Johannes Cuntius: The Pentsch Vampire Johannes Cuntius, also known as the Pentsch Vampire, is one of the stranger cases in early modern vampire lore. His story comes from Silesia and was recorded
The Spirit of Dantalion: The 71st Spirit of Solomon Dantalion is one of the most enigmatic spirits in the Ars Goetia, known as the 71st of the 72 Spirits of Solomon. A mighty Duke of Hell, Dantalion governs 36 legions
Iliamna Lake, near Alaska’s southern coast, is eighty miles long and twenty-five miles wide in spots; it covers 1,033 square miles. The depth average is 660 feet; in Pile Bay at the
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. Seen for more than a century, the
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 S. Gatschet surveyed stories of these peculiar
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 three-toed footprints. Honey Island is a vast
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 those investigations that study humanity’s as yet
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 be the first to catch a giant
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, traveled throughout eastern North America, and gathered
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 Archeological Society. While he was serving in
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 Monsters, and the Titanic was, with Tom
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 after given the idea through an introduction
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