Cryptids and Mystery Animals
Bigfoot, Nessie, Mothman, the Jersey Devil and the chupacabra: where the stories began, what the footprints, films and DNA show, and the animals science once doubted.
Bigfoot and Sasquatch: The Footprints, the Film and the Evidence
Where the word sasquatch comes from, the 1958 Bluff Creek footprints and the Wallace family's claim, the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, and what hair and DNA tests found.
6 min readThe Loch Ness Monster: From the Surgeon's Photograph to the DNA Survey
How Nessie grew from a 1933 newspaper report into a world legend, how the 1934 surgeon's photograph was faked, what sonar found, and what the 2018 DNA survey showed.
7 min readMothman, the Jersey Devil and the Chupacabra: America's Modern Monsters
The 1909 Jersey Devil panic, the 1966 Mothman reports in Point Pleasant and the 1995 chupacabra wave in Puerto Rico: how each began, how it spread, and what was found.
7 min readFrom Legend to Zoology: Animals Science Once Doubted
The platypus, okapi, mountain gorilla, coelacanth and giant squid were once doubted, unknown or thought extinct. How each was confirmed, and what that means for cryptids.
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