Conferences

Other 2008 Conferences

Other upcoming conferences include: The 2008 Flatwoods Monster Anniversary and Flying Saucer Extravaganza, on September 12-13, 2008, will take place at the Alban Art & Conference Center, St. Albans, West Virginia. Speakers include Frank Feschino Jr. and Jeff Wamsley, Stanton T. Friedman, Alfred Lehmberg, John C. Barker, and John Ventri. The Second Annual Honobia Bigfoot Conference in Oklahoma on October 4-5, 2008. Dr. Jeff Meldrum is the keynote speaker, and Paul Compton of Australia will be lecturing, along with various Oklahoma speakers.

Cryptids at Maine Student Book Award Celebration

The Maine Student Book Award Celebration (MSBAC) takes on a decidedly cryptozoological flavor this year. As you read this, I’m in northern Maine, in a secret location filled with librarians and children, getting ready or presently talking about cryptozoology, cryptids, and leading workshops with the kids on casting footprints during a full-day gathering. Actually, other than kidding about the “secret location,” all the rest is true. The MSBAC is occurring on Monday, May 5, 2008, in Penobscot, and I’m there right now, as this is being remotely posted. I’m on site with their out-of-state guest of honor, Kelly Milner Halls, [...]

Radford Tries Being Scientific

Ben Radford tells us how his “science works.” “Lake Monsters I Have Known” sounds like the setup for a bad horror movie or an even worse children’s book. One thing it might not sound like is science. But without science, Ben Radford explained at a recent meeting of New Mexicans for Science and Reason, the stories of the Loch Ness monster and her kin spin out of control in a hurry. Monthly meetings of NMSR, as the organization is known by its members and friends, are the sorts of places you can go to learn about the truly strange — [...]