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By: bill green

bill green — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:31:42 +0000

hi loren & everyone good afternoon so any new updates about malaysia sasquatch creatures such as sightings footprints hair samples etc. please keep me informed ok. bill

By: Maer

Maer — Wed, 10 May 2006 04:03:26 +0000

IF this comes to be the real thing and the evidence shows there is a new/surviving species, are there any suggestions/plans in place as to how these beings will be treated, or what will happen to them?
I mean they can’t exactly be put in a zoo, can they? Will there be a push to stop encroaching on their habitat?
I think the chance of this actually being something is slim, but shouldn’t there be some sort of plan in place? I suppose that could be applied to any crypto-being found.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Tue, 09 May 2006 22:03:29 +0000

One of the reasons I was interested in being involved with blogging on Cryptomundo is because I consider this an important motto: “Everyone should find out at the same time.”

Anything I can do to make that happen is why I write.

By: Maer

Maer — Tue, 09 May 2006 21:57:20 +0000

I’m afraid I’ll want to buy this book.
I admit I was surprised to find that your contribution was the forward. Please tell me, is there a code that Cryptozoologists live by as far as sharing their finds with the elite amongst their community, or does everyone find out in due time? I always assumed you’d get a find and say “Hey —insert Cryptozoologist name here—, come looky what I found”.
I’m looking forward to seeing the evidence, or lack thereof in due course.

Maer

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Mon, 08 May 2006 10:03:23 +0000

Different folks assume and presume to know what my preface will say. There is a new skeptics book out, debunking Lake Monsters. I wrote the preface. Will my reputation be destroyed because I call for an open-minded and a balanced inquiry in cryptozoology in that book? I have written a contribution to the new cryptozoology and art book for the Bates Museum of Art’s exhibition on cryptozoology, in which I look at the history of cryptozoology in a Fortean and zoological context. Will my reputation be ruined by that? Oh dear friends, rush not to judgement about mere words on a page not written. I will be reasonable and reasoned, no matter the spurious speculations here, my mutual mates in this madness.

See today’s “Pondering the Mawas Situation” for more about this.

By: Chymo

Chymo — Mon, 08 May 2006 09:19:37 +0000

Loren, please remember Bruce Maccabee & the Gulf Breeze book he wrote a forward to. It destroyed his reputation as an objective researcher, because the whole thing was a hoax.

By: twblack

twblack — Mon, 08 May 2006 09:04:15 +0000

Mr. Coleman how can you say you will be part of this book have you seen any of the “HARD” evidence to suggest this is the real thing???? I would think it would do great damage to the cause of proving these things exist if someone such as yourself would be part of a book that proves to be nothing more than fake or hoaxed photos. Please do not take this as a personal attack but a question that should be asked. And yes I hope they are for real!

By: earthman

earthman — Mon, 08 May 2006 03:36:06 +0000

It would sure be amazing if these creatures live to 50-60 years old or longer, when humans before medical science lived to about 40.

By: apiraymond

apiraymond — Sun, 07 May 2006 21:46:19 +0000

I forgot to add in one more comment from Vincent he gave to BBC published on Feb 28.

Vincent Chow, of the Malaysian Nature Society, had some photos.

“Based on what we’ve learned, this is the southern end of their migratory route and because the forests have become fragmented they’re rather confined now,” Mr Chow said.

“They move around looking for fruits, sometimes they go looking for them in villages. They’re also looking for a mate and for salt.”

I am going to read any book that Vincent Chow write with a big pinch of salt (no pun intended)

By: Ole Bub

Ole Bub — Sun, 07 May 2006 15:11:57 +0000

Perhaps….Loren will dedicate his preface to those who stirred our imaginations….Sanderson, Slick, Greenwell, Dahindren and more…

all the best…

Ole bub, Sheba and Rocky