Scores of people in the media find their way to me, oftentimes to ask where they can obtain this or that image. In the case of the recent series of Bigfoot movies on the Sci-Fi Channel, TV Guide approached me asking if I could help them with the rights to a frame from the Patterson-Gimlin film. Needless to say, I sent them to Mrs. Patterson and René Dahinden’s heirs to purchase and obtain permission. For people that missed it, here’s what TV Guide produced: Please click on the image for a full size version. Interestingly, the editorial board room discussions [...]
Boing Boing Podcast
My interview with Boing Boing has been posted by David Pescovitz. Travel over to Boing Boing by clicking here to find the links to the podcast and other links. Here’s what David has to say… Friday, October 6, 2006 Get Illuminated! podcast with Loren Coleman On this week’s edition of Get Illuminated! we chatted with Loren Coleman. As BB readers know, Loren is the world’s leading cryptozoologist who has spent the last four decades studying "hidden animals," from Bigfoot and Yeti to Nessie and Chupacabras, and the culture surrounding them. He blogs about his curious findings at Cryptomundo and is [...]
New Discovery: Yariguíes Brush-Finch
There’s great news from a remote mountain range in northern Colombia. A bird species new to science has been discovered! The Yariguíes Brush-Finch (Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum), a large and colorful finch with black, yellow and red plumage, first described in the June 2006 issue of the scientific journal Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club, is gaining new and acknowledged notice throughout the zoological world this week. According to a recent news release from Conservation International, “the bird is named for the Yariguíes indigenous people who formerly inhabited the mountain range where the bird was found.” “The description of a new [...]
More Sea Serpents
The other day I mentioned the modern void of Cassie reports here. I also recommended people revisit “All Things Maine” blogger Christopher Dunham good overview of “The Sea Serpents of Mount Desert Island.” Today, Chris posted this: More Sea Serpents of Maine Loren Coleman was kind enough to mention again my post from a year ago on the Sea Serpents of Mount Desert Island. This inspired me to dig up some serpent testimonials of later date, from locations ranging from Biddeford to Vinalhaven and Rockland. Chris then shares the text of Sea Serpent articles from: Daily Kennebec Journal, May 26, [...]
Cartergate: Follow The Money
I sometimes get the feeling that scandals are breaking out all around us. It seems to be happening in Washington D.C. this week, and I wonder when it’s going to occur in Tennessee. Myth or Real? Illustrating an alleged encounter: Janice meeting Fox in house’s basement, April 2002. Click to make Bigfoot even bigger. My brother Jerry D. Coleman’s "A Carter Farm Investigation – Part Four" has now been posted. The observations are good, and some of the photographs (see below) stimulated, shared, and debated in this melodrama clearly show a difference of opinion on even the landscape of the [...]
Lost World Is Coming
Look what Peter von Puttkamer is bringing to Discovery HD Theater on December 14th, on Animal Planet, December 10th and 17th, 2006, and in Canada on OLN Cable, December 17th, 2006: The Real Lost World. Peter is the director of the successful 2002 series, Monster Hunters, and my all-time favorite documentary about the quest, Sasquatch Odyssey: The Hunt for Bigfoot. This image of the movie poster may be clicked on to enlarge. Of the individuals highlighted on the poster, I only know Dean Harrison, recently of Australia, who has been a helpful and good research associate of mine. Anyone know [...]
Where is Cassie?
I look forward to seeing folks at the closing reception at Bates’s exhibition “Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale,” on October 7th. In the meantime, I will be pondering why it has been so many years since anyone has seen Cassie, the Casco Bay Sea Serpent. Cassie, the local name I coined long ago in a magazine to characterize these cryptids seen near Portland, Maine, was bestowed in the same tradition that many freshwater and marine creature monikers are given – with passion, humor, and a nod to Nessie. As it turns out, of course, Portland is not alone in [...]
Happy Birthday!
October 2nd is my father’s & my grandfather’s birthday, and October 3rd is my brother Jerry’s birthday. Jerry’s the last one alive in that triad. But there’s another one. The three Coleman brothers. Happy 55th, bro. As to the Brothers Coleman, they are Bill, Jerry, and that’s me holding the ball. Click on image for a larger version. Here’s Jerry’s take on "Growing Up Coleman", followed by his book covers. And for just fun, this cartoon again, as it reminds me of all the picnics with my family in the Midwest. Click image for full-size version
By George: Schaller, A Misquoted Cryptozoologist?
Has Bigfoot’s newest spokesperson stumbled or been grossly misquoted? How factual is the popular reporting on what famous people say about cryptozoological topics or animals they discover? How much can you rely on the background facts apparently noted in a newspaper in India or a foreword in a book to tell us what famed mountain gorilla researcher and promoter George B. Schaller (above) thinks about Bigfoot? I guess it depends on what you feel is more closely reflecting George Schaller’s past statements and the actual realities. In a new biographical sketch of Schaller in The Hindu Times, examine this selection [...]
Rarer Than Thylacines
Only 30 exist in Maine and they won’t become visible for sightings until October 7, 2006. Overall, only 200 are known to be around, and some of those already have vanished into private hands. They are almost extinct, although just discovered, and the entire group will disappear soon, mostly into private collections. What in the world could I be talking about? Would you believe one of the rarest of rare books to be published on cryptozoology, the volume that contains the exhibition catalogue and essays from the Bates College program? If you are interested in having me pick up a [...]
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