August 14, 2006
The Cryptomundo cryptozoologist to be highlighted is one of the background figures in the ongoing Malaysian Bigfoot investigations. Mr. Toh Seong Fai, 33, is the Vice-President of Singapore Paranormal Investigators (SPI). SPI has been involved in the fieldwork of the Johor examinations, and Toh Seong Fai has been in the thick of it.
On Monday, August 14, 2006, the Malaysia Star profiled Toh Seong Fai, as follows:
Toh Seong Fai, 33
Vice-President of Singapore Paranormal Investigators by night; business trainer by day.
How he got hooked: As a child, he was always fascinated by cryptozoology, the science of researching animals and creatures whose existences have never been confirmed. Think Bigfoot, Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster.
He joined SPI in 2004 and now heads the cryptozoology department.
Has investigated: The case of Johor’s Bigfoot sightings.
He thinks one possibility is that Johor’s Bigfoot is a new species of animal that will eventually have to be protected. “Hopefully, I will collect some evidence soon to prove its identity,” he says.
How he got spooked: He has not experienced any scary encounters so far.
Loves the job because: “I am a human being and am born curious.”
One of the original local drawings of the Malaysian Bigfoot collected by Toh Seong Fai and his API team in Johor last winter.
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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