November 4, 2006
On Saturday, November 4, 2006, the CNN Poll was conducting a survey (probably due to the Meldrum publicity) that read: “Do you believe that Bigfoot exists?”
Update: The poll has been taken down. See end of this blog for more final thoughts.
You can respond “Yes” or “No.”
If you would like to “vote,” go to the CNN page (link here) and scroll down to the poll. It’s on the lower right side of the page. At 9:30 am Eastern, it’s still up and probably will be for several more hours.
As of when I am posting this, of 21,909 votes cast, the “Yes” results are 32% (7015 votes) versus “No” at 68% (14,894 votes).
Of course, they haven’t heard from most of us yet!
Despite my dislike for the use of the word “believe” in cryptozoology, for this one, I voted “Yes.”
I’ll check these popular culture results later to see if they change.
BTW, has anyone heard even one candidate in the USA mention “Bigfoot,” “cryptozoology,” or “cryptotourism”?
UPDATE: 11:30 AM Eastern – The poll has disappeared.
Only a few hours after this blog was posted, the poll ended. No, there is no conspiracy here, it just is that the news has moved on to worries about Iraq, the CIA, sex scandals, and the election.
The final results I was able to capture, at about 11 A.M., showed 29,384 votes recorded, with a breakdown of 32% (9406) for “Yes” and 68% (19,978) for “No.”
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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