Igopogo
Lake Simcoe, Ontario, is where a monster the locals call Igopogo (it is a play on the popular British Columbia Lake Monster, Ogopogo) supposedly dwells.…
Month: July 2021
Horned Serpents
Centuries-old legends from native sources conjure up encounters with giant “reptiles” with great horns. In “Water-Monsters of American Aborigines” (Journal of American Folklore [1889]), Albert…
Honey Island Swamp Monster
Near New Orleans, Louisiana, in the wild Honey Island Swamp, there lives—or so tradition has it—a swamp monster, a unique bipedal animal that leaves pointed…
Hominology
Hominology is an important subcategory of cryptozoology that deserves a moment of explanation. Russian researcher Dmitri Bayanov coined the word “hominology” around 1973, to denote…
Harkness, Ruth
HARKNESS, RUTH (1900-1947) Ruth Harkness discovered, captured, and returned to the West with the first giant panda. In the 1930s, the rush was on to…
Hall, Mark A.
Mark A. Hall, a native Minnesotan, has been intrigued by nature’s anomalies all his life. For nearly forty years he has actively pursued historical records,…
Hall, Dennis Jay
HALL, DENNIS JAY (1956-) Dennis Jay Hall was born in Middlebury, Vermont. In 1973, he was elected president of the Vergennes Chapter of the Vermont…
Grimm, Jack
GRIMM, JACK (1925-1998) Jack Grimm, who came to be known through media stories about his “quixotic quests” to find Bigfoot, Noah’s Ark, the Loch Ness…
Greenwell, J. Richard
J. Richard Greenwell has served as secretary of the International Society of Cryptozoology since its founding in 1982. He was instrumental in creating the ISC…
Goblin Universe
The phrase “Goblin Universe” is often applied to the earth’s supernatural and otherwise esoteric residents. Long ago classification systems were created for legendary beings and…