The National Geographic Channel’s airing a special on Bigfoot, and above is a clip from it featuring Dr. Jeff Meldrum.

The show next airs on Jan. 24th. Click the link above for more details.

Just watch it. You’ll thank me when the captive hooker shows up in the basement.

Note: My opinion on this work is not influenced at all by the fact that Sleestak and his wife appear in it (at about 4:53 in part 7).

BoingBoing has a link to a fantastic set of photographs of modern-day River Country – Disney World’s original water park. I remember going there as a kid, but can’t pin-point the date.

It’s changed quite a bit.

A new series of cattle mutilations has ranchers, police and UFO enthusiasts stumped. Rancher Manuel Sanchez has found four calve carcasses on his ranch in as many weeks with odd cuts, missing parts and bizarre injuries.

“A lion will drag its kill. Coyotes rip and tear flesh. These were perfect cuts — like with a laser or like a scalpel. And what would take the waste — all the guts — and leave the nice, tender meat?” Sanchez says, as he nudges his old Ford through rutted trails, rosary beads swinging from his rearview mirror. “No tracks. No blood. No nothing. I got nothing to go by. They don’t leave no trace.”

Very odd. I want to give props to Chuck Zukowski for not jumping to the conclusion that Mr. Sanchez has. Remember: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Full story here.

Loren Coleman over at Cryptomundo has posted an interesting article about his theories regarding the distinct lack of bigfoot bones/bodies/evidence out there.

He thinks it’s porcupines.

He makes some good points, and I would encourage the (re-)examination of porcupine den finds,  but even absent freshly-killed specimens, we also have no fossil evidence of a large hominid (or its ancestors) in the Western Hemisphere. The porcupine defense does little to explain this. Still, like most of Coleman’s work, it is well-reasoned and worth reading, even if there’s a bit too much wishful thinking involved.

So Norway is flipping the fuck out about this… thing that appeared in the sky this morning.

Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog has much more info on it. Go there to find out what it was.

Below is a TED talk he gave in 2008 in which he describes… Well, just watch:

Richard “Rich” Branson and Burt “Muttonchops” Rutan (both pictured above) have rolled out Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, the first commercial manned spacecraft in the history of our planet.

Once tested and given the okay by authorities, it will carry up to six paid passengers into space per flight. Flights will be “daily,” but if airline industry or NASA records are indicators at all, that’s quite an ambitious schedule. No word on what a flight will cost exactly (I’ve heard around $200,000), but I’m operating under the assumption it’ll be north of “Christmas present”-level pricing for at least a few years.

Don’t get me wrong – this is tremendously exciting. I really hope one day to be able to experience “space tourism” (finances and health allowing).

Read all about it here.

The flash player seems a bit wonky… Sorry about that. Just wait a second, then hit the pause button.

Jack Black, regardless of your opinion of him, is a long-time Sasquatch enthusiast.

No surprise, then, that he has signed on to produce an animated film that:

…takes place in the world of cryptozoology, which deals with the search for such creatures of lore as the Loch Ness Monster, the Jersey Devil and Bigfoot.

Sounds like it might be of interest to us here at ‘Quatchwatch. We’ll keep an eye on it to see how it develops.