Cryptozoology

The Mermaid Skin Cancer Cure In 1906 a Mrs. Merritt, suffering from breast cancer, heard the siren song of healing in a piece of mermaid skin.

An Antarctic Mermaid. A sailor sees a musical mermaid with green hair during an Antarctic sealing expedition.

Notes on American Dragons Three accounts of dragons in Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio.

Weekend Compendium: 6 January 2016: The Ladies’ Man, A Fluttering in the Vault, A Woodsy Costume (barking), Begotten by a Ghost, Hairdressing for the Dead.

The Devil crashes an ice-skating party in 19th-century Ohio.

The Freak Man describes how he creates carnival gaffs and “natural specimens” for dime museums.

Creature Feature: The Mexican Mine Monster A missionary who lived for years in Mexico tells of a terrifying encounter with something giant and snake-like in a Guerrero mine.

Today we look at two accounts of goat-men, one in Windsor Great Park; the other, a satyr-sighting near Wemyss Castle in Scotland.

In 1861, on a slow-news day, a journalist scribbled a story about a wildman. Suddenly people began reporting encounters with the tall, hairy creature. Was it a hermit, a wendigo, a lunatic, an idiot, or a true monster?