Comments on: When Cryptozoology Had Soule

By: Champ Voucher

Champ Voucher — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:38:57 +0000

Thanks Loren. Found a copy of Maybe Monsters online. Haven’t read it since grade school. A book worthy of plunging any youngster into the world of the Cryptid. SHJack – did you ever see a scientist as versatile as Dr. Benton Quest ? He knew about everything !

By: djwcaw

djwcaw — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:05:08 +0000

The Maybe Monsters was one of my favorite books to check out of the local library when I was a kid. Also the Cohen material. I always headed straight to that first bookshelf in the library 001 Dewey Decimal for all those mysterious and fun books.

By: schreiberosa

schreiberosa — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:51:33 +0000

Besides the publications you mention in your piece on Gardner Soule, he also wrote a couple (at least) on cryptids for Boys Life magazine, which grabbed my attention at the time back in the 1950s or early 60s. His articles were always a must read, too!

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:02:34 +0000

Who knew? The 50′s were definitely before my time and the 60′s began my time, so I guess it’s not hard to believe I didn’t know this guy. I didn’t get into cryptozoology until Junior high when I first came across Monsters, Giants and Little Men from Mars by Daniel Cohen in the library. Of course I wasn’t a stranger to Loch Ness or Bigfoot from the sparse occasional TV shows back then, but after that book I started to look for those kinds of things whenever I could. Back then it was stuff like the Night Stalker series, In Search Of, and my favorite of all cartoons: Johnny Quest–which was about as crypto relevant as they got with things like lost dinosaurs, loup garou and an episode with a sea monster.

Then when cable tv came around (I know, yes, there was a time when there were only three stations available…shock of all shockers), opportunity expanded.

Thanks Loren–I’ll check into those if I can find them:)