Archive for the ‘unidentified’ category
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"
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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
Comments: 2 Comments
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?
Comments: 3 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
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
Comments: 3 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
Comments: 3 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
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