TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Foreword 1
- Acknowledgments 2
- Table of Contents 4
- Chapter 1 – What is Cryptozoology? 8
- A Word on This Text 10
- The Fouke Monster 11
- The Loch Ness 17
- My Own Nessie 18
- The Surgeon’s Photo Forward 20
- “Cryptids 23
- You Don’t Have to Hunt Monsters to Enjoy This Stuff 25
- Chapter 2 – Lake Creatures 28
- Ogopogo 29
- Understanding Lake Okanagan 30
- Champ 33
- The Mansi 34
- More Recent Evidence 35
- The Likely Suspects 36
- Chapter 3 – Sea Creatures 40
- Caddy 40
- The Ocean: Ultimate Hiding Place 42
- Life Forms in the Deep Ocean 43
- New England Sea Monsters 44
- Giant Squid 45
- Megalodon 48
- Chapter 4 – Bigfoot and Other Hominids 54
- Bigfoot 54
- The First Famous Bigfoot Tracks 54
- The Basic Bigfoot Description 56
- Kidnapped by Bigfoot 56
- The Patterson Film 57
- The Yeti 59
- The Yeti Meets the Modern World 60
- The Pangboche Hand 61
- An Unknown Bear Species? 62
- Skunk Ape 63
- Skunk Ape 64
- The Lettuce Lake Hoax 66
- Cryptozoology in the Age of Technology 67
- The Orang Pendek 69
- Chapter 5 – Cryptid Canines 72
- El Chupacabra 73
- Puerto Rico Reports 73
- The South Texas Sightings 74
- Chupacabra Forensics 75
- The Michigan Dogman 79
- Reported Dogman Sightings 80
- The Gable Film Hoax 81
- Chapter 6 – Flying Cryptids 84
- The Jersey Devil 84
- The Leeds Family 85
- Sightings in 1909 87
- The Winkelmann Sighting 88
- The Montauk Monster 91
- Activity Has Declined in Recent Years 92
- Giant Thunderbird 93
- Pteranodons in the Old West 94
- The Illinois Sightings 94
- More Recent Sightings 96
- Chapter 7 – So You Want to Hunt Cryptids? 100
- No Trespassing 100
- Don’t Shoot at Everything That Moves 100
- Get Photographic Evidence 101
- Keep Your Original Images in Untouched Condition 101
- Geotag Your Location 101
- Afterword 104
- Relevant Websites 106
- For Further Reading 110
- Index 120
