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Popular Cryptozoology Books

Leaving aside fictions and e-books (including Kindle) here’s a listing of many cryptozoology books that are best selling on Amazon, at least early this afternoon (July 26, 2012). The ranking estimates how many total books are selling better, among the millions offered on Amazon. For example, for the top book listed below, it is estimated that over 17,000 books, of all subjects and genres, are selling better.

There are probably at least several books missing from the following list, for Amazon’s tracking by key-word-by-ranking is flawed.

 #17,216   Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
 #56,929   Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents . . .
 #62,847   Looking for Bigfoot
 #86,724   Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside
 #87,170   Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
#109,058   Claw, Jaws, and Dinosaurs
#112,571   Live Pterosaurs in America (third edition)
#126,528   Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures . . .
#138,762   Cryptozoology A to Z
#191,485   The Michigan Dogman
#217,735   Hunting the American Werewolf
#256,714   Monsters of Texas
#279,244   In Search of Sasquatch
#284,297   Bigfoot! – The True Story of Apes in America
#330,533   Monsters of West Virginia: Mysterious Creatures
#338,493   Monsters of New Jersey
#391,860   Big Bird
#415,823   Monsters of Wisconsin
#503,215   Monster Hunt: The Guide to Cryptozoology
#538,971   The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology
#579,074   Monster Spotter’s Guide to North America
#582,746   Monsters of Illinois
#590,608   (first edition) LPA
#598,622   Cryptozoology: Science & Speculation
#612,581   Cryptozoology  (by 10 authors)
#714,718   Searching for Ropens (second edition)
#745,709   Monsters Caught on Film
#791,541   The Beasts that Hide from Man . . .
#793,042   Dinosaurs – Dead or Alive
#865,610   Missionaries and Monsters
#971,962   Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide to Hidden Animals . . .

(Books with rankings over a million are not included in the above list.)

For years, Cryptozoology A to Z, by Loren Coleman, was almost always the best selling book of this genre on Amazon. The publication of Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, by Josh Gates (a television star of the true-adventure genre), put an end to that reign. For the past few years, the best my book could do (Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition), was to be the best seller among books about modern living pterosaurs.

I have often found it difficult to determine why my LPA sometimes has a surge in sales. Perhaps a small-town newspaper somewhere published something about eyewitness accounts of living pterosuars. Perhaps a blog writer mentioned my book. Who knows?

Pterosaur Tail Vane

An eyewitness recently made it clear that the flying creature she had recently observed had a long tail and a horizontal tail vane at tail’s end.

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front and back covers of "Live Pterosaurs in America" nonfiction book

From page 86 of the nonfiction cryptozoology book Live Pterosaurs in America (third edition):

Without sightings of apparent living pterosaurs in Texas, and without reports of brilliantly glowing ropens in the southwest Pacific, I would hesitate speculating about bioluminescent flying predators near Marfa. I understand how difficult it must be for scientists who have never been exposed to those human experiences, how hard to consider the revolutionary idea I suggest. Yet how easy it is to underestimate the magnificent potential of life! And how wonderful it will be to discover a revolutionary new living species!

South Carolina Sighting

sketch of the South Carolina PterosaurSusan Wooten first communicated with me, by email, in 2007, and I was delighted that she wanted to share her sighting with others. Over the years, she has established her credibility as a reliable eyewitness of what Western society is sometimes unprepared to accept: Some Americans, sometimes, see flying creatures that can only be described as living pterosaurs. Please consider now her testimony in light of other accounts.

South Carolina Pterosaur

Susan Wooten, of Greenville, South Carolina, was driving from Greenville to Florence (about 1989) when she saw a giant creature glide over the highway. . . . “It looked as big as any car, and had NO feathers, not like a huge crane or egret. . . . it swooped down over the highway and back up gracefully over the pines.” . . . a remote swampy area.

A number of other web pages include parts of Susan Wooten’s testimony of what she observed flying over the highway in South Carolina years ago. It’s important to consider related eyewitness accounts, for some critics have sought to simply dismiss this account as if it were an anomaly. But many Americans have reported similar creatures flying in many states of the United States, from California to Maine and from Washington state to Florida.

Also keep in mind that Ms. Wooten has been interviewed a number of times, over several years, and she is clear about her frame of mind when the sighting happened: She was not under the influence of anything that could have caused her to hallucinate. In addition, several other witnesses stopped their cars on the side of the highway right after the creature had flown overhead; that verifies that she was not alone in observing something very strange.

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"Live Pterosaurs in America" nonfiction book front coverShocking? Perhaps, but it is true. Did you know that living pterosaurs have been reported in North America, even in the United States? Read the many eyewitness sighting reports;  buy the nonfiction cryptozoology book Live Pterosaurs in America, on Amazon or from the publisher. Your purchase shall help support this research.

One reader said, “I found this book very interesting. . . . The problem with science is that we think we know it all and that is far from reality. This book shows courage to continue the search. If you have an interest in cryptozoology you should read this.” (Dale Reeder, Pennsylvania)

This has been the number-one best-selling book, by far, on Amazon.com for nonfiction books about living pterosaurs. (late 2009 through mid-2010, compared with “Searching for Ropens,” “Dinosaurs, Dead or Alive,” and “Big Bird.”) Find out why by reading it yourself.

It includes many details not available on web pages, including much about Susan Wooten’s sighting in South Carolina.