Research Guides: The Monsters Are Real! SEL Fall Exhibit: Cryptids, Aliens, Miscellaneous Monsters

References and Recommended Further Reading

Bibliography and Reommended Further Reading

“Alien Invasions.” Salmagundi : a Quarterly of the Humanities & Social Sciences., no. 194, https://doi.org/info:doi/.

Alù, Andrea. “Mantle Cloak: Invisibility Induced by a Surface.” Physical Review B, covering condensed matter and materials physics, American Physical Society, 2009, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009PhRvB..80x5115A/abstract.

“Area 51 Fast Facts.” CNN, Cable News Network, 4 Aug. 2022, https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/31/us/area-51-fast-facts.

Bartholomew, Robert E. The Untold Story of Champ a Social History of America’s Loch Ness Monster. State University of New York Press/Excelsior Editions, 2012.

Bauer, Henry H. "The case for the Loch Ness monster: the scientific evidence." Journal of Scientific Exploration 16.2 (2002): 225-246. https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/16/jse_16_2_bauer_1.pdf

--- “Loch Ness Monsters as Cryptid (presently Unknown) Sea Turtles.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 34, no. 1, 2020, pp. 93–104, https://doi.org/10.31275/20201713.

Blitz, Matt. “The Real Story behind the Myth of Area 51, America's Most Famous Top-Secret Military Base.” Popular Mechanics, Hearst Digital Media, 14 Oct. 2022, https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a24152/area-51-history/.

Briggs, Amy. “The Devil Went down to ... New Jersey?” History, National Geographic, 26 Oct. 2022, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/the-devil-went-down-to-new-jersey?rid=0BDB19B43CDC41104013A6D62B481446&cmpid=org

Carey, Teresa. “Scientists May Have Found the Secret to Invisibility.” Freethink: Inventions, Freethink, 7 July 2021, https://www.freethink.com/science/invisibility.

“Cryptids Proven to Be Real Give Us Hope for These 5 Others.” Gaia, Gaia, 7 Feb. 2020, https://www.gaia.com/article/these-cryptids-proven-to-be-real-give-us-hope-for-these-5-others.

Davis, Leecy. “Seven Species That Used to Be Cryptids.” ScIU, Indiana University Bloomington, 17 Dec. 2020, https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2020/12/12/seven-cryptids-species/.

Dendle, Peter. “Cryptozoology in the Medieval and Modern Worlds.” Folklore, vol. 117, no. 2, 2006, pp. 190–206. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30035486.

DeVito, Carl L. Science, SETI and Mathematics. 1st ed., Berghahn Books, 2013.

Ellis Richard. No Turning Back : The Life and Death of Animal Species. 1st ed. HarperCollins 2004.

Frazier, Kendrick. “Roswell Myth Lives on despite the Established Facts.” Albuquerque Journal, 16 July 2017, https://www.abqjournal.com/1033584/roswell-myth-lives-on-despite-the-established-facts.html.

Hurn, Samantha. Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Researching Encounters with Mysterious Creatures. Routledge, 2016.

Janos, Adam. “What Really Happened at Roswell?” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 18 Dec. 2019, https://www.history.com/news/roswell-ufo-aliens-what-happened.

Jylkka, Katja. “‘Witness the Plesiosaurus’: Geological Traces and the Loch Ness Monster Narrative.” Configurations (Baltimore, Md.), vol. 26, no. 2, 2018, pp. 207–34, https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2018.0012.

Killgrove, Kristina. “Can a Human Cyclops Exist? Historians, Paleontologists, and 'Ancient Aliens' Weigh In.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 26 Sept. 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/09/26/can-a-human-cyclops-exist-historians-paleontologists-and-ancient-aliens-weigh-in/?sh=51130de221b1.

Laviera, Tato. “Puerto Rico’s Chupacabra.” Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 25, no. 2, 2006, pp. 179–82. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23055343.

Lima, Lucas. “Samotherium, the Transitional Fossil Giraffe Relative from Greece.” Edited by Franz Anthony, Earth Archives, Royal Society, 2017, https://eartharchives.org/articles/fossil-vertebrae-reveal-clues-to-evolution-of-long-neck-in-giraffe/index.html.

Loxton, Daniel, and Donald R. Prothero. Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. Columbia University Press, 2013. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.7312/loxt15320.

Mart, T. S., and Mel Cabre. A Guide to Sky Monsters: Thunderbirds, the Jersey Devil, Mothman, and Other Flying Cryptids. Red Lightning Books, 2021.

Mayell, Hillary. “Cyclops Myth Spurred by 'One-Eyed' Fossils?” Science, National Geographic, 3 May 2021, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/news-deinotherium-fossils-crete-mythology-paleontology.

Mayor, Adrienne. The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. https://doi-org.libproxy1.usc.edu/10.1515/9781400838448

Mayor, Adrienne, and Michael Heaney. “Griffins and Arimaspeans.” Folklore, vol. 104, no. 1/2, 1993, pp. 40–66. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1260795.

Ni, Xingjie, et al. “An Ultrathin Invisibility Skin Cloak for Visible Light.” Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), vol. 349, no. 6254, 2015, pp. 1310–14. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac9411.

Saleen, Martin. "The real Loch Ness monster? Researchers make unusual freshwater fossil find." USA Today (Online), Aug 01, 2022. ProQuest, http://libproxy.usc.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.libproxy1.usc.edu/newspapers/real-loch-ness-monster-researchers-make-unusual/docview/2696925168/se-2

Schuttler, Stephanie. “Black Panthers: Cats of Mistaken Identity.” EMammal, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 8 Jan. 2017, https://emammal.si.edu/north-carolinas-candid-critters/blog/black-panthers-cats-mistaken-identity#:~:text=They%20were%20officially%20deemed%20extinct,cougar%20and%20black%20panther%20sightings.

Simpson, George Gaylord. “Mammals and Cryptozoology.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 128, no. 1, 1984, pp. 1–19. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/986487.

Smith, Kerri. “PastCast: Carl Sagan Uses Galileo to Search for Signs of Life.” Nature (London), 2019, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03327-4.

Story, Ronald. The Space-Gods Revealed : a Close Look at the Theories of Erich von Däniken. 1st ed., Harper & Row, 1976.

Sykes, Bryan C., et al. “Genetic Analysis of Hair Samples Attributed to Yeti, Bigfoot and Other Anomalous Primates.” Proceedings: Biological Sciences, vol. 281, no. 1789, 2014, pp. 1–3. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43601578.

--- “Correction to: Genetic Analysis of Hair Samples Attributed to Yeti, Bigfoot and Other Anomalous Primates.” Proceedings: Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1808, 2015, pp. 1–1. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43602120.

Than, Ker. “Rumor or Reality: The Creatures of Cryptozoology.” LiveScience, Purch, 21 Dec. 2010, https://www.livescience.com/11328-rumor-reality-creatures-cryptozoology.html.

Underwood, Phillip J. Cryptid, The University of Southern Mississippi, Ann Arbor, 2010. ProQuest, http://libproxy.usc.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.libproxy1.usc.edu/dissertations-theses/cryptid/docview/742484148/se-2.