1. Jon-Erik Beckjord was an American paranormal investigator, photographer, and cryptozoologist interested in UFOs, crop circles, the Loch Ness Monster, and Bigfoot.
19 Facts About Jon-Erik Beckjord
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Jon-Erik Beckjord made guest appearances on national radio and television shows, but was criticized by skeptics and fellow cryptozoologists alike for not providing substantive evidence to back up his claims of the existence of paranormal beings.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord attended the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado for two years.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord studied sociology at Tulane University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1961.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord studied law for one year at Boalt Hall at University of California, Berkeley.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord collected photographs, castings, and other memorabilia that, to him, represented evidence of the existence of UFOs and alien life, the Loch Ness Monster, as well as Bigfoot.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord appeared on several nationwide radio and television shows, including Coast to Coast AM, The Tonight Show, and Late Night with David Letterman.
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In reference to his explorations, Jon-Erik Beckjord compared himself to Galileo, Louis Pasteur, and the Wright brothers.
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In February, 1989, Jon-Erik Beckjord opened the Crypto-Zoology Museum, housed in the corner of Trancas Restaurant in Malibu, California.
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When Trancas Restaurant went out of business, Jon-Erik Beckjord put the museum's contents in storage.
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In 1997, Jon-Erik Beckjord opened a third museum in North Beach, California, which he called the Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster Museum.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord became intrigued with the idea of Bigfoot after seeing an article in the newspaper about alleged sightings of the creature.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord was convinced of its existence, even as he failed to photograph Bigfoot.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord purportedly saw Bigfoot standing 6 feet tall and walking in a "loose, limbo-dance style", and, at another time, eating apricots in an orchard around Vacaville, California.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord speculated that the Loveland Frog might be the extinct 10-ft.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord believed in space alien visitations to Earth, crop circles and creative forces that sculpted rock, lava and sand on Mars to resemble people on Earth like Ted Kennedy, Tammy Faye Bakker and others.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord tried to sell his Kennedy-on-Mars photos, which Beckjord discovered while analyzing NASA satellite photos of the planet, to raise money to investigate crop circles in England.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord took images of what he described as three "blobs-of-light" UFOs and witnessed two instances of unexplained light over Malibu and Sepulveda Pass, respectively.
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Jon-Erik Beckjord believed in a government cover up of the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence and advocated making that information available to the general public.