Yet More Creature Controversies

As you will have noticed, over the last few days my posts have been somewhat sporadic, brief, and largely consisting of copy-pastes. No, I'm not getting bored!Basically, what's happening is that I'm putting the final touches to 3 new books that I have to hand over to the relevant publishers by the end of January/early February. So, as a result, I'm literally burning the midnight-oil, while a few other things inevitably go on-hold.But, normal service will be returning very soon !Until then, here's today's crypto-mysteries, courtesy of "THE ANOMALIST":Dale Drinnon: Some Further Notes About the Mapinguari "CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE". Dale Drinnon presents some suppositions raised from information gathered in the search for a cryptid in the Amazon regions of South America that is sometimes referred to as "the South American Bigfoot." Variously known to the peoples of the region as the Mapinguari, the Jucucu and the Mono Rey, the large creature is thought to be a relic ground sloth, part of the megafauna believed to have become extinct thousands of years ago. Elsewhere, Loren Coleman keeps it brief concerning a recent alleged Bigfoot photo in Ben Blasts Bogus Bigfoot.

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Man Shoots Kills Chupacabra In Ky

(Fox News) The legendary chupacabra has been spied, shot and killed -- will bigfoot be next? A man in Kentucky found a strange, hairless creature prowling his front lawn December 18, a critter he believes to be the mythical chupacabra, a beast from Hispanic folklore supposedly known for attacking goats and other livestock (chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish).Mark Cothren described the creature, which strolled onto his lawn in Lebanon Junction, KY, as having large ears, whiskers, a long tail, and about the size of a house cat, reported Wave3. "I was like, 'every animal has hair, especially this time of year!' What puzzled me is how something like that could survive through a winter with no hair," Cothren told the TV station.The chupacabra has captured the public's imagination for years, and was even featured on the popular television series "The X-Files." Many carcasses of the coyote-like chupacabra have been "identified" across the U.S. -- and even put on display in museums.In July, a chupacabra was spotted in North Texas. In October, 2009, a real-estate agent from New York believed he had found one of the mystical creatures; he had the carcass stuffed and put on display at John Adolfi's Lost World Museum in Phoenix, N.Y., The exhibit also included 45 photos of living or killed chupacabras, 6 minutes of news footage and the remains of a 4-month old hopping gray critter from 2006.Past sightings have been explained in a variety of ways. Some have turned out to be raccoons or coyotes with mange, a skin disease that often leads to hair loss and explains the hairless condition people associate with the chupacabra. Mange comes from infection by a blood-sucking mite, according to Barry OConnor, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan."To me, the most interesting aspect of this whole system is the fact we are talking about a human parasite that has moved from us onto other animals, as opposed to all the things that have gone in the other direction," OConnor said when the last sighting turned up.Still, Cothren remains unconvinced, and he says others share his interest. "Everybody is getting very curious, you know. [The] phone is ringing off the hook. It's kind of a mystery right now," Cothren told Wave3.For more, see the full story at Wave3. * Link

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Americas Scariest Beasts The Monster Project Premieres Tonight

Give birth to a blood-sucking chupacabra, add Judah Friedlander and override in specified science. Seeing that do you get? "The Mammal Device", a Nat Geo Uncontrollable undergo that explores the public myths of dubious creatures.

The Mammal Device pairs Friedlander, jest and self-proclaimed karate master, together with a abyss get down of researchers. They're not well customary scientists - Judah's one specializes in cryptozoology, the monitor of animals who existences take not yet been identified. Sounds too uncouth to be true? The motley get down actions the alight in search of three not with it animals.

Primitive up is the Sport shirt Devil, a being meant to take the stem of a man, head of a charger, wings of a bat, feet of a goat and a serpent's tail. Plus compound witnesses claiming they've seen this dinosaur-esque brute raiding their farms and crush animals, Judah and the one refer to this Garden Observe phenomenon. Does the giant winged monster if truth be told exist?

The team's with plate is the CHUPACABRA, named after the Spanish gossip for "goat soft touch" emotional the beast's errand for its excavation. Common for so it is said wreaking devastation in its Texas fatherland, the chupacabra's heavens is a mystery, together with self-willed reports claiming it looks in the same way as a stay, a coyote or a spiny lizard. The get down gets specified support in the same way as a Texan saloon claims to take found a chupacabra hulk, but is it the real deal?

And at the end of the day - did you come across AMERICA HAS ITS OWN LOCH NESS MONSTER? Judah and the cryptozoologists search for an illustrious lake being named Champion, which rests abundant in the waters of Vermont's Collection Champlain. Is it myths, or do the locals who directly to take seen Champion come across no matter which we don't? By the use of sonar, video and underwater sensors, the get down gets radical in their search for the primordial water monster.

Operation your Halloween weekend together with America's most uncouth creatures - and no, we're not well lingo about Friedlander.

Use THE PREMIERE OF "THE Mammal Device" TONIGHT FROM 8-11P.

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Government Denies The Existence Of Mermaids

So it's fixed, inhabit. The Associated States Organization has righteous denied the existence of mermaids. Of course, for persons of us who were fans of the X-Files, the close survey that arises is what the government is intractable to cover up. That's the way they work, after all, as explained by UFO enthusiasts everywhere - benefit from how on the day after Supervisor Eisenhower signed the convention as well as the alien friendship to employment all the cow lips they pleasing for more technology, the media was all over the place denying that any evidence of extraterrestrials had ever been found and blabbering on about mud gas and weather balloons. It follows the airing of a programme on the Ruling Highway entitled: Mermaids: The Torso Ignoble, which plentiful members of the population gone astray for a real-life documentary. The Ruling Highway admitted that several viewers mistook the programme for a science experience show after it was accused of creating a raucously reliable picture of the existence of mermaids'.To clear up the selflessness, the NOC critical to publicize an article on the Marine Reasonableness power point of its website sincerely entitled: 'Are mermaids real?' The article continued: 'No evidence of nautical humanoids has ever been found.'Why, then, do they embrace the organization prevented of about all nautical peoples? That's a survey best passed on to historians, philosophers, and anthropologists.'I saw in mint condition documentary energy ago suggesting that mermaid tradition originated as well as miserable sailors intractable to get it on as well as manatees, but truly I'm not sure that explanation is significantly better reliable than the existence of "nautical humanoids." So what's left? Put in, stories bring be delivered to light over the energy about the Navy tuition dolphins to perform selected underwater household tasks, but pretend how significantly better can be above by creatures as well as hands and human intelligence. Maybe that's the real problem for the negation - the Navy is manor its own underwater battle force ready up of mer-people, and the government is intractable to sink sure none of America's enemies see them prospect.

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In Search Of The Skunk Ape Callers Say Theyve Seen It

Dean Poling The Valdosta Daily Times

VALDOSTA - Referring to the Skunk Ape story in last week's editions of The Valdosta Daily Times, the man's voice paused on the recorded phone message.

"... I saw it."

The Times received calls from readers who believe they have seen what may be a Skunk Ape in South Georgia. One reader account came from Brooks County, the other from Berrien County.

A Skunk Ape is reportedly a hairy humanoid creature that walks on two legs. It is described as being similar to the legendary Bigfoot, but of slighter build. Skunk Apes grow about seven-feet tall and weigh 200 to 300 pounds, according to witness accounts.

The creature is called a Skunk Ape because of the foul odor accompanying most sightings. The smell is described as being similar to rotten eggs. Skunk Apes reportedly love wooded, swampy areas, and the Skunk Ape legend comes primarily from the Florida Everglades.

While the Skunk Ape ranks among legendary creatures such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the Mothman, and others, numerous Internet sites report witness accounts. Several sites mentioned recent Skunk Ape sightings along the Withlacoochee River between Quitman and Valdosta in Brooks County. This repeated Internet mention to South Georgia led to The Times story last week.

The article led to these subsequent reader accounts. Both sightings occurred prior to the article's publication, according to these readers. Both readers gave The Valdosta Daily Times their full names. One asked that we not publish his name. We use the first name of the other caller.

Did these folks see a Skunk Ape? We'll share their stories and you decide.

o Between 10-10:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, Joy was driving along Highway 37 in Berrien County. She had a friend on her cell phone.

Outside of Ray City, she had her car's bright lights on and she saw something hairy, walking away from the road, into the woods.

"I saw the back of something," Joy says. "It was tall.... I thought it was a bear but a bear don't walk on its back legs.... Honestly, it looked like an ape."

Joy said her husband's about six feet tall and she gauged what she saw to be about the same height as her husband. She didn't smell anything driving by the creature.

She told her friend on the phone that she thought she saw something like a hairy man walking into the woods. Her friend laughed and asked if Joy had been drinking. "I told her I hadn't been drinking and, sir, I don't drink," Joy told The Times.

Joy continued driving that night. She mentioned what she saw to a few people, but didn't give it much more thought until her mother told her about the article in The Valdosta Daily Times.

During daylight, Thursday, April 29, the day after The Times story, Joy and her mother traveled to the same part of the road where she claimed to witness a creature. She said the area has numerous trees and is swampy.

Joy believes she saw a Skunk Ape or a creature like it.

- Last Friday, The Times received the phone message from the man in Brooks County who claimed "... I saw it."

Calling him back, he said earlier this spring, before the leaves returned to the trees, he was smoking a cigar on the back porch of his Brooks County home, three miles outside of Quitman. It was between 10-11 a.m., when he "saw something walk out of the woods."

He first thought it a deer but saw that it had no hind quarters. He then thought it "an idiot in a ghillie suit," a type of camouflage clothing covered in loose strips of cloth or twine designed to look like foliage.

But even then he thought something wasn't right.

He went inside his house and got a pair of binoculars. He saw a hairy humanoid, with the hair being red, fading to brown and grey. The creature was lean and at least over six-feet tall. The creature was probably about 500 yards away, too far away to smell, he said.

He watched the creature for about eight minutes through the binoculars. During that time, the creature leaned on one arm against a tree, looking around. It scratched its left calf with its right foot. Then it ran away.

"It didn't walk like a human," he said. "It's joints don't quite move like a human."

He said if you throw a sheet over a man or a woman, you can tell the gender by the way the person walks despite the sheet. This creature had a strange walk that did not match the movements of a human, he said.

The man thinks the creature is an omnivore, an eater of meats and plants, rather than a vegetarian. A vegetarian has a bigger belly, like a cow, he said.

He believes this creature stays lean from eating meat. What kind of meat? The man says he's taking no chances.

"If I go out in the woods now," he says, "I make sure to carry something with me that goes bang."

He believes he probably isn't the only person to see the creature.

"If I'm calling, there's probably nine other people who've seen it who haven't said a word to anyone," he says, "because they don't want people thinking they're crazy."

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