Cryptozoology Book
Modern Pterosaurs: Dragons
Living Pterosaur Investigators
It has turned into a major revision, not just
with a few new eyewitness sightings: major
improvements and many additions. It should
have an official publication date early in
2012, but sale copies will probably become
available [soon] after Christmas.
Paul Nation has explored in Papua New Guinea at
least four times, searching for modern living
pterosuars. No other American visitor to these
remote tropical areas has explored as many time
as Nation has, in this new field of cryptozoology:
living-pterosaur investigations.
We live in a world in which modern Westerners, at
least many respectable or respected ones, have
believed all magical dragons to be only legendary
and all pterosaurs to be extinct and even more
ancient; also in this world, many natives, whom
we had assumed more primitive or less gifted than
us, have believed all dragons to be real and either
magical or spiritually gifted. In some areas, they
believe dragons to be both ancient and modern.
What if all of us have been only partially correct?
What if dragons are not so much ancient as modern,
not so much magical as physically gifted, not so
much legendary as real?
The nonfiction cryptozoology book “Searching for Dragons,” with a predicted publication date
of sometime early in 2012, is the third edition of “Searching for Ropens,” by Jonathan Whitcomb
Up to date as of July 27, 2011
Searching for Dragons Site
Although Whitcomb admits that nobody has yet
come up with a clear photograph to disprove . . .
declarations that all pterosaurs are extinct,
he disputes the suggestion that the ropen is
an unknown bat . . .
Quotations From Preliminary Version of Searching for Dragons
From the Introduction
I read of a missionary in Venezuela who knew of a
native tradition about a “giant bat” that had once
terrified natives near the Erebato River. I emailed
the missionary, asking about this legend of people
being carried away to be eaten. His reply intrigued
me, for the natives don’t just repeat the story but
practice a related custom: Because the creature was
once seen defecating into a river after eating a
human, the natives, from that time until now, never
drink the water of that river. (“Erebato” means
“feces of the bat.”)
From Chapter One of the Book
Searching for Dragons
Paul Nation, cryptozoologist
Jonathan Whitcomb, author of
Searching for Dragons, is now
writing the third edition of
this cryptozoology book. The
previous editions were titled
“Searching for Ropens.”
The third edition should be
on sale early in 2012, at
the latest.
Whitcomb has consulted for
both Destination Truth and
MonsterQuest.
From Chapter Four
“Within a minute or so it had reached our position
and was about 250 or 300 feet above us and slightly
inland. The area was moderately well lit and I saw
that it seemed to be a light reddish-tan color. It
did not appear to be covered with feathers but had
a leathery texture.
“Soon after it passed us, it flew over a more brightly
lit sports area which highlighted even more the leathery
appearance, also bringing more detail to view. The wings
were the most definite leathery feature . . . The body
also still appeared leathery, though textured as though
possibly covered with fine hair or small scales . . .”
Live Pterosaur
Jonathan David Whitcomb