Now Appearing On “El Aguacate”

I was invited to come on by María Gracia Dejo, the producer of the radio station “associated with the BBC of London in Ecuador ‘Radio City’ and with the most important newspaper of the country, El Universo.”

It was a fun interview in which the questions were asked in Spanish, then English, and after I replied in English, my answers was translated into Spanish, instantly.

I learned a bit about the topics that my hosts take to be the most popular in cryptozoology. They wanted to talk about the Loch Ness Monsters (rather skeptically), Bigfoot (open-mindedly), animals discovered in the oceans (such as the coelacanth and megamouth shark), and what television documentaries were my favorites. They wanted to know about a recent documentary, in a followup question, so I told them of the April expedition with Nippon TV to Lake Champlain in pursuit of Champ. The topics were asked, intriguingly, in that order.

When I was discussing Bigfoot in North America (which they asked about), I threw in that the reports of Bigfoot-Sasquatch were quite similar to the Ucu of the Andes. They had never heard the name “Ucu,” and I had to spell it out three times. It was the only word they had me spell.

While I’ve been on radio and television programs in such countries as Spain, Austria, and Japan, all have been done in realtime English. This was interesting, as I got to stop and hear the translations in process.

Loren Coleman 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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