November 8, 2009
Dating My Kid, Humm? What Do You Think Of The Monster?
In the wake of Sallie Ann Clarke’s passing, one of the remembrances being told about her is that she “screened her daughter’s would-be boyfriends by seeing how they reacted to the stories, her daughter Dee Wood said,” according to the Star-Telegram.
Lake Worth Monster investigator, author, and eyewitness Sallie Ann Clarke, 80, of Benbrook, died Tuesday, November 3rd, after a long illness. Clarke worked as a private-duty nurse. After retiring, she and her husband traveled the country in a motor home.
Dee Wood, of Austin, recalled that her mother screened her dates by talking to them about the monster.
When Wood was about 16, she said, a young man she really liked came to their house.
“When I introduced him to Mother, of course he noticed the Lake Worth Monster stuff around, so they got to talking about it and that was the last of me for that evening,” she said.
The three of them went to the lake to look for the monster, Wood said. “He sat in the front seat with Mother, talking, and I sat in the back seat, all alone, the whole evening.”
Wood said her mother was “very strong-willed.”
“But she also played a lot and was a very sweet, loving and caring person,” she said.
To read all of Yamil Berard’s short article in the Star-Telegram, see here.
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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