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pickInteresting book about the massacre of an isolated community by a band of Bigfoots. Loved the protagonist's journey and the format (diary entries mixed with interview excerpts), but the novel doesn't dig deep into its themes, especially the society breaking apart aspect.
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pickBigfoot/Sasquatch isn‘t something I‘ve had much interest in, or a solid belief. I‘ve watched some personal stories about it lately though, and I find it interesting. The author travels to British Columbia to hear these kinds of stories from the locals. He gets indigenous wisdom and many stories; he learns the many names of this mysterious being; he meets other scientists who ask, if we know this creature exists, why the stigma? The book is⬇️
pickGreat children‘s read about cryptozoology! The last section tells about various cryptozoology creatures from around the world!
pickGreat read about the mysteries of the Pacific Northwest! I live in Washington state if it helps.
I just spent an inordinate amount of time making a PowerPoint (Canva) presentation about yetis for my first Cryptid of the Month Club at the library tomorrow.
TIL that Jimmy Stewart was involved in stealing mummified “yeti fingers” from monks in Nepal. His scientist friend wanted them, and he asked the monks and they said no. So he stole them, and gave them to Jimmy Stewart, who was headed back to London. 👇🏻
pickThis is quite an interesting book. It‘s non-fiction and was written by a man who traveled to the area in British Columbia known as the Great Bear Rainforest. He went there to talk to people who have seen Sasquatch, hoping, of course, to see one himself. But the book is about more than that, it‘s also a glimpse into the lives of the First Nation tribes who live there. Wonderful writing.
pickGodfrey wrote a lot of books about cryptids and this is one of them. Most of the accounts in this book deal with people seeing upright canids resembling what we think of as werewolves. The author was once a newspaper reporter and thus very thorough in her investigations. She even had sightings of her own. Most people will dismiss this book as myth, but the world is full of mysteries like these. Five stars
pick65/150 Depending on how much the reader believes in this kind of phenomena, I think it will determine how much you enjoy this book. The author is obviously a true believer. There's a lot of speculation about the origins of dogmen (men with dog heads), Sasquatches, UFOs, dimensional portals, shadow creatures and other mysterious beings, but no questions of their actual existence. I tend to be pretty skeptical, ⬇️⬇️⬇️
pickStrange things have been going on at the Gorman Ranch in Utah for decades…extra-deadbolts-on-the-doors sorts of things. A group of scientists bought the ranch in the mid-90s (the previous owners, a family of cattle ranchers, were driven to despair and near-bankruptcy by the mysterious, sadistic, and eventually destructive phenomena) and this book documents their findings over many years. Impossible to explain…and impossible to explain away.
