March 22, 2007
Remember what people said when little cameras showed up on mobile telephones? The notion was that with so many digital cameras out there on cellphones, there would be more chances to capture cryptids photograhically and visually, thus adding a new level of technology to the quest. Okay, for all those folks that wanted to have more cryptid photo images taken by cellphones, here, above, is what you get!
As I walked out the door I thought “hang on a minute”. It looked like a cat but it was a lot bigger. It was definitely a cat. It walked like one and had its big black tail in the air. I’ve heard stories before of people from Airsprung seeing it. It was really amazing and quite exciting. It’s not something you see every day.Matthew Finch
assistant branch manager
West Wilts Wholesale Electrical
Finch was talking to the Wiltshire Times about the black panther he photographed at Trowbridge, United Kingdom, with his mobile phone on at 7:30 am, yesterday, Wednesday, March 21, 2007. He was shocked to see the animal in a field behind Airsprung Beds in Canal Road as he left for work. He watched it. He snapped a photo with his cell, saw it stalk off, and then called his girlfriend.
The media reported that Finch said “the black panther” was the size of a Labrador.
No disrespect for Mr. Finch, at all, but this breaking incident calls forth the inquiry: What can cryptozoology learn from cellphone photos of cryptids?
We have had blobsquatch photos. Now do we have blobpanthers? blobfelines? blobcats?
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.
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