On the strange scale, Maine rarely disappoints. As 2014 winds down, we revisit Weird, Wicked Weirds for the latest developments, including a new hunt for a popular medium who may have been buried alive here in 1882. A possible government-sponsored quest for a lake monster in Iceland. And more searching for things that go bump […]
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Reporter’s notebook: ‘Monsters Underground’ gets new air dates
More monsters to hunt. More dark caves to glimpse. Maybe more of a Durham man trying to use his friends as bait . . . After a debut on the Discovery Channel last month, the rest of the six-episode season of “Monsters Underground” will run on Destination America this month. Destination America announced this week […]
Bigfoot in Maine? 10-foot-tall ‘wild man’ was killed in 1886, newspapers reported
WATERVILLE — In the same month the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York in 1886, a handful of newspapers in New England published stories about a deadly encounter in the Maine woods involving what today likely would be termed “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch.” The story of the 10-foot-tall “wild man” with 7-foot-long arms and […]
Weird, Wicked Weird: The only cryptozoology museum in the world, and Maine’s got it.
PORTLAND — Part-way down a rough, graffitied alley, through what was once almost certainly a side delivery door, you’ll find monsters and Loren Coleman. The space off Avon Street is home to the only cryptozoology museum in the world, two sizable rooms that Coleman has informally labeled fiction and nonfiction. Bigfoot is in the second. […]