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The editor of Cryptozoology, the journal of the International Society of Cryptozoology, has declined to publish my response to their revie\·1 of Thunderbirds! , citing its length. So I have written a short version for publication in their journal.

Some books have so much appeal that you rarely see them in book stores new or used. Somehow publishers do not seem to recognize their appeal. One such book has recently been reprinted, but I suspect it will still remain scarce.

INDIAN MYTHS & MYSTERIES by Vincent Gaddis, originally published in Now it is back in hardcover from Indian Head Books, New York, Prices vary on these reprints. Look for it for about $6.00.

is presently available at a cut-rate price of a few dollars in a 1988 edition from University

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Another Source Welcome to WONDERS, another source of information for you in this age when we need all the help we can get. Today our potential to learn is great yet our motivation to learn is meager.

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2."Misabe," list compiled April 10, 1907, Red Lake, p. 40. Rev. Joseph Gilfillan manuscripts at the Minnesota Historical Society. 3.Pat Ritzenthaler, "Icy Windigo meets his match," MILWAUKEE JOURNAL, 21 February 1977. 4.Mark A. Hall, "Stories of 'Bigfoot' in Iowa During 1978 as drawn

Newspaper Accounts 1 (February 1979), and J.A. McNeely, E.W. Cronin, and H.B. Emery, "The Yeti -- Not a Snowman," ORYX 12:65-73 (May 1973). 5.Franz Weidenreich, APES, GIANTS, AND MAN (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946), 57-61; Michael Day, GUIDE TO FOSSIL MAN 1st

(St. Louis: Mosby, 1973), 46-48. 6.Russell L. Ciochon, "The Ape That Was 1 NATURAL HISTORY 11/91 1 7.Loren E. Coleman, "The Occurrence of Wild Apes in North America,"

10.Ibid., 66-70. 11.Simons and Ettel, "Gigantopithecus," 81-82. 12.Mark A. Hall, "Contemporary Stories of 'Taku He' or 'Bigfoot' in South Dakota From Newspaper Accounts," THE MINNESOTA ARCHAEOLOGIST

(Yakima: Franklin Press, 1966), 137. 15. Bruce s. Wright, "The Gougou, the Bigfoot of the East," BIGFOOT BULLETIN Jan-Feb-Mar 1971, No. 25, pp.9-11 (published by George Haas). 16. Page 35 of Loren E. Coleman and Mark A. Hall, "From Atshen to Giants in North America," in SASQUATCH AND OTHER UNKNOWN H

ed. by v. Markotic and G.Krantz (Calgary: Western, 1984), 31-43. 17. J.A. Burgesse, "Windigo!," BEAVER March 1947, 4-5. 18.Gilfillan (see Note 2), and D.S. Davidson, "Folk Tales from Grand Lake Victoria, Quebec," JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE 41:275 (1928). 19. Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, ALONG NEW ENGLAN

19. Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, ALONG NEW ENGLAND SHORES (NY: Putnam,

24.Newsclipping for 19 July 1935, and DOUBT: THE FORTEAN SOCIETY MAGAZINE, No. S, p.4. 25. "The Abominable (Ballachulish) Snowman," SUNDAY POST (Scotland) , 5 April 1959. 26. Tim Severin, THE ULYSSES VOYAGE (NY: Dutton, 1987), 88-98. 27. Curtis Fuller, "I See By the Papers - The Monster," FATE MAGAZ

27. Curtis Fuller, "I See By the Papers - The Monster," FATE MAGAZINE, May 1964, pp.18, 20-21. Some of us will remember the ETM LOG published out of Annapolis

by Mark A. Hall In· 1895 physician Charles L. Dana made the in a discussion of giantism in human beings:

There are stories o f giants in the past battling other peoples in the Paci fic for control o f islands. Unfortunately the nature o f such "giants" is unclear from these accounts. Whether they were merely

'le can add to the traditions for North America that were cited in previous articles.[ 36] Many American Indian groups have had a long acquaintance with True Giants. In the southeastern states of the U. S. A. the Cherokee Indians

The surviving descendants of Gigantopithecus have been identified in Europe, Asia, and North America as upright and lean near-men of spectacular height. Those who wish to see the proof of giants need only examine the jawbones and teeth of this fossil type.

Henry Wyshan Lanier, A B O OK OF G IA N T S ( NY: Dutton, 1922); Kathleen Adams and Frances Athinson, A BOOK OF G IA N T S T O R IE S (NY:

S T O R IE S (NY: Dodd, Mead, 1926) . Mark A. Hall, " True Giants, " vO NDER S 1 (2) : 9, 1 1-2 3 (June 1992) .

Rider, 19 48) 58-86. 7. Donald A. Mackenzie, TEU TO N IC MY TH AND LE GEND (NY: William 19 3 4) , xxxiii.

"Cairngorms" S T AND ARD E NCYCLOPED IA OF THE WO RLD 1 S M OU N T A I N S edited by Anthony Huxley (NY:

(Basingstoke, Hampshire: Fanum House, 198 1) , 9 3-9 4. Ronan Coghlan, P OCKET D IC T I O N A RY OF IR I SH MYTH & LEGEND (Belfast: Appletree Press, 1985) p. 40. 1 3. John Grant, AN I N T R ODUC T IO N TO V IK IN G MYTHOL O GY ( Secaucus, NJ:

J.A. HacCulloch, "Eddie Mythology" in Vol. I I of L.H. Gray, ed., THE MYTHOL O GY OF ALL RACES (Boston: 19 16) , 275-284c 1 4. Jan Macha!, " Slavic Mythology" in Vol. I I I of TH E MYTH OLO GY OF ALL R ACE S (Boston, 19 16) .

Ivan T. Sanderson, "The Hudewasa or Hairy Primitives of

ENCYCL O PED IA B R I T A NN IC A, 1968 ed., Vol.2, 99. Ibid., Vol 10, 39 3- 4. John C. Lawson, M ODER N G REEK F OLKLORE AND ANC IENT GREEK REL I G ION:

A STUDY IN SUR V I VALS (Cambridge: University Press, 19 10), 190 -255. Tim Severin, TH E ULYS S E S V OY A GE (NY: Dutton, 1987) , 88 -98. "Re\·lard for a vaab, " \'/E S T ER N F OLKLORE 9: 387-8 ( 1950). Mardiros H.

2 3. Edward T.C. Werner, MYTH S A ND LEG END S OF CH IN A (London: Harrap, 1922) , 387.

SOBERING SIGHTS OF PINK UNKNOWNS

by Mark A. Hall There could be some kind of dinosaur swinming around in the st. Johns River in Florida. I am only repeating what people down that way have been saying for many years.

United Press Ineternational, "Florida River's Pollution, " 1 February 197 6.

Reudiger, "Pink Sea Monster."

Witnesses Don't Think So, " FLORIDA TIMES "New Monster Haunting River, " NEW YORK NEWS.

Avon Books, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DINOSAURS (NY: Beekman House, 1990), 231.

12. Mark A. Hall, NATURAL Publications, 1991), 4-5.

2 d ed. (Bloomington, AUDUBON NATURE 13. National Audubon Society, delphia: Curtis Books, 1965), vol. 4, p.6SO.

ENCYCLOPEDIA

Seeking the Truth in a Universe of Mysteries

by Mark A. Hall Western culture inhibits the discussion of anything that is both strange and pink. Other cultures will be puzzled by our reluctance if not out-and-out incapacity to come to grips with such simple topics.

Publications, 1991), chapter 1.

THE END OF SKY-LINES BOOKS OF NOTE

delphia: Chilton, 1961), 318, 326, 357. LEGEND COME TO LIFE John Pfeiffer, THE EMERGENCE OF MAN (New

1969), 204; (in the 2nd edition, 1972, p. 228).

Nelson and Jurmain, PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 5th ed,

John Napier, BIGFOOT: AND SASQUATCH IN MYTH AND REALITY (London: Cape, 1972; NY: Dutton, 1973); James B. Shuman, "Is There an American Abominable Snowman?"

Gordon Strasenburgh Jr. , "Perceptions and Images of the t'lild Man" in THE SCIENTIST LOOKS AT THE SASQUATCH edited by R. Sprague and G. Krantz (Moscow, Idaho: University Press of Idaho, 1977)

(Philadelphia: "True Giants Around the t'lorld, " 34, 13. John Green,

18. Jack Clayton, "The Giants of Minnesota, " DOUBT: THE FORTEAN SOCIETY MAGAZINE No. 35, pp. 120-22 (the issue has no date;. approx. 1951).

History, u. THE

(London: Richard Bentley, 1891), 27-28. 1959) 28-35.

LAKE M ICHIGAN MONSTERS

below the masthead on this single page.

If your thoughts of other intelligent life in the universe involve only occupants of outer space vehicles, please think again. occupants are certainly part of the picture, however, so I will start

There are natural and artificial forces that influence life on our planet. These forces are as yet barely studied and little under stood, resulting in puzzlement in our lives. The behavior of living

We live on a geologically active planet. I am not referring Or even to other agents of change mere l y to earthquakes and vol canism. such as storms and tsunamis.

The typical citizen of the 1990's has been trained to look upon modern landscape with a particular focus. What can this space

We live on a water p lanet. We cannot avoid functioning in the constantly active hydrosphere. Water condenses above us, falls, pools, percolates, flows, and-gathers in great lakes and oceans.

We are on a hal f-shadow planet. Almost half the g l obe is in darkness at all times. Many things are specially adapted to the nocturnal world.

We have divided the world of living things into two kingdoms, plant and animal, for our convenience and not on any strict basis of observable nature. This basic but poorly appreciated point was

Living things on our planet appear to be linked for the most part by a psychic web of a nature we cannot yet fathom. Human beings are pecul iar for no longer participating easily in the kinds of communication that psychic links allow.

Please understand that this category has nothing in particular with laborers, either employed or unemployed.

Our knowledge of the world of living animals has been woefully hampered by self-imposed limits. We know about the animals that are easily caught or for which there is a chance carcass washed up from the oceans.

We tell ourselves we are the smartest animal on the face of the planet -- make that, animal native to the planet. Are we ready to consider that there could be a primate that is smarter?

Archaeologists review the past by way of its remains. It is of importance for them to examine their finds in the original place. When that act is not possible they tend to shun finds that appear controversial.

As individual observers we are limited to our five senses.

MYSTERIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA IN THE PHILIPPINES WITH DEAN WORCESTER THE CRESTED AND WATTLED SNAKE by Philip H. Gosse

Lake Monster

Hantu Raya: R onald McKie, THE COMPANY OF ANIMALS: A NATURALIST'S ADVENTURES IN THE JUNGLE OF MALAYA (NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965), 30, 196-7. Kung Lu: Hassoldt Davis,LAND OF THE EYE (NY: Henry Holt,1 940), 1 1 1 . Orang Gadang: Bernard Heuvelmans, ON THE TRACK OF UNKNOWN ANIMALS (NY: Hill and

(NY: Hill and Wang, 1959), 157-58. Vietnam: UPI report, 1 1 March 1965. Borneo: London EVENING NEWS, 1 September 1 958. Balong Bidai: McKie, COMPANY OF ANIMALS, 1 91 -95.

Tim Dinsdale, MONSTER HUNT (Washington, D. C.

and Wang, 1959), Ch. 5; Sanderson, ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN (Philadelphia:

SNOWMEN (Philadelphia: Chilton, 1961), 214-1 5; Loren E. Coleman, TOM SLICK AND THE SEARCH FOR THE YETI (Boston: Faber, 1989), 112. Disappearance: UPI report, 31 July 1 982.

THE UNEXPLAINED (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972), 39-54; R eader's Digest, MAN AND BEAST (London: DK Direct, 1 993), 33. 11. Lake Monster: Bernard Heuvelmans in CRYPTOZOOLOGY, 5: 1 0 (1 986). 12. Lawas Monster: Deutsche Press Agentur, 15 May 1985. Bali djakai:

& Wagnalls, 1 937), 1 74, 1 88-1 90, 192-1 95. Beruang Rambai: Odette Tchernine, IN PURSUIT OF THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (NY: Taplinger, 1970), 77-78. : Jeffrey A. McNeely and Paul S. Wachtel, SOUL OF THE TIGER (NY: Doubleday 1 988), 259.

and H. Emery, "The Yeti -- Not a Snowman," ORYX 12 (1 ): 65-73 (1973). Palawan crypt ids: Worcester, THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE

Macmillan, 1899),96-99, 1 15-16; Philippines

by Mark A. Hall One hundred yea rs a go Dea n Conant Worcester wa s hunting specimens of wildlife in the Philippine Isla nds. He wa s engaged in the second of two such expeditions tha t took pla ce prior to the Spa nish-American War, a conflict tha t would set his homela nd, the u.s.A., a gainst the

by Philip H enry Gosse [Editor's note: Wishing to present a sample of Gosse's work, I have balked at a bridging or a bstra cting his treatment of a ny topic. is Chapter 6 of his Romance of Natural History a s it a ppeared in the

Revised 1 94 4 . Third edition from University Books, 1 965. ENIGMAS : ANOTHER BOOK OF UNEXPLAIN ED FACTS , P. Allan, London, 1929. Revised 1 945. Reprinted by University Books, 1 965. The revised edition drops two essays that appear only in the

I ND EX TO V O L U M E 2

w ith an unflinching witness in Sen Tensing, Edmund Hillary, in his desire to dismiss the Yeti, was forced to imply that the man was drunk at the time (NO THING V ENT U R E, N OTHING WIN, N Y: Coward Mc Cann & Geo ghegan, 1975, p.238). Also discussed in Loren E. Coleman, TOM SLICK

5. Shipton, THA T UNT R A V E L L ED W O R LD, 196. 6. William Hutchison Murray (1913- ), EOM, p. 168. 7. W H. Murray, TH E S T O R Y OF E V E R ES T (London: Dent, 1953), 165-66. 8. Ibid. I 16 8. 9. Peter Gillman, "The Most Abominable Hoaxer?" S U NDA Y TIM ES MAGAZINE 10 December 1989; "Shipton Su

and Stoughton, seven appendices omitted and retitled TH E A B OMI N A B L E S N O W MA N. Charles Stonor,

(London: Hollis & Carter, 1955). 13. Tom Slick, " Yeti Expedition, " EX PLOR ERS JOURNAL 36 (4): 5-8 (December 1958), and Coleman, TOM S LI CK A ND TH E S EARCH. 14. Edmund Hillary (1919- ), E O M, p. 114; Edmund Hillary and Desmond Do ig, HIGH I N TH E THIN C O LD AIR (NY: Doubleday, 1961).

15. Bernard Heuvelmans 1 O N TH E T R A CK OF U NK N OWN ANI M A LS (NY: Hill and Wang, 1959), originally published in French in 1955. 16. Ivan T. Sanderson, A B O MI N A B L E SNOWM EN: L EG E ND C O M E T O LIF E ( Phila delph ia: Chilton, 1961).

Ibid, , 469, No. 15. The drawing appears in Arthur Clarke, M YS T E RI O US W O R LD (NY: A&W, For the account of Rawicz see Slavomir Rawicz and Ronald

Hillary and Doig, HIGH I N TH E AIR, 31. Rory Nugent, TH E S EA R CH F O R TH E PINK-H E AD ED D U CK ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), 70-72, 77, 79, 81, 82.

December 1993

I bid. , 26, 34. Ri chard Critchfield, VI LLAG ES ( N Y: Anchor/Doubleday, 1983 ed), 48. Shipton, TH AT UNTRA VEL L ED W O R LD, 196.

As quoted from Nebesky-Wojkowitz 1 WH ERE TH E GODS A R E MOUNTAINS (1956) in Sanderson, ABOMI N A B L E S N O W M EN, 266. Coleman, T O M S LICK A ND TH E S EA R CH, photo opposite p. 33, and p.88.

Leonard Clark, A W A NDERER TI L L I DI E (NY: Funk & Wagnall, 1937). Dean Worcester, TH E PHILI P PI N E IS LANDS A ND TH EIR P E O P L E

Macmillan, 1899), 96-99, 115-16. Graham Joyner, TH E HAI R Y M A N ( National Library of Australia,

THE EASTERN CATAMOUNT (Felis concolor)

( A s t e r i s k s d e n o t e m a n e d c a t r e po r t s ) Home s t e a d FL I " F l o r i d a Mamma l s , " NATURE , Dec 19 2 9

P i t t s f i e l d MA / C . B . Co l by , MYS TER I OUS NEW E NGLAND ( 1 9 7 1 ) I nd i a n a - Oh i o I Ri chmond P a l l a d i um- I t em 3 Au g - 5 S e p 19 4 8 Owe n C o . I N I R i chmond P a l l a d i um - I t em 17 Aug 19 4 8

N e w Brun s w i c k / B . Wr i gh t , T H E EAS T ERN PANTHER , p . 1 2 3 Oa k l a n d Co . M I I D e t r o i t N ews 1 5 J u l 1 9 8 6 Mou n t a i n s i de NJ I NY Jou r n a l -Amer i c a n , 17 J a n 19 5 7

Mont gomery , C l a rk C o s . OH I Spr i ng f i e l d N e w s 2 7 Jun 19 7 3 De l h i N Y I Wa l ton Repo r t e r 2 8 J u l y 19 8 2 Ha n c o c k Co . I N I I nd i a n apo l i s N ew s 2 O c t 1 9 6 2

Ma c on Co . I L I Dec a t u r Rev i ew 1 0 J a n 1 9 7 0 a nd i nt e rv i ew Ja s p e r Co . IL I Newton P r e s s 19 Feb 1 9 7 0 Ro s c o e I L I Ro ck f o r d S t a r 30 May , 2 J u n , 2 5 Aug 1 9 7 0

1 9 8 4 S a n D i m a s CA I San G a b r i e l Va l l ey T r i bune 2 1 May 1 9 84 1 9 8 5 Fo r t Worth TX I Fo r t W o r t h S t a r Te l egram 2 1- 2 2 Feb 19 8 5 , UP I 2 1 - 2 2 Feb 1 9 8 5 1 9 8 8 Fa i r f i e l d CA I UP I 1 0 Apr 1 9 8 8 i s a n a n ima l o f wh i c h w e h av e o n l y h e a

KNOWLEDGE, 18 3 6 ( Cincinn ati: E l i Tay l o r, 18 3 6 ) .

The s e event s a r e b a s e d u p o n a rtic l e s in the Richmo n d PALLAD I UM - I TEM f o r 5 Augu st 1 9 4 8 thr o ugh 5 S eptembe r 1 9 4 8 . ( I nd i an a )

Lette r - to - edito r: " C l u e to C at My stery ? " T u c s on 2 4 S e ptember 1 9 7 6 , p . 3 7 .

BIGFOOT HIT S THE DAKOTAS

There is genera l agreement th at it would be e as iest to sel l the ex istence of "B igfoot 11 to the pub l ic and to sc ience if there were only one type of creature yet unrecogn ized. But the pursu it of facts is not a commerc i a l venture. The expl anations for " w i ldmen" in North

Krantz ( Calgary: Western, 1984), 31-43. Ivan T. Sanderson, ABOMINAB L E SNOWMEN ( Phila. : Chilton, 1961). 3. John Napier, BIGFOOT: THEY YETI AND SA SQUATCH I N MYTH AND R EA LITY ( NY: Dutton, 1972), 113-17.

( NY: Dutton, 1972), 113-17. Napier, BIGFOOT, Illustration No. 17. 5. John Green, ON THE TRACK OF THE SA SQUATCH ( Agassiz, B. C . : Cheam, 1969), 13-21.

Green, ON THE TRACK, 13-21. Ibid. , 9-13.

CO: Johnson, 19 9 2), 2 1 ( Fig. 3), 23. Ivan T. Sanderson, MORE " THING S" ( NY: Pyramid, 1969), 65-79.

6(3):42-47 ( April-May 1968). Sanderson, " First Photos": also in Sanderson, MORE " THING S."

Krantz, B IG FOOTPRINT S, 87- 124. Sanderson, MORE " T HING S", 65-79. Canadian Press dispatch, 10 December 1969.

Go rdon St rasenburgh J r. , " Perceptions and Images of the Wild Man" in THE S C I ENT I ST LOO KS AT T H E S ASQUATCH edited by R. S prague and G. Krantz ( Moscow, I daho: University P ress of Idaho, 1977), 12425; and Napier, B IG FOOT, 180.

Press, 1988), 427. Michael Day, G UIDE TO FO S SIL MAN 4th ed ( London: Cassell, 1986), Roger Lewin, H UMAN EVOLUTION: AN I LL U STRATED INTRODUCTION

Freeman, 1984), 8 1. Liu Minzhuang, " The Big Foot of Shennong jia, " in C HINA' S Y ETI S AND OTHER MON STER ( Beijing: China Reconstructs Press, 1988), 5.

Nee-Giants cited in Mark A. Hall, " The Yeti, " WONDERS 2(4):80 ( December 1993).

T H E W O RKS OF AL P H E US H Y A T T V E RR ILL ( 1 8 7 1 - 1 9 5 4 ) C U RRE N T E V E N TS: B I G C A TS BL A CK A N D T A N

- THE MYSTERY OF THE MINNESOTA ICEMAN by Mark A. Hall On 1 1 August 1994 I found myself in Burbank, California, as a Cosgrove-Meurer

N A T U RA L S C I E N C ES O F B E L G I U M 45: 4 (1 0 February 1969) . Heuvelmans and Boris Porchnev 1 L 1 H O M M E D E N E A N D E R T HA L

ES T TO U J O URS V I VANT ( Paris: Plon, 1974) .

11. Sanderson, " Preliminary Description, " 253. 12. Mark A. Hall, T H E Y E T I, B I G F O O T & T R U E G I A N T S ( Minneapolis: M A H P, 1994), 23, 38, 69. 13. Bernard Heuvelmans, " Neanderthal Man, " P E R S ON A L I T Y ( Bloemfontein, South Africa), 5 June 1969. 14. Bernard Heuvelmans,

Ivan T. Sanderson, " The Missing Link, " A RG O S Y May 1969, 23-31. Sanderson, " Preliminaary Description, " 272.

Heuvelmans, "Neanderthal Man." Sanderson, " Preliminary Description, " 267.

( London: Jonathan Cape, 1972), 1 03. Hall, T HE Y E T I, B I G F OO T, A N D T R UE G IAN T S. Sanderson, " The Missing Link, " 28.

( Beijing: China Reconstructs Press, 1988), 1 0. 33. Loren E. Coleman and Mark A. Hall, " From Atshen to Giants in North America, " S A SQ U A T C H A N D O T H ER U N K N O W N H O M I N I D S ed. V. Markotic and G. Krantz ( Calgary: Western, 1984), 38.

35. John Green, T HE S A SQ U A T C H F IL E (Agassiz, B. C. : Cheam Publishing, Mark A. Hall, " The Study of Captive Primates, " in T H E Y E T I, B I G F OO T

September 1994

We should seek out and make use of our cultural heritage, even if that past is hard to access.

A B C O F MOTOR D R IV ING (1916) N Y:

A L O N G N E W E N G L A N D S H O R ES

T H E A M E R I C A N I N D IAN: N O R T H A M E R I CA, (1927) N Y: Appleton- Century

I NDEX TO VOLUME T HREE

b y Mar k A . Janu ar y 1995 a man i n A tl anta,

ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO.

( Fi g . S ) r epr e s en t a t i on s

S e rpen t s s e rpen t i ne

r ema i nd e r s i gh t i ng s

I w i l l beg i n w i t h a r ep o r t f rom Lake O n t a r i o .

ANT I QUAR IAN

MAGA Z INE ,

MYS TER I OUS CANADA

G I ANT SNAKES I N THE TWEN T I ETH CENTURY

Dr. Ra ymond Eve , a s o c i a l p s y ch o l ogi s t f r om t h e Un i ver s i t y o f Tex a s a t Ar l i ngton , s h owed u p a t t h e a nnu a l m e e t i ng o f t h e Ame r i can A s s o c i a t i on fo r t h e Advan c ement o f S c i en c e t h i s year and told t h em s ometh i ng they d i dn

Hudson B y

The a r e a r e puted l y inhabited by the Tornit .

( NY : N o r ton, n . d . ) , 4 8 4 . Pub l i s h e d c i rc a 1 9 3 0 . " The P rob l ems Ra i s ed by t h e D i s c overy of Homo gardarens i s, " pp 4 8 3 - 4 9 9 . I bid . , 4 8 3 - 4 .

HANDBOOK OF THE IND IANS OF CANADA, publi s h e d a s a n App e n d i x to Repo r t o f t h e Geogr aph i c Board of Canada, r e p r i n t e d by

and S o n s , 1 8 7 5 ) , 4 6 9 -7 0 . 7 . Henry R i nk, DAN I S H GREENLAND : I T S PEOPLE AND I T S PRODUCTS ( London : Henrys . K i n g & Co . , 1 877 ) , 2 0 4 . Earne s t W i l l i am Hawk e s , THE LABRADOR E S K IMO, Memo i r 9 1 , Canada

( Bo s ton : L i tt l e, Brown, 1 9 5 6 ) , 1 5 8 - 5 9 , 1 6 1 - 6 3 . 1 0 . E . H . M i tch e l l , " S t one s o f My s t e r y, " THE BEAVER, Dec ember 1 9 5 3 . 1 1 . Myra S h a c k l ey, S T I LL L I V I NG? ( London : Thame s & H u ds on, 1 9 8 3 ) , 1 1 2 . 1 2 . M . Day, G U IDE TO FO S S I

1 3 . H a l l, THE YETI, B I GFOOT & TRUE G I ANT S, 9 3 . 1 4 . Ibid . , 9 3, 1 0 0 - 1 0 1 .

by Mark A .

i n Wonde rs T h e g i ant sn ak e s o f No r th Ame r i c a w e r e i n t r o du c ed

F o rt Wayne ADAMS COUNTY·

MAR I O N COUNTY ·

• Norristown

THE ATLANT I S OF S OLON AND PLATO FARMI N G FORTY THOUS AND YEARS AGO MORE ABOUT. . .

Re c en t l y t h e N ew York Times r e p o r t ed on a g a t h e r i ng o f " 2 0 0 wor r i ed s c i en t i s t s , doc tor s , ph i l o sopher s , e d u c a t o r s , and th i nker s " who h ad a t h r e e - day mee t i ng c omp l a i n i ng about t h e c ur r e n t " f l i gh t

by Mark A .

12,000 YRS BTP (BEFORE THE PRESENT) TO THE PRESENT EARTH MINUS ONE = 50,000 TO 17,000 YRS BTP

The approx i ma t e re l a t i on s h i p s o f today ' s c o ntine n t s pr eviou s 11 E a r t h s11 ( Minu s a s t h ey s e em to have b e e n on t h r e e One , Min u s Two , a n d M i nu s T h r e e ) a s we l l a s t o day C o a s t l i ne s

EARTH MINUS THREE 7 5,000 TO 5 5,000 YRS BTP 1 10,000 to 80,000 YRS BTP

r ema i n s s t ab l e a nd u n c hange d . The a x i s o f

T HE PRE SENT NORTH AMERICA

W I SCON S I N GLA C I AT I ON WURM I - I I

MORE GIANT SNAKES ALIVE ! MORE ABOUT... A quarterly

Recently I was reading over some I nternet traffic passed along to me by Loren Coleman . I came across this sentence . "Almost all legitimate archaeologists accept today that if the Atlantis story has a basis in reality it refers to the destruction of the island

There is a tradition among the Creek Indians that there in ·the trackless gloom 6f the Okefenoke Swamp, an Island of enchanting beauty, more- blissful than any spot on earth.

1994), 61-92.

3. Robert F. Greenlee, 11Folktales of the Florida Seminole, 1 1 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE 5 8: 140 . (1945 ). --- ------- ----

Skull and the Taller Hominid, " WONDERS 4(1): 3-10 (March 1995 ). "Traditions of the Tsetsaut, " JOURNAL OF AMERICAN 5 . Franz Boas, 10: 44-46 (1897) on the "Xudele."

10: 44-46 (1897) on the "Xudele." Margaret Ormsby, PIONEER GENTLEWOMAN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: THE RECOLLECTIONS OF SUSAN ALLISON (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1976), 75 79.

10. UPI, 24 August 1972; Richard Menzies, "Bigfoot Stepped on Wyoming, " Salt Lake TRIBUNE, 14 January 1973. 11. Peter Gutilla and Jean Bomba, "The Not-So-Great Corona Hoax, " PROBE THE UNKNOWN, September 1976, Vol. 4 No. 5 , p. 65 . 12. Snoqualmie-North Bend (Washington) VALLEY RECORD, 29 January a

15 . Brookhaven (Mississippi) LEADER, 16 February 1977. 16. Longview (Texas) JOURNAL, 28 November 1976. 21 (the publication of the Fortean Society from

Joel Groves, "Huge Animal Prowls MH, " Gastonia ( NC) August 1976.

Johnson, 721 Old Greensburg Pike, N. Versailles, PA 15 137), p. 2. THE TRACK RECORD # 4 3, January 1995 , p. 4 (Ray Crowe and the Western Bigfoot Society, 8622 North Lombard, Portland, Oregon 97203). Mark A. Hall,

by Mark A. Hall We have to hope that giant snakes will continue to be reported in eastern North America. Such reports would tell us that we have not so altered and decimated the aquatic environment that the snakes have become extinct.

Willard Price in The Am az ing Mississippi tells a story of a giant snake hunt and casts the entire episode as an election day hoax. According to his version of events, men and women around Cairo, repeatedly lied about seeing an enormous snake.

THUNDERB IRDS IN 1895 THE INDIAN ROPE TRICK L IFE AS WE KNOW IT NOT INDEX TO VOLUME 4.

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by Mark A. Hall The world's largest living bird has no scientific name at this It . has been known by many popular names given to it by the people who have seen it in life.

MAHP 199 4 ) . 2. Ibid., 3 3 - 4 3 . 3. Ibid. , 9 3 -95 . 4 . Ibid., 5 3 . STRANGE EVENTS IN THE BLACK 5. Robert Lyman Sr., AMA Z ING INDEED:

5. Robert Lyman Sr., AMA Z ING INDEED: FOREST 1 VOLUME 2 (Coudersport, Penna: The Potter Enterprise, 1973), 6. Gerald Musinsky, "Return of the Thunderbird: Avian Mystery of the Pennsylvania Black Forest, " FATE Magazine, November 1995, pp. 4 8 -51.

Ibid. , 7 6 (Fig. 1 3 ) . "Update on Thunderbirds, " WORLD EXPLORER 1 (5 ) : 8-10 (199 4 ) . 10. Hall, THUNDERBIRDS!, 65 - 6 8. 11. Musinsky, "Return of the Thunderbird, " 4 8- 4 9.

11. Musinsky, "Return of the Thunderbird, " 4 8- 4 9. December 1995

A . touching story of the: loss of human life was told from the mountains of West Virginia in 1895. A newspaper account is all that survives to tell us of the events that year. The piece is well-written and we must regret that it was published without the author's name. It is transcribed here as it

West Virginia Mountaineers Terrorized by a Gigantic Bird A Ten-Year-Old Child Carried Off by the Feathered Monster A Hunter's Terrible Battle - What a Deputy Sheriff Saw The Bird's Home. Special Correspondence of the Globe-Democrat. ADD ISON, WEBSTER COUNTY, W.VA., February 1 4 . - Not since the tre

Peter Swadley, a noted bear hunter of Webster, is now in the village being treated for the wounds he received from the huge bird over on Laurel Creek day before yesterday. He is still in a Swadley was brought to

tlPON JllM.'' a horse and brought him to Addison. Owing to the fact that the bird came on him so suddenly, and nearly blinded him at the outset by the blow on the head, Swadley

Rube Nihiser , one of the Conty Deputy Sheriffs , who lives over on Spruce Creek , near the foot of Owl Head Mountain , and his son Hanse had a strange experience with the eagle last Thursday. and his son started out in the morning on a deer hunt.

HOW A SHEEP WAS STOLEN The presence of the eagle in the county can account for in some way the inexplicable disappearance a few days ago of a sheep belonging to Hanse Hardrick from his little clearing over on Rattlesnake Run, about eleven miles .north of Addison.

Hozno gardarensis ll DIFFERENT KIND OF BIGFOOT

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A sophisticated understanding of the biology of Homo gardarensis might one day modify the nomenclature of the species. But the nama in some form has the precedence in scientific description to stick forever with the primate it identifies. The basis for the name is a skull dug up in Greenland in 1926

Tunnit (Toinit, Baffin Island), according to tradition, were a gigantic race formerly inhabiting the northeastern coast of Labrador, Hudson Strait, and southern Baffin Island. Ruins of old stone houses and graves, which are ascribed to them by the present E skimo, are found throughout this entire se

Among the many American Indian traditions of man-like creatures the Taller hominid& have been described . The Kutchin Indians in the Yukon identified them as the Tinjih Rui (meaning "Black Man") or "Brush Man." According to Michael Mason writing in The Arctic Forests in 1924: He is very tall and th

In the nineteenth century we begin to see the North American presence of scattered Taller-hominids reflected in newspaper stories. "Wildman" and "monsters" were the labels given to them and to the other sUIViving fossil primates. The newspaper record of the last centmy contains the traces of the mar

Scattered modem reports throughout the continental USA axe suggestive of the presence of Taller-hominid&. A continuum of reports from the Thumb of Michigan will serve us as a good sample of what has been taking place for over a centwy in North The following news item appeared in Puis, France, in Le

The forests of South America have also been the source of reports that suggest the survival of the Taller-hominids. The most famous is the recollection of an encounter that Colonel P.H. Fawcett had in the Amazon forest. In 1914 he and one companion went exploring in the Matto Grosso of Brazil. Along

The Taller-hominid has been identified across Asia and Europe as a .. Wildman of the Forest .. or a "Keeper of Animals... There are many traditions recorded as folklore that preserve the names and images of such beings. (25] However, there are records of actual human experiences with such creatures

In Scandinavia the Taller-hominids have been long talked about as trolls and Trold-folk. They would emerge from their mountain homes to steal maidens and then disappear. [33 ) (Across Northern Europe there are numerous recollections of Wood goblins, Wood-spirits, the Holzweibel, and Buschfrauen who

All the foregoing material was familiar to me when I first became aware in 1 996 of a booklet titled The Creature: Personal Experiences with Bigfoot by Jan Klement. It had been published in 1976 by Allegheny Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a booklet of 69 pages. It went unnoticed until Lore

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Many proposal s have placed Vinland in New Eng_l and. Thi s is a delightful part of N orth America with a beautiful land scape and a friendly climate. I am sure that if the Vikings had reached New England easily and had found t uninh abited they would have moved right in. Neither seems to have been

Modem maps of the world do not give us the perspeive that the Scandinavian peoples had one thousand years ago as they traveled the North Atlantic Ocean. To better illustrate their view see Figure 1 for a map of the lands 'they encountered as they traveled west. From mainland Europe to islands off t

Fossum traces the journey of Leif Ericson in AD 1001 around the coast of Labrador and past Anticosti Island. A landfall in Vinland was made on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, either on the Gaspe Peninsula or further west along the St. Lawrence estuary. This coast did not offer the usual and pre

The one thing that pulls together with clarity the Norse views of Vinland is the matter of the identity of "GinnWlgagap." Fossum mentions this geographical item in passing but does not make a point as to its identity on tlie modem map. From his sources and what little is given elsewhere it is appare

The early visits to Vinland are told of in the sagas. They showed that Vinl.and was inhabited by troublesome Indians. Vinland appeared to be unsuitable for Norse colonization such as succeeded in Greenland. We know that Markland was visited for wood (such as a ship loaded with timber that was blown

The Norse hunted in the Northern Outposts up the western coast of Greenland and visited the Western Wilds (Baffin Island) and Labrador. Vinland was explored aronnd the edges as told in the sagas . From this territory the Vikings pushed north, south, and west, but the records of these extensions have

An old Norse coin was excavated in Maine in 1961. It was identifiable as one minted between the years 1065 and 1080. It could have found its way to Blue Hill Bay, Maine during that time or in later years Associated with the coin were finds of chert. These rocks were traded from their place of orig

The old stone tower at Newport, Rhode Island, has been much discussed as an artifact left by the Norsemen. Many have been persuaded that the tower was constructed in 1675 by Governor Benedict Anlold. And that it was built to replace a wooden windmill destroyed that year by a hurricane.. Arnold's wil

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Courtesy of the Gray Barker Collection, McClain- Printing, 197-9}, 31-32. Clarksburg-Harrison Public Librazy.. .Cl84sburg, West Virginia. Charleston--fW\1}-GAZET-TE,- 1 7 November- 1966. Helen M. White, "Do Birds Come This Big?" Fate Ma{1Bzine, August 1967, 74-77. John-A Keel, "Mothman-Monster," Sag

Signet. 19-7 Mark A. Hall, NATURAL MYSTERIES 2nd ed _{Minneap9lis: MAHP, 1993), 72; Mark A. Hall, THUNDERBIRDS -- THE LIVING LEGEND! 2nd ed (Minneapolis: MAHP, 1994}, 60. Colin J. Pennycuick, "The Soaring Fli_ght of Vultures. S()fENTIFIC AMERICAN Dec-19-13., reprinted in VERTEBRATES (San Francisco

Peter Brookesmith, ed. CREATURES FROM ELSEWHERE (London: Orbis, 1982), 30-3-1.Ivor Smullen, "The B_ig Bird (Or Something)/ YORKSHIRE L IFE , September 1986: Hartley Burr Alexander., MYTHOLOGY OF ALL RACES, Vol. XI (1916), 329. Reuters dispat 23 September 1968, New York Post.

By Mark A. Hall The name of Ivan T. Sanderson has come up often in the pages oLWoJUienr. I wrote a tribute to him. in. Woaders for December 1992,

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THB GIANT OWL From 1966 through 1968 reports of Bighoot were numerous in West Virginia and Ohio. The territory from Dixie, West Virginia, to Lowell, Ohio to the Scioto River was the background for encounters with the

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The Mysteries of West Virginia My research has shown that the claimed 1933 capture of an "octopus" in the Kanawha River was a hoax.

by Mark A. Hall The world of one thousand to fifteen hundred years ago in no rth

We can review the Norse presence in I celand , Greenland, and the

There is wide acceptance that Iceland was known to the Western W orld as long ago as arotmd 330 BC. The Greek Pytheas made a journey to Iceland and a po rtio n of his travelogue that .has survived describes the Farley Mowat writing in Westviking has described neglected church

In n1y view there is not a great dollop of North America that co ul d be properly labeled Greater Ireland. Rather, the evidence so far suggests to me that Greater Ireland was a patchwork of places inhabited by immigrants fron1 Europe. Those places are in the area of Chaleur Bay in New Brunswick on t

In 1 837 a Danish p hil ologist Carl Christian Rafn ( 1 795- 1 864) set off the modern era of interest in Norse and Irish trips to America with the publication of his ADtiquitates Americanse wh ere he dis cusse d Vinland and Greater Ireland. Ten years later I. A. Blackwell in Northern Antiquities ga

An Irish record of a voyage of two monks presents us with a record of people banished from Ireland who found a home over the sea to the west. Here is the story as related in Nansen's In Nortbem Mists: In the "lmram Snedgusa ocus Mac Riagla" (of the tenth

A familiar name in history from the 12th century has a place in our consideration of Greate-r Ireland . Prince Madog ab Owain Gvvynedd ( 1 1 501 1801) of Wales might have found his way there .

In a roundabout way we are offered another .glimpse of Greater Ireland in the 14th century. We find it in. the. history of the Zeno brothers and the possible journey to the New World by their patron Prince Hemy Sinclair (d. 14007J.

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The more distant Miocene period saw the competition among apes that started four productive lines of the highest primates on their way. The advantage o f an early start in the primate sweepstakes means that three of the four apes of that day survive in remnants found around the world. The first of t

The ancestors of the hominid group began to emerge almost 3 million years ago. The large and small forms of Australopithecus are still around and appear to have done well by spreading from Africa into Asia and the The Large Australopithecines

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CARRY OFF PEOPLE IJJJ .Mark .4. Hall Around the world there are traditions of the menace of giant birds that can pick up human beings and carry them off to their deaths. In the Middle East the Simurgh, the Imgig, and the Roc were such birds. In Northern Europe the Griffon and the Vuokho were said to

A little boy was sent out by his mother to the shore of a lake to get a bark vessel full of water. An eagle flew down and seized him by the shoulders and carried him off. The boy cried for help but it was too late by the time the men reached the place. The men saw him being carried away. The eagle t

The three-year-old Svanhild Hertavar {now Hartvigsen) weighed 19 kg. when in 1932 she was taken by an eagle and flown two kilometers through the air from the Kvaleyvik bogs to Haga Mountain on the island Leka in North Trsndelag. One hundred men searched for seven hours before three of them found her

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Fig. 4. Reports and tracks indicating the same three creatures were in the news from 1975 to 1981 in Manitoba and in the Dakotas. Two of them left behind gigantic footprints 20 inches and 18 inches long as shown in Figs. 3a

Fig. 8. Bigfoot is not alone as a living fossil in North America.

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Hugo Schmidt Says It's True, Calls It "The Mysterious Messenger" In the recent contest for the best ghost and snake stories, Hugo Schmidt of Wichita said he would wait until the prizes were distributed then he would offer the longest true ghost story ever submitted to the paper. Mr. Schmidt is head

by Mark A. Hall Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoologyby George M. E berhart. 2002 , 723 pages in two volumes , ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA. ISBN 1-57607-283-5. Front matter of xlvii pages , containing a preface by Hemy Bauer, an introduction by Loren Coleman, and a commentary by Jack Rabbit

Russian Peter Goull art spent several years in the 1 940s at Likiang. in Yunnan

APES IN 1 868? Except for the large tusks , which nright be exaggerated, this account sounds like encounters with what is described in Mysterious, Creatures as the North American Ape . The following appeared in The Daily Telegraph in Toro1;1to , Ontario , in Canada for Saturd ay evening, 4 July 1868

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I'()R EICJFC)VT by Mark A. Hall The Western mountains along the California-Oregon border have been a source of wonders for as long as men have walked that ground. The hairy giant reports made famous as the legend of Bigfoot gained notoriety there in 1958. Some people were aware of those reports befo

IN ONE LIFETIME by Mark A. HaJJ It is one of the most painful experiences of my entire scientific life that I have but seldom -- in fact, I might say, never