Good news for Cryptozoology last year when Ivan T. Sanderson's missing archives turned up in Kalamazoo - now that Dr Michael Swords from SITU (http://richardgrigonis.com/Ch10%20Charles%20Hoy%20Fort.html) has had time to sift through some of the files, he reports on his findings at the links below.
As you can see by the pic there's plenty to rummage through and it's said there's up to 184 notebooks containing Ivan's research on topics such as Cryptozoology and the UFO/USO subject - also mentioned are sighting reports, news clippings, photographs etc.. which deal with subjects like Bigfoot, Yeti and sea, lake, or river monsters.
QuoteMissing Sanderson Archives Found.
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QuoteThe archives arrived in Kalamazoo on Friday. Two very hard-working days of shelving and stacking later, punctuated by anomalies "parties" punctuated by sub-sandwiches and pizzas and large quantities of extravagant commentary, our eight person crew we at least got it all off the truck and inside. It's going to take a LOT of archival work, my friends, but it will be worth it---the unloading days themselves were some of the most fun I've had in a very long time.
I want to give you some extremely "early" assessment information. This stuff is EXTENSIVE. It nearly filled a 26-foot U-Haul truck. Secondly, it has survived the rigors of time and mice very well.
link (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/03/society-for-investigation-of.html)
Contents:
QuoteNewsclippings, pictures, correspondence.
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QuoteSanderson kept his topical files arranged in three-ring notebooks usually about two-inches wide. At a minimum there are 184 of these already shelved [i.e. sitting outside the original boxes off the truck before your eyes.] I counted them the grade-school way with my own index finger. As a wild guess, there are at least 30-35 "linear feet" of them, in librarian-talk. This 184 count does not count three-ring notebooks which contain only journal/magazine runs --- these are mainly Sanderson's own constructions containing clippings, pictures, correspondence, & whatever, around some topic or set of topics. 42 of these notebooks refer to "ABSMs" [bigfoot, yeti et al], or sea, lake, or river monsters.
Update:
QuoteOrganizing Files.
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QuoteThis is what you see if you look down the parallel corridor to the left of the first picture. It's where most of the purely anomalies-related volumes are and where most of the anomalies related journals and newsletters will ultimately be. The latter are quite voluminous and will occupy most of the top and bottom shelving areas on both corridors..
There at the end of the corridor, facing you, are some of the famous Ivan Sanderson three-ring notebook files. I placed them, especially the Bigfoot/ABSM/ Lake and Sea monster ones there for "romantic" reasons --- they are the Heart of Sanderson, and this gives them a little center ring "glory"
SITU Status: Summer 2012. (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/situ-status-summer-2012.html)
Links:
Peeking at Ivan's SITU files (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/04/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files.html)
Peeking at Ivan's SITU files: the Flatwoods Monster. (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/04/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-flatwoods.html)
Peeking at Ivan's SITU files: The Santa Clara encounter (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-santa-clara.html)
Peeking at Ivan's SITU files: Loch Morar's Monster, Part 1 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-loch-morars.html) / 2 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-loch-morars_03.html)
Peeking at Ivan's SITU files: meaningless reports of sea monsters Part 1 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-meaningless.html) / 2 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-meaningless_31.html) / 3 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-meaningless.html) / 4 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-meaningless_09.html) / 5 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-meaningless_13.html) / 6 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-meaningless_20.html) / 7 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-meaningless_26.html) / 8 (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2011/07/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-meaningless_02.html)
More info from files and a relevant page
here (http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/more-sea-serpents-from-ivan-sandersons.html) dealing with Sea Serpents from Dale Drinnon over at Frontiers of Zoology.
QuoteStumbling in Ivan's Bigfootsteps
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QuoteIvan was probably best known for his knowledge which led to writings about ABSM-type creatures in North America and around the globe. Why not start there? For a sample, I picked his three-ringed notebook marked "ABSM Oregon". Why? Not really being spontaneous, I was probably still influenced by that last blog entry I wrote about Sasquatchs around Sweet Home, Oregon. What-the-heck, right? Good as anyplace to start..
A letter with some case details {wish there were more items like this }, and a drawing of what a witness said that he saw.
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QuoteBriefly, there are a few more cases perhaps worthy of note:
A). In 1942, an academic and his wife {Don Hunter} were planning to go hiking near Three Sisters Wilderness Area at Todd Lake. There they saw a very tall standing figure which took off running on two legs at stunning speed;
B). Around the same year, two hunters { Edwards above and companion} were SE of Ashland, OR when Edwards heard noises nearby, and his friend received a blow in the back which sent him tumbling down the hill. Edwards then saw a large hairy [brown] 7' tall "ape" running downhill. Here the story gets confusing. Edwards remembers seeing what he thought was a human, or at least several items of human clothing in the ape's arms, but his companion is certain that the thing didn't pick him up for any time;
C). In 1959, three witnesses were flying over remote Horseshoe Lake in the Wallowa Mountains. They saw a hairy humanoid tearing away at the carcass of a dead animal. The witnesses watched this action through binoculars.
Link (http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2013/10/stumbling-in-ivans-bigfootsteps.html)
More from Prof Swords about the ongoing research into Ivan's files, UFOs, Soviet Snowmen and giant penguins.
QuoteSoviet Snowmen Study, Part Two. / SNECHNOMA CHELOUEKE or something like that. / JUST TO BE DOING SOMETHING / Short Post on a Tall Tale.
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