Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 10th, 2006
Come on in! See the Jersey Devil. Step right up. Get your tickets here. Look inside and see the actual Jersey Devil. Actually visible below, for real… In circus, sideshow, and carnival jargon, the gaff is the gimmicked item, the taxidermy fake, the rigged prop often used by the illusionists, the sideshow artists, the showmen […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 9th, 2006
In an effort to share some cryptozoological information with a new group of readers, and to obtain new information on the “mysterious millionaire,” I worked with John Robinson at Sideshow World to add an overview on that specialty site about the Minnesota Iceman. Check it out at their specific page now devoted to the Minnesota […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 8th, 2006
In conjunction with the University of Texas’ display, "Bigfoot in Texas?" this weekend, one of the speakers will be Catherine Nixon Cooke, a niece of Tom Slick. Ms. Cooke in 2005 published her book, Tom Slick, Mystery Hunter from Paraview, Inc. A question I would ask her if I was there: Was the late Texas […]
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 8th, 2006
The day started early with breakfast here at the Radisson. We left for the Institute at 9:20 AM to see the exhibit for the first time. Kathy Moskowitz-Strain, her husband Robert Strain, and Kathy’s 2 kids followed Marcy and myself to the museum. We got there at 9:30 AM and were promptly greeted by Alison, […]
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 8th, 2006
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 7th, 2006
This is the other panel as you enter the exhibit. Click on image above for full-size version.
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 7th, 2006
This is the opening panel as you enter the exhibit. Click on image above for full-size version. And here is just the text from the panel.
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 6th, 2006
Anyone from Ohio or West Virginia? I’m looking for a Mothman death list photo. Mothman image, copyright 2002, created by cryptozoology illustrator William Rebsamen for Mothman and Other Curious Encounters In the Charleston Daily Mail of March 20, 2006, in “Mothman has his own museum,” reporter Samantha L. Thomas, discussing the collection in Point Pleasant, […]
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 5th, 2006
The Bigfoot in Texas? exhibit opens in two days. Needless to say, I am pretty nervous, waiting to see the exhibit. Anyone that knows me, knows that I get pretty anxious before one of my events opens. The University of Texas San Antonio’s website featured this article on the event today. The quote that was […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 5th, 2006
In a kingdom built on make-believe, it is a big deal when the masters of fun and fantasy decide to place a focus of cryptozoology into the midst of their own real-life zoo. This covert positioning was not lost on reporter Buck Wolf. Wolf talked to me a couple of weeks ago because he knows […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 4th, 2006
From April 3rd through April 8th, an exhibition of some interest to cryptozoology will be showing at Worth Ryder Gallery in Kroeber Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, California. Various art students at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California College of the Arts have collaborated in the one-week exhibition entitled "American Mythology: The […]
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 4th, 2006
Well, it’s just about here. Opening weekend of the Bigfoot in Texas? exhibit at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio. The exhibit opens Friday morning at 10 AM. I’m leaving Dallas around noon on Thursday. Gotta be at the museum at 9 AM Friday morning for the press conference. Then I’m off to […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 3rd, 2006
How do eyewitness drawings evolve into what we often see in the media? Take a look at the development of the sketches and illustrations of Momo (the Missouri Monster, a 1972 Bigfoot-like cryptid) from the time of the initial eyewitnesses’ attempts to capture what they saw, through the artwork created by later illustrators, some with […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 31st, 2006
It is Friday, March 31 (a day I predicted on Wednesday we would hear about earthquakes). This day will see the hardcover and paperback editions of Mysterious America from Paraview go out of print. No more hardback copies of Mysterious America again. Famed natural history artist Alexis Rockman painted the cover depicting a real encounter […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 30th, 2006
A new species of monkey discovered in South America, larger than contemporary monkeys? A new hominid species found, perhaps as a link between erectus and sapiens? Two recent new fossil skull finds may have much to tell cryptozoology, as they become more deeply understood. A team of Argentinean and United States scholars have identified a […]
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