Wired, Boing Boing, Fimoculus, and Cox: America’s Still Going Crazy for Cryptozoology
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 5th, 2006
This week, Rex Sorgatz’s Fimoculous.com Best Lists site, which annually compiles a “best of best” list, has posted their final “Top 20 Lists of 2005” list. I was pleased and sincerely humbled to see Cryptomundo.com’s “The Top Cryptozoology Stories of 2005” listed on Fimoculus’s “Top 20 Lists of 2005.”
On December 29, 2005, Phil Kloer at Cox News Service put Cryptomundo.com’s list, “The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2005” as #7 on Cox News Services’ “A Top 10 list of Top 10 lists” for 2005. Cryptomundo was honored by that recognition, as well.
Wired News’ Mark Baard’s often-quoted comment captured in the headline to his article, “America Goes Cryptozoology Crazy,” certainly continues to ring true, now, in reflection upon last year.
Boing Boing’s David Pescovitz captured it directly, when, on December 25, 2005, he posted the highlights of our “The Top Cryptozoology Stories of 2005,” and noted: “Thanks to Loren, many of these cryptozoological events are familiar to regular BB readers. It was certainly a great year for high weirdness and strange animals.”
Yes, it definitely was.
Now here we are in 2006, and it is starting off fast and furious with all the Malaysian Media Madness and other cryptozoological news that Cryptomundo will keep you informed of as the days flash along. And if we don’t hear about it first, we sure hope you let us know about it – complete with the links and the locations.
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.
