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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Reporters notebook: The Jeopardy edition
In ‘Jeopardy!’ Clue: This Lewiston OB/GYN will appear on “Jeopardy!” next week. Answer: Who is Thom Page? Page, 56, has tried out online for “Jeopardy!” every year since his older sister got on the quiz show in 2012. In February 2016, he tried out again, running through a rapid-fire series of 50 questions online. Then […]
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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, […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: The International Cryptozoology Museum fits more weird, more Wessie
PORTLAND — It’s the only place in the world to find the long, elegant dart gun Roger Patterson planned to use to drop Bigfoot in California after first famously catching it — allegedly — on tape. The only place with a little swatch displayed as a piece of the actual screen window the Fouke Monster poked its […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: The Year in weird
Maine’s weirdest museum keeps making headlines, a psychic documentary is diverted, an art project reaches out to strangers and the search for Maine’s Bigfoot is coming to a TV near you. Maybe. Someday. It’s a year-end weird update. ‘It’s about heart’ Back in May, psychic medium Angelina Diana gave an evening of readings at Monmouth’s […]
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Animal Planet’s ‘Finding Bigfoot’ coming to Maine
Serious Bigfoot sightings only, please. Loren Coleman announced Thursday that the Animal Planet reality TV show “Finding Bigfoot” is coming to Maine to shoot an episode in April. He has put out a call for people who have had sightings to come to the show’s town hall meeting. Coleman is hosting it at his International […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Bigfoot, ghosts, a lake monster — 2014 had plenty of weird
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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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. […]