Bigfoot in Film and Television
By Dr. Sloane Reeve · Published May 13, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 13, 2026. If you want to study Bigfoot as a biological question, go read the track casts and the eDNA papers. If you want to study Bigfoot as a cultural phenomenon, watch the films. Almost everything most people […]
The Cardiff Giant: A Famous Hoax
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 A Petrified Man That Was Never a Man On October 16, 1869, two well-diggers struck stone three feet down behind a barn in Cardiff, New York, and pulled a ten-foot human figure out of the soil. Within a week the figure was […]
North American Sasquatch: Tribal Tales
By Dr. Sloane Reeve · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 Last reviewed: May 8, 2026. Long before the Patterson-Gimlin film made the Sasquatch a North American household word, dozens of Indigenous nations across western North America were already telling stories about a tall, hairy, forest-dwelling being. Those stories are not a […]
The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
By Dr. Sloane Reeve · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 What the Lizard Man Case Actually Is, in Plain Field Terms The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp is a reptilian-humanoid cryptid reported from the wetlands south of Bishopville, in Lee County, South Carolina. The case opens with a single named […]
The Mothman: Harbinger of Doom
By Dr. Sloane Reeve · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 Direct Answer: What Was the Mothman of Point Pleasant? The Mothman is a winged, red-eyed humanoid reportedly seen in and around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, between November 15, 1966, and December 15, 1967. The case rests on roughly 100 eyewitness reports […]
Dragons: A Global Phenomenon
By Dr. Sloane Reeve · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 Direct Answer: Why Do Dragons Show Up in Almost Every Culture? Dragons appear across nearly every continent because several independent forces converge on the same composite image: instinctive primate fear of snakes, raptors, and great cats; misread fossils of large extinct […]
Bigfoot: North America’s Elusive Giant
By Dr. Sloane Reeve · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. What Bigfoot Actually Is, in Plain Zoological Terms Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, is a hypothesized large bipedal hominid reported across the temperate forests of North America. The modern public case rests on the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, […]
Loch Ness Monster: The Legend Continues
By Dr. Sloane Reeve · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. What Is the Loch Ness Monster, in Plain Zoological Terms? The Loch Ness Monster is a hypothesized large aquatic animal reported in Loch Ness, a 23-mile freshwater lake in the Scottish Highlands. Modern interest dates from […]