing a group of Yeti. In those last couple of weeks the sightings of Bigfoot’s Siberian cousin, two have included...
Man Dies Imitating Bigfoot!
“How’d your uncle die?” “He was dressed like a sad, ghetto version of bigfoot, walked into traffic and got nailed by two oncoming cars.” True story. 44-year-old Randy Lee Tenley of Montana was struck dead when he was hit by two oncoming...
NOAA Study Ends Mermaid Fairytales
You can all rest easy now. NOAA, a government body that apparently has a lot of time on their hands, have recently laid to rest the idea that mermaids might actually exist. According to NOAA? They don’t. Thanks, NOAA…you’ve single-handedly...
Australian Bigfoot Leaves Fresh Tracks
Bigfoot news is ripe now that Animal Planet’s “Finding Bigfoot” is reinvigorating the hunt for the apparent ninja-trained mysterious icon of cryptozoology. On the other side of the world from Idaho’s recent sighting, comes reports of...
“Half Human” Mystery Animal Befuddles Minnesotans
What is there not to love about this report from KSAX-TV News? A reporter is dispatched to take a look at a mysterious bit of road kill found by a local woman. Pictures of the hairless creature sparked an intense Facebook debate as to what...
io9 Hosting Cryptid Summer Contest
io9 is sponsoring the Cryptid Summer contest and offering a prize of $2000 for the best photographic or video evidence of a genuine cryptid. This looks like it could end up creating quite a bit of fun. The Bounty io9 will be offering a...
Podcast: Dawkins sees a Double Rainbow
Special guest Dr. Karen Stollznow helps the gang plan a heist for a sacred Yeti paw. Brian and Justin get enormous glee from watching Andrew get corrected. The ethics of eating canned whale meat is debated. We also find out how ready and...
Podcast: Destroyer of Worlds
Find out which of the three used to wear a Spider-Man costume under his clothes and which ones just wore ladies underwear. Listen to them describe their plans to capture a sea beast, fight alligators and find proof of Son of Hogzilla....
Weird Things Live: Hunting the Night Creeper
Weird Things Live: Hunting the Night Creeper from Andrew Mayne on Vimeo. Last Monday night in front of a live internet audience we set out to solve the mystery of the Night Creeper. Ghost? Frogman? Or something else? Although we’re pretty...
On the trail of the Night Creeper
As we prepare for tomorrow’s live hunt for what is known as the “Night Creeper”, we thought we’d share with you some photos from a recent reconnaissance of the area. Our first nighttime recon resulted in Justin and I getting stopped by the...
Maria Bello Lists Cryptozoology Among Common Interests With New Fiance
Cryptomundo tells the beautiful love story of actress Maria Bello (you might remember her from THAT scene in A History Of Violence) and her new fiance Bryn Mooser, one that was cemented by a mutual interest in the search for cryptids....
Can Increased Cryptid Sightings Be Blamed On Global Warming?
Many mistaken cryptids are actually just fugly animals with a bad case of the mange. So what does that have to do with our planet’s current case of global warming driving and increase in sightings of potential Yetis, Bigfoots and...
Is There a Lost Race of Ape-Men?
In the Michael Crichton book Congo and movie by the same name, he describes a race of super-apes almost on par with man in intelligence. Like much of Crichton’s work, he based this on science speculation. For thousands of years there have...
A Brief History Of America’s Favorite Lake Based Monster Champ
Weird Things Culture Researcher Matt Finaly takes a weekly look into the social, political and cultural climates of a populace at the time it was affected by a legendary paranormal, extraterrestrial or cryptid phenomenon. It appears on...
Weird Week: Dover Demon, David Berkowitz, Chatty Ghosts, Lonely Bigfoot Hunters
Previously, this week, on Weird Things. • A few tips for the novice Bigfoot hunter. • Could the Son of Sam, a UFO investigating Air Force base and the birth of popular science fiction have helped create the Dover Demon? •...
The Loneliest Bigfoot Hunter In America
photo credit: Josh Lowe | Thrash Magazine Along with the islands of Hawaii, Rhode Island is the only American state to never officially recorded a Bigfoot sighting. Ever. Ken DeCosta, founder and director of Rhode Island Society for the...
Bigfoot Hunter Comes Face To Face With Nemesis
Bart Cutino found big foot. For a fleeting 2007 moment in Naches, WA he and the one of the legendary wood apes locked eyes. He describes the encounter to The Monterey Herald… “About 20 to 25 seconds later, it stepped out from behind the...
Only Eyewitness to Lizard Man Shot to Death!
We were saddened today to find out from Cryptomundo that Chris Davis, the originator of the South Carolina Lizard Man legend was shot to death at his home in a drug related incident. According to Davis’ reports: on June 29, 1988 he was...
Another Look At Manitoba Bigfoot Video
Bobby Clarke, a ferry boat driver from Manitoba, took this Bigfoot footage in 2005. The short film, taken with an out of focus camcorder created lots of media buzz and lead to a Bigfoot investigation by now defunct news program “A Current...
New Investigation of Lake Champlain Monster Video
Above is a stabilized version of the latest purported video of Champ the Monster of Lake Champlain. Compare that to the video of a common fresh water otter below, and the mystery of Lake Champlain starts to unravel. Check out the updated...
Are There Modern Dinosaurs?
photo credit: Tom Scholes The Loch Ness Monster and other dino-cryptids have captivated the imaginations and hopes of millions of people all over the world. It would be really cool if dinosaurs were still alive today. But how much truth is...
Champlain Lake Monster Revisited
“Champ” the Lake Champlain monster is back bothering residents of Burlington, Vermont. The above image is a screen shot from the latest Lake Champlain monster video of a mysterious dinosaur like creature crossing the water. Alas we could...
Bigfoot, Terrestrial Primate or Alien Hominid?
Since the dawn of civilization man has been asking the big questions: Why are we here? How did we come to be here? Is there a god? Is Bigfoot an alien? Chris Noel, Bigfoot enthusiast, author and investigator may not be able to shed much...
Siberian Yeti Raids Leek Crop!
photo credit: Loren Javier Something is amiss in Siberia once again. The wild leek crop, that is a staple food of the Shor people of the Siberian tundra, is being gobbled up by an unknown creature. The cryptid takes only leek plants and...
Nessie has Relocated and Gotten Fat
Nessie sightings have been on the decline in recent years and kilt clad investigators seeking desperately to try dinosaur haggis for the first time have turned up nothing in the placid Scottish Loch. In light of Nessie’s waning glory, a...