Ding-dong the dog is dead Which old dog? The wicked dog Ding-dong the wicked dog is dead Wake up you sleepyhead Rub your eyes, get out of bed Wake up the wicked dog is dead He’s gone where the goblins go. The story of the Maine Mutant or Mystery Beast of Turner, Maine, has just begun. Scholars, scoundrels, and skeptics will write about the case for years, attempting to prove that it says something sinister about the gullibility of humans. But the story is one deeper than that, of media, madness, and mayhem, of jealousy, joining, and journeys. But we’ve [...]
Loren Coleman
Beast of Bladenboro
The following is a guest article by Jefferson Weaver, former reporter at the Bladen Journal of Bladen, North Carolina. Coverage of "beast" became real monster for Bladenboro By Jefferson Weaver Staff Writer Whether or not a hungry monster really stalked Bladenboro in December of 1953 and January of 1954, there was a Beast in Bladenboro bigger than anything on four feet. Press coverage. "Bladenboro has received a lot of front page publicity in the state press," one newspaper writer reported when the "crisis" was over. Writing in the Bladen Journal, publisher Norman McCullough joked that if the beast were ever [...]
100% Dog
+++++UPDATE++++ See my September 2, 2006, update on this story, at “Gone Where The Goblins Go”. +++++++++ The Lewiston, Maine, Sun Journal, in a late online update for September 1, 2006, is reporting that DNA results show that the animal carcass found on the side of Route 4 in Turner, Maine, belonged to a species that is 100% dog, according to HealthGene of Toronto. Check back tomorrow for more details from Mark LaFlamme’s discussion and my thoughts on the matter. Here I am with the carcass of the beast, a wee dog that grew to be a Maine Mutant Monster. [...]
Bigfoot Contactees: 50 Years of Coquettishness
In my California days, when I began looking into the reports of people having intimate encounters with hairy bipedal beasts, I use to file them away as "Bigfoot contactees." Nowadays, these kinds of accounts are becoming more frequent, or at least, more frequently discussed. Can we open-mindedly talk about cases like these, and come away feeling different about the reports given by Thom Powell in his book, The Locals: A Contemporary Investigation of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch Phenomenon, and those shared by Janice Carter Coy and Mary Alayne Green in their infamous tome? In other words, can we accept some of what [...]
Lassie & Nessie
The new Lassie movie opens September 1, 2006, and I predict it will be a runaway hit with babyboomers who use the excuse their kids want to go see it. For Cryptomundo readers, I hope someone reports back soon on what happens during the appearance of the Loch Ness Monster and lochside researchers (Edward Fox playing one of them) during Nessie’s cameo in the motion picture. Set just before World War II, this cinema version returns us to its original plot apparently, but was the Loch Ness Monster in the first version of this?
Cryptozoology Exhibit Moves To Kansas City
Alexis Rockman’s art is at Bates College. Have you seen Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale yet? You better hurry. There are museums across the country that give unique learning opportunities through the gateway of cryptozoology. I encourage everyone – friends, fans, parents, teachers, professors – to look to the museums and exhibitions that are popular and fun for students and youth and you! For example, the on-going exhibition Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale continues in Maine, at Bates College, through October 8, 2006. Then it moves to Missouri. If you wish to see it, have your class tour [...]
Snowbeast’s Stefano Dies
Joseph Stefano appears in a publicity photo with one of his monster creations. Joseph Stefano, who will be most remembered in the mainstream media as the scriptwriter for the plot twist in Psycho, according to the Washington Post, has died of a heart attack August 25 at the Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California. He was 84. From a cinematic cryptofictional point of view, Stefano will be most recalled, however, affectionately for several television and motion picture achievements dealing with creatures and monsters. His life appeared to have always pointed in that direction. When he started [...]
Injun Devils
There are many offensive terms for different kinds of people. The list is long. One phrase that you will find in old records and some modern ones, denoting Native Americans or American Indians, is “Injun.” The exact origins of “Injun” are lost in time, but dictionaries will tell you that the word seems to have surfaced in 1805-1815, as a variation of “Indian,” through assibilation (the act of changing a name by pronouncing it with a hissing or whistling sound). Scholarly sources even compare “Injun” to what happened in 1875-1880, to those who settled in Louisiana and Maine, descended from [...]
Enter the Cryptosphere
I’ve been on the road for two weeks, but have to stop off here to share this August 29, 2006, editorial in the Portland, Maine Press Herald with you. Surprisingly, I discovered it was mostly written by Theo Stein, a former Denver Post reporter who has penned some of the most thoughtful, intelligent articles examining the science of hominology (the sincere study of Bigfoot and other unknown hairy hominoids) of recent note. Tuesday, August 29, 2006 EDITORIAL: Fortean Maine provides much to inspire fans of the weird Stinging ocean blobs, sharks and, of course, the mutant Beast of Turner. It’s [...]
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