List of cryptozoologists
Here follows a list of notable researchers and writers in the field of cryptozoology:
- Erik Beckjord, Bigfoot researcher - deceased
- John Bindernagel, Bigfoot researcher; author of North America's Great Ape: the Sasquatch
- Tom Biscardi, Bigfoot researcher
- Maurice Burton, Loch Ness Monster researcher; author of The Elusive Monster - deceased
- Mark Chorvinsky, creator of Strange Magazine - deceased
- Jerome Clark, co-author of Cryptozoology A to Z
- Ronan Coghlan. author of "Dictionary of Cryptozoology"
- Loren Coleman, author of Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America, Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology, Mysterious America, Mothman and Other Curious Encounters; coauthor of Cryptozoology A to Z, The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide, The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep, and other books
- William R. Corliss, general anomalist; has collected reports of unknown hominids and other cryptids - deceased
- René Dahinden, Bigfoot researcher -deceased
- Tim Dinsdale, Loch Ness Monster researcher -deceased
- Jonathan Downes, founder of Centre for Fortean Zoology
- Richard Ellis, marine life artist; author of The Search For The Giant Squid
- Paul Freeman, Bigfoot researcher - deceased
- Richard Freeman, researcher affiliated with Centre for Fortean Zoology
- Josh Gates, researcher, TV host
- Ken Gerhard, Big Bird researcher/author
- Bob Gimlin, with Roger Patterson, allegedly filmed Bigfoot in 1967
- Rex Gilroy, Australian cryptozoologist focused on the Megalania and the Yowie.
- John Willison Green, Bigfoot researcher
- J. Richard Greenwell, secretary of the International Society for Cryptozoology - deceased
- Bernard Heuvelmans, author of On the Track of Unknown Animals; "father of cryptozoology" - deceased
- Fredrick William Holiday, Loch Ness Monster researcher - deceased
- John Keel, Mothman researcher - deceased
- Alexandr Mikhailovych Kondratov, Russian scientist, author of books about lake monsters, living dinosaurs and many more - deceased
- Grover Krantz, mainstream physical anthropologist known for his interest in Bigfoot - deceased
- Willy Ley, author of Exotic Zoology - deceased
- Roy Mackal, University of Chicago professor known for interest in Loch Ness Monster and Mokele mbembe - deceased
- Scott Marlowe, Swamp Ape researcher and founder of Pangea Institute
- Jeff Meldrum, Idaho State University anatomy professor; Bigfoot researcher
- Reinhold Messner, mountaineer; author of My Quest for the Yeti - skeptic
- Marc Wolfgang Miller, explorer, author of Chasing Legends & The Legend Continues
- Darren Naish, University of Portsmouth, vertebrate palaeontologist, researcher on aquatic cryptids
- John Napier, primatologist and Bigfoot researcher - deceased
- Rory Nugent, Mokele mbembe researcher
- Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans, Sea serpent researcher - deceased
- Roger Patterson, with Bob Gimlin, allegedly filmed Bigfoot in 1967 - deceased
- Robert Michael Pyle, author of Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide
- Ivan T. Sanderson, celebrity zoologist/anomalist; author of Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life - deceased
- Esteban Sarmiento, Bigfoot researcher
- Peter Scott, conservationist; coined a scientific name for the Loch Ness Monster - deceased
- Karl Shuker, author of Mystery Cats of the World, Dragons: A Natural History, In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings, Mysteries of Planet Earth, The New Zoo: New and Rediscovered Animals of the Twentieth Century, The Beasts That Hide From Man, Extraordinary Animals Revisited, and other books
- Tom Slick, adventurer who funded searches for Bigfoot and other cryptids - deceased
- Roderick Sprague, Bigfoot researcher
- Michael Williams, Australian researcher and author of Australian Big Cats: An Unnatural History of Panthers, and The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant?
- Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, theorized Plesiosaurus in Rice Lake, deceased [1]
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See also
References
- ↑ http://books.google.ca/books?id=YGFLAQ-Cu6sC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=%22E.+Stone+Wiggins%22 John Robert Colombo Mysteries of Ontario 1999
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