Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman

Flash Frozen? Siberian Baby Raises Old Questions

Fifty years ago, Bernard Heuvelmans collected and published reports of modern sightings of supposedly extinct mammoths seen alive today, in the boreal forests of Siberia. Thoughts that mammoths had survived probably stemmed from finds of extremely fresh specimens thawing out of the tundra’s permafrost. Two questions, one cryptozoological and the other Fortean, nevertheless, are raised whenever there is new talk of such discoveries: (1) Did these mammoths live during contemporary times with modern humans, as discussed by Heuvelmans and others? (2) Were they frozen in a quick “flash freeze” incident, as first noted by Ivan T. Sanderson? In Sanderson’s 1960 [...]

Recent New Species in Pictures

Sometimes a “new species” to the media is one only new to the area and/or out-of-place… Squacco Heron. Humboldt Penguin. Infrequently, a new species is a surprising discovery, unique to zoology… Eleutherodactylus Frog. Atelopus Frog.

Tatzelwurm Sources and Notes

Tatzelwurm, Source Alp Johann Nepomuk Ritter von Alpenburg: Mythen und Sagen Tirols, Zürich, 1857 And Roy Chapman Andrews: Auf der Fährte des Urmenschen, Leipzig, 1927, pp. 93-94 BN Blätter für Naturkunde und Naturschutz, Wien, 21.Jhg. 1934, pp. 22-23, 40-41 Bre1 Prof.Dr.Otto zur Strassen (Editor): Brehms Tierleben, Vierte Auflage Band 5, Lurche und Kriechtiere – Band 2, Leipzig und Wien, 1913 Bre2 Dr.Theo Jahn (Editor): Brehms Neue Tierenzyklopädie, Band 9, Reptilien, Amphibien, Freiburg-Basel-Wien, 1976 Bre3 Dr. Vincenz Brehm: Der Tazzelwurm, in: Natur und Land, 1949/1950, pp. 174-75 Dal Prof.Dr.K.W.von Dalla Torre: Die Drachensage im Alpengebiet, in: Zeitschrift des Deutschen und Österreichischen [...]

Tazelwurm – Part II – The Catalogue

This is the analytic list of observations of the Tatzelwurm as compiled by Austrian cryptozoologist Luis Schönherr on the cryptid Tatzelwurm. The beginnings of this, through incomplete portions first published in Pursuit, will now be fully shared by the author with the cryptozoology community. My sincere thanks to the efforts of French cryptozoologist Michel Raynal, for bringing this material to light. Please refer to sources and references in the final installment, as well as full credit to Luis Schönherr’s son, Martin Schönherr. A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS In order to obtain a general view of the distribution and the phenomenal characteristics [...]