Cryptozoology, the systematic study of so-called “hidden animals,” owes its origins to free-thinking Bernard Heuvelmans, a French-Belgian zoologist in the late 1950s. Since then, Heuvelmeans’ followers and peers have studied numerous unexplained creatures including the Sasquatch, as well as Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti, of Tibet and Mbolel Mkembe, a miniature long-necked dinosaur, reportedly from the central African swamps. This presentation describes the state of our understanding of these strange entities and more, including recent evidence of sea monsters off the Washington coast.

Book signing to follow.

David George Gordon is the author of The Sasquatch Seeker’s Field Manual and 19 other titles. He has given programs at the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, Yale University and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museums in Hollywood, Fisherman’s Wharf and Times Square. He has appeared in Time magazine and as a guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and The View.