#83: E.S.M.B. Interview with Richard Freeman
The Cryptonaut Podcast
Marc Storrs
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Richard Freeman is a full time cryptozoologist. He searches for and writes about unknown animals. The melodramatic may call him a monster hunter. He has hunted for creatures such as the yeti (a dark haired, giant, upright ape in North India), the Mongolian death worm (a much feared burrowing reptile of the Gobi), the giant anaconda (a monster constricting snake in South America), the ninki-nanka ( a dangerous dragon like beast from the swamps of West Africa), the almasty (a relic hominid in the Caucasus of Russia), orang-pendek (an upright walking ape in Indonesia), the naga (a giant, crested serpent in Indo-China) , the gul (a relic hominin from Tajikistan) and the Tasmanian wolf (a flesh eating marsupial in Tasmania).
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| 0:00.0 | Evil Science and Magic |
| 0:05.0 | Magic Bunny. Hey. Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:24.6 | the Kryptonau podcast presents evil science and magic buddies the show |
| 0:28.8 | within the show the conspiracy of the conspiracies the crypto roundtable I am Mark stores and with me as always is I'm Chris and Rob Murphy |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you all for joining us and we have a very special guest joining us this week is our very first interview and Robert why don't you kick it off with a sweet |
| 0:44.9 | sweet intro and bio to our very special guest. I shall proceed. Author, journalist, |
| 0:52.3 | lecturer and classic hoovian, Richard Freeman is a working cryptozoologist who searches for and writes about unknown animals. |
| 1:00.0 | A former zookeeper, Richard soon was promoted to headkeeper of reptiles working with more |
| 1:07.4 | than 400 exotic species from spiders to elephants, but with a distinct preference for crocodilions a preference that |
| 1:15.5 | likely fueled or was fueled by his fascination with international dragon lore. |
| 1:22.0 | The melodramatic may call him a monster hunter, but they're not too far off the mark as Richard has trek to some of the most far-flung and inhospitable corners of the globe from Mongolia to Sumatra from Thailand to |
| 1:35.5 | Chigistan which I'm pretty sure is on earth but I can't swear I don't know no I |
| 1:39.9 | don't know for the fact with many stops at exotic locales in between in search of creatures such as the Yeti, the Mongolian deathworm, the giant Anaconda, the almasty, |
| 1:50.8 | Orring Pendek, and the Tasmanian Wolf. |
| 1:54.1 | Which, by the way, is new to me. |
| 1:56.0 | I'm a Tasmanian Tiger fan, we all are. |
| 1:58.2 | That's a standard, good, great cryptozoological fixture. The Tasmanian wolf we're going to have to ask about. |
| 2:05.0 | He has also written books about cryptosuology, folklore and monsters including |
| 2:11.0 | dragons more than a myth, |
| 2:12.8 | explore Dragons, the great Yokai Encyclopedia, |
| 2:16.5 | an A to Z of Japanese monsters, |
| 2:19.0 | and Orin Pendek, Sumatra's forgotten ape. As if that weren't impressive enough, Richard has recently branched out into horror and weird fantasy with green, unpleasant land, 18 tales of British horror. |
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