Archive for the ‘unidentified’ category
November 11, 2011
– – There are large, blurry, out-of-focus monsters out there stalking the landscape! One is Ogopogo, Canada’s version of the Loch Ness Monster, sightings of which have been reported since at least the 19th century by thousands.- -Well, a man visiting British Columbia’s Lake Okanagan has recently filmed a 30-second video which shows…gasp!…two long ripples in the water in a seemingly deserted area of the lake! The man making the video notes that what was shown in the footage was not a wave but was of a darker color, and that it did not move parallel with the waves.
Now Ogopogo is most commonly described as a 40- to 50-foot-long sea serpent, sometimes seen with humps, which is believed to have its origins in legends of native Canadian Indian folklore. The name “ogopogo” originates from a 1924 English music hall song called, “The Ogo-Pogo: The Funny Fox Trot,” an apparent disparaging reference to my dancing ability. Despite a number of high-tech searches of Lake Okanagan by submarines and other underwater gadgets, no evidence of Ogopogo has ever been found. Lake Okanagan does, however, have tens of thousands of submerged logs floating just under its surface, and most sightings are attributed to misidentified logs or common animals such as otters. So color me skeptical, but the notion of a residential monster is extremely cool…
Categories: animals, aquatic, cryptozoology, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: Canada's "Loch Ness" monster, Ogopogo
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August 24, 2011
– – I, for one, can never get enough of mystery roadkill! One such dead white mammal was found on a Douglas County road in Minnesota that boasts five claws, dark tufts of hair on its back and head, and long toenails.- -Well actually, it’s not boasting anything, such being one of the limitations of being dead…
While the head suggests a canine, the right front leg appears to have five toes, which is not typical for canines. The long toenails are also not typical for an active canine. While the creature is similar to a badger, the tail is much longer than usual for such. Other guesses about the identity of the mystery carcass have ranged from a skunk to a wolverine to a wolf or, of course, the mythical chupacabra! The usual rumors are also flying about secret government testing, without which I wouldn’t be here.
…while the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has been unable to conclusively identify the carcass, further testing is planned. Meanwhile, guinea hens and cats in the area are missing, and burrowed holes from four to ten inches in size were spotted near where the animal was found. The best guess on the identity of the deceased at this point is that it’s a badger with mange…or is it?! Dramatic Fox
Categories: animals, anomalies, mysteries, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: mystery roadkill, unidentified Minnesota creature
Comments: 4 Comments
July 20, 2011
– – Lizard Man is again running rampant in the Carolinas, and he’s rough on cars! This bad boy has a nasty habit of biting, ripping, and pulling apart car fenders, hood ornaments, and radio antennas.- – Try calling bite marks in to your local insurance agent!
In an incident last week in a rural area of South Carolina, owners of a car discovered that their vehicle was riddled with what appeared to be teethmarks that went completely through the car’s fender. Similar occurrences began in 1988 when a car mauling was reported, with the front fender on a car snapped in two and other pieces of chrome torn off. Two years ago in a case similar to the original, a van was mauled by something biting through the metal and bending the fenders.
A teenage eyewitness in 1988 reported an encounter with a creature about seven feet tall that had red eyes and three-fingered hands; the young man came from a responsible, respectable family, and passed a polygraph test about the incident in which the scaly cryptid ran towards him following a tire change and jumped upon his moving car before being thrown off. He has never changed his story…
Perhaps this car-biter is suffering from a serious deficiency of iron in his diet…and should we call in the Car Fox?
Categories: cryptozoology, scalies, strange happenings, unexplained, unidentified, weird
Tags: Carolina car crunchings, Lizard Man returns
Comments: 3 Comments
July 12, 2011
– – For those of you interested in the kind of drek that I am, heaven help you…and you may want to give the upcoming Legend Quest series a look as it begins on the Syfy channel this July 13th at 10 P.M. Billed as an action-adventure series, this Quest will follow Ashley Cowie, an archaeological explorer and expert in ancient symbols as he and his team travel the world in search of some of history’s greatest and most mysterious artifacts. All of the elusive items are believed to hold hidden powers and mystical significance for ancient and modern cultures, and will include such items as King Arthur’s sword Excaliber and the Holy Grail.
Up first is a twin billing with the Ark of the Covenant and a Mayan Talking Cross featured…
Categories: strange, television, unexplained, unidentified, weird
Tags: Legend Quest on Syfy
Comments: 4 Comments
June 25, 2011
– – Samples of hair hoped or thought to be from a Bigfoot have yielded disappointing results in the past few years when subjected to scientific analysis; some have been found to be from a bison, others from a humble opossum. Here we go again with hair and oil samples left on a pickup truck in California’s Sierra National Forest over Memorial Day! Dirt and oil impressions left on the passenger side window may be from a Bigfoot, or they may be bear slobber and snot; a twelve-inch footprint was also found at the site. An even larger creature left impressions on the driver’s side window which included prints of a nose, eyes, and lips…the lips measuring about six inches long.
Friends of the pickup truck’s owner who have observed the evidence include a former science teacher and a correctional officer. They doubt that a bear was responsible for the intrusion as none of four ice chests filled with food in the back of the truck had been touched. DNA samples collected by a forensic expert may eventually shed light on the identity of the unknown intruder, although if the sample comes back having tested as near human or primate, it could match both Bigfoot and a homeless person…
Categories: cryptozoology, mysteries, strange happenings, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: "Bigfoot" samples found?
Comments: 2 Comments
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?
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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
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
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