Archive for the “Almas”
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 12th, 2007
What are the lesser-known cryptids that you know about, that you are pursuing, and/or that you feel should get more attention? Nowadays, it is easy to come up with a list of popular well-known cryptids. Click on this one of the top 50 here, to see what I mean. But we all know there are […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 10th, 2007
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 9th, 2007
[The above photograph, first published in 1990 but making the rounds of European hominology sites this week of August 2007, may actually be one of the worst “Snowman” photographs I have ever seen. Either that or none of us know exactly what Snowpeople look like. – LC] The Russian newspaper Volkhov reported in March 2006 […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 2nd, 2007
Yu Zhenhuan, above, wants to carry the Olympic torch before the Beijing Games. One of the world’s hairiest men, who nicknames himself “King Kong”, has launched a campaign to carry the Olympic torch during the relay ahead of next year’s Beijing Games. (Reuters: Claro Cortes IV) Occasionally skeptics will try to debunk a Bigfoot case […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 1st, 2007
The reported appearance of the Almasty or Almas is often combined with frequently heard folkloric advice that the best way to escape from the female of the species is by running downhill. This motif is also found among reports from Sherpas regarding the Abominable Snowmen of the Himalaya. A Ukrainian biologist who has spent years […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 1st, 2007
Harry Trumbore’s drawing (above) of the Himalayan Yeti. I wrote this paper over a decade ago and have posted it here before, in conjunction with Craig Woolheater’s “Down Classification Avenue With Sasquatch”. With recent comments about the same subject, I thought it seemed appropriate to revisit my thoughts on this matter, again. Scientific Names for […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 31st, 2007
The following images are more photographs being shared from the inside of “The Department of Cryptozoology B. Heuvelmans, Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, Switzerland.” This location is the sanctuary for Bernard Heuvelmans’ collection of books, paintings, and raw materials, detailing his years of cryptozoology research and gathering of cryptid data. Today, you can more clearly seen […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 30th, 2007
What have they done to the saga of the misunderstood lonely neighborhood hairy forest giant and his cranky mom? Where has the Neandertaloid gone in this tale of a dying, soon-to-be extinct group of humanlike beings? Coming this November, Beowulf is re-invented for the screen beyond the epic remembrances many of us share of this […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 25th, 2007
The following images are the first ones I have seen of the inside of “The Department of Cryptozoology B. Heuvelmans, Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, Switzerland.” This location is now the sanctuary for Bernard Heuvelmans’ collection of books, paintings, and raw material detailing his years of cryptozoology research and gathering of cryptid data. These photographs were […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 15th, 2007
History has repeated itself. Hominids have diminished others hominids, once again. Ota Benga and a chimpanzee, Bronx Zoo, 1906. “A hundred years ago, on September 8th, 1906, the Bronx Zoo in New York unveiled a new exhibit that would attract thousands of visitors to come and marvel. Inside a cage, in the monkey house, was […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 7th, 2007
Please donate to the International Cryptozoology Museum by sending your financial gifts, unwanted or extra replica animals, and/or cryptozoology artifacts to Loren Coleman, Director, ICM, PO Box 360, Portland, ME 04112, or any fiscal contributions via PayPal to [email protected] Thank you. +++++++ My birthday is on July 12th. I was born the year a Bigfoot […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 4th, 2007
This is a casual moment of a couple caged Almas in a behind-the-scenes photograph from “Russian Bigfoot.” Tired of going outside and fighting the biting insects to wait two hours until your town sets off fifteen minutes of fireworks? Well, you can stay at home tonight and enjoy some thought-provoking cryptotelevision. Or maybe even do […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 30th, 2007
Little is known of what the Soviet Russians did on their Pamir Mountains’ “Snowmen” expeditions of the 1960s, especially if they contained non-Russian members. What were their goals? What did they find? Was Tom Slick or one of his friends secretly involved in funding one such expedition? Malcolm Slesser. The death on Tuesday, June 26, […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 23rd, 2007
Ever wanted your own personalized cryptid? Well, for twenty bucks you can have your idea envisioned by an artist who quickly draws your desire, via Monster by Mail. (See more ordering info at the bottom of this posting.) Thanks to Rogier van Bakel, I heard about this artist, Len Peralta who is in the midst […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 20th, 2007
Of course, at some level, one could say we don’t even know what we are looking for and what skills or odors or equipment it will ultimately take to find unknown hairy hominoids. After all, we haven’t found any Bigfoot, Yeti, Almas, or Skunk Ape yet, so what we have been doing isn’t working – […]
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