Machine Gun Kelly & Yetis?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 16th, 2009
Learn how the July 1933 kidnapping by Machine Gun Kelly (above) of wealthy Oklahoma City oil tycoon & businessman Charles Urschel is directly tied into the future direction of the hunt for the Abominable Snowman during my talk on Saturday.
Charles Urschel, Tom Slick’s stepfather, and Urschel’s wife, Berenice, Slick’s mother.
The 2009 Mass Monster Mash schedule will be as follows:
4:30 PM: Ghosts of Rehoboth (a film by Andrew Lake)
5:00 PM: Where My Monstas At (John Horrigan)
5:05 PM: Outside the Lines of the Bridgewater Triangle (Christopher Balzano)
5:55 PM: Bridgewater Bigfoot Cast (Matt Moniz / Jason Lorefice / Andrew Lake)
6:15 PM: Tom Slick and the Search for Yeti (Loren Coleman)
7:30 PM: New Jersey Devil 100th Anniversary, Loch Ness Monster 75th Anniversary, Tribute to John Keel and the Scituate Sea Monster DVD (John Horrigan, Tim Binnall, Intermission)
8:00 PM: Ghosts of the White House (Jeff Belanger)
9:00 PM: Chupacabras (Nick Redfern)
10:05 PM: Closing Ceremonies / Q&A (Tim Binnall)
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In addition to speaking on Saturday, I will be at the Friday event too, the Mass Mystery Weekend function at the same location, signing books, offering more titles than usual, and just saying “hi” to folks. See you there Friday or Saturday night. ~ Loren
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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.
talk about coincidence…my copy of Tom Slick just arrived in yesterday`s mail !
I can’t wait to be there. It’s gonna be a most interesting night.
Let me add a few extra (though strained) connections. –And Loren, these are perhaps “twilinght language” issues —
I reside in Decatur, Texas. Decatur is the county seat of Wise County (and the source of the craps call for the roll of an “8”, “Eighter from Decatur, County Seat of Wise”). During the kidnapping, Mr. Urschel was held near Paradise, Texas, which is about 7 miles from Decatur, and also located here in Wise County. After his death, “Machine Gun” Kelley was buried in Cottondale, Texas, about 8 or 9 miles west of Paradise … and also in Wise County. About 8 or 9 miles east of Paradise, on the other hand, is the small town of Aurora, Texas … site of the infamous “Aurora spaceman” / windmill crash of the 1890s … and also in Wise County. Finally, about 30 miles southeast of Paradise lies Lake Worth, site of the “Lake Worth Goatman” sightings of the late 1960s.
Never argue with a Yeti with a machine gun.