Lost Legacies, Lost Evidence: Herman Regusters
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 2nd, 2006
I want to start an effort in 2006 to rediscover some missing people and their lost cryptozoological evidence, gone for years.
Let’s begin with the well-known Californian cryptozoologist Herman Regusters.
In the fall of 1981, Herman Regusters and his wife led a team into Lake Tele, Congo, in search of Mokele-mbembe. (Even though they might be undiscovered aquatic mammals, the cryptids called Mokele-mbembe are often discussed, first and foremost, in hauntingly romantic ways as perhaps surviving "Living Dinosaurs" in deepest Africa, in a somewhat Victorian fashion.) The Regusters returned with droppings, footprint casts, and sound recordings unlike any animal known to the Congo Basin area. They also reportedly videotaped a living Mokele-mbembe.
Do you have any information on Herman Regusters or his wife’s whereabouts? Their email contacts? Where the physical evidence from their expedition is housed? Where copies of their audio and visual recordings can be found?
Your help in this cryptozoological mystery is requested. Leave information in the comments below. Thank you.
And if you have any suggestions for future "Lost Legacies" that are crying out to be tracked down, let us know.
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE
Two Cryptozoo News tipsters have just informed us that Herman Regusters has died…for more details, please click here.
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.
Herman Alphanso Regusters, 72, passed away quietly on Monday, December 19, 2005 in the loving arms of his wife, Angie, at their home in Huntington Beach, California.
Cryptomundo: For more info, please refer to Regusters obit.
Thanks to Professor Hex and Quazie for sending along this information. It is sad news indeed.
Unfortunately, we still don’t know what happened to the physical, audio, and visual evidence from the expedition.