Strangely, 35 Years Ago, It Was 1977
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 7th, 2012
Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot (1977)
The Year of 1977 remains a strange one. It is one that may have been a milestone point of change. Do you remember 1977?
In 1977, along with Jerome Clark, I finished up a book entitled Creatures of the Outer Edge, published by Warner Books in 1978. It was a paperback book, tightly printed on 239 pages, being part two of our view of phenomena in terms of Jungian thought way back then. It was hailed as a breakthrough psychosocial look at a wide variety of Fortean, ufological, and cryptozoological accounts at the time.
For my Twilight Language report, with in-depth passages from my book, Creatures of the Outer Edge, click and read “That Jungian Year: 1977.”
First appearing in 1975 and 1978, these two paperbacks were republished in 2006, as a special double edition with a new introduction. The Unidentified and Creatures of the Outer Edge: The Early Works of Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman is a combined quality paperbound book from Anomalist Books. Up top is the original cover of Creatures of the Outer Edge.
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.
Yep.
No way. Can’t be more than 20 years ago, tops.
I used the spreadsheet on my PC and I can verify that assuming that this year is indeed 2012, 1977 was in fact 35 years ago (even Downunder).