For those of you who were severely disappointed by the news that the Georgia Bigfoot, also known as the big Halloween costume shot at a tellingly odd angle and stuffed into a freezer, turned out to be a big hoax, we offer the following relief from cryptid fakery!
Category Archives: Cryptids
In the beginning, I made a choice and I chose anonymity. I had hoped that by hiding my true identity that I could eliminate or at least minimize the initial bias one usually encounters the moment one states an opinion. I had hoped to let the ideas and arguments speak for themselves. To a large extent, […]
A Christian simply has to acknowledge the UFO enigma. I mean, what are these strange lights in the heavens? Who pilots them, if anyone? And why in the blazes are they in our skies? And who benefits? [More on this in a moment.] Now there are several ways we might account for UFOs. 1. A […]
–Creation Cryptids: Mothman The Mothman of Point[less] Pleasant, West Virginia, is sort of a weird cousin of mine. That is, one legend has it that the Mothman was spawned by the curse that Chief Cornstalk placed upon Point Pleasant as the white men he was trying to save betrayed and then murdered him [and his […]
Now Bigfoot is just not something Christians usually tackle. I recall reading an article in the Charleston Daily Mail, quoting a Bigfoot hunter prior to a big hunt staged in West Virginia: “One man in Jackson County, he just kept telling me, “I’m a religious person. I just don’t believe in this stuff, but I’m […]
I was just browsing around over at Answersin Genesis.org and I found a wonderful article by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell called Unicorns in the Bible? In the article, Dr. Mitchell covers the Biblical references and descriptions of unicorns, noting how they were described as actual animals, not fantastical creatures. She then goes on to speculate how […]
The cryptid known as Emela-Ntouka [a Ligala word meaning "Killer of Elephants" or "Water-Elephant" should excite a Creationist's interests, specifically because of its similarity to a creature described in Job 40:15-24, more famously refered to as Behemoth. Hailing from the Likoula swamp region of the republic of the Congo, it also goes by the names, aseka-moke, […]
The following originally appeared in answer to a comment on this post. Aliens and UFOs. OK. I hail from West Virginia, home of Gray Barker [credited with possibly inventing the Men In Black], the Mothman of Point Pleasant and the Green Monster of Flatwoods [aka the Flatwoods Monster], all of which have been linked to […]
Coined by John E Wall of Manitoba in 1983, the word “cryptid” refers to an animal of interest to cryptozoology. Cryptozoology, according to Bernard Heuvelmann [the "Father of Cryptozoology"] is “The scientific study of hidden animals, i.e., of still unknown animal forms about which only testimonial and circumstanstial evidence is availbable, or material evidence considered […]
