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By PHOENIX STAFF  |  January 9, 2009

The Montauk Monster was found to be a racoon rather than a cryptid.
To find out more about cryptozoology, read Where the Wild Things are.

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• Where the wild things are
  Venture out into the waters and woodlands of New England, and there's a chance you'll bump into "Champ," America's own Loch Ness Monster, who allegedly plies the muddy ripples of Lake Champlain.
• Bigfoot coming to Congress Street
  Mainer Loren Coleman loves sharing his wealth -- the treasures collected during a 50-year career in the field of cryptozoology, which is the study of mysterious creatures (think Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, and the chupacabra).
• Unheimlich maneuver
  This weekend the Bates College Museum of Art unveils the cryptozoological community’s most highly esteemed artworks by a Wyeth family member, living or otherwise.
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• Where the wild things are
  Venture out into the waters and woodlands of New England, and there's a chance you'll bump into "Champ," America's own Loch Ness Monster, who allegedly plies the muddy ripples of Lake Champlain.
• Bigfoot coming to Congress Street
  Mainer Loren Coleman loves sharing his wealth -- the treasures collected during a 50-year career in the field of cryptozoology, which is the study of mysterious creatures (think Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, and the chupacabra).
• Unheimlich maneuver
  This weekend the Bates College Museum of Art unveils the cryptozoological community’s most highly esteemed artworks by a Wyeth family member, living or otherwise.
• Classic retro
  Opened 20 years ago on an odd bayside corner, the Back Bay Grill looks seasoned rather than old.  
• Excerpt: The School on Heart's Content Road
  In the cold parlor of the St. Onge farmhouse, deep in the old collapsing couch, sort of wrapped in the couch, in its waves of whimpering springs and hills of upholstery of frazzled blue nap, are 15-year-old Brianna and Gordon.
• Hey guv: stop slashing!
  It seems as if there’s no light at the end of the state’s gloomy fiscal tunnel.
• Music Seen: Anticon's 10th anniversary
  Sure, Ray LaMontagne is huge and the Rustic Overtones saw their national time, but there is something to be said for a record label co-founded by Mainers that is more than a decade old and can still sell out the Knitting Factory in New York City.
• Ready, set, howl!
  From the people who brought you the Woolly Fair, the city's furriest art festival, a bit of hairy exercise this past weekend.
• Exploring deep within
  Hannah Holmes, the Maine-born, Portland-dwelling science writer, naturalist, and friend to all animals has turned her lens deeply inward in her latest book, The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself .
• Menino, again
  At a time when Americans are racked by anxiety about the uncertain future of a weak economy, Boston voters handily returned Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to an unprecedented fifth term.
• Redskin redux
  A couple months ago, when I wrote about the fact that the Sanford and Wiscasset high schools are the last remaining Maine schools using the mascot nickname “redskins,” Sanford principal Allan Young told me that if “redskin” critics called his students racists, he would support a change.
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