The Hidden Zoo

It's the Dover Demon this week, as Don regales Blake with the story of a weird thing that 3 teenagers saw 40 years ago! Also, we pitch a show about a crashed German circus zeppelin!

Further Reading
Dover Demon - CryptidWiki
http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Dover_Demon 
Decades Later, the Dover Demon Still Haunts - Boston Globe
http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/10/29/decades_later_the_dover_demon_still_haunts/ 
12 Creepy Facts About the Dover Demon - Thought Catalog
https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2018/07/dover-demon/ 
The Mystery of the Dover Demon - Exemplore
https://exemplore.com/cryptids/The-Mystery-of-the-Dover-Demon 
The Dover Demon - Singular Fortean Society
https://www.singularfortean.com/singularjournal/2017/11/13/the-dover-demon 
Teeners report ‘creature’ - Bangor Daily News, May 16th 1977
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19770516&id=6g00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=qCMIAAAAIBAJ&pg=1296,52869 

You read that overly long title correctly: we're talking about a school board race. In New Jersey, a man named Edward X. Young is running for school board. He is also the star of a low budget horror movie where bigfoot rapes and murders people and impregnates a lady! Cool! Learn all about it in this week's episode, and also Smashmouth and ICP's beef with Fred Durst!

Further Reading
The 'sex with Bigfoot' movie starring an N.J. school board candidate is even worse than it sounds - NJ.com
https://www.nj.com/expo/news/erry-2018/11/33578cc1ab8779/the-sex-with-bigfoot-movie-sta.html
Shaggy 2 Dope attempting to dropkick Fred Durst
https://youtu.be/NpNIA-iYF4g
The Bigfoot: Blood Trap trailer
https://vimeo.com/223721131 

It's time for a special Halloween episode! Don tells Blake why the Grey Man of Ben MacDhui creeps him out so much, and it has something to do with sleep paralysis. Then Blake talks about a creepy immortal Russian Slenderman. We spice things up by making fun of ghost hunting shows and pitch yet another TV show: Ghostsquatch!

People have been claiming to see pterosaurs in the skies for decades, and white people have been conflating pterosaur sightings with Native American Thunderbirds for almost as long. This week Blake takes us on a journey through the world's various large prehistoric bird things, and we decide what type of hoax we would do if we ever did a hoax.

This week Don tells Blake about Raystown Ray, a lake monster that lives in a man-made lake! How did he get there? Where does he hide? Why does the Visitors' Bureau care so much? All this and our painful half-recollections of the Problem Child franchise.

Further Reading
The Huntingdon County Visitors' Bureau 2006 Press Release (scroll down)
http://www.raystownray.com/index.asp?section=Home
List of Raystown Ray sightings
http://www.raystownray.com/index.asp?section=Sightings
CryptidWiki - Raystown Ray
http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Raystown_Ray
CryptoMundo - How did Raystown Ray Get in the Lake?
https://cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/how-did-raystown-ray-get-in-the-lake/
Ray's theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCo_SR6Vg4M
Scientific American - Why the Long Neck?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/why-the-long-neck/
Pic of long-neck Ray
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/cryptidz/images/8/8c/Raystown_ray.png/revision/latest?cb=20140518021724
Pic of nothing claimed to be Ray
http://www.raystownray.com/raystownray/images/RAY0.jpg
Pic of the black swallower
http://r.ddmcdn.com/s_f/o_1/DSC/uploads/2015/12/blackswalloer-banner-1223.jpg

This week Blake digs into the past for what turns out to be the first cryptid for both him and Don: Mokele Mbembe, a still extant dinosaur supposedly roaming the Congo. Also we talk about paleontology, thagomizers, and the 90s sitcom "Dinosaurs."

Here's a link to the painting by Peter Paul Rubens we talk a bit about.
http://www.peterpaulrubens.net/images/gallery/the-hippopotamus-and-crocodile-hunt.jpghttp://www.peterpaulrubens.net/images/gallery/the-hippopotamus-and-crocodile-hunt.jpg 

This week Blake and Don discuss the recent court case lost by Bigfoot hunter Todd Standing and Don introduces Blake to the terrible Sheepsquatch, which is pretty much as dumb as it sounds. Also, we decide to pitch a cryptid anime to Netflix.

Further Reading

Cryptidwiki - Sheepsquatch
http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Sheepsquatch
Cryptidwiki - White Things
http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/White_Things_(Devil_Dogs)
Cryptoville - Wicked, White and Toothy
http://visitcryptoville.com/2013/06/10/wicked-white-toothy-mysterious-beasts-of-west-virginia/
Cryptopia - Sheepsquatch
http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2011/07/sheep-squatch-virginia-west-virgina-usa/
Mysterious Universe: Beware the Sheepsquatch
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/02/beware-the-sheepsquatch-and-other-truly-bizarre-mystery-monsters/
The Singular Fortean Society - Sheepsquatch
https://www.singularfortean.com/singularjournal/2018/2/17/sheepsquatch
The Mountain Monsters clip we used
https://www.destinationamerica.com/tv-shows/mountain-monsters/videos/appalachian-hunter-has-video-evidence-of-the-sheepsquatchs-existence

This week Blake's up and he brings the Yowie, hunted by a fabulous fellow in a wonderful hat who had a cameo in our Bunyip episode: Tim the Yowie Man! Don and special guest Denise also discuss anime porn and Japanese WWII holdouts.

Pictures!

The Yowie lookin' like a DnD Monster Manual Garfield
http://lach-land.blogspot.com/2010/11/australian-yowie.html

The Yowie lookin' like a Gary Gygax DnD Monster Manual sad vampire sasquatch
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/6/6c/Yowie.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/304?cb=20180614193304

 

Don takes the reins this week to tell the tale of the Honey Island Swamp monster, a weird bigfoot-like cryptid from Louisiana, except it's also a reptile?

Don and Blake are joined by special guest Denise, who is surprised by how easily we can start talking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Further Reading

The Honey Island Swamp Monster on CryptidWiki
http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Honey_Island_Swamp_Monster

Joe Nickell's Take in Skeptical Inquirer
https://www.csicop.org/si/show/tracking_the_swamp_monsters

The Honey Island Swamp Monster: Bayou Bigfoot
https://exemplore.com/cryptids/The-Honey-Island-Swamp-Monster-Bayou-Bigfoot

Dana Holyfield's official website
https://swampmonster.weebly.com/

A Bizarre Tripod page that talks about MK Davis
http://jmichaelms.tripod.com/HIS/

The Ted Williams video (direct download)
http://jmichaelms.tripod.com/HIS/ted.mpg 

The Guardian on the nutria
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/31/louisiana-swamp-rat-hunters-rodents-of-unusual-size

This week, the boys sit back and listen as their special guest Eib tells tale tales about the Bunyip, a fearsome something-or-other from the Australian outback. Complete with very strange sound effects!

Listen past the outro music for some bonus content!

Further Reading
The Bunyip at Cryptid Wiki
William Buckley
Scaly giant ground sloth Bunyip stamp
Devil Bunyip stamp
Dildo horns Bunyip stamp
In Search of The Bunyip documentary
The Bunyip music video
Tim The Yowie Man hunts the Bunyip (sound effects at about 5:00 and about 12:10)