Loren Coleman offers an obituary written by Michael Newton himself, who finally succumbed to an untreatable hereditary kidney disease on September 6. “Prolific” is an understatement to describe just how much writing Newton did–at least 357 books! Among his cryptozoology titles, surely the best known is the Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology. Newton dedicated that book to […]
A good friend of John Keel’s and many other forteans, Skylaire Alfvegren died of a tragic accident in her home outside of Los Angeles on August 27 at the age of 44. For years she was the associate editor of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Reader and a columnist for UFO Magazine. Her work appeared in The Believer, Fortean Times, and Hustler (where she […]
The well-known and much loved Champ Lake Monsters researcher Scott Mardis has died at the age of 57. Scott actually saw Champ back in 1994 about a couple of years into his quest. Loren Coleman pens an obit that includes a letter from Scott’s brother, an excerpt from Tea Krulos’ Monster Hunters, and an unpublished […]
Paranormal and adult content writer, producer, director, and actor Timothy Green Beckley has passed, according to Loren Coleman’s detailed obituary. Coleman says the cause of death was an apparent heart attack. Ufological fans likely will most remember Beckley as the energy behind numerous “pot boiler” saucer book collaborations of late, with lurid covers and often […]
All year, Loren Coleman cleverly catalogs the cryptozoo news items that wander from the wilds of the worldwide web out into the mainstream media, and when the calendar resets we the readers reap the fruits of his labor. Despite the typical crop of hilariously hopeless photo hoaxes and an attempted murder on the bigfoot trail […]
A good news, bad news post. First the good news: Loren Coleman of the International Cryptozoology Museum has announced that the Cryptozoologist of the Year 2020 is Hominologist Dr. Marie-Jeanne Koffmann. And the Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 goes to Christopher L. Murphy. Check out the details. Next are The Top 20 Cryptozoology Books of 2020. […]
In an interesting approach to the discovery of a species thought long extinct, Loren Coleman suggests that there exist hints in West African art that point to the continued existence of the Coelacanth. Further, Coleman states “Searching for a new species of coelacanth (in the genus Latimeria) may involve conducting detective work, ethnographically, in West […]
Take that 2020! The International Cryptozoology Museum has not only survived, it has expanded and is open for the 2020/2021 season with social distancing and a pile of new exhibits (as well as old ones previously put into storage). In other good news, San Antonio Zoo Unveils New Chupacabra Exhibit, essentially moving cryptozoology one step […]
Loren Coleman pens a tribute to a “visionary cultural anthropologist” who died in 2018. Wagner was one of Loren’s professors at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale back in 1968. While researching the cultures of Papua New Guinea in the 1960s and 1970s, Wagner heard tales of a creature called the ri, which was described as […]
First we pay our respects to Bayanov, whose cryptozoological career focused primarily on the study of relic populations of hominids, including the Almas and the American Sasquatch. Bayanov coined the term “hominology” and was one of the researchers involved in examining the Patterson Gimlin footage, concluding it to be authentic. He coined the nickname “Pattyâ€� […]