Monsters are Real!

Ken Gerhard was born on Friday, October 13th, 1967 in Lansing, Michigan – exactly one week before the Patterson Bigfoot footage was filmed in California. His parents were Canadian immigrants. While Ken’s father worked as a forestry professor, his mother a travel agent, mesmerized him with tales of a strange being known as the Mothman. Growing up as a boy in Minnesota, Ken watched a Tv special about Bigfoot and was enthralled. Soon after, he visited an exhibit at the state fair, which featured a frozen man-like creature known as the Minnesota Iceman. He started to read everything he could on the subject of real monsters. At age nine, Ken’s family traveled to South America where they camped along the Amazon, hiked the Andes and cruised the Galapagos. He quickly developed a passion for both animals and natural mysteries. His mother subsequently arranged trips to Australia and Switzerland, where Ken was intrigued by stories of legendary creatures like the bunyip and tatzelwurm. By age fifteen, he attempted his first research at Scotland’s Loch Ness, questioning the locals about Nessie while he patrolled the shores of the lake with a camera. Following a successful music career which spanned fifteen years, Gerhard began doing extensive field work with some of the top Bigfoot researchers in Texas. Traveling across North America, he investigated weird creatures like Wisconsin’s Beast of Bray Road and Ohio’s Loveland Frog. In 2004, Ken led an expedition to the mountains of Belize, in order to search for mystery hominids known as the Dwendi and Sisemite, returning there in 2006. Later that same year, he was featured in the Travel Channel Tv series Legend Hunters. During 2007, Ken’s book – Big Bird! Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters was published. It summarized his years of research into reports of gigantic, birdlike creatures over south Texas. He subsequently appeared on the first season of the series Monster Quest (History Channel), to discuss thunderbirds. In season two, Gerhard was featured in the Monster Quest episode dealing with the mysterious Chupacabra. In 2009, he appeared in an episode about flying humanoids over Mexico, titled Terror From the Sky. Recently, Ken was featured in the two-hour History Channel special, The Real Wolfman, as well as the National Geographic special Paranatural – Chupacabra.

Ken Gerhard is a noted cryptozoologist and field researcher for the Centre for Fortean Zoology and Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization, as well as a fellow of the Pangea Institute and a consultant for several paranormal groups. He has investigated reports of monsters and mysterious creatures all over the world including man beasts, lake monsters, the Chupacabra, winged monsters and even werewolves. In addition to appearing on television, Ken has appeared on numerous, radio and Internet broadcasts. His credits include appearances on Eyewitness News, Coast to Coast Radio and Ireland’s Newstalk Radio, as well as being featured in major books, DVDs and in articles by the Associated Press, Tampa Tribune and Amarillo Edge. Ken is author of the books Big Bird! Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters and Monsters are Real! and has contributed to publications including Animals and Men, The Journal of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club and Bigfoot Times. He has lectured at the Southern Crypto Conference, Texas Ghost Conference, GhostTech Con, VAPRCon, MUFON meetings and has exhibited at paranormal events all over the United States. Ken has traveled around the world to twenty-six different countries and has visited forty-three of the states. An avid adventurer, he has visited many ancient and mysterious sites, from Machu Pichu to Stonehenge.