Brian Hendrian. Photo Stephen Haas/Staff Photographer
December 1, 2008
Brian Hendrian. Photo Stephen Haas/Staff Photographer
The Journal Gazette and Times-Courier of Charleston, Illinois, has a profile of local resident Brian Hendrian, 34, of Shelbyville, Illinois. While he is noted to be a ghost hunter and a deer hunter, according to the newly published article, he also dips into cryptozoology.
Hendrian reinforces the notion that the primary reports coming to the attention of amateur cryptozoologists in the midwestern America may not be of Bigfoot, but of Mystery Cats.
To help sort through the cases, he’s gathered around him a group of likeminded spirits, so to speak. He’s the founder of organizations that include the Shelby Paranormal Research Society, the United States Paranormal Society and the Shelbyville Cryptozoology Research Society.
The Cryptozoology folks hunt for “hidden animals,” creatures whose existence is not recognized by science: at least, not yet. Hendrian says there’s a lot of fraud in this area, too, but he believes there is credible evidence for the existence for both an “unknown biped” (Bigfoot) and for something large and toothy slinking through the Illinois undergrowth.
“We get a lot of black panther reports in Illinois,” he says. “And I believe there is something out there.”Tony Reid, The Journal Gazette and Times-Courier
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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