The Anomalist is a journal
and website that explores the mysteries of
science, nature, and history. Although The
Anomalist has changed since our first print
edition appeared in June of 1994, and their
award winning website was introduced, November
of 1995.
The Anomalist is the brain child of Author
Patrick Huyghe www.patrickhuyghe.com.
Along with News Editor Rick Stokes, Contributor
Loren Coleman, and Co-Editor Dennis Stacy.
The Anomalist magazine stopped publishing
a print edition with #10 in 2002, owing to
rising costs, but continues as an Internet
news site. All past issues are available online.
In 2006 the twelfth issue was published in
book form by Huyghe's new company Anomalist
Books. The thirteenth issue was released in
late 2007 and included articles by Nick Redfern.
Loren Coleman and John Reppion.
The Anomalist has recieved
many acclaimed Website Awards over the years.
And ceertainly gains more attention then any
other Fortean site on the net.
Lycos/Point Top 5% Web Site 1995
Omni Site of the Week 2/9/96
Planet Science Site of the Day 3/20/96
DisInformation Top Ten, Sept. 1996
Fortean Times "Fortstars" Dec. 1996
Alamo PC's Hot Pick 12/18/96
Luckman Interactive"Five Star Award"
Feb. 1997
"High Octane Award" June 1977
We are also featured on The Hidden Truth CD-ROM,
and the Luckman's Interactive's "World
Wide Web Yellow Pages" 1998
Netsurfer Digest, "A Sensible Look at
the Mysteries of the Universe, June 11, 1989.
Mystic Site of the Web Award, August 1998
2K Digest, "Four Magnifying Glasses,"
1998.
W3 Jumpstation "The Best of the Web"
January 1999
Hot Site For The Time Being, March 7, 1999.
Smileys Picks, December 18, 1999
Internet Minute, Only the coolest, most fascinating
sites on the Net, January 10, 2000
Site of the Week, Zenzibar Alternative Culture,
May 7, 2000.
Redfilter calls us "one of the best sites
on the web," Sept. 29, 2000.
Fate Magazine Websites of the Month, December,
2000
World of the Strange Site of the Month 'Excellence
Award,' Decmber 2001
Technosponge Site of the Day, September 22,
2003
Editor Top Picks, Best of the Web, January
17, 2006
The Top Ten Best Most Haunted Web Sites On
The Internet 2007- 2008 hauntedamericatours.com
Patrick
Huyghe The Real Anomalist
At Present the Patrick Huyghe editor-in-chief
of Anomalist Books. Previously he was the
editor of the Simon & Schuster imprint
Paraview Pocket Books and before that the
editor of the pioneer POD publisher Paraview
Press. Under the company name JustDuckie,
he has also created and maintained several
web sites, including The Anomalist and Small
Comets, the news site for information on the
discovery of small comets.
Huyghe was a freelance science journalist
for more than two decades during which he
also acted as contributing editor to Science
Digest and Omni. He has authored numerous
books, including a series of field guides
to the unknown for Avon and Quill; taught
science writing at the college level; produced
public TV documentaries for WGBH-Boston and
WNET-New York; and written texts and interactive
scripts for science exhibits from New Jersey
to Malaysia. He is currently the editor-in-chief
of Paraview Press and also edits a print and
web journal on the mysteries of science, history,
and nature called The Anomalist.
Huyghe holds a BA in social psychology from
the University of Virginia and an MS in journalism
from Syracuse University. After two years
of editing and writing on the staffs of Us
and Newsweek magazines, he turned freelance
in 1980.
Huyghe has authored four books: Glowing Birds:
Stories from the Edge of Science (Faber &
Faber, 1985), Columbus Was Last (Hyperion,
1992), The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials
(Avon, 1996), and Swamp Gas Times (Paraview
Press, 2001); and co-authored five others:
The Big Splash with Dr. Louis A. Frank (Birch
Lane Press, 1990), The Field Guide to Bigfoot
and Other Mystery Primates with Loren Coleman
(Avon, 1999), The Field Guide to UFOs with
Dennis Stacy (Quill, 2000), The Field Guide
to Ghosts and Other Apparitions with Hilary
Evans (Quill, 2000), and The Field Guide to
Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and Other Mystery
Denizens of the Deep with Loren Coleman (Tarcher,
2002)
Patrick Huyghe has also contributed to Time-Life,
Reader's Digest, and Scribner's book series,
taught science writing at the college level,
produced public TV documentaries for WGBH-Boston
and WNET-New York, and written exhibit text
and interactive scripts for the Liberty Science
Center in New Jersey, the Petrosains Science
Discovery Centre in Malaysia, and Monsanto's
"Beautiful Science" exhibit at EPCOT.
Authored Books
Columbus Was Last
The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery
Primates (with Loren Coleman)
The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents,
and Other
Mystery Denizens of the Deep (with Loren Coleman)
Swamp Gas Times: My Two Decades on the UFO
Beat
The Field Guide to UFOs (with Dennis Stacy)
The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials
Glowing Birds: Stories from the Edge of Science
The Big Splash (with Louis A. Frank)
The Field Guide to Ghosts and Other Apparitions
(with Hilary Evans)
Dennis Stacy is a full-time writer living
in San Antonio. His non-fiction articles have
appeared in magazines as diverse as OMNI,
Smithsonian Air & Space, and England's
New Scientist. His computer hard and software
reviews have appeared in Computer Shopper
and PC Sources.
Dennis Stacy
Rick Stokes
Rick Stokes makes sure that
the site's most important aspect it's Fortean
news content is updated each day. Stokes A
former Green Beret who served two tours in
the Republic of Viet Nam, Rick makes his home
on the banks of Lake Okeechobee in south central
Florida. He has varied interests which fit
right into the field of "anomalous"
information. Rick spends his spare time researching
undocumented ancient civilizations, Biblical
archaeology and errors in astrophysics.
Here is an Interview
with The Anomalist great News Editor Rick
Stokes: The Anomalist: A Balanced Playing
Field http://ufomedia.blogspot.com/2007/10/anomalist-balanced-playing-field.html
Loren Coleman, MSW, is an author of books
on wide-ranging topics including sociology
and cryptozoology.
Loren Coleman
Coleman was educated in anthropology and
zoology at Southern Illinois University in
Carbondale, and psychiatric social work at
the Simmons College School of Social Work
in Boston. He did post-masters work in anthropology
at Brandeis University and studied sociology
at the University of New Hampshire. Coleman
taught at New England universities from 1980
to 2004, also having been a senior researcher
at the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Policy
from 1983 to 1996, before retiring from teaching
to write, lecture, and consult on his many
interests.
The Cryptozoologist: Cryptozoology
This site overviews cryptozoology, discusses
some unknown creatures encountered around
the world, and details the passionate pursuit
of these species by ... www.lorencoleman.com
The Anomalist 1 Summer 1994 126 pages, illustrated,
$9.95 Cover art by Sal Amendola Print edition
Sold Out.
Editorial: "Quadratic Equations"
by Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy
Dinosaurs and the Gravity Problem
by Ted Holden
"Why, in all of the time claimed to
have passed since the dinosaur extinctions,
has nothing ever re-evolved to the sizes of
the large dinosaurs? If such sizes worked
for creatures which ruled the Earth for tens
of millions of years, then why would not some
species of elephant or rhinoceros have evolved
to such a size again? What kinds of problems,
if any, would sauropod sizes entail in our
world as it is presently constituted? Could
it be that some aspect of our environment
might have to be massively different for such
creatures to exist at all?....6
Interview: Mario Pazzaglini on "Alien
Writing"
by Patrick Huyghe
"One of the things the UFO literature
makes obvious is that aliens apparently can
speak the language of whatever country they
appear in, English in America, Portuguese
in Brazil, Spanish in Mexico. So are they
multi-lingual, or do we simply receive in
our own language [what they say in theirs],
or is it all just in our heads--is outer space
really inner space? That's a piece of epistemology
that you could set three philosophers on for
an awful long time....20
The Numbers Game
by Martin Cannon
"Occasionally, I write about UFOs. Occasionally,
I speak to folks who claim to have seen them
or met their pilots. And occasionally, I get
the chance to relate what I've heard before
a radio or lecture-hall audience. Which means,
of course, that occasionally someone will
ask me: 'Has anything weird ever happened
to you?' I always reply 'No.' But that's not
quite true. I can bear witness to one minor
but maddening enigma . . .35
The Daytona Beach Mystery Wave
by Patrick Huyghe
"It all began when a giant wall of water
rose from a calm sea and came smashing down
on Daytona Beach, Florida at 11 pm on Friday,
July 3, 1992. The freak wave wreaked havoc
on the 'World's Most Famous Beach,' swamping
hundreds of parked cars and injuring 75 people....[Later]
there were reports linking the 'rogue wave'
to a 'falling object' seen by a boater who
had been offshore at the time...46
Cargo of the Gods?
by Paul Rydeen
"Cargo cults and saucer groups are alike
in having a millenial ideal; the forms this
ideal takes are remarkably similar. They both
have a non-personal entity (the ancestors
and the Space Brothers) expected to manifest
via mechanical vehicles (planes, ships, UFOs)
bringing cargo (chocolate bars, radios, and
postnuclear peacekeeping technology) and a
just salvation. The impetus for both groups
is not necessarily the material goods, but
the status they bring....63
The First Extraordinary Claim
by Martin Kottmeyer
"I know something you don't know. It's
a naughty little secret and astronomers would
just die if they knew the truth. But the fact
of the matter is that somebody forgot to prove
the Earth is round..69
Incendiary Poltergeists, Spontaneous Human
Combustion and Fire Suicide Clusters
by Loren Coleman
"What is truly amazing is that fire
suicide clusters, in general, are not fully
understood. Waves of self-immolations, as
they are often called in the media, tend to
come in certain patterns that have never really
been dealt with in the scholarly journals.
In many ways, fire suicide clusters are global
indicators of political unrest that usually
predict a minor or major governmental shift
of some sort. It is almost as if the energy
we note being exhibited in the incendiary
poltergeist or the Spontaneous Human Combustion
event is projected on a grand scale...97
The Perils of Erasing Astrology From the Past
by Ingo Swann
"The fall-out from this modern anti-astrological
situation is that, in large measure, no scientist,
historian, or archeologist has studied astrology,
its mechanics, or its various stages of past
historical and archeological development.
In fact, the presence in history and in past
cultures of astrology is bowdlerized from
modern historical and archeological perspectives
and applied anachronistically into the past....110
A Commentary
by William Corliss
"Anomalies reveal nature as it really
is: complex, chaotic, possibly even umplumbable....122
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