Archive for the ‘cryptozoology’ category
May 31, 2011
– – Once again Bigfoot has reportedly been sighted, this time by hikers in Spokane, Washington. The good news is that the sighting was filmed, the bad news is that the footage is again grainy, unclear, and taken from a distance. The hikers hadn’t even realized what they had come across until they went home and examined their footage, which was taken on an iPhone at Downriver Park along the Spokane river. The unexplained…creature?…appears in the background at some distance from the hikers.
As to whether this is yet another elaborate hoax, a case of mistaken identity, or the real deal is unclear, but the walk of the unexplained creature appears well done…
Categories: anomalies, cryptozoology, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: Bigfoot footage from Washington, Spokane Bigfoot sighting?
Comments: 2 Comments
May 8, 2011
– – I, for one, find it easy to obsess over Mongolian Death Worms; they are reputedly large, homicidal red worms that spew fiery acid, burrow in one of the world’s largest and coldest deserts, can reportedly electrocute unlucky things like camels and goat-herders from a distance, and for a finale, explode when they get angry! –What’s not to like, Mongo-D has it all!
Certain aspects of the biology of the Mongolian Death Worm are not unfamiliar; big worms are not uncommon, with Australia hosting earthworms that can reach five foot lengths. Spitting acid is also fairly common among arthropods, to say nothing of my former supervisors. Intestinal worms can also bring down an animal, although they need to be inside it to perform that feat. It’s when you combine all of these attributes that you get a really cool, otherworldly-type of cryptid!
The subject of investigations by Destination Truth and even National Geographic, the Mongolian Death Worm has never been found, leaving us only with eyewitness testimonies about them and at least one really bad movie…
Categories: anomalies, creature features, cryptozoology, unexplained, unidentified, weird
Tags: Mongo-D, Mongolian Death Worms, the intestine worm
Comments: 1 Comment
March 26, 2011
– – Lord have mercy, it’s another Bigfoot video, this one from a guy in Rutherford County in North Carolina taken March 22nd, and guess what?—It’s blurry! The Bigfoot in this video is socially challenged and hygienically impaired.
The videotape is reported to show a 7-foot-tall, 300 pound, six-toed Bigfoot as taken from a distance of 15 to 20 feet away. The creature, described as brown and furry, allegedly ran across a local road in Rutherford County, and smelled “like a cross between roadkill and a skunk.” Bigfoot also supposedly snarled or growled at the photographer as it ran across the road.
Needless to say, the authenticity of the video has come into question, with a local respected Bigfoot hunter maintaining that a real Bigfoot creature would have only five toes and present with a different walking stride. To quote another commentator, “I don’t believe that we as humans have seen all there is to see in this world, but when you show me a video that is in focus and does not appear to be some gorilla-suited weirdo, then I will believe someone captured Bigfoot on film.”
Categories: cryptozoology, strange happenings, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: North Carolina Bigfoot sighting
Comments: 2 Comments
February 18, 2011
– – Last September, we had posted about Bownessie, possibly a distant relative of the Loch Ness monster native to Lake Windermere, England’s largest lake. A recent eighth sighting of the creature in the past five years has produced the clearest photographic image yet of the elusive cryptid, revealing a creature with oily black skin and three eerie humps.
The unidentified animal was judged to be about the size of three cars by the 24-year-old kayaker and his companion who observed it, and it moved at approximately 10 miles an hour with each hump demonstrating a rippling motion.
Skeptics remain unconvinced that something of the size attributed to the creature could exist in the 11 mile long lake. Echo sounding surveys conducted each month have revealed nothing, nor have two prior sonar scans. A lake ecologist feels that the aquatic beast could be an Eastern European catfish misjudged as to size. A hoax cannot be ruled out as the file size of the photo, taken on a camera phone, is too small to really tell if it had been altered on Photoshop or not…
Categories: cryptozoology, strange, strange happenings, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: Bownessie
Comments: 5 Comments
January 5, 2011
– – Over the past two months, more than 300 goats owned by shepherds in Mexico’s Puebla state have been decapitated by someone…or something! As there was reportedly very little blood in the area where the goat bodies have been found, suspicions are again afoot about the chupacabra or some other unidentified animal being the culprit.
Chupacabra sightings often emanate from the Southwest U.S., Puerto Rico, Latin America, and Mexico. Researchers have speculated that the reported chupacabras of Mexico and Texas may actually be coyote hybrids, although in Mexico groups of peasants have formed watch groups to monitor any possible chupacabra activity in their communities. With so many incidents, 2010 has been termed by some “the year of the goat sucker.“
Now that’s something I could sink my teeth into…ahahahahaha!
Categories: animal occurrences, creature features, cryptozoology, strange happenings, unexplained, weird
Tags: goats slaughtered in Mexico, the work of chupacabras?
Comments: 2 Comments
December 30, 2010
– – Once again a farmer, this time in Kentucky, has shot a hideous, otherworldly-looking creature, raising speculation that it was the chupacabra, the legendary livestock killer.
Researchers and wildlife experts tend to think that this and similar creatures are most likely coyotes, raccoons, or opossums with mange, however. Infection by tiny parasites or mites causes the infection in such cases, which results in the animal’s hair falling out and their skin becoming shriveled.
DNA testing by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is expected to solve the mystery of the pictured animal’s true identity…
Categories: animal oddities, animals, cryptozoology, Uncategorized, unidentified, weird
Tags: Kentucky "chupacabra"
Comments: 4 Comments
December 10, 2010
– – Some people don’t believe in the existence of the Sampson’s Fox, which may be a gray or red fox with a coat mutation. He is reported to have a short coat, big ears, and a long skinny tail almost as long as his body. Sampson’s is a rare genetic disease or mutation affecting less than 1% of the fox population and inhibiting the growth of guard hairs, the beautiful fluffy coat that gives foxes such panache!
Sampson’s foxes have been reported in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Colorado, Alaska, and the Carolinas. It’s also possible that reported sightings may be of animals with mange, or even of someone’s escaped exotic African or Asian pet; such creatures at times have likely been reported as “chupacabras.”
And please, don’t make fun of mutant foxes, or refer to us as “bastard” foxes.- -That’s going entirely too far, and we have feelings, too…jeez!
Categories: animal oddities, animals, cryptozoology, furry, rare animal
Tags: Sampson's fox
Comments: 4 Comments
October 22, 2010
– – Madagascar is a kind of lost world that is home to a variety of unusual wildlife. One primate-like cryptid reputed to live there is the Kalanoro, a small humanoid creature that is supposed to be yet strong enough to kill and maim; it has been described as a “little man” less than a meter tall with hair all over its body and long potentially dangerous fingernails. The subject of one investigation on a recent Destination Truth episode, Josh Gates and his team go into the dense jungle in Madagascar in search of the Kalanoro. Seemingly credible witnesses there believe in the creature, including a park guide who says he was grabbed by one and Dr. Goodman of the Chicago Museum of Natural History.
They get a hit on a thermal imager and something on an IR camera, but are unable to track down the anomalies. Footprints are also found in the soggy terrain that are too wet and deteriorated to allow for a casting to be made. A hodgepodge of sounds are also heard from many of the animals that live in the area.
During later analysis, it was felt that the thermal hit and the IR image were the size and shape of a lemur, which a local zookeeper feels is one of the animals that the Kalanoro could easily be mistaken for. The multiple animal noises prevalent in the area are felt to give rumors of the reported creature a larger than life reputation…
Categories: cryptozoology, rare animal, television, Uncategorized, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: the Kalanoro
Comments: 2 Comments
October 9, 2010
– – Once feared as an evil cross between a demon and a turtle, the Kappa has become somewhat of a Japanese national mascot, more loved than feared and depicted on such innocuous items as lunchboxes. The darker incarnation of the Kappa, however, is blamed for the disappearance of livestock and even children, prompting a segment on a Destination Truth investigation.
Journeying to the location of a recent reported Kappa sighting near Tono, Josh Gates and his team set up infrared and trap cameras to capture any images of the elusive beast, and broke into two groups to sweep the area. They saw a large dark shape in the water, which was later regarded by experts to be a large fish or perhaps an eel. Also checking out skeletal remains of a reported Kappa foot at a Japanese shrine, the team returned with photographs of the same, which were regarded by a mammalogist to be bones of a canine.
The conclusion?–Evidence for the Kappa is not convincing, and the creature exists at the juncture of folklore and animal misidentification…
Categories: animals, cryptozoology, imaginary animals, mysteries, scalies, unidentified, weird
Tags: Japanese Kappa monster on Destination Truth
Comments: 2 Comments
September 15, 2010
– – In Lake Windermere, England’s largest natural lake, may reside an unidentified creature estimated at 20 to 50 feet in length described as perhaps a “distant relative” to the legendary Loch Ness monster!
Called Bownessie because of the bow wave of about twenty feet in length that it produces, the creature has been described as a giant eel or sturgeon, although others claim that they have seen a creature with humps; the cryptid has also been called Windie after the lake. The first publicly reported sighting of Bownessie occurred in Lake Windermere in 2006 and the number of people who claim to have seen something continues to grow. The most recent sighting of the creature was in July of this year, when a local hotelier was hit by a three foot wave while swimming. Another witness who claimed that the creature passed beneath him said that the movement in the water was so powerful that he though it was a submarine! A total of seven sightings have been recorded in the past four years.
A recent video seems to support the existence of some kind of creature in the lake, with an unexplained bow wave of around 20 meters in length recorded. A new investigation on the lake involving state of the art equipment and a specially chartered yacht has been launched. A dark smudge reported to be a photograph of the creature follows for your perusal, with the photographer grabbing a pair of binoculars and describing the creature as having a head like a labrador dog only “…much, much bigger…”
Categories: animals, cryptozoology, strange happenings, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: Bownessie, Lake Windermere creature, Relative of Loch Ness monster?, Windie
Comments: 2 Comments
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