PORTLAND, Ore. – Bigfoot hunters who want to use a helium-filled airship to comb the woods for sasquatch plan a day-long symposium in Portland later this month. The event is a fundraiser for the Falcon Project, billed by organizers as “the most penetrating search for the legendary sasquatch ever undertaken.” Olympia Beer will host [...]
Loren Coleman’s museum getting some deserved attention: http://www.portlanddailysun.me/index.php/newsx/local-news/8914-travel-channel-films-at-museum
Nick Redfern reports on British Feline Cryptids: For decades, people all across the British Isles have reported encounters with large, exotic cats of a type that simply should not exist in the country. But, there’s no doubt that such beasts are among us. And although most researchers are convinced that these animals are wholly flesh [...]
“Crocodile caught roaming streets of NYC!” Photo from “Hackett for News”. A crocodile caused a commotion in Queens Sunday when it was cornered under a car. Yes, a crocodile. “Before you ask, no cops could confirm it came out of the sewer,” said police spokesman James Duffy, referring to an urban legend that such reptiles live [...]
Sasquatch creature known by many names in Indian legends By Rachel Thomson The term “Sasquatch” is an Anglicized name based on coastal Salish vernacular that was coined in the 1920s by a British Colombian teacher to describe a large, hair-covered, manlike creature, according to “Raincoast Sasquatch” by J. Robert Alley. The following is a partial [...]
The grey dog of Meoble July 7, 2009 by Mike Dash Mention of Loch Morar in my last post put me in mind of a legend from the same district that is not at all well known among Forteans, but which combines, in an interesting way, two distinct folklore motifs: those of the ‘loyal pet’ and [...]
Hunt for the Huge Black Dogs Haunting UK’s Countryside By Stuart Winter The fiery red eyes and the blood-curdling howls of ghostly Black Dogs have long haunted the pages of British literature. From Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles to the sinister Padfoot in the tales of Harry Potter, time and again nailbiting [...]
In a remarkable across-the-border gesture of support for the new International Cryptozoology Museum, the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club has donated $1500 US to assist with moving costs and the future success of the permanent exhibition. The BCSCC have just made the ICM relocation to downtown Portland, Maine, occur a little more effortlessly. A huge [...]
Via The Anomalist: Cryptozoo Museum Opens In Downtown Portland Cryptomundo It has taken six years, but as of November 1, 2009, the International Cryptozoology Museum will open to the public in a permanent space in downtown Portland, Maine. The museum will be sharing the space with Green Hand Books, owned by Michelle Souliere, an anomalist [...]
Fortean Ufology: Long Live the Old Guard, Long Live the New Flesh by Skylaire Alfvegren Many, many moons ago, in a dark and smoky bar deep in the wilds of Maryland, I toasted British phenomenalist/megalith expert John Michell with a fine, single malt scotch. Among the many things he impressed upon me was the idea [...]