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May 17, 2016
Werewolves and Wulvers
A couple of new articles from me, both of a werewolf-like nature...
1. Beware of the Wulver.
2. Werewolves: "What Business is it of Yours?"
May 13, 2016
New Book On The Minnesota Iceman
Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman by Bernard Heuvelmans, Paul LeBlond (Translator), Loren Coleman (Afterword)Trade Paperback, 284 Pages, 43 Illustrations $22.95, ISBN: 9781938398612Genre(s): Cryptozoology
NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME…
THE TRUE STORY OF THE MINNESOTA ICEMAN!
The story begins at the end of 1968 in New Jersey, when zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans and biologist Ivan Sanderson first hear from a correspondent about the frozen corpse of an extremely hairy man-like creature being exhibited in the Midwest. Upon arrival in Minnesota, the two scientists come face to face with a “hominid” not of our species embedded in a block of ice. An inquiry into the origin of the specimen triggers a bizarre adventure involving the FBI, the Smithsonian, the Mafia, the Vietnam War, drug smuggling, Hollywood, and a secretive millionaire, giving much of the account the flavor of a riveting detective story. What happened is told in meticulous detail by Heuvelmans, who draws a startling conclusion as to the Iceman’s nature based on a comparison of its anatomy with that of modern humans and fossil ancestors. But where Heuvelman’s scientific tale ends, cryptozoologist Loren Coleman’s begins, in a lengthy fact-filled afterword that brings this remarkable saga up-to-date.
About the Author:Bernard Heuvelmans (1916-2001) was a Belgian-French zoologist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as “the Father of Cryptozoology.” His On the Track of Unknown Animals and In the Wake of Sea Serpents are regarded as two of the most influential works of cryptozoology. In 1975 Heuvelmans established the Center for Cryptozoology in France, and in 1982 he helped to found the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct) and served as its first president. In 1999, he donated his vast holdings and archives in cryptozoology to The Museum of Zoology of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Paul H. LeBlond is an ocean scientist with a long interest in cryptozoology. He was one of the founders of the International Society of Cryptozoology, and a co-founder of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club. LeBlond is an emeritus professor at the University of British Columbia, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. LeBlond is the author of Discovering Cadborosaurus and the translator from the French of The Asian Wild Man by Jean-Paul Debenat. LeBlond is the first President of the newly formed International Cryptozoology Society.
Loren Coleman has conducted fieldwork and research in cryptozoology since 1960, and is the author or contributor to over 100 popular books on cryptozoology, natural history mysteries, and the media, including Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America, Cryptozoology A to Z, and Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti. For 20 years, he was an adjunct associate professor in documentary film and anthropology at six universities. He is the founder in 2003 and director of the nonprofit International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, and a co-founder of the International Cryptozoology Society in 2016.
CONTENTS
Translator’s Introduction by Paul LeBlond
Chapter 1 What I Saw
A creature related to both man and ape
Chapter 2 What It Was Not
Neither a well-preserved fossil, nor a drifting Ainu, nor a hairy monster,
not the hybrid of an ape and a woman, nor a simple fabrication
Chapter 3 What It Must Be
What did prehistoric men look like?
Chapter 4 Why So Many Mysteries?
The eloquent silences of a carny hawker
Chapter 5 More Complications
Lightning interventions by the FBI and the Smithsonian
Chapter 6 Hansen’s Stories
A pseudo-confession of a murder launches a useless expedition
Chapter 7 Corpses Come and Go But Are Never the Same
Behind the scenes and the proof of the specimen’s authenticity
Chapter 8 Cloak and Dagger
Why the deck was loaded to start with
Chapter 9 The Wall of Incredulity
How to bury an embarrassing corpse
Chapter 10 What It Really Was
A meticulous examination of the specimen, and its identification
Chapter 11 A History of Man-Beasts
From pre-Neanderthals to Pongoids
Chapter 12 Cain vs Abel
De-hominization: a new perspective on the origin of man
Afterword After the Thaw, The Post-Heuvelmans Iceman
by Loren Coleman
Appendix A: Original Introduction to Neanderthal Man is Still Alive
Appendix B: Table of Measurements and Table Of Anthropometric Indices of Pongoid Man
Original Bibliography for Heuvelmans’ “The Mystery of the Iceman”
When UFO Evidence Goes "Missing"
That's the subject of another new article I have at Mysterious Universe . Here's the link , and here are the opening paragraphs:
There can be very few people within the field of UFO research who haven’t heard accounts of significant material on UFOs going “missing.” We’re talking about the likes of certain files on the Rendlesham Forest UFO event of 1980, and on the Roswell controversy of 1947. There’s also a very intriguing – but far less well-known – affair from the 1950s. It’s one that I have taken a personal interest in, but which still remains unresolved.
The late Ralph Noyes retired from the British Ministry of Defense in 1977. In an interview with UFO investigator Timothy Good, Noyes revealed that, back in the 1950s, the Royal Air Force had secured “gun-camera” footage of UFOs over the UK. The footage – seen by Noyes at the MoD in 1970, along with a dozen or so other individuals – wasn’t overly spectacular (Noyes described it as “unimpressive”). But, it certainly showed something anomalous and fast-moving. Noyes (whose account you can find in Good’s 1987 book, Above Top Secret ) confirmed that he saw the footage while in the employ of the MoD, as did representatives from the Meteorological Office, the Director of Air Defense, and a number of personnel from the Air Staff. A theory was offered that the phenomenon may have been “something obscure meteorologically.”
Bigfoot Bodies...
There's a new article from me on the enduring (but controversial) story of dead Bigfoot on Mount St. Helens. Here's how it starts:
On May 18, 1980, a devastating natural disaster created an entirely new landscape across a specific portion of Washington State. We are talking about the eruption of Mount St. Helens, which killed more than four dozen people, as well as thousands of wild animals. Within the domain of cryptid ape investigations there are longstanding rumors that the calamitous event also took the lives of more than a few Bigfoot, something which, allegedly, elements of the U.S. Government and military sought to keep under wraps. The government’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) says of the Mount St. Helens disaster :
“With no immediate precursors, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred at 8:32 a.m. on May 18, 1980 and was accompanied by a rapid series of events. At the same time as the earthquake, the volcano’s northern bulge and summit slid away as a huge landslide—the largest debris avalanche on Earth in recorded history. A small, dark, ash-rich eruption plume rose directly from the base of the debris avalanche scarp, and another from the summit crater rose to about 200 m (650 ft) high. The debris avalanche swept around and up ridges to the north, but most of it turned westward as far as 23 km (14 mi) down the valley of the North Fork Toutle River and formed a hummocky deposit. The total avalanche volume is about 2.5 km3 (3.3 billion cubic yards), equivalent to 1 million Olympic swimming pools.”
May 12, 2016
May 10, 2016
Hummel Park Terror...
A cool new article from good friend Jen Devillier, which you can find here , and which begins as follows:
"Located in Omaha, Nebraska; this is one of the scariest places I’ve ever visited. During the day it seems very benign and like a normal park. However at night, the feeling is VERY different. I’ve been to this park a handful of times and each time, I had experiences. In this article, I will share with you what I’ve experienced at this terrifying park in the heart of Nebraska..."
(Jen on the far left in the photo)
Mothman: New, Expanded Edition
Coming in a couple of weeks, a new, expanded edition of Jeff Wamsley's and Donnie Sergent's book, Mothman: The Facts Behind The Legend...
May 9, 2016
The Roswell UFO and the "Ramey Memo"
An interesting new article from Kevin Randle on Roswell and what has become known as "The Ramey Memo."
Here's how it starts, in Kevin's own words:
"Since it has come up in the discussions here a couple of times, I thought I would identify that high-power government lab that was supposedly involved in an effort to decrypt the Ramey Memo. According to Colonel Richard Weaver, who answered my question about it without reservation, it was the National Photographic Interpretation Center which was part of the CIA back in 1994. I filed a FOIA request with them and received a fairly rapid response."
The Museum of the Weird...
A new piece of artwork for my apartment...If you haven't been to the Austin, Texas-based Museum of the Weird , you should, a great day out!
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