As the children would say, 1970’s #Fortean magazines depicting #cryptids “go hard”. There’s something very special about them I can’t quite articulate, likely for paranormal reasons.

Image source:
https://www.afushop.se/store/p/0/anomaly-research-bulletin-%281977-1978%29-1037034

#DoverDemon #AlienBigCat #Bigfoot #Mothman

Every once in a while, as a treat, I pick a paragraph by Bernard #Heuvelmans and try and parse out what the heck is going on. The #BeastOfGévaudan appears on his checklist of “Apparently Unknown Animals” (i.e. #Cryptids ), fair enough… but the paragraph self-debunks and proposes feral dogs and serial killers (!?!) as being behind the legend (!?!). As there is no new species this shouldn’t be #Cryptozoology but its “Father” apparently thinks otherwise! Bizarre.

I have read Mark A. Hall’s (and Loren Coleman and David Goudsward’s) posthumous Merbeings and… my god… even for someone deep into the #MarkAHalliverse one sentence had my jaw on the floor.

#Merbeings #Mermaids #Cryptozoology #Cryptids

Apparently devil monkeys like peanut butter cookies. #cryptids

I don’t prefer realistic depictions of #Cryptids — in my mind, they’re best embodied by amateurish ink sketches on yellow photocopied paper. Gene Duplantier’s depiction of #Mothman is just… perfection. I especially love that it looks like a modified Great Horned Owl!

My paintings of mystery animals and mountains:

The first is Puncak Jaya, the highest peak in Papua New Guinea, with the Ropen, which is a flying animal (possibly a pterosaur) rumoured to live there.

The second is a Yeti, wandering the highest of peaks in the Himalayas.

#art #cryptozoology #mountains #yeti #ropen #cryptids

My paintings of mystery animals and mountains:

The first is Puncak Jaya, the highest peak in Papua New Guinea, with the Ropen, which is a flying animal (possibly a pterosaur) rumoured to live there.

The second is a Yeti, wandering the highest of peaks in the Himalayas.

#art #cryptozoology #mountains #yeti #ropen #cryptids

#lochness #nessie #lakemonsters #cryptids #cryptozoology #skepticism

Despite this yarn seeming like quite the #Fortean encounter, it actually made it onto Chad Arment’s regional cryptid checklist. How I read and re-read that endlessly as a youth dreaming of #Cryptids

https://web.archive.org/web/20160105071542/http://www.strangeark.com/checklist/northamerica.html

And the North American BioFortean review it references (opens to a Google Drive)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwliJYhc6oESYkh5djQ0WFJveDQ

FB memories has reminded me that 1 year ago today, The Sunday Times described #mothman as the "f***boy of #cryptids" and I don't want anyone to ever forget this. 🤣

Hall goes back and forth with Capparella in a later issue, but I won’t get into that drama here. I need to further descend into the MarkAHalliverse — there’s even a logo of sorts! I cannot help but notice “psychic web” and “unseen forces” on this… this… but Hall simply attributes the existence of #cryptids to nothing more mystical than the “complacency and laziness of biologists.” I THINK, this stuff is hard to read.

#MarkAHalliverse (6/?)

The MarkAHalliverse is a WILD place, focusing on monstrous #cryptids and other wonders from what one could call the flyover country of the USA. A rust-belt re-enchantment, if you would. That coupled with the DIY aesthetic of the quarterly publication creates quite the indelible experience.

Oh, before I get too far — for anyone interested in biography, the most complete recollection of Mark A. Hall’s life is his obituary:
http://www.cryptozoonews.com/hall-obit/

#MarkAHalliverse (3/?)

Author/Illustrator Philippe Coudray has a free English-language version of his book ‘A Guidebook To Hidden Animals’ on his website:

http://www.philippe-coudray.com/Pages/Cryptozoologie%20philippe%20coudray.html

This is very much NOT a #PopCryptid book but one in the vein of #BernardHeuvelmans - so lots of retro 60’s-ish #Cryptids . Some of the #HiddenAnimals depicted are extremely obscure and outlandish, including the first #Sauropod to show up in this instance for me: one with a horn and flippers. And then there’s the monster of Lake Tanganyika…

The dream was definitely inspired by the #AmFearLiathMòr / #BreninLlwyd entry from Coleman and Huyghe’s Field Guide as well as Mark A. Hall’s super #TrueGiant . Unlike modern #cryptids these authors view such entities as regular old flesh and blood animals. How they could possibly remain as #HiddenAnimals in an otherwise rational universe is truly mind-boggling. Hall at least thought there was a conspiracy of silence for inexplicable reasons.

#Cryptozoology