The Tatzelwurm as lungfish?
In the Alpine mountains of Austria, Bavaria, and Switzerland a strange animal is occasionally reported. It is described as a cylindrical, scaly animal with a blunt head and powerful jaws. Its legs are greatly reduced and some say it sports only a front pair of limbs. It grows to some 90 cm (3 feet) in length and is greatly feared on account of its aggressive nature. It is believed to have a bite so venomous that it can kill a cow and can even breath out poisonous gas. It is known variously as the Tatzelwurm (worm with feet), the Springwurm (jumping worm), and the Stollerwurm (tunnel worm)...
The man with tin foil goggles
Colin Ross claims to be able to fire energy beams from his eyes. He is also quite happy to advertise that he has been labelled a kook and with those tin foil goggles he can't be overly surprised...
The Spooker of Hammersmith
Many phantom assailants have been mentioned in my weekly column over the last year or so, and so we come to another obscure London legend - that of the Hammersmith 'monster'. A few decades previous to Spring-Heeled Jack leaping his way through the foggy backstreets, there was a bizarre hoaxer in 1804. A white-cloaked figure was said to haunt the alleyways, frightening the life out of hapless victims. On one occasion the 'ghost' literally frightened the life out of a heavily pregnant woman, who was so startled she died within two days of the incident...
Interview with Rebecca Swan - psychic
Rebecca Swan: I inherited my abilities from my mother's side of the family. I had a special connection with my grandmother and dreamed when things happened to her and vice versa. I have noticed that my abilities range from seeing things in pictures, or hearing the answers to certain questions, feeling the emotion associated with the situation or just knowing what the situation is...
Russia: Search for the Yeti of Shoria Mountain continues
The search for the Yeti or Bigfoot of Shoria Mountain in Russia is set to continue as the snows melt and the weather warms in Siberia. The expedition will commence in June 2009 and will be headed by Valery Kimiev and Professor Nikolai Skalon, the head of the department of Zoology at the Kemerovo State University. Locals are still alleging they have seen the bigfoot type creature in the area surrounding the Azass Caves on many occasions. One local will be joining the expedition, Hunter Michael Kiskarov who claims to have seen a Yeti more than once...
Tracking Sasquatch lore, sizable zeal is always afoot
That truth is not required to make a splash in the media might be a new wrinkle in our political discourse, but it's old hat in the realm of urban legends. Take the uproar over Bigfoot -- a.k.a. Sasquatch, Yeti, the Abominable Snowman -- the hulking hairy hominoid who supposedly haunts the damp, scratchy forests of the American Northwest and the snowfields of the Himalayas. Even though no Bigfoot has ever been captured, dead or alive; no footprint has ever been authenticated; no credible image preserved on film; no hair, nail or dropping tested positive, the monster refuses to die...
Is The Channel Creature The Loch Ness Monster?
Fifty years ago sightings of the Loch Ness Monster or ‘Nessie’ were common and few Scottish locals doubted the presence of an exotic water creature in their locale which might have been the last living member an isolated relic Plesiosaur population. Sightings of Nessie have decreased over the last few years and extensive and thorough scanning of the Loch Ness by scientists and researchers have failed to produce any evidence of Nessie. This has led many to believe, sadly, that this gentle, secretive creature had passed on. Now, astonishingly, frequent sightings are being reported of a creature living in the English Channel that appears, judging by images (picture above, video below) captured by astonished witnesses, to be similar in form to Nessie. This cryptid has been dubbed ‘The Channel Creature’...
The Native American hypothesis
It wasn't too long ago that I proposed a new category of belief for the existence of bigfoot (though the category itself would not be new; it's probably the oldest -- it would just be new to my list of categories). The Native American hypothesis, which I proposed posited that bigfoot has very strange powers, and that explains why we cannot find it...
