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Slideshow: Cryptids in Maine

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By PHOENIX STAFF | January 9, 2009

Loren Coleman, from Portland, Maine, is perhaps the world's foremost promulgator of cryptozoological wisdom. He collects artifacts, has authored dozens of books on cryptozoology and started the Web site cryptomundo.com.
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).
Rain check
We have just the thing to cure your summer-vacation blues: Maine, from the inside.
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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).
Rain check
We have just the thing to cure your summer-vacation blues: Maine, from the inside.
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.
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.
Most popular articles of 2009
The stories you couldn't not read this year
Gifts of the magi
OK, so math isn't Poliquin's strong point. And he's a little shaky on consistency. But are those minor flaws enough to convince Santa to leave coal in his stocking?
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