Animal Planet, Mokele & Mermaids
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 10th, 2008
The folks at Animal Planet have passed along some production photos from my recent trip to Florida for the shooting of the “Beasts of the Bible” program (airing Spring 2009).
I am shown framed up in the jungle scene with Scott Norman’s dinosaur replicas for the interview about Mokele-Mbembe. Then there are pictures of the human mermaid and the manatee, and my feeding lettuce to the manatees. These images only hint at all the fun that we did have filming these scenes.
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.
Loren, you got to feed a manatee? You lucky skunk….
;~)°
Oooo!…Oooo!….I want to feed the mermaid!
Oh that sounds like it was a fantastic time! I wish there was a way for me to catch this program out in Japan.
Oh, and the picture of the mermaid? FAKE! 🙂
I’ve always wanted to do that. Careful Captainnemo, she may be a man eater…
i like the second picture. i wish i was there. it coolllll