Eel River Serpent The Eel River is a major river that runs through north Western California. It is  about 196 miles (315 km) long. In the 1870’s there were reports of a strange creature being seen in the Phillipsville area of the river ALL SNAKE AND NO STORY About three months ago as I was on my way to Garberville, not far below what is know as Phillip’s Flat I saw what I thought was a foot log coming down the South Fork [of the Eel] river, and was not a little surprised to see such a thing adrift at that season of the year. I was on a cliff of rocks, about 50 feet above the river ..read more

    What is happening to Cryptozoology? Its over 50 years since I started my interest in cryptozoology. It started as a teenager with a visit to Loch Ness.Then as an adult and becoming an academic I tried where ever possible to apply scientific research methods to my study of unknown animals. It was hoped that cryptozoology would be accepted as a discipline such as psychology or zoology. To that end scientific enquiry methods were essential. However I find myself and fellow academically qualified crypto enthusiasts have become disillusioned. We have wobbly webcams at Loch Ness being ..read more

  New Hybrid I have often written that a cryptid may be a prehistoric creature that has evolved and changed to cope with the modern world and its pollution or a hybrid. Dog/fox hybrids are not unknown but more rare are aquatic hybrids Meet The Wholphin, The Unlikely Hybrid Of Intermingling Cetaceans. It's exceptionally rare, but the world has seen a number of cetacean hybrids. The "wholphin" is the nickname for a hybrid born as a result of some unlikely canoodling between different species of cetacean, most often a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. However, this isn’t the only ..read more

  Loch Ness Expeditions 1962-64 Quite a few years ago now I met a man called Tom McMahon. He was retired and  in his 60s .If he is still alive,and I sincerely hope he is,he will be at least 80 now. Why is he important? Tom was on the first three LNIB expeditions at Loch Ness. It occurred to me that if I didn’t record this his version of this piece of history would be lost. Tom and I got talking and he told me about Loch Ness so I asked him to write down anything he could remember from that time.He couldn’t remember everyone’s  names but he did remember quite a lot. The story sta ..read more

  Hundreds of participants expected to join the Loch Ness monster hunt with thermal imaging drones and underwater gadgets Hundreds of volunteers are set to descend on Loch Ness, Scotland, for the search of a lifetime. The volunteers will spend a weekend trying to confirm the existence of the Loch Ness monster. After high interest in the search, the Loch Ness Centre invited others to livestream the action. For the first time in over 50 years, hundreds of people will descend onto Loch Ness, Scotland, with modern-day gadgets, in hopes of locating a mythic creature known to locals as "Nessie ..read more

 MYSTERIOUS CREATURES A Guide to Cryptozoology George M. Eberhart You can read it at the link below. I am not sure if it is permanent so best get in early,also it may not read well on all formats. https://archive.org/stream/Cryptozoology_201608/Cryptozoology_djvu.txt ..read more

  Hessafjorden Lake in Norway has a lake monster, nick named  Hessie. It is said to be a huge sea worm or snake. It is claimed to be 80–100 feet (24–30 meters) in length and 1.5 ( 5 feet) metres thick.Also sporting a square dorsal fin .a massive snake like head with  brown coloured skin. In June 1999 a local person saw Hessie eating a whale carcass through his binoculars. He ran home to get a camcorder but unfortunately the distance from shore meant little detail can be seen on the film. Other sightings had been reported in that era,the  1990s,  but most want to remain ..read more

  Kootenay Lake Creature “Kootenay Lake is  located in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Kootenay River. Its  65 miles (104kms) long and approximately 3 miles (5 kms) wide.It varies in depth from 33 feet (approx 10 metres)    to a maximum of 490 feet ( 160 metres) . Large enough to house a few monsters. In  October 1900 a Captain WJ Kane reported seeing a lake monster in the lake. He described it as being large and bulky.  A 12 year old boy also saw something on October 10th 1900, on the shore of Kootenay Lake, George Goudereau saw a 12ft ( 4 m ..read more

  A Giant Turtle? The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is said to the home of a large sea creature called the Moha Moha.  It is described as  8 feet wide( 2.7 metres) and about 5 feet high(1. 6 metres) with a long-necked and  a large, dome-shaped back ending in a  huge  tail.Some say it is 30 feet(10 metres) long. Locals say it is aggressive and had attacked and killed tribe members. James Cook was said to have seen it in the 1770s swimming around the ship. In 1890 a school teacher called Lovell saw it on Great Sandy Island.It was reported as being seen 9 times ove ..read more

  Russian Bigfoot and Smallfoot? In the Kola Peninsula is said to reside a large bigfoot like creature called Afonya.Described as 7 or 8 feet (about 2.5 metres) in height with grayish hair over its body. Its stride is reported to be over 4 feet (1.3 metres) in length and is mainly nocturnal. A  legend of the area talks of  a terrible giant Kuiva, who in ancient times attacked the inhabitants of the peninsula, another claims that small people live under the ground there . In 1988 six teenagers fishing at Lake Lovozero said the creature threw stones at their cabin .A local warden ..read more