High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cryptid Hunters is a 2004 novel by Roland Smith about twins living with their uncle who fall out of a plane into the Congolese jungle. Their uncle comes searching for them, but his enemy Noah Blackwood is in the same jungle, and their uncle must get to them before Blackwood does. Cryptid Hunters was on the 2007-2008 Lone Star Reading List and took 3rd Place in the Missouri Association of School Librarians` Mark Twain Readers Award. Prior to Smith`s 2009 visit to the Talawanda Middle School in Oxford, Ohio, its students read Cryptid Hunters. Smith gave a lecture on the book to a literature class and signed copies.