Bernard Heuvelmans, the “Father of Cryptozoology,” was born in Le Havre, France, and found he had a love of natural history from an early age. His interest in unknown animals was first
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 Cryptozoology (ISC) has lapsed into relative inactivity in recent years. Kirk became interested in cryptozoology
It all began for Karl Shuker when, aged thirteen, he walked into a bookshop near his home in the West Midlands, England, and noticed a copy of the Paladin paperback edition (1972
Robert Morgan was born in Canton, Ohio, and has spent most of his professional career in the film industry and tracking Bigfoot/Sasquatch. Morgan has been involved as the founder and director of
James McLeod founded one of the earliest university-based cryptozoology organizations, the now-defunct North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club (NICCC), located at Coeur d’Alene. He created the NICCC in 1983, when he began investigating
Gary Mangiacopra, a New Englander with a master’s degree in biology, has been interested in doing archival cryptozoological investigations since he was a teen. Today he is seen as one of the
John MacKinnon, discoverer of the saola and other new species from the “Lost World” of Vietnam, grew up deeply interested in wildlife. The grandson of a British prime minister, James Ramsay MacDonald,
Roy P. Mackal is a distinguished biochemist, engineer, and biologist who has spent most of his academic life at the University of Chicago, where he obtained his B.A. in 1949 and a
Helmut Loofs-Wissowa was born in Halle, Germany, of Belgian-German-Polish ancestry. Growing up in Leipzig, he was drafted into the German army at the end of the war, shipped to the Eastern front,
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 exploration of cryptozoological matters. (His other passion,
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 field investigations of large marine animals sighted
A retired anthropologist at Washington State University in Pullman, Grover S. Krantz is the author of many academic works on physical anthropology. One of a very small number of academics actively involved
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