First Guyana Report
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 16th, 2007
The Guyana traveling CFZ group has collected an old hairy hominid abduction story and news of a green scorpion.
Jon Downes reports on this here, and writes of various communication difficulties.
Their guide is Damon Gerard Corrie (shown at right, with Dr. Pritchard, the author of Encyclopedia of Turtles). Mr. Corrie is the founder and President of the Caribbean Herpetological Society.
The following two items are the specific data coming out of the first contact with his five friends now traveling near the township of Letham Station:
Apparently, about two years ago, two children – a boy, and a girl aged twelve – were walking on the savannah near the village. Out of the undergrowth strode a big, hairy, man-like figure, who grabbed the little girl, disappeared with her, and neither the hairy didi nor the girl were ever seen again.
Harry Trumbore drawing of a Didi from an eyewitness, as contained in a cryptozoological field guide.
They have also obtained the first video footage of an hitherto unknown species of scorpion, known to the locals as the green scorpion (presumably because of its colour). Richard was in the middle of telling me about this when the satellite link broke off. We were unable to contact him again. ~ CFZ Guyana Expedition 2007.
Quite a few different kinds of scorpions are found in South America, see, for example, here.
One with many common names is a green-tinted scorpion, Centruroides gracilis (below), which occurs from Florida, through Central America, the Caribbean, and in South America.
Another greenish variety is Tityus bahiensis (below), also known from South America.
It would be a stroke of luck if the CFZ has found a new species on their first day there. No videos will be available until they return.
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.
Breaking news —-
I have just had another communication from the team. Apparantly the scorpion was discovered very recently by Damon Corrie, but the CFZ gang have got the first ever footage of a live specimen with “about forty babies on its back”.
I am very much looking forward to seeing the video.
Name the new one after Loren Coleman
We have just received an update from the Guyana expedition. The satellite phone worked better today, and the most recent posting contains more didi reports, news on the hunt for the giant anaconda, and even a story about mermaids!
It is a mark of quite how hot it is out there that Richard – who is usually pretty good in tropical climes – collapsed with heat stroke this afternoon.
The team has spent today trekking deep into the grassland savannah.
They reached a village, which we think was called either Tolshiba (Graham’s interpretation) or Calshida (Jon Downes’). Unfortunately, at this point, the line broke up. Richard told us how an eye-witness reported seeing the didi a couple of years ago. He described it as looking like an enormous white man covered in hair. At this point we cannot confirm whether this witness was at the village of ?Tolshiba/?Calshida, or whether this was an incident which took place earlier.
What we can confirm is that yesterday, at Letham Station, they met a number of eyewitnesses to giant anacondas. However, the largest of these was reportedly only 25 foot long. This is one hell of a snake, but it is just about within the accepted size range for this species. However, other eyewitnesses told them of tracks found in the jungle near water, which appear to be from much larger snakes. They intend to return to Letham Station at some point during the next fortnight and to visit the places where these snakes have been seen, with the eyewitnesses.
Jon Hare told us something very peculiar. Apparently, in the middle of the savannah, miles from any water there is a large flat rock known as ‘Mermaid Rock’. Allegedly, within recent living memory, human figures with fishy tails have been seen sitting atop this rock performing the ultimate mermaid cliché of combing their hair.
Most intriguing!
Mermaids Jon or Manatees is the more likely animal but on a rock in a river is more likely. Large Snakes, be careful of Native exaggeration, when a 20ft Anaconda become a 40 ft specimen.The Didi cannot possibly be a White man, if Apes do exist in some form in South America, could it be de loys Ameranthropoides? Keep us informed on any future discoveries.
OK Guys; the long awaited news from the last 24 hours is up on the blog – the link for this is in the body text of Loren’s original posting. They have found another didi witness, some intriguing accounts of “little people”, and Lisa has broken her thumb.
Watch this space