September 7, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011, appeared to be international day, indeed, at the International Cryptozoology Museum.
Tatzelwurm of the Alps.
David Carkhuff quoted me in July 2010, in the Portland Daily Sun as noting,
“We just had the Italians here, we just had Irish TV, Animal Planet channel came by. Animal Planet channel came two weeks ago actually to do eight episodes of next season’s Lost Tapes. Italian TV was here because they have a six-year series called Voyager, and they were coming up Route 1, and they picked out the museum to be their focus for Route 1. And then the Irish TV did a whole program just about the museum for their Irish TV, and they did it in Gaelic.”
Wednesday was typical of what we often see at the museum. Four Italians who had journeyed to Portland only to see the museum were drawn here due to the museum’s appearance on the Italian television program Voyager.
Concurrently with those Italian folks, three people who were driving up the coast of Maine from London, England, picked out the museum to visit over other attractions.
The museum has many items of international interest, including exhibits filled with worldwide examples of cryptids, in addition to physical evidence such as 1959 Yeti fecal samples from Nepal, Orang Pendek hairs from Sumatra, Yowie cast from Australia, and more. Cryptozoology is global in its appeal.
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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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