tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15194226.post2589065882798711216..comments2024-03-08T01:24:09.884-07:00Comments on Matt's Sci/Tech Blog: Review: The Journal of CryptozoologyMatt Billehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18230930494550861704noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15194226.post-26882691496428542282013-01-16T11:43:15.484-07:002013-01-16T11:43:15.484-07:00Clark, I just finished the Champ book, and I agree...Clark, I just finished the Champ book, and I agree it covers the subject well. Sandra Mansi emerges, not as a hoaxer, but as someone who believes her encounter was real and has shied away from activities that might falsify it. Matt Billehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230930494550861704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15194226.post-83319851104006755022013-01-03T12:54:08.254-07:002013-01-03T12:54:08.254-07:00The Untold Story of Champ has a great review of th...The Untold Story of Champ has a great review of the Mansi photograph controversy. The first part of the book has many great sightings reports giving a clear picture of the kinds of sightings.<br /><br />It is true that Smith did not grapple much with cryptozoological possibilities. I did not really have cryptid in the race, so to speak. If I did, it would have been an exotic feline escaped from a royal menagerie. I am satisfied he found the correct solution from the historical context. One could apply a similar approach to more recent flaps.Laurence Clark Crossenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15908708438427333473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15194226.post-62159253585342756592013-01-02T07:45:43.521-07:002013-01-02T07:45:43.521-07:00I haven't read the Champ book yet: it's de...I haven't read the Champ book yet: it's definitely on my list. Despite the impressive research of Smith's book, I wasn't as taken with it as I thought I would be. The thought kept coming to me that he'd developed a sociological thesis about France, and the animal was secondary to the political and social points he wanted to make. He may well be right that there was never anything but a wolf involved, but he really never dealt head-on with the identification of a hyena in a Paris museum as a possible culprit.Matt Billehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230930494550861704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15194226.post-78438220628740885172013-01-01T11:07:00.546-07:002013-01-01T11:07:00.546-07:00The field of cryptozoology keeps benefiting from m...The field of cryptozoology keeps benefiting from more scholarly and professional studies such as the recent book, The Untold Story of Champ: A Social History of America's Loch Ness Monster by sociologist Robert E. Bartholomew and Monsters of the Gevaudan: The Making of a Beast, by professor of history Jay M. SmithLaurence Clark Crossenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15908708438427333473noreply@blogger.com