Doctor Lance Stockwell is a semi-retired professor of anatomy and anthropology at Washington State University and an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates. He has two obsessions in life. One is tracking and findng Chiye-Tanka: "Big Elder Brother," otherwise known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot. He must face the disbelievers and hoaxers, but also the crazy, competitive world of other Bigfoot hunters, including those who believe he exists but as an inter-dimensional being. His other lifelong pursuit is finding out what happened to his older brother, who disappeared in the jungles of...

Vanished civilizations, unidentified flying objects, giant people, strange sea creatures, alien visitations, enigmatic ancient artifacts. . . Government conspiracies, media fraudsters, mass hysteria, genuine believers. . . Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Matt Bialer. A fascination with the strange, the unexplained and the downright weird manifests itself hypnotically in this selection of long poems that address our hopes, our misconceptions and our fears about things we just do not understand. These poems read like fast paced stories, never fail to draw the reader in and, above...

For a few days in the fall of 1903, the little town of Van Meter, Iowa was terrorized at night by an 8 foot tall winged creature. Nobody had a camera to take a picture but the story made the local newspapers, including The Des Moines Daily News. Journalists made fun of Van Meter's citizens and declared they were creating a hoax or were the victims of a practical joke-or they were all crazy. But these were respectable doctors, businessmen, and bankers who witnessed and shot at this Thing which did not flinch from bullets. What was this creature? Was it something that came from Hell itself? In...