Thanks to Arrin (?) for forwarding this. BUT I accidentally deleted your email so have no idea where this is from -but it is funny!
Tuesday 9 December 2014
Apologies If This Blog Looked Like An Online Shop!
Seriously, the books for their size and what they contain are well worth what is, in fact, not a great deal of money. I never make money from the online stores (remember a £20 ($35) book only earns me £4 ($6) and until the TV company approaches me to make the TV series based around these books I need the money! (I did have a photograph of me crying in a gutter somewhere....).
Pursuing The Strange & Weird:A Naturalists Viewpoint
Terry Hooper-Scharf
Paperback,
Paperback,
A4
249 Pages
Price:
£15.00
Ships in 3-5 business days.
2013 UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic
(Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea
creatures; submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans.
There
is a fully expanded section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’
sightings and video footage.
Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered.
The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is
dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja.
Dr.
Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well
as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s
Even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.
Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle.
Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the
naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird
Some More Things Strange & Sinister
Some More Things Strange & Sinister
Paperback,
A4
327 Pages
Price:
£20.00
A4
327 Pages
Ships in 3–5 business days
Follow-up to the hugely
successful Some Things Strange & Sinister.
For those interested in Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in general.
The secret history of gorillas in the UK -before they were officially 'discovered'. The history of the Wild men of Europe, the UK and US: something that in the 1800s become very "pop culture"!
Hominology. Sasquatch and Bigfoot -is there evidence for their existence? You might be surprised.
Giant snakes. Amazons. The Giant serpent of Carthage. The Girt Dog of Ennerdale -another big cult 'creature' amongst paranormal and cryptozoological circles. The Beast of Gevaudan -what was it and were there really descendents of the creature in the 19th century?
Believe it or not more than one incident of historical crocodiles cases in the UK.
And, after more than a century of claims by 'researchers' that it no longer exists: Silent City of Alaska and the near legendary photograph taken of it.
And much more. Updated with extra pages and photographs.
For those interested in Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in general.
The secret history of gorillas in the UK -before they were officially 'discovered'. The history of the Wild men of Europe, the UK and US: something that in the 1800s become very "pop culture"!
Hominology. Sasquatch and Bigfoot -is there evidence for their existence? You might be surprised.
Giant snakes. Amazons. The Giant serpent of Carthage. The Girt Dog of Ennerdale -another big cult 'creature' amongst paranormal and cryptozoological circles. The Beast of Gevaudan -what was it and were there really descendents of the creature in the 19th century?
Believe it or not more than one incident of historical crocodiles cases in the UK.
And, after more than a century of claims by 'researchers' that it no longer exists: Silent City of Alaska and the near legendary photograph taken of it.
And much more. Updated with extra pages and photographs.
Some Things Strange & Sinister
Some Things Strange & Sinister
Paperback,
A4
358 Pages
A4
358 Pages
Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps and illustrations.
Ships in 3–5 business days
After more than 35 years as an
investigator and more than forty as a naturalist, the author has opened
some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints
Church, Dead Aquatic
Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all
exclusively presented for the first time and with new
added research previously unseen.
PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!
Photographs,maps,line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.
PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!
Photographs,maps,line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.
The cryptozoologist, Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean will find this
book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!
The Red Paper:CANINES
Paperback,
A4
202 Pages
A4
202 Pages
Dimensions (centimetres) 20.98 wide x 29.69 tall (A4)
Price:
£20.00
Ships in 3–5 business days
By the 1700s the British fox was on the verge of extinction and about to follow the bear and wolf into history having been hunted for sport for centuries.
The first solely wildlife book by the noted naturalist.
The answer was to import thousands of foxes per year for sport. But foxes kept dying out so jackals were tried. Some were caught, some escaped.
Even wolves and coyote were released for hunting.
The summation of over 30 years research -all backed up with full references including from books and papers by famous British "fox hunters" and manuals and game keeper guides to keeping foxes for hunting- reveals the damnable lie of "pest control" hunting but also reveals the cruelty the animals were subject to and how private menageries as well as travelling shows helped provide the British and Irish countryside with some incredible events.
The legendary Girt Dog of Ennerdale, a favourite of cryptozoologists and mystery writers, is also dealt with in detail.
Arctic foxes, coyotes in Essex and many more near forgotten mysteries of wild nature in the UK and supported by illustrations and photographs once thought to have been lost many years ago. Trawling newspaper archives does pay off.
The Truth About Spring-Heeled Jack
Terry Hooper-Scharf
Paperback,
53 Pages
Dimensions (centimetres) 20.98 wide x 29.69 tall (A4)
fully illustrated and referenced
Price:
£9.00
Ships in 3–5 business days
WHERE Have All The Good Crypto Books Gone?
There are any number of "A-Z of Cryptozoology", "Dictionary of Cryptozoology" as well as "Monsters of Cryptozoology" -all basically presenting the same rather boring, old information. Where are all the original books on first hand original investigations?
Bigfoot/Sasquatch seems to consist, in books as on You Tube or TV documentaries, of works on why Roger Patterson faked his "Patty" footage -which I believe (having looked at the evidence) he did not. Or the same old Bigfoot cases re-hashed. Conspiracies involving the US government and "cryptids" and what I can only call total and utter crap.
It's quite easy to publish a dozen-or-so books of your work if you are just re-hashing or copying. Or trying to turn true accounts and 'investigations' into action novels!
Where are all the researchers looking at sea creatures ("sea monsters") or "Lake monsters" and their books? Have these creatures finally become extinct and therefore no more books are needed?
And since when did book sources/sellers list fiction amongst the non-fiction books? "That sounds interesting", I thought, before finding out the book was just a typical Syfy channel style plot book. Weird creature encounters....actually a bunch of fantasy cryptozoological sex books.
All listed, mixed-up in amongst the Sasquatch and other cryptozoological books!
PLEASE if you want original research/investigation check my books out -bulky, well illustrated and fully referenced!
I thought I'd try to get copies of old books that were lost or "purloined" over the years. Bernard Heuvelman books are priced at £150-400 ($3-800 US)? WHAT??!
How on earth do we expect new, well educated researchers and investigators to enter the field if they need to spend so much on a book? It really is unbelievable.
That book at the top of the post? It can cost you between $80-176 (US). Ridiculous. I have a pdf of this and it is just NOT worth anywhere near that.
And there seem to be no "Names" amongst the authors. By "Names" I mean writers you know are truthful and have put in the work and you know you can trust. Ivan T. Sanderson, Heuvelman John Green, Grover Krantz -you saw their names on articles or books and you knew what you were going to get and that the work would count for something.
No more.
If anyone out there can recommend good, well researched books then please leave a comment -it's appreciated!
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