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10 September 2020

The owhuama is a cryptid reported from the Venezuelan Amazon, considered to be the Yanomami people's version of the mapinguari, which has itself been reported from the Venezuelan-Brazilian border region.
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NOTICE - Unknown - 2021/08/03 13:38

Dear Friends, I have been doing blogs on Blogger/Blogspot for so long that it seems really strange not to be doing them anymore, but as many of you will have found out, dear Louis - who really is a Sa...

THEORIES ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE - Ego Ronanus - 2021/07/18 22:00

Including multiple universes, which might explain where certain cryptids come from - and return to. now read on.......

HOPPING HOPPING HOPPING - Unknown - 2021/07/18 12:04

 The Gonzo Daily: Sunday http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.htmlOkay, boys and girls, this is all going to get a bit complicated. As you may know, Louis has been working very hard on the new CFZ w...

Giant Eels in the Lake District; The return of Wally the Walrus; Ivory Billed Woodpecker (OTT#137) - Unknown - 2021/07/18 02:00

Woot Woot the lads are back with another cornucopia of Fortean frolics:- Gef the talking mongoose- Lake monsters in the English Lake District- Richard returns with a Grime DJ- The Eunuch Eel theory- T...

Gonzo Weekly #455/6 - Unknown - 2021/07/18 02:00

Gonzo Weekly #455/6THE IRON ZION LION ISSUEwww.gonzoweekly.comThis magazine continues to go off on strange tangents that I never expect, but I am very happy to see it do so. What is in this week? Oooo...
ShukerNature Latest

THE GRUESOME GBAHALI - LURKING IN LIBERIA? - Dr Karl Shuker - 2024/03/02 20:13

 Representation of the gbahali based upon eyewitness descriptions (© Tim Morris) Since 1900, the West African country of Liberia, still plentifully supplied with coastal mangrove swamps and interior...

DANIELL'S QUAGGA AND WARD'S ZEBRA - ANOTHER TWO STRIPED CURIOSITIES OF THE EQUINE KIND - Dr Karl Shuker - 2024/02/24 22:12

 Daniell's quagga (left) and Ward's zebra (right) (public domain) Following on from my previous ShukerNature article concerning the beautiful but long-forgotten isabella quagga (click here to access...

THE ISABELLA QUAGGA - A LONG-LOST, LONG-FORGOTTEN EQUINE ENIGMA - Dr Karl Shuker - 2024/02/19 20:54

 A beautiful vintage (1800s) full-colour illustration of the unique isabella quagga (public domain) The quagga Equus quagga quagga is nowadays famous for two very different reasons. Firstly: it is –...

THE HORN SNAKE AND THE HOOP SNAKE - FEARSOME CRITTERS OF THE SERPENTINE KIND - Dr Karl Shuker - 2024/01/24 19:58

 Hoop snake in hot pursuit! (© Richard Svensson) Following on from my previous ShukerNature blog article chronicling what may well be North America's most familiar folkloric Fearsome Critter of any k...

THE HIDEOUS HODAG - HISTORY OF A HOAX - Dr Karl Shuker - 2024/01/20 19:38

 Fibre-glass hodag statue in front of the Rhinelander Area Chamber of Commerce (© Gourami Watcher/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 3.0 licence) Back in the pioneering days of North America, when European settler...
Loch Ness Mystery Latest

Follow Up to MacLennan Land Sighting - Glasgow Boy - 2024/03/12 23:32

 Having published the article on the MacLennan creature recently, I thought I would go over any comments made on it by way of reply. The last time I looked there were 167 comments attached to the arti...

The MacLennan Land Sighting - Glasgow Boy - 2024/02/20 23:25

It is back to classic sightings of the Loch Ness Monster and a report of a large creature seen on land in that seminal first year of Nessie reports 91 years ago. The date was the 6th August 1933 and t...

Nessie Review of 2023 - Glasgow Boy - 2024/01/03 00:58

 Whatever may have come to pass at Loch Ness in 2023, it was always guaranteed to be the year of anniversary as ninety years passed since this story of a strange beast in the loch took off in 1933. Of...

Tim Dinsdale and Two Original LNIB Sighting Reports - Glasgow Boy - 2023/12/24 17:00

 It was a while back that I got my first view of some original sighting reports from the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau which existed from 1962 to 1972. I don't recall if I was looking at an original...

Loch Ness Monster Podcast - Glasgow Boy - 2023/12/15 13:38

I recently had a chat with David Divine who runs a podcast channel covering various mysteries across the world and this was his first conversation with anyone on the subject of the Loch Ness Monster....
July 2022's featured article
Deepstar 400 fish Skin Diver
The Deepstar 4000 fish was a cryptid giant deep sea fish seen once, off southern California in the Pacific Ocean, by the crew of the Deepstar 4000↗ submersible during a 1966 dive. It was estimated to have measured 30–40 ft (9–12 m) in length, equal to some of the largest known living fish, and far larger than any known bony fish.

This fish was allegedly observed by pilot Joe Thompson (1930 – 2003) and possibly marine biologist Gene LaFond (1909 – 2002), during a June 1966 research dive in the San Diego Trough alongside instrumentation engineer Dale Good. They had taken the Deepstar 4000 down to around 4,000 ft (1,219 m) to lay hydrographical instruments on the seafloor, and when Thompson happened to look through the window, he found himself staring into the eye of a giant fish which had swam briefly into view. It moved past quickly, bringing up silt from the seabed, before disappearing.


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The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2023 - Loren Coleman - 2024/01/19 21:08

The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2023 by Loren Coleman, Director, International Cryptozoology Museum...

Loren Coleman’s Complete Book List: 2024 - Loren Coleman - 2024/01/03 19:33

The Books - The List: As of 2024...

Top Cryptozoology Deaths of 2023 - Loren Coleman - 2023/12/30 20:03

The year saw the passing of various members of the cryptozoology research, media and Fortean communities....

From Green Hell To A Peace of Heaven: David Oren, Mapinguari Researcher, Passes Away - Loren Coleman - 2023/10/12 17:40

David Oren's passing presents an opportunity to review the status of the Mapinguari, and the life of its most dedicated modern researcher....

Bigfoot Books Burns: Total Loss - Loren Coleman - 2023/09/16 18:45

Steven, who supplied Bigfoot literature across the country, needs your help now....


Past featured articles

The Mapinguari
The Queensland Tiger
The Tigre de Montagne
The Nandi Bear

The Mapinguari

Does the deepest Amazon harbour a surviving giant ground sloth?

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The Queensland Tiger

A dangerous marsupial predator - and once the cryptid closest to official recognition

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The Tigre de Montagne

A living sabre-toothed cat in the dry mountains?

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The Nandi Bear

Bear, hyena, baboon, or chalicothere?

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The Mapinguari
The Queensland Tiger
The Tigre de Montagne
The Nandi Bear

Past featured articles

The Mokele-Mbembe
The Emela-Ntouka
The Minhocão
Giant Lemurs

The Mokele-Mbembe

Meet the mysterious "dragons" of the Congo.

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The Emela-Ntouka

Cameroon's killer of elephants

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The Minhocão

A giant burrowing serpent of southern Brazil.

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Giant Lemurs

Do Madagascar's giant subfossil lemurs still survive?

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The Mokele-Mbembe
The Emela-Ntouka
The Minhocão
Giant Lemurs

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