November 16, 2007
The Guyana traveling CFZ group has collected an old hairy hominid abduction story and news of a green scorpion.
Jon Downes reports on this here, and writes of various communication difficulties.
Their guide is Damon Gerard Corrie (shown at right, with Dr. Pritchard, the author of Encyclopedia of Turtles). Mr. Corrie is the founder and President of the Caribbean Herpetological Society.
The following two items are the specific data coming out of the first contact with his five friends now traveling near the township of Letham Station:
Apparently, about two years ago, two children – a boy, and a girl aged twelve – were walking on the savannah near the village. Out of the undergrowth strode a big, hairy, man-like figure, who grabbed the little girl, disappeared with her, and neither the hairy didi nor the girl were ever seen again.
Harry Trumbore drawing of a Didi from an eyewitness, as contained in a cryptozoological field guide.
They have also obtained the first video footage of an hitherto unknown species of scorpion, known to the locals as the green scorpion (presumably because of its colour). Richard was in the middle of telling me about this when the satellite link broke off. We were unable to contact him again. ~ CFZ Guyana Expedition 2007.
Quite a few different kinds of scorpions are found in South America, see, for example, here.
One with many common names is a green-tinted scorpion, Centruroides gracilis (below), which occurs from Florida, through Central America, the Caribbean, and in South America.
Another greenish variety is Tityus bahiensis (below), also known from South America.
It would be a stroke of luck if the CFZ has found a new species on their first day there. No videos will be available until they return.
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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