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Weirdest Museums In World: ICM Picked As 1 of 7

Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 2nd, 2010

MSNBC and Concierge.com, in conjunction with research from Atlas Obscura, has announced their picks for “7 of the World’s Weirdest Museums.” This Travel/Travel Destinations feature was posted to appear online today.

One of their choices is the International Cryptozoology Museum (ICM).

Here is what they have to say about the ICM:

International Cryptozoology Museum, Portland, Maine

Who should go: Conspiracy theorists who wish “The X Files” was still on the air

Expect the unexpected: Starting in 1960, Loren Coleman, the founder of the International Cryptozoology Museum, in Portland, began amassing an unrivaled assortment of evidence, ephemera, and art related to the sort of creatures you believed in as a child.

Curious collection: If you feel the need to examine hair samples, foot casts, and fecal matter from the supposed Crookston Bigfoot — or to have your picture taken in front of a hairy, eight-foot model of the creature — Coleman’s museum is the place to do it. While lake monsters, abominable snowmen, and other yet-to-be-discovered animals are the main event here, there are also movie props, notable fakes (such as P.T. Barnum’s Feejee Mermaid, made from a monkey and a fish sewn together), and replicas of peculiar creatures (like the coelacanth and megamouth shark) that really do exist.

Amber Waterman/Sun Journal Photo

International Cryptozoology Museum 
661 Congress Street 
Portland, Maine 
Tel: 207 518 9496

To read about the other six museums, please see the original source, here.

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5 Responses to “Weirdest Museums In World: ICM Picked As 1 of 7”

1. red_pill_junkie responds: October 2nd, 2010 at 2:36 pm

   Conspiracy theorists who wish “The X Files” was still on the air

   Kind of a weird statement, considering that only once did the X-Files show a Bigfoot-like creature —the Jersey devil, which in the episode was some kind of Neanderthal.

   And then there was the Big Blue episode when poor Scully looses her dog —one of the best, BTW— and the Chupacabras episode in the later seasons, but that’s it!

   Still, they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity —and NO, it wasn’t Tom Biscardi who said that

2. RocKiteman responds: October 2nd, 2010 at 8:05 pm

   One comment, about the last photo on the page. The one of Loren wearing the hat and standing in front of the ‘squatch statue’.

   When I first saw that photo just now, Loren, the first thing I thought of was you {with the hat} would make a good DOCTOR WHO.

   ‘Nuff said.

   -Allan, aka Kite-Squatch

3. mystery_man responds: October 2nd, 2010 at 9:37 pm

   Conspiracy theorists who wish X-Files was still on the air? Really? They can’t be serious. Obviously whoever wrote this has no real sense of anything that crytpozoology is about.

4. mystery_man responds: October 2nd, 2010 at 9:40 pm

   Also, “the sort of creatures you believed in as a child.”

   So not only are we all conspiracy theorists, but we are also like children as well. Well I don’t know about everyone else here, but I still consider Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy to be viable cryptids. Cough, cough.

5. lonewolfnan responds: October 3rd, 2010 at 11:53 am

   Does this mean Loren Coleman is one of the 7 of the World’s Weirdest Museum curators? Keep up the great work!

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