Loren Coleman
@CryptoLoren
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Cryptozoologist, museum founder/director, author, tv celeb, social scientist, ex-professor, filmmaker, father & husband
Bangor, ME; from Decatur, IL
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A camera trap in Brazil has captured a photograph of a white (leucistic) puma in the Serra dos Órgãos National Park.
(h/t Michael Ariola) ~
@CryptoLoren
#PhantomPanther
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Famed actor Malcolm Dixon, 66, died 9 Apr 2020.
Strutter in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits, an Oompa Loompa in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, and roles in Flash Gordon, The Dark Crystal, Willow, & Labyrinth.
#cryptokubrology
@CryptoLoren
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@PublicDomainRev
The most probable (unmentioned here) explanation for Olaus Magnus’s Sea Serpent is the misidentification of whale penises. It takes little imagination to visualization the similarities. ~
@CryptoLoren
, International Cryptozoology Museum.
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10.20.2017: 50th Anniversary, Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film. Five decades of researchers like John Green & Jim McClarin at Bluff Creek site.
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International Cryptozoology Museum is suffering through the worst attendance month in 15 yrs. We are a nonprofit 501(c)3. Need funds to survive. I’m giving $1000. Match me. Or donate $10, $42, $100, $237, $500+ via PayPal to executives
@cryptozoologymuseum
.com RT TY~
@CryptoLoren
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BREAKING: Sighting on April 13, 2018 at Fort Augustus, Loch Ness, Scotland, of 20 ft long "something coming up, undulating, going down, then coming up again." Group of Italian tourists. A woman fainted. Allegedly a photo was taken. Not released yet. h/t MPlayfair. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Let us pause to consider the most celebrated living human eyewitness of Bigfoot ~ Bob Gimlin ~ turns 90 years of age on October 18, 2021. ~
@CryptoLoren
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King Frederik IX of Denmark, 1947 - 1972, got his first tattoo at 31, a 35 cm long dragon on his left arm. In 1890, Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, got a dragon tattoo on his right arm in Japan.
King George V had at blue & red dragon tattoo done in 1881, also while in Japan.
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Dr. Jeff Meldrum has experienced a medical emergency while giving a Bigfoot talk abroad an Alaskan cruise. He had to be evacuated by medical helicopter and the cruise had to turn around. Details are still sketchy and we are hoping for a full recovery. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Linda Godfrey (March 20, 1951-Nov 27, 2022)
@lindasgodfrey
, celebrated author & cryptozoologist from Wisconsin, who introduced the public to the Bray Road Beast, died due to Parkinson’s. Spoke at the International Cryptozoology Conference Labor Day 2017. R.I.P.~
@CryptoLoren
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We need your support as we move our entire International Cryptozoology Museum.
If you are a millionaire or have property and can back the signing of our loan. Step forward. Volunteer to help us obtain funding or paint walls. Let me,
@CryptoLoren
, hear from you. I’m easy to find.
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Is this an authentic Funko Pop Joshua Gates (
@joshuagates
) figurine? Must find for the International Cryptozoology Museum. Any leads? Thank you all. ~
@CryptoLoren
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3-4-2023
Congratulations on your 7th anniversary to
@AdamJBerry
and
@amybruni
, a classic statement on the traditional programming folks have grown to expect from you on
@discoveryplus
@travelchannel
.
@CryptoLoren
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Who was the headmaster of the Dalton School & gave Jeffrey Epstein a job teaching in 1973? Donald Barr, AG William Barr’s father. Who wrote a sci-fi novel about outer space sex slave trade? Donald Barr, Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale (1973).~
@CryptoLoren
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Ah,
@Tsoukalos
meets
@davidduchovny
; that Aliens meme guy pictured with Fox. Mulder meets Tsoukalos. The X-Files collides with Ancient Aliens.
#davidduchovny
#foxmulder
#xfiles
#aliencon
#aliencon2018
#IwasonAlienAliens
~
@CryptoLoren
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In the 1960s-1970s, reports from the American West surfaced of Sasquatch being sighted with tattered plaid or checkered shirts and ragged shorts on their bodies. See “Bushmen” in The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates.
@CryptoLoren
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Good to see old
#Paracon
buddies
@stevegonsalves1
@davetango
@JohnZaffis
+
@CryptoLoren
. John’s the only one to not receive the memo about wearing a Hawaiian shirt, apparently. Haha.
#PortlandMaine
June 1, 2019. cc:
@Senter_Stage
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If cryptozoology is about some new animal species hiding in plain sight, then cryptobotany’s latest find is remarkable. A new species of plant has been discovered in Brazil. Coccoloba gigantifolia has the largest leaves of any plant! ~
@CryptoLoren
(Photo: C Ferreira & R Gribel)
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Call it a black panther, a melanistic or black leopard, they are so rare the last one photographed in Africa was 100 years ago. British wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, 35, photographed a specimen on the plains of Kenya last year. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist and conservationist, the son of Mary and Louis, who built upon his legendary family’s discoveries to shape our understanding of human origins, died on 2 Jan 2022, at the age of 77. Photo of Leakey with 1969 skull of Australopithecus robustus.
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#BreakingNews
Mar 8, 2023: We have secured our grand soon-to-be renovated permanent International Cryptozoology Museum on Broadway, Bangor, Maine. Say “hello” to our future home via this beautiful Streamline Moderne building, built in 1945!
@CryptoLoren
@CryptozooMuseum
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The Lonnie Zamora incident was a UFO sighting that occurred on Apr 24, 1964 near Socorro, NM when Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora reported two people beside a shiny object that later rose into the air accompanied by a roaring flame.
#NotCryptids
at
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A white grizzly has been photographed in Alberta’s Banff National Park. White grizzlies are very rare. Polar bears roam the Arctic, and the West Coast has Kermode, or spirit, bears, which are a variant of the black bear. Park officials will protect this specimen.~
@CryptoLoren
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Joan Weldon, the actress pursued by giant ants in Them! (1954), dies at 90, on Feb 11, 2021. In Them!, her Dr. Pat Medford & her father are mycologists sent to investigate after weird tracks discovered in the NM desert, created by ants mutated by an A-bomb. Life was simple then.
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Plan your final summer and fall Cryptozoology trips! Pick up you “Monsters in America” map and support a good cause - the world’s only International Cryptozoology Museum. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Facebook disallowed (for breaking "community standards" re: nudity/sexuality) the posting of the photograph found in this attachment. It is an image from 1895 of a giant body bought and tested by the Smithsonian Museum. Historical, not sexual! OMG. ~
@CryptoLoren
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One of the best
#Fortean
films ever made is Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977), filled with prophetic warnings, falling frogs, and other strange weather phenomena. One of its stars is David Gulpilil, an Australian actor/dancer of the Yolngu people, who died 29 Nov 2021, at 68+/-.
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@PublicDomainRev
This treatment and discussion of the probable origins of what Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent might have been has excluded the best answer: the misidentification of a whale penis. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Betty White, 99, is gone but she lives on via film as Mrs. Delores Bickerman, the human antagonist of the 1999 horror comedy film Lake Placid which takes place in Maine. She plays a rural woman who secretly takes care of the crocodiles of Black Lake. May she R.I.P. 🐊🐊🐊🐊💚
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I opened my talk at
@sscasino
#paracon2018
by telling the attendees “that
@joshuagates
couldn’t make it, but you’re welcome to take my photos as ‘Josh Gates in 40 years.’”
Apparently some did! My apologies to Josh. ~
@CryptoLoren
//
@CryptoGuruRon
@CreepyTalent
@Senter_Stage
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Japan released a series of photos in 1996 that may depict a Japanese Wolf, a species thought to be extinct since 1905.
It is a cryptid species of some interest in cryptozoology.
Loren Coleman
@CryptoLoren
International Cryptozoology Museum
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The yearly “Cryptozoologist of the Year,” the Golden Yeti, is the highest honor awarded in cryptozoology, given annually in December, by the International Cryptozoology Museum. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Keep Dr. Don Jeffrey Meldrum in your thoughts. At 65, he is a young man. Indeed, inside everyone, a younger self lives on. ~
@CryptoLoren
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A friend said he thinks the popularity of Mothman is overtaking Bigfoot in the US. What do you think? Mothman vs Bigfoot? Would you go to the Mothman Festival over a Bigfoot Con? Would you buy a new Bigfoot model over a new Mothman replica? Which has lasting power? ~
@CryptoLoren
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The discovery of a wild-breeding new species of Chinese Giant Salamander (adults, 2 meters+ in length; holotype smaller) is an especially intriguing find, the Jiangxi Giant Salamander, Andrias jiangxiensis.
~
@Blackmudpuppy
@TetZoo
@CryptoLoren
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Re:
#MokeleMbembe
collection, just received the original “document” from 100+ years ago illustrating the colonial representation of the “sauropod” style cryptid being “hunted”:
LA TRIBUNA ILLUSTRATA N° 3 1920 BRONTOSAURI CONGO. ~
@CryptoLoren
@TetZoo
@edward_guimont
@memizon
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Bill Paxton, 61, R.I.P.
Paxton (the child seen raised above the crowd) before JFK leaves Hotel Texas, Nov 22, 1963, the day JFK killed.
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Lifesize replicas are learning tools at the International Cryptozoology Museum. Obtained a copy of 1938’s “first” coelacanth in 1990s, our bronze Thylacine in 2013, and the full-sized Dodo just this week from the Netherlands!
@CryptoLoren
cc:
@TetZoo
@CliffBarackman
@karlshuker
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First definitive photos of the New Guinea Highland Wild Dog in over 50 years. Pregnant female at a scent lure (separate image) her two pups
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The Coleman Frog is a 19 kg (42 lb) “taxidermy” frog on display at the Fredericton Region Museum in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada since 1959. It clearly seems to be an apparent fabrication created to promote a local hotel owned by Fred Coleman (no relation). Living 5ft tall.
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After my stroke (2/11/2022), after moving to Bangor (2/14/2022), and after a week of rest, I decided to go antiquing. First thing I found for the new cryptozoology museum bookstore north: an empty 1971 Jackalope decanter of excellent exhibition quality.
@CryptoLoren
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July 2 is World UFO Day, celebrating awareness of unidentified flying objects. There are two per year. June 24 because Kenneth Arnold had the first “flying saucers” sighting in 1947. July 2 commemorates the UFO crash in the 1947 Roswell (NM) UFO Incident. ~
@CryptoLoren
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#BREAKING
A black panther, dark mountain lion, or melanistic jaguar has routinely been seen during April 2023, in the Cedar Crest neighborhood, Bernalillo County, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Black jaguars are rare but not unknown. Mtns/Dense Piñon Forest
#Cryptid
@CryptoLoren
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Four a.m. explosion destroys part of the The Georgia Guidestones, the granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, GA. A set of 10 guidelines is inscribed on the structure in 8 modern languages and a shorter message in 4 ancient languages is on top. ~
@CryptoLoren
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John “Trapper” Tice of Mountain Monsters fame and founder of A.I.M.S has passed away. He died on Monday evening, Dec 16, 2019. He passed away due to kidney failure. He was 72 and had been suffering with health issues for about 2 years. ~
@CryptoLoren
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We recall with celebration Dr. Jeff Meldrum’s presentation at our 2018 International Cryptozoology Conference. We wish him a quiet recovery, surrounded by family.
I know from the return from my 3 strokes, it is merely a matter of rest and not answering questions.
@CryptoLoren
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R.I.P.
Richard Herd, the venerable character actor who played Mr. Wilhelm on
#Seinfeld
and appeared in Star Trek, All the President's Men, and The China Syndrome, has died at 87. ~
@CryptoLoren
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On December 22, 2000, Florida’s Myakka Ape photographs surfaced. Twenty-two years later, there still may be new insights to be gained from looking closely at these images. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Maine Seniors magazine (June 2021) highlights Loren Coleman
@CryptoLoren
and the International Cryptozoology Museum, Portland, Maine.
@VisitPortland
@visitmaine
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“One in a million” yellow cardinal spotted and
photographed around Alabaster, Alabama in February 2018.
(Jeremy Black Photography)
~
@CryptoLoren
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Breaking News from Alaska:
During the tsunami alert of Jan 22, 2018, three Native families saw "Bigfoot-like creatures heading up the hills to higher ground." They said multiple tracks were seen. Investigations ongoing. ~
@CryptoLoren
ATTN:
@CliffBarackman
@reddirtreportOK
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Here is another track shared with me, found this winter by a conservation officer at a Minnesota Chippewa reservation - in the middle of the woods. It had a 6 foot stride with no other tracks around it. ~
@CryptoLoren
|
@CliffBarackman
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What if this was the final statement of Donald J. Trump?
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Zooming into 2020, that milestone will mark my 60th year involved in Cryptozoology. Here I am at Willow Creek, California, for the first time, in August 1975. Note blue flannel shirt. I’d been doing Bigfoot research for 15 years by then. Carving by Jim McClarin. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Depiction of a Yeti couple, 1800s, Mongolia, tearing apart a human being. ~
@CryptoLoren
(h/t
@Bgfootwhisperer
) Museumworthy:
@ecwool
@CliffBarackman
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How
#paranormal
is this? I’m speaking today in Salt Lake City with
@joshuagates
&
@joshuagates
! ~
@CryptoLoren
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Wake up cryptozoology fans! Help needed RIGHT NOW! Let’s be straight. Cash required to make it through this difficult winter. Low attendance, storms, ill staff. A chain is holding up our sign. Please donate to save us!
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Congratulations to
@AnimalPlanet
’s
@FindingBigfoot
@MattMoneymaker1
@squatcher
@CliffBarackman
and
@SkeptiScientist
~> You collectively introduced millions of
@FBIGFOOTFANS
to Cryptozoology. The world has been re-made because of you & the series. Thank you,
@CryptoLoren
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Name a cryptid ~ win a book! Win a draft copy of CRYPTID CREATURES: A Field Guide
by Kelly Milner Halls
@KellyMilnerH
& illus Rick Spears.
@CryptoLoren
will pick 5 winners who coin a name of a real unnamed cryptid by 8/20/2019. Send names to LCOLEMAN(@)
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The goals of cryptozoology (formerly “romantic zoology”) have resulted in the discovery of the okapi, mountain gorilla, platypus, giant squid, Komodo dragon, giant panda, Mae Hka snub-nosed monkey, Homo floresiensis, reticulated siren, Kayan slow loris, & more.~
@CryptoLoren
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Robbie Graham. May 9, 1981~Feb 17, 2023. Author, Silver Screen Saucers. Ed, UFOs: Reframing the Debate.
@RadioMisterioso
: “…depression and personal problems overtook my friend Robbie Graham and he is gone. A brilliant author and editor, he was a hero and an inspiration…”
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Cindy Williams, b. Aug 22, 1947, an American actress, best known for American Graffiti (1973), The Conversation (1974), Happy Days (1975–1979), and Laverne & Shirley (1976–1982), died, Jan 25, 2023. She played a UFO believer in 1985’s UFOria.
@CryptoLoren
@binnall
@anomalistnews
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Ponder the ancient cryptid hominoid profile of the Tokoloshe (Shetani), the Goblin, from the master carvers of the Makonde (1930s), on exhibit at the International Cryptozoology Museum, Portland, Maine. Its appearance predates Kentucky’s Kelly Creatures (1955).~
@CryptoLoren
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Friends are sending love, and generous. From Sasquatch cartoons to historical flying saucer dioramas, drawings to Bigfoot ornaments, folks are sending “get well” gifts, in the wake of my stroke. Brightens my day, and goes in Museum to stay some day! Thank you all. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Opening Day Congrats to
@MBarackman_pdx
&
@CliffBarackman
with Murphy, their 7’ 6” centerpiece of the North American Bigfoot Center. The Barackmans open the Center on 8/2/2019, in Boring, Oregon. ~ Best wishes from
@CryptoLoren
International Cryptozoology Museum, Portland, Maine.
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Ricou Browning, 93, born Feb 16, 1930, has passed away on Feb 28, 2023.
Browning is best known for his underwater stunt work, especially in the 1954 film Creature From The Black Lagoon. Full-scale Gill-Man replica is part of
#InternationalCryptozoologyMuseum
.
@CryptoLoren
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Author Jim Marrs Dies
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (1993) and other conspiracy theory books.
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#Minnesota
Oct 11-14, 2018.
@sscasino
#paracon
Nick Groff
Elizabeth Saint
Dave Schrader
Grant Wilson
Steve Gonsalves
Dave Tango
Chip Coffey
John Zaffis
Jael De Pardo
Erin Ryder
Jordan Ladd
Erin Marie Hogan
Nick Redfern
Tory Belleci
and
@CryptoLoren
Loren Coleman
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September 12, 1952, Flatwoods, West Virgina. The Monster is seen. For more, see Chapter One on the Flatwoods Monster, in Mothman and Other Curious Encounters
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From Twitter’s
@mireyamayor
&
@CryptoLoren
to Great Florida Bigfoot Conference Jan 21-22, 2022, the smiles were all aglow.
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There you are, planning your "Humor in Cryptozooology" talk, and someone suggests a slide on "Cryptozoology in Politics." What do you do?
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The Gill-Man Cometh!
Crawling upon shore and entering the International Cryptozoology Museum on Oct 30, 2019 ~ a life-sized adult Creature From The Black Lagoon ~ will be permanently placed on exhibition, as our Halloween gift to you, our patrons! ~
@CryptoLoren
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Having had a 20yr professional firefighter as a father, I have empathy for the California fire crew members and the survivors of folks who have lost their lives. But I also want to pause to acknowledge the animals (including Bigfoot) who’ve died in these 🔥 fires. ~
@CryptoLoren
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Prince Harry: Is he flashing a traditional Masonic sign of distress? 😎
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Remembering the passing in 2020 of Finding Bigfoot's celebrity dog, Monkey, 16. The Cryptozoology Deaths of 2020.
@squatcher
@CliffBarackman
@FindingBigfoot
~
@CryptoLoren
@JennyWColeman44
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The events that occurred 2/10/2023 over Alaska remain unexplained. An object was shot from the skies. The size of a small auto. Unoccupied by humans? What was inside? Where was it from? What was it? Was it
#UAP
?
#UFO
? Cylindrical? Silverish? Fakery? Balloon?
@CryptoLoren
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Holy Infographics!!
If there’re this many sightings of Bigfoot in SE Texas, let alone actual Bigfoot in those swamps, someone should hand out some nets to go catch ‘em!! ~
@CryptoLoren
@ecwool
@tcryptidhunter
@TexasBigfoot24
@CliffBarackman
@Rangers
#SoutheastTexasBigfoot
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New mystery photo shows cryptid long-necked beast. Jim Wright, 66, took the pic in the west Stirlingshire village of Killearn, Scotland.
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Intriguing visual factoid: The Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger in life was known to stand on its hind legs like a wallaby or kangaroo. In the known database of 101 existing taxidermy mounts, only one surviving specimen displays this configuration.
#Cryptozoology
~
@CryptoLoren
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Finally. Wesley Studi (Cherokee: ᏪᏌ ᏍᏚᏗ; b. 12/17/1947) will be first Native American awarded an Oscar, when in Oct 2019, he is given honorary Award for his life’s work. Canadian indigenous musician Buffy Sainte-Marie shared a best original song Oscar in 1982.~
@CryptoLoren
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On this date in Ufology.
July 7, 1947: Alien Spacecraft Crashes at Roswell, New Mexico. ~
@CryptoLoren
//
@mediamonarchy
@anomalistnews
@DailyGrail
@UFOupdates
@coasttocoastam
@ClydeLewis
@UFOMuseum
@RoswellNMRoom
@RoswellNM_Govt
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Support the International Cryptozoology Museum during our most difficult season to survive. Your online giftstore purchases keep our doors open yearround. Buy cz maps, autographed books, and more: Thank you! ~
@CryptoLoren
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Congratulations to
@CliffBarackman
@squatcher
@MattMoneymaker1
@SkeptiScientist
, as well as the entire crew of
@FindingBigfoot
.
Your series opened the horizons to millions of new searchers and students of hominology and cryptozoology. Well-done. ~
@CryptoLoren
Attn:
@FBIGFOOTFANS
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British Columbia throws out Bigfoot case. Thank goodness! The judge clearly sees that alleged Bigfoot hoaxer Todd Standing has no standing. Let’s get back to serious Sasquatch searching, and quit giving publicity seekers publicity! ~
@CryptoLoren
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The rare Steller’s sea eagle was last seen 12/20/2021, perched near Dighton Rock and flying north over the Bridgewater Triangle, Massachusetts. ~
@CryptoLoren
@Mandate33
@HillandtheHole
@binnall
@anomalistnews
@CoachwhipBooks
@TetZoo
#TimHalle
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The 42nd anniversary of the Dover Demon, April 21-22, 1977 case, first seen in Dover, Massachusetts. Name was coined by primary investigator Loren Coleman
@CryptoLoren
. Other interviewers were Walt Webb, Joe Nyman, & Ed Fogg. Often depicted in creature, comix, & museum art.
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Considering plesiosaurs’ range, predation impact on prey, & lack of beachings for 65 million years, there is zero evidence for them in any present loch, lake, or sea. Wishful thinking keeps them as candidates for Loch Monsters despite logic against such an option.~
@CryptoLoren
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Feeling a little down? Tired of the news of politicians, criminals, and lawyers? I strongly suggest you get an old paperback copy of Charles Fort’s LO!, find an A/C corner of your home or a patch of beach. Spend some hours with showers of periwinkles and frogs. ~
@CryptoLoren
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