Posted on 02/02/2015 11:35:42 AM PST by BenLurkin
Looked that up. Interesting!
Smiling .... we have a *thang* ‘round here....blaming the *Rougarou* for any strange happening.
It was by Sanderson.
It was not cryptozoology, but a legitimate book on mammals He was apparently an actual zoologist or naturalist of some sort.
I don't know I'd he just went nutty or the lonnytune books just sold better. Maybe a combination of both.
From what I understand, he started out as a serious scientist, but toward his later years he gained a lot of fame from this kind of thing. It always seemed he believed what he was writing.
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