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Fair at Fort Knox delves into unknown
by Outspoken on Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:02 am
Fair at Fort Knox delves into unknown
By Sharon Kiley Mack
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
PROSPECT, Maine - Three women who had just had psychic readings sat on the cool stones Saturday at Fort Knox and discussed what they heard.
"That was so meaningful," one said.
"Scared the heck out of me," replied another.
"It was baloney," said the third.
The readings were part of the Psychic and Paranormal Faire. The event featured five mediums, UFO experts, a cryptozoologist, an expert dowser and ghost hunters at the Civil War-era fort Saturday and Sunday.
Loren Coleman, often referred to as "Maine’s nonfiction Stephen King," sat behind a table filled with representations of monsters and other fantastic creatures, along with some of the 30 books he has written on hidden or unknown animals.
This category includes what Coleman calls "The Big Three": the Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
"Everyone talks about these three, but in 1999 I wrote a cryptozoologists’ encyclopedia that includes 150 cryptids, or animals yet to be verified," Coleman said. Coleman has appeared on the History Channel and "Unsolved Mysteries," among other television shows.
Closer to home, however, Coleman said Maine has its own mystery creatures.
"In Waldo County and other parts of Maine, there have been many sightings of the black panther or mountain lions," he said. "And since the 1800s, there have been reports of sea serpents along Maine’s coast."
Coleman said the most famous of these is "Cassie," who has been seen frequently from Portland to the Penobscot River. He said there were also American Indian legends of a Bigfoot creature near Mount Katahdin, but more recent reports are centered in the woods of Quebec.
"It appears that Bigfoot is a tourist in Maine," he said with a laugh.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=166764&zoneid=500
(Photos By Bangor Daily News/Bridget Brown)
By Sharon Kiley Mack
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
PROSPECT, Maine - Three women who had just had psychic readings sat on the cool stones Saturday at Fort Knox and discussed what they heard.
"That was so meaningful," one said.
"Scared the heck out of me," replied another.
"It was baloney," said the third.
The readings were part of the Psychic and Paranormal Faire. The event featured five mediums, UFO experts, a cryptozoologist, an expert dowser and ghost hunters at the Civil War-era fort Saturday and Sunday.
Loren Coleman, often referred to as "Maine’s nonfiction Stephen King," sat behind a table filled with representations of monsters and other fantastic creatures, along with some of the 30 books he has written on hidden or unknown animals.
This category includes what Coleman calls "The Big Three": the Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
"Everyone talks about these three, but in 1999 I wrote a cryptozoologists’ encyclopedia that includes 150 cryptids, or animals yet to be verified," Coleman said. Coleman has appeared on the History Channel and "Unsolved Mysteries," among other television shows.
Closer to home, however, Coleman said Maine has its own mystery creatures.
"In Waldo County and other parts of Maine, there have been many sightings of the black panther or mountain lions," he said. "And since the 1800s, there have been reports of sea serpents along Maine’s coast."
Coleman said the most famous of these is "Cassie," who has been seen frequently from Portland to the Penobscot River. He said there were also American Indian legends of a Bigfoot creature near Mount Katahdin, but more recent reports are centered in the woods of Quebec.
"It appears that Bigfoot is a tourist in Maine," he said with a laugh.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=166764&zoneid=500
(Photos By Bangor Daily News/Bridget Brown)
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