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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Weird, Wicked Weird: Maine TV-monster-hunter-turned-UFO-filmmaker
Maine monster hunter Bill Brock has set his sights on UFOs. Brock, who four years ago starred in the Discovery Channel reality series “Monsters Underground,” is helming a new independent documentary about aliens. Working with him on “Abducted New England” is a Bangor author whose second book full of Maine alien abductions, sightings and encounters is […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: Are we ending 2017 with a pic of Bigfoot found in Maine?
Another weird year is nearly in the books. As 2017 winds down, Weird Wicked Weird checks in with stories over the past 12 months for the latest news, twists and developments. One slippery snake. Chatty ghosts in the Old Port. And new photographic proof of Bigfoot in Maine? You decide. Wessie: The myth, the legend, […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Author chronicles 155 years of Maine Bigfoot sightings
Daniel Green isn’t out to prove Bigfoot exists — but he might have heard one once. The Maine native, originally from the town of Franklin, east of Ellsworth, took five years to pull together every historical Bigfoot sighting he could find, from 1855 to 2010, to write “Shadows in the Woods: A Chronicle of Bigfoot […]
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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: Craigslist, here we come.
Sam Grant is looking to compile Maine creature sightings. But not of moose. Not of surly bears. Think Bigfoot. Sea monsters. Really, any monster will do. Timothy Sheehan wants tens of thousands of sea lamprey for scientific research. (Spoiler alert: It’s not going to end well for the fish.) He’s paying $2 apiece, if you […]
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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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Is that Bigfoot? Video sends researchers and a drone into western Maine woods
There is movement at about 2:05 in the video. They caught . . . something. And 15-inch tracks in the snow. Now, Bill Brock is going to buzz their western Maine woods with a drone looking for Bigfoot. The star of the “Monsters Underground” TV show and longtime Bigfoot hunter from Durham isn’t ready yet […]