Iceman Charms Sanctuary Tattoo Event
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 9th, 2010
The International Cryptozoology Museum has undergone a massive transformation over the last three days. If you visited before, you will not recognize it.
New display cases, new exhibits, and much more.
Three hours of sleep, updating of the layout, and an overhaul due to the Iceman being in the collection now – as a direct result of all the volunteer efforts by Jeff, Caleb, Sarah, Erin, Phil, and Jameison for this charity event.
I will reveal more later, but here is a peek of some of the visitors to the Sanctuary Tattoo event who viewed the Iceman.
You missed a happening if you did not attend. Over 1000 people came to Sanctuary Tattoo’s 10th year bash. We were downstairs and served as a crypto-retreat from the wild events upstairs. But what we experienced was great too…
Like the Maine Roller Derby “girls” making a pyramid nearby; several of the Derby women visited our collection, which contained 33 unique “sideshow” items, some made especially for the evening.
The charming Jennifer Elizabeth Moore, co-owner of Sanctuary Tattoo, is shown as she enters our exhibition tent at the Port City Music Hall event.
Ariel Harris-Porada, the evening’s sword swallower, took a break to come look at the Iceman.
And the mysterious ones passed by, in droves and droves, with people like the woman in green, who has a Yeti tattoo on her ankle, stopping into our tent for a peek.
And your host for the International Cryptozoology Museum’s tent appearance was a crazy, pushy, carnival barker persona I had never met before.
But it was all done for a good cause.
And it put new energy and new exhibits into the museum, in a massive reworking of the main site, at our six month mark.
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.
It is all wonderful, but I hope you are finally getting some sleep.
Please tell me you got a Patty tattoo on one of your arms, Loren 😉