Mysterious America on Coast to Coast AM
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 22nd, 2007
Here’s the announcement for the show that begins Monday night in the Pacific, but on Tuesday morning in the East. It is a kick-off for the release of the 2007 edition of Mysterious America
Coast to Coast AM
Monday April 23rd, 2007
Host
George Noory
Guest
Loren Coleman
Websites
lorencoleman.com
cryptomundo.com
Books
Mysterious America
Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America
The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates
The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep
Upcoming
Loren Coleman – Cryptozoology- lorencoleman.com
Author and cryptozoologist Loren Coleman will discuss his mission to uncover intriguing phenomena that exist in the U.S., including phantom panthers, the Minnesota Iceman, the Missouri Momo, the Dover Demon, and others. Additional site: Cryptomundo
Premiere Radio Networks.
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.
Way to go, excellent! You will be heard by millions of people, don’t get nervous. 🙂
Hope that Bigfoot will also be tuned in, and decide to come out of the shadows.
Excellent! I will certainly tune in for that broadcast.
I have to wonder if this sort of thing doesn’t do more damage than good to the field of cryptozoology. If we want the public to accept the possibility of Bigfoot as a real creature, perhaps “Coast to Coast” isn’t a great showcase. It seems to me that this undermines the work of myself, Jeff Meldrum, and many others (including Loren) who are trying to bring some scientific and public respectability to Bigfoot.
After all, Bigfoot is lumped in with psychics, alien abductions, crazy conspiracy theories, people who hear voices and see fairies, and so on. You don’t have to listen for more than a few minutes to hear some of the nuts who call in to the “Art Bell Comedy Hour.” I understand that it’s good publicity for the Art Bell crowd, but is this really the image we want to project to the rest of the world?
Ben, I think you are too narrowly pigeon-holing the guests and appeal of Coast to Coast AM. Yes, many people are interested in aliens and crop circles, psychics and ghosts, but then many guests are merely seeking an audience of 5 to 10 million people a night that they cannot reach in the mainstream media.
See the list of guests here.
There is a diverse list of folks, from astronaut Buzz Aldrin to presidential candidate Ralph Nader who have used the program as a friendly platform to talk to an audience that listens in to C2C. Several people, like James Oberg (NASA consultant and UFO skeptic), Michael Shermer (founder of the Skeptic Magazine), and Seth Shostak (Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute) have appeared to give a balanced view of subjects.
I have brought skepticism, Forteanism, and openmindedness to my cryptozoology appearances, and I really wonder what you would have us do, Ben? Turn over the show to only the fringe people and have no one heard the middle road in looking into cryptozoology?
Frankly, Ben, it seems you are projecting shortsightness if you think that being on C2C is “unscientific.” The goal is actually more one of making people aware that someone has something to say, share, and disseminate who happens to be sane and knows his data.
Hi Loren
No need to get defensive.
It’s true that Coast to Coast has had a variety of guests, not all of whom are cranks. It’s also true that among the general public, the show has a definite “loony” association. Remember Art Bell’s role in the Heaven’s Gate suicides? How he helped promote the idea that a space ship was trailing Hale-Bopp?
I was not criticizing you or the show specifically, just asking what I think is a legitimate question: Will having Bigfoot lumped in with UFOs, psychics, moon hoax conspiracy theorists, etc., help or hurt the cause of bringing legitimacy to the search for Bigfoot?
You obviously think it will help, and that’s fine. I’m just offering another point of view, asking if that’s really the case.
I suppose I just was reacting to the framing of the question. I could reframe the question and say, do you think the reputation of Bigfoot researchers will be harmed by being lumped in with environmental advocates, politicians, skeptics, and musicians?
hey loren good morning wow you did a wonderful new interview about cryptozoology bigfoot etc on coasttocoastam tonight i just finished listing to it very informative A+ great job. bill green 🙂