Healthwatch: Cryptozoologists
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 15th, 2007
Some cryptozoologists and hominologists around the world are in various stages of recovery and concern has been expressed in the community about their health problems.
Here’s a brief roundup:
Most recently, on 14th September 2007, Nessie researcher Tony Harmsworth of Scotland suffered a stroke. He is feeling better this month.
It will be recalled that in the last two years, Loch Ness Monster hunter Roy Mackal, formerly of the University of Chicago, suffered a couple heart attacks, but the latest is that his recovery has been steady.
Washington State Bigfooter Ray Crowe’s diabetes continues to take its toll. The formerly active fieldworker has been slowed him down with his leg amputation. We understand from recent visitors to see Ray that his wheelchair-centered life is difficult, but he remains high-spirited.
John Green, Sasquatch chronicler, has been fighting prostate cancer for two years, but is relatively active.
Mark Hall’s cancer is in remission after a recent reoccurrence, and he has taken on new outside work.
Cryptomundo wishes them all well.
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.
As do all of us out here, Loren. Get well guys!
All healthy thoughts go out to all of you.
All great battles take their heavy toll on the warriors who fight them.
Cryptozoology is no different.
Best wishes to all of those in poor health. I hope that things will look up for these brave souls in the future.