Monsters & Mom’s Day
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 14th, 2006
Here’s a quick roundup of stories surfacing today, Sunday, May 14, 2006, on America’s Mother’s Day. Perhaps someone will get an idea for a quick fieldtrip to Mormon country, Malaysia, or Massachusetts, out of this gathering? But stay away from Memphis!
Part three of D. Robert Carter’s series on the Bear Lake Monsters and kin is in today’s Provo Daily Herald, “Fishermen find Utah Lake Monster.”
Here for you are the links to the two earlier parts: “Why Bear Lake Again?” and “Meandrous Monster Migrates to Utah Lake.”
On May 14, 2006, The New Straits Times published another article, “Johor to verify Bigfoot tales.” It hardly adds anything new to the Johor mystery.
It tells how at the opening of the RM2.6 million new building of Sekolah Menengah Pei Hwa, Sungai Mati, a government official named Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman* used the opportunity to say they would like to verify the “Bigfoot” reports. The Johor State Government’s Hes colla Steering Committee was collating media reports, eyewitness accounts and evidence of their existence, the paper reported.
“Although the committee was set up in February, the State Government will only launch a search expedition when we have concrete evidence of the existence of Bigfoot,” Ghani said after opening the yesterday. He said he was aware that Bigfoot had aroused global interest and this made it necessary to do a careful, comprehensive and orderly scientific study of the phenomenon.
The rest of the article takes (uncredited) quotes from the Cryptomundo posting the remarks of Dmitri Bayanov, International Centre of Hominology, congratulating Malaysian Bigfoot researchers, such as Vincent Chow, for “doing the right thing in carefully studying and compiling whatever evidence they have in a book rather than simply publicizing it.”
You read about this first under “From Russia, With Love” on May 9th, at Cryptomundo, and may visit there for more details.
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*Jan McGirk, reporter at The Independent, notes in an email: “By the way, Ghani, the government official quoted, is the chief minister of Johor State, who has been risking ridicule and seeking scientific confirmation about the existence of the Malaysian Bigfoot research since January. He is comparable to a U.S. state governor and wields considerable political clout. His office got very upset about interlopers from Singapore sniffing around the edges of the rainforest for Mawas.”
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Back closer to home, Managing Editor Dino Ciliberti at the Taunton Gazette in Massachusetts considers his “Life in the Bridgewater Triangle.” He briefly mentions “numerous sightings attributed to the triangle include gigantic snakes, huge birds and creatures that leave 18-inch footprints and are known as Bigfoot.”
If you live there, it’s the perfect place to take you Mom for Mother’s Day. Some of the local cafes in the Bridgewater Triangle are very rustic. Of course, the problem is, will you disappear on your return trip?
Have fun everyone.
And a special note to my Mom, Anna: Do have a great day…despite your love for Elvis, stay away from Graceland as they are reporting alligators near there. If you are lucky, maybe you’ll see Charlie Wetzel’s Lizardman around Riverside, California. Just remember, don’t light any matches near your oxygen tank.
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.
Coincidentally, I am currently reading about the para-powerful “Bridgewater Triangle” in my new copy of Loren’s “Mysterious America”.
I grew up in nearby Providence, and remember hearing stories about all kinds of strange incidents ocurring in the ponds, lakes and interconnected creeks, streams and rivers thruout R.I. and Mass as a kid.
My brother once caught a snarling, hissing and thrashing 10-foot black eel while fishing in a small pond in South Providence’s Roger Williams Park!
Another time a fisherfriend, using salt water gear, hooked a giant something in another of the Park’s ponds, and after a half hour battle to get it close to shore, saw a scaly green thing as big as a rowboat roll on the surface… and break the line.
Probably a large carp… but they didn’t think so!
I am a little new here to the blog where can I get Loren’s Mysterious America I have never seen on a mag rack here in Indiana. Or is it a Book??
Please someone let me know.
twblack-2 ~ I bought mine from Loren ~ perhaps he has one left?
Happy Mother’s day….I’m also reading MA and find it well written and interesting…JMHO
Best guess…like fire ants….gators have been crawling northward….they are “protected” in southern Oklahoma…
seeing is believing….
ole bub and the dawgs
twblack
Mysterious America is a book. You can get it from Amazon.com if your local bookseller doesn’t have it.
But, honestly, I’d go for one of Loren and Jerome Clark’s compediums on Fortean phenomenon.
I loved Mysterious America when I was a kid, and maybe it is just my time with it and having read all those stories over and over again, but if you already have some knowledge of Forteana, then it is a bit elementary (no offence Loren!)
If you are brand new to Fortean literature though, give it a read, then dig a little deeper. If Loren hasn’t written a book on what you are looking for, I’m sure Jerome Clark or someone else has.