My Most Recent Articles

1. The Story of the Deadliest Diary.

2. Two Types of Strange Creatures, Part-1.

3. Two Types of Strange Creatures, Part-2.

4. From Controlling Minds to Burning Files.

5. Tales of Strangers in the Night.

6. Looking at the Lives of the Djinn.

Megalania: Still Among Us?

Is Australia home to a giant monitor lizard - Megalania - that is supposed to have become extinct tens of thousands of years ago? Well...maybe...

Check out one of my new Mysterious Universe articles.

A Q&A of the Monster Kind

Over at the Australian office of the Center for Fortean Zoology there's a new interview with me about my cryptozoological research, as well as my views on such creatures as Megalania, the British Bigfoot, Orang-Pendek and much more, including some of favorite crypto-themed books and how and why I got interested in cryptozoology.

You can find it right here.

Expeditions of the Monstrous Kind

My newly-posted Lair of the Beasts article at Mania.com lists the top three expeditions of the cryptozoological kind I'd like to go on if I had the chance.

It starts like this...

"Now and again I get asked something along the lines of: 'What strange creature, which you haven’t yet searched for, would you like to chase down?' Well, it’s a good question. The world is a very big place and there are a lot of weird beasts out there. But, there are a few specific and amazing animals I’d like to go looking for which, so far, I haven’t had the opportunity.

"Imagine coming face to face with a ferocious, carnivorous monitor lizard with a length of somewhere between fifteen and twenty feet – maybe even closer to twenty five feet – and a weight in excess of at least a ton.

"Not in times long past – since the creature under the microscope is widely assumed to have become extinct around 40,000 years ago - but right now, deep in the heart of the sub-tropical rainforests of Australia. You think it couldn’t happen?"

And here's the rest of the article, and the lowdown on those three...