Ivan T. Sanderson

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Ivan Terence Sanderson (born January 30, 1911 in Edinburgh ; † February 19, 1973 in Columbia , New Jersey ) was an American anomalist and writer .

Life

Sanderson was born in Edinburgh. He studied at Cambridge . After World War II , Sanderson moved to New York and became a US citizen. He had his own small zoo on the Delaware River . In the 1950s and 1960s he worked on biological and geographic non-fiction books, which were published in Germany by Knaur as a series with his contributions to mammals (Knaur's Continents in Colors, Knaur's Animal Kingdom in Colors, etc.).

Published hypotheses

Cryptozoology

Sanderson's anomalistic focus was in the field of cryptozoology - he himself coined this term in the 1940s - or hominology. In 1961 he published his much acclaimed, more than 500-page work "Abominable Snowmen ...", which is still part of the cryptozoological standard literature today.

As early as the 1920s and 1930s, as a teenager and young man, he had already carried out a number of expeditions to tropical areas, which earned him some early fame due to his collection of exotic animals and his popular natural history writings on these trips. During one of these excursions - to Cameroon in 1932 - he and his companion, the naturalist Gerald Russell, claim to have spotted a Kongamato in the Assumbo Mountains .

Extraterrestrials

In 1970, Sanderson reported in his book Invisible Residents , which deals with aliens living on the ocean floor , that an incident occurred shortly before landing on a National Airlines flight in a Boeing 727. During the approach, the Boeing allegedly disappeared from the radar screen for ten minutes, but then suddenly reappeared and landed on schedule at Miami Airport. Sanderson wrote that the clocks of the two pilots as well as those of the passengers are said to have gone down by ten minutes. The same time difference was also observed on the on-board chronometer.

Sanderson could not give any sources or date for this alleged event. A flight number and information about witnesses were also missing, so that to this day there is no evidence that this event took place.

Bermuda Triangle

He later put forward a hypothesis that twelve geomagnetic anomaly areas are distributed over the earth, with which the strange processes in the Bermuda Triangle and other areas can be explained. Five of the areas are on the 30th north and south latitude, the other two are the poles. One of the areas is a Japanese sea area that is said to have been declared a danger zone by the local government in 1978. Another area in the Sahara is said to be known by the nomads there as the "dunes of oblivion". This hypothesis could never be proven.

Works

  • The silver ore , Berlin Weiss, 1954
  • Knaur's animal kingdom in colors. Mammals , 1956
  • Mammals , Berlin: German Book Association, 1956
  • Knaurs Affenbuch , Munich Droemer / Knaur, 1957
  • Abu dynasty (with Charles Albert Walter Guggisberg ), 1966
  • Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs , Adventures Unlimited Press, January 2006, ISBN 1931882207 (English)
  • Abominable Snowmen: Legend Comes to Life , Adventures Unlimited Press, May 2006, ISBN 1931882584 (English)
  • an introduction to Brad Steiger's Strange Guests , Anomalist Books, September 2006, ISBN 1933665173 (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kryptozoologie-Online - In search of hidden animals , under: " Hominology " (accessed: Jan. 16, 2014)
  2. ↑ Ivan T. Sanderson: "Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, The Story of Sub-Humans on Five Continents from the Early Ice Age Until Today", Philadelphia / New York, 1961
  3. ↑ Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark, "Cryptozoology A To Z: The Encyclopedia Of Loch Monsters Sasquatch Chupacabras And Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature," Simon and Schuster, 2013, p. 127
personal data
SURNAME Sanderson, Ivan T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanderson, Ivan Terrance (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1973
Place of death New Jersey