BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 29, 2020
As the founder and curator of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Loren Coleman has amassed an amazing collection of ephemera related to everything from Bigfoot and the Yeti to the chupacabra and the Jersey Devil. He’s also done extensive research on the cryptids — the term for an animal that is claimed but not proven to exist — that may wander the woods and waters of Maine. Five of the most famous:
• Wessie, the giant snake of Westbrook
• Cassie, the Casco Bay Sea Monster
• Specter Moose
• Kiwakwa
• Black panthers