Keating, Donald
Donald Keating was born in Columbus, Ohio. In 1984, after reading one of John Green’s Sasquatch books, Keating became fascinated with Midwestern Bigfoot activity. He…
Author: Lux Ferre
International Society of Cryptozoology
Founded in January 1982 at a gathering held at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution and hosted by zoologist George Zug,…
Indonesian Coelacanths
To the considerable surprise of Western scientists at least, a second population of coelacanths has been discovered off the coast of Indonesia, some seven thousand…
Iliamna Lake Monster
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…
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.…
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,…
