New poll results about paranormal belief in the UK show that “earth mysteries” are really popular across the pond. Many complications make it difficult to make sense out of poll numbers reflecting levels of paranormal beliefs over time.
In this edition: How to become a cryptozoologist? Indeed. Historical sightings of Chinese dragons, American Cryptids movie for 2025, Followup to Cryptid Cinema book, Cryptid Merch: My cryptid crush, Saxsquatch, Betting on Bigfoot sightings, Cryptid? Yes or No? Dragon.
In this edition: Bigfoot makes an appearance in a divorce case, The Times of London promotes growing belief in Bigfoot. E-DNA and the Enormous Eel Effect, Utah Yetis dream dissolves, Reality Shifting and Cryptids and the Goosepig.
A new paper by a seismologist suggests a South Carolina spook light legend may be related to seismic activity, but the conclusions fall far short of convincing.
In this edition: Google Underwater view of Loch Ness, Loch Ness Data Set in new statistics paper, Cryptid Media – Frogman: The Croaks are no Hoax, Cryptid Media – Project: Cryptid, Volume 2, Cryptid Stuff – Bath Bombs, Utah Yetis hit a trademark hurdle, Solved, but Ignored
In this edition: Green Eyes and the explosion of cryptid festivals, Appalachian folk horror, Cryptid Media – Folk horror, Resurgence/British Cryptids, Pop Cryptid – Jackalope or nope?
In this edition: News: Two deaths dubiously linked to Bigfoot hunting,
Cryptid Media See This – Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal, Cryptid Media Skip This – Lost Monster Files,
Update on naming taboo cryptids,
AI cryptid carnival, Google Earth cryptids, Hood cryptids meme
A rock hit a car in a Walmart parking lot in Lehighton, PA in 2023, busting the window and landing in a half gallon of ice cream. A group of open-minded scientists agreed to take the case and identified the rock as a genuine meteorite.
In this edition: What’s up with this project, Pop Goes the Cryptid explainer, r/cryptid aims to be inclusive, New cryptid media, Texas’ Chupacabra coaster, Cryptozoology.com shuttered
Was cryptozoology ever scientific? Discussion about cryptids reveals ideas about the public perception of science. Arguments continue about what cryptozoology was and should be.
Introduction to the world of Pop Cryptids, showing the evolution of cryptozoology from a scientific field to a popular culture scene where “cryptid” is any weird, sentient thing.
What happened when a pastor from Colorado, Will Duffy, takes flat earthers to Antarctica in what is called “The FInal Experiment”?
Wild ideas are circulating via social media regarding mystery booms reported in Idaho. Thanks to platforms like TikTok, doubtful ideas about skyquakes are raging online.
A recap and summary of Discovery’s cryptid show Lost Monster Files and its failings regarding science, education, and entertainment.
A new article in the Journal of Mammalogy calls out the problem with poor naming practices of new species in our internet age. “Bigfoot” is the perfect bad example.
Reprint of 2013 article detailing the proposed but illegitimate publication of Bigfoot DNA results by Melba Ketchum, and her circus of pseudoscience.
Lost Monster Files show examines the claims of thunderbirds in Pennsylvania and, once again, fall far short of a coherent presentation.
Zoos are using hoaxed or dubious photos to drum up business.
The second episode of Lost Monster Files on Discovery channel is a confusing mash-up of old and mis-information about “abominable snowmen” in British Columbia.
Recent research, mostly from Japan and China, adds evidence to support the idea that earthquake lights are a result of electrical interactions between the lithosphere and the atmosphere.