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INTERVIEW | Loren Coleman: The hopeful cryptozoologist

"They want to see the world that could be, or that maybe is."

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Emily Burnham
Jan 13, 2026
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By spring 2026, Loren Coleman is bound and determined to have the jumbled array of artifacts, models, replicas, photos, paintings and other ephemera that he’s amassed over the decades organized and presented beautifully in his new Bangor location for the International Cryptozoology Museum.

Right now, however, those items - from a 2001 footprint cast take…

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