My cryptozoologist pal Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo is the subject of a long profile in today’s Boston Globe. The reporter visited Loren in his wunderkammer home, also known as the International Cryptozoology Museum. From the article:
To believers, doubters, even skeptics, Bigfoot makes a big impression. The replica 8 1/2 – foot hairy hominoid — crafted from the fur of musk oxen and buffalo, a hulking presence on the porch of a brown-and-yellow home in Portland, Maine — scares the bejesus out of the UPS man. Still, it’s right at home here on the doorstep of a man who has spent a lifetime investigating mysterious animal sightings. “I don’t particularly feel like a strange person,” Loren Coleman says. “It’s the subject I study that’s strange.”He is a leading figure in the world of cryptozoology, a field whose legitimacy is disputed. Coleman has trekked to 49 states, as well as Canada, Mexico, and Scotland, gathering physical evidence and eyewitness accounts of Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster, Mothman, thunderbirds, and other legendary beasts not verified by conventional science but storied enough to make us wonder: What if?
“Eighty percent of all the accounts that come to me are misidentifications, are mundane animals – a few fakes, a few hoaxes,” Coleman acknowledges. “But it’s that 20 percent of the core unknowns that keep me going.”
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