List of cryptozoologists

Here follows a list of notable individuals associated with the pseudoscientific field of cryptozoology:

  • Andrew Sanford, featured on CW’s Mysteries Decoded, credited as Cryptozoologist.
  • Erik Beckjord, Bigfoot researcher - deceased
  • John Bindernagel, Bigfoot researcher; author of North America's Great Ape :the Sasquatch. Deceased
  • Tom Biscardi, Bigfoot researcher
  • Maurice Burton, Loch Ness Monster researcher; author of The Elusive Monster deceased
  • Mark Chorvinsky, creator of Strange Magazine - deceased
  • Jerome Clark, co-author of Cryptozoology A to Z
  • Loren Coleman, author of Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America, Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology, Mysterious America, Mothman and Other Curious Encounters; coauthor of Cryptozoology A to Z, The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide, The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep, and other books
  • William R. Corliss, general anomalist; has collected reports of unknown hominids and other cryptids - deceased
  • René Dahinden, Bigfoot researcher -deceased
  • Tim Dinsdale, Loch Ness Monster researcher -deceased
  • Jonathan Downes, founder of Centre for Fortean Zoology
  • Richard Ellis, marine life artist; author of The Search for the Giant Squid
  • Paul Freeman, Bigfoot researcher - deceased
  • Richard Freeman, researcher affiliated with Centre for Fortean Zoology
  • Josh Gates, researcher, TV host
  • Ken Gerhard, Big Bird researcher/author
  • Bob Gimlin, with Roger Patterson, allegedly filmed Bigfoot in 1967
  • Rex Gilroy, Australian cryptozoologist focused on the Megalania and the Yowie.
  • John Willison Green, Bigfoot researcher
  • J. Richard Greenwell, secretary of the International Society for Cryptozoology - deceased
  • Bernard Heuvelmans, author of On the Track of Unknown Animals; "father of cryptozoology" - deceased
  • Fredrick William Holiday, Loch Ness Monster researcher - deceased
  • John Keel, Mothman researcher - deceased
  • Alexandr Mikhailovych Kondratov, Russian scientist, author of books about lake monsters, living dinosaurs and many more - deceased
  • Grover Krantz, mainstream physical anthropologist known for his interest in Bigfoot - deceased
  • Willy Ley, author of Exotic Zoology - deceased
  • Roy Mackal, University of Chicago professor known for interest in Loch Ness Monster and Mokele mbembe - deceased
  • Scott Marlowe, Swamp Ape researcher and founder of Pangea Institute
  • Jeff Meldrum, Idaho State University anatomy professor; Bigfoot researcher
  • Reinhold Messner, mountaineer; author of My Quest for the Yeti - skeptic
  • Marc Wolfgang Miller, explorer, author of Chasing Legends & The Legend Continues
  • Darren Naish, University of Portsmouth, vertebrate palaeontologist, researcher on aquatic cryptids
  • John Napier, primatologist and Bigfoot researcher - deceased
  • Peter Byrne, investigator in the Tom slick expedition. author of the hunt for the yeti, the hunt for Bigfoot, the search for Bigfoot monster myth or man?, the monster trilogy guide book.
  • Rory Nugent, Mokele mbembe researcher
  • Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans, Sea serpent researcher - deceased
  • Roger Patterson, with Bob Gimlin, allegedly filmed Bigfoot in 1967 - deceased
  • Robert Michael Pyle, author of Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide
  • Ivan T. Sanderson, celebrity zoologist/anomalist; author of Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life - deceased
  • Esteban Sarmiento, Bigfoot researcher
  • Peter Scott, conservationist; coined a scientific name for the Loch Ness Monster - deceased
  • Karl Shuker, author of Mystery Cats of the World, Dragons: A Natural History, In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings, Mysteries of Planet Earth, The New Zoo: New and Rediscovered Animals of the Twentieth Century, The Beasts That Hide From Man, Extraordinary Animals Revisited, and other books
  • Tom Slick, adventurer who funded searches for Bigfoot and other cryptids - deceased
  • Charlie Estepp, Bigfoot researcher (The Bigfoot Guys) author of Death By Bigfoot: The 1955 True Story of Fred, writer of In Hiding A Bigfoot Story,
  • Roderick Sprague, Bigfoot researcher
  • Eoin Stewart FSA Scot, FRAI, researcher and field investigator, bringing multiple investigative and scientific disciplines together to quantify evidence associated with cryptid sightings
  • Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, theorized Plesiosaurus in Rice Lake, deceased [1]

See also

References
  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=YGFLAQ-Cu6sC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=%22E.+Stone+Wiggins%22 John Robert Colombo Mysteries of Ontario 1999
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