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
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 went on to found and direct the
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
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
Richard Ellis, known to most cryptozoologists through his work on the giant squid and sea monsters, is recognized in the larger world as a much-honoured painter of marine natural history subjects. Ellis
Loren Coleman was born in Norfolk, Virginia, but moved when he was three months old to Decatur, Illinois, where he spent most of his youth, the son of a professional firefighter. Coleman
Born in Moscow, Dmitri Bayanov has emerged as the foremost living Russian cryptozoologist and hominologist. He majored in humanities at a teachers college, graduating in 1955. He worked first as a teacher
BARLOY, JEAN-JACQUES (1939-) With a doctorate in zoology, specializing in ornithology, Jean-Jacques Barloy is a natural history journalist and the author of hundreds of French articles and a few books dealing with
Bill Gibbons first became interested in mystery animals during his childhood years in Scotland. After watching an early movie adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, the young Gibbons wondered
Arlene Gaal was born and raised in a coal-mining town in southeastern British Columbia. In 1968 she and her husband, Joe, along with their three children moved to Kelowna, located on Lake
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