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Acknowledgments In addition to those mentioned in the text, we are grateful to the following people and organizations: Our colleagues at the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, notably Timothy Binga for research assistance , Barry Karr and Pat Beauchamp for help with financial matters, and Ranjit Sandhu and Paul Loynes for manuscript preparation. For the Silver Lake chapter, Tom Pickett, Department of Physics , University of Southern Indiana; Tammy Miller, Perry Chamber of Commerce; Barbara Henry, Perry Public Library; the staff of the Special Collections Department, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library; and the Inter-Library Loan Department, New York State Library. For the Lake George chapter, the staff of the Silver Bay Association , Silver Bay, New York, as well as Bertha Dunsmore, clerk, and Ethel Andrus, historian, Hague Community Center, Hague-on-Lake George, New York. For the Lake Okanagan chapter, Tom Flynn, for professional assistance in planning our experiment; the staff of the Okanagan Regional Library and the Kelowna Museum; the entire National Geographic Television crew; and the land surveyors of the firm Runnalls Denby. A tip ofthe hat is also due the late J. Richard Greenwell, cofounder ofthe International Society of Cryptozoology. xvii ...

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