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Nonfiction Stephen King

Loren Coleman of Portland talks about cryptozoology, or the study of unknown and undiscovered animals, on Saturday, July 5, 2008, at Fort Knox. (Bangor Daily News/Bridget Brown) Over the weekend, unbeknownst to me, the Bangor Daily News ran an online article about the conference being held up at Prospect, Maine. Here’s part of what they had to say online and in their newspaper today (I couldn’t help myself, however, as I’ve corrected the various wrong ways the paper spelled “Bigfoot”): Loren Coleman, often referred to as “Maine’s nonfiction Stephen King,” sat behind a table filled with models and artwork of [...]

John Hodgman (”PC Guy”) Backs Cryptozoology Museum

Genius, comedian, scholar, humorist, author, and man of letters, John Hodgman is known by most today as the “PC Guy” in the Apple ads. (Of course, Hodgman is pro-Mac, having had one since 1984, like I have, but that’s neither here nor there or anyplace else, really.) I think John Hodgman is the world’s most intelligent comedian, and his interest in cryptozoology is well-known to a few, especially hobo friends of mine. His book, The Areas of My Expertise, will be upheld by future generations as one of the brightest pieces of 21st century literature, as it could well be [...]

In Search of Thylacine Replicas

Matthew Bille, author of Shadows of Existence and other books, approached me with a question over the weekend, which I have seriously pondered often: Where are the Thylacine replicas? Does no one produce affordable, hard-plastic, scale-model, museum-quality representations of the Thylacine (a.k.a. Tasmanian Tiger)? Does not Thylacinus cynocephalus, the wolf-headed pouched dog, one of the celebrities of extinct animals thought to be a living cryptid, deserve a replica? Such replicas are helpful in lectures, exhibitions, and educational demonstrations about well-known and often-mentioned current or recent cryptid expeditions and research. Where are the Thylacine models? Surely, it would be as popular [...]

The Cryptozoology Season

Is there a new public attack on the Bigfoot and Sasquatch research work of Grover Krantz to be launched soon in London? Or, actually, less melodramatically, what will be said? Cryptozoology Season at the Grant Museum: The Grant Museum is located at the University College London – Gower Street – London – WC1E 6BT – United Kingdom +44 (0)20 7679 2000. The Grant Museum is taking advantage of the popularity of “cryptozoology” by putting on a variety of lectures in what they call “The Cryptozoology Season.” I especially hope some learned cryptozoologists, hominologists, and colleagues get to hear the one [...]

Cryptozoology Museum Internships

On June 1st, I launched a call for applications for one or two unpaid volunteers or interns, if you will, at the International Cryptozoology Museum, here as part of my home/office/musuem in Portland, Maine, for the summer of 2008. Here’s a reminder of that call: Are you an extremely well-organized person? Are you a happily obsessive compulsive person that can deal with a seasoned but not cranky cryptozoologist? Do you have a passion for cryptozoology? Would you enjoy filing Bigfoot reports, sorting through 45 years’ worth of boxes of old news accounts, correspondence, and contributed photos? Actually helping in moving [...]