Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 4 min readIn the highlands of western Kenya, the Nandi people tell of the Chemosit — a huge, front-heavy, nocturnal predator the British called the Nandi Bear. No bear lives in sub-Saharan Africa, and no specimen has ever been found.
About 4 min readDeep in the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous and rubber-tapper traditions describe a huge, foul-smelling, upright creature with backwards feet and enormous claws. One ornithologist spent a decade investigating — and proposed it might be a surviving giant ground sloth.
About 4 min readIn 1925, Dutch naturalist Ernest Bartels reported a bat-like creature with a wingspan of about ten feet over the rainforests of Mount Salak in Java. No specimen or photograph has ever confirmed it — but the report has never been explained away, either.
About 4 min readFor more than fifty years, witnesses across Exmoor have reported a large, dark, panther-like cat roaming the moor. No specimen has ever been confirmed, yet the reports — and the livestock losses behind them — have never quite stopped.
About 4 min readThousands of sightings, hundreds of footprint casts, one famous film — and no body. Here is what the Bigfoot evidence actually shows.
About 4 min readFor ninety years, people have reported a creature in Loch Ness — and the famous photographs turned out to be faked. Sonar, DNA and decades of watching have found no monster, yet the sightings continue: what are people actually seeing in the loch?