Comments on: Norwegian Monster Hunter Dies

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:35:49 +0000

Very sad news!

Erik was among the very small number of researchers in Western Europe and US who answered my mails very openly and friendly. He informed me that he was preparing a book about Bigfoot in Europe.

I could send him some Bigfoot informations from Ukraina and he wrote me much interesting about BF in Scandinavia.

Maybe someone knows whether he finished this book or who is able to work with his material at present and in the future?

Is there any other Norwegian researcher, working on the same subject?

I would be thankful for any hint!

By: E

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:15:46 +0000

Ses på den andre siden!

By: amcgirr

amcgirr — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:17:31 +0000

This is indeed unfortunate. I have been corresponding with Erik over the past year or so and know that he had just finished work on the definitive volume of Norwegian lake monsters. He was in the process of sending it around to a few different publishers but hadn’t had any success. He had written the book in English to appeal to a larger market, hopefully somehow his work can still be brought to light.

I quite liked the signature he used on his emails:

“Greetings from Norway
Erik Knatterud
Sea serpent hunter”

By: charles

charles — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:14:50 +0000

I am deeply saddened by this. I did not even know Erik was ill. We only met in person once but we carried on a sporadic email conversations. Erik was a real character full of sorts of interesting ideas about freshwater cryptids and his death is a real loss.

Charles Paxton