New Publications - Buckeye Beasts and Cryptid Culture

My book Buckeye Beasts: Historical Accounts of "Gorillas," "Wild Men," and Other Hairy Monsters in Ohio is available on Amazon NOW! Right now only the Kindle version is on there, but the paperback will be in a day or so.

Here's some more on the book:

Throughout the 19th and early 20th Centuries, encounters with "wild men" were commonly reported in newspapers around Ohio. Many cryptozoology researchers think these reports of wild men, "gorillas," "hairy men," and "anthropoids" could be historical accounts of Bigfoot-like creatures. In this book, author Tyler Houck examines these reports spanning from 1869 to the 1940s. Many are presented here as they originally appeared and are then compared to modern Bigfoot reports and other historical and contemporary reports of strange, man-like cryptids from around the world. Is this all something to do with mythology and folklore, hoaxes on slow news days or misidentifications, or is there something else behind the stories?

 And here's the contents:

Introduction

PART I

1. "A Gorilla in Ohio" (1860-1879)
2. Early Stories of Wild Men (1880-1899)
3. 20th Century Accounts (1900-1929)
4. Before the Birth of Bigfoot (1930-1950)

PART II

5. Comparison to Modern Accounts
6. A Folkloric Phenomenon?
7. Conclusions
Bibliography
About the Author

And… Issue #8 of Cryptid Culture Magazine is also available today. I have an article in this issue on the plausibility of sightings of living pterosaurs. Could they still be alive or is the whole thing bogus? You'll have to read it to find out what I think.

Colin Schneider has some stuff in this issue as well… I'm not sure exactly what, but it's his new "Crypto-Kid Reviews."

You can get Cryptid Culture here. Look through the back issues too… Colin and I have articles in those as well!

**My other book, The Ohio Monster Guidebook, is being published by CFZ. I'm currently going over the first proof.**

-Tyler Houck