- Duel Masters Withdraws and Rescinds $1M Bounty Hunt (Renton,
Wash.) As noted by international cryptozoologist and author Loren Coleman
earlier this week, the Duel Masters trading card game produced by Wizards
of Coast [Hasbro, Inc.'s (NYSE: HAS)], explored the possibility of sponsoring
a one million dollar bounty hunt that would encourage the live safe capture
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- $1 Million Bounty For Live Capture Of Bigfoot
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- LEWISTON, Maine --A Maine
scientist is preparing to release details of a $1 million reward for a
photograph that leads to the live capture of Bigfoot, the abominable snowman
or the Loch Ness Monster.
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- Loren Coleman, a professor at the University of Southern
Maine, said the bounty would be paid for by an unnamed company and that
he will release more details at a cryptozoology symposium at Bates College
over Halloween weekend.
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- Cryptozoology is the scientific study of hidden, rumored
or unknown animals.
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- "It's the time for something like this," Coleman
said. "Back in the 1960s, hardly anybody was talking about this. Today,
it's phenomenal."
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- The mysteries surrounding these creatures have long been
the subject of debate.
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- Bigfoot, or sasquatch, is said to be a huge, hairy humanlike
creature with long arms. The abominable snowman, or yeti, is a large hairy,
manlike mammal reputed to live in the Himalayas. The Loch Ness Monster
is a dinosaur-like creature reputed to live in a lake in Scotland.
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- The $1 million bounty would be paid by a company to anyone
who produces a photograph that leads to the live capture of one of the
three creatures, Coleman said.
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- "We don't want people running around with guns trying
to kill something to get the money," Coleman said. "It's not
a contest, either. It's a very specific bounty that depends on the permanent
capture of a live specimen, with emphasis on 'live.'"
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- Coleman, a cryptozoologist who is considered one of the
world's leading experts on Bigfoot, said he would release some details
about the bounty at a Bigfoot conference over the weekend in Texas. He's
saving the rest for Lewiston, where he will speak at the symposium on Oct.
28 on the Bates campus.
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- The three-day symposium, held at the Bates College Museum
of Art, will focus on cryptozoology, science and art.
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- "What we like about the subject is that there is
such a fine line between truth and fraud in the field, and that goes way
back through history," said museum curator Mark Bessire. "We're
looking at how the possibility of these beasts becomes a part of the cultural
canon."
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- The event will include panel discussions about the science
of fantastic creatures and artistic interpretations of their stories. It
will feature two movies, including "The Legend of Boggy Creek,"
a 1972 film about a small Arkansas town terrorized by a swamp monster.
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- Coleman said most sightings are hoaxes, mistakes or misunderstandings.
But the $1 million reward is on the level, he said.
- "The company that's behind this really understands
the situation," he said. "They understand the interest in the
creatures and monsters that are really out there and they are willing to
step forward."
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- Cryptozoology Symposium
- http://www.bates.edu/crypto.xml
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- Information from: Sun-Journal
- http://www.sunjournal.com
- © Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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- "Loren Coleman writes that this article contained
incorrect information about his current employment status at the University
of Southern Maine. He retired from adjunct teaching at USM in 2003, and
retired from his full-time research position in 1996. Inclusion of these
details have been unfortunate. In one article, it was noted he was a 'retired
professor at Western Maine University,' thus compounding the biographical
mistakes even further with a technically incorrect position at a non-existent
university."
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- A good link to one of the most complete articles on the
bounty withdrawal was published in the Boston Globe:
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- Bigfoot bounty is rescinded before it's formally announced
October 19, 2005
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- http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2005/10/19/bigfoot_
bounty_is_rescinded_before_its_formally_announced/
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