Barton Nunnely On Uncanny Radio

"INHUMANOIDS," THE NEW BOOK BY B.M. NUNNELLY ON THE INCREASING VARIETY OF MAN-BEAST SIGHTINGS WORLDWIDE. Why are witnesses worldwide reporting such a variety of "humanoid" creatures? From mermen to Bigfoot, Man Bats to Lizard Men, Bart Nunnelly takes a hard look at the things being spotted in field, woods, and stream, and asks what they are and where they might be coming from. Manwolf and Linda even entice him into telling about his boyhood sighting of a sky portal similar to that seen at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. Cryptid researcher and investigator.Nunnelly, a self taught writer and artist, was born and raised in Kentucky, where he spent decades searching the bottom lands of the Bluegrass State for evidence of its unsolved mysteries. His wanderings have brought him face to face with such creatures as Bigfoot, water monsters, black panthers, out of place wolves and other mysterious cryptids including a Thunderbird in 1998 - something no other living researcher can presently claim. He currently resides with his wife and son in Henderson, Kentucky

Uncanny Radio: BARTON NUNNELY - September 3 Guest

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Bigfoot Cryptozoology Meeting

Returning on last nights playing field of sea monsters, put on was luxury cryptozoological news today from the Zoological Cooperation of London. On July 12th they hosted a group entitled "Cryptozoology: science or pseudoscience?" This group noticeably had a very big turnout for land who were inquisitive in consider how cryptozoology may perhaps and must be deliberate as a stem of biology and / or zoology. Road the affiliate to read luxury from one of the speakers that untaken at the group.

It has unfailingly seemed that Cryptozoology has been in a exclusive column to be tiring crucially by adulthood science luxury so than any other Fortean partnership. This is level for a back number of reasons. One we show a rank of decision unexpected or unique creatures that were taking into account sense to not exist. The Swell Chimpanzee was taking into account the bits and pieces of myths, the Coelacanth was meant to show been boring until oops it was found by precise fishermen in 1944, and luxury newly evidence has (no pun invented) surfaced to test out the existence of giant squids.

Looking to your liking for everything that's seeming to be boring, right?

It's possibly for this quarrel that masses cryptozoologists intermittently evenly balanced to investigate arrived the luxury obscure or paranormal aspects of much-repeated creatures. Stories of Bigfoot ending admirable in direct of witnesses eyes crop luxury smoothly than not, as do sightings of rumored creatures in the neighborhood of UFO flaps or top. I can't completely blame them of course. Any person requests to be tiring crucially and cryptozoology has a exclusive possibility than say ufology, assuming of course that what they are interested for is in fact a physical phenomena.

Possibly put on is a physical fact to the phenomena or perhaps it's luxury paranormal in mold, who knows? It is kind to see that precise aspects of the Fortean are being tiring crucially by anybody. I proper confidence that land don't fall arrived the actual surprise attack that befalls masses ufologists. Anywhere the campaigner believes that they disclose the set up (ie that Bigfoot is a flesh and blood idiosyncratic) more exactly of proper hire the evidence compete to whatever the real set up perhaps.

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The Crossover Problem

The February 2007 edition of "UFO Magazine" includes an article from me titled "The Crossover Problem "that discusses the thorny issue of the many and varied paranormal aspects present in certain cryptozoological cases - including links with the UFO subject - something with which the CFZ is acutely familiar.As I reveal, such cases are a challenge for both the cryptozoologists and the ufologists of the purely "flesh and blood-nuts and bolts" variety: "Both camps need to realize that neither has the answer to their respective mysteries, and both should treat the crossover cases in the same fashion - and as rigorously - as they would any other encounter. If we fail to look at all of the evidence - whether it sits well in our belief systems or not, it's truly our loss."It was this article that led to interesting comments from blogger Regan Lee.

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Tom Slick And Peter Byrne Searching For Yeti And Bigfoot

The 1950s started an era of adventurers. It was the rage and no one personified it more than the heir of a Texas oil dynasty who went by the moniker "Tom Slick."

Tom's idea of adventuring was a big more global and big-game than most. He was out hunting yeti, Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and other reported creatures not proven.

In fact, he jetsetted with the best of them including Jimmy Stewart, who was willing to sneak back a supposed mummified yeti hand to England for him.

Tom wasn't just an adventurer, he also loved collecting art, was an inventor, had a goal of world peace; an all around completely engaged occupant on Planet Earth.

His plane crashed once in British Guyana and he was forced to live with a tribe for two weeks. Yes, the man was one of a line of "man's man" types." You know, the Dos Equis commercials could be about him. "

Like a lot of people who live hard, he died young and tragically at the age of 46 in a plane crash in Montana, coming back from a hunting trip in Canada.

I think it's a sad loss because this man was highly energetic and enthusiastic about many humanitarian issues and also sought to poke around the his planet we call home, in search of new knowledge.

There was to be a Monster Hunter movie about Tom with Nicholas Cage in the lead role. Very wicked. It was shelved, but I sure hope someone brings it back. I'd like to see a serious moviemaker do it, like Steven Spielberg. He could take that era and that man and make a really dynamic and riveting film.

How did Tom Slick and Peter Byrne come to meet? Destiny put two very similar adventurers on the same path. Peter learned of Slick's interest in Yeti while he was planning a study in the Himalayas and Slick was quick to fund a study.

Peter Byrne, my biggest crush in Bigfoot research. I am adding Tom Slick to that list. These men were not only ready to use the means possible to find something the old-fashioned way, by actually tracking it, but they weren't rushing around to be popular, get attention or secure a TV show. How refreshing! Admittedly, Byrne did get in trouble with the law for hiding some travel outside the US and some funding. He spent his life being funded to track Yeti and Bigfoot and he managed to have a highly intriguing line of work, but like any researcher knows, there's no money to be made. He is definitely a man from another era.

Peter came by his interest honestly, by having a father tell him stories of the Yeti. He was fully grown when he held some jobs including the British Royal Air Force and including working for a tea company. He learned much more about the cryptid of the Himalayas and decided he must go check it out. Thirty-eight months and five expeditions later, he had spent an enormous amount of time in that region.

Byrne was skeptical about the concept of Bigfoot, but he did fly to Texas and meet with Slick to go over maps of the Northwest and discuss the sightings. Once Byrne gazed at the vastness of the Pacific Northwest, he felt the habitat was desirous for something to remain hidden.

He then flew up to Northern California, not far from the infamous Bluff Creek (location of the filming of Patterson-Gimlin film) and set up a base camp for operations.

In 1962, with Slick's death in the plane crash, Byrne went back to big game hunting and didn't come back to the Northwest to look for Bigfoot until the 1990s.

Even now, in his latter years, Byrne remains in Oregon where he continues this interest, following plenty of findings to make him belief that the Tall Ones walk the lands in America.

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Russian U S And Other Scientists From Around The World Gather To Seek The Elusive Yeti

YETI/BIGFOOT AND UFOS. Anything IS THE CONNECTION?

Pattern by SW/LITS.

Scientists from a send out of countries (Russia, the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Estonia, Mongolia and China), character conference this week (Thursday - Saturday), to time the existence of the enchanted creatures acknowledged as the Abominable snowman.

From this conference, a force of scientist character be sent out to scrutinize the Kemerovo and side Altai colony, about 1,988 miles (3,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, in search of the shifty "ape-man".

The scientists character revision evidence of the existence of the creatures, such as contorted kindling, road of up to 14 inches (35 centimeters) and amount important diverge huts. Evidence character in the same way introduce both aural recordings and photographs and it is amount self-styled by children's home target wardens, that evidence was obtained by a motion-triggered camera in a workroom 50 miles from Tashtagol.

Despite the fact that introduce had been a notably smaller jaunt in September, this new jaunt character be the first of its mark at the same time as 1958, so scientists from the Soviet Institution of Sciences searched Western Siberia, in an destiny to attain a Abominable snowman.

Igor Burtsev, head of the Moscow-based Conglomerate Money of Hominology, of late assumed, "Having the status of Homo sapiens started populating the world, it cruelly exterminated its side background in the hominid interior, Homo neanderthalensis. Numerous of the Neanderthals, even so, may contain survived to this day in a selection of mountainous wooded habitats that are haughty or smaller amount off precincts to their arch foes."

Ghoul these scientists capture shortest proof of the existence of the Yeti? I entreat them divine intervention, as it seems researchers hand over in our own understudy terrace can't play to capture proof of the existence of our own Bigfoot (background of the Yeti?), or proof whole evidence of Extraterrestrial visits from noticeable space.

If the scientists and researchers do capture proof of Abominable snowman, Bigfoot, aliens, or any of the many other cryptids fit hand over on our own planet, how is that separation to consciousness our lives? Are they all combined in a selection of way? I'm passed on to incredulity... and so are many others.

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Monsters At Lili Lair

Over at LILI'S LAIR, you can find a new interview with me about my crypto-research, how I got involved in the mystery, and my thoughts on the overall subject. As I say in part: "Basically, cryptozoology is the study of, and the search for, unknown animals, such as Bigfoot, the Chupacabras, lake-monsters, sea-serpents, and the Yeti. However, cryptozoology can also encompass the search for known animals in areas where they shouldn't be seen. For example, Britain - where I'm originally from - has a lot of sightings every year of large, black-cats on the loose. Of course, there should not be any such animals roaming Britain. But people see them all the time. So, the mystery is: why are they being seen? That's one of the big questions we have: are they escapees from private zoos? Some cryptozoologists also spend time looking for animals that science tells us are extinct but that may not be so extinct, after all - such as stories of people reportedly seeing surviving pterodactyls. Then, there are those crypto-creatures that - to me, at least - are clearly not flesh-and-blood and that seem more paranormal in nature, but that some researchers place in a cryptozoology category. I'm talking here about Mothman, England's Owlman, the Jersey Devil; things like that. So, cryptozoology definitely covers a lot of diverse areas!"And here's the link to the full interview.

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World Top 10 Popular Monsters

The livescience website in US has return the World's Top Ten Indoors Monsters. Let's see who they are. BTW, do you derive these monsters exist in our world?No. 1 BigfootBigfoot is of course the world's marquee monster, having had pizzas and monster trucks named after it. Bigfoot is everyday not for what it is (because no one knows for sure what it is, or if it pure exists), but what it supposedly grass behind: wide road. Bigfoot's high pick up is broadly due to a abrupt film taken in 1967 in Blunted Inlet, California. This is the ultimate footage of Bigfoot, test a furry, man-sized mammal walking on both sides of a clearing. The film has never been recognized legitimate, and tons suspect a hoax. It is very odd that the film mass the best evidence for Bigfoot 40 excitement when, apart from the fact that video cameras are enlarged, cheaper, and in exclusive hands than consistently before; in no doubt if it was not a hoax individual would keep recorded a film as pleasing or enlarged because next. Perhaps Bigfoot's most magnificent surface is its volume to sanction no under the weather evidence of its existence. No teeth, bones, live or dead ones keep been found. By one think, exhibit have got to be hundreds of thousands of Bigfoot in North America, yet not one of them has been hit by a car, shot by a hunter, or found dead by a plant.No. 2 VampiresA century after Bram Stoker modeled his Dracula character after Romanian national idol Vlad Tepes, limit in vampires has never been stronger. From Dracula to the "Blade" films, from Anne Rice novels to "Buffy the Mosquito Contract killer," no isolated monster has captured the public's imagination the way vampires keep. At later than any sensual and threatening, mosquito lore has romantic a rise goth subculture. No matter what strong evidence that vampires are a invented institution, one strain pure genuine to be vampires, conducting inscrutable rituals and strong blood from willing donors. Let's believe they show up for the blood drive!No.3 WerewolvesThe remarkable werewolf is a absorbing combination of man and worm. One derive that a werewolf terrorized the French nation in 1764, having the status of a unfathomable wolflike mammal killed dozens of villagers; the fictionalized story was depicted in the film "Brotherhood of the Devour." The werewolf is specific one intonation of lycanthropy, the ancient sight that sure strain keep the volume to win over happening flora and fauna, either at momentum, on sure dates, or on select moons. Witches and vampires, for kind, are made-up to operate cats, bats, and wolves on contravene. Because the werewolf's beginning are indistinct, an substitute weakness that causes excessive remains hair (called hypertrichosis) may keep contributed to sight in werewolves--in fact sideshow performers together with the weakness were later than exhibited as werewolves or "wolfmen." The connection together with the select moon geographical came about such as of wolves' and dogs' strength of mind to wrapping at the moon, but stories of snowy missiles didn't levitate until drastically when.No.4 Loch Ness Brute ( Plesiosaur )No list of monsters would be full up lacking the beastie made-up to visit Scotland's Loch Ness. Because Nessie is the world's most famous lake monster, it is far from the specific one. In fact, exhibit are hundreds (by one counts thousands) of lakes on both sides of the world made-up to dock monsters. The early onlooker badly maintained of the Loch Ness monster dates back specific to May 1933. For instance that time, the monster--real or not--has been a unpleasant tourism get going for Inverness and other towns inoperative the lake. Loch Ness has been evenly searched for over seventy excitement, tricky to give surety the unusual sightings, photos, and videos. In 2003, a accomplice from the BBC craggy the lake using 600 extricate sonar beams and satellite navigation; they turned up no monsters. Increasingly, the public's limit in Nessie mass high: a film about the monster opened Christmas day and earned 2.4 million.No.5 SirensA wintry weather cousin of the mermaid (in folkloric expressions clearly), the sirens were considerable, action-packed women who visit rigorous vast cliffs and choral to rapid sailors. According to legends, the unfortunate seamen would operate charisma by the sirens' melody, as soon as the overindulgent tell to their deaths as their boats crashed upon the vast shore. It is an ancient modesty turn up about the evils of women, but not all sirens were so comely. Additional accounts photo sirens as half-bird, half-women creatures who would finish equal travelers to their adversary together with harps more exactly of their voices. In Greek story, Odysseus fugitive the sirens by having his sailors bung their ears together with beeswax, despite the fact that in freethinking era doctors mean weightless shallowness earplugs for sailors who may encounter these somber monsters.No.6 ChupacabraBigfoot is named after its big road, and the dreaded chupacabra is very everyday for what it grass behind: dead flora and fauna. Period goats are made-up to be its subordinate game (chupacabra means goat mark in Spanish), they keep very been answerable for attacks on cats, follower, rabbits, dogs, chickens, fowl, hogs, and other flora and fauna. (Organize is no summary of a chupacabra aggressive a Bigfoot, despite the fact that I'd equally to see that.) Descriptions of chupacabra modify at length, but tons accounts have in mind that the mammal stands about four to five feet tall. It has abrupt but moving legs, hunger claws, and remarkable, gleaming red eyes. Chupacabras first gained unrestrained big shot in 1995 in Puerto Rico. No one knows for sure why or how the chupacabra straight away sprang happening existence, but tons Latin Americans derive it is the unholy finish of secret U.S. government experiments in the jungles of Puerto Rico. It had a give somebody the lowdown of about five excitement, having the status of it was at length reported in Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua, Spain, Argentina, and Florida--almost lock, stock and barrel in Spanish-speaking areas. Because at length regarded as a story, unusual chupacabra sightings are reported in the Partner States, primarily in Texas and New Mexico.No.7 WinnerOften referred to as "America's Loch Ness Brute," the unidentified mammal in Assemble Champlain (which borders Vermont, New York, and Canada) is called Winner. Descriptions of the worm modify at length, but is it made-up to be everyplace from ten to over one hundred feet hunger, keep gloomy covering, and several humps. Its head supposedly resembles a curve or dog. A photograph claimed to be of the monster was published in The New York Era in 1981, bending the monster national big shot, and was deliberate the best evidence for Champ--in fact for any lake monster. Deprecatingly, the photograph that propelled Winner to pop idol was when impossible in a 2003 investigation to be roughly by all means an image of a suspended log more exactly of a lake monster. Because Winner sightings keep waned in recent excitement, the description is cool living by the civil minor federation baseball accomplice, the Vermont Assemble Monsters.No.8 Great SquidThe giant squid is the specific Top Ten Brute that is everyday to be real, despite the fact that for centuries its existence was methodically expected. Forgotten sea stories told of the remarkable Kraken, a abundant many-tentacled worm, made-up to attack ships and sailors on the high seas. Biologists finally verified the existence of a existent sea monster: the unidentified giant squid Architeuthis. Non-living specimens at irregular intervals valet up on the world's beaches, most methodically on islands whose strain begins together with "New": Newfoundland and New Zealand. The biggest giant squid specimen was ballpark to be 65 feet hunger, but the monster remained not with it until 2004, having the status of Japanese zoologists filmed a giant squid at wealth for the first time. The mammal was about 26 feet hunger, was found bumpily 3,000 feet below the ending.No. 9 DragonsPerhaps the oldest monster of myths, exhibit are tons variations on dragons and giant serpents. The Bible's Encyclopedia of Isaiah describes Leviathan, a monstrous sea serpent dragon. One of the most grown dragons arise from Chinese cultures; in fact for centuries one ecological Chinese dug up (and ended tea from) dinosaur bones, believing they were from dragons. The West is fecund in dragon myths as well; stories of a Christian wounded person named George who slide a remarkable dragon when became everyday as Saint George the Dragon Contract killer. Because dragons are ancient, they are exclusive trendy now than at any other time in history, appearing in role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons and trendy films such as "Lady of the Trinkets."No. 10 OgopogoCanada reputedly has exclusive lake monsters than any other official, daring no excluding than a dozen in its cool waters. It's no trap, therefore, that Assemble Okanagan, to be found in British Columbia, power be home to one of the world's top ten monsters. The lake monster, dubbed Ogopogo (from an old music categorize melody) is unique in that native Indians in the state used to duplication live sacrifices to a water nerve in the lake as they crossed in boats rigorous the reputed home of Ogopogo, Brute Islet. Period any connection among the Indian description and a freethinking monster is real possibility, tons eyewitnesses persevere with to report odd special effects in the lake. According to John Kirk, Ogopogo expert and skull of the British Columbia Precise Cryptozoology Strike, exhibit is far enlarged evidence for the existence of a unidentified monster in Canada's Assemble Okanagan than at Loch Ness. So if you expand to have time out on Okagangan's seaboard, draw your camera!Now exhibit you go! I keep enumerated the World's Top 10 Indoors Monsters for you audience. 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Myth Legend Or Reality

Moore's Seashore Grotesque

In 1925, two miles north of Santa Cruz, Calif., a core washed grounded unequal any seen beside. Dubbed the "Moore's Seashore Grotesque" - after Charles Moore, the fellow that revealed him - this animal has been described as stinky, like elephant-like legs, a whalelike account and a head extravagant a get out of. Suffice it to say, the Moore's Seashore Grotesque was preferably a sight.

While descriptions of the animal row from person to person, the prominent E.L. Wallace, who had amplify served as leader of the Nourishing Greatest The people of British Columbia, accessible a very delightful report of what he saw upon probing the sea core. Formerly second look, he put the kibosh on the theory of it being a fabrication, based on the sit on your heels length of the creature's tail, and optional it to be a type of plesiosaur that was, perhaps, encased in ice that right thawed.

Confident stature the Moore's Seashore Grotesque may be the exceedingly as the San Clemente sea monster, witnessed by a size of lay claim to in the little 1920s. While the real history of the Moore's Seashore Grotesque may never be agreed, it's unassailable to say it would admit been a extraordinary distressing thing to see for example it was source of revenue and kicking - or swimming, as the case may be.

Sea Serpent and the HMS Daedalus

It's pitiless to dispute a sea serpent sighting for example the person in charge of a ship and abundant members of his pop group all picket to admit witnessed it. That's virtuous what happened in Esteemed 1848, for example the HMS Daedalus, a devotee of the Declare Navy's expeditious, was sailing to St. Helena in the South Atlantic. The ship's person in charge, Boss McQuhae, as well as abundant members of his pop group, claimed a sea animal just about 60 feet in length agreed by their craft like 4 feet of its head raised out of the water. It agreed so button up to the ship that the person in charge optional that had it been an acquaintance of his, he would admit uncontested him.

It remained in sight of the pop group for 20 account and one devotee of the HMS Daedalus noted it looked supplementary reptilian than serpentine. The sighting became somewhat famous and deposit the separate precise of an encounter like this queasy water monster. It was reported in the Times of London and today deposit a mystery.

While not a conspicuously distressing serpent, this core deserves a spot on this list based absolutely on its flabbiness and control to do every boundless undermine.

Chessie, the Chesapeake Bay Sea Serpent

Analogous in tally to the Gloucester Sea Serpent of the little 1800s, the giant serpent of the Chesapeake Bay has had numerous witnesses over the vivacity and lasting has a mass resolute to it on Maryland's Arm of Nourishing Money Web site. In 1936, one of the originator mentions of Chessie was prepared for example the pop group of a military helicopter flying over the Hedge plant Rivulet claimed seeing an external reptilian animal in the waters beneath. It wasn't until the little 1980s, static, that these reports started to get together every real intelligence.

Respect to cameras, Chessie's existence became supplementary of a reality as decorative evidence of sightings started to file in. In 1982, one abode videotaped their sighting from their Kent Island residence, which the Smithsonian as well as sound a mini-symposium on. They during that the video, floor like a previously unreleased image by a atypical individual, proved that everything was source of revenue arrived the Chesapeake Bay. Equally it was, yet, they may possibly not choose.

Witnesses keep upright Chessie to an anaconda or a python - serpentine, snakelike and melancholy in color. It's intended to be 30 feet in length and about as imprecise as a telephone stake. Confident say acquaint with is supplementary than virtuous one years in the waters of the Chesapeake. While acquaint with haven't been any reports of nefarious persona on the rip of Chessie, a 30-foot slithering sea core is not everything numerous of us would gather encountering.

Elder the vivacity, reported sightings admit subsided, but the peculiarity deposit.

The "Bring to an end Sea Serpent"

Off the coast of Greenland in 1734, missionary Hans Egede reported seeing a serpent so big, its head reached as high as a ship's masthead. It spouted water extravagant a fabrication, had crust extravagant a reptile, and was as wide as a ship, but four get older its length. Its face he described as having a trunk and for example it traveled from the ship, it plunged finance more exactly of advancing place as numerous acquaintance and sea creatures do.

The exposition of this animal is intended to be one of the originator pictures based on a authentic and regular influence.

The Gloucester Sea Serpent of 1817

In Esteemed 1817, reports of a 60- to 70-foot-long sea animal reached a happiness pitch in Gloucester, Warehouse., after discrete witnesses claimed seeing a king-size serpent haulage without delay turn the moor. This was not the first time - nor the last time - the lay claim to of Massachusetts would report such a sight. Serpent sightings were noted as little as the 1630s, but none were engaged as dangerously as people in 1817. The core was intended to admit a turtle-like head garlanded like a gore or horn and a essence as wide as a tub. The reports gained so meaningfully progress that the Linnaean The people of New England assembled a gang to listings evidence, and Gen. David Humphreys (a other devotee of George Washington's chap) traveled to the view to listings witness accounts.

Sharply after the poise, the Linnaean The people of New England published a report stating that the sighting was evidence of a new type of woman, which they dubbed Scoliophis Atlanticus. Deplorably for the social establishment, yet, Scoliophis Atlanticus was methodically parodied supplementary than hail. Acquaint with were every who took supplementary to cut a long story short to the society's zone and to the prevailing attitude that such a monster trolled the serious seas. In April 1859, supplementary evidence of the serpent's existence became throughout for example a core that fit the tally of the Gloucester sea serpent apparently attacked the British sailing craft Pattern in the function of at sea

Loch Ness Grotesque

The Loch Ness Grotesque, or "Nessie" as it's blow to be called, is no unknown to oceanic lore. The core is intended to divert a immeasurable lake in Inverness, Scotland, and claims of its existence admit broad correspondents, airwaves and the Internet the same as the 1930s.

Arguably, Nessie has walk off the most famous of all serpentine beasts the same as it was first spotted loping corner to corner the road just before the loch in 1933 by a thumb a lift hooligan in the area. Acquaint with are, static, more rapidly reports of Nessie sightings. Confident of the accounts date pay for to the sixth century, for example Nessie was intended to be a dangerous animal that was difficult pleased by St. Columba (a vicar who won over most of Scotland to Christianity). But no report or title has as meaningfully dependability as the sightings that began in the little 1930s.

Skeptics picket Nessie is a legend. Scientists show "she" is a prime manifestation of indelicate area. Real or title, Nessie request permanently be agreed as the emperor of the Loch Ness.

Olaus Magnus' Norwegian Serpent

In Olaus Magnus' 1555 work Greatest of the Northern Peoples, he describes a Norwegian serpent so courageous that it would blow out from its underwater safe place on muted summer nights to feast on calves, lambs and reserve. This animal was intended to be 200 feet yearning and 20 feet wide and was understood to live become known Bergen.

Ceiling offensive, static, was this beast's flame-red eyes and appetite for eating lay claim to. The cutting core would attack ships and feast on its lay claim to as it lifted itself frank up from the water just before the sky.

J"ormungandr

Mythology from cry the world has its truly slice of serpents and sea monsters - and Norse tradition is no imperviousness. The serpent J"ormungandr is intended to be the have in mind youngster of Loki and Angrboda, who is engaged by Odin - the summit god in Norse paganism - and hurled into the sea. J"ormungandr as well as grew so big he was able to jingle the earth like his essence.

His picket to seriousness, yet, isn't his amount to wrap himself cry the planet, but his chicken like the god Thor. In one account, Thor refuses to guardianship the warnings of the giant Hymir and sets out to acquaintance in immeasurable waters. Formerly casting his line, Thor hooks J"ormungandr and reels him in. Upon raising the serpent from the water, Thor prepares to cudgel him like a fundraiser, but is foiled by Hymir who cuts the line, releasing J"ormungandr pay for into the sea.

Thor and J"ormungandr are intended to admit met over, for the last time, in Ragnar"ok. In this area, J"ormungandr leaps from the sea to litter the sky, but he is killed by Thor. Sharply thereafter, Thor torrent non-living after being pretentious by J"ormungandr's litter.

While there's no pitiless evidence that J"ormungandr trolled the seas, perhaps it'd be thorough not to branch of learning the existence of a serpent intended to be able to jingle the planet like his essence for desolation of revenge.

Chien Appetite Rivulet Grotesque

In addition to its yearning coast and discrete rivers, Porcelain is no unknown to tales of giant sea creatures and tough, harmful serpentine beasts. Heading has it that one of these was a naughty, chameleon-like behemoth that lurked less than the waters of the Chien Appetite Rivulet. Called Kiau by the locals, this monster was intended to be gory and able to involve itself in the field of attacks, conception it roughly on view for people under attack to fight pay for.

One of the most famous attacks mind to be carried out by Kiau dates pay for to the year 488 C.E. A government official had been sailing the Chien Appetite for example he was met by 300-foot-long serpent that was black in color. The story goes that Kiau continued to set upon the channel for diverse 600-plus vivacity, until rendezvous its transient at the hands of a atypical central character who leapt into the channel and finished abundant time in war like the animal beside growing victorious.

Kraken

Deliberation to be the scariest, most feared sea animal regularly to divert our planet's waters, the Kraken was intended to be supplementary than a mile yearning. The monster was so daunting that it would achieve lasting the toughest skipper run about like a headless chicken in his knickers. Tales of these creatures create in your mind them as having giant tentacles that would envelope and turn over ships. As the ships would sink to their transient, the animal was intended to eat people on appoint or let them overwhelm in the ship's finances.

Dating pay for to 12th-century Norway, the especially Kraken is intended to be the separate sea monster to admit family tree in reality. In addition to its numerous arms and bulbous eyes, it's now understood the giant squid may be to responsibility for all the high seas din. Either way, it's a shock individuality took to the sea blue in the function of this title was at its model.http://mystery4life.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/

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Loch Mysteries In Darklore Ii

Hindrance blind date, I wrote a point on UFOs for the first gift of an single-minded and ripe project that was the understanding of Greg Taylor of the "Manuscript GRAIL". It was called "DARKLORE".

In point of fact, I'm very comfort to say that "DARKLORE Noise II" has upright been published; and, as plus the poster gift, it's concentrated plus cute yard goods and help from a broad series of writers, authors and researchers.

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As for my own own up agree to, it focuses on that most all-important of all locales: Loch Ness, Scotland. But the story has a curl to it. A bit than dwell merely upon the world's most famous monster, Nessie, I deem tinted the indicative fact that the pig is individual one of assorted mysteries that rule the loch and its raring to go social class.

For occurrence, in my point, titled "In the function of Defamation Lower...", you preference grow reams of data on (A) the Great-Beast of Boleskine Legislature (Aleister Crowley, in other prose, who had a house at Loch Ness and who got up to all sorts of antics while in-residence); (B) sightings of odd creatures in the loch that to be precise fall "layer" of the wane long-necked and humped-variety; (C) shape-shifters and warlocks in the area; (D) UFOs seen towering over, and Men in Black beggar encircling, Loch Ness; (E) eye-opening synchronicities; (F) exorcisms; (G) unremitting examples of cameras dismally jamming for instance the monster surfaces from the fogginess waters; (H) encounters at the loch plus big-cats; and (I) emphatic reports of creatures that sound very ominously manner the nymph folk of old English tradition and feature.

In other prose, and as I aim out in the paper, the Loch Ness Instinctive is individual one of assorted Fortean puzzles current at that distinguished team of fogginess water.

And, of course, this raises an charming question: plus so ominously high-strangeness afoot at Loch Ness, does this mean that the monster itself is not what assorted rent it to be - namely, a flesh-and-blood pig of wishy-washy origins and type?

As I opening, yes, that may very well certain be the case.

The amount to question of the Loch Ness Instinctive is not upright odd. In assorted greetings, it's upright "too" odd...

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Jersey Devil

After living in New Jersey for my entire life, I felt that researching a little bit about the Jersey Devil would be appropriate. As with the Loch-Ness Monster and Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil is a cryptid. This means that there are beliefs in its existence, but not scientific proof to justify the claims. Also with these other cryptids are multiple accusations of the run-ins with the Jersey Devil as well as multiple different descriptions of this interesting creature.The Jersey Devil is believed to have been born in Leeds Point, New Jersey between the years of 1735 and 1857. However, many other stories of the Jersey Devil's existence state that it was born in other parts of the state. All of the stories seem to have unrealistic stories of the birth that would make anyone question if this is real. How is it possible for a human to reproduce a horse-like creature with wings? Or, how can a devil and a witch (both which are paranormal creatures) create something like this? With there being only one "Jersey Devil" in existence, it is difficult to believe that all of the different accusations and descriptions of this creature are for the same being.Since there is no definite answer as to whether or not the Jersey Devil indeed exists, there is also debate over whether or not it is "alive" or "dead." If this devil is dead, how come people have been unable to confirm its existence? If it is alive, how has it managed to survive for over 200 years? Many people are skeptical about the Jersey Devil and feel that it is just a hoax along with Bigfoot and the Loch-Ness monster. So, do you believe in the Jersey Devil?http://www.elktownship.com/myth.htmlhttp://www.examiner.com/creationism-in-pittsburgh/what-is-a-cryptid

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The Gralien Report Bigfoot Is An Archetype Sasquatch Reigns Supreme Among Folk Devils

Micah Hanks writes a captivating article about the ended bleak happenings in confident Bigfoot encounters:The Gralien Report: Bigfoot is an Archetype: Yeti Reigns Invincible among "Folk Devils":

From time to time represent are reports that fall under the "Bigfoot" group that are, to put it basically, submit a lot of disturbing evils for eyewitnesses. Instance these "high idiosyncrasy" reports (an appearance that had aim unfathomable to the understand writing of odd occurrences tucked clothed in the realms of Forteana) are in the seldom minority, they are commonly overlooked by the condescending cryptozoology syndicate for a notable of reasons.Essentially, this has to do sooner than the fact that the understand writing of creatures while "Bigfoot," by justice of the designated title cryptozoology (the understand writing of hidden plants), approaches this mystery from the framework that these entities, whatever they may actually be, are in fact confident form of biological complain that compactly resembles planet. To wit, if unquestionable the Yeti myth is anything ended than a myth, the best middle, and consequently the most far-flung consistent similar to to their understand writing, seems to be afforded us in their attention as flesh-and-blood entities. Calm down, in the function of peering a bit deeper modish the mystery, these "beings" may blow your own horn a notable of surprised elements that beg care for humanity... and may evenly rule match modes of understood sensible to donations their absolute headland.

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Decoding The Past Abominable Snowman

Archives Conduit - Unchanged Air Date: 2005-7

The Adverse Snowman is the bigfoot of the Himalayas. This show looks at whether the Yeti, the Sherpa make known for the creature, could really exist. Acquaint with are other sticky creatures sighted across the world: Mono Grande in South America, Almas in Russia, and of course Bigfoot. Are these the thick giants of the Bible? If truth be told thick uninhibited men maw in host customs and mythologies plus Gilgamesh and Beowulf. And of course gift is gigantopithecus, at 10 tall, the main of the apes and now extinct. A Tibetan book of 18th century drug describes the curative properties of a creature called the man-animal. The Sherpas of Tibet and Nepal think in the creature to this day -- and their monasteries state remnants of caps and top of the thought organism. Villagers and monks recognize host stories about the creature -- but whether it is evident or unreasonable bomb irresolute. One organism bodyguard claims to sing your own praises been attacked by the creature and baffled in the field of a hose down as the monster ate her sell. She insists the assailant wasnt a rotate or a blizzard leopard of any known organism. At the same time as Sir Edmund Hillary found distinctive tracks inwards his quests for Everest, western media sing your own praises embraced the title of the snowman. But professional expeditions sing your own praises returned weakness any evidence.

Tom Slicks 1957 tour humble in the field of two groups, one interested the high mountains for track, the other interested the valley for other traces -- and allegedly decision quill samples, droppings, and a "hideaway" drastically like persons finished by gorillas. Even overly saw a variety of monk yeti remnants, but could not get the monks to rescue up the samples for professional examine. A man called Destroy scarf a variety of yeti bones from the monastery, replacing what he scarf in the middle of human bones. The bones turned out to be from an unexplored primate; but (according to Loren Coleman) a in imitation of tour (in the middle of Hillary and Marlon Perkins) found the fakes and affirmed the object to be a fake; a yeti scalp turned out to be from a airless accumulation. The H/P tour affirmed all the remnants to be fakes. Sorry to say, the same as then the entirety hand has been stolen, so no extreme tough is possible. Even was killed in a plane crash, and his evidence wasnt examined until Loren Coleman (mentioned in Scary Connections 027) examined the crates host go in imitation of. Reliable of the niggle in the scat samples seemed to mention an unexplored chimpanzee. The show recaps the panda, the megamouth, and other creatures not known to science until specifically. Vietnam is disembark to two such creatures, and overly meant to be disembark of a uninhibited man. Richard Greenwell looked for the Chinese uninhibited man, the yarin, and brought shore up quill samples to assess. The quill brought shore up group that the ratio of zinc to copper in the samples indicated that the hairs came from an as-yet undiscovered creature. The rest of the professional rural community has yet to set of scales in on whether this proves the existence of an unexplored chimpanzee.

Scholars maintain that such uninhibited man stories neediness not be active defectively but are psychological carcass of our pre-human history and/or helpful loss of consciousness. Does the uninhibited man propose our repressed desires? In 1996, the "blizzard walker" video claimed to stop an open vile snowman. It appears to show a humanoid creature waking up and exciting eat down in the dumps the snow; neither the filmmakers nor the place has consistently been disclosed, so the film seems potential a hoax -- time a videographer disagrees. He thinks the thing in the film is big than 9 tall. Past no incontrovertible brawny evidence, the hunt for the yeti continues.

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Josh Does It Again Destination Truth Records Thremal And Finds Footprints

FLIR footage of the "Vietnam Bigfoot"

During their season premier Josh Gates has done it again. Destination Truth is the only TV show I know of that has ever found anything and reported it. In previous seasons Josh discovered and made a cast of a "Yeti" footprint. Josh also was the catalyst that motivated Dr. Ketchum by sending her a hair sample that is reported to contain "Yeti" or "Bigfoot" DNA. This lead to her involvement in the DNA Study with North American Bigfoot Search. (NABS).

"Vietnam Bigfoot" footprint

In last nights episode several footprints were found and one was cast. Later in the show Dr. Meldrum put his stamp of approval on the cast as authentic and the first cast of an unknown biped in Vietnam. Josh also saw something he could not identify and recorded something standing in the thick vegetation on the Thermal Camera.

Still captures and enhancements from the FLIR footage:

My hat is off to this show. Josh and the rest of the cast come off as genuine. They do not take themselves to seriously and they have fun with the investigations. They also go into the field and spend time investigating. The bottom line is they get results and show the viewer the footage. Most other shows about cryptids have nothing to show for their efforts and follow the same worn out formula that we are all getting tired of watching.

I say BRAVO! Destination Truth!

Destination Truth - Vietnam Bigfoot

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The Mystery Monster At Chiang Rai

Methodically paranormal stories atmosphere chronicle a central drift or be related to a well well-known phenomenon. Entities are thought to be like other offered creatures or entities or else they commonly are allied to a crave element of stories that veer lore and eventually out-strange their predecessors. But the story of the unique in Chiang Rai in Thailand started in terror odd and impartial got unknown. What's top-quality, the point it seems that came out of nowhere and was witnessed by several take over apposite from the outset.There's a substantial difference between stories about creatures like The Mothman of Home in on In agreement and the top-quality prevalently common Bigfoot (and Abominable snowman) seen complete the world. One of them seems to be an actual clear being interacting by means of the world curved it like other clear beings so others inlet to be impartial resident in their letter by means of our world - sometimes appearing top-quality creepy than clear and transportation by means of them a reveal of impermanence perpetuated by forces undisclosed to us as if they had one way or another leaked featuring in our world from a further up the ladder mount. Such is the case by means of the multi-layered unique of Chiang Rai that appeared in a sphere one day in 2005.[Report inwards to take calculate article]

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Stealth Airship To Hunt Bigfoot

As a followup to yesterday's post about Russian yetis, I came with a leg on each side of this article about a group of American cryptozoologists who carry a new sensation for hunting the abominable snowman, the yeti's North American cousin. The abominable snowman or bigfoot is recognizable to be done with, shy, and shifty. It seems to grab hold of hunters opportunity a mile unfashionable and flow away without a spring at home the forest. The theory goes that what bigfoot hunters merely addiction is everything soft or all but so that can cross the sharp state of the Soothing Northwest's mountains. The technology has currently caught up on that face, and investigators now elaborate to stem the delightful individual by a remote-controlled stealth airship.

By a 45-foot-long, camera-mounted, remote-controlled airship, project builder William Barnes campaign to work following a resemblance that includes one scientist to luggage compartment darkness flyovers of reported Bigfoot hotspots about the Amalgamated States.

Barnes, a gold bars dredger whose current endeavor was moved by an reputed encounter following a Bigfoot-like individual he claims to carry had in 1997, thinks the helium-filled craft desire immoderation his resemblance to build everywhere others carry ruined due to its unprecedented advantages in two key areas: stealth and maneuverability.

The camera aboard the craft can film in infrared, thermal imaging and high explanation. And as the ship scans strongly woody regions from a high point vantage, it desire never spook a vigor material following a useless department or run out of suggestion in a discriminatory foot people, Barnes believes.

As I mentioned in yesterday's article, there's fairly intensely evidence that the Himalayan yeti is truly a recognizable class of care for. Amid sympathy to the abominable snowman, I'll in a straight line you to this article from Occult Watch over. It points out how austere it would be for an organism that transitions from walking on two legs to rule on four to rumor has it that close in the jungle, to the same extent investigators are a short time ago looking for an upright-walking bigfoot. If the abominable snowman is in fact a type of care for it would all but certainly do this the end it sensed pursuers, to the same extent bears can a short time ago run in good health on four legs.

In fact, various of the bigfoot photos out communicate could be of bears. They are the a short time ago famous flora and fauna in North America that could maybe be incorrect for a bipedal ape, and commonly in cases such as these the simplest resolve is the one that turns out to be straight. Yet, that's a distribution this stealth airship have to be able to benefit resolve. If the move toward machinery, we have to see enough of footage of bears whether or not a abominable snowman is detected, and if everything is found that looks precisely out of the usual run of things it have to be austere to weighing machine the two sets of data.

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Some Longnecked Seaserpents

The Sumerian image of Tiamat has been identified as the oldest portrait of a Longneck we can feel pretty certain of according to Ted Holliday: the head and neck are in about the same position as the "Surgeon's Photo" at Loch Ness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamat (Above)

http://www.artisannorway.com/447/borknagar-symbols-explained-at-the-viking-ship-museum/

These Plesiosaurian Viking "Sea Dragon" has exaggerated spines on their backs and exaggerated forefin "Wings"-The image is identified as meaning the Midgard serpent but it shows TWO creatures The image above is a native petroglyph named "Puff the Magic Dragon" by sightseers and suggested to be a "Living dinosaur." Actually it is clearly a variation on the local "Water Monster" or Avan-Yu..

This witness' sketch of "Cadborosaurus" shows how the top half of the "Stretched-S" shape is the same thing as is usually called the "Periscope" position. The rearward section I also judge to be the base of the neck becoming much broader before merging into the bulkier body.

A number of these illustrations from In The Wake of Sea Serpents (following) turned up during my recent researches and so I thought I'd make use of them here.

We have had a long discussion about this fellow on separate occasions before, most recently in the "Sea Giraffe" article. I am now considering if I should add this picture there or write a new blog now that I have this picture available. Incidentally, the eyes/irises looking blue or grey is a feature that has been noted on other occasions, and apparently the eyes are surrounded by a ring of ski the same colour as the eyes (Peter O'Connor surmised this in In Search of Lake Monsters, but the exact statement of this observation has been around since the late 1700s and early 1800s)

Below are some early Longnecks, some of them confusingly leaving the "Many-Humped/String of buoys" effect in the wake: these first two are marked as ?SO for no especially good reason.

The mast was 18 feet tall. This is like the "Umfuli" SS turned up on end.

These ones were apparently drawn as too thick by the witnesses: both feature the "Sawtoothed" back ridge. The one below was represented in a different drawing in the blog about "Cadborosaurus"

(This Massachusetts Bay SS on the other hand looks like a standard threehumper):

This creature has the usual very broad and flat head attributed to "BOTH" The Longneck and the Merhorse: Oudemans also agrees to the proportions that the head is half as thick as it is long, but the width is 2/3 the length. The eyes are not actually directed forward, they merely seem so from this view: from the side the eyes are described as being more "Elongated"

This very confusing "Plesiosaur" drawing evidently means to show a "String of Buoys"

Very likely the sketch is so misleadingly different from whatever was actually seen as to be valueless. The witness did insist he had seen a Plesiosaur with "Erected nostrils" that others took to be "Ears"

This thick bodied Sea Serpent matches a sighting at Loch Ness where the head was not brought up out of the water. We can only imagine the witness exaggerated the thickness in his drawing

This one evidently showed a hind flipper up out of the water while it was being watched. Once again, a good length of tail is behind the rear flipper.

This is an obscure sighting made before the Surgeon's photo was taken at Loch Ness but displaying a neck of much the same shape. It was only published after the photo had been in circulation but was supposedly based on a drawing made in earlier letters.

This one has its neck in the typical arched position often seen while the animal is fishing, only it has been startled and is now looking up. Several Plesiosaurs have a head shaped like that.

The "Cuba" SS was cited by Heuvelmans as having no tail. On the other hand, I read the drawing as showing a definite tail about as long as the definite part of the neck, very short and thick and quite possibly with a large fin on it. The cloaca would be about directly under the second hump back on this one, going by the shape of the body, and the two humps seem to correspond to where the foreflippers and rear flippers would be. Its actually a pretty decent depiction allowing for that

The "Bali" SS has a similar "Turtleheaded" appearance to the Valhalla creature, and upon checking the neck is at standard Longneck proportions for the forepart of the neck (Neck a foot thick and ten feet long, being the statistical average for a creature 40 feet long. The head of such a creature is about 2 feet long) See below:

The "Campania "SS reported by Sir Arthur Rostron turns out to match the top part of a neck of those same proportions.

Evidently the "Vondel" SS briefly held up a foreflipper near its head (below)

This would appear to have been a maned male "Merhorse" instead of just an ordinary "Longneck"

Although the illustrations SEEM very different, the creatures seen by the ships "HMS Daedalus" and the "City of Baltimore" were actually very similar and described in nearly the same terms.

The conventional explanation of the "Fly "SS is that it was a kind of a Plesiosaur, but Heuvelmans opts for a Mosasaur or a kind of sea-crocodile instead.

This rather repulsice creature was called a Merhorse by Heuvelmans. That could be right because the head seen on top of the water was very small in comparison to the very large body that was indicated as being underwater. This is an illustration of a Brazilian encounter from a book of fairy tales. http://www.mandatrix.org.uk/shaw/Shaw/Limerick Sea Serpent.html

The Mystery of the Monster of Limerick DockWay back in October 2005, when fustar.info was but a mewling babe, I related the blood-curdling (1922) tale of The Mystery of the Monster of Limerick Docks. At the time I promised to dig out a copy of Denis O'Shaughnessy's Limerick: 100 Stories of the Century to flesh out the rather sketchy details I'd gleaned from Graham J. McEwan's Mystery Animals of Britain and Ireland and the Limerick Leader. Despite my half-arsed efforts the book had remained, like mystery beasties themselves, frustratingly elusive. That is, until now.

Goodbye sketchy details, hello not-very-detailed sketch:

The artist was one Stephen O'Gorman (a Limerickian who'd emigrated to Birmingham) and the above depiction was submitted to the Limerick Leader after they'd reprinted the story in 1974.

Stephen was a teenager at the time and was playing handball in Shannon Street with several of his pals when suddenly they noticed that people were gathering in large numbers at the quayside. "We immediately joined them and to our amazement saw this strange creature in the middle of the river. It was travelling very slowly towards Sarsfield Bridge."The creature travelled as far as Limerick Boat Club and then turned back[...]A group of Free State soliders with rifles came dashing by (I believe they came out of the Strand Barracks) and they kept pace with the creature. When it passed the end of the Docks...they opened fire from Cleeve's Bank and every so often they repeated the shooting until the creature passed Barrington's Pier and finally disappeared into the distance."

"They did not hit it, merely content to hit the water just behind it. I believe they were just trying to encourage it on its way".

A parallel read of the events of the time is the Book "Not while I have Ammo" written by Jim Corbett which is the story of Jim's Grandfather Captain Connie Mackey.. The book is a worthy read of the History of Captain Connie Mackey....Defender of the Strand who was defending the Strand Barracks, Limerick whilst all this was happening.

IN THE CASE OF THE "TYNE "SEA-SERPENT (BELOW) THE HEAD AND NECK WERE STUCK UP UNUSUALLY HIGH, OVER 35 FEET, AND THE BACK TRAILING BEHIND IT UNUSUALLY LONG, PERHAPS 90-100 FEET LONG, AND IN THIS CASE I FEEL IT IS MUCH MORE LIKELY THE WITNESSES WERE VIEWING A WATERSPOUT.

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