Doug Hajicek, left, with Daniel Perez, Jeff Meldrum, and Rick Noll. Photo courtesy Daniel Perez, September 2003, Willow Creek, California.
March 24, 2010
March 24, 2010 marks the final broadcast of the four-year-long television program that became the most successful nonfiction cryptozoology hour-long series to ever be broadcast.
Doug Hajicek, left, with Daniel Perez, Jeff Meldrum, and Rick Noll. Photo courtesy Daniel Perez, September 2003, Willow Creek, California.
The Executive Producer of MonsterQuest has passed along his “official and exclusive statement to Cryptomundo.”
Dear MonsterQuest Fans,
Like many of you, I am a bit saddened by the official cancellation of MonsterQuest. However, we will continue to produce similar programming in the future as opportunities arise.
Cryptozoology will always be passion for me personally.
The official end of MonsterQuest did not happen because of any lack of topics or for lack of viewers. The Network has decided to go another direction to assure their future as a powerful force in television. We are extremely happy to have been part of the successful growth of the History Channel.
I am forever grateful to Loren Coleman and everyone at Cryptomundo. I also thank the hundreds of researchers, scientists and the courageous witnesses we had a chance to work with over the last four years.
It was an amazing run for the topic of Cryptozoology in prime time.
I am sincerely humbled by the opportunity to have created so much programming on this fascinating topic.
Sincerely,
Doug Hajicek
Producer/ Creator/ MonsterQuest
Whitewolf Entertainment Inc.
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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