Cryptozoology

(Articles offsite at E2)

Bernard Heuvelmans coined the term "cryptozoology," the study of hidden animals, to describe the investigation of such things as sea serpents and Bigfoot. More often than not, it involves the study of false leads and wishful thinking. Still, I've written a handful of articles on subjects cryptozoological for E2. They have been linked here, along with other stories of enigmatic and mysterious doings.

					The photo of Civil War soldiers with a dead pteranodon conveys a weird sense of reality. Producers of the short-lived tv show Freakylinks (2000-2001) created it, and when they placed it online before the show's first broadcast as part of a promotional gimmick, it set cryptozoologists abuzz. The fake riffs on the "Thunderbird photo," a supposedly lost Holy Grail of cryptozoology.
	At right we see an authentic photograph, but an authentic photograph of what? Workers here dig out the 1896 St. Augustine Monster, which has been variously identified as the remains of a giant octopus-- or the deboned remnants of a whale.

The Beast of 'Busco

Bigfoot / Sasquatch

The Devil Baby of Hull House

The Devil's Footprints in Devon

The Moha Moha

Nebraska Man
Did a pig make a monkey out of scientists, or are Creationists monkeying with the truth?

The New England Sea Serpent

The St. Augustine Monster

Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane

The Silver Lake Monster

The Texas UFO Crash of 1897

A Vampire Timeline(on-site)

Return to Non-Fiction

Return to Utherworld Main Page