Month: August 2015

Information has been received here that the people in the country around Buena Vista, a village in Garrard County, are much excited over the reports that a wild man has high haunts in the Kentucky River hills near that place. A party is being organized to explore a cave where the creature is believed to…

Tales of Bigfoot sightings are reported globally but the Alaskan version is the most extreme, standing over 14 feet. Is this massive, aggressive creature targeting people in the Alaska Triangle?  It’s easy enough to scoff at the primitive fears of our ancestors—safe and secure in our modern world, where electric lights keep the darkness at…

Tamara Samsonova, a 67-year-old pensioner and a former hotel worker, was arrested for allegedly executing the so-called “Granny Ripper” murders. Who says little old ladies are harmless? This one in particular, 79-year-old Tamara Samsonova, sure disproves that assumption. She’s either batshit crazy or just plain evil, and either way she’s a definitive threat to anybody…

The fabled Bishopville swamp creature known as Lizard Man appears to have surfaced again Sunday afternoon. This is truly momentous, y’all. 99% of the time, when photographic evidence of the existence of a cryptid surfaces, it is grainy, shaky, blurry, or in some other way less than convincing. This here photograph taken by a sweet…

During our conversation I asked him if there was any chance that what he saw could have been a Bigfoot, to which he replied: “I’ve never seen a Bigfoot and don’t know how they act, but this looked like something that spends most of its time on all 4 legs.” They call them Dogmans (DogMEN?)…

An 8ft (2.4m) tall “well-preserved yeti” is sold at auction in Somerset for £1,350 Well, I WISH it was my Yeti. I admit it. I’m a sucker. A willing and joyful mark. Serve me up some ballyhoo and I come back like little Oliver Twist, empty plate held in trembling hands, pleading, “Please, sir, may…

Milwaukee officials are still not sure exactly what kind of animal has been spotted for the last week. It could be a lion; it could be a cougar. Whatever it is, it has captivated the city. Milwaukee, home of beer, cheese, and Jeffrey Dahmer. And now home to the mysterious . . . um, they…

Sawney Bean: The story of Scotland’s legendary cannibal. In 1600s Scotland, a societal outcast by the name of Sawney Bean either kidnaps or lures away a woman of low station, and the pair starts reproducing. They take up residence in a cave, from which they set upon, rob and kill unwary travelers—and then eat them.…