My gosh, now the media is throwing in Chupacabras to explain the Orangutan-Fox Squirrel-Spider Monkey reports from Baker County, Florida. Also, the Skunk Ape, Bigfoot, and something called the “Taylor Wild Man” are being pitched too. At least, they haven’t caught on to the Cryptomundian theory that it is a tree-stranded otter. Mark Lyons observes the trap set by FWC. Look, up in the tree. It’s a plane, it’s a bird, it’s … well, no one knows for sure exactly what it is. A sighting three weeks ago of what appeared to be a large, orange colored monkey in a [...]
International Cryptozoology Museum Video
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BBtv Visits the International Cryptozoology Museum
BBtv, which is the popular blog site Boing Boing’s new television outlet, has broadcast their feature on “Cryptozoology” today, November 20th, 2007. Celebrity personality Xeni Jardin writes of the program: Cryptozoology with Loren Coleman and BBG’s Joel Johnson By Xeni Jardin Yeti, sea serpents, Sasquatch — fantasy creatures or flesh-and-blood biological oddities? Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson visits the Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine to explore these cryptid enigmas and more. Joel speaks with the museum’s founder, blogger and cryptozoology expert Loren Coleman, who is also the author of Mysterious America. To view the video, click on “International Cryptozoology [...]
The Curious Case of Mr. Holmes and the Mystery Ape
“Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.” ~ Sherlock Holmes, in The Adventure of the Abbey Grange. The serial melodrama apparently continues. To tell you the truth, when I read the headline to the story late last night (November 18, 2007), “Bear trap set for mysterious ape,” I chuckled to myself. I immediately thought: “Dang, someone’s decided to finally attempt to catch Jacobs mangy bear.” But I read on, and was more startled than enlightened by what I [...]
Watch the Skies! Here Comes Birdzilla!
Get ready. They are coming. Not by land or sea, but by the airwaves. The invasion has begun. They are here! Have you noticed that when the thoughtful pieces on cryptozoology turn up, the segments are populated by “friends of the family,” commenting on the subjects under discussion? Have you also noticed the manufactured tension in these appearances? Often the media naturally sets up the “good cop, bad cop” scenario for their stories, and you should expect to see it again this week (if not on the History Channel, certainly in the stories done in the wake of “Birdzilla”). How [...]
“Bigfooters” Know-It-Alls During Ape Investigations
The unfolding story of the sightings and examination of “orangutan sightings” in Florida has taken a new twist. Apparently, at least one self-proclaimed “Bigfoot investigator” from an unidentified “Bigfoot research group” is messing with the local authorities in Florida. I’ve never found it an effective forensic interviewing technique to use terms like “Bigfoot” with local wildlife or law enforcement officers, let along eyewitnesses, in terms of gathering primary information. Let’s be frank. That’s just not good form, and totally unscientific to boot. Take what people say as their experience of the animal being seen. Record it, ask more questions and [...]
Monster Quest: Meldrum Comments
Jeff Meldrum, Ph. D., Idaho State University, emailed me late last night. He shares his insights regarding the “Sasquatch Attack” episode of the History Channel’s recently broadcast “Monster Quest” program. Below are his unedited remarks, given for clarification, from the point of view of someone who was there: Loren ~ I’m running a couple days behind this week. 1. Bear in mind that the result is based on a mere 300 nucleotide sequence. This is extremely small data set. Results based on that short a sequence would never get published for any study, let alone one as controversial as this. [...]
When Oliver Was Bigfoot
Oliver is not a Sasquatch, but you might not have known that in the 1970s. Articles about Oliver being a Bigfoot were written in all seriousness. But Oliver is a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Unfortunately, despite his history being easily obtainable, I still get inquiries about Oliver really being a Bigfoot. Supposedly, there is a government conspiracy to keep Oliver hidden away in Texas and the “truth” about his Sasquatch affinities hidden from all of you. Hogwash! Sometimes a mishandled chimp merely grows up to be a dysfunctional but recovering chimp. Sometimes a mangy bear is only a mangy bear.
Another Monster Quest Followup
There is a rumor going around ~ I literally have now read it from individuals in three countries ~ that the “Sasquatch Attack” documentary “occurred five years ago.” I’m not sure where some people get their information, but I think the dating of the nail board incident is being confused with the making of the documentary. Supposedly, the nail board events took place in 2003 or perhaps 2004. There is enough vagueness about whether one or several animals might have stepped on this trap to raise some questions. But the board held only an old sample or samples, that’s for [...]
Monster Quest’s Doug Hajicek Comments
Dear Loren, I can assure you and your readers that fear did play a part of our decision to not be all running around in the woods at night. As you know also, just walking in this kind of terrain at night is dangerous. Being hit in the head with a heavy rock in the middle of nowhere was a big safety concern for me and everybody on my crew. I doubt this thing would of confronted us anyhow as the rock throwing is most likely a safe way to try to intimidate us from a distance (and it worked). [...]
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