Too Much Fooling
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 2nd, 2008
My brief editorial in the wake of this year’s April Fool’s Day is that there was entirely too much fooling around.
None of the jokes were overly interesting or even intelligent. Most of the ones I read were downright stupid. Perhaps, a random few (e.g. the “Happy Valley Horror”?) were marginally funny.
By the end of the day, I was getting a pit in my stomach as I saw the tidal wave of bad jokes and lame attempts to truly try to fool people come ashore. I was sorry I posted any April Fool’s stories.
Most reporters actually wrote their news in all seriousness.
Take, for example, this photograph published on April 1st, in Louisiana. The accompanying story, first highlighted by The Anomalist, is written as fact, without any hint of fakery.
The above photo is nothing more than a Patterson-Gimlin frame cropped and reversed.
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.
Yeah. That is so stupid.
Wow…I must say, I feel pain for the home state in that. There is a point where fooling becomes too stupid to handle, and I am ashamed to even think someone made a cut and paste April Fool and presented it so seriously. I feel even more pain for those who have actually seen these so-called “April Fool” monkeys and black panthers around here, especially with the little jab that they only happen around April. Sad..just sad.
I guess a gator must have gotten the poor creatures hand.
Now that is a bad fake. It is so bad it looks like they cut the image out of a magazine with a pair of scissors and used kids glue to stick it on the photo.
Really poor Photoshop skills 🙁
Haha I love pranks but April Fools is for amateurs!