#Ebooks are available from the Blaft website, from Smashwords, or from the muchtoolarge retailers. Can we interest you in a #Tamil supernatural #thriller in English #translation? #Mythology from the state of #Mizoram on India's border with Myanmar? Bonkers slipstream short fiction from Kuzhali Manickavel? An encyclopedia of #ghosts and #cryptids?
Every once in a while, as a treat, I pick a paragraph by Bernard #Heuvelmans and try and parse out what the heck is going on. The #BeastOfGévaudan appears on his checklist of “Apparently Unknown Animals” (i.e. #Cryptids ), fair enough… but the paragraph self-debunks and proposes feral dogs and serial killers (!?!) as being behind the legend (!?!). As there is no new species this shouldn’t be #Cryptozoology but its “Father” apparently thinks otherwise! Bizarre.
People rarely talk about how helpful sasquatches can be. For example, they will often help travelers get their vehicles unstuck from mud, as Cathy Wilkins has illustrated here.
Here for a cryptid interpretative centre that knows what it’s about; we can never have too many folklore museums and related visitor attractions in this world:
What lies beneath: a fresh wave of Loch Ness tourism promises monster rewards for Drumnadrochit
Did you know that the first Mothman sighting happened on the same day that the Gemini XII shuttle returned from space? Both events occurred on November 15, 1966.
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me and a friend have been working on a comic or graphic novel or whatsorts for a bit now. it's called UNNATURAL NATURE
and its a cute wildernessy story inspired by pacific northwest folklore and the seattle area's deep cultural connection to trolls, channeled through artistic inspiration from swedish illustrator john bauer. and also there's bauer-esqe trolls in it. #art#comic#troll#cryptids
“Education Earth museum” promotes #cryptids and the #paranormal alongside real animals in Massachusetts.
This sounds like a tourist draw, not a legit curated museum. Also sounds confusing and unfocused. Lectures? Hmm. I’m highly suspicious that this is providing useful education.
I get annoyed when people use anachronistic examples to lend support to their dubious claims.
The coelacanth and platypus were not #Cryptids because the concept didn't exist yet. Rocks falling from the sky was not #Fortean phenomenon before they were called meteorites.
Times change. Precise definitions matter. Don't cheat when you have lousy evidence.
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