Comments on: Remember Letters?

By: nikki123nd

nikki123nd — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:18:21 +0000

I feel bad that the prisoners can’t get the books… And it’s great that you can help out the soldiers. I’m 13 and I LOVE Cryptozoology. And I’m not the only kid, I know that for sure. I blog about cryptozoology on the Discovery Networks Community and most of the people who blog are in their teens or younger, some as young as 5th grade! My dream is to grow up to be a Wildlife Biologist/Cryptozoologist.

By: CoffeeKitsune

CoffeeKitsune — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:32:25 +0000

It’s so true that children are important in the future of cryptozoology. I am a PCP in a local school (personal care provider. I work with a boy who has high functioning autism, but is in a regular classroom, not special Ed.) and he is SO into cryptozoology!!! One of the things I do for him is that I bring in my cryptozoology books from home to let him read when he is done with his work. He also likes, when he gets all his answers right, instead of drawing him a smiley face I draw him little Dover Demons. His dream is to someday see a cryptid himself. When he has projects to do in school, when possible he will chose a cryptid as the topic (such as his ‘guess what animal I am’ he chose the Mongolian Death Worm. No one guessed it… Haha. And in art he drew the Dover Demon and a Werewolf instead of humans in his hot air balloon.)
Hopefully one day I can hear the great news that he was the first person to prove the existence of something.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:11:11 +0000

This post reminded me of one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption. I really wish the governments of the planet realized that many of the people they keep incarcerated end up in those circumstances due to a lack of education. I would imagine the country that keeps more prisoners per citizen in the entire world —USA— would have figured *that* out by now…

I’m also reminded of a little anecdote I found in one of Pedro Ferriz’s books —Ferriz was the father of Mexican Ufology, close friend of Dr. Hynek and helped organize the very first international UFOlogy congress in Acapulco— where he wrote he once received a letter from famous painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, who had just gotten out of jail, and wanted to let him know that during his incarceration he always kept watching Ferriz’s TV show Un Mundo nos Vigila (a world is watching us) because “it helped him dream about the stars, and freedom”.

It seems that Fortean phenomena will always have that allure, specially if your day-to-day situation is not exactly to your liking.

By: JMonkey

JMonkey — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:24:49 +0000

Love this story. I know that the children are the future of Cryptozoology much like you obviously do, and I always appreciate anyone who helps soldiers, and supports them in what they do. You can’t imagine how important mail is to a soldier. I used to wait anxiously at mail call when I served in Bosnia for a piece of mail. It was my connection to the world I belonged in, it made me feel loved and important no matter how insignificant it was. I actually had a girl from Arizona write me letters. She was in fifth grade and it made my day to see them, but at some point you welcome bills even. The mail just lets you know that you still exist. Thank you Loren on behalf of soldiers like me who loved their mail.