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Wisconsin's NBC16.com has a video segment on the Beast of Bray Road. |
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11-14-2009 |
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Florida's St. Petersburg Times reports that Russ Sittloh and his wife, retirees living on a waterfront home in Madeira Beach, on the west coast of Florida, have claimed to have seen, on multiple occasions, a very large serpent like creature. Russ has taken pictures and video and posted them to the internet (link). |
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11-14-2009 |
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Scientific American reports that new dna analysis reveals that the mysterious wolves, that Charles Darwin documented on the Falkland Islands in the 1830s, are related to the the South American maned wolf. |
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11-14-2009 |
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West Virginia's Point Pleasant Register has an overview of the Mothman mystery. |
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11-14-2009 |
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The Sacramento Press has some stories about strange sightings in and around Lake Tahoe, California. |
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11-12-2009 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald has an overview of the life of Robert H. Rines. |
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11-12-2009 |
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The Huffington Post has a commentary on Robert H. Rines. |
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11-12-2009 |
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The Highland News reports that an Italian entertainment troupe is in Inverness, looking for signs of the Loch Ness monster. |
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11-12-2009 |
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North Carolina's News Herald recounts the story of the Woolybooger. |
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11-07-2009 |
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North Carolina's McDowell News remembers Robert H. Rines, and his search for the Loch Ness Monster. |
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11-07-2009 |
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New Zealand's 3News reports on a new radio show about cryptozoology. |
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11-07-2009 |
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Fort Worth, TX's Star-Telegram reports that Sallie Ann Clarke, the local authority on the Lake Worth Monster, has died. |
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11-07-2009 |
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Houston's Examiner.com has a story from the 1950s about some men who encountered a mysterious creature while intoxicated on the Red River, between Minnesota and North Dakota. |
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10-30-2009 |
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EverythingPR has a look at the recent chupacabra reports. |
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10-30-2009 |
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North Carolina's Eyewitness News reports that a Phoenix man says he has a taxidermied chupacabra on display in downtown Phoenix's the Lost World Museum. |
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10-30-2009 |
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Texas College Station's KBTX.com reports on a new "chupacabra" body. |
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10-30-2009 |
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The UK's Matlock Mercury reports that a cyclist was confronted by a large black cat, said to be as big as a German Shepard dog, in Cromford, north of Derby. A photo of a print was taken. |
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10-27-2009 |
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Australia's News.com.au reports that a black panther has been seen in southwest Luxembourg. This follows reports of a black panther apparently traveling through France and Belgium. |
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10-27-2009 |
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Georgia's Times-Herald has an overview of the story of the Belt Road Booger, of Happy Valley Circle. |
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10-15-2009 |
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Newfoundland's St. John's Telegram has an overview of local sea monster legends. |
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10-11-2009 |
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The Coventry Telegraph's The Geek Files blog reports that Spiderman director Sam Raimi is to produce a horror movie about the Yeti, titled Refuge. |
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09-29-2009 |
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The Center for Fortean Zoology reports that the CFZ team has come back from its expedition to Sumatra with a sighting report, hair samples, prints, and rattan vine samples that the animal was chewing on. |
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09-29-2009 |
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The blog Still on The Track has posted video taken of some odd swimming creatures at Killarney Lakes, Ireland, taken by Jonathan Downes. |
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09-26-2009 |
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UK's Windermere North-west Evening Mail reports that footage of a creature making a wake on Lake Windermere is attracting media attention. |
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09-23-2009 |
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Vermont's Rutland Herald talks with Joseph Citro, author of "The Vermont Monster Guide". |
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09-13-2009 |
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Canada.com reports that the B.C. Scientific Cryptozoology Club will investigate Cameron Lake, where reports have been coming in of something mysterious swimming about. |
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09-11-2009 |
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Kentucky's Wave3 reports on a camera trap photo of what appears to be a large ape-like creature raiding a vegetable garden. |
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09-11-2009 |
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The UK's Mail Online reports that video was taken in Poland of a bigfoot-type creature walking around near some sunbathers. |
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09-01-2009 |
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Houston's Examiner takes a look at the new series on the Cartoon Network called Secret Saturdays, which is a children's program about the adventures of a group of kids investigating cryptids. |
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08-30-2009 |
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The UK's Daily Record talks with Jonathan Scott, the star of the BBC series Big Cat Diary. |
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08-28-2009 |
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New York's New Tang Dynasty Television has a video report on the excitement over a mysterious animal that no one has been able to identify yet. |
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08-27-2009 |
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Scotland's STV news reports that a Google Earth satellite image appears to show a large strange creature swimming along the surface of Loch Ness. |
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08-26-2009 |
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Florida's WCBD news reports that video was taken of an apparently large creature swimming under the surface of Lake Worth Lagoon in West Palm Beach. |
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08-22-2009 |
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Houston's Examiner.com takes a look at the life of John A. Keel, author of many books, including the seminal Mothman Prophesies. |
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08-17-2009 |
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LiveScience.com reports that people in the town of Kiryat Yam have been going to the coast at sunset to try to catch a glimpse of the "mermaid". |
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08-17-2009 |
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Florida's Palm Beach Post reports that the crew of the History Channel show MonsterQuest filmed a mysterious creature in the Lake Worth Lagoon. |
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08-17-2009 |
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China's People's Daily Online has an overview of the top 5 lake monsters in China. |
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07-29-2009 |
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Houston's Examiner.com reports that a trail cam setup in the Sierra National Forest took a picture of an apparently humanoid creature. |
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07-29-2009 |
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San Francisco's io9.com reports that another expedition in search of the Mongolian death worms will be underway. |
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07-29-2009 |
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Scotland's STV reports that a police officer videotaped what appears to be a big cat in Helensburgh. |
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07-28-2009 |
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Florida's NapleNews.com reports that a woman found strange egg-shaped objects in her flower pot, which bloom into red hexagonal "flowers". |
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07-26-2009 |
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California, Eureka's Times-Standard reports that artist Duane Flatmo has painted a mural overlooking State Route 299 depicting Bigfoot in a helpful light. |
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07-26-2009 |
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New York's LoHud.com reports that efforts are underway to try to capture the mysterious black-colored panther type animals in the Palisades and Tallman State Parks. Sightings, paw prints, claw marks on trees, and killed deer are the evidence. |
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07-24-2009 |
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Houston's Examiner takes a look at some *formerly extinct* animals, that have re-appeared. |
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07-24-2009 |
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Namibia's New Era reports that mysterious creatures are attacking and killing livestock in some towns. |
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07-23-2009 |
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China's People's Daily Online reports that tourists at Kanas Lake saw the "monster" while on a boat. |
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07-23-2009 |
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Michigan's The Ogemaw County Herald talks with BFRO member Phil Shaw. |
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07-23-2009 |
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Time magazine reports that a large, hairy blob floating in the Arctic Ocean is an unusual type of algae bloom. |
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07-18-2009 |
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Houston's Examiner looks at the stories of shape-shifting creatures in Michigan. |
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07-16-2009 |
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Canada.com reports that a kayaker at Okanagan Lake found a decomposing carcass that he could not identify. DNA analysis is being arranged. |
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07-11-2009 |
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Yahoo! News reports that the search is on for the legendary giant worm of Palouse. |
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07-11-2009 |
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North Carolina's McDowell News has a column on strange cryptozoological animals. This one is a giant bird and the Lizard Man. |
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07-05-2009 |
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Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News reports that a fictional movie about the Lake Van monster is in production. |
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07-05-2009 |
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The Houston Examiner has a story on bigfoot sightings around the ruins of an old castle near Hartford, Illinois. |
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07-05-2009 |
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The Los Angeles Times talks with Joshua Blu Buhs, author of "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend". |
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07-05-2009 |
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Oklahoma's Tahlequah Daily Press looks into stories of a monster living next to the Illinois River. |
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06-27-2009 |
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Utah's Deseret News talks with Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization member John R. Salmond. |
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06-27-2009 |
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California's Monterey County The Herald talks with Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization member Bart Cutino. |
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06-27-2009 |
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Tampabay.com talks with Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization member Cathy Betz. |
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06-27-2009 |
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Indiana's IndyStar.com looks back at the story of the monster of Fulk Lake. |
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06-19-2009 |
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Texas' Bandera County Courier reports that a strange creature shot on the Bandera-Medina county line is actually a coyote with severe mange. |
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06-19-2009 |
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Science Daily reports that Brian Regal, assistant professor of the history of science at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, has a thesis that Darwin's Origin of the Species shifted public belief in werewolves towards apemen, like bigfoot. |
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06-19-2009 |
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California's Los Gatos Observer talks with David Paulides, author of the new book "Tribal Bigfoot". |
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06-19-2009 |
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06-07-2009 |
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ABCNews looks into all the commotion regarding a video taken at Lake Champlain, which seems to show something big swimming about. |
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06-07-2009 |
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Florida's Ivanhoe Broadcast News has an article on searching for extinct animals. |
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06-07-2009 |
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Australia's The Border Watch reports that Richard Elliott claims to have seen an animal resembling a thylacine, near Mount Gambier, in Victoria. |
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06-07-2009 |
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Oklahoma's Tulsa World reports that bigfoot hunters found what they say may be a bigfoot footprint, in the Kiamichi Mountains in southeastern Oklahoma. |
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06-07-2009 |
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The New York Times has a review of the book "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend", a satirical look at the bigfoot culture in America. |
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06-07-2009 |
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California's Times Standard talks with David Paulides, author of "The Hoopa Project: Bigfoot Encounters in California". |
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05-31-2009 |
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The Denver Examiner talks with Chris Noel, author and bigfoot researcher. |
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05-31-2009 |
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AllNewsWeb.com reports that "Tim the Yowie Man" has set up camp in the village of Springbrook, in hopes of spotting the Yowie, due to the record breaking flooding occurring in south-east Queensland. |
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05-31-2009 |
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California's Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that a discussion and exhibit on Bigfoot will take place at the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, on June 7. |
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05-31-2009 |
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The North Carolina Farm Bureau Magazine talks with Michael Greene, of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. |
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05-26-2009 |
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Vietnam's thanhniennews.com reports that a growing viscous blob type goop taking over a lake is actually colonies of living organisms called Bryozoan. |
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05-16-2009 |
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New Zealand's Stuff talks with New Zealanders who are on the hunt for mysterious animals. |
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05-16-2009 |
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Newsarama.com reports that the tv series Primeval is going to be adapted into a major motion picture. Its about creatures from the past being transported through time to the present. |
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05-16-2009 |
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Russia's Mosnews.com reports that farmers in the Kemerovo region of Siberia are complaining that bigfoot type creatures are eating their leek crops. |
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05-16-2009 |
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North Carolina's McDowell News reports that a local man has had encounters with Bigfoots. |
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05-16-2009 |
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Exclaim.ca has posted a review of the new dvd "Ghost Bird", about the search for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. |
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05-06-2009 |
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Allnewsweb.com comments on the video of what appears to be a large creature in the English Channel. |
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05-04-2009 |
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Illinois' Pjstar.com reports that emus are running amok in rural Chillicothe. |
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04-25-2009 |
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New York's Plattsburgh Press Republican takes a look at bigfoot sightings in the New York area. |
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04-19-2009 |
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AllNewsWeb.com reports that two backpackers hiking near Sydney saw what they described as a bigfoot. |
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04-16-2009 |
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Cornwall's Falmouth Penryn Packet reports on a recent sighting of the "Falmouth Beast". |
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04-11-2009 |
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American Chronicle has posted a review of the book "Hunt for the Skinwalker". |
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04-11-2009 |
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Houston TX's KHOU.com reports that a SUV vehicle was torn apart by an unknown animal, in North Carolina. |
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04-11-2009 |
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The Norfolk Eastern Daily Press takes a look into the unsolved case of the Waveney monster. |
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04-11-2009 |
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EcoWorldly has put up a gallery of pictures of extinct animals. |
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04-04-2009 |
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Whiznews.com has a video interview with Don Keating. |
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04-04-2009 |
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The Palm Beach Post has an article on the Skunk Ape. |
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04-04-2009 |
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Pennsylvania's Lancaster Online reports that people are still unsure what it was that was found dead on the side of the road. Whatever it was, it was big. |
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03-22-2009 |
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Albertville, Alabama's Sand Mountain The Reporter reports that bigfoot researchers (Elusive Primates of North America) exploring a heavily wooded area near Albertville found a large, gorilla-like hand print, and vocalizations were heard. |
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03-22-2009 |
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The Trinidad & Tobago Express reports that a strange one-horned creature was found washed up on the beach in Cedros, southern Trinidad. |
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03-19-2009 |
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The UK's MailOnline.com reports that "satan's hoofprints" have been photographed in a backyard in Devon. |
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03-15-2009 |
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CDNN.com reports that a pink bottlenose dolphin is swimming around in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary in Louisiana. |
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03-15-2009 |
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LancasterOnline.com reports that a large pig-like or rodent-like creature has been spotted running around in New Danville. |
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03-15-2009 |
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Mongabay.com reports that the dna testing on droppings, thought to have been from thylacines, came out as "tasmanian devil". Dr. Jeremy Austin says money should stop being spent on trying to prove that thylacines exist, and instead be used for other conservation purposes. |
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03-15-2009 |
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Canada.com reports that photos of bigfoot-type footprints were taken in northern British Columbia. |
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03-15-2009 |
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InventorSpot has an article on the current Russian search for "some hairy humanoid creatures". |
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03-15-2009 |
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Chicago's The Courier News looks into the issue of cougars coming back to Illinois. |
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03-08-2009 |
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The American Chronicle has an opinion piece on what the nature of "Bigfoot" may be. |
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03-08-2009 |
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Time magazine talks with zoologist Bill Schutt, who puts forth the theory that the legend of chupacabras may be rooted in reality. |
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03-01-2009 |
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The Epoch Times has posted an article discussing common features of popular mysterious creatures. |
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03-01-2009 |
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Laredo, Texas station KGNS-TV reports that a strange creature was photographed at a ranch. |
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03-01-2009 |
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Australia's The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Dr. Jeremy Austin, with the curiously long title of "deputy director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide", is testing animal scat collected during the 1950s and 60s, to see if any of it came from a thylacine. |
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03-01-2009 |
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Michigan's Bay City News talks with bigfoot researcher Phil Shaw. |
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03-01-2009 |
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Russia's NOVOSTI reports that a team led by the Orthodox Bishop of Kemerovo and a local official are going on an expedition to try to find a bigfoot-type creature being reported by hunters to be living in cave in the Tashtagol area, which is north of Kazakhstan and Mongolia. |
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02-19-2009 |
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The UK's KentOnline reports that very large cat prints are being found at the Gravesend golf course in Kent, making people wonder if a big panther is on the loose in the area. |
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02-19-2009 |
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New Orlean's The Times-Picayune reports that a wild African cat, a serval, was found in the backyard of a home in New Orleans. The cat was tranquilized and is now at the local zoo while police try to find out where the cat came from. |
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02-19-2009 |
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The UK's Daily Mail reports that a photograph of what appears to be a giant snake in a river in Borneo was taken recently. Locals have a legend of a giant snake they call "Nabau". |
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02-19-2009 |
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Australia's AllNewsWeb.com comments on the problems with thylacines vs. commercial interests. |
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02-15-2009 |
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The UK's The Packet reports a woman on a walk on the Falmouth coastal path saw a creature she could not identify. |
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02-14-2009 |
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The UK's Telegraph reports that a bizarre photograph taken at an airport in Argentina appears to show a flying insect-man. |
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02-02-2009 |
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The Aberdeen Press and Journal reports that a motorist saw what he described as a cheetah-like animal in Aberdeenshire. |
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02-02-2009 |
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The Gazette of Colchester and north Essex reports that a police officer called for backup when he spotted a panther-like animal lurking behind the Wivenhoe police station. |
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02-02-2009 |
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The Phillyist.com reports on the annual yearbook published by The Centre For Fortean Zoology. This issue has an article about the monsters of Philadelphia. |
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02-02-2009 |
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Australia's Courier Mail reports on a new big cat sighting. The animal is given the name "Glenwood Panther". |
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02-02-2009 |
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Examiner.com presents an overview of mysterious sightings in Pennsylvania during last year. |
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02-02-2009 |
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This is North Devon reports that an unidentified dead animal was found washed up on a beach. |
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02-02-2009 |
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ScienceCentric.com reports that a population viability analysis, sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, predicts that ivory bill woodpeckers could have survived extinction with as few as five breeding pairs. |
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01-19-2009 |
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MSNBC reports that scientists examining the dna of extinct tasmanian tigers have found that their genetic diversity was very poor, and therefore a major factor leading to their extinction. |
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01-14-2009 |
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The Boston Phoenix reports on the surging popularity of cryptozoology in these hard economic times. |
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01-14-2009 |
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Kenya's The East African reports that a multi-national team of researchers are conducting a study on a crater lake, Lake Ngozi, in the Mporoto Ridge Forest Reserve. The lake is a source of mystery to the local people, since it changes color depending on the weather, and legend says there is a giant serpent living there. |
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01-08-2009 |
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MSNBC reports on the mysterious black wolf of Juneau, Alaska, who remains a lone wolf, and is attracted to people with dogs. |
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01-04-2009 |
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Mania.com has a review of Linda Godfrey's book "Strange Wisconsin". |
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01-04-2009 |
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The Langley AdvanceNews, Canada, has an opinion piece on the (non)existence of Bigfoot. |
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01-04-2009 |
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Whiznews.com of Ohio reports on the meeting of the Southeastern Ohio Society for Bigfoot Investigation, at the Crossroads Branch Library in Cambridge. |
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01-04-2009 |
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The Modesto Bee talks with Kathy Moskowitz Strain, author and bigfoot researcher. |
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12-28-2008 |
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Australia's The Daily Telegraph reports that the mysterious cats that have been sighted in remote areas appear to be moving in closer to populated areas. |
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12-26-2008 |
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Mania.com reviews the booklet "Phantom Black Dogs in Latin America". |
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12-26-2008 |
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CondeNast Traveler reports on recent discoveries of new animal species. |
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12-21-2008 |
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The Scotsman reports that an elderly woman was attacked in the Highlands by a large cat, which she says was about 4 feet long, and with a black stripe down its back. She says this was the second time that cat had attacked her. |
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12-21-2008 |
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The UK's Westmorland Gazette reports that photographs of the prints of a large cat in the snow were taken. |
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12-21-2008 |
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The San Francisco Sentinel reports on recent bigfoot sightings in British Columbia. |
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12-21-2008 |
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The UK's Times Online gives some pointers on how to search for Nessie in style. |
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12-21-2008 |
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Firefox News has posted an article on the Fouke Monster. |
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12-21-2008 |
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National Geographic reports that video of a strange elbowed-squid were taken by a camera a mile and a half deep in the ocean. |
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11-27-2008 |
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Reuters reports that New Zealand researchers have discovered there was another species of penguin that had existed in New Zealand, which they are calling the "Waitaha penguin". |
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11-21-2008 |
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The New York Times looks into the possibilities of re-creating a woolly mammoth. |
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11-20-2008 |
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The San Francisco Chronicle reports that sightings of what people claim to be large black cats are being made in the area's parks. It is said to have "jet-black" fur, and very big. |
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11-20-2008 |
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The Anchorage Daily News reports that an exotic cat has been spotted prowling around the city of Anchorage, Alaska. |
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11-20-2008 |
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The BBC has an overview of Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. |
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11-20-2008 |
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The blog Environmental graffiti takes a look at sea serpents. |
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11-20-2008 |
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The Washington Post reports that scientists have reconstructed about 70% of the woolly mammoth genome by extracting it from hair samples. They say mammoth dna is only about 0.6% different than modern elephant dna. |
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11-20-2008 |
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India's The Telegraph reports that 34 people have been attacked by a dog-like, or panther-like, animal this past week in Assam, India. However, none of the victims have been able to describe what the animal was, exactly. |
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11-18-2008 |
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The UK's Guardian looks into what the Loch Ness monster means to Scotland. |
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11-18-2008 |
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Canada.com reports on interesting findings by the crew of the History Channel's "Monster Quest", while on location on Okanagan Lake. |
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11-15-2008 |
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The American Chronicle reports that two new DVDs about mysterious creatures are coming out soon - "The Wildman of Kentucky" and "The Viking Serpent". |
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11-15-2008 |
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Canada's Houston-Today reports that new sightings of bigfoot have been made. |
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11-15-2008 |
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The UK's Sunday Mercury reports on sightings of bigfoot type creatures in the Staffordshire, England area. |
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11-15-2008 |
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Michigan's The Kalamazoo Gazette reports on author Linda Godfrey's presentation last Sunday at the Kalamazoo Public Library, where she talked about her new book "Strange Michigan". |
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11-08-2008 |
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The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports that a private donor is offering $50,000 to anyone who can get a photograph of the ivory-billed woodpecker. |
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11-08-2008 |
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Colorado's Eagle Valley Enterprise reports that the tv crew from History Channel's "Monster Quest" went to Eagle Valley to do an episode on bigfoot sightings in the area. |
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11-08-2008 |
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Australia's The Mercury reports that a new movie, titled "Dying Breed", is opening in theaters. A horror movie, where people, searching for living thylacines, instead find living cannibals. |
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11-02-2008 |
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Canada's Waterloo Record reports that a new childrens' cartoon show titled "Secret Saturdays" will be airing in the US and Canada. It is about a "family of cryptozoologists". It is expected that toy products based on the series will soon be available in stores. |
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11-02-2008 |
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California's The Willits News reports that a bigfoot sighting took place on Highway 101 in northern California during the fires last summer. |
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11-02-2008 |
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Vermont's Rutland Herald looks into reports of Bigfoot sightings and evidence in Vermont. |
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11-02-2008 |
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Eureka, California's Times-Standard presents an overview of how the modern Bigfoot legend began. |
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11-02-2008 |
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Zap2it.com reports that the Sci Fi Channel is going to continue with its line of crypto/monster/alien themed movies. Upcoming will be "Sand Serpents", "Alien Western", and "Carney". |
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10-25-2008 |
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Monterey, California's Fox 35 looks into continuing expeditions for cryptozoological creatures. |
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10-25-2008 |
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Yahoo! News reports that members of "Yeti Project Japan" have found footprints of the Yeti, while on a expedition to photograph the creature on a mountain called Dhaulagiri IV. |
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10-20-2008 |
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The UK's Sun reports that another video from Argentina shows a very short sideways walking creature with a pointy hat, apparently the same thing filmed several months ago at a town 200 miles away. |
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10-19-2008 |
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The Texas Marshall News Messenger has a report on the 2008 Texas Bigfoot Conference. |
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10-19-2008 |
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Minnesota's KEYC.com reports that Siberian hunters have found large footprints with large strides. |
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10-11-2008 |
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HecklerSpray takes a look at the legend of Mahamba, a 50 foot crocodile. |
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10-07-2008 |
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NBC30.com of New London, Connecticut, reports that a photo of an unidentified dead creature was taken on the shoreline. The body is now gone. |
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09-29-2008 |
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The Tetrapod Zoology blog has an article on the long-necked seal. |
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09-29-2008 |
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BBC News reports that scientists are working on bringing back the giant tortoise from extinction. But it may take several decades to accomplish. |
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09-23-2008 |
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Marion, North Carolina's McDowell News has an overview of the Dover Demon mystery. |
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09-18-2008 |
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Marion, North Carolina's McDowell News has an overview of Champ sightings in Lake Champlain. |
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09-18-2008 |
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The annual Mothman Festival, in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, will take place this weekend, Sept. 20-21. Admission is free. |
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09-18-2008 |
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Australia's News.com.au reports that New South Wales Premier Nathan Rees takes sightings of big cats seriously. |
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09-18-2008 |
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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society will hold its 2008 East Coast Conference on Saturday, Sept 27, from noon-8pm, at Pitzer's Townhouse in Jeannette. On Sunday there will be a "driving tour" and a walk at some locations where sightings had been reported. |
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09-18-2008 |
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Heckler Spray has posted an article on Soctland's legendary Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui. |
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09-16-2008 |
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Yahoo! News reports that photographs of the Okapi in the wild were taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There were feared extinct or near extinction. |
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09-11-2008 |
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The UK's Ely Standard reports on sightings of a big cat Isleham. |
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09-05-2008 |
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The American Chronicle has an article on an investigation of a Sasquatch sighting in Canada. |
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09-05-2008 |
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New York's WSYR reports that a strange canine-type creature was photographed with a cellphone camera in Solvay. |
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08-28-2008 |
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California's The Eureka Reporter reports that the 48th annual Bigfoot Days will take place this weekend at Veterans Park in Willow Creek. |
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08-28-2008 |
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The UK's Times Online has posted a commentary on cryptozoology. |
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08-24-2008 |
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Fox News takes a look into why we are so fascinated by stories of fantastic creatures. |
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08-20-2008 |
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The "bright green blog" on The Christian Science Monitor has some thoughts on the latest bigfoot hoax, and what bigfoot may be about. |
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08-20-2008 |
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West Virginia's Huntington Herald Dispatch reports that the 7th Annual Mothman Festival will take place on Sept. 20-21 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia (www.mothmanfestival.com). |
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08-18-2008 |
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American Chronicle comments on the recent Bigfoot hoax. |
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08-18-2008 |
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Texas' WFFA.com reports that a sheriff filmed a strange creature running down a rural road. The creature was not caught. |
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08-13-2008 |
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San Lorenzo Valley Press reports that leading bigfoot researchers will hold a four-hour mini-conference on the topic of bigfoot this Saturday at Felton Community Hall, Felton CA. |
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08-04-2008 |
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Scientific American has posted a 2003 article on cryptids. |
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08-04-2008 |
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Canada's Times Colonist wonders what has happened to Caddy, Cadborosaurus willsi. |
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07-28-2008 |
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Canada's Winnipeg Sun reports that a bigfoot sighting in Kenora, Ontario, have got people excited. Pictures were taken of 6-toed foot prints. |
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07-28-2008 |
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BBC News reports that an apparently new species of insect has been discovered on the grounds of the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Garden. |
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07-19-2008 |
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The American Chronicle has posted an editorial comparing bigfoot phenomena to alien phenomena. |
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07-19-2008 |
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Washington state's Longview Daily News reports on a sidewalk chalk competition, with the theme "Where did you see Sasquatch?", held at the Saturday Market in Longview. |
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07-16-2008 |
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Colorado Springs' The Gazette reports than an African lion has been seen, and photographed, running wild in El Paso county. |
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07-16-2008 |
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Oklahoma's Tahlequah Daily Press talks with D.W. Lee, of the Mid-America Bigfoot Research organization. |
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07-16-2008 |
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San Jose's Mercury News talks with David Paulides, director of the North American Bigfoot Search. |
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07-16-2008 |
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Physorg.com reports that scientists have discovered a species of chameleon which has a unique characteristic - it spends most of its life as an embryo. |
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07-12-2008 |
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The Tetrapod Zoology blog ponders over sea monsters. |
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07-12-2008 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society reports that a white giraffe was photographed in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park. |
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07-07-2008 |
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The Lancashire Telegraph reports that a white starling was seen feeding in a garden in Trawden. |
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07-07-2008 |
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Oklahoma's Tahlequah Daily Press reports that a bigfoot type creature may be lurking in Cherokee county. |
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07-02-2008 |
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Yahoo! News reports on the current status of the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker. |
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06-23-2008 |
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The History Channel has posted episodes of MonsterQuest online. |
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06-22-2008 |
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New Zealand's Petone Herald reports on Rex Gilroy's search for Moas in Urewera National Park. |
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06-17-2008 |
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India's FreshNews reports that very large footprints were found on Borneo, and villagers in the area say they felt ill for a couple months before finding the footprints, as if there was something in the air. |
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06-17-2008 |
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BBC News reports on the mande barung of the West Garo hills in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya. With video. |
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06-17-2008 |
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Yahoo! News reports that a unicorn-horned deer is in a nature preserve in Italy. Its a Roe Deer with a genetic anomaly. |
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06-11-2008 |
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Maryland's Delmarva Daily Times reports that Swamp Monster hoaxer Fred Stevens has come out with his story. |
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06-11-2008 |
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The Chicago Tribune reports that Larry Nielson, a member of St. Paul's Lake City Tourism Bureau, is putting up a $5000 reward for evidence of "Pepie", the legendary creature of Lake Pepin. |
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06-11-2008 |
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The UK's STV.tv has a video report on a sonar detection of an apparently very large creature in Loch Ness. |
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06-11-2008 |
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The UK's The Argus reports that a man walking his dog says a big cat attacked his dog. He says it wasn't black, but sandy colored with a grey muzzle. |
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06-11-2008 |
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Bhutan's Kuensel Online reports that the first ever photo of an "ocelot morph" in the wild was taken in October of 2006. |
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06-11-2008 |
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The UK's Metro reports that an artist traveling in the Bhutan region says she was shown the scalp of what the locals call a "migoi", a legendary hairy ape-man, otherwise known as the "Yeti" to Westerners. |
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06-05-2008 |
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The UK's Bucks Free Press reports that an albino squirrel was photographed in Kent. |
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06-05-2008 |
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The blog Tetrapod Zoology has an article on the famous Mansi photo. |
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06-05-2008 |
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Paranormal News has posted an article about unidentified flying creatures. |
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06-05-2008 |
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The UK's Dorset Echo reports that a mother and son were repeatedly attacked by what they describe as a giant bee. The bee was killed, and has been sent off for identification. |
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05-19-2008 |
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Hecklerspray.com has posted an overview of the Minnesota Iceman mystery. |
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05-19-2008 |
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The UK's Metro.co.uk reports that thylacine DNA has been reactivated by scientists in Melbourne, Australia. |
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05-19-2008 |
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The Londonist reports that there will be a special presentation by cryptozoologists Richard Freeman and Jonathan Downes at the Grant Museum of Zoology, located in London, this Tuesday night. |
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05-19-2008 |
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UFODigest.com has posted an article by Brad Steiger about Thunderbirds. |
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05-19-2008 |
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The UK's icWales reports that a local man says he was walking his dog by Pluck Lake, when he saw a crocodile swimming in the water. |
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05-17-2008 |
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Louisiana's Houma Courier reviews the book "The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times", which looks into how interpretations of fossil remains led to the creation of myths of monsters. |
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05-17-2008 |
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Wisconsin's WIS10 reports that dna results have come back from the blood on the van that was torn up in Lee County, and that it's from a canine. |
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05-17-2008 |
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Ohio's Toledo Blade reports on the upcoming 20th annual Bigfoot Conference/EXPO this Saturday at Salt Fork State Park. |
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05-13-2008 |
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India's Meri News reports on the search for a bigfoot-type creature called Mande Burung, in the jungle of the Garo Hills. |
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05-10-2008 |
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Monsters and Critics reports that the Monsterquest Season 1 dvd has been released. |
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05-07-2008 |
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Minnesota's KTTC takes a look at stories of "Peppie", a creature thought to be living in Lake Pepin. |
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05-03-2008 |
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California's Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that a surveillance camera took pictures of what appears to be a black cougar. |
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05-03-2008 |
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Fresno's ABC30 reports on the sightings of a bigfoot-type creature in Sequoia National Park. An interesting aspect is that the anchors of the news program did not joke or belittle the story, but rather treated it as an important topic, as professionals should. |
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04-27-2008 |
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Tasmania's The Advocate reports that a new movie is opening in New York called "Dying Breed". Its an adventure film about researchers looking for the tasmanian tiger, who end up being hunted by cannibals while in the bush. |
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04-27-2008 |
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Ohio's Tri-County Journal talks with members of the Tri-County Bigfoot Group. |
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04-24-2008 |
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Boston's NPR station WBUR talks with Daniel Johnson, director of the newly opened "The Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute". |
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04-18-2008 |
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Montana's Great Falls Tribune reports that several large foot and handprints, and a half-eaten coyote, have people speculating theres a bigfoot in the area. But it turns out to have been a hoax. |
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04-18-2008 |
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WildlifeExtra.com reports that an amateur ornithologist claims to have heard the call of the South Island kokako, a bird, in Kahurangi National Park, New Zealand. The South Island kokako is believed to be extinct. |
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04-11-2008 |
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West Virginia's Beckly Register-Herald has posted some thoughts on the possibility of Bigfoot. |
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04-11-2008 |
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04-06-2008 |
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The Sidney Herald posts some thoughts on the subject of cryptozoology. |
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04-06-2008 |
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Blogcritics Magazine has posted a review of the fiction book "The Cage". The plot involves the escape of various cryptids from captivity. |
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03-28-2008 |
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Pennsylvania's Blairsville Dispatch takes a look at Stan Gordon and the Pennsylvania Researchers Organization. |
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03-21-2008 |
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Live Science has posted their 10 favorite legendary animals. |
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03-18-2008 |
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National Geographic reports that a pygmy hippo was photographed by a camera trap in West Africa, where it had been feared extinct. |
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03-12-2008 |
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About.com has posted an article about some obscure cryptozoological animals. |
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03-12-2008 |
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The XPRESS, United Arab Emirates, reports that a lion is on the loose, killing livestock and frightening people. |
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03-12-2008 |
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DVDTALK.com has a review of the dvd "Monster Hunters". |
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03-10-2008 |
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KLTV of Texas reports that Bigfoot researcher Mike Hall is leading a team on an expedition in East Texas, looking for evidence of Bigfoot. |
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03-10-2008 |
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Wisconsin's WIS10 reports that owners of a van in Bishopville were shocked to find that their van was apparently "attacked" by something that left what looks like teeth marks and claw marks. |
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03-07-2008 |
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The UK's Telegraph reports that a bird feared extinct, the Beck petrel, has been photographed by an ornithologist on a research ship near New Guinea. |
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03-07-2008 |
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NOAA reports that a rare white orca was photographed by scientists on a research ship off the Aleutian islands. |
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03-07-2008 |
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Maine's Belfast VillageSoup reports that cryptozoologist Loren Coleman will give a talk on cryptozoology at the Belfast Free Library on Monday March 3 at 6 pm. |
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03-02-2008 |
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UC Berkeley News reports on the Hearst Museum's Bigfoot exhibition, going on all this week. |
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03-02-2008 |
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has listed summaries of 50 thylacine sighting reports. |
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02-26-2008 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding will receive funding from 25 nations to develop a hand held device that will be able to identify any animal, plant, or insect, within 3 minutes. It could also work on animal droppings. |
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02-20-2008 |
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The Charleston Daily Mail reports that the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization will be doing a field investigation in West Virginia. They will be looking in an area with recent reports of sightings. They have not disclosed the location. |
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02-20-2008 |
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The Sunday Tasmanian reports that a sighting of an animal fitting the description of a thylacine has sparked new hope that the species is still living, and now in Australia. The witness, a farmer, says he has been chastised by other farmers in the area, for breaking the "code of silence". |
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02-11-2008 |
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North Carolina's The Charlotte Observer talks with film maker James "Bubba" Cromer Jr., and his movie, "The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story". |
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02-11-2008 |
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KVUE of Austin TX reports that dna results of the Texas chupacabra indicate that the animal was a mix of coyote and Mexican wolf. Why it was hairless is not known. Previously it was thought it was diseased, but now that is in doubt. |
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02-07-2008 |
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California's 10 Zen Monkeys has an article on the link between Bigfoot and Mormonism. |
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02-07-2008 |
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Washington's The Olympian reports that Robert Gimlin, of the Patterson/Gimlin film, gave two presentations in the State Capitol Museum about the sighting and the film. |
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01-27-2008 |
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Colorado's Fox 13 reports that what a robotic camera captured deep in the sewer systems is actually a Bryozoan, a primitive life form. |
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01-15-2008 |
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South Africa's The Herald reports that some locals claimed to have seen a strange creature swimming in Buffelsjags River. The river has a history of having a mermaid-like creature inhabiting it, but the last sighting claim was 15 years ago. |
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01-15-2008 |
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MarketWire talks with Clint Romag, author of the new fiction book "The Ape Cave Horror". |
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01-12-2008 |
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KansasCity.com talks with wildlife expert Larry Battson, who gives presentations about Bigfoot evidence at sports shows. |
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01-12-2008 |
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Skeptical Inquirer magazine takes a look at what the past 50 years of bigfoot research has provided us. |
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01-05-2008 |
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New Zealand's Stuff reports on the findings of the Australasian Cryptozoological Research Centre's search for the moa in New Zealand. |
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01-02-2008 |
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Florida's Villages Daily Sun talks with Dan Jackson, who had a close encounter with a bigfoot 20 years ago, and has been searching for it since. |
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12-31-2007 |
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The Canadian Press takes a look at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and its continuing popularity as a destination for monster enthusiasts. |
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12-27-2007 |
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The Los Angeles Times talks with Daniel Perez, director of The Center for Bigfoot Studies. |
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12-27-2007 |
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Firefox News has an article on recent claims of Bigfoot evidence made by some television program research teams. |
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12-27-2007 |
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Pennsylvania's GoErie.com has an article about Wally Hersom, the man who has put thousands of dollars into the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. |
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12-22-2007 |
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports than an unknown predator has killed some dogs in Brunswick County. No one has seen it, and tracks left behind did not help in its identification. Locals are calling it the "Beast of Bolivia", after the city where the killings occurred. |
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12-13-2007 |
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Australia's Geelong Advertiser reports that a strange striped creature was spotted at Freshwater Creek, near Melbourne. This is apparently the second reported sighting of the same creature. |
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12-11-2007 |
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The Guardian reports that the first known film of the rare long-eared jerboa of Mongolia has been released. |
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12-10-2007 |
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Colorado's Rocky Mountain News reviews the History Channel's MonsterQuest series. |
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12-07-2007 |
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Maine's Sun Journal talks with Doug Hajicek, creator of the History Channel's MonsterQuest. |
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12-07-2007 |
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Florida's Baker County Press reports that the mysterious monkey-like creature spotted in the area still has residents perplexed. The orangutan explanation doesn't work, because the creature is said to have a long tail. Fish and Wildlife says it was a squirrel, but witnesses scoff at that suggestion, one witness says it was at least 40 pounds. |
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12-07-2007 |
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Alabama's Southeast Sun talks with Tom Biscardi, and of the adventures of his latest bigfoot hunt. |
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12-07-2007 |
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The Orange County (California) Register talks with Wally Hersom and Matt Moneymaker, of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. |
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12-07-2007 |
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Maine's SunJournal.com talks with Chris Julian, leader of the Maine Bigfoot Research group. |
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12-05-2007 |
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LiveScience.com has a commentary on the latest excitement about Yeti tracks. |
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12-04-2007 |
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MSNBC reports that a team from SciFi Channel's Destination Truth has found footprints of a large creature near Mt. Everest. |
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11-30-2007 |
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Pennsylvania's Slippery Rock University student newspaper has an opinion article on other people's opinion about the author's opinion about bigfoot. |
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11-30-2007 |
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Portland's WCSH6.com looks into the sightings of a large creature in Lake Pohenegamook. |
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11-28-2007 |
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Albuquerque New Mexico's KRQE.com reports on the sightings and photographs of a strange dog-like animal. |
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11-28-2007 |
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China Internet Information Center reports on an investigation into possible "wild men" in the Shennongjia Nature Reserve. |
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11-28-2007 |
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Ohio's Local12.com has a video segment on Bigfoot sightings in Ohio. |
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11-28-2007 |
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The UK's Hartlepool Mail reports that Victorian author David Haigh is putting forth a case that the Beowulf story is based in reality, and that the events occurred in Hartlepool, which was known as Heretu in the Middle Ages. Heorot is the name of the village in the epic story. |
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11-16-2007 |
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Jacksonville's News4 reports that wildlife officials attempted to lure an orangutan down from a tree. The orangutan outsmarted the humans and has escaped capture again. |
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11-16-2007 |
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China.org.cn reports that a scientist thinks the "Tianchi monster" sightings are actually of trout they planted in the volcanic lake 40 years ago. |
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11-16-2007 |
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Montana's Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that the "shunka warak'in" mount has been located, and dna testing may reveal what it really is. |
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11-15-2007 |
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Jacksonville Florida's First Coast News reports that an orangutan was spotted in Glen St. Mary. Where it came from is unknown. |
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11-12-2007 |
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Yahoo! News reports that a new species of peccary has been discovered in the Amazon. |
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11-02-2007 |
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ClickPress reports that educator Scott Marlowe will be a guest on the internet radio program "Shadows in the Dark" on Nov 4, to discuss Bigfoot. |
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11-01-2007 |
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Kithra's Krystal Kave has posted an article on the phenomenon of glowing red eyes in sightings of strange creatures. |
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10-29-2007 |
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OGPaper.com reports that hunter Rick Jacobs is claiming he captured a photo of a juvenile bigfoot, on a camera trap he had set up in the Allegheny National Forest. |
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10-28-2007 |
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North Dakota's Grand Forks Herald talks with bigfoot researchers who took part in the presentation at Lady Ocalat's Emporium last weekend. |
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10-23-2007 |
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Boston.com reports that the new "Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute" will open soon. It will be part of a complex designed to provide a creative and fun environment for helping youths develop writing skills. |
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10-23-2007 |
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California's Redding.com reviews the legacy of the Patterson/Gimlin bigfoot video. |
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10-23-2007 |
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California's Humboldt county's The Journal has a report from a bigfoot hunter, Ryan "Capt. Buhne" Hurley, and his attempts to capture a bigfoot on camera traps. |
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10-19-2007 |
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Yahoo! News reports that scientists have discovered new species of marine animals deep in the Celebes Sea, south of the Philippines. |
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10-17-2007 |
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South Carolina's Independent Mail reports that the indy movie "The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story", has won an award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. |
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10-14-2007 |
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Minnesota's Duluth News Tribune talks with Robert Olson, a bigfoot researcher, who will be giving a presentation on bigfoot sightings at Lady Ocalat's Emporium in downtown Duluth on Monday. |
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10-13-2007 |
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China Daily reports that photos taken by a farmer in Wencai, China, have been authenticated as pictures of the Penthern tiger (South China tiger), thought extinct for 20 years. |
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10-12-2007 |
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SignOn San Diego talks with real estate agent Joe Rauh, of Ranchita, who has a side job - making giant bigfoot replicas. |
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10-12-2007 |
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North Carolina's Relish Now! takes a look at two new films on Bigfoot. One is a comedy, and the other a documentary. |
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10-10-2007 |
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Maine's Sun Journal talks with Loren Coleman, about the crypto-items he has collected for his museum. |
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10-08-2007 |
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MSNBC reports that declining reports of Nessie sightings have Scottish tourism officials worried. |
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10-01-2007 |
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Survival International reports that isolated indian tribes have been spotted from the air in Peru. |
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10-01-2007 |
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Science Daily reports that scientists have recovered the dna of 10 woolly mammoths, enabling them to sequence the entire genome. |
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10-01-2007 |
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Yahoo News! reports that high-resolution satellite imagery that is available on the internet gives anyone the ability to search for strange creatures at their leisure. |
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09-25-2007 |
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Tasmania's Mercury News reports that a team of Australian scientists, using computer modeling, say that the tasmanian tiger may had already been on the path to extinction before dingoes and farmers arrived on Tasmania, although they definitely gave it a big push over the edge. |
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09-16-2007 |
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The Pittsburgh Post Gazette talks with members of the Butler Organization for Research of the Unexplained (BORU), which meets regularly in Butler Township, southwestern Pennsylvania. |
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09-16-2007 |
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Canada's Parksville Qualicum News talks with John Kirk, president of the B.C. Scientific Cryptozoology Club, about a sighting at Cameron lake. |
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09-11-2007 |
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The UK's Metro reports that monster hunters from The Centre for Fortean Zoology are headed to Guyana in search of the didi, a large bigfoot-type creature, and giant anacondas. |
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09-11-2007 |
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About.com has posted an article about strange flying creatures. |
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09-09-2007 |
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Florida's Times-Union reports that a fisherman recently netted a "Ohio shrimp" in the St. Johns River. The rare creature is thought to have reached a maximum size of 4 inches, but this specimen is 12 inches long. The shrimp has made itself at home in an aquarium. |
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09-09-2007 |
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AP reports that Phylis Canion, of Texas, has kept the head of a mysterious creature, which she found dead, in a freezer. She hopes to get dna testing done on it to find out what it is. |
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09-01-2007 |
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Live Science reports that a new species of frog has been discovered in a remote mountainous region of Colombia. |
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08-29-2007 |
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Austin, TX's KVUE.com reports that a local resident is doing a brisk business selling Chupacabra t-shirts. |
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08-29-2007 |
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The International Herald Tribune reports that a man filmed what appears to be a white flag dolphin in central China's Anhui province last week. The river dolphin was announced as extinct last year after a major search failed to find any. |
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08-29-2007 |
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Florida's WPTV.com reports that researchers have captured a black bobcat in the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary. |
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08-24-2007 |
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Environment News Service reports that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has presented a draft of a recovery plan for the ivory-billed woodpecker. |
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08-24-2007 |
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Yahoo! News reports that scientists have discovered a variety of new species on a submerged mountain ridge under the North Atlantic Ocean. |
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08-24-2007 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on traveling in Tasmania, in "tiger" country. |
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08-17-2007 |
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CBCNews.com reports that mounties in eastern Manitoba responded to reports of a hairy monster stalking campgrounds around Whiteshell Provincial Park. They captured it - a 18-year old man wearing a gorilla mask. |
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08-17-2007 |
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08-09-2007 |
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The UK's Mid Devon Star reports that the Centre of Fortean Zoology will hold their "Weird Weekend" on August 17-19 at Woolfardisworthy, North Devon. |
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08-06-2007 |
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Pennsylvania's Pocono Record takes a look at Tom Biscardi, and his award winning documentary "Bigfoot Lives". |
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08-05-2007 |
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The UK's Daily Mail reports that the pictures of what seems to be a strange creature in Dartmoor is really just a pet dog, a Newfoundland. The owner says she takes the dog to the area, where the photo was taken, every weekend. |
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08-04-2007 |
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Chicago's Herald News reports that hikers have photographed the Mount Charleston blue butterfly, which was thought to be extinct. [stock photo here] |
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08-02-2007 |
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The Texas Victoria Advocate reports that a strange creature was hit and killed by a car. A local game warden inspected the carcass, and says he doesn't know what it is. Tissue samples have been sent for DNA testing. |
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08-01-2007 |
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YouTube.com has the video of large unknown creatures swimming in Kanas Lake in China. |
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08-01-2007 |
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Reuters reports that a giant white sturgeon was found floating dead in Black Lake in Washington state. The lake is not known to have sturgeon. |
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08-01-2007 |
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San Antonio, Texas's MySA.com reports on sightings of very large birds in the area. |
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07-30-2007 |
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Fortean Times has posted an article on a strange looking "dog" photographed in Dartmoor, said to be the size of a small pony. |
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07-27-2007 |
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National Geographic reports that the world's largest freshwater fish, the Chinese paddlefish, is feared extinct. |
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07-26-2007 |
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The UK's Fife Free Press reports that sightings of a reported penguin on the beach at West Sands may turn out to be a guillemot, a common seabird which can look like a penguin from a distance. |
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07-20-2007 |
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New Mexico's KRQE.com looks at reports of giant bird sightings in the Southwest. |
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07-20-2007 |
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Colorado's 9News.com reports that kids saw a large creature attempt to get onto a dock at a pond. Animal control officers says it was probably a alligator or cayman. The ponds will be closed until the animal is captured. |
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07-14-2007 |
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China's People's Daily Online reports that witnesses videotaped huge ripples on Kanas Lake, that were apparently being created by some large unknown creatures. |
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07-14-2007 |
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The New York Times has an article on the legendary giant sloth of South America, the mapinguary. |
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07-08-2007 |
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Florida's Local10.com reports that an 'Octosquid' has been sucked up from the ocean depths by a pipe. |
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07-06-2007 |
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Sprinfield Illinois' State Journal-Register reports that a large snake has been seen and photographed in Lake Springfield. The photographs are too poor quality though to identify the species. |
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07-02-2007 |
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PhillyBurbs.com reports that a large snake has been repeatedly seen in Bristol, central Illinois, said to be 12 to 13 feet long. A snake catcher was hired, but failed to show up. |
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07-02-2007 |
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Yahoo! News reports that scientists have recovered the intact remains of a dodo in a cave, inland, on the island of Mauritius. They say it will provide an excellent source of dodo DNA. Previous findings of dodo remains have been scattered bones, and only along the coast. |
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06-29-2007 |
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California's Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that "Bigfoot Discovery Day" will take place this Saturday. The Bigfoot Discovery Museum, in Felton, will present a barbecue lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m, researchers will give presentations, and then Jeff Meldrum will give a presentation on bigfoot evidence at 6:30 p.m. at the Louden Nelson Community Center. |
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06-28-2007 |
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National Geographic looks at the possibilities of bringing a woolly mammoth back into existence. |
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06-26-2007 |
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ScienceDaily.com reports that scientists are analyzing scat found in the 1950s and 1960s to see if it contains tasmanian tiger dna. It is thought that tasmanian tigers went extinct in the late 1930s. |
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06-26-2007 |
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MonsterUsa.blogspot.com has a review on the new book "Big Cats: Loose in Britain" by Marcus Matthews. |
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06-19-2007 |
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Central California's MetroActive talks with Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi. |
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06-14-2007 |
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National Geographic has pictures of new species discovered in the Amazon. |
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06-12-2007 |
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Monsters & Critics reports that India will send a scientific team into the West and East Garo Hills districts to investigate claims of a ape-like creature being seen by villagers. Pictures of footprints and hair samples have been collected by the locals. |
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06-09-2007 |
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Toronto's The Star reports that scientists are puzzled by photos of a skeleton sticking out of an iceberg. |
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06-08-2007 |
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CNN reports than an amateur scientist has filmed a creature in Loch Ness that seems to show a very big animal. Video included. |
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05-31-2007 |
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Fangoria reports that an indie film titled "Monster in the Woods" is in postproduction. The plot involves two cryptozoologists who go looking for bigfoot in the forests of Maine. |
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05-31-2007 |
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The New York Times describes an exhibition opening at the American Museum of Natural History, titled "Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids". |
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05-24-2007 |
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Monsterusa.blogspot.com has posted an interview with the director of the Center for Fortean Zoology (CFZ), Jon Downes. |
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05-24-2007 |
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The Michigan Upper Peninsula Bigfoot Organization has posted an interview with cryptozoology and paranormal researcher Nick Redfern. |
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05-22-2007 |
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ScienceBlogs.com has a blog on the current controversy over the recent trend of announcing "new" species, when the justification for it seems weak. |
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05-22-2007 |
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ABC News reports that a fisherman in Indonesia has caught a coelacanth. |
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05-21-2007 |
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Anchorage Alaska's KTUU talks with artist Robroy Menzies, who specializes in depictions of Bigfoot. |
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05-19-2007 |
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Somerset,UK's Bridgwater Mercury reports that another sighting has occurred of a large black cat, dubbed the "Beast of Sedgemoor". |
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05-18-2007 |
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Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV reports on Tom Biscardi's research group's search for bigfoot in Wisconsin. |
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05-18-2007 |
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The Czech Republic's Prague Post has an article on cryptozoologist Ivan Mackerle. |
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05-18-2007 |
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Washington State's the Spokesman Review discusses the evidence there is for the existence of sasquatch. |
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05-14-2007 |
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Wildlife Extra reports that a new genus of frogmouth bird has been discovered in the Solomon Islands. |
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05-05-2007 |
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Wildlife Extra reports that a new species of freshwater stingray has been found in a river in western Thailand. |
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05-05-2007 |
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The Edmonton Sun reports that a Cranbrook, BC truck driver saw a bigfoot-like creature beside the highway. Pictures were later taken of footprints in the snow. |
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05-05-2007 |
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Florida International University has posted the award winning student documentary on Florida's skunk ape, "Footprints". |
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05-04-2007 |
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The Highland's Inverness Courier reports that a company named Buccaneer will put 15 underwater video cameras into Loch Ness, to film anything that comes by. |
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05-04-2007 |
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Tampa Bay's WPTV.com reports that a videographer has captured a strange worm-like creature in the ocean off Juno beach. |
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05-03-2007 |
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Philly.com reports that a large black cat has been photographed in Cumberland county. |
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05-02-2007 |
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India's The Telegraph reports that a picture of what appears to be a black panther has a team of experts perplexed. |
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04-30-2007 |
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StrangeArk reports that Craig Heinselman will release a new book featuring various articles on cryptozoological topics from a wide range of authors. |
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04-24-2007 |
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Yahoo! News reports that the Sumatran rhinoceros has been captured on film for the first time in years. It was taken at night on a island in Malaysia, and came up and sniffed the camera. The species is on the brink of extinction. |
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04-24-2007 |
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Sargeworld posts some info about Scott Herriott and his quest for evidence of Bigfoot. |
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04-23-2007 |
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Boston.com has an article on the legend of the Dover Demon. |
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04-22-2007 |
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Cleveland.com reports that some kind of deer are wandering around in the woods of Geauga County. Exactly what they are is unknown at this time. |
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04-19-2007 |
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The UK's Highland News reports than a vacationer took a picture of some kind of creature in Loch Ness. |
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04-17-2007 |
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About.com has posted an article by researcher and author Bart Nunnelly. His book "Mysterious Kentucky" is due out this summer. |
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04-15-2007 |
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Mongabay.com reports that the world's rarest rabbit, the Sumatran striped rabbit, was captured on camera in Bukit Barisan National Park. |
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04-05-2007 |
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The UK's Bridlington Today reports that birdwatchers are flocking to see an unusual visitor in Yorkshire, the black-throated thrush, which is native to Siberia and Asia. |
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03-31-2007 |
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Canada's CTV.ca describes the new bigfoot documentary "There's Something Out There: A Bigfoot Encounter", which is about Bobby Clarke's sighting and filming of a bigfoot-type creature in Manitoba last year. |
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03-31-2007 |
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ABC's KLTV.com reports that residents of Upshur County, Texas, have seen and heard the howls of a large black cat, some are calling a panther. Some animals have been found killed by a large predator. |
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03-31-2007 |
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Australia's The Standard reports that Isobel and Arthur Peart of Warrnambool insist that they saw a black panther in the Grampians last November. |
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03-31-2007 |
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Canada's Times Colonist discusses the recent YouTube upload purporting to show a humanoid creature in the forest of British Columbia. |
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03-29-2007 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that thylacine enthusiast Chris Rehberg has put together a Google Earth map of thylacine sightings. |
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03-29-2007 |
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The Manchester Evening News talks with Adam Davies, and the new National Geographic documentary, "Is It Real?: Russian Bigfoot", in which he leads the search for the truth behind the story. |
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03-21-2007 |
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About.com talks with Mark Mihalko, cryptozoology author. |
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03-21-2007 |
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The Mid Devon Star reports that the Centre for Fortean Zoology CFZ has scheduled their annual 'Weird Weekend' for three days from August 17 - 19. |
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03-21-2007 |
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The BBC reports that a beetle thought to be extinct for 60 years has re-appeared in south Devon. |
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03-21-2007 |
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Physorg.com reports that a new species of finch has been confirmed, living in Idaho. |
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03-21-2007 |
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Hawaii's Star Bulletin has a review on a new book about cryptozoological animals called "Beasts". |
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03-18-2007 |
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Yahoo! News reports that a new leopard species has been identified in Borneo. The clouded leopard is a new species, and not the same one, as previously thought, as a species found on the mainland of Southeast Asia. |
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03-15-2007 |
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Fate Magazine has posted part of an article about sea monsters, as a teaser for their new issue. |
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03-12-2007 |
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Variety reports that New Line will produce a comedy called "Cryptozoologists". The story will be about some scientists who discover cryptozoological creatures in San Francisco. |
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03-09-2007 |
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Variety reports that Universal Pictures will produce a movie based on the book "Three Men Seeking Monsters". They hope to cast Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory) in the main role. |
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03-09-2007 |
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Canada's PlayBack.com reports that a new documentary about Bigfoot, "Bigfoot's Reflection", will air on the Space channel in May. |
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03-09-2007 |
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Critterzone.com has an article about some unusual footprints found in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. |
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03-07-2007 |
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Breitbart.com reports that a bird thought extinct for 130 years has been found in Thailand. |
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03-07-2007 |
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LiveScience has posted a review that is critical of SciFi Channel's new series "Sci Fi Investigates", which will feature a team of investigators as they search out evidence of strange phenomena, such as mysterious creatures and UFOs. |
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03-03-2007 |
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Reuters reports that Skunk Ape researcher Dave Shealy estimates that he needs $250,000 to help in his research. |
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03-03-2007 |
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Reuters reports that Klaus Emmerichs is returning to Tasmania to film the thylacine that he believes he photographed when he was there on vacation in February 2005. The photos he took at the time were accused of being hoaxes. He is to be accompanied by Paul Bailey, a thylacine researcher, who also believes thylacines may still be alive. |
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03-01-2007 |
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FirstScience.com has posted an article on the Loch Ness Monster. |
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03-01-2007 |
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CBS news in Marysville California reports that large footprints have been found in a forest near Marysville. An expert tracker was called in, and he says they look authentic, and apparently were caused by a very heavy creature with a large stride. |
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02-28-2007 |
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PopMatters has posted an article about the coelacanth. |
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02-26-2007 |
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Montana's Missoula Independent reports that the film company BadFritter Films is in Los Angeles finalizing the work on their film "Paper Dolls", which is "a psychological thriller about killer Sasquatches in the Flathead National Forest". |
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02-22-2007 |
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Australia's News.com.au reports that New Zealand fishermen have caught a huge squid weighing 450kg (990 lbs). The squid is known as the "colossal squid", Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, and while not as long as its more famous cousin, the giant squid, it is a heavier squid. |
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02-22-2007 |
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Florida's St. Petersburg Times reports that a very large pig has been seen running around St. Petersburg. The "Parker Porker" may have been what people saw when they reported "dolphins" in Lake Seminole a few weeks ago. |
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02-22-2007 |
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Yahoo! News reports that scientists will be installing robotic cameras that will scan the skies to look for the ivory-billed woodpecker, in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. |
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02-18-2007 |
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Washington State's Herald.net reports that a new novel about Bigfoot has been published. "The Shadow Killer", by author Matthew Scott Hansen, is getting great buzz among the Bigfoot researcher community. |
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02-16-2007 |
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Film Threat talks about the footage of the last living Thylacine. |
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02-16-2007 |
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Fort Worth's Star Telegram reports that a new tv-reality show is planned called "Capturing Bigfoot". |
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02-16-2007 |
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Arizona's Channel 12 News reports that an anthropology student at Northern Arizona University, Nick Sucik, is researching Navajo and Hopi stories of mysterious creatures, including recent sighting reports. |
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02-10-2007 |
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Skeptical Inquirer magazine has posted the first part of a commentary on some popular cryptozoological legends of the Pacific Northwest. |
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02-09-2007 |
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02-09-2007 |
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Yahoo! News reports that Britain's top female paraglider was attacked by a pair of wedge-tailed eagles while competing in Australia. |
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02-05-2007 |
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Australia's Macarthur Chronicle reports on the repeated sightings of a large panther type creature in the Cumberland area. One girl was riding her horse at Sugarloaf Horse Centre in Menangle when she said the creature chased them. |
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02-02-2007 |
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California's Santa Clarita Valley The Signal lists the various strange phenomena recorded in Santa Clarita history. |
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02-02-2007 |
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South Carolina's The State reports that a technician with the U.S. Forest Service, Terrance Fletcher, says he was chased by a 7-foot-long jet black panther, and he had to dive into the Chattooga River to escape. |
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01-29-2007 |
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Canada's The Drum has a commentary on the recent turmoil and controversy over Jeff Meldrum's interest in bigfoot research. |
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01-28-2007 |
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The Union Democrat, Sonora,CA, talks with archaeologist Kathy Strain, who is, in her free time, a bigfoot researcher. |
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01-28-2007 |
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Reuters reports that a frilled shark was captured in a port south of Tokyo, swimming along the surface. This species of shark is rarely seen because it typically lives 2000 ft. or more under the sea. |
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01-24-2007 |
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Oregon's News Channel 21 reports that the Bigfoot Field Research Organization is starting off another large-scale search for bigfoot in the Central Oregon Cascades. Participates have paid up to $300/per person to be part of this expedition. |
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01-19-2007 |
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Florida International University's newspaper The Beacon reports on a group of students who are working on a 15-minute long documentary on Florida's Skunk Ape. |
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01-19-2007 |
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Yahoo! News reports that villagers in Thailand have caught a river terrapin turtle in a mangrove canal in Phang Nga province, the first specimen found in Thailand in 20 years. |
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01-11-2007 |
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The Hollywood Reporter reports that the Sci Fi Channel will be producing a series called "Destination Truth", which will be a globe-trekking adventure heading to places that hold mysteries, such as the Fire Worm of Mongolia, and the Chilean Chupacabra. |
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01-11-2007 |
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Winnipeg's Sun reports that Manitoba resident and bigfoot enthusiast Michelle Baril will be working with the History Channel and White Wolf Entertainment on a new documentary of cryptozoological creatures. |
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01-06-2007 |
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Minnesota's Kare11 TV reports that a wild hog weighing 1100 lbs. was shot in a suburban neighborhood near Atlanta, Georgia. |
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01-06-2007 |
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Wisconsin's Coulee News talks with author and investigator Linda Godfrey, about the sightings of the "Beast of Briggs Road, the Man Bat". |
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01-06-2007 |
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The Miami Herald reports that a group of film students have produced a short documentary on the Skunk Ape. |
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01-03-2007 |
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National Geographic takes a look at the ivory-billed woodpecker. |
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12-21-2006 |
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OregonLife talks with Autumn Williams, of oregonbigfoot.com. |
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12-17-2006 |
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Canada's CBCNews reports that a sasquatch-like creature was reportedly seen last Saturday in the northern community of Deschambault Lake. Photographs of the prints were taken, and some brown hair found. (See also Claims she saw Bigfoot) |
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12-15-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that a deer was found, killed by a truck on the highway, with both male and female reproductive organs, and a total of 7 legs. |
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12-15-2006 |
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The UK's Globe and Mail has an article about the new species being found in the oceans. |
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12-12-2006 |
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Wyoming's Star Tribune reports that a sheep-killing predator that was hunted down by helicopter and shot may not be a wolf. DNA results are being analyzed. The animal had unusually long claws and teeth. (See also A Montana Wolf Mystery & the Fury it Breeds) |
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12-11-2006 |
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The UK's Guardian Unlimited reports that the Florida panther population has increased to about 100 on the southwestern edge of the Everglades. |
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12-04-2006 |
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Texas San Antonio's MySa.com talks with bigfoot researcher Craig Woolheater. |
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11-28-2006 |
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Georgia's Newnan Times-Herald reports that Andrew Marshall, a student at Savannah College of Art and Design, is producing a short film as a graduation requirement. He is going to do it on the experiences of people who have seen 'Bigfoot'. |
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11-28-2006 |
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NewScientist.com reports that new creatures have been photographed, and videotaped, living by the methane vents in the southwest Pacific, off New Zealand. |
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11-27-2006 |
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Scotland's The Buchan Observer reports that a large black cat is being seen in the north-east. |
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11-22-2006 |
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UnderwaterTimes.com reports that a mysterious "thing" was photographed in the ocean off Norway. |
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11-22-2006 |
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KentuckyBigfoot.com has posted a screenplay about a Kentucky family terrorized by monsters, by Barton M. Nunnelly. |
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11-18-2006 |
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11-15-2006 |
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First Coast News of Jacksonville, FL reports that two boys in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, say they saw a "hairy monster" leaning on a tree, on the edge of some woods. |
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11-15-2006 |
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NPR has an audio interview with scientist Jeff Meldrum about Bigfoot. |
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11-13-2006 |
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Ipswich's EveningStar24 reports that a couple in Ipswich have found very large, clawed, footprints in their yard. |
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11-12-2006 |
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Greater Milwaukee Today reports that Steven Krueger was out picking up deer carcasses off the road, a contract job, when he was startled as his pickup truck was rocked while he was sitting in the cab filling out paperwork. He looked in the rearview mirror, and saw what he described as a 7ft. tall, black, and wide creature trying to pull out a deer he had in the back of the truck. He's not sure what it was, because he immediately hit the gas and took off from the animal - leaving behind the deer and a atv ramp that slid out the back of the truck (Also see The Washington County Bigfoot is not a Bigfoot! for further info). |
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11-11-2006 |
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Time Magazine reports that dozens of new frog species have been discovered in Papua New Guinea. |
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11-07-2006 |
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Fox News reports that a dolphin with an extra set of fins has been captured near Japan. |
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11-05-2006 |
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Edmonton's Sun News reports that Todd Standing, 33, says he has video evidence of Bigfoot, and he will show it this Thursday at the Citadel. |
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11-04-2006 |
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Canada First Perspective has a article from Bigfoot Encounters about a sighting from 20 years ago, but which has not been revealed until now. |
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11-04-2006 |
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New Scientist explains why the plesiosaur is a poor candidate for what has reportedly been seen in Loch Ness. |
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11-04-2006 |
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Cayman NetNews reports that several people have reported seeing a very large snake in the Cayman Islands, said to be 10 feet long. |
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11-04-2006 |
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CNN talks about Jeffrey Meldrum, professor of anatomy at Idaho State University, and bigfoot researcher. |
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11-04-2006 |
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Warren, Ohio's Tribune Chronicle talks with Eric Altman, one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society. |
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11-01-2006 |
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AZCentral.com talks with a Fish and Game biologist in Arizona, about the frequent reports they get of strange creatures. |
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10-22-2006 |
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Florida's Gainesville.com reports that Judy Caseley, of Foxboro MA, says she took photos of a "Skunk Ape" when she was in the Big Cypress National Preserve in July - 5 years ago. She said she kept the photos secret because she was afraid of ridicule. She is now trying to sell the photographs for $175. |
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10-22-2006 |
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Oklahoma's Tahlequah Daily reports that a film crew working on a film about Bigfoot traveled to eastern Oklahoma, and interviewed several witnesses, and went out looking for the creature. |
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10-20-2006 |
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The Allentown Morning Call, of Allentown ,PA, reports that residents of Pennsylvania have been reporting sightings of mountain lions in increasing numbers. |
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10-17-2006 |
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Australia's Ararat Advertiser reports that big-cat researcher Michael Williams will be visiting the Ararat area, in south-east Australia, to search for evidence of the "Grampians Puma". |
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10-16-2006 |
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The UK's Times Online reports that a new species of mouse has been discovered by a French scientist, on the island of Cyprus. |
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10-14-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that conservationists have discovered a new bird in the Andean cloud forest in Colombia. |
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10-10-2006 |
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Scott Maruna has posted on his "Biofort" blog the story of a giant bird seen on a farm in central Illinois in the summer of 1977. |
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10-07-2006 |
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The BBC reports on the discovery of a fossil of a pliosaur that may be more than 28 feet in length. |
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10-07-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that researchers have discovered the 100,000 year old remains of a previously unknown species of giant camel in Syria. |
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10-07-2006 |
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Malaysia's The Star reports that a private museum owner in the United States has offered $50,000 for the cast of a supposed "bigfoot" footprint, which was taken in Kota Tinggi. |
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10-07-2006 |
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Cryptomundo has photographs of the mysterious footprints found in Brunei. |
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09-27-2006 |
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CNN reports that researchers looking for the ivory-billed woodpecker in northwest Florida say they heard and saw the elusive bird, but did not manage to get any photographic evidence. |
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09-27-2006 |
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Brunei's Darussalam reports that a Sungai Liang resident has found strange footprints in the Andulau forest area in Labi. |
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09-25-2006 |
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phillyBurbs.com reports that people are again reporting seeing a strange canid type creature in the Yardley/Lower Makefield area. |
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09-19-2006 |
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Montana's Daily Inter Lake talks with the young filmmakers of "Paper Dolls", an independent movie that features an attack by sasquatches. |
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09-17-2006 |
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Canada's Penticton Western News reports that a picture of a mysterious skull found in a small fishing village in Mexico may be of a humpback whale, and not of an "ogopogo"-type creature. |
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09-15-2006 |
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The New York Times reports that a new bird species has been found in India, the first such discovery in 50 years. |
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09-13-2006 |
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The Scientist has an article on the Bigfoot Rendezvous, which was held in Pocatello Idaho last June. |
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09-10-2006 |
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Russia's Regnum News Agency has posted pictures of footprints that the director of the Russian hunting and fur trapping department says appear to be of primates (Click on the "Read it in Russian" link to see the pictures). |
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09-10-2006 |
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ABC News reports that in northern California, artists met in West Marin to commerate the sighting of a sea monster 30 years ago. |
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09-09-2006 |
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Arizona's Daily Star reports that the White Mountain Apache Nation are opening up and telling their stories about bigfoot-type creatures. |
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09-09-2006 |
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The Texas Beaumont Enterprise has an article on the spread of an internet hoax regarding the size of a beached shark. |
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09-02-2006 |
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About.com has posted an article about a couple in South Africa, who were having problems with some kind of creature. |
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08-30-2006 |
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Alabama's Montgomery Advertiser reports that giant yellow jacket nests have started appearing in Alabama. |
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08-22-2006 |
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The UK's Berwickshire Today reports that a driver was on the A1 just south of Eyemouth when he spotted a large rodent-type creature on the road. Some think this "Beast of Berwickshire" might be a imported capybara or a coypu, although there have been no reports of such creatures in this area before. |
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08-17-2006 |
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Scotland's Highland News reports that the 2nd nessie sighting of the year has come in. A German father and his son reported seeing something as huge as a u-boat coming out of the water. |
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08-17-2006 |
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Boston.com reports that an animal found dead may be the one that has been frightening residents and mauling dogs in Turner, Maine. |
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08-16-2006 |
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New Zealand's Ashburton Guardian discusses the excitement over sightings of a large black cat in the Ashburton District. |
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08-13-2006 |
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Malaysia's The Star has an overview of some investigators of the paranormal. |
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08-13-2006 |
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Skeptical Inquirer has posted an article on India's Monkey Man, and its seeming relation to Spring-Heeled Jack. |
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08-07-2006 |
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Lucknow Newsline, India, talks with Charlie Foley, the creator and writer of Discovery Channel's "Dragon: A Fantasy Made Real". |
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08-07-2006 |
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Skeptical Inquirer has posted a review of the book "The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide". |
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08-07-2006 |
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Skeptical Inquirer has posted an article on the the Honey Island Swamp Monster. |
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08-07-2006 |
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Malaysia's TheStar online reports that the website www.johorhominid.org has been closed down soon after a photo they had released was shown to be a hoax. |
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08-04-2006 |
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New York's WCBS-TV reports that the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization met in Whitehall to discuss the phenomenon. |
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08-02-2006 |
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Green Bay Wisconsin's CBS 5 has a video segment on the Oklahoma bigfoot sightings and pictures. |
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08-02-2006 |
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Ardmore Oklahoma's KXII reports that pictures were taken of what appears to be a man in a suit, although some people around Clear Boggy Creek say its "bigfoot". |
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07-31-2006 |
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CNN reports that a South Korean scientist is on trial for misusing funds and embezzlement. He says some of the money was used on work to clone mammoths. |
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07-25-2006 |
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NorthJersey.com has an article on the Loch Ness Monster mystery. |
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07-19-2006 |
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The San Jose Mercury News reports that C. Thomas Biscardi is suing the Great American Bigfoot Research Organization for breaking their contract with him. |
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07-19-2006 |
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The Malaysia Star reports that a website for the so-called 'Johor Bigfoot' is attracting alot of attention. |
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07-13-2006 |
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National Geographic reports that scientists have discovered a prehistoric reptile who swam the shallow waters of an inland sea in Australia, about 115 million years ago. |
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07-13-2006 |
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MSNBC reports that paleontologists in Sydney Australia have found the fossilized remains of a fanged killer kangaroo, and very large, carnivorous duck-like birds. |
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07-12-2006 |
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The Independent talks about the Gambian expedition by a British team, looking for info and evidence of the legendary "ninki-nanka". |
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07-12-2006 |
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The Washington Post takes a look at the legacy of Grover Krantz. |
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07-08-2006 |
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BBC News reports that scientists have discovered what the hair color of mammoths were. |
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07-08-2006 |
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Voice of America talks with bigfoot researchers Don Young, Matthew Moneymaker, Luke Molloy, and John Bindernagel. |
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07-05-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that a new kind of mosquito has developed in Athens, Greece. These mosquitos are larger, faster, and more adept at locating humans. They are also able to see in color. |
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07-05-2006 |
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South Africa's News24 reports that New Scientist magazine has found that the mystery apes of the Congo are really just chimpanzees, not a new species. They are just larger that average. |
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06-28-2006 |
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The UK's Daily Mail reports that a giant beetle not seen in the UK for 300 years was found by workers in south Wales. |
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06-27-2006 |
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The St. Petersburg Times reports that a man is claiming he was the hoaxster behind the "Clearwater Monster" craze of 1948. |
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06-26-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that biologists in Borneo have discovered a poisonous snake that can change its colors like a chameleon. They named it the "Kapuas Mud Snake". |
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06-26-2006 |
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Ohio's LancasterEagle-Gazette.com talks with Cryptozoologist Marc E.W. Miller, and about the picture he took of the "Yeti" hand, which is on display at Disney World's Expedition Everest attraction. video. |
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06-25-2006 |
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Maine's Portland Press Herald reports on the artwork at the "Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale" exhibit at the Bates College Museum of Art. |
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06-25-2006 |
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San Antonio's MySA.com reports that the University of Texas at San Antonio will be holding an exhibit and speaker series at the Institute of Texan Cultures investigating the Bigfoot phenomenon, through July 30. |
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06-25-2006 |
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AbsoluteArts.com reports that the Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston Maine, will present an exhibition featuring cryptozoological art from 16 artists. The exhibit is titled "Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale". |
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06-23-2006 |
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The UK's Yorkshire Post reports that police were sent out looking for a "tiger" that a motorist said dashed across the road in Ryther. |
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06-23-2006 |
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The Washington Post reports that The Nature Conservancy and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will offer $10,000 for information that leads to a nest, roost, or feeding site of the ivory-billed woodpecker. The $10,000 came from an anonymous donation with the specification that the money be for a reward of proof of the ivory-bill. The reward will be offered starting Monday. |
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06-21-2006 |
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The UK's North Devon Gazette reports that members of the Centre for Fortean Zoology are headed to Zambia to attempt to dig up the remains of mysterious creatures said to have been buried near the beach after washing up dead, and to search for evidence of the Ninki-Nanka. |
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06-21-2006 |
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The Walker Pilot Independent, of Walker, MN, reports that large footprints found in eastern Cass County has brought out carloads of curiousity seekers looking for the "bigfoot prints". Bob Olson, a bigfoot enthusiast, made casts of the prints. |
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06-21-2006 |
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BBC News reports that the Laotian rock rat has been captured and photographed. With video. |
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06-20-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has managed to take the first picture ever of the extremely rare wild rhino in the Borneo jungle. Only an estimated 13 are left in the wild. |
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06-14-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that the Idaho Museum of Natural History will open an exhibit on Bigfoot, displaying artifacts, and the Patterson-Gimlin film. They will display the actual branch that the creature stepped on in the film. That branch was used to estimate the creature's height. |
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06-14-2006 |
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Omaha's KETV-7 reports that a woman in west Omaha took a picture of a strange creature outside her house. |
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06-14-2006 |
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BBC News reports that a new species of fly are among the 1000 rare creatures that were found in a survey of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland. |
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06-12-2006 |
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The Oregonian reports that the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization is reporting they had some success in a recent search in the upper Kilchis River Basin in Tillamook State Forest over Memorial Day Weekend. |
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06-12-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that conservationists have found conclusive proof of surviving okapis in Congo's Virunga National Park. They had not been seen in the park since 1959. |
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06-10-2006 |
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The Buffalo News talks with Tom Biscardi about his group Searching for Bigfoot Inc. |
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06-10-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that a scientist has rediscovered I. plenipes, a species of millipede not seen for 80 years, in central California. |
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06-07-2006 |
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The International Herald Tribune has posted a review on the book "In Tasmania", a nonfiction book about the author's assignment to search for the thylacine in Tasmania. |
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06-06-2006 |
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Bookslut has posted a review on the book "Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger". |
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06-06-2006 |
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Popular Science reports that a physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University says that red particles that showered down in India in 2001 contain extraterrestrial microbes. |
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06-03-2006 |
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Buffalo New York's WGRZ-TV reports that a man who was clearing brush on his farm in upstate New York took a picture of what appears to be a bigfoot. |
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05-31-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that Israeli scientists have discovered a cave with the remains of previously unknown species of animals. |
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05-31-2006 |
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China Daily reports that a strange creature was caught in a reservoir. |
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05-31-2006 |
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SeattlePI.com reports that the giant Palouse earthworm has been rediscovered, dug up by graduate student Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon, in the Smoot Hill Ecological Reserve, about 65 miles south of Spokane, Washington. |
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05-30-2006 |
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Grist Magazine has an article on the subject of protecting creatures that have not been proven to exist. |
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05-23-2006 |
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Germany's Spiegel reports that the first brown bear seen in Germany since 170 years is becoming a problem. The bear apparently came across the border from Austria into Bavaria. "Petzi", as he is called, has been causing chaos on farms - smashing a chicken coop, stealing honey, and killing sheep. The government now wants to deport the bear. |
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05-22-2006 |
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MSNBC reports that French scientists exploring the Coral Sea have discovered a species of crustacean thought to have been extinct for 60 million years. |
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05-20-2006 |
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Fox News reports that what has been claimed as a new species of human ancestor, the so-called "Hobbits" of Indonesia, may not be as it seems. Robert D. Martin of the Field Museum in Chicago, says the bones seem to indicate an individual suffering from microencephaly, a genetic disorder that results in small brain size and other defects. Other reseachers are agreeing. |
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05-19-2006 |
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Wisconsin's The-Bee reports that the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) is going to host two 3-day hiking trips in the next few weeks to search for Bigfoot in Price County. About 25-45 people will pay $400 per vehicle to participate. |
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05-19-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that an intensive six-month search in the Big Woods area of Arkansas for the ivory-billed woodpecker has been called off. It was not successful. |
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05-19-2006 |
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DallasNews.com reports that a Dallas pawn shop owner who put a 6ft. 8in. statue of a bigfoot in front of his store is refusing city warnings to remove the statue. The owner is going to court to defend his right to advertise. |
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05-19-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that Brazilian scientists are claiming to have discovered a new species of monkey. The small monkey, with an adult weight of about 6.4 pounds, has longish golden-yellow fur and a snow-white cap on the front half of it's head. |
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05-19-2006 |
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The Pakistan Daily Times reports that a new species of monkey has been confirmed in Africa. |
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05-16-2006 |
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The SciFi channel will present an original movie, ABOMINABLE, which involves a Bigfoot. |
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05-16-2006 |
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National Geographic News talks with Craig Woolheater, director of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, about bigfoot sightings in Texas. |
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05-14-2006 |
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Canada's National Post reports that a bear shot in Canada's Northwest arctic region by an American has been confirmed to be a polar bear / grizzly hybrid. The bear will be returned to the hunter, who will not face charges for shooting a grizzly. He had a permit to only shoot a polar bear. |
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05-11-2006 |
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The Texas Brownsville Herald talks with cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard, about sightings of the Texas "Big Bird". |
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05-08-2006 |
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The New York Times Magazine has an article on the ivory-Billed woodpecker, written by Jack Hitt - who saw one .. perhaps. |
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05-07-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that a Northern Arizona University doctoral candidate, J. Judson Wynne, and National Park researcher Kyle Voyles have discovered a whole new genus of cricket in caves in northwestern Arizona. There are more than 1000 caves in Arizona, and only about 3 percent have been surveyed by biologists. |
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05-07-2006 |
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Malaysia's New Sunday Times reports that a book on the "Johor Bigfoot" is due out in a few months that has pictures of the creature. Vincent Chow, a biodiversity researcher, says the photos are convincing. |
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05-07-2006 |
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MOSNEWS.COM reports that the chupacabra phenomena has migrated to Central Russia. A teenager who was guarding sheep reported seeing a dog-like animal that leaped like a kangaroo. Another witness says she saw a family of the creatures - a large one followed by a "pack of pups". |
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05-05-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that scientists have discovered about 10-20 new species of zooplankton in the Atlantic. 28 scientists from 14 nations participated in the study, which looked at waters between the eastern United States and the mid-Atlantic ridge. |
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05-05-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that scientists have discovered 8 new frog species in Laos. |
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05-05-2006 |
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The Ohio State University newsletter has a writeup of a student journalist's trip to the 18th Annual Bigfoot Conference/Expo. |
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05-05-2006 |
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PRWeb reports that author and investigator Lisa Shiel will present evidence for a link between Bigfoots and UFOs, at the Michigan Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) meeting on May 7, at Walli's East Restaurant in Burton, Michigan. |
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05-03-2006 |
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The Columbus Ohio Dispatch reports that Ohio University biologist Scott Moody believes that reports of Bigfoots in Ohio are nothing more than myth. |
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05-03-2006 |
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KPVI-TV of Pocatello Idaho reports that The Bigfoot Rendezvous will take place in Pocatello June 16th through the 18th. Speakers will include Jeff Meldrum, Rick Noll, Benjamin Radford, Eric Penz, Christopher Murphy, Loren Coleman, and several others. |
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04-29-2006 |
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04-27-2006 |
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IF Magazine talks with Ryan Schifrin about his movie Abominable. |
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04-24-2006 |
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Malaysia's New Straits Times reports that witnesses saw a group of about 20 men pull up into a reststop at Felda Tenggaroh 2, who then bragged that they had captured a bigfoot with a tranquilizer gun. One man got a look through a tinted window, but could only see "something big". He was refused permission to photograph the creature. Then the men and trucks drove off. The vehicles were said to have Wildlife Department license plates. |
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04-21-2006 |
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation talks with Red Grossinger, who has founded the Sasquatch Yukon organization. |
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04-19-2006 |
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The Mercury News reports that the two German tourists who say they photographed a tasmanian tiger have returned to Tasmania to prove their photographs are real. |
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04-16-2006 |
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Monsters&Critics reports that scientists exploring in north-east Ethiopia have uncovered the fossils of Australopithecus anamensis, a species thought to be an ancestor of modern man. The remains are said to be 4.2 million years old. |
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04-11-2006 |
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LiveScience reports that scientists in a two-month expedition into six regions in the Tibetan "Sacred Lands" are discovering a multitude of new species. Among them are giant hornets and jumping mice. |
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04-06-2006 |
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New York Times video on the ivory billed woodpecker controversy. |
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04-05-2006 |
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The University of Texas at San Antonio is hosting an exhibit by the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, at the museum. |
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04-04-2006 |
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Clarion News, of Clarion, PA, talks with Vance Winsor, bigfoot researcher and founder of the Clarion County Bigfoot Research Organization. |
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04-04-2006 |
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The Illinois Daily Ledger reports that black panthers are being spotted in Illinois. |
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04-02-2006 |
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Canada's Globe and Mail reports that customers can go on a "Bigfoot Safari" on Vancouver Island. Michael Ruge, with the assistance of bigfoot researcher and author John Bindernagel, set up the adventure to give tourists a chance to do some real sasquatch hunting. The business has been operating for 5 years, taking people deep into the woods of Vancouver Island in 4x4 vehicles, to areas where bigfoot sightings had been reported. |
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04-01-2006 |
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The Charleston Daily Mail reports that a Mothman museum has opened in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Founder Jeff Wamsley has stocked the museum with news clippings, props from the 2002 movie "The Mothman Prophesies", a media center with several films, documentaries, and segments from television programs. Mothman sightings are still being reported to the museum. |
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03-29-2006 |
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Malaysia'a New Straits Times reports that Kong Nam Choy, 38, says he was hiking in the jungle of Kota Tinggi, in Johor, when he spotted a bigfoot-type creature. As he was going to take a picture, however, his phone rang. |
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03-24-2006 |
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Florida's Marco Island Sun Times reports that Nathan Martin and Dave Shealy made a presentation on the Skunk Ape at the Marco Island Library on March 14. They will be presenting a full video of the skunk ape on April 14 at Stan's in Goodland. |
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03-24-2006 |
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ABC News reports that ivory-billed woodpecker enthusiasts in Arkansas are not being discouraged by a negative article printed in the journal Science. Govenor Mike Huckabee says that qualified ornithologists have confirmed the evidence, and that the 'experts' who say the video evidence in not conclusive are wrong. |
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03-16-2006 |
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New York's The Epoch Times has an overview of the thylacine. |
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03-15-2006 |
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The Tampa Bay Weekly reports that the Goliath Grouper, which was near extinction, is rebounding in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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03-15-2006 |
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The Scotsman.com talks with Dr Geoff Swinney, of the National Museums of Scotland, about cryptozoology. |
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03-15-2006 |
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The Charlottesville Daily Progress reports that the offer by Malaysia to allow people to go into the forest to search for a bigfoot-type creature has gotten no response. 500 applications were printed up, but none have been returned. |
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03-10-2006 |
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The Anchorage Press talks with author and writing instructor Don Rearden, who recently wrote a script for a bigfoot movie. |
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03-10-2006 |
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CNN reports that a new species of assassin spider has been found in the forests of the island of Madagascar. Researchers from California, working with researchers in Madagascar, recently captured more than a million insects in a survey on the island. There are about 12 species of assassin spiders known. |
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03-10-2006 |
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CNN reports that a new kind of furry lobster has been discovered in the South Pacific. It is only about 6 inches long (15 cm). This find will create a new family classification, to be called "Kiwaida". |
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03-10-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports on the rediscovery of the rat-squirrel found in Laos. It is neither rat nor squirrel, but from a family of animals previously known only through the fossil record. It is being nicknamed the "Laotian rock rat". |
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03-10-2006 |
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Live Science reports that a deep-sea expedition has revealed new information about creatures and their lives at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. |
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03-06-2006 |
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BBC News reports that a new theory has come up about the Loch Ness Monster. Neil Clark, curator of palaeontology at Glasgow University's Hunterian Museum, says it might have been sightings of circus elephants in the loch. |
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03-06-2006 |
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Virginia's The Breeze discusses Jonathan Kent's search for a mysterious bigfoot-like creature in the jungles of Indonesia. |
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03-05-2006 |
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MSNBC reports that a new shark species has been discovered by a Mexican marine biologist. It is the first new shark species found in the Sea of Cortez since 1972. |
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03-01-2006 |
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South Africa's The Mercury has an article on the search for a bigfoot-like creature in Malaysia. |
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03-01-2006 |
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ABC News talks about the growing popularity of the Chupacabra. |
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03-01-2006 |
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Washington's Yakima Herald reports that researchers captured a 19-lb wolverine in the North Cascades, state of Washington. |
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02-23-2006 |
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ABC News reports on a new video supposedly showing a mysterious creature in Lake Champlain. |
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02-22-2006 |
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Florida's CBS4.con news reports that a giant decomposing turtle has been found floating in a canal in Miami-Date. Initial reports said it was a bear. |
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02-19-2006 |
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Malaysia's Bernama.com reports that the Johor Wildlife Protection Society says it will present proof of the existence of large hairy creatures they call "Orang Lenggor" (Lenggor People). |
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02-19-2006 |
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ABC News reports that a large earthworm thought to be extinct was found in Idaho. |
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02-17-2006 |
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Fox News reports that a new fish species has possibly been discovered in a recent expedition to the Caribbean off the island of Saba. |
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02-17-2006 |
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Peoria Illinois's PJStar reports that a driver in Bloomington saw a black creature that he thought at first was a bear run by his car, and then slap it - leaving claw marks on the trunk. Chris Vielhak says "it ticked me off because paint jobs cost money". |
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02-17-2006 |
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Jim Hill Media provides a photo tour of Disney's "Yeti Museum" in the queue area for the "Expedition Everest" ride. |
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02-17-2006 |
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Illinois's HOINews reports that a team of bigfoot searchers, led by the controversial Tom Biscardi, is looking for bigfoot armed with sensors and infrared cameras in central Illinois. |
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02-13-2006 |
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Singapore's The Electric New Paper reports that a group, the Asia Paranormal Investigators (website - www.api.sg), went to Johor to investigate the "bigfoot" sightings. They suspect that the reports have been exaggerated, and that the mystery creature may be just an orangutan. |
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02-13-2006 |
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San Diego's 10News.com reports that a creature resembling a monitor lizard has been spotted at Otay lake. |
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02-13-2006 |
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SignOnSanDiego.com reports that police have received 3 reports of a large tiger roaming the Valley Center area in San Diego. A search by sheriff deputies, US Fish & Game officers, and a helicopter have not located it. |
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02-11-2006 |
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The Scotsman.com reports that a multi-million dollar movie production has begun, called "The Water Horse", about the birth of the Loch Ness Monster. |
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02-10-2006 |
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BBC News reports that an animal first thought to be a wolf or hyena wandering on a golf course near Port Talbot, has turned out to be a white Alsatian dog with an injured foot. It has been captured and being cared for. It's up for adoption. |
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02-08-2006 |
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Yahoo News! reports on the discovery of new species in mountains in a remote province of Indonesia. A small team of American, Indonesian and Australian scientists were dropped off in the area by helicopter a few months ago. With slide show. |
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02-07-2006 |
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Fox News reports that Florida Gulf Coast University ornithologist Jerome A. Jackson is criticizing the evidence of a living Ivory-billed Woodpecker. He says it's a case of "faith-based" ornithology. He examined the video of the supposed Ivory-billed woodpecker, and has concluded that its not the real deal. |
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02-05-2006 |
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Bangalore,India's Deccan Herald has an article discussing the Yeti. |
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01-27-2006 |
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Associated Press reports that a state in Malaysia will form a team to search for a "bigfoot" type creature reportedly inhabiting the Endau Rompin National Park forest. |
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01-25-2006 |
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Texas's MySa.com reports on the hunt for bigfoot in "Big Thicket" National Preserve by dedicated members of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center. |
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01-22-2006 |
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Tyler Texas's KLTV reports that a wildlife expert has identified a strange creature that was shot last week as nothing more than a coyote with mange. With video. |
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01-20-2006 |
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Arkansas' Charleston Express reports on sightings of strange creatures in Franklin County. |
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01-18-2006 |
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The UK's Mirror reports that according to recently declassified documents, in 1979 the Thatcher government proposed a plan to put dolphins into Loch Ness to look for the monster. |
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01-18-2006 |
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Ireland Online reports that China has temporarily closed Shennongjia Nature Reserve due to excessive traffic from visitors. China has been urging tourist agencies to cut down on the number of safaris conducted to search for the mythical creature called the Yeren. |
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01-14-2006 |
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Yahoo! News reports that a South African anthropologist has discovered that nearly 2 million years ago, apes were preyed upon by birds. |
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01-14-2006 |
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The Cayman NetNews reports that an odd fish was photographed washed up on the beach. |
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01-14-2006 |
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The UK's The Independent has an article by the authors of the book "Carnivorous Nights : On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger". |
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01-09-2006 |
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The Warrnambool Standard, of Victoria,Australia, reports that a man reported seeing a thylacine run across the road near the town of Colac. Four weeks ago two women near Anglesea reported seeing a thylacine (map). |
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01-08-2006 |
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Japan's Mainichi Daily News reports that Japanese researchers have discovered a new genus of fish in a Cambodian lake. The researchers speculate that the fish got into the lake about 5,500 years ago, and evolved into a new genus. |
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01-06-2006 |
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About.com has posted an article on mysterious creatures. |
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01-06-2006 |
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White Rock Peace Arch News, British Columbia, talks with Bigfoot researcher Gerry Matthews, webmaster of westcoast-sasquatch.com. |
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01-04-2006 |
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The New Yorker has posted a short fictional story about a woman and her involvement in Bigfoot research. |
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01-02-2006 |
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Portsmouth Herald News reports that the comedy troupe "Stranger than Fiction" will *hunt* a Yeti through the streets of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on New Years Eve. Members of the group will wear 7-foot-tall furry yeti costumes, and be chased by "British" scientists waving butterfly nets. If they catch any of the yetis, they will be displayed in a cage in Market Square on New Years day. |
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12-30-2005 |
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ZWire reports that a 12-ft sculpture of Bigfoot has been completed and can be seen on the Coulee Corridor on the Disautel Pass, in the state of Washington. |
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12-29-2005 |
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BBC News reports that a group of dodo bird bones have been discovered on the island of Mauritius. Researchers think the bones are at least 2000 years old. This find will help expand the knowledge of the bird and how it lived. |
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12-27-2005 |
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Malaysia's Bernama.com reports that there are numerous reports of large hairy creatures, described as "Bigfoots", in the state of Johor, Malaysia. The Johor National Parks Corporation is open to a search for the creature, and is preparate to collaborate with interested parties (separate link). |
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12-27-2005 |
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WISN Milwaukee reports that a driver struck and killed a kangaroo north of Madison Wisconsin. No one has claimed the kangaroo. |
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12-23-2005 |
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Cryptomundo presents Loren Coleman's pick of the best 10 cryptozoology books of 2005. |
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12-22-2005 |
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Innovations Report reports that the Mongolian Przewalski's horse is being reclassified as "endangered" instead of "extinct". Breeding and re-introduction programs have returned the horse to its natural habitat. In 1945 there were only 31 of these horses left. Thanks to the program, there are now 248 free ranging Przewalski's horses in Mongolia. |
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12-19-2005 |
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PRNewsWire reports that Kleeberg Entertainment is producing a movie about a family's story about their grandfather's obsession with Bigfoot |
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12-19-2005 |
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The Natural Resources Defense Council reports on the status of the search for the ivory billed woodpecker. More than 30 bird experts are in the swampy forests of eastern Arkansas. The director of the effort is Ron Rohrbaugh, and his directive is "Relocate the bird and obtain irrefutable evidence." |
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12-19-2005 |
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The Houston Chronicle discusses the sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker in February 1967 in east Texas. Ornithologist John V. Dennis and local scientist Armand Yramategui said they had spotted the bird, but their report was considered a fraud. |
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12-17-2005 |
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The BBC reports that the dna sequence of the wooly mammoth has been accomplished. |
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12-17-2005 |
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NBC4i.com News in Columbus Ohio reports that two police officers are the latest witnesses of a large black creature prowling through the woods. Pictures were taken. |
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12-12-2005 |
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LiveScience.com has an article on the science of Sea Monsters. |
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12-10-2005 |
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Australia's Travel Blackboard reports that "Tim the Yowie Man" (actual name) will be hosting a new national radio program called "Get Lost Travel". His first episode will be on his trip to Llangorse Lake in Wales to investigate sightings of a lake creature. |
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12-08-2005 |
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CNN reports that a new species of carnivore has apparently been discovered on the island of Borneo. It was pictured by a camera trap. |
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12-05-2005 |
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"Mickey News" reports that Walt Disney World Resort will debut "Expedition Everest". Disney teamed up with Discovery Networks and Conservation International and traveled to the Himalayas to search for new species and research ancient legends. Disney brought back what they learned to help create authentic scenery for the attraction. The result is a high-speed adventure ride combined with the legend of the Yeti. |
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11-29-2005 |
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Cryptomundo has an article by Loren Coleman on the subject of African Americans involved in cryptozoology. |
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11-29-2005 |
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About.com has posted an article about stories of living pterosaurs. |
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11-27-2005 |
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The Times Herald-Record, of Middletown, NY, reports that a 1997 video taken by a Lembo Lake camper shows two ape-like figures in the trees. BFRO did an investigation. |
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11-27-2005 |
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Yahoo News reports that scientists and birders will resume their search for the ivory-billed woodpecker in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge this winter. A team of 100 volunteers will search 500,000 acres in 6 months. |
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11-27-2005 |
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The Chambersburg Pennsylvania Public Opinion reports that the Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO) was in Caledonia State Park, Pennsylvania, to investigate some sightings. |
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11-12-2005 |
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AOL reports that Sweden has lifted the protection of the Storsjo monster, the creature that is thought by some to inhabit Lake Storsjon. The regional council decided to remove the creature from its list of endangered species after a government watchdog group complained about the government treating an animal as real when it has not been scientifically proven to exist. |
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11-11-2005 |
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Fox News reports that the giant prehistoric ape Gigantopithecus blackii lived alongside humans for over a million years, dieing out about 100,000 years ago. |
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11-08-2005 |
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Loren Coleman's Cryptozoo News reports that a new television movie called "Strange Wilderness" will air in 2006. It is about two animal enthusiasts, who work for a floundering tv program called Strange Wilderness, going to the Andes to look for a bigfoot-type of creature in the hopes of boosting the ratings of their show. |
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11-07-2005 |
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Tasmania's The Mercury reports that the production of a movie about searching for the thylacine may start in 2007, by the Irish company Zanzibar Films. This will be the first co-produced Irish/Australian feature film. The film will be titled Shutter Speed. |
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11-07-2005 |
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Michigan's Petoskey News-Review takes a look at some famous cryptozoological creatures of Michigan. |
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10-28-2005 |
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Pittsburgh's Tribune-Review reports on the Canadian production of a tv series called "Creepy Canada", and their episode on Bigfoot. |
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10-28-2005 |
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Southern Illinois' TheSouthern.com talks with retired Murphysboro police chief Ron Manwaring about the "Big Muddy Monster" case. |
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10-26-2005 |
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Albuquerque NM's KRQE News reports that a strange creature was spotted in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The creature reportedly leapt 40 feet from one roof to another, leaving behind claw marks. |
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10-25-2005 |
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Galveston's The Daily News reports that Daryl Colyer and Craig Woolheater will host a lecture titled "Bigfoot, Sasquatch at COM" this Friday at 6:30pm at the College of the Mainland Learning Center, 200 Parker Court, League City. |
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10-24-2005 |
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Arizona's Daily Sun reports on the production of a movie on bigfoot, which is filming in the Williams/Flagstaff area. The movie is called "Devil on the Mountain", and will be shown on the SciFi channel next year. |
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10-17-2005 |
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Livescience.com reports on an investigation into sightings of an unknown creature in Lake Simcoe, forty miles north of Toronto. The creature has been named "Igopogo", in reference to the more famous creature in Lake Ogopogo. |
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10-17-2005 |
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The Associated Press reports on the 5th annual Texas Bigfoot Conference. Nearly 400 people turned out to discuss and report on current Bigfoot research. |
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10-16-2005 |
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The website American Monsters is looking for two crypto-enthusiasts to host a weekly cryptozoology series. |
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10-14-2005 |
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BBC News reports that new evidence for the existance of the Orang Pendek in Sumatra will be presented by Adam Davies and Andrew Sanderson. |
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10-13-2005 |
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The Texarkana Gazette previews the upcoming Texas Bigfoot Conference for this weekend. Sightings of bigfoot in Texas are on the agenda, as well as a presentation from Chris Murphy about bigfoot sightings in Ohio, as well as presentations on bigfoot sightings from across the US. |
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10-13-2005 |
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Yahoo! News reports that a Kansas City professor, Robert Powell, will soon announce the discovery of a new lizard found in the south Caribbean. The geckolike lizard is colorful, described as greenish with bright red, black and white spots. It is small, about half the size of a cigarette. |
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10-10-2005 |
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SouthFlorida.com discusses the town of Seneca, Illinois, and its numerous Bigfoot sightings. The BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization) has been active in the area, researching the reports and investigating. |
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10-10-2005 |
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UK's The Independent reports on the difficult reintroduction of the bustard in the UK. The bustard was a large bird, somewhat like a cross between a goose and a partridge. The species used to be plentiful on the treeless parts of England, but went extinct in the UK in the 1800s. The bustard still lives in other parts of Europe, Russia, and Asia. See descríption. |
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10-10-2005 |
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BBC News reports that the bones of a lynx found in a cave 100 years ago shows the bones were only 1500 years old, which means the lynx was alive in the UK up to around the year 500. Previously, it was thought the lynx went extinct in the UK about 2000 bc. |
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10-10-2005 |
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Australia's Sunday Mail reports that a large black cat has been shot. The dna is being analyzed to see if its a puma. With picture. |
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10-09-2005 |
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The New York Times looks at cryptozoological mysteries. |
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10-02-2005 |
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Reuters reports that Japanese scientists have captured the giant squid on camera. In the photographs, Architeuthis is seen chasing bait 900 meters deep in the north Pacific ocean. |
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09-28-2005 |
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Texas Monthly Magazine has an article on the Texas Bigfoot Research Center. |
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09-23-2005 |
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CNN reports that lions have been attacking and eating people in Ethiopia, in an area north of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. |
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09-23-2005 |
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Tasmania's Mercury News reports that a picture of a paw print found in the snow in the Central Highlands may be of a thylacine. |
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09-22-2005 |
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Southern Oregon's Mail Tribune gives directions on how to get to the "Bigfoot trap", a cage which never captured a bigfoot, but is still in place - locked open, for any visitors that want to see it. |
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09-19-2005 |
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A San Francisco Chronicle reporter describes her visit to the Bigfoot museum in Felton, California. |
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09-19-2005 |
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Scotland's Grampian TV reports that scientists claim to have recovered flesh-like material from the bottom of Loch Ness which might be from the famed Loch Ness monster. |
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09-19-2005 |
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BBC joins with an Earthwatch expedition to Tsavo in southeast Kenya to search for the ferocious maneless lions. Two maneless lions, named "The Ghost" and "The Darkness", made headlines around the world when they killed perhaps up to 100 men who were working on the Tsavo River railway bridge in 1898. |
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09-19-2005 |
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China's The Epoch Times reports that a university student took a picture of something in the sky that he was a flying animal-shaped object. |
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09-14-2005 |
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The student newspaper at Drexel University, Philadelphia, has an article on Chupacabras. |
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09-13-2005 |
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Texas Highways Magazine has an article on looking for bigfoot in Texas. |
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09-12-2005 |
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Florida's Orlando Sentinel reports that a field research class from the Florida Keys Community College will go on a search for the swamp ape of the Florida Everglades in November. Chester Moore will be joining the group. There will be about 20 participants. |
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09-04-2005 |
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Australia's News.com.au reports that large numbers of mysterious moths are appearing in Australia. Entomologists are currently trying to find out what species they are. |
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08-31-2005 |
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Click2Houston reports that another "chupacabra" has been killed in Texas. It looks like a mix between a dog, a rat, and a kangaroo. It has been sent to the Texas Parks and Wildlife for evaluation. |
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08-25-2005 |
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Canada's CTV reports that photos of a mysterious creature in Quebec's Lake Massawippi were taken by a tourist. Jeff Stafford, owner of the Ripplecove Inn, was given the pictures and told the creature was about 10 feet long. |
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08-20-2005 |
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Vermont's Burlington Free Press reports that two fishermen took pictures and short movies of something large moving under the surface of Lake Champlain. |
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08-18-2005 |
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Montana's Bigfork Eagle reports that new sightings of the Flathead lake monster have come in. |
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08-15-2005 |
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Florida's Tallahassee Democrat examines the legend of the Skunk Ape. |
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08-14-2005 |
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The San Francisco Chronicle talks with Michael Rugg, proprietor of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum. |
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08-14-2005 |
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Florida's Tallahassee Democrat lists some cryptozoological courses available at the Florida Keys Community College. |
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08-14-2005 |
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Reuters talks with BirdLife International about "extinct" birds. They believe that discoveries of more "extinct" birds will happen in the future. |
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08-10-2005 |
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China's The Epoch Times reports that a photographer took a picture from a plane over the Himalayas which seems to show two scaly creatures in the clouds. |
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08-09-2005 |
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Oregon's Tidepool.com reports that the Kingdom of Bhutan, a small country between India and Tibet, has established a 253-square mile nature reserve made specifically for protection of the yeti. |
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08-02-2005 |
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Yahoo News reports that sound recordings of the ivory-billed woodpecker that was discovered have convinced some researchers of the ivory-bill's existence. They had previously doubted the re-discovery. |
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08-02-2005 |
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Canada's London Free Press reports that a University of Alberta scientist, David Coltman, has offered to perform a dna test on the hair sample taken from the sighting of a bigfoot-type creature in the Yukon. |
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07-22-2005 |
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Canada's CBC.CA reports that the hair supposedly left behind by a bigfoot type creature sighted in the Yukon has been analyzed by a biologist. He says it most resembles bison hair, but that a more precise test could be done. |
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07-20-2005 |
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Canada.com reports that witnesses are reporting a bigfoot type creature around the town of Teslin, in Yukon. A witness says "It was something big, about eight feet tall. It's black, hairy, muscular. It was huge". One bicyclist said she came upon a group of men armed with bows and arrows and axes who were looking for the creature. |
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07-20-2005 |
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Phenomena magazine has posted an article about Ken Gerhard, and his his search for the Goat-Man of Texas. |
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07-20-2005 |
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Wyoming's Star Tribune reports that Bigfoot researcher Thomas Biscardi is about to go on his hunt to capture a bigfoot in California. "This is a high stakes, high risk, scientific and commercial expedition", says Biscardi. |
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07-14-2005 |
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Canada's CBC.ca reports that a group of people in Teslin, Yukon, saw a large human-like creature. They say it was 3 meters tall and moving so fast that they couldn't keep up with it. A footprint was found, as well as some hair. They hope to have the hair undergo dna testing. |
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07-13-2005 |
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China Daily reports that a local tourist claims to have videotaped the "Tianchi Lake Monster", in Jilin Province. The video lasts almost a minute, but he was more than 1000 meters away from the creature. He says the object that was above the water was about the size of an adult ox head. |
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07-13-2005 |
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Michigan's Morning Sun reports that a man dressed up in a ghillie suit stood by a road, trying to spook cars by acting like a Bigfoot. Unfortunately for the hoaxer, a State Police and a sheriff's car came upon him. |
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07-12-2005 |
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SouthFlorida.com reports that a photo is going around supposedly showing a rattlesnake 8 feet long and 50 pounds, and that it was caught in Clay County Va. But experts are dismissing the photo. Also see Washington Post story. |
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07-08-2005 |
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Alberta's Lakeside Leader reports that strange footprints were photographed and turned in anonymously to the paper last week. The prints are 15 inches long, several inches deep, with what looks like short, claw-like toenails. The man who turned in the pictures says the animal must have been enormously heavy. About a month ago, Fish and Wildlife received a report of a bigfoot sighting, and they found prints. |
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07-07-2005 |
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Australia's News.com reports that a new species of dolphin has been confirmed living in the coastal waters and rivers of Asia and northern Australia. The new species has been named the "Australian Snubfin Dolphin". |
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07-05-2005 |
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Ohio's News-Herald reports that a new movie titled "Bigfoot" will premiere at the Mentor Lagoons Marina. Bob Gray created the movie on a low budget, and features several area residents. |
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07-03-2005 |
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Indiana's South Bend Tribute reports that a kangaroo has been sighted hopping along in South Bend. Animal control officers were unsuccessful in capturing it. It is unknown from where the kangaroo came from. Update. |
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06-29-2005 |
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Australia's ABC Western talks with Michael Morris, a independent researcher who has been using Freedom of Information requests to gain information about big cats and thylacines in Australia. |
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06-24-2005 |
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New York's The Citizen reports that the team behind the website AmericanMonsters.com have inked a deal with a major television network to produce a television pilot based on their website. |
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06-21-2005 |
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Living Earth interviews Margaret Mittelbach about her new book "Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger". |
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06-17-2005 |
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Howtorockstar/blogspot.com blogs that San Francisco-based artist Jill Miller is combining a gallery show with a bigfoot stakeout. Beginning in July, the art piece - titled "Waiting for Bigfoot" - will feature a round-the-clock-feed of camera surveillance in Northern California. The show will be in the New York School of Art. |
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06-16-2005 |
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Wolf.com reports that a new canid species has possibly been seen in Eritrea, Africa. With pictures. |
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06-15-2005 |
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San Francisco's SFGate has a short review of the new book "Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger". |
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06-13-2005 |
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The Texan Rio Grande Valley's The Monitor reports that a species of dragonfly never recorded before in Texas has appeared in the Rio Grande valley. With picture. |
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06-13-2005 |
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The Oregonian reports that shooting for the comedy movie "The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang" will take place in the Portland area. |
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06-13-2005 |
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BBC News talks with thylacine expert Col Bailey and Tasmania biologist Mena Jones about the possibility of living thylacines. |
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05-29-2005 |
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The Scotsman has an overview of lake monster legends of Scotland. |
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05-27-2005 |
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Seattle's First4 News talks with Jason Valenti, host of the upcoming Sasquatch Research Conference in Bellingham. |
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05-26-2005 |
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The Scotsman discusses Nessie hunter Frank Searle's life. |
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05-26-2005 |
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Washington State's Skagit Valley Herald talks with the people behind SasquatchResearch.com. Jason Valenti and John Andrews often head out to the hills of eastern Skagit and Whatcom counties on bigfoot searches. They will be hosting the 2005 "Sasquatch Research Conference" on May 27-28-29 2005 in Bellingham, Washington. |
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05-22-2005 |
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CNN reports that a new species of monkey has been discovered in Tanzania. The highland mangabey is a medium-sized monkey and lives at elevations of up to 8,000 feet. There are fewer than 1000 of them. |
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05-19-2005 |
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Loren Coleman reports that Nessie searcher Frank Searle has died at age 83. He spent tens of thousands of hours looking for Nessie, and in 1972 snapped a famous photo showing some humps in the water that indicated a large creature. |
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05-19-2005 |
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The Hollywood Reporter reports that the filmmakers behind last year's "Napoleon Dynamite" are now working on a new film titled "The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang". It is described as "a comedy about several groups who converge as they search for the legendary apelike creature." |
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05-15-2005 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the plan to clone the thylacine is back on the table. A group of interested universities and a research institute will join forces to continue the project. |
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05-15-2005 |
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The Houston Chronicle reports that a new species of rodent has been found in Laos. It looks likes a cross between a squirrel, a rat, and a guinea pig. |
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05-12-2005 |
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The Los Angeles Times talks about the legend of Tessie, the Lake Tahoe Monster. |
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05-10-2005 |
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Florida's Tallahassee Democrat talks about David Shealy and his quest for the Skunk Ape of Florida. |
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05-10-2005 |
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Massachusetts' Milford Daily News has an overview of the Dover Demon mystery. |
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05-10-2005 |
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The UK's The Independent reports that a new species of fox has been discovered in the dense forests of central Borneo. The animal was caught on an infra-red camera trap. It is red with a bushy tail, with slightly extended back legs, suggesting it may climb trees. Local hunters were shown the video but did not recognize the creature. The Borneo government has recently stopped logging in the area. |
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05-10-2005 |
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South Africa's Independent Online reports that a recent dive with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) was able to record on video eight coelacanths swimming together. |
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05-10-2005 |
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LiveScience reports that a new species of lungless salamander has been found in South Korea. |
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05-04-2005 |
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05-03-2005 |
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Canada's Globe and Mail reports that the FOX television network will air the Bobby Clarke bigfoot video on their program "A Current Affair" on Wednesday night. The program will air to a U.S. audience, and only Canadians with special cable access will be able to watch it. Fox says that they will put the bigfoot video on their program's website on Thursday. |
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05-03-2005 |
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Tasmania's Examiner reports that artist Lonsdale Smith will have his paintings of the thylacine on display at the Penguin Market. Lonsdale claims to have seen thylacines 3 times. |
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05-01-2005 |
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National Public Radio reports that the ivory-billed woodpecker has been rediscovered. Feared extinct since the 1950's, there have been many reported sightings, but never confirmations. Living ivory-bills have finally been confirmed in the Cache River and White River national wildlife refuges in Arkansas. (Video of sighting here). |
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04-28-2005 |
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Canada's Globe and Mail reports that Bobby Clarke's bigfoot video has been sold to an unnamed "US television show". |
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04-28-2005 |
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Discovery Channel Canada has audio of Missy Flett describing the Bobby Clarke bigfoot footage that she saw, before the Clarke family stopped showing it to visitors. Also, anatomist Jeff Muldrum talks about Bigfoot evidence. |
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04-24-2005 |
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The Great American Bigfoot Research Organization has posted pictures taken of a supposed Bigfoot. |
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04-22-2005 |
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The Daily Californian reports that a student has based an art exhibit around the topic of the Yeti. UC Berkeley art student Josephine Zarkovich has created artwork and made a video documentary for the exhibit. Her creation will be on display at UC Berkeley in Kroeber Hall until April 26. |
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04-21-2005 |
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Florida's Marco Island Sun Times reports that an hour-long film on the Skunk Ape premiered at the Bombay Club, Marco Island. The film features Dave Shealy on his adventures while looking for the Skunk Ape. Shealy announced that he may appear on the David Letterman show. |
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04-21-2005 |
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Bobby Clarke and his family have stopped showing the "bigfoot" video to visitors, and will have an expert enhance the video, and then they look for offers from the media. |
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04-21-2005 |
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The Miami Herald talks with David Shealy, the foremost authority on Florida's "Skunk Ape". Says Shealy, "I don't have a choice to believe, because I've seen him three times". |
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04-20-2005 |
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Canada's Globe and Mail has more on the filming of a bigfoot type creature in Manitoba. Hundreds of people have traveled to the remote area on the shore of the Nelson River, Manitoba, to watch the 2-minute 49-second video taken by ferry-operator Bobby Clarke. The video is said to be "stunning", and is turning disbelievers into believers of Bigfoot. The decision still has not been made on whether to release the video to the media. |
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04-20-2005 |
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04-19-2005 |
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Vietnam's Thanhniem News talks with zoologist Ha Dinh Duc. He has been involved in tracking and documenting the giant turtle of Ho Hoan Kiem lake. |
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04-19-2005 |
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Florida's WESH.COM reports that the body of a huge turtle washed ashore behind the Maverick Hotel in Ormond Beach. |
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04-19-2005 |
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The UK's Mirror reports that a photograph of an apparent big cat eating a pigeon was taken in Cwmbran, South Wales. The 43-year-old that ran into it said "I couldn't believe my eyes. I was in utter shock." |
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04-18-2005 |
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Indiana's The Courier reports that a woman in Dunkerton saw what looked like 4 mountain lions outside her home, and films them. |
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04-11-2005 |
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eMediaWire reports that the Southern Crypto Conference will be held Saturday, June 18 in Conroe Texas. Among the presentations, Chester Moore will talk about his search for giant catfish. |
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04-10-2005 |
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India's KeralaNext reports on stories of a strange human-looking creature swimming alongside boats in the Caspian Sea. It's rumored that Iranians are actively searching for the creature. |
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03-30-2005 |
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The Sunday Tasmanian reports that in Bob Paddle's book The Last Tasmanian Tiger, its revealed that "Benjamin the Last Tasmanian Tiger" is a myth. There was no thylacine named "Benjamin" at the Hobart Zoo. The originator of the story, Frank Darby, claimed to work at the zoo and took care of "Benjy". But it turns out Darby never worked at the zoo. |
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03-30-2005 |
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Australia's The Age comments on the recent furor over the fuzzy thylacine photos and the bounties. The Age had been offered the pictures but turned down the asking price. |
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03-26-2005 |
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Australia's World News reports that another offer of reward for proof of thylacine existance has pushed the total reward to AUS $3 million. The response of would-be trackers has alarmed the Australian authorities, who say that permits would be required, and that they won't be handing them out to just anyone. |
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03-25-2005 |
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The Houston Chronicle reports on the National Geographic special that dispelled the hype about "Hogzilla" - which was reputed to be 12 ft. long and 1000 lbs. The truth is closer to 8 ft. long and 800 pounds - still a freakishly huge hog. |
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03-23-2005 |
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Australia's National Nine News reports that The Bulletin magazine is offering AUS $1.25 million for proof of a living thylacine. Here is the magazine's announcement. |
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03-23-2005 |
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The New York Times talks about 'Hogzilla', the reputed 1000-lb wild hog that was shot in Georgia last year. National Geographic Channel will air its program on Hogzilla this Sunday. |
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03-19-2005 |
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that four new species of fish have been discovered in Queensland. One species lives in hot water bores that reach 50C degrees (122F). |
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03-19-2005 |
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Animation World Magazine talks with Neil Glasbey, lead animator for 'Dragons', which will air on Animal Planet this Sunday in the US. |
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03-18-2005 |
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USA Today has a writeup about the new 'Dragons" program that will air on Animal Planet channel this Sunday in the US. |
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03-18-2005 |
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New Zealand's Stuff reports on a search for some unusual geckos, suspected to be the rare native Alpine gecko, that was sighted by two climbers in the Beetham Valley earlier this year. |
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03-18-2005 |
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The Indian Express reports that scientists will be searching for the mythical pygmy elephant in the forests of Agasthyavanam and Neyyar, India. See this earlier report of a sighting. |
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03-11-2005 |
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FilmStew.com has a talk with Zak Penn, director of Incident at Loch Ness, which has been released on DVD. |
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03-09-2005 |
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eMediaWire reports that The American Primate Conservation Alliance is accepting nominations for "Youth Conservationist of the Year", "Crypto Steward of the Year", "Crypto Finding of the Year", and "Crypto Web Site of the Year". The awards will be given out at the Fourth Annual Southern Crypto Conference, Saturday June 18, 2005 in Conroe, Texas at the Lone Star Expo Center. |
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03-03-2005 |
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that two reports came to police about a shape that looks like the head of an alligator near the docks in Lake Washington's Fairweather Bay. The water temperature is about 47 degrees Fahrenheit, so the possibility of a caiman living in the lake is nil. |
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03-03-2005 |
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Outside Magazine has put on the web their 2002 article on the Bigfoot mystery. |
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03-02-2005 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald has an overview of reported thylacine sightings since 1937, when they were considered extinct. There have been over 4000 reported sightings of the animal. A video titled Tasmanian Tiger: Alive and Well has been released, with interviews of people who say they have sighted a thylacine. |
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03-01-2005 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the supposedly photos of a thylacine that were shown to the director of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Bill Bleathman, and a wildlife biologist with the state's Department of Primary Industries, Nick Mooney, were shown to them on a laptop computer. The photos were supposedly taken in Tasmania. According to Mr. Bleathman, the photos were of poor quality. |
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03-01-2005 |
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South Africa's Independent Online reports that the return of cougars to Quebec has been officially recognized. But how, and from where, the cougars came from is still a mystery. |
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03-01-2005 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that wildlife expert Nick Mooney saw the photographs taken by the mysterious German tourist, and that it looked "very much like a thylacine". The tourist is reportedly not willing to show the photographs again. |
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03-01-2005 |
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The Sunday Tasmanian reports that a German tourist showed up at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and showed the staff there pictures he said he took of a tasmanian tiger in the Lake St Clair region. The visitor has left, and has taken the pictures with him. He apparently left no contact information. |
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02-26-2005 |
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Virginia's PilotOnline talks with William Granginis, who has a passion for Bigfoot hunting ever since seeing a Bigfoot in Virginia's Piedmont. He has formed the "Virginia Bigfoot Research Organization", and has what he calls a mobile Bigfoot Primate Research Lab, a 24-foot camper outfitted with high-tech surveillance gear. |
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02-22-2005 |
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The Los Angeles Times reports on Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, two investigators and authors and the men behind the "Weird N.J." magazine and the books "Weird N.J." and "Weird U.S.". It has been picked up by the History Channel to be made into a 13-part series. The pilot aired on Halloween night and got excellent ratings. |
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02-20-2005 |
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The Australian Broadcasting Company reports that the plan to clone the thylacine has been dropped. The dna from the thylacine embryo is said to be in too poor of condition. |
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02-15-2005 |
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Penn State's Digital Collegian reports on the Penn State Bigfoot Society. The group has about 30 members, and they have several activities planned, such as using GIS systems to help map out Bigfoot sightings. They are also planning on a field expedition. |
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02-08-2005 |
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Florida's Times-Union reports on a monster hog that is bigger than the famed Hogzilla of last year. An estimated 1,140 pound wild hog was reportedly shot last August by Larry Earley near Leesburg. Larry says he shot the giant hog with a 44 handgun. He says "I didn't realize he was that big or I would have gotten a different gun." |
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02-08-2005 |
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California's Santa Cruz Sentinel talks with Mike Rugg, proprietor of the Felton Bigfoot Discovery Museum. |
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02-08-2005 |
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60 Minutes has a program on the discovery of a new species of monkey in the Bolivian Amazon. Christiane Amanpour traveled with a guide and managed to take video of them. The species is awaiting scientific review. |
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02-04-2005 |
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Animal Planet will present a special program on Dragons on March 20. It will be an investigation into the possibility that dragons represented a real creature in our distant past. |
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02-02-2005 |
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California's Daily Bulletin of the Inland Valley (Southern California) reports that an animal described as an oversized coyote has been making incredible leaps over fences and attacking small pets. Two dogs have been killed, several wounded, and there are missing pets. Residents have reported seeing the animal at night and the daytime. |
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02-01-2005 |
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CheckpointZERO.com reports that the next XPD Expedition Race will take place in Tasmania. Competitors will race across Tasmania through various stages - including trekking, mountain biking, kayaking, and special disciplines. The routes will be through rugged and remote parts of Tasmania that have seen little human activity. |
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01-27-2005 |
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BBC News reports on an apparent cross between a common house sparrow and a rare migrant Spanish sparrow. A specimen was netted near Cambria. The British Trust for Ornithology said they are not sure if they are going to classify this hybrid. |
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01-27-2005 |
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Tasmania's The Mercury reports that a movie is being shot in Tasmania. Titled "Shutter Speed", it is a drama about two brothers in Tasmania, one looking to build a thylacine-themed resort, and the other more interested in finding actual evidence of living thylacines. |
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01-23-2005 |
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The San Francisco Chronicle talks with Tasmania biologist Nick Mooney about the thylacine. |
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01-23-2005 |
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Australia's Warrnambool Standard reports that Independent researcher Michael Moss has setup a infrared triggered camera trap in Australia's Otway National Park. He hopes to get evidence of the big cats and thylacines that have been reported in the area. |
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01-18-2005 |
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The Omaha World-Herald reports that two new species of lemurs have been identified living in the forests of Madagascar. |
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01-14-2005 |
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Time Magazine has posted an article about the search for a potentially new species of primate in the Congo. |
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01-10-2005 |
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DreamMasters Studios has released its documentary "Chupacabras! The Legend Begins" online for free viewing. It is broken up into segments, and requires the Real Player. |
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01-08-2005 |
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Connecticut's NBC30 reports that the renegade Dodgeville kangaroo has been captured, and is now being kept at a zoo for quarantine. |
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01-07-2005 |
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Florida's Sun Times reports that a movie about Dave Shealy and his adventures with Florida's Swamp Ape will be coming out in April. Producer Nate Martin hopes to get the movie into various film festivals. |
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01-07-2005 |
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Wisconsin's State Journal reports that police in Dodgeville have gotten several reports of a kangaroo on the loose along highways 18 and 151. Two witnesses saw it hop across the highway, and described it as a "huge red kangaroo". |
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01-05-2005 |
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Ohio's TimesRecorder reports that an apparent African lion has been spotted repeatedly in Licking County. It is described as a "wolf on steriods". |
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01-05-2005 |
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California's TheReporter.com reviews the new book "Weird U.S.". The book covers strange and fascinating stories from all over the United States. |
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01-05-2005 |
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South Carolina's Island Packet Online reports that Dan Taylor is putting the finishing touches on his submarine, in which he is planning to search for the Loch Ness Monster this coming Spring. |
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01-03-2005 |
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The Nature Conservancy reports that at least two new fish species and a variety of insects, snail, and plant species have been discovered in the 'karst' systems of Borneo. |
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12-22-2004 |
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BBC News reports that a new species of monkey will be announced in a forthcoming issue of International Journal of Primatology. The Arunachal macaque is a large primate with a short tail discovered in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India. |
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12-20-2004 |
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London's Wood&Vale reports that a strange creature called the 'Golden Rat of Kenwood' may be a rare vole. It's home is in Kenwood Pond, and is said to be orange colored. The water vole is fast dissappearing in England, and has never been reported in the London area before. |
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12-18-2004 |
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AScribe talks with University of Florida researcher anthropologist David Daegling. He talks about reasons some people tend to believe too eagerly in Bigfoot. But when it comes to the Patterson film, he states "The guys who took this movie did not go to the local costume shop and rent a gorilla outfit, it's definitely not a cheap carnival suit." |
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12-16-2004 |
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Australia's Augusta Margaret River Mail (Southwest Australia) reports that a large black cat, known locally as the 'coupan', was sighted again. The witness described hearing a "scream like a lion" and "It freaked us out". He spotting the cat running full tilt, and says he was "totally stunned at its speed". |
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12-15-2004 |
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The San Jose, CA. Mercury News talks with Mike Rugg, the proprietor of a Bigfoot museum in Felton, CA. The "CapriTaurus' Bigfoot Discovery Museum" opened in July.
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12-12-2004 |
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Reuters reports that a study by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts indicates that a whale with a voice like no other has been wandering the the northern Pacific Ocean since 1992. |
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12-11-2004 |
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Illinois' PjStar talks with Kenny Tharp who was deer hunting with some friends near New Boston when they found a dead cougar that had been shot. |
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12-08-2004 |
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Australia's The Age reports that Melbourne Zoo officials are pretty sure that a 'mystery cat' in a video taken by campers in Dunkeld shows an ordinary house cat. |
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12-07-2004 |
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The Times of India interviews Daniel Taylor, naturalist and author of There is Something Hidden Behind the Range, about the Yeti. |
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12-04-2004 |
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The Orlando Sentinel talks about sightings of the skunk ape. |
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11-28-2004 |
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Philly.com has an article on East Coast Bigfoot hunters. One researcher turned his van into a $50,000 Mobile Bigfoot Research Lab. |
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11-25-2004 |
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Malta's Sunday Times reports on the photo of an apparent Diplocaulus - extinct for 270 million years. A biology professor says its a hoax. |
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11-22-2004 |
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Australia's Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Discovery Channel is in Australia to film for an episode of Animal-X. The topic is black panthers. |
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11-22-2004 |
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Australia's Hawkesbury Gazette reports that a black panther was seen in East Kurrajong by Karen Dolan. She says she observed the large black cat for 2 minutes. When she went to get a camera, the cat left. |
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11-18-2004 |
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The Los Angeles Times talks about the thylacine, and reported sightings of them. |
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11-17-2004 |
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ClickOnDetroit.com reports that construction workers spotted a large black 'panther' in Oakland county, Michigan. |
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11-14-2004 |
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