abominable snowman

Stories of the Abominable Snowman first emerged in Western popular culture in the 19th century.

An international team of scientists, led by Charlotte Lindqvist, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York in Buffalo, recently submitted their findings to the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B after studying what had been claimed to be hair from an abominable snowman or yeti.

When he does, the monsters from Stine's novels come alive, including a vampire poodle, an abominable snowman and a werewolf.

He is helped (or should that be hindered) with his evil plans by Eugene, the cutest Abominable Snowman minion ever created and Mister 8, a multi-tasking octopus who can knit and hack the Internet at the same time!

But somehow the motoring Yeti has transformed our perception of the abominable snowman as some sort of lovable, furry creature.

Other topics in the series cover the abominable snowman, Atlantis, aliens, witches and zombies.

Among the entries are the 1957 movie The Abominable Snowman, car-chasing Sasquatch, Glamic Castle ghoul in Scotland, kidnapped by Bigfoot, Mapinguari in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, the Pamir Mountain monster in Central Asia, the shug monkey of Rendlesham Forest in England, 21st-century Sasquatch, and Zana and the half-human controversy.

Pixar regular John Ratzenberger can also be heard as the Abominable Snowman.

After examining the nature of science and pseudoscience and their relation to cryptozoology, Loxton and Prothero take on Bigfoot; the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, and its cross-cultural incarnations; the Loch Ness monster and its highly publicized sightings; the evolution of the Great Sea Serpent; and Mokele Mbembe, or the Congo dinosaur.

Stine, who is Jewish, has been called "the Stephen King of children's literature," and his legendary villains, like Slappy the Dummy and The Abominable Snowman, haunted my nightmares.

(RE)ANIMATION MANIA: "Cheers'' star John Ratzenberger played the wise cracking piggy bank in "Toy Story'' and the Abominable Snowman in "Monster Inc.'' Jeffrey Combs is star of "Re-Animator,'' as well as "Star Trek: Enterprise'' and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' fame will be in attendance, as will Combs' "The Frighteners'' castmates Dee Wallace and Jake Busey.

Each creature stepped forth and performed energetically Their Halloween act and did so alphabetically: The Abominable Snowman, known as a Yeti, Celebrated the night by tossing confetti.