Miscellaneous
“Lost World” of Vietnam
In July 1992, global news organizations introduced everyone to the startling discovery of a so-called lost world of animals living ...
British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club
Founded in 1989 by writer James A. Clark, marine biologist Paul LeBlond, and television documentarian John Kirk, the British Columbia ...
Chambers Affair
For years, a rumor has circulated that John Chambers, famed Academy Award-winning Hollywood special effects man, manufactured the suit allegedly ...
Chupacabras
The single most notable cryptozoological phenomenon of the past decade is undoubtedly the chupacabras (“Goatsucker”) of Hispanic America. The legend ...
Coelacanth
A few coelacanths are displayed in natural history museums around the world, like this one in Chicago’s Field Museum. (Loren ...
Giant Forest Hog
In 1904 zoologists were surprised at the discovery of the giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni), only three years after the ...
Giant Monkey
Reports from around the globe describe what appear to be enormous monkeys. Asians give the name for the mountain range ...
Goblin Universe
The phrase Goblin Universe" is often applied to the earth's supernatural and otherwise esoteric residents. Long ago classification systems were ...
Goblin Universe
The phrase “Goblin Universe” is often applied to the earth’s supernatural and otherwise esoteric residents. Long ago classification systems were ...
Grimm, Jack
GRIMM, JACK (1925-1998) Jack Grimm, who came to be known through media stories about his “quixotic quests” to find Bigfoot, ...
Hall, Dennis Jay
HALL, DENNIS JAY (1956-) Dennis Jay Hall was born in Middlebury, Vermont. In 1973, he was elected president of the ...
Hominology
Hominology is an important subcategory of cryptozoology that deserves a moment of explanation. Russian researcher Dmitri Bayanov coined the word ...
Indonesian Coelacanths
To the considerable surprise of Western scientists at least, a second population of coelacanths has been discovered off the coast ...
International Society of Cryptozoology
Founded in January 1982 at a gathering held at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution and ...
Koffmann, Marie-Jeanne
Born in France, Marie-Jeanne Koffmann spent most of her life in the U.S.S.R., as a surgeon at Moscow hospitals and ...
Lawndale Incident
The Lawndale, Illinois, incident is among the most important avian cryptozoological events ever to have been investigated. It is a ...
Living Dinosaurs
Scientists say that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before humans appeared on Earth, but some people claim that these ...
Loch Ness monsters
The term Loch Ness monsters refers to mysterious beasts that have been reported dozens of times in a Scottish lake ...
Mokele-Mbembe
Mokele-mbembe is said to be a dinosaur, of a species known as the sauropod, still living in the African jungle ...
Mysterious Beasts
In most cases, when someone sights a mysterious beast, upon closer examination it turns out to be an ordinary animal ...
Olgoi-Khorkhoi
OLGOI-KHORKHOI A mysterious, deadly creature called Olgoi-Khorkhoi, also known as the Mongolian death worm, reportedly lives in the Gobi Desert ...
