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Coleman has written books and more than two
hundred articles on the subject, has appeared frequently on radio and television
programs, and has lectured from Idaho to Loch Ness. He has been both on-
and off-camera consultant to NBC-TV's "Unsolved Mysteries," A & E's
"Ancient Mysteries" "In Search of History," Discovery Channel's "In the
Unknown, " and other reality-based programs. He contributes cryptozoology
columns, "On the Trail," to the London-based magazine Fortean Times, and
"Mysterious World" to Fate, as well as occasional articles to The Anomalist
and Fortean Studies.
Coleman, born 12 July 1947, in Norfolk, Virginia, has
been investigating, in the field and in the library, cryptozoological evidence
and folklore since the Abominable Snowmen caught his interest in 1960,
leading him to research mysterious panther sightings and reports of apes
in the American Midwest. He has traveled to 45 states, throughout Canada,
Mexico, Scotland, and the Virgin Islands interviewing witnesses of lake
monster, Sasquatch, giant snake, mystery feline, phantom kangaroo, thunderbird,
and other cryptid reports and folklore.
His first articles were published in 1969. He went on
to write two books with Jerome Clark (The Unidentified [1975] and
Creatures
of the Outer Edge [1978], both published by Warner). In the 1980s,
Coleman wrote Mysterious America (1983), Curious Encounters
(1985), and Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti (1989), all bestsellers
for Faber and Faber. In 1999 Loren Coleman co-authored two books: one with
Patrick Huyghe called The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery
Primates Worldwide (Avon); the other with Jerome Clark called Cryptozoology
A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and
Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature (Simon and Schuster/Fireside).
The Year 2001 saw the publication of his expanded and updated, Mysterious
America: The Revised Edition from Paraview Press.
Coleman has an undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale, where he majored in anthropology, minored in zoology,
and did some summer work in archaeology. He received a graduate degree
in psychiatric social work from Simmons College in Boston. Coleman was
admitted to the Ph.D. programs, and took doctoral coursework in social
anthropology at Brandies University, and in sociology at the University
of New Hampshire's Family Research Laboratory. He has been an instructor,
assistant/associate professor, research associate, and documentary filmmaker,
in various academic university settings, since 1980. He has written extensively
in human services, having authored, coauthored, or edited eight books,
including the commercially successful Suicide Clusters (Faber and Faber,
1987) and appeared on "The Larry King Show" discussing it. His work on
the suicides of baseball players was covered in Sports Illustrated, the
Sporting News, ESPN, and by all the major media and wire services. Loren
Coleman can be reached at PO Box 360, Portland, Maine, 04112, USA, or by
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