You are an explorer, an adventurer, and a traveler. Your interest in the study of hidden, as yet- to-be verified new animals, new species, and newly rediscovered extinct fauna has resulted in you finding your way here. Thank you for trekking to Cryptozoo News.
This free standing blog is the result of decades of evolution and adaptation to various venues and technologies. The time for transformation from my wonderful years at Cryptomundo, a great idea by Craig Woolheater that kindly provided me with forum to talk to you, has come. As I have mentioned recently, Cryptomundo has done some of its own changing of late, and it will be best sorted out without me there, I feel. It is Craig Woolheater’s blog, and the writers, the membership, the style, and the topics are no longer in alignment with my desire to unscramble confusions about who is writing what or about my goals, schedule, and needs.
Evolution is just what it says it is. It is a process of formation, growth, and development. It is change that is incomplete in itself, without some metamorphosis that results in intriguing adaptive awakenings. Cryptomundo will survive. I thank Craig and the site, and I appreciate it. But growth cannot occur in stasis. And the time for a big change is now.
The unfolding that took place to reach here has been gradual.
My travels in chronicling cryptozoology began a long time ago, and quickly developed more so when I began writing letters to fellow research associates and correspondents around the world in 1960.
While an author of articles (in Fate, Beyond, and similar magazines) dating back to the late 1960s and of books since 1975, I began also writing regular columns in magazines during the 1970s.
My cryptozoology columns have included “On the Trail” in the London-based Fortean Times and “Mysterious World” in Fate Magazine, as well as frequent contributions to publications like The Anomalist, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Magazine, Fortean Studies, and Dark Lore.
My unique, copyrighted signature column, “The Cryptozoo News,” was first published in the 1980s in Strange Magazine (beginning in Volume 1, No. 2).
I was the author of “Coleman’s CryptoCorner” at TAPS Paramagazine, for some time.
I wrote the “Cryptozoo News” in Mysteries Magazine.
Then I took “Cryptozoo News” to Cryptomundo (from 2005-2013), as the major weblogger there, turning that site into the place to go for your cryptozoology news.
But I have left blogging there, regularly.
So why do you see some select postings from Cryptomundo here? Cryptomundo was only given the first online posting rights, and I retained the copyrights of all my writings. Here you will be able to find my longer essays, especially of the ones I find are more thoughtful. I am beginning a long editing process to weed out the postings I am not interested in seeing or sharing any longer. Items from the past may still be at Craig Woolheater’s Cryptomundo. That site may contain most of my old postings, although they can’t reprint or publish those in print or online anywhere else. My old postings will remain there (although an editing out of old non-significant time-limited items might wisely occur), as long as Craig wishes, until Cryptomundo ends. [UPDATE: This has already changed. My password and access to Cryptomundo has been withdrawn. Within hours of this blog going live, I see Craig Woolheater has disallowed editing and access possibilities for me to my postings on his site.]
I plan to now continue my journey over here, to clearly set my course as mine – without ads.
You will see here, of course, news, views, and reviews, with zoological emphasis on cryptozoology and an unapologetic location for information on my future talks, books, and appearances.
Also, needless to say, the future legacy of the International Cryptozoology Museum, as a nonprofit educational and scientific entity, is important to me and I’ll talk about that too.
But I’m no longer going to post daily. I want to move back to a reflective mood. No more will I frantically search for a cartoon, notices of a movie repeating on cable television, or random photos of dead dogs said to be Chupacabras, just to keep posting. I want, also, to conceptualize and consider the place my past writings exist in the eyes of the next generation’s new cryptozoologists.
I wish to get back to writing books, and more routinely, traveling, and getting out in the field more often. For blogs, I want to return to longer, thoughtful, less-often posted essays that mean something to me. And hopefully to you.
Thank you for coming abroad for the trip.
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Please tell your friends where to find Loren’s Cryptozoo News. I’ll appreciate it.
I’m glad to be here. I’m glad your here, And I finally figured out how to register. (don’t use hotmail… gmail works)
I’m looking forward to this new experience.
Best of luck with this new endeavor, Loren. May it put an end to all of the confusion.
Loren:
Nice to see you made a clean break. I have also bade CM a fond farewell and am looking forward to following your ongoing work, here.
Here’s to your new endeavor!
-AreWeThereYeti
This is great news! It’s so nice to have your posts accessible. Thank you!
Congratulations on getting a your own tent for your voice and writings. I’ve always admired your novel ability to put topical crypto-news in historical context. I’m looking forward to your continued voice.
Nice to hear, Loren.
Welcome.
G’day Loren
Good to see you moving forwards. It’s your articles that drew me to the other place and so it will be at this place. Looking forward to your new books. Keep up the great work. Discipline and integrity are as elusive as the hidden zoology passion itself – those are the qualities that make your books worth reading and your articles so important.
Loren, Good luck. I look forward to being a regular reader and commenter. I was tickled to note that the one of the STRANGE and one of the FATE magazines above also had articles by me. Forward to explore!
Well, Loren, this is the big time! And now there’s no mistaking who’s doing the writing. I am so down with that, and so looking forward to this.
Congratulations Loren. I have enjoyed following you on CM and look forward to your posts on your own site.
wishing you well Loren in this ‘new dawn’
Loren, glad to see you on the blogosphere! Looking forward to more of your wonderful insights!
I look forward to reading your posts on your site only, from now on!
Awesome, bookmarked! Can’t wait to read everything you write. Congrats!
I see a few names I recognize- this is fun!
Stacy from NH here! Excited for this new venture of yours. Congratulations! Will be checking back regularly.
Loren, congratulations on expanding from Cryptomundo into your own blog. I’ve always appreciated your writings there, especially your more insightful and thoughtful essays, and look forward to what you have in store for Cryptozoo News and the future!
Best wishes on the new site.
Hopefully this will clear up much of the misinformation and misinterpretation of your views and your methods.
Good luck with this endeavor. A long time silent observer at the other place, this Illini in Vermont wishes a a former Saluki all the best…
Now somebody needs to edit Loren’s Wikipedia article to point to this site as his Cryptozoology blog. =P
Congratulations, Loren!
Best regards,
Theo
…and I see that Cryptomundo now has a post/link up to this site. Glad that got sorted out. Old friends should part that way.
Found you! I look forward to this new blog. Keep up the good work, at your own pace. Cheers.
Great to hear Mr. Coleman! I can’t wait to see more from here.
I am so excited about your approach to writing your articles here and I can’t wait to see what you come out with next. Congratulations on your new online home!
Hey Loren change is good
I wish you much success in this new venue and I hope Cryptoundians follow you here too. You were the reason I was at Cryptomundo in the first place.
Happy 2013 Everyone
I went ahead and edited Loren’s Wikipedia article to point to this site as his cryptozoology blog. I suppose all is right in the world now. Looking forward to reading your future posts Loren!
Congratulations on this new blog! Bookmarked!! I’m looking forward to reading more of your great articles!
I’m glad that I won’t be missing any of your writings. Good luck with the new site!
I’m so glad to have found you here. I missed your posts and thought provoking essays on cryptozoology. I stopped going to other sites as they seemed to have turned into RSS feeds. I prefer to have a little more insight from someone who has been in the field, who can give us more info and historic or geological references that local hometown papers just can’t. The weekly reporters simply do not have your base of knowledge and I am very thankful and happy to see you writing and posting on your own site.
One of the reasons I was interested in being involved with blogging was because I consider this an important motto: “Everyone should find out at the same time.”
Anything I can do to make that happen is why I write.
Great news Loren, I’mkind of glad you’ve struck out onyour own. Cryptomundo changed a lot in the past 6 years or so and become a bit derisive towards reports and hearsay.
I’m stuck here in the UK so I can’t be a bigfoot hunter but at least I can still read loren and fantasise!!