Green Swamp Ape

Speaking in Texas on June 3, 2006, here’s a sneak peek at what I’ll be showing related to the 2004 Jennifer Ward sighting of the Green Swamp Ape.

Jennifer Ward’s sighting has been difficult to understand, and place in context. But I think it has a lot to do with how shocking her initial drawing was.

Her first attempt to draw the creature was elementary, but especially surprising in one detail: the light patches encircling the eyes.

Made bigger and colored by some media, it became the definitive image with the sighting.

Cryptozoologist Scott Marlowe, however, brought her together with artist Matt Ellis, to get her experience through his eyes. First she re-drew the creature’s head and body (see below)

Then artist Ellis drew the Green Swamp Ape based on her description. (Thanks to the Pangea Institute and Scott Marlowe for permission to reproduce and show this and other drawings here.)

And Cryptomundo’s artist-associate Peter Loh even had some fun with the Ellis ideas and an imagined interview between Scott Marlowe and the Green Swamp Ape.

Finally, I discussed the details of the incident and showed all the previous drawings with wildlife artist Richard Klyver. He re-drew the Green Swamp Ape, based upon his experiences with African situations, as he thought it might actually appear to an eyewitness encountering this hairy hominoid quickly, who then did the drawings she did.

I’ll be discussing this in Texas, but figured you non-attending Cryptomundo readers might enjoy “being there” with me. Have a good weekend.

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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