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Meet the Electric Life Forms That Live on Pure Energy"Unlike any other life on Earth, these extraordinary bacteria use energy in its purest form – they eat and breathe electrons – and they are everywhere..."Posted: 20 July 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: newscientist.com ![]() |
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Bigfoot Researcher Brands DNA Studies 'Meaningless'"Cryptozoology was rocked this July by the release of a two-year study on alleged Bigfoot DNA by London's Royal Society (paid for by producers of the UK series Bigfoot Files). Now, the chief of America's largest Bigfoot research group (and host of Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot) has cried sample bias. Who's correct?..."Posted: 18 July 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: blackbag.gawker.com ![]() |
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‘Werewolf’ Wreaks Havoc in Central Philippine Island"Bloodsucking creatures are devastating livestock herds in the island of Sibale. Residents are at a loss over what vicious animal would leave only carcasses of its prey after feasting on them..."Posted: 16 July 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: gulfnews.com ![]() |
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The Strange History of Yeti DNA Involves Jimmy Stewart"Believers in mystery primates such as Bigfoot and the Yeti were dealt a blow earlier this week with the announcement that DNA tests of hair attributed to the creatures came back without conclusive proof of their existence..."Posted: 06 July 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: inquisitr.com ![]() |
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Bigfoot Hair Samples Mostly from Bears and Wolves"DNA testing is taking a bite out of the Bigfoot legend. After scientists analyzed more than 30 hair samples reportedly left behind by Bigfoot and similar mythical beasts like the Himalayan Yeti, they found all of them came from more mundane creatures like bears, wolves, cows and raccoons..."Posted: 02 July 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: kansascity.com ![]() |
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Virginia Man Claims to Have Captured Clear Images of Bigfoot"A Virginia man claims to have captured the first 'non-blurry' and 'clear' images of Bigfoot. Cryptozoology News reports that Randy O’Neal said his father and a friend took the photographs late last month, which he believes could contain Bigfoot..."Posted: 02 July 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: fox2now.com ![]() |
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Couple Encounter 'Bigfoot' on Road at Night"New footage has emerged showing what looks like a bipedal creature standing at the side of a road..."Posted: 22 June 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: unexplained-mysteries.com ![]() |
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Sasquatch Creature Sighted All Around Seattle Yesterday"According to R/Seattle, a strange Wicker Man looking Sasquatch creature was sighted all around town yesterday. Reports placed him at Ballard Market, South Lake Union, the Harbor Steps at Elliott Ave, and Post Alley. The mythical creature was also wearing a trendy messenger bag..."Posted: 22 June 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: seattleweekly.com ![]() |
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Why Icelanders Are Wary of Elves Living Beneath the Rocks"Plans to build a new road in Iceland ran into trouble recently when campaigners warned that it would disturb elves living in its path. Construction work had to be stopped while a solution was found..."Posted: 20 June 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: bbc.co.uk ![]() |
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Tomb of 'Dracula' Discovered in Naples"The alleged tomb of the infamous 16th century tryant Vlad the Impaler has been uncovered in Italy..."Posted: 15 June 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: unexplained-mysteries.com ![]() |
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'Slender Man is Real'"Slender Man is real. The product of a creative mind, cross-pollinated across the Internet, he is a fictional creation. But when two young girls tried to kill their friend as an offering to him last week, followed by two more attacks referencing him, he became a large enough part of our cultural conversation to make him reality..."Posted: 12 June 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: huffingtonpost.com ![]() |
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Second Stabbing Attack Linked to Slender Man Meme"Slender Man has struck again. An Ohio girl, under the apparent influence of the fictional Internet horror meme, attacked her mother last week with a kitchen knife, authorities said..."Posted: 10 June 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: nypost.com ![]() |
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Pre-Teens Obsessed with the Slenderman Attempt to Kill Friend"It's an internet horror-cult that almost caused a killing. Now the hosts of the 'Slenderman' myth believed behind a brutal pre-teen attack have defended their art..."Posted: 05 June 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: news.com.au ![]() |
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Bigfoot in Puchong?"It seems that residents at Kampung Seri Aman Dalam, Puchong, might be worried about a close encounter of the giant kind after a resident found four huge footprints that measured 23 inches long..."Posted: 02 June 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: therakyatpost.com ![]() |
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Are These the Bones of a Water Demon?"Just as British children have been brought up with scary stories about the Loch Ness Monster, Japanese people know all about the Kappa - a slippery water demon from ancient folklore..."Posted: 01 June 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: dailymail.co.uk ![]() |
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Bigfoot Day in Clearfield Draws Enthusiasts"Wide-ranging views on Bigfoot converged on Clearfield in northcentral Pennsylvania on Saturday, as about 50 Bigfoot enthusiasts and investigators gathered at the Clearfield Arts Studio Theatre for Bigfoot Day in Clearfield..."Posted: 27 May 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: blog.pennlive.com ![]() |
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Watch 'Bigfoot' Arise from Grass in Norwegian Meadow"Bigfoot may have relocated from the United States to Norway, if this incredible video is anything to go by..."Posted: 25 May 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: mirror.co.uk ![]() |
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Skunk Apes Spotted in Florida"It's an urban legend that has kept floridians curious over the years... What can the dark shadow passing through the woods be?.."Posted: 25 May 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: wcjb.com ![]() |
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Are These the Bones of Devil Dog, Black Shuck?"Since the middle-ages, legend has spread of a fearful beast once said to stalk the region’s coastline and countryside..."Posted: 20 May 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: eadt.co.uk ![]() |
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Bigfoot Footprints Discovered in Malaysia?"It's a strange sight indeed – three sets of muddy footprints, one set looking like it belonged to a tiger, another like it was an elephant's and the last resembling a human’s but much bigger in size..."Posted: 18 May 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: thestar.com.my ![]() |
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Sasquatch Possibly Spotted in British Columbian Mountains"A B.C. man believes he may have spotted a sasquatch in the British Columbia mountains..."Posted: 06 May 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: huffingtonpost.ca ![]() |
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Has Sonar Technology Found Nessie?"New images from the depths of the Loch Ness, in Scotland, have sparked fresh theories that Nessie the monster is lurking there..."Posted: 03 May 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: uk.news.yahoo.com ![]() |
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Annual Bigfoot Convention in Ohio Attracts Hundreds"Bigfoot trackers and enthusiasts gathered at the annual Salt Fork Lodge & Convention Center for the 26th annual Ohio Bigfoot Convention over the weekend..."Posted: 01 May 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: latinpost.com ![]() |
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Close Encounter of the 'Yowie' Kind"While fads in phenomena have swung through crop circles, aliens and conspiracy theories; one phenomena that refuses to go away and regularly surfaces with each new 'sighting or encounter' is that of the mythical Australian creature known as a Yowie..."Posted: 23 April 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: abc.net.au ![]() |
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Satellite Image Reveals Final Proof of Loch Ness Monster?"So large that it can be seen from space, it is enough to send shockwaves through even the most cynical Nessie sceptic..."Posted: 20 April 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: dailymail.co.uk ![]() |
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The Myth and Mystery Behind Australia's Monster the Yowie"It's considered Australia's answer to the Loch Ness monster, with everyone from famous politicians to entire families having claimed to see the Yowie..." Posted: 14 April 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: dailymail.co.uk ![]() |
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Is the Chupacabra Real?"Recently, a couple in the backwoods town of Ratcliffe, Texas, claimed to have caught a real-life chupacabra, the legendary beast that is rumored to feast on the blood of livestock. They managed to trap the freakish creature, named it 'Chupie' and kept it alive on a diet of cat food and corn..."Posted: 11 April 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: ibtimes.com ![]() |
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Yowie: Australia's Bigfoot 'Caught On Camera'"Grainy, blurred footage of Australia's supposed version of Bigfoot has been published online..."Posted: 09 April 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk ![]() |
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Is This the Photographic Proof That Fairies Are Real?"Lecturer John Hyatt, 53, captured the enchanting images of what he says are fairies in the Rossendale Valley..."Posted: 06 April 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: mirror.co.uk ![]() |
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Bigfoot Tracker Admits Body is a Fake"After a falling out with his Bigfoot crew, master tracker Rick Dyer, whose new title may be 'con artist', admitted that the 8-foot tall body named 'Hank' that wooed crowds last month in Houston is a prop made to look like a Bigfoot..."Posted: 02 April 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: chron.com ![]() |
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Can MIT Help Solve the Mystery of Bigfoot?"Matt Knapp thinks that Bigfoot research is a mess right now. 'The facts are that in terms of progress, the Bigfoot research community has ultimately made none. We are no closer now to proving these creatures exist than we were 40 years ago,' Knapp told Boston. .."Posted: 28 March 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: bostonmagazine.com ![]() |
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New Toy Company Immortalizes Cryptid Legends"This past weekend's HorrorHound Weekend convention saw the unveiling of the first series of action figures from brand spankin' new toy company Creatureplica, whose mission is to add research-accurate toys of cryptozoological heavyweights like Bigfoot to the collections of those who are fascinated by the beasts that just might be roaming around here on Planet Earth, undiscovered and unseen by man..."Posted: 28 March 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: fearnet.com ![]() |
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Woman Claims Bigfoot is Real"Most people think Bigfoot is a hoax. But Denise DesChenes is convinced that she has seen the mythical creature — once in person, and other times when it was unknowingly captured in pictures and videos she took during walks in the Goethe State Forest..."Posted: 25 March 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: gainesville.com ![]() |
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Witness Considering Bigfoot and UFO Connection"An Oregon witness in the Fish Lake area reported photographing an odd light beam in the sky after watching unusual insect behavior in the same area where a Bigfoot researcher was working the previous day, according to March 19, 2014, testimony in Case 54822 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database..."Posted: 22 March 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: examiner.com ![]() |
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Sasquatch Lore Reaches Back Far into the Past"The hairy beast known as sasquatch in Canada — or Bigfoot in the U.S. — has enjoyed a place in B.C. lore for centuries..."Posted: 09 March 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: cbc.ca ![]() |
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Elusive Creatures of the Canadian Wilds"Canada has its own version of the Loch Ness Monster. It also has age-old legends and modern sightings of various other creatures—creatures often terrifying not only because they are mysterious, but also because they are said to be malevolent toward humans..."Posted: 09 March 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: theepochtimes.com ![]() |
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On the Trail of Florida's Bigfoot - The Skunk Ape"The first time Dave Shealy saw a skunk ape, he says, he was ten years old. It was 1974, a few years after his father came upon a set of footprints left by the creature—an Everglades version of Bigfoot named for its supposedly pungent odor. Dave was out deer hunting with his older brother Jack in the swamp behind his house, in what’s now Big Cypress National Preserve, when he encountered the ape incarnate..."Posted: 07 March 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: smithsonianmag.com ![]() |
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Purported Sasquatch Tracks Found on Vancouver Island"A hairy creature conjuring the Sasquatch of North American folklore is stomping around Vancouver Island, according to a young First Nations man who claims he had a startling encounter with the beast..."Posted: 05 March 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: bc.ctvnews.ca ![]() |
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Find Bigfoot? Win an ATV"If you’re out riding your ATV on Spearhead Trails this spring, and come across a woodbooger, sasquatch or yeti — don’t just stop and and stare, haul him in for a prize..."Posted: 03 March 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: tricities.com ![]() |
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Couple Claims Chupacabra Killed Outside House"An animal shot and killed outside a Texas couple’s home was a mythical Chupacabra, according to Doug and Lucy Ohrt. The Ohrts said their grandson shot the creature on their Texas ranch Sunday night..."Posted: 27 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: wtvr.com ![]() |
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Michigan is Having a Bigfoot Moment"Apparently, Michigan is just full of sasquatches. Pizza-eating, shape-shifting, urban sasquatches. The state might be in economic shambles, but according to these entirely credible reports, the Bigfoot business should be booming..."Posted: 21 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: geekosystem.com ![]() |
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Bigfoot Sighted on the Outskirts of Detroit"If there's one thing fearsome creatures love, it's prancing around the rougher neighborhoods of Detroit..."Posted: 18 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: detroit.curbed.com ![]() |
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Whitehall Winterfest Keeps Legend of Sasquatch Alive"The legend of Sasquatch in the Whitehall area dates back centuries to when the Iroquois and Algonquian recorded seeing 'stone giants' and 'giant men of the mountains'..."Posted: 16 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: poststar.com ![]() |
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Bigfoot a Big No-Show on His National Tour"...Dyer was supposed to kick off the tour this week in Phoenix. And, well, we're all here ... waiting. But it seems like Dyer's Bigfoot has stage fright..."Posted: 16 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: huffingtonpost.com ![]() |
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The Men Who Dream of Bigfoot"Among those who believe that such a thing as the Sasquatch exists, there is general agreement that the creature probably stands between seven and ten feet tall, weighs between a thousand and two thousand pounds, has elongated arms, is covered with either black or auburn hair (depending on the season), and often walks scores of miles a day on feet that may be as long as twenty-two inches-this last and most prominent physical characteristic having spawned the lay term for the beast, Bigfoot..."Posted: 13 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: outsideonline.com ![]() |
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'Rottnest Monster' Formation Spotted on Australian Radar"A strange, S-shaped formation appeared on radar images taken off the West Australian coast on Feb. 12. The anomaly, being called the "Rottnest Monster" because of its close proximity to that coastal island, has perplexed weather scientists who admit it's too large to be a ship and too strangely shaped to be a cloud..."Posted: 12 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: examiner.com ![]() |
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Man Claims to Have Shot and Killed a Chupacabra"...This past weekend, Evan Brown tells us an animal they believe was a chupacabre tried to attack their French Bulldogs. Brown said, 'We are out at the Brown residence in North Edmond, northeast. We have here the real thing a chupacabra, cousins to the unicorn.' In an effort to defend their dogs, the family shot and killed the animal..."Posted: 11 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: kfor.com ![]() |
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Concern After No 2013 Loch Ness Monster Sightings"The Loch Ness Monster has disappeared, with no confirmed sightings of the legendary creature being recorded in 2013. It is the first time in almost 90 years when the monster has failed to make an appearance..."Posted: 08 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: scotsman.com ![]() |
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Three Chupacabra Sightings in Texas"The strange dog-like mystery beast known as the chupacabra seems to be making its presence known just a bit more these days. In the last two weeks, there have been three chupacabra sightings in the state of Texas..."Posted: 08 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: examiner.com ![]() |
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Giant Jellyfish Found on Australia Beach"Scientists in Australia are working to classify a new species of giant jellyfish that washed up on a beach in Tasmania..."Posted: 06 February 2014 - Category: Weird Creatures and Monsters - Source: bbc.co.uk ![]() |