2012: A monstrously good year in review

After gathering all the best cryptozoology stories on the site for the year, on one evening, I consulted the experts – Blake Smith, Ben Radford and Karen Stollznow of Monster Talk – to talk about the year in strange creatures. Here are the best of the best stories in the crypto world this year.



1. Bigfoot

It was a huge year for the big guy. See my summary of Sasquatchery here. News abounded but we didn’t really get very far. No doubt, Sasquatch/Bigfoot and all his foreign cousins were the biggest monsters of 2012. Here are some of the stories that made Bigfoot the number 1 monster topic of 2012.
•Ketchum DNA project was announced
•Sykes Oxford DNA project
•Sierra Kills episode
•Hoaxer killed in Montana
•Russian yeti claims and Yeti again
•Chinese expedition for Yeren. Was it tourism? Maybe it will be a film.
•Prize money offered by Spike for best evidence that proves Bigfoot.
•Continued popularity of Finding Bigfoot. Animal Planet’s ploy.
•Bigfoot is many things to many people.


There were two really great monster videos that provided us with a media party and tons of speculation.

read more: http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/01/2012-a-monstrously-good-year-in-review/