Archive for the ‘unexplained’ category
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?
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January 3, 2011
– – Yes, I live to write headlines like that!- -And in the Arkansas town of Beebe, more than 1,000 blackbirds fell from the sky in a one-mile area Friday night about 30 minutes before the arrival of the new year.
A wildlife officer on the scene reported that the birds “showed physical trauma,” and said the flock might have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail. Another theory was that fireworks launched skyward by new year’s revelers might have stressed the birds.
And with 1,000 dead birds on the ground in Beebe, they then obviously wanted to get the flock out of there…
(…What?– -You didn’t think I’d pass up a gift like that, did ‘ya?) 😉
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(Addendum: The number of dead birds has been upped to possibly as high as 5,000! Preliminary autopsies have determined that the birds died of traumatic injuries inflicted not on the ground but in the air, which lends support to theories of death by impact.)
Categories: animal occurrences, animal oddities, feathered friends, unexplained, weird
Tags: black birds fall from sky in Arkansas, it's raining birds
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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
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November 30, 2010
– – I could die happy if extraterrestrial life or a major cryptid would be found within my lifetime, but disappointment constantly haunts these dreams.
–Well, here’s another straw to clutch at: a guy in Michigan claims to possess an ice meteorite rich in extraterrestrial organisms that conveniently plopped down on the road near his home in South Haven, Michigan in March of 2000.
Since it hadn’t snowed for weeks, the guy deduced that the ice must have been from an ice meteorite. He gathered up the ice, stashed it in his freezer, and spent the following ten years trying to convince scientists to analyze the frozen mass. Their collective interest was underwhelming, and the true believer in September put out his own bucks to have chemical analyses performed by two commercial labs. The labs found that the samples contained particles with unique molecular structures, which their finder regards to be alien life forms.
A news conference will be held November 30th at a Ramada Inn in South Haven regarding the supposed find with coverage from media outlets, mostly hailing from outside of this country. The discoverer admits that more rigorous analysis is needed to see if the meteorite is a meteor-wrong..
Categories: aliens, mysteries, strange happenings, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: ET in ice?
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October 27, 2010
– – I have terrible news…Paul, the Psychic Octopus, is no more! The tentacled tipster, who on eight separate occasions correctly predicted the winner of FIFA World Cup soccer matches, passed away in his tank in the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre in Germany early Tuesday morning.
Paul’s predictions were rendered by which of two mussel-containing boxes representing competing teams he picked. The odds of picking eight straight winners are estimated as being more than 300 to 1. Someone who had bet $20 on Paul’s picks from the start of the World Cup and then let the bet ride throughout the tournament would have walked away with about $4,500!
Sadly, the octopus is not a long-lived creature, and Paul expired at the age of two and a half. An octopus, it is said, generally grows to maturity, breeds, and dies…just the basics. It is rumored that the psychic cephalopod may have known of his own impending death, but if so he kept it to himself. The candles which burn the brightest burn the briefest, after all…
Categories: animal oddities, animals, Invertebrates, strange happenings, unexplained
Tags: Paul the Psychic Octopus, Psychic octopus dies
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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
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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
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September 9, 2010
– – You gotta give the Syfy channel credit for trying to please us, and Beast Legends starting September 9th at 10:00 in my area just might be the ticket! Billed as an “investigative adventure series,” Legends features a team of a globetrotting animal doctor, a Harvard professor of evolutionary biology, a gifted illustrator, and a mythology maven as they explore the truth behind some of the world’s most renowned creatures. Your payoff will be a life-like computer-generated model of the creature investigated depicted living in the real world at the end of each show, kinda like the mortal combat simulations shown at the end of Deadliest Warrior matchings.
The show will follow season four of Destination Truth, which could make Thursday night quite a draw on Syfy for our types!- –All hail the mighty Kraken!
Categories: anthropomorphic, creature features, cryptozoology, furry, imaginary animals, mysteries, television, unexplained, unidentified, weird
Tags: "Beast Legends", New Syfy show
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August 24, 2010
– – Summer in the city!–Back of my neck feelin’ dirty and gritty!–Be grateful that you don’t feel something else in the city, too…like alligators!
You’ve heard the popular urban myth that ‘gators have been known to make their way to city sewers, and take up housekeeping there?–Well, this myth may have some legs to it, as police in New York caught an 18-inch gator on Sunday after it reportedly crawled out of a storm drain in the Queens neighborhood of Astoria, then hid under a parked car, according to the New York Post. Police grabbed the gator, taped its mouth closed, and said they would send it to a reptile sanctuary or a wildlife rehabilitator.
Sightings of alligators far afield of their traditional domains are usually felt to be associated with careless pet owners who discard their pets when they outgrow their habitat.
Residents of Chicago have spotted at least two different alligators on the Chicago River this summer…
Categories: animals, strange happenings, unexplained
Tags: alligators in the city, gator in New York
Comments: 2 Comments
August 19, 2010
– – Pennsylvania’s Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County boasts its own unidentified aquatic creature, with boaters describing sudden water turbulence and old photos showing large shadowy figures just below the surface…
Now Raystown Lake spans about 30 miles and reaches depths of over 185 feet, so there’s plenty of room for a potential cryptid to hide. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files recently did a segment on the creature that included eyewitness accounts, experiments, a sonar run, and a diving search. Something was seen in the water of considerable size, while visibility was poor and the investigation was inconclusive; investigators felt that there was something in the water, but that it remained unexplained.- -What could more true, or safer to say? We’ve heard this kinda thing many times before…
The creature if it exists is felt to be vegetarian, and to display behaviors and feeding habits similar to a manatee. I personally have been on Raystown Lake, and unfortunately saw nothing…
Categories: animal occurrences, cryptozoology, furry, television, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: Pennsylvania's Loch Ness monster, Raystown Ray
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