When it comes to urban legends, or not even rooted out, I say, “Bring em on!” Bigfoot, the Lockness Monster, the Mothman and a host of others — who’s to say these legendary creatures aren’t the real deal? Are you comparing believers and non-believers like this is probably the coolest — it doesn’t matter that just the coolest site I’ve ever seen dedicated to things that go bump in the night is www.cryptomundo.com.
According to impingeupon.com, Cryptomundo is the number one cryptozoology site in the world. Cryptomundo averaged nearly 2,000,000 page views per month from May to August 2007, from people around the world. With numbers like this, it’s hard to wonder “what’s up”. Most people reading the site are from North America, but closely followed by people in other English-speaking countries, such as Australia, the UK, and with a good number of Singaporeans, Japan, and elsewhere.
Fr a website that is the basis of someone’s fantasies, Cryptomundo.com is about crytozoology — which in a nutshell is the study of hidden or unknown animals. And lest you think the study of cryptozoology is trivial, think again: according to Quantcast.com, in 2007, you have 1,840,000 sites called “cryptozoology”, 156,000 sites using the word “cryptid” and 7,290,000 sites using the word “Bigfoot” “which is more than just the cryptic Bigfoot, of course (there are some about trucks and website domains) The more accurate reference is that 2,750,000 sites mention “Sasquatch”, which today is also in in comic books, the number of books in cryptozoology is amazing!
Now I don’t know much about cryotzoology, but what I like and what I like most about Cryptoworld is the number of videos and films that turn from “rooms” and professional monster hunters around the world. A recent sampling of sports films sasquatch clips sent from Texas, Michigan and Canada. Are they true? Who knows? I have to admit that I find it repulsive to think that someone has been out in the middle of nowhere with their video camera and happened to walk in on a 7 foot, 500 pound missing link. But hey – they just got crazier.
Cryptomondo is broken down into more than 50 categories from Abominable Snowman to Yowie (aka Bigfoot). My favorite link? News – the day I submitted this article the news about the “Death of Nessie” had a large visible footprint in New Mexico.
A website is only worth as much as its contributors and Cryptomundo doesn’t pull any punches. The main conduit of Cryptoworld is Loren Coleman (www.lorencoleman.com) — one of the most trusted and recognized professionals in the field of cryptozoology. According to Coleman, the steady rise of the very few people in the Sea Serpents and Yeti in the 1950s, began with the “new era” of Sasquatch in the 1940s and early 1950s in Canada, then Bigfoot in 1958 and 1967. Visible image. the Patterson-Gimlin footage had iconic symbolism for those who began to attach meaning to a new word from the late 1950s – “cryptozoology”.
The American Bigfoot Society (www.americanbigfootsociert.com) points out that since its inception in 1995, everything has changed throughout the web. Cryptozoologists, cryptozoologists-in-training, cryptowannabes, Bigfooters, random college students, Chupacabras fans, Nessie followers , Mystery Cat seekers, and people in general studying these things found easy access through the Internet, and the cryptozoological community grew by leaps and bounds. Cryptozoology fans are popping up all over the place. Hundreds of people jumped into the cryptozoological field with all hands and feet. Followers of Armchair have found that they can be actively involved from researching old archives to gathering new reports. Websites could broadcast news immediately. The journals (the first journal, the later journals) and then seem to be someone’s latest “fieldwork”, regardless of quality or outcome, could go out to the whole world.
There is too much content about Cryptomundo to discuss in one article but Cryptomundo.com makes it worth reading and watching. ‘Ol Gar gives 5 stars. Check it out and maybe you’ll find out if Bigfoot really exists!
