The Traveler's Steampunk Blog

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Global Bigfoot

| 16. März 2012

And once again something about cryptozoology and bigfoot. I do not think there is anything to it, but some great tales come out of it. Besides: Monster hunting is so Steampunk… But let us now indulge in sightings of Bigfoot around the world: People who looked at this item also looked at… The Skeptic Steampunk [...]

Wooly Mammoth filmed in Siberia

| 9. Februar 2012

Aha! I knew it. In the remote parts of Siberia, the magnificent Wooly Mammoth still roams as it has done for hundreds of thousands of years. Just look at this video, conclusive proof, featured by the renowned scientific magazine THE SUN (no link, thank you): Yes, I know. It is a blurry video of a [...]

The Cryptozoology Perspective

| 12. Juli 2011

Cryptozoology to me is one of the more fun, less controversial and less damaging areas of fringe science or pseudoscience (depending on your stance). After all: Cryptozoologist do not offer more or less useless advice on your life (like the people gazing into crystal balls do), peddle magic water (homeopaths) or drag you into weird [...]

A day of remembrance

| 7. September 2010

Today in 1936 the last known Thylacine a.k.a. Tasmanian Tiger died in captivity. I sincerely hope there are still a few roaming the far corners of Tasmania and Australia. And who knows, maybe one day we will be able to ressurect the species from genetic material preserved in the various museums and laboratories. We can [...]