Held Over: CZ Talks/Day Two & New Cryptid Leads
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 6th, 2008
Glad to see so many readers of Cryptomundo at Saturday, July 5th’s talk at Fort Knox. The late arrival crowds were so big that cars were backed up for a couple miles to get into the place.
For Sunday, July 6th, when it is predicted people tend to get there earlier and on time, I’ve been asked to stay over to present at noon. Thus, I will give another hour long talk, with a Q&A session, outdoors with lots of replicas, artifacts, props and exhibits from the Interational Cryptozoology Museum.
[No more news on the Island Falls black panther report, but Waldo County, Maine, where I am, continues to have black panther sightings that are taken for granted. Also, I got new leads on a strange story of a cryptic large lizard being seen for decades by several generations of a family in a restricted portion of some swamp lands of central Michigan, and an intriguing sighting of a long black-eyed “worm” in rural Connecticut. I have not quite heard anything like this “worm” story before, as far as I can recall.]
From 9 am to a little after the noon to 1 PM talk, on Sunday, I will be available to folks who wish to ask more questions about cryptozoology and Bigfoot at my display table, sign books if you bring yours from home for autographs, and sell the few remaining books I have left. On Saturday, I met people from California, Michigan, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Texas, Maine, and Germany who stopped by to talk about cryptids. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow if you are in the mid-Coast Maine area.
(P.S. The UFO lecture there yesterday by Cindy and Chris actually turned into a discussion about Mothman, and they will revisit that theme again today.)
The official description from the old historic fort’s website is here, Paranormal & Psychic Faire, Fort Knox, Maine
Directions -> see bottom of here.
The Schedule has not been revised, but I will be the talk at noon.
Fort Knox FAQ (admission, hours, passes, discounts, etc.)
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“Save the International Cryptozoology Museum” update….
Total donations received via PayPal on July 4th and 5th: $0.00.
Total donations received at the talk at Ft. Knox: $21.50.
Thank you to those who generously gave cash in the collection box at my table for donations to the “Save the Museum” effort. I want to especially send thanks out to the boy who took two quarters out of his pocket to leave in the box to help the museum, and the one family that sent a thoughtful donation in via PayPal, then stopped by Ft. Knox to donate some more. Appreciation.
Where are the corporate donors? Hoping the big women and men step up to the plate to keep this worthwhile educational site going and evolving into all it can be.
Of course, in the absence of big donors, 115 of you have come through with average donations of $39 each, and two benefactors at $1050 and $1000 too, to give true hope on the road to seeing this effort succeed. Thank you.
IMPORTANT: Easy-to-use donation buttons are now available here.
Thanks to everyone, sincerely for continuing to give or trying to later this week!
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.
Hi Loren, I can’t wait to see and meet you when you come to Edmonton, Alberta on July 21 to the Royal Alberta Museum! Make sure to bring the collection box to the lecture as I know us Albertans are very generous, especially when it involves things we are passionate about. I was just curious Loren, will the lecture be specifically about dragons and what they have to do with cryptozoology or are you going to talk about some other things too?
I will bring along some books if you are planning on doing some signings, but will you sign my Patty cast too? Thanks Loren and keep up the good work.
In all my talks, even ones with a specific topic focus, such as Alberta’s on dragons, I give an overview of cryptozoology, cryptozoology discoveries, and the notion of the cryptozoology methods.
I will autograph anything (you won’t believe what I’ve been asked to sign – use your imagination). I will bring a few books for sale, but folks are always welcome to bring the personal copies to signings.
I look forward to seeing Cryptomunians, plus various Pleistocene, cryptid and other exhibits in Alberta, and at other locations I will be speaking at in the upcoming months.