When I started reading about the real Yeti, I soon discovered the film’s location in Japan was wrong (and obviously had to do with the moviemaker).

What was confusing for a bit was the setting. The whole plot of the search for the “Snowmen” in the mountains, the disbelief and discovery, the killing and examination of the young Snowman’s body, and the general, almost “based on truth” feeling of the movie got to me. LC: I have vivid memories of that first viewing because it had a life-changing effect on me. I remember the mountains, the creatures, the villagers, the scientists (yes, the Japanese ones and the Americans, too, especially John Carradine). I love this motion picture.īH: What are some memorable scenes from the movie that left an impression on you? I’ve written about my introduction to cryptozoology via this movie in various articles and books of mine, for example, in my Tom Slick books (both 19 editions), and recently in my 2003 book, Bigfoot : The True Story of Apes in America. I was intrigued by what I saw Friday night, so I watched the whole movie again on Saturday.

I remember that the specific station that showed such science fiction films broadcast them on Friday night and then again on Saturday morning. Loren Coleman: I watched the 1957 American version on television in Decatur, Illinois, in March 1960. īrett Homenick: How did you see Half Human for the first time? Coleman answered Brett Homenick’s questions regarding his interest in Half Human. Coleman to pursue a career in the field of cryptozoology. It m ay surprise Vantage Point Interviews readers to team that it w as actually a Toho film , Half Human (1955), which inspired Mr. Throughout the years, he has been a frequent guest on the top-rated late-night radio program Coast to Coast AM. Loren Coleman, a recognized authority on paranormal phenomena worldwide, is the author of such investigative volumes as Curious Encounters (Faber and Fabe r, 1985), Mysterious America: The Revised Edition (Paraview Press, 2001 ), and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters (Paraview Press, 2002). Noted cryptozoologist Loren Coleman poses with an old colleague.

Mysterious America by Loren Coleman