Bigfoot coming to Maine next month
10/5/09 | 7 comments
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Bigfoot coming to Maine next month


By The Associated Press
BANGOR DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO
Loren Coleman holds a plaster skull made from fossils of Gigantopithecus, which scientists believe to be the largest primate to have existed. It is believed to have lived 5.5 million years ago.
PORTLAND, Maine — The International Cryptozoology Museum will open in a Congress Street storefront on Nov. 1.

As a cryptozoologist, Loren Coleman studies creatures that have been reported to exist but aren't formally recognized by science.

Among the displays will be his 8-foot-tall, 400-pound Bigfoot sculpture, which now stands on the front porch of his home. He'll also have a model of the Loch Ness monster, along with what he says are a footprint cast and hair sample from the Abominable Snowman, found during a 1959 expedition in the Himalayas.

Coleman, who has written 17 books on cryptozoology, tells the Portland Press Herald the museum will be in the rear of a new bookstore that will specialize in supernatural fiction, horror fiction and weird fiction.

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On 10/5/09 at 11:25 AM, hooligan wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

What the heck, a little pseudoscience never hurts.

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On 10/5/09 at 3:36 PM, BGR3352 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

cryptozoologist " DEGREE FROM MICKY MOUSE UNIVERSITY" ????

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On 10/5/09 at 4:32 PM, superdave wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Notice it's going to be in the BACK of the store. He'll probably have a few UFO's back there too.

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On 10/5/09 at 6:38 PM, Beelzebubba wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

It'll be a first for southern Maine. Most of the Sasquatch look-alikes reside north of Portland.

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On 10/5/09 at 7:29 PM, Bumfuzzle wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Really Beelzebubba? I was down that way for work today and could swear they were breeding them. Anyhow, they can keep them. Already have neanderthals overrunning the legislature in Augusta.

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On 10/5/09 at 8:05 PM, hooligan wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

What the heck. I applaud these folks with the overactive imaginations.

After all, it's our imagination that leads us to new discoveries. Our imagination is a central part of being human.

Most Amreicans are brain-dead watching garbage on TEEVEE. Mr. Coleman offers those with curiosity and desire an alternative.

Hats off to Mr. Coleman I hope his enterprise is successful.

I may pay a visit soon.

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On 10/6/09 at 1:53 PM, BeavisJSmithThe3rd wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

I still beleive in Max Headroom

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