Archive for the “Abominable Snowman”

Yeti and The Number 23

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 23rd, 2007

Virginia Madsen stars in The Number 23, opening in the USA on February 23, 2007. As reported in promotional interviews about the movie, Madsen was asked: “How did you learn about the number 23 phenomenon? Virginia, had you heard of the phenomenon?” Yes, because I think all that stuff is really fun, the shows on […]

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The Great Days of Yeti Hunting

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 11th, 2007

Harry Trumbore’s drawing of a Yeti. Ask yourself, where are all the great Yeti hunters from the 1950s? Take for example, what is Peter Byrne, the leader of the Tom Slick expeditions of the 1950s, up to these days? Byrne is often remembered, for example, online at such sites as The Anomalist and Wikipedia, with […]

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A Life Explored In Words

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 10th, 2007

I sometimes neglect the fact that few people know really what I have written, in total. Today, for example, a young man emailed me with this message: “How many books have you done Loren? I have only come across two.” Well, I can forget myself, often, for many reasons. It happens. Ha ha. Memory and […]

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Cryptozoology: First Use?

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 5th, 2007

Cryptozoology, as you know, means “the study of hidden animals.” In 1955, Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans wrote a groundbreaking book in French, a now classic opus entitled (in English) On the Track of Unknown Animals. But in the 1955 French and the 1958 English editions, you will not find the word “cryptozoology,” in any language. […]

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Russian Relic Hominids

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 4th, 2007

The German Study Group of Sub-Human Primates has summarized the following news out of Russia: The website Tochikoni Rossija, a Tajik-Russian Mass Media Project published a photo (above) of the St. Petersburg artist Nikolaj Potapov with his painting of a “relic hominoid”. In the 80’s, Potapov was a participant in a “snowman” expedition in Tajikistan. […]

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Does Wiki, Google, or Yahoo Link You To Cryptozoology?

Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 18th, 2007

What can job seekers find out about you by looking at your FaceBook, YouTube, and Wikipedia? Doing a search for you and your activities via Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, Quintura, or yes, by visiting Ask Jeeves would reveal what? Have you been mentioned in Cryptomundo, at The Anomalist, or on Boing Boing? Well, maybe Boing […]

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The New Crop of Bigfooters: What’s Up?

Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 17th, 2007

We all were young once. What kind of member of the next generation of Bigfooters are you? What’s up with the present crop of Sasquatch seekers? Let me shout out a challenge to the Bigfoot hunters and researchers here who are 40 years old and under. I usually don’t say things so strongly about this […]

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New Kids’ Books on Cryptids

Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 14th, 2007

There is a new series of children’s books on cryptozoology for the New Year. Rosen Publishing has walked this way before. This New York City-based publisher produced a series of “Secret Files” children’s books on cryptids in 2002. It has now followed with their “Graphic Mysteries” 48-pages-long books for 2006 and 2007. The 2002 titles, […]

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Cryptozoology Wednesday

Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 10th, 2007

A new site to check out: Anomaly TV: Cryptozoology Wednesday. What do you think about it? One place to find all the Bigfoot videos you have been looking for? Word on replays of Mothman documentaries? Updates on when A & E, National Geographic, Travel Channel, History Channel and other repeats or new programs are going […]

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“Yeti” Photographed

Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 9th, 2007

The famed coelacanth researcher and dinofish.com site author Jerome Hamlin sends along the above photographs. Hamlin writes: Here’s a picture of a “Yeti” that approached our car at a gas station in India last April! I thought of you when I snapped it. I was quite impressed by the outfit and in the heat. I […]

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Sunday Comics: The Effects of Global Warming?

Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 7th, 2007

Cryptomundo Exclusive: Sunday Insight Please click on this Peter Loh cartoon, based on a Loren Coleman suggestion, for a fuller-sized version. For more of Peter Loh’s work, see here and here.

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Bernard Heuvelmans Books

Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 2nd, 2007

During 2007, two books, one about and one by Bernard Heuvelmans, will be published in French, appearing by late February from the publisher Les Editions de l’Oeil du Sphinx, Paris. The biography by Jean-Jacques Barloy is entitled Bernard Heuvelmans: Un Rebelle de la Science (Bernard Heuvelmans: A Science Rebel). Barloy is also involved as the […]

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Top Ten List of Cryptomundo’s Top Ten Lists of 2006

Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 23rd, 2006

1. The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2006 2. Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006 3. Top Ten Creepy Fossil Finds of 2006 4. The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2006 5. The Top Cryptofiction Books of 2006 6. Top Ten Cryptozoo Mystery Photographs of 2006 7. 2006’s Passings of Cryptozoologists and Others 8. 2006 Cryptoholiday […]

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The Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006

Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 20th, 2006

Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006 by Loren Coleman, coauthor The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. In the 1950s, anything covered in hair, upright or nearly so, and appearing to be an unknown human-like creature was called an “Abominable Snowman.” Today, the universal term, cryptozoologically speaking, used for any hidden, uncaught, or […]

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2006’s Passings of Cryptozoologists and Others

Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 18th, 2006

Who Did We Lose This Year? by Loren Coleman, author of the biography, Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology. The following is a roundup of 25 notable people linked to cryptozoology, cryptids, Bigfoot studies, aligned fields, and cryptocinema who died in 2006. Death is a milestone. This gathering is given out-of-respect and in celebration […]

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