February 11, 2007

American Dime Museum Closes – Part II

Please see Part I for more details on the closing and upcoming auction of the American Dime Museum; please click here.

Now come enter the museum, via photographs from the American Dime Museum, Barbara Matteson, and Brian at acurse.com. You are walking up to the brick building, come inside, meet your host, and begin to look at the wonders. The images are given uncaptioned to recreate the feel of the tour, in which the attendees were required to do more research, scratch their heads, and walk away pondering. In the end, remember, for our purposes, these are all gaffs, creations to mimic – perhaps – some items rumored but not caught. However, most were more mythical and sideshow-linked than actually cryptozoological.

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

American Dime Museum

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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