August 17, 2006
Portland, Maine’s television station WCSH-TV, Channel 6, did a balanced, upbeat report on the media frenzy. They ended their report by showing footage of their reporter scrolling through the online “Maine Beast” blogs at Cryptomundo.
Bizarre Animal Carcass Draws International Media Attention to Turner
Web Editor: Chris Facchini, Reporter
Created: 8/17/2006 5:11:52 PM
Updated: 8/17/2006 5:15:39 PM
Media from Maine to Germany to Madagascar have reported on the dead animal carcass that one expert says is likely nothing more than a feral dog.
The Town of Turner is right in the middle of a media feeding frenzy. It’s all thanks to a strange looking animal that many newspapers, tv stations, cable networks, and websites have dubbed “the Maine Mutant”, “Mystery Beast, or the killer hybrid mutant creature.”
Michelle O’Donnell and her neighbors found the bizarre looking animal carcass and took pictures of it last week. “it’s been phenomenal, the phone calls, the emails, radio stations. I’ve given so many phone interviews all over the country, Seattle Washington, Santa Barbara California, Chicago, Boston, Vermont, Maryland, DC. It’s been crazy.”
A Turner restaurant even decided to capitalize on the publicity by offering creature burgers.
But the hype may not last much longer. Nationally renown Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman says the mystery creature is most likely a feral dog. Coleman took DNA samples from the animal carcass for testing, but says he is confident the tests will show the creature is a dog and not some weird hybrid species.
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Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission.
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Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission.
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Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission.
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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