List of cryptozoologists

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

• Erik Beckjord, Bigfoot researcher - deceased
• John Bindernagel, Bigfoot researcher; author of North America's Great Ape: the Sasquatch
• 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
• Derrufo Konepke USA BF researcher, ufo researcher, studied ghost phenomena as a witness of it.(still alive)
• 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
• 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
• Roderick Sprague, Bigfoot researcher
• Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, theorized Plesiosaurus in Rice Lake, deceased

See also

• List of cryptids