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Pop Goes the Cryptid presentation at the virtual Folk Zoology conference.
14.11.2024 23:57Folk Zoology: Pop Goes the Cryptid presentation<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I honestly think there was an underlying issue, and that's the constant need for "influencers" to have new content. Doesn't matter if it's clearly problematic or faked, posting comes utmost, because posting means hits, and hits means sponsored ads generate revenue. Forget critical analysis from someone claiming to be a zoologist, Galante is more of a zoologrift now.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
11.11.2024 11:43Comment on Forrest Galante and the Thylacine by marcusgoodThere is a Pop Goes the Cryptid Facebook page for daily content.
28.10.2024 17:53Pop Cryptids Facebook PageThe hodag of Rhinelander Wisconsin is a product of folklore, made into fakelore, which then morphed back into folklore, to became a beloved mascot. Its history is an example of the rise of a pop cryptid where no zoology is required.
10.10.2024 20:34Hodag: Wisconsin’s Homegrown and Beloved MonsterNew pop cryptid examples: Green Eyes Festival, Squonkapalooza, Gateway to Chestnut Ridge designation in Pennsylvania, and a Flathead Monster monument.
2.10.2024 23:20Parade of Cryptids in Small town USA<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>There's also the Lake Erie Monsters hockey team, which was later renamed the Cleveland Monsters.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
20.9.2024 02:34Comment on Cryptids and North American Sports Teams by DanielCryptids continue to exert their large presence, representing professional hockey teams. Here's a look at the use of monster mascots associated with North American sports.
19.9.2024 19:06Cryptids and North American Sports Teams<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I was lucky to find an inexpensive copy in good condition a few years ago. It is by far the best book on the topic. I have to mention that the photographs, art and sketches throughout the book are fantastic. The sketches—which can be found nowhere else—are drawn by the witnesses themselves or by Meurger directly from their descriptions. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The book is unique in many respects, but one of the most significant differences is the research and methods are done by a folklorist. Meurger does not sift through the stories he gathered to try and find something relevant to a zoologist or biologist or even cryptozoologists and lake monster hunters. The stories and accounts are analyzed as folklore and contemporary myths. They are presented in all their weirdness and fantastical. Apart from gathering data never before documented, the book opens with an intense discussion of the methods and assumptions that will be used. He presents a history of the origins of cryptozoology (and its critics and skeptics) as beginning centuries ago when the European Enlightenment met European folklore. The modern lake monster, Meurger begins, is a cultural puzzle, a result of the strange scientification of a rich and kaleidoscopic body of myth, occult belief and religion going back thousands of years. Though it seems so unlikely, Meurger traces our lake monster back to the Age of Reason, where the intellectual zeitgeist transformed mythical dragons and water spirits into real and elusive animals. Supernatural entities that guarded lakes at the threshold of another world became something people tried to catch with a net or photographed with a camera.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If lake monsters are out these days, UFOs are definitely in. When you read the book, you may be surprised that the spectral and fantastic dragons in European myth were turned, not into ancient but hidden marine reptiles, but into UFOs, UMOs and mysterious submarines. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The emphasis, Meurger says, is not on weird animals in lakes or misinterpreted waves—it’s the endlessly creative power of the human imagination that the book celebrates. I’ve never read any other book or research on lake monsters—by hunters or skeptics—that does this so thoroughly. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
2.9.2024 00:09Comment on Lake Monster Traditions – M. Meurger and C. Gagnon by Joseph CharlesRational cryptid commentator Tyler Stone responds to a question on TikTok about the evolutionary plausibility of Bigfoot, summing up the serious, remaining problems with Bigfoot/Sasquatch existing as a real animal in North America.
30.8.2024 13:35Evolutionary Possibility of Bigfoot – In a nutshellLinda Godfrey's books on the Beast of Bray Road, Michigan dogman, and other canid hominoid tales are well worth reading and remain the best popular source of cryptid nonfiction on this topic. However, the history and present state is far more convoluted and complex than she could reasonably present.
25.8.2024 18:50Godfrey’s Dogman & Beast VolumesWe now have post-cryptid cryptozoology where the aim is hardly ever about identifying the zoological basis of a creature and, instead, the value lies in identifying WITH the creature. Cryptozoology has exploded the previous boundaries that originally set it in the scientific context of zoology. Today, cryptozoology is a socio-cultural phenomenon, an important one that we should be exploring.
23.8.2024 17:10Cryptozoology’s amazing shift: Identifying with the cryptidNew scientific take on the dogman.
17.8.2024 02:45Dogman Leads the PackBaby bIgfoot photo of July 2024 is a hoax created by using a fiberglass model.
22.7.2024 12:40Baby Bigfoot Hoax – July 2024The up-dated second edition is now available, in paperback and Kindle, from Amazon in most countries.
6.9.2023 10:23Comment on Bunyips And Bigfoots – M. Smith by Malcolm SmithIn reply to <a href="https://moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/tasmanian-tiger-precious-little-remains-d-maynard-and-t-gordon/comment-page-1/#comment-252">chris wilber</a>. There is no solid evidence that the thylacine is still out there. To hope that it it is wishful thinking.
30.6.2021 19:45Comment on Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little Remains – D. Maynard and T. Gordon by idoubtitIn reply to <a href="https://moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2020/07/04/the-fuller-story-of-the-hook-island-tadpole-monster/comment-page-1/#comment-251">chris wilber</a>. Not really a logical argument, though. More like wishful thinking.
30.6.2021 19:44Comment on The fuller story of the Hook Island tadpole monster by idoubtitLooks to be an exceptional, (but I'm sure, very depressing/infuriating), read. These stories just proves time & time again that clashes/competition with wild animals & arrogant, intrusive mankind, ( In this case, sheep herdsmen, bored hunters, and cattlemen...who all viewed the T. Tiger as a pest), always results in the crippling/ eradication of the animals. I do wonder if Authors, David Maynard & Tammy Gordon DO support the notion, (hope), that the T. Tiger has survived extinction in the wild...but is, of course, a critically endangered species. Experts, hunters, range workers, Tourists and others have been claiming to have captured glimpses of these predators...mostly at night.
29.6.2021 16:56Comment on Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little Remains – D. Maynard and T. Gordon by chris wilberI am going to risk my 'good name' , reliability as an educated person of the animal kingdom... and support this, ( unsavoury, possible criminal), Frenchman's as genuine. Le Serrec might have just accomplished, (and was damn lucky for benefitting from circumstances in Hook Bay at that very time/place.), one of the best statements to Zoological research/ documenting...that their work is far from done. Still an enormous amount of unknown Fauna on earth.
It is out of print, but can be obtained second hand from Amazon, and new (ie print condition) copies with autograph from the author himself. http://malcolmshome.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/bunyips-and-bigfoots.html
7.8.2017 10:31Comment on Bunyips And Bigfoots – M. Smith by Malcolm SmithMessner received additional attention for his Yeti testimony due to Bryan Sykes investigation into DNA samples held by him. See Sykes - <a href="https://moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/bigfoot-yeti-and-the-last-neanderthal-b-sykes/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bigfoot, Yeti and the Last Neanderthal</a> for more on Yeti-bear idea.
3.4.2016 23:29Comment on My Quest for the Yeti – R. Messner by idoubtit