A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all. The animal – thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago – was apparently filmed wading through a river in the freezing wilds of Siberia. The jaw-dropping footage was caught by [...]
A LEOPARD-like creature 6ft from nose to tail is caught on video bounding across a field at dusk — which an expert believes is final proof Britain’s Big Cats really do exist. The film was taken by teaching assistant Coryn Memory close to the site of a recent spate of deer killings. But it was [...]
Back in July I was at Loch Ness and stopped at the shop of the Hargreaves at Foyers to buy some provisions (I documented that in an older posting). So I talked about their sighting with them and before I left the lady said that an Ala MacGruer had seen something too. I noted the [...]
Lizard Men – Are They Living Amoung Us? As most of you already know, I have an incredible fascination with monsters (no…is that why this place is called Monster Island News?) and strange creatures of lore, mythology, cryptozoology, television and, of course, movies. Now, today, I was planning on writing an article about one of [...]
Evidence of big cats at large grows as charity investigates killing of roe deer at Woodchester Park near Stroud. Woodchester Park, where the dead roe deer was found. Photograph: National Trust A big cat – or cats – could be prowling around a beautiful wooded valley in Gloucestershire run by the National Trust, the charity [...]
Who would ever have imagined that an innocent hike in Leominster State Forest on a warm day earlier this year would lead to a discovery that brought three Leominster residents to be featured on one of televisions hottest new shows. Bill Penning and his wife, Julie decided to take a hike one June afternoon, and [...]
Reputable witnesses swearing by their sightings, tantalising but ultimately inconclusive evidence, enthusiastic search teams out scouring the wilderness, outlandish claims by dubious characters of creatures captured or killed, and a scientific community stubbornly unwilling to take seriously the possibility that some hairy hominid may just be living within our midst … sounds like the search [...]
In December 2011, the Guardian posted this note to go with what looked like a living photograph of the newly discovered snub-nosed monkey from Myanmar: “R. strykeri has not yet been photographed in life. The image to the right is a reconstruction based on photographs of a related species and a specimen of the new [...]
This cryptozoological artifact has enjoyed quite a journey from the distant Himalayas to London. A little deception and a lot of discovery, along with some help from a Hollywood icon, are part of its colorful history, and Loren Coleman clues you into some hidden facts about the artifact and reveals the results of DNA testing. [...]
Olympic competitors are quaking in their spiked running shoes after tales emerged of a killer creature lurking in swampy waters close to the 2012 site in London. According to reporter Louis Emanuel at the Hackney Citizen, the as-yet unidentified, monster was spotted dragging a 16lb Canada goose under the water “so fast it disappeared without [...]