Category: Cryptozoology

The hunt for the Loch Ness Monster – valid scientific research or a fool’s errand?

Is the hunt for Nessie futile or a project that should be embraced by science?The scientific value of cryptozoology, the hunt for mythical creatures, will […]

8 Terrifying Monsters That Could Exist

Cryptozoology, literally the search for hidden animals, is a fascinating fringe science.The name comes from the Greek ‘kryptos’ meaning ‘hidden’, ‘zoon’ meaning ‘animals’ and ‘logia’ […]

Loch Ness Monster from a Ghost Hunter’s View

565AD: The Saint stood on the banks of the Loch, ready to encounter the water monster that lurked below. Earlier that day a local man […]

THE CURIOUS CASE OF ROTHSCHILD’S LOST TUSK AND THE NON-EXISTENT ELEPHANT PIG – AN ENDURING CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL CONUNDRUM FROM AFRICA

I first came upon the following crypto-case many years ago when browsing through Dr Bernard Heuvelmans’s book Les Derniers Dragons d’Afrique (Plon: Paris, 1978), and […]

Was It a Yeti? Bigfoot? Hair DNA Reveals Monsters’ True Identity

The Bigfoot samples were matched to black bears, cows, a porcupine, horse, raccoon, sheep, deer, canines which could have been dogs, coyotes or wolves and […]

Beasts in the City: The Opposing Viewpoints of Wolfen and An American Werewolf in London

1981 was a heck of a year for werewolf movies. Of course, this would still be true had the only one to be released that […]

The Red Devil of Virginia – strange sightings around Horntown

The story begins in the small town of Crewe, Virginia in May or June 1968. Bob was only a young child but remembers the incident […]

#TheBristolCroc: Has A 6ft Crocodile Been Photographed In Bristol’s River Avon? PICTURE

Bristol’s most exotic and elusive resident has been spotted again – and this time he’s been photographed too.A series of somewhat unlikely sightings of a […]

Meet Bigfoot’s Cousins: 5 Destinations for Legend Hunters

The Scots have their Nessie, the Tibetans have their Yeti, but North America is also crawling with cryptids creatures whose existence has been rumored but […]

Brentford Griffin sightings in the 1980s – what was seen and by whom?

In mid-1984, Kevin Chippendale, while walking along Braemar Road, spotted a creature flying near the roof of the Green Dragon apartment building. “He described it […]

TV presenter Clare Balding spots “big cat” at the Doward near Ross-on-Wye From Hereford Times

A TELEVISION presenter told radio listeners that she saw a “big cat” while walking along the Wye Valley near Ross-on-Wye. Clare Balding said that she […]

IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO – IT’S BATSQUATCH!

Twenty years ago this year, one of the most bizarre winged entities ever reported made its first – and seemingly only – appearance, at least […]

GOBLIN ELEPHANTS AND WERE-SPIDERS – SURVEYING THE EYE-POPPING YOKAI IMAGERY OF GOJIN ISHIHARA

Kappas Gojin Ishihara, in Illustrated Book of Japanese Monsters, 1972Not long ago, graphics artist Andy Paciorek alerted me to a truly extraordinary Japanese book on […]

Are these the bones of a water demon? ‘Remains’ of mythological Kappa to go on show in Japan

Just as British children have been brought up with scary stories about the Loch Ness Monster, Japanese people know all about the Kappa – a […]

Wolverine spotted on the Roseland among several ‘big cat’ sightings in Cornwall | West Briton

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A “WOLVERINE” was spotted on the Roseland, near Truro, and a “large beast” was sighted in Millbrook in Cornwall, according to calls made to police.The […]

Is this the skeleton of legendary devil dog Black Shuck who terrorised 16th century East Anglia?

Yesterday, 500 years after Black Shuck first went on the prowl, archaeologists were examining the skeleton of a 7ft long dog unearthed in the remains […]

Southern Nessie mystery solved

Call it the Cretaceous cold case. For years, bones belonging to a mystery meat-eating ocean reptile had sat in Canterbury Museum, with scientists not completely […]

Call for cull of foreign snakes around Regent’s Canal

Over 30 rare Aesculapian snakes have been found living on the banks of Regent’s Canal and are now the subject of a dispute over culling. […]

I missed the Loch Ness Monster!

I’m really gutted. I missed the Loch Ness Monster by two hours!Nessie hadn’t been seen for 18 months, and a boat spotted him at 11.38. […]

Big Bird’s Last Stand

No animal has had more speculation heaped upon it than the Moa. These birds evolved around 85 million years ago on the southern Super-continent called […]

STRIPE ME – A SPOTTED ZEBRA!

The fascinating – and genuine – photograph of a spotted zebra presented above appears commonly on the Net, but with no accompanying details or at […]

Nessie ahoy? Mystery object captured on Loch Ness cruise boat scanner (again again)

Nessie seems to be making more appearances than Miley Cyrus’s tongue recently – here is the latest one… A STARTLING image from the depths of […]

Seven Overused Monsters in Media

Humans have always had a large fascination with the supernatural. Be it out of terror, awe, or affection, the monsters that have appeared in stories […]

Loch Ness monster a serpentine water deity, according to Buddhist leader

The Loch Ness Monster could be confirmed as a “spiritual entity” when a new Buddhist centre opens in the Highlands, it was revealed today.Britain’s first […]

Nessie as Biker and the Exorcism of the Loch

Ted Holiday was a Fortean researcher who died in 1979 and who was particularly associated with research into Nessie. His intellectual development or regression from […]