Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman

Dog-Sized Toadzilla Captured

The Associated Press is reporting in breaking news dispatches this morning that the environmental group Frogwatch has found a toad the size of a small dog. They captured the 15-inch-long cane toad (Bufo marinus) during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin, Australia, late Monday, March 26, 2007. Frogwatch says the toad is the size of a football (they don’t identify what kind, but the Australian organization’s spokesperson is probably talking about what we Americans call a “soccer ball.”) The toad weighs 2 pounds, and is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to [...]

Lake Champlain Thunderbird

The Lake Champlain Sea Serpent in “Feathery Form” Visits Elizabethtown Clinton County papers report that the Lake Champlain Sea Serpent was seen off Cumberland Head early last week. Reputable men who were returning from Plattsburgh to their home on Cumberland Head discovered the huge monster performing in the water and but a short distance from the shore. We quote the following lines from the Plattsburgh Sentinel of Sept. 21, 1894: “That it was a living monster of some kind, there is no room to doubt. Indeed, we have never seriously questioned the substantial accuracy of the numerous accounts of this [...]

History Channel Visit

I’m taking a break from working with the History Channel crew that is here now. They are setting up the place for an interview with me to be shown on a forthcoming cryptozoology series. Lighting always takes more than people who haven’t gone through this can imagine. There’s the sunlight coming in from outside, the light bouncing off glass, the backlight, frontlight, right or left side shooting angle, and more. It does take awhile. They are working hard, but don’t want a soda. They are on task. The crew has been in Maine for a few days, taping interviews upstate, [...]