Enigma En Español
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 5th, 2007
The Spanish magazine Enigma has published a new cryptozoology article by Gustavo Sanchez Romero. Here are scans of some pages. The sidebars are filled with Lorenzo and Loren. You just can escape us, I guess.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
I can get those translated if you’ll E-mail me the scans. They are a bit difficult to read on the screen.
Also, is there a web page for the magazine?
Que bueno Loren! 🙂
Here it the translation for the first article that goes with the first author:
Hunters of monsters
Although they seem to exclusively comprise of novels of adventures, the certain thing is that the hunters of monsters exist and sometimes they get to gamble the life in the inhospitable regions but of the planet. Adventurers, of insatiable curiosity and often with an enviable curriculum, the criptozoólogos of field constitute a rare species at which we want to close by watch in the present one dossier.
Kipling McKay adjusts like a glove to the stereotype of hunter of monsters. With an enviable physical form and an in tune instinct that easily could happen through a sixth sense, McKay moves as much with soltura and the necessary cold blood by the leafy amazonian like by mortal Australian marshes, conscious forest that ignoring a track, a small indication in so dangerous enclaves, can cost the life to him.
Cazador and guides professional, “críptidos” McKay tracks the track of by all the planet under the supervision of a singular society that finances its investigations. At heart our adventurer would have luck to have so generous patrons if not outside by a crucial detail: that one is a fiction personage. Kipling Mckay is the most evident symptom of the attractiveness that the world of Literature and the cinema have found in the land of the criptozoología.
Sent like personage of cómic in the spring of 2006, in autumn his was released in the United States first cinematographic delivery under the title of Cryptid, to the time that the stores received the opportune range of toys and vídeojuegos inspired by their personages. The scriptwriters have had it easy at the time of creating the plots being inspired by the overwhelming amount of information that circulates in the network on the matter and they do not let give answer to the unusual interest which during the past they caused other two largometrajes: one on the Bigfoot and others on the Canadian Ogopogo.
Hunters of monsters really
Nobody puts in doubt that the unquestionable figure of the criptozoología was the Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvemals. It coined the term, contributed scientific criteria to the investigations and next to their constant críptidos trips in search of, made an encyclopedic documentary work of which the immense majority of the criptozoólogos is indebted. Their books are essential and the great majority of their contributions has total use, being after their death in 2001 an emptiness that hardly will be able to be filled.
Other names written with gold letters in the history of the investigation of these impossible animals are without a doubt those of anthropologist Grover Krantz, of Washington State University, specialized in the casuistry of the Bigfoot; the one of the naturalist and great publishing Ivan T. Sanderson, witness even of several críptidos; Roy P. Mackal, biochemist and engineer of the University of Chicago, that looked for among others Nessie and the Mokele mbmebe; and many others like Willy Ley, zoologist, paleontólogo and author of classic the fish pulmonado, dodo, unicornio, the meticulous and prolífico Karl Shuker, the French Michel Raynal, the American ornithologist David Oren, main hunter of the Mapinguary, Tim Dinsdale, Dan Taylor, or the one that outside visible head during years and investigating assets Richard Greenwell.
It would be possible to be said that the criptozoológica community is as heterogenous as the críptidos ones that they try to catch, although of course the stereotype of Kipling McKay is not nor of distant spot the one that predominates, which goes please in the credibility of its expositions. A first look offers two great groups to us conformed by investigators more preservative than they choose to exclude the most anomalous casuistry from his studies – that centered in hybrid, humanoides beings or with elements paranormal and another great group that does not do disgusts to him to these “beasts”, and with a more liberal approach investigates them classifying them in the subgenus of the “parazoología”.
Examples do not lack, like the veteran John Keel, who combined his restlessness by lacustrine monsters and bigfoots with his exhaustive investigations on the Mothman in Western Virginia, the one of the Briton Richard Freeman that has distributed to its restlessness between orang pendeks and chupacabras, the very same Loren Coleman that the case of a creature with aspect of fetus documented baptized like the “Demon of Dover”, or the one of the writers Janet and Colin Bord, which they have been very meticulous in his works on wild men worldwide, without losing the interest by the most anomalous casuistry.
In both groups we found to personages who have a vocation and innate interest and at which they have arrived from tangential way, developing precise studies or in very concrete fields. Some even exist that resist to being classified as criptozoólogos although their work is very similar. John Mackinnon discovered in 1992 the Vu-Quang ox, and in Borneo he ran into of you brush with the enigma of his wild man: the Batutut. Clyde Roper, of the Smithsonian Institution de Washington, is today by the today the main hunter of giant calamary and one of the few that has been able to eat its bitter and intragable fried meat.
Others like Adrian Lister, paleontólogo, and the naturalist John Blashford has been itself surrounded without too much looking for it in the hunting and identification of elephants with prehistoric characteristics. The biologist Marcellin Agnagna, employee of a ministry in the Republic of the Congo became witness and finder of the Mokele. The marine biologists Paul LeBlond and Edwuard Bousfield let themselves seduce by the enigma of the Cadborosaurus…
The development of the telecommunications allows to accede to the works of other many investigators, like those of the Australian Michael Williams who at the present time is one of the most active hunters of the Yowie and felines not known in his country, or those of Accept Davies and his collaborators, that have centered most of protagonism in the last years with their expeditions in search of the Orang pendek in Sumatra, creatures unknown in the Congo or wild men and worms of the death in Mongolia.
It is not of saying more than although mostly and others agree in affirming that their searches have sense, and that the criptozoología has a guaranteed future, the old times in which filatrópicas universities and organizations financed investigations have happened. The academies of sciences Russian and Chinese put many average ones to hunt to the wild men of their regions in last decades, souls and yeren respectively, whereas some British universities invested resources in solving the enigma of the Ness lake, like their homologous North Americans did the own thing with lacustrine monsters like Champ or Ogopogo.
Nowadays the immense majority invests to its savings and vacations in its investigations, and sometimes sponsorship through National Geographic is obtained, the Discovery Chanel and even of Disney, that in 2005 financed a study on the Yeti with the objective to document a new attraction in its seat of Trimming. The journalist Deborah Martyr is between the lucky people since their studies on the Orang pendek count on the support of the British association Fauna Flora International, and with identical luck it also runs Accept Davies, to whom the NG him has made use in their last investigation in Mongolia after the souls.
Cool! 🙂
Is a my old interwiev (6 or 5 years ago)… and now me and Mr.Coleman are together
Loren, if is possible can you send me the article?
yep, if there’s a web page to go to, I’d be interested in checking the Enigma out!