Lindorm

Lindorm is a Swedish word for dragon, a creature which even in nineteenth-century Scandinavia was no mythological beast. It was something people could encounter in…

Ley, Willy

In 1941, the young scientist and scholar Willy Ley, German-born and educated, wrote his first book in the field of popular science, initiating a lifelong…

LeBlond, Paul H.

Paul H. LeBlond, co-leader of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, is an oceanographer at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. LeBlond has conducted…

Lawndale Incident

The Lawndale, Illinois, incident is among the most important avian cryptozoological events ever to have been investigated. It is a modern, real-life enactment of a…

Kouprey

Before the wealth of cryptozoological discoveries in Vietnam, the most recent large animal to be discovered in Asia was the kouprey. In its day this…

Komodo Dragon

KOMODO DRAGON In 1910, it is said, a Dutch pilot crash-landed on Komodo, a rugged, volcanic Indonesian island. After his rescue he claimed to have…

Kirk, John

John Kirk is the president of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club (BCSCC), an international organization whose status has grown as the International Society of…

King Cheetah

For years, intrigued by legends, the appearance of strange skins, and reports of an unusual-looking giant cheetah in Africa, cryptozoologists Paul and Lena Bottriell searched…