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Ivan T. Sanderson
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Died
Education
MA Botany, MA
Ethnology
Contents
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Biography
Nature writing
Media appearances
Paranormal work
Personal
Works
6.1 Nature/travel
6.2 Paranormal subjects
6.3 Fiction under the name
Terence Roberts
7 References and sources
7.1 External
Cambridge University
Occupation
Biologist
Paranormal Writer
Biography
Born in Scotland, Sanderson traveled widely in
his youth. His father, who manufactured whisky
professionally, was killed by a rhinoceros while
assisting a documentary lm crew in Kenya in
1925.
As a teenager, Sanderson attended Eton
College, and, at 17 years old, began a yearlong
trip around the world, focusing mostly on Asia.
Sanderson earned a B.A. in zoology, with
honours, from Cambridge University faculty of
Biology, where in the same faculty he later
earned M.A. degrees in botany and ethnology.
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Nature writing
Sanderson published: Animal Treasure, a report of an expedition to the jungles
of then-British West Africa; Caribbean Treasure, an account of an expedition to
Trinidad, Haiti, and Surinam, begun in late 1936 and ending in late 1938; and
Living Treasure, an account of an expedition to Jamaica, British Honduras (now
Belize) and the Yucatan.
Illustrated with Sanderson's drawings, they are accounts of his scientic
expeditions. Sanderson collected animals for museums and scientic
institutions, and included detailed studies of their behaviors and environments.
He also killed some for study.
Media appearances
In 1948 Sanderson began appearing on American radio and television,
speaking as a naturalist and displaying animals. In 1951 he appeared with
Patty Painter on the world's rst regularly scheduled colour TV series, The
World is Yours. Sanderson also provided the introduction for 12 episodes of the
1953 television wildlife series Osa Johnson's The Big Game Hunt a.k.a. The Big
Game Hunt featuring the lms of Martin and Osa Johnson.
Sanderson's television appearances with animals led to what he termed his
"animal business." Initially Sanderson borrowed or rented animals from zoos in
the New York metropolitan area for his TV appearances. In 1950 at a meeting
of the National Speleological Society, he met 20-year-old Edgar O. ("Eddie")
Schoenenberger, who by 1952 was his assistant (and ultimately partner) in his
animal business. Schoenenberger suggested that, instead of "renting" animals,
they should purchase and house them, and gain some additional income by
displaying them in a zoo. Sanderson purchased in November 1952 the
"Frederick Trench place" a 250-year-old farmhouse, outbuildings and 25 acres
(100,000m2) of land a short ways from the ultimate location of the zoo
between the communities of Columbia and Hainesburg. He refurbished and
expanded moving 200 of his rarest animals to a barn nearby so he could keep
close watch on them. Then, in the spring of 1954, he established "Ivan
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Paranormal work
Sanderson was an early follower of Charles Fort. Later he became known for
writings on topics such as cryptozoology, a word Sanderson coined in the early
1940s, with special attention to the search for lake monsters, sea serpents,
Mokl-mbmb, giant penguins, Yeti, and Sasquatch.
Sanderson founded the Ivan T. Sanderson Foundation in August 1965 on his
New Jersey property, which became the Society for the Investigation of the
Unexplained (SITU) in 1967. SITU was a non-prot organization that
investigated strange phenomena ignored by mainstream science.
Personal
Sanderson was married twice. His wife Alma accompanied him in the travels
discussed in Caribbean Treasure and Living Treasure.
He died of brain cancer in New Jersey, which had become his adopted home.
Works
Nature/travel
Green silence: Travels through the jungles of the Orient, D. McKay Co.,
1974, ISBN 0-679-50487-7.
Animal Treasure, The Viking Press, September 1937, hardback; Pyramid
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Paranormal subjects
Things and More Things (essays), combined and reprinted by Adventures
Unlimited Press, 2007, paperback, ISBN 1-931882-78-9
Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life: The Story Of Sub-Humans
On Five Continents From The Early Ice Age Until Today, Adventures
Unlimited Press, 2006, paperback, ISBN 1-931882-58-4.
Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs, with David Hatcher
Childress, Adventures Unlimited Press, 2005, paperback, ISBN
1-931882-20-7.
Investigating the Unexplained (essays) Prentice Hall, 1972, hardback,
ISBN 0-13-502229-0.
More Things (essays), Pyramid Books, 1969, paperback.
Uninvited Visitors: A Biologist Looks At UFOs, Cowles Education
Corporation, 1967, hardback.
Things (essays), Pyramid Books, 1967, paperback.
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External
Abominable Snowmen, full text at sacred-texts.com (http://www.sacredtexts.com/lcr/abs/index.htm)
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