Archive for the ‘anomalies’ category
January 9, 2011
– – In the wild, Florida alligators are usually a grayish black on top with a lighter colored belly. That makes an orange-colored ‘gator discovered in Venice, Florida a bit of a stand-out.
Experts with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have analyzed the photos taken of the alligator by a 74-year-old woman and determined that the animal’s coloring is not genetic, suspecting that the coloration comes from mud or something else in the environment. It’s unlikely that the ‘gator is a dye job in light of the creature’s thick skin.
Unless the experts get their hands on the animal itself, definitive answers on reasons for its color will remain elusive. Until then, see you later alligator!
Categories: animal oddities, anomalies, scalies, unexplained
Tags: orange alligator in Florida
Comments: 4 Comments
December 14, 2010
– – Not to be confused with Forrest Gump, it’s time to talk about our ghoul friends, like this one reportedly photographed by a deer hunter on a reserve in Berwick near Morgan City, Louisiana. The hunter contends that he was lying in wait in the pitch black when this specter with glowing eyes filled his sights. The mysterious thing jumped from the undergrowth and flashed a look at the camera before vanishing back into the bushes. The hunter was so spooked he broke his camera, but conveniently retrieved the undamaged memory chip from which this image was supposedly produced.
While creepy, the eyes and limbs of this thing don’t look real to me, and if it isn’t photoshopped, it may be a suit of some sort…don’t bet the rent on the reality of this creature, but I’ll take Halloween over Xmas any day!
Categories: anomalies, creature features, strange happenings, unexplained, unidentified, weird
Tags: forest ghoul, strange creature seen by hunter
Comments: 2 Comments
November 8, 2010
– – Don’t look, Ethel! Humans have been referred to as “the naked ape” by Desmond Morris among others, and here we present something unusual; a naked chimpanzee.
Guru, the naked 20-year-old chimp at India’s Mysore Zoo, lost all of his hair to alopecia, a condition that also affects humans. Although he’s undergone treatment, nothing so far has helped him grow hair. Chimpanzees are very accepting of hairless chimps, however, and actually seem more accepting of physical differences than many humans are.
Another lesson that the animal kingdom may teach homo sapiens!
Categories: animal oddities, animals, anomalies, rare animal
Tags: alopecia in animals, hairless chimpanzee
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September 20, 2010
– – The Guinness Book of World Records has picked (no pun intended) the world’s largest human nose. The schnoz belongs to a 61-year-old Turkish gentleman, and measures an impressive 3.46 inches from bridge to tip.- -Any bigger than this, and the nose would qualify for its own zip code!
There’s gotta be a few good jokes hanging there, but we’ll spare you…
Categories: anomalies, body parts
Tags: largest nose
Comments: 4 Comments
August 5, 2010
– – This is “Shark Week” on The Discovery Channel, and it appears that sharks are staging their own commemorations off the New Jersey coast…
…during the month of July alone, three shark sightings have occurred off the Jersey coast, one at Ocean Beach and two at South Seaside Park Beach. This past Saturday at Seaside Heights, N.J. a young blue shark swam toward the shoreline before turning around and heading back for deeper water…atypical behavior for the species.
There have been no injuries so far, but shark sightings have led to beach closings in New Jersey and along the Atlantic coast this summer (theme from Jaws plays)…
Categories: animal occurrences, animals, anomalies, unexplained
Tags: New Jersey shark sightings, summer shark sightings
Comments: 4 Comments
August 1, 2010
– – For those of you hungry for a MonsterQuest fix, Syfy’s new show Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files may offer you an alternative. The show has been described as what Fox Mulder might have done after leaving the X-Files; in fact, the show features former FBI agent Ben Hansen. Adding to the diversified investigative team is a scientist, a journalist, an effects specialist, a photography expert, and a stunt expert who explore video submissions and famous paranormal footage to determine which can be validated or debunked through experimentation.
Topics investigated are a mixed bag that include UFO’s, ghosts, cryptids, and unexplained phenomenon. A lot of grainy videos are screened by the team in a “situation room” to weed out the obvious fakes and determine which cases are worthy of further investigation. While it’s too early to tell if this series will be a hit, if you liked Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State, and Destination Truth, you’ll probably like this one. Fact or Faked is a banquet, so take what you like, and leave the rest of it lying on the buffet table…we think it merits a look!
Categories: aliens, anomalies, creature features, cryptozoology, strange happenings, unexplained, unidentified, weird
Tags: Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files
Comments: 2 Comments
July 23, 2010
– – Rabbits generally aren’t perceived as scary, with the possible exception of the wonderful specimen shown here from the movie, Donnie Darko. Now granted that my killer dust bunnies are at least annoying and Bugs Bunny is a master of psychological warfare, but usually most people don’t find rabbits fear-arousing…
Now every rule has its exceptions (including this one), and a 60-year-old geography teacher in Germany had a paralyzing fear of rabbits! It then became possible for a 16-year-old student to get her teacher’s goat (so to speak) by drawing pictures of rabbits on the blackboard and spreading stories about her teacher’s rabbit phobia; kids are remarkably resourceful for seeking out and detecting such Achilles heels! In 2008 the teacher took a different student to court and reached a settlement that prevented the student from ever speaking about the teacher’s fear of rabbits to anyone else.
This time, however, the presiding judge dismissed the case without explaining the verdict. The lagomorph loather has a month to appeal the decision…
…and maybe Elmer Fudd had some kind of fear and loathing thing going on with Bugs…and wouldn’t Rabbits of Doom be great antiheroes?!
Categories: animals, anomalies, furry, strange happenings
Tags: furry court cases, rabbits of doom, scary rabbits
Comments: 2 Comments
July 17, 2010
– – Two-headed calves have been staples at sideshow exhibitions for ages, some legitimate specimens and others shameless patch jobs. Most of the genuine items, however, were preserved animals that didn’t live long. Two-headed animals who live can become a valuable commodity.
A two-headed calf born this month in Egypt is the real deal, having two heads each with its own set of eyes and a mouth; it is expected to live. Similar specimens may command thousands of dollars, depending on the bidding war over them.
Categories: animal oddities, animals, anomalies
Tags: two-headed calf
Comments: 2 Comments
July 15, 2010
– – Once again a supposed chupacabra has reared his ugly head, again in Texas. In Hood County, an animal control officer shot and killed in an old barn an unsightly creature described as having deer-like ears, big teeth, and pinkish skin that was unlike anything he had seen before. A few days later and within ten miles, a rancher also shot and killed another of the bizarre creatures, leading some to speculate that there were a pack of them.
Hood County Animal Control has sent one of the deceased creatures to Texas A&M for DNA testing, but don’t bet the rent on it being a chupacabra. Until test results are in, doctors have only said that it’s some kind of coyote hybrid…very possibly with mange, I might add…
Categories: animals, anomalies, cryptozoology, furry, unexplained, unidentified, weird
Tags: chupacabra shot?, Texas chupacabra
Comments: 4 Comments
May 28, 2010
– – When MonsterQuest has a re-run marathon fest, I can usually tell by the number of renewed hits that I get on my old posts on past episodes of The Quest. It’s the good episodes that get the hits…like myself, most people aren’t as interested in installments on wild dogs, rats, or bees.
So mundane and unexciting were some of these episodes, in fact, that we can bring you this picture of a MonsterQuest reject…in fact, he might have been more interesting than some of the episodes that aired!
Categories: animals, anomalies, creature features, cryptozoology, furry, television
Tags: MonsterQuest
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