The International Cryptozoology Museum (ICM) is sharing its contents through the end of 2006. Over 100 of some of the most significant large and small items from the ICM’s collection are included in my specific room at the new Bates College exhibition, “Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale.” Then, in October, the objects from that gathering and the other artists’ collections move to Kansas City. The entire traveling exhibition will be there through January 2007. Some of the items from the International Cryptozoology Museum’s collection, contained in my installation at Bates, probably will include: – 8 ft-tall, 500 pound “Crookston [...]
Idaho Bigfoot Gathering + 104 years
Don’t forget to peek in on the giant Bigfoot Rendevous at Idaho State Universtity next weekend. The lineup of speakers is top-notch. The graphic arts promotion by Falling Rock Production has been outstanding. Meanwhile, here’s one version of the Pocatello area’s oldest Bigfoot story. Marion Daily Star, Marion, Ohio January 28, 1902 EIGHT FOOT WILD MAN SCARES PARTY OF SKATERS Salt Lake News Has a Live Correspondent at Pocatello. Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. 28. — The News’ Pocatello, Idaho, correspondent is responsible for the story of the appearance recently in Chesterfield, Bannock county, of a wild man eight feet in [...]
Lake Worth Monster Resurfaces
One of the enlightening side events at a speaking engagement is the media. University publicity relations people, television reporters, radio talk show hosts, and newspaper writers want your time, and all come with their own special interests and bias. Sometimes, of course, it digs up old stories and develops new details. In Texas last weekend, one reporter, Bud Kennedy, from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, was there early and talked to me for quite a while before the event. Since Ben Radford was speaking first and busy with preparing for his talk, I gave Kennedy a tour of the exhibition and [...]
Pflock Dies
Skeptic Karl Pflock passed away at 3:16 P.M. Mountain Time on June 5, 2006, at his home in Placitas, New Mexico. Karl was an intelligent and faithful friend, who, in the past, served his country as a Marine, a CIA officer, and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Deputy Director) for Operational Test and Evaluation. He was well-known in anomalist circles as a thoughtful critical thinker. Most of his writings dealt in areas outside of cryptozoology, although he did dip into Bigfoot criticism.
Random Notes from Texas: The Bigfoot Exhibition
Random Notes from Texas June 2, 2006 As Craig Woolheater said to Skeptical Inquirer’s Ben Radford and me, after circling for the third time to get a drive-by view of the Alamo, "Now, we can remember the Alamo!" To me, the thing I think that I will most remember about San Antonio is the quite impressive Bigfoot exhibition that Craig has stimulated via curator Willie Mendez at the University of Texas San Antonio’s Institute of Texan Cultures. We got a sneak preview Friday night. As you walk into the darkened beginning section of the huge display, you are taken down [...]
Green Swamp Ape
Speaking in Texas on June 3, 2006, here’s a sneak peek at what I’ll be showing related to the 2004 Jennifer Ward sighting of the Green Swamp Ape. Jennifer Ward’s sighting has been difficult to understand, and place in context. But I think it has a lot to do with how shocking her initial drawing was. Her first attempt to draw the creature was elementary, but especially surprising in one detail: the light patches encircling the eyes. Made bigger and colored by some media, it became the definitive image with the sighting. Cryptozoologist Scott Marlowe, however, brought her together with [...]
Off to Texas
On Saturday, June 3, 2006, I’ll be giving a talk at the University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas, on "Malaysian Mawas, Flores Hobbits, and Witness Drawings from a Cryptozoological Point of View." I hope to see some Cryptomundo readers there. I’ll be happy to sign your books or talk about the latest cryptozoo news. For more on the event, see here.
“Fence Fiend” Just Sighted
This “Fence Fiend” was seen in Illinois merely days ago. It may still be out there. What could it be? There’s a breaking sighting that just occurred in the 309 Area Code region. Some encounters don’t easily sort out as a Bigfoot versus some kind of other cryptid, without going through hours of work, including site examinations, eyewitness background checks, interviews, comparisons with other reports, and more. Taking that all into account, nevertheless, I thought I would share the initial wave of early notes on this encounter, as a Cryptomundo demonstration of how word often comes to me and how [...]
Abominable’s Paul Gleason Dies
Known and remembered for his dozens of character roles, such as the angry high school principal in The Breakfast Club to the teacher in National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, actor Paul Gleason, 67, died May 27, 2006. Shortly before his death, Gleason appeared as the no-nonsense disbelieving Sheriff Halderman in Ryan Schifrin’s Abominable (2006), which aired in May 2006, on the SciFi Channel. He is shown in the role drinking from a cup with part of the slogan he made famous from this line: "Don’t mess with the bull, young man. You’ll get the horns."– Principal Vernon in The Breakfast Club. [...]
Wisconsin Bigfoot’s Bad Hair Day
Former newspaper reporter and current Wisconsin cryptozoological author Linda Godfrey was able to get the late 2005 sighting of Matt Wakeley in her new book, Hunting the American Werewolf, published in March 2006. But it wasn’t until recently that she was able to sit down with the eyewitness and turn his description into a forensically-correct drawing. Here is the result: Wakely’s sighting took place near White Pigeon Road and Highway B, in southeastern Walworth County, Wisconsin, last fall. But as the author of the successful 2003 book, The Beast of Bray Road, Godfrey writes: “I’d like to make it very [...]
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