There are lifelike models of bizarre creatures such as the Dover Demon, the Mongolian Death Worm, and a sea monster found inside a sperm whale in 1937.
There are curio cabinets filled with hundreds of footprint casts, hair samples from mysterious hominids, monster toys - Loren calls them today's "native art" - and a framed letter from actor Jimmy Stewart, recalling how he once hid a mummified Yeti hand in his underwear and smuggled it from Nepal to London. Much has been saved since then, and all of it seems to be packed into Loren's museum, which now includes over 10,000 exhibits. Mongolian Death Worm incubates in camels, can grow up to five feet long, spits poison. I'm competing with the dump.'"Ĭrookston Bigfoot is 8.5 feet tall, formerly stood outside a roast beef restaurant in Minnesota. "It was like, 'Okay, I'm not competing with other museums. He said he was motivated to open the museum when a fellow researcher unexpectedly died, and his family promptly threw away all of his artifacts and specimens. Loren, a well-known authority on the subject, has been collecting cryptid evidence since he was a teenager in the early 1960s. "People from Portland and maybe Maine would drop by." Instead, the museum has attracted visitors from across the globe, which Loren attributes to its focus on animals and mysteries, areas of curiosity that humans can't seem to completely satisfy.Ĭryptozoology is the study of unknown or "hidden" creatures, from celebrity beasts like Bigfoot and Nessie, to less-familiar horrors such as the Jersey Devil and Skunk Ape, and even some animals that don't seem especially weird, like pygmy grizzly bears and oversized cats that pop up where they shouldn't. "I thought it would be a little museum," Loren said. Cavalcade of cryptids: Orang Pendek, Dover Demon, Tatzelwurm.
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