Literally and figuratively following in the footsteps of his friend David Woetzel, Garth Guessman, of California, has searched for creatures that Western science declares extinct. After these two Americans had consulted with the missionary Jim Blume, on the mainland of Papua New Guinea in 2004, they took a small plane to Umboi Island, home of [...]
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David Woetzel, explorer and cryptozoologist
Searching for living dinosaurs and pterosaurs has become an important avocation for David Woetzel, a New Hampshire businessman, and in both central Africa and Papua New Guinea has he searched. Late in 2000, he accompanied the explorer William Gibbons into Cameroon, Africa, where they interviewed many natives. A creature called “li’kela-bembe” is greatly feared in [...]
Mystery lights of the Mekong River
Recently, the Naga Lights of Southeast Asia have been theorized to be the bioluminescence of a large insect, perhaps an unknown insect. Unfortunately for some cryptozoologists, this indicates there is no direct relationship between these mystery lights of the Mekong River and the kor lights and ropen lights of Papua New Guinea (which are thought [...]
Marfa lights: new insights
I recently interviewed two eyewitnesses of the Marfa Lights of Texas. One was a young man (G.) traveling through Texas early in 2010; the other (H.), a long-term researcher of the Marfa Lights. After each interview, I became more convinced that these strange flying lights are closely related to the ropen lights of Papua New [...]