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Yeti: Encyclopedia - Yeti
The yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, is a supposed large primate-like creature reported to live in the Himalayas. The Western ...
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Yeti: Encyclopedia Ii - Yeti - History
For hundreds of years, natives in the Himalays have been telling stories about a humanoid monster that wanders around the mountain range....
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Yeti: Encyclopedia Ii - Yeti - Analyses
Many cryptozoologists, after careful examinations of eye-witness reports and statistical evidence, have concluded that yeti reports are m...
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Orangutan: Encyclopedia - Orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus
Pongo abelii
Orangutans (also spelled orang utan, orang-utan, sometimes incorrectly orangutang) are two species of great a...
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Anomalous Phenomenon: Encyclopedia - Anomalous Phenomenon
An anomalous phenomenon is an observed phenomenon for which there is no suitable explanation in the context of a specific body of scienti...
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Bigfoot: Encyclopedia - Bigfoot
Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, is described as a large, bipedal apelike creature living in the remote wilderness areas of the United Sta...
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Yeti: Encyclopedia Ii - Yeti - The Yeti In Popular Culture
With the many yeti reports in the 1950s, the creature crossed over into popular culture. Mel Blanc lent his talent to voicing a bumbling,...
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Yeti: Encyclopedia Ii - Yeti - The Yeti In Popular Culture
With the many yeti reports in the 1950s, the creature crossed over into popular culture. Mel Blanc lent his talent to voicing a bumbling,...
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Anomalous Phenomenon: Encyclopedia Ii - Anomalous Phenomenon - Introduction
Out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, extrasensory perception, ghosts, demonic encounters, poltergeists, as well as sightings ...
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Anomalous Phenomenon: Encyclopedia Ii - Anomalous Phenomenon - Examples
Anomalous phenomena seem to lack a clear scientific explanation, and thus are the subject of much controversy, debate, mystery, and poten...
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Bigfoot: Encyclopedia Ii - Bigfoot - Bigfoot Phenomenon
Along with the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti (Abominable Snowman), Bigfoot is one of the more famous creatures in cryptozoology. While m...
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Bigfoot: Encyclopedia Ii - Bigfoot - Etymology
Bigfoot - Bigfoot.
Primatologist John Napier inserts that "the term Bigfoot has been in colloquial use since the early 1920's to descri...
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Bigfoot: Encyclopedia Ii - Bigfoot - Evidence - Arguments For And Against
Bigfoot - Eyewitness reports.
Some cryptozoologists have argued that the most persuasive circumstantial evidence for Bigfoot's existenc...
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Bigfoot: Encyclopedia Ii - Bigfoot - Conclusion
Bigfoot - Mainstream response.
Skeptics:
Mainstream scientists and academics generally "discount the existence of Bigfoot because the e...
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Bigfoot: Encyclopedia Ii - Bigfoot - Proposed Creatures
Various types of creature have been proposed by believers to explain the sightings.
Bigfoot - Gigantopithecus.
Krantz argued that a rel...
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Bigfoot: Encyclopedia Ii - Bigfoot - Formal Studies Of Bigfoot
There have been a number of formal scientific studies of Bigfoot or Sasquatch.
1950s:
Bernard Heuvelmans’s 1955 magnum opus, On The Tra...
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Bigfoot: Encyclopedia Ii - Bigfoot - Bigfoot In Popular Culture
Whether they it is a real creature or not, Bigfoot has had a demonstrable impact as a cultural phenomenon.
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Bigfoot: Encyclopedia Ii - Bigfoot - Description
Individuals claiming to have seen Bigfoot generally describe a 7 to 10 feet (2.1 to 2.7 m) tall, ape-like (or some would say more human-l...
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