In December 2000, two photos of a large, hairy, ape-like animal arrived at the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office with an anonymous letter about stolen apples. Here’s what the letter said, how the photos went public in 2001, what a cryptozoologist and the Park Service say, and why the case can’t be tested.
On 20 October 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed an upright, hairy figure at Bluff Creek, California. The film is still the most analyzed piece of Bigfoot evidence. Here is the dated record, the frame-rate fight, the costume claims and the 2026 documentary that adds family testimony.
In November 1966 two couples told police a winged, red-eyed figure chased their car outside Point Pleasant. Here’s what the first reports said, what the federal bridge report found a year later, and why owls and herons lead the explanations.
For one week in January 1909, newspapers across South Jersey and Philadelphia printed hundreds of sightings of a winged, hoofed ‘devil.’ Schools closed and rewards were offered. Hoaxers made money.
In 1995, dead livestock in Puerto Rico gave rise to the chupacabra, the ‘goat-sucker.’ Its best-known description closely matches an alien from a film released that summer.
