Pflock Dies
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 6th, 2006
Skeptic Karl Pflock passed away at 3:16 P.M. Mountain Time on June 5, 2006, at his home in Placitas, New Mexico. Karl was an intelligent and faithful friend, who, in the past, served his country as a Marine, a CIA officer, and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Deputy Director) for Operational Test and Evaluation. He was well-known in anomalist circles as a thoughtful critical thinker. Most of his writings dealt in areas outside of cryptozoology, although he did dip into Bigfoot criticism.
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.
Seeing is believing….I don’t care what the skeptics say…except to the extent that it hampers genuine scientific interest and research…..I was skeptical too…until…that first fateful afternoon.
all the best…
ole bub and the dawgs
Pflock was a relatively young man, it is a great shame.
Unlike some skeptics that one could mention, his tone was even-handed & intelligent. Exactly the kind of mind we need in the research field of ‘the strange’. He will be missed.
To me I am sorry to hear of his passing. And everyone on the planet has a right to form their own opinon. If it be believer or skeptic to each his own. Myself I do like hearing from all sides and point of views from the believers and the skeptics and in the end we must form our own conclusions on any given subject.