PORTLAND — Sisters Tara and Laura Parker made the five-and-a-half-hour trip from New York for the third annual International Cryptozoology Conference because sometimes driving around in their neck of the woods they wonder, just what’s out there? “We’re big into the fun stories,” Tara Parker said. “We live in a really rural area, so you […]
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Portland's international cryptozoology conference full of beasts, Bigfoot and Nessie
PORTLAND — For the third annual International Cryptozoology Conference, Loren Coleman has packed the schedule with all things Bigfoot, beast and unexplained — and plans to announce he’ll lead an expedition in search of the Loch Ness monster in 2019. The conference is being held Sept. 1-2 at the Brick South building on Portland’s Thompson’s […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: An academic career studying Sasquatch
Twenty-two years ago, after a chance visit to the foothills of the Blue Mountains outside Walla Walla, Washington, Jeff Meldrum found himself looking at a line of 35 to 45 clear, fresh footprints in the mud and realizing he was at a career crossroads. “You could see skin ridge detail, the dermatoglyphics, the fingerprints in […]
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Maine's first International Crypto Con. Dogmen? Check. Bigfoot? You bet.
PORTLAND — It starts bright and early with lake monsters and wraps up more than 12 hours later with the first New England screening of “The Mothman of Pleasant Point.” Up to 175 people are expected next weekend at the second annual International Cryptozoology Conference. The first, last year, was held in St. Augustine, Florida, […]