Cryptozoologists
Barloy, Jean-Jacques
BARLOY, JEAN-JACQUES (1939-) With a doctorate in zoology, specializing in ornithology, Jean-Jacques Barloy is a natural history journalist and the ...
Bayanov, Dmitri
Born in Moscow, Dmitri Bayanov has emerged as the foremost living Russian cryptozoologist and hominologist. He majored in humanities at ...
Bille, Matthew A.
Matthew A. Bille with a rare Cuban ground iguana. (Tricia Childers) Editor of Exotic Zoology, Matthew A. Bille is also ...
Clark, Eugenie
Eugenie Clark serves on the board of directors of the International Society of Cryptozoology. A famous diver and scientist, she ...
Clark, James Alexander
CLARK. JAMES ALEXANDER (1960-1989) Jim Clark, one of British Columbia's foremost cryptozoological researchers, amassed perhaps the largest collection of sighting ...
Clark, Ramona
CLARK, RAMONA (1932 - 1997) Ramona Clark was one of the earliest investigators of accounts in the southern U.S. of ...
Coleman, Loren
Loren Coleman was born in Norfolk, Virginia, but moved when he was three months old to Decatur, Illinois, where he ...
Corrales, Scott
Scott Corrales, a resident of Pennsylvania, is the foremost English/ Spanish-language investigator of the Chupacabras. A translator and author, he ...
Crook, Cliff
Cliff Crook is the second half of a trivia question involving the movie Harry and the Hendersons, which features a ...
Crowe, Ray
Ray Crowe was born and raised in Oregon, serving as a weatherman for the U.S. Air Force and the U.S ...
Dahinden, Rene
Born in Switzerland, Rene Dahinden moved to Canada in 1953. Two months after he arrived, he heard about the Sasquatch ...
Dao van Tien
DAO VAN TIEN ( 1910-1995) Dao Van Tien was born in Nam Dinh City, Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam, and graduated ...
Dinsdale, Tim
DINSDALE. TIM (1924- 1987) Tim Dinsdale was born into a British family in China. When his parents returned to England, ...
Ellis, Richard
Richard Ellis, known to most cryptozoologists through his work on the giant squid and sea monsters, is recognized in the ...
Ernst, William “Ted”
ERNST, WILLIAM " TED" (1945- 1998) W. Ted Ernst and Robert W. Morgan incorporated the American Anthropological Research Foundation on ...
Gaal, Arlene
Arlene Gaal was born and raised in a coal-mining town in southeastern British Columbia. In 1968 she and her husband, ...
Gibbons, William
Bill Gibbons first became interested in mystery animals during his childhood years in Scotland. After watching an early movie adaptation ...
Green, John
John Green (1927– ) One of the leading experts on the apeman known as bigfoot or Sasquatch, John Green has ...
Greenwell, J. Richard
J. Richard Greenwell has served as secretary of the International Society of Cryptozoology since its founding in 1982. He was ...
Hall, Mark A.
Mark A. Hall, a native Minnesotan, has been intrigued by nature’s anomalies all his life. For nearly forty years he ...
Harkness, Ruth
HARKNESS, RUTH (1900-1947) Ruth Harkness discovered, captured, and returned to the West with the first giant panda. In the 1930s, ...
Heuvelmans, Bernard
Bernard Heuvelmans, the “Father of Cryptozoology,” was born in Le Havre, France, and found he had a love of natural ...
Huyghe, Patrick
Patrick Huyghe is a science writer whose articles on cryptozoology have reached a large public through their appearance in a ...
Keating, Donald
Donald Keating was born in Columbus, Ohio. In 1984, after reading one of John Green’s Sasquatch books, Keating became fascinated ...
Kirk, John
John Kirk is the president of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club (BCSCC), an international organization whose status has grown ...
Krantz, Grover S.
A retired anthropologist at Washington State University in Pullman, Grover S. Krantz is the author of many academic works on ...
LeBlond, Paul H.
Paul H. LeBlond, co-leader of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, is an oceanographer at the University of British Columbia ...
Ley, Willy
In 1941, the young scientist and scholar Willy Ley, German-born and educated, wrote his first book in the field of ...
Loofs-Wissowa , Helmut
Helmut Loofs-Wissowa was born in Halle, Germany, of Belgian-German-Polish ancestry. Growing up in Leipzig, he was drafted into the German ...
Mackal, Roy P.
Roy P. Mackal is a distinguished biochemist, engineer, and biologist who has spent most of his academic life at the ...
MacKinnon, John
John MacKinnon, discoverer of the saola and other new species from the “Lost World” of Vietnam, grew up deeply interested ...
Mangiacopra, Gary
Gary Mangiacopra, a New Englander with a master’s degree in biology, has been interested in doing archival cryptozoological investigations since ...
McLeod, James
James McLeod founded one of the earliest university-based cryptozoology organizations, the now-defunct North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club (NICCC), located at ...
Meldrum D. Jeffrey
Jeffrey Meldrum, associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University and affiliate curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the ...
Morgan, Robert
Robert Morgan was born in Canton, Ohio, and has spent most of his professional career in the film industry and ...
Oudemans, Antoon Cornelis
Dutch zoologist Antoon Cornelis Oudemans (1858–1943) originally specialized in insects and worms as the director of the Royal Zoological and ...
Porshnev, Boris F.
Boris Fedorovich Porshnev, was a Soviet historian with a particular interest in human origins, became interested in the problem of ...
Sanderson, Ivan T.
Sanderson, Ivan T. (1911–1973) Scottish explorer and biologist Ivan T. Sanderson was one of the founders of the discipline known ...
Shuker, Karl P.N.
It all began for Karl Shuker when, aged thirteen, he walked into a bookshop near his home in the West ...
Tran Hong Viet
Tran Hong Viet, the chairman of the Zoology Department of Teachers Training College-Vietnam National University, has studied Vietnamese fauna for ...
