Miscellaneous

In July 1992, global news organizations introduced everyone to the startling discovery of a so-called lost world of animals living ...

Founded in 1989 by writer James A. Clark, marine biologist Paul LeBlond, and television documentarian John Kirk, the British Columbia ...

For years, a rumor has circulated that John Chambers, famed Academy Award-winning Hollywood special effects man, manufactured the suit allegedly ...

The single most notable cryptozoological phenomenon of the past decade is undoubtedly the chupacabras (“Goatsucker”) of Hispanic America. The legend ...

A few coelacanths are displayed in natural history museums around the world, like this one in Chicago’s Field Museum. (Loren ...

“Cryptid” is a relatively new word used among professionals and laypeople to denote an animal of interest to cryptozoology. John ...

In 1904 zoologists were surprised at the discovery of the giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni), only three years after the ...

Reports from around the globe describe what appear to be enormous monkeys. Asians give the name for the mountain range ...

The phrase Goblin Universe" is often applied to the earth's supernatural and otherwise esoteric residents. Long ago classification systems were ...

The phrase “Goblin Universe” is often applied to the earth’s supernatural and otherwise esoteric residents. Long ago classification systems were ...

GRIMM, JACK (1925-1998) Jack Grimm, who came to be known through media stories about his “quixotic quests” to find Bigfoot, ...

HALL, DENNIS JAY (1956-) Dennis Jay Hall was born in Middlebury, Vermont. In 1973, he was elected president of the ...

Hominology is an important subcategory of cryptozoology that deserves a moment of explanation. Russian researcher Dmitri Bayanov coined the word ...

To the considerable surprise of Western scientists at least, a second population of coelacanths has been discovered off the coast ...

Founded in January 1982 at a gathering held at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution and ...

Born in France, Marie-Jeanne Koffmann spent most of her life in the U.S.S.R., as a surgeon at Moscow hospitals and ...

The Lawndale, Illinois, incident is among the most important avian cryptozoological events ever to have been investigated. It is a ...

Scientists say that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before humans appeared on Earth, but some people claim that these ...

The term Loch Ness monsters refers to mysterious beasts that have been reported dozens of times in a Scottish lake ...

Mokele-mbembe is said to be a dinosaur, of a species known as the sauropod, still living in the African jungle ...

In most cases, when someone sights a mysterious beast, upon closer examination it turns out to be an ordinary animal ...

OLGOI-KHORKHOI A mysterious, deadly creature called Olgoi-Khorkhoi, also known as the Mongolian death worm, reportedly lives in the Gobi Desert ...