tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76135527581923486122024-03-07T03:42:30.867-08:00cryptozoo-oscityA view of cryptozoology that might be a bit different.Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.comBlogger1867125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-37182614750945853312024-02-22T04:13:00.000-08:002024-02-22T04:17:14.789-08:00Pterosaur Sightings.<p> A reprint of an old post from 2009 by request.</p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: #993333; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16.9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/12/rhamphorhynchoid-pterosaurs-sightings.html" style="color: #993333; text-decoration-line: none;">Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs sightings 35 years later</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7443585442682728711" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #e0e0e0;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEP-y3Wr7lm-hRmeY-dkobDh1KEuPOpoBCxwW6xekPqjMpU7vsgYe6vqojB4C069v3Z8pFF-nKX8oKAIwUQktGYCyZV4W95e4IIhDHsgad3kQlzcTbOGSZoZxPK4c9WOZP2BhSuH2u64GR/s1600-h/images.jpg" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410932587085429170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEP-y3Wr7lm-hRmeY-dkobDh1KEuPOpoBCxwW6xekPqjMpU7vsgYe6vqojB4C069v3Z8pFF-nKX8oKAIwUQktGYCyZV4W95e4IIhDHsgad3kQlzcTbOGSZoZxPK4c9WOZP2BhSuH2u64GR/s320/images.jpg" style="border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(192, 192, 192) rgb(192, 192, 192) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 78px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; padding: 6px; width: 130px;" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">A report 35 years later of a prehistoric bird sighting:</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><st1:city st="on">LONG BEACH</st1:city>, Calif./EWORLDWIRE/June 8, 2007 - <i>A psychologist at a university in Central China asserts that he saw, in 1971, a prehistoric-looking creature flying in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Papua New Guinea</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Brian Hennessy of the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Chongqing</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Medical Sciences described the creature as black or dark brown with a "longish narrow tail" and a beak that was "indistinguishable from the head." In the daylight of an early morning on Bougainville Island, on a dirt road that led down to the coast, Hennessy heard a slow "flapping" and looked up to see a "very big" creature with a "horn" at the back of its head. There was "not a feather in sight." After thirty-five years, in the summer of 2006, a friend of Hennessy referred him to the American, Jonathan Whitcomb, author of the book "Searching for Ropens," who interviewed him. The eyewitness account was added to the second edition of the book, which was published on May 30, 2007. Until 2006, Hennessy had been unaware of cryptozoological expeditions related to what he had seen. (Whitcomb's book tells how, in the 1990's, a few Americans began investigating, in Papua New Guinea, creatures described like living pterosaurs, commonly called, by Americans, "pterodactyls.") Hennessy was also unaware that many natives have names for giant flying creatures: One of those names is "ropen."<br />The American author noticed similarities between Hennessy's description and that of a creature reported 500 miles to the west, near <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Finschhafen</st1:city>, <st1:country-region st="on">Papua New Guinea</st1:country-region></st1:place>, twenty-seven years earlier. In 1944, Duane Hodgkinson, now living in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Montana</st1:place></st1:state>, saw a giant "prehistoric" creature flying over a clearing where he and another soldier were standing. Whitcomb had interviewed Hodgkinson in 2004 and realized, two years later, that both the American veteran and the psychologist had seen a dark flying creature with a long tail but no sign of feathers. Both men used the word "prehistoric." In 2006, Whitcomb showed Hennessy a series of sketches for determining the shape of the head, including the beak and the head appendage. (A similar questionnaire had been given to Hodgkinson two years earlier.) Whitcomb then drew a sketch based on Hennessy's answers, and concluded that Hennessy had seen, in 1971, the same type of creature that Hodgkinson had seen in 1944.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Jonathan Whitcomb, the author of <i>Searching for Ropens, and Live Pterosaurs in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region></i>, interviewed Hennessy by email in 2006 and made up a composite sketch of the head from the descriptions. Whitcomb said it was very similar to a composite sketch from another interview two years earlier with Duane Hodgkinson who described a "pterodactyl." Hodgkinson talked about the size of the creature he saw saying it was similar in size to that of a "Piper Tri-Pacer airplane" .In the second edition of the book Searching for Ropens, Brian Hennessy was quoted as saying : “It was so unusual. I actually heard it before I saw it. A slow flap . . . flap . . flapping sound. The air was still, and our truck had stopped on our downward journey from the top of the range to the coast way below . . . it was very big (wingspan at least two metres, probably more . . . possibly much, much more). It was black or dark brown. I had never seen anything like it before. . . . I recall seeing this creature with a longish narrow tail . . . the head was disproportionately large compared to the body [no feathers in sight]."<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Both the 1944 and 1971 sightings were in daylight and Whitcomb's book asserts that Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs live in <st1:place st="on">Papua New Guinea</st1:place> and that they are larger than the normally discovered Rhamphorhynchoid fossils.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Although I don’t dispute the men saw something , I am not sure that it could the Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs that Whitcomb asserts it is. The world has changed so much that creatures would have had to evolve and would not look exactly the same as the fossil record. Plus bear in mind we can only guess a lot of the time what creatures looked like from fossils. Very few complete skeletons are found and often no tissue so colour and texture is often guesswork. There may be an unknown species of giant bat as some assert or it may be some evolved creature from the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p></div>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-64691586851714462592024-02-05T03:37:00.000-08:002024-02-05T03:37:09.736-08:00 Free Cryptozoology Conference<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Free Cryptozoology Conference UK</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sign up at this link:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/thecfz/permalink/10160270872597013/?comment_id=10160272112482013&notif_id=1707132494959046&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif">https://www.facebook.com/groups/thecfz/permalink/10160270872597013/?comment_id=10160272112482013&notif_id=1707132494959046&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif</a></p><p>A great opportunity to chat with like minded people.</p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-41381370270586599122024-01-21T05:18:00.000-08:002024-01-21T05:18:39.595-08:00Mongolian Lake Monsters<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #484848; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mongolian Lake creatures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #484848; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Several lakes are said to have lake
monsters dwelling in them in Mongolian.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #484848; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lake Hovsgol</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #484848; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thought <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be between <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two to five million years old, Lake Hovsgol </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">in
is northern Mongolia is the home of a large creature..It is Mongolia’s largest
freshwater lake, with depths of over 800 feet. The lake <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>drains via the Egiyn River, which feeds the
Selenge River in the Lake Baikal drainage basin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lake
Baikal</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> has its own monster.See link below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2021/03/mysterious-lake-baikal.html">https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2021/03/mysterious-lake-baikal.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">South of the lake lies the Hövsgöl Mountain Range.
In October 2007 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a report appeared in
some Chinese newspapers. <span style="color: #222222;">Diver Dave Woodward and
sonar operator Gregg Mikolasek were <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>boating
on Lake Hovsgol when they saw <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a giant
'trace', or shape, suspended about 35 metres below the surface in the freshwater
lake..<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="e15kmbpe0" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222;">'I think we saw something and I think it was about six
metres long,' Woodward recalls telling his diving buddies back at the camp
later that afternoon. About three metres wide in the middle, whatever was down
there exhibited the half-moon shape typical of the image of a fish on sonar.
Its thick central section glowed red, indicating density, another pointer that
whatever it was, it was probably a single entity and not a school of fish.
Woodward thought about going in, hesitated, then decided not to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="e15kmbpe0" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222;">(I cannot show the link to the newspaper articles as it
contains a virus.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="e15kmbpe0" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222;">It sounds typical of a lake creature description . I was
unable <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to access other reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="e15kmbpe0" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222;">Could the creature be the same one as in Lake Baikal
perhaps travelling from one lake to another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="e15kmbpe0" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="e15kmbpe0" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">Lake Uureg.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="e15kmbpe0" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Lake is a saline lake in western Mongolia. It
has a maximum depth of 42 m (138 ft).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A Mongolian traveller
saw a huge creature, which he captured on video whilst he was taking a trip
around Uureg Lake<b> .</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Traveller Mr S. Sodnomdorj said “Foremost I
thought there was a timber floating on the lake. Then I asked from a local man
who was joining with me if it was possible or not. The local said ‘It is not
possible’. We were in the distance of 250 meters away from the object. After
that I tried to see that thing carefully, and then it seemed like an animal. I
switched on my camera and started to record. I was running to the lake while
recording because it was too far to capture it. That animal began to move its
body and turned to the centre of the lake. Finally I realized it was an
animal”.The creature’s fin appeared on the surface of the lake and it was
approximately 7-8 meters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Local people tell of a myth about a giant creature in
the Uureg Lake. They call the giant creature <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Khukh bukh” (Blue bull).It is said to moo
like a bull and appear once in 60 years. Elderly people used to say “I will
give you to ‘blue bull’, if you behave naughtily” to children. They also used
to warn people not to swim in the lake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mr. Sodnomdorj who captured the creature wants to
have the video analysed to prove if it is a creature or
not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As it is a salt water lake it could be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a sea creature that somehow entered the lake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Near by is another lake with a creature. Uureg Lake lies
a 150 kilometers from the Khyargas Lake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Khyargas Lake.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is also a salt water lake and is 50 metres( 150
metres approx) in depth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was news released about Russian researchers
working on a mysterious trace that was on the lake shore. A group of Mongolian
and Russian geological researchers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>team
led by Victor Yarmoluk, discovered a huge trace on the shore of the Khyargas
lake in the 1980’s. (</span><a href="http://mongolian.ruvr.ru/2013_08_31/239037647/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Voice of Russia Aug 31, 2013</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">).</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The researchers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>discovered several newly made footprints on
the shore <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.5 km ( 5 feet approx) from
the lake. It seemed like many reptiles came out and were lying on the shore for
some time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Writer and public figure Igor Grishin and a team visited
Khyargas Lake in 2013 for a second time. They visited the lake first time in
2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“We found different sizes of traces and also bones
which are cannot belong to the animals in Mongolia. However fishes that bitten
by big teeth were caught from the lake many times, but there is only a species
called ‘toothless Osman of Altai’ exists in the lake as known. We afforded the
observation of the footprints on the ground and bed of the lake with echometer.
Those footprints can be divided into 3 groups. There can be different sizes of
several animals or those footprints can be traces from different parts of one
animal.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Researchers found out that some prehistoric animals
such as plesiosaurs were not able to digest its food unless to swallow stones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Valery Nikolayev is a zoologist and scientist of
Valdai protected area. He stated that he agrees the prediction on existence of
the prehistoric giant reptiles The Uureg Lake belongs to the same region of
geography. It raises the assumption of existence of the similar giant creatures
in both lakes or travelling from one lake to another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lake Kanas<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft YaHei";">Kanas Lake means 'a gorgeous and mysterious
lake' in Mongolian. Local legend has it that there is a huge 'lake monster' in
the lake, which often drags horses drinking by the lake into the water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.75pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft YaHei";">Read more here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft YaHei";"><a href="https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/07/kanas-lake-monster-china.html">https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/07/kanas-lake-monster-china.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft YaHei";">Lake
Khaiyr<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Its depth is
yet unknown. It is called "Khaiyr" (meaning "to love" in
modern Mongolian) </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In1940 there was a sighting of "two large black
creatures" by the polar aviator, Ivan Cherevichny and a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>polar helmsman Valentin Ivanovych Akkuratov .
They <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saw two large animals when flying
over the lake at the height of 800–1000 metres. Getting curious, they got down
to 50 metres and observed the animals, but the noise of the plane scared the creatures
and they submerged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1964 when a group of scientists from Moscow
University, claim to have encountered an animal with prehistoric biology whilst
on an expedition surveying mineral deposits.An article written in Komsomolskaya
Pravda by G. Rokosuev explains that the "monster" was initially seen
by N. Gladkikh, the deputy leader of the expedition team.Gladkikh went out to
the lake to draw water and saw a creature that had crawled out onto the shore,
apparently to eat the grass - a small head on a long gleaming neck , a huge body
covered with jet-black skin and a vertical fin along the spine.Gladikikh's
story was at first met with incredulity by the rest of the team. However, the
creature then reappeared to be seen by the leader of the expedition and several
other members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rokosuev wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Suddenly a head appeared in the lake, then a dorsal
fin. The creature beat the water with its long tail, producing waves on the
lake. You can imagine when we saw with our own eyes that the stories were true”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The descriptions sound like a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a plesiosaur, which became extinct <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>66 million years ago. Some researchers think
that this creature represents a mammalian herbivore related to the hippopotamus.
Due to the isolation of this northern lake,a unique adaptation could arise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The 1964 story has since been reported as a hoax
however the 1940 sighting has not been debunked. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Being so isolated it needs an expedition of neutral
scientists to get to the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
seems Scotland is not the only country with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>lots of lake monsters or water kelpies .Interestingly <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>both are in the northern hemisphere.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-50569791457550241242023-12-25T02:39:00.000-08:002023-12-25T02:39:43.264-08:00Seasons Greetings<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Merry Christmas to all. I hope you all find some joy in the holidays. I hope for lots of new cryptid sightings in 2024 and a better year for us all.xx</span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-30806713094874361182023-12-16T03:19:00.000-08:002023-12-16T03:19:12.787-08:00Christmas Monsters<p> <b>Christmas is also for Monsters!</b></p><div><b><br /></b><div> Not all Christmas creatures are benign like Santa Claus. Krampus looks like a demonic goat who walks on its hind legs like a human. He punishes naughty children, beating them with birch branches and carries a basket on his back so he can carry off a child to eat later.The 5th of December is Krampusnacht ,men in homemade Krampus costumes run around Alpine villages causing havoc. These 'Krampus Runs' continue today. The Karakoncolos looks like a cross between the Devil and a Sasquatch. In Turkey, the legend says he would stand at street corners on winter nights setting riddles for passers-by. If the traveller gave an answer that included the word ‘black’ they were free to go on their way. If not, he would strike them dead .Sometimes the Karakoncolos would just put them in a trance and leave them to roam free. In Serbia, the story says the Karakoncolos jumps on the victim’s back and uses them as a ride. The exhausted person was only released at dawn. Jólakötturinn is the Icelandic Yule Cat or Christmas Cat. Jólakötturinn, who first appeared in the 19th century, a huge, ferocious beast with razor-like whiskers, blazing eyes and terrible claws who consumed any child who did not receive new clothes on Christmas Day.It is tied into an Icelandic tradition in which those who finish their work on time received new clothes for Christmas, while those who were lazy did not . Jólakötturinn could tell who the lazy children were because they did not have at least one new item of clothing for Christmas and these children would be eaten by the Yule Cat. Then there is the macabre skeleton mare of Welsh tradition,Mary Lwyd, which rises from the dead and wanders the streets with her undead attendants, to remind the living of their existence. Mary Lwyd wants to to get into your house. To keep the zombie horse out, you must engage in a battle of rhymes . Usually singing the rhymes to which the zombie horse replies.On New Year’s Eve, the undead mare is represented by a puppeteer parading a horse skull on a pole draped in white cloth around the towns and villages. Next there is a creature from Scandinavian folklore who looks like a gnome and lives among the dead inside burial mounds called the Tomten.He can act as a caretaker of the household, that is if you keep on his good side. The Tomten has quite the temper and is known for biting people who upset him. The bites are poisonous and deadly. People leave a gift of food out on Christmas Eve for the Tomten. One of Iceland’s creatures associated with Christmas is Gryla a giant troll who is bad tempered with an insatiable hunger for children. Each Christmas, Gryla comes down from her mountain dwelling to hunt for naughty children. She catches them in a sack and takes them back to her cave where she boils them alive for her favourite stew.</div><div><br style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></div></div>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-44362722295304368572023-12-14T05:30:00.000-08:002023-12-14T05:30:22.833-08:00Could plans for Loch Linnhe be the end of monster sightings?<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.55pt; margin-bottom: 10.85pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 16.25pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">End for Loch Linnhe Monster?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.55pt; margin-bottom: 10.85pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 16.25pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Loch Linnhe is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland. It
is about 50 kilometres (31 miles ) long and about 2km (1 and 1/5
miles) wide It opens into the Firth of Lorne at its south-western
end and the town of Fort William lies at the northeast end of the
loch, at the mouth of the River Lochy.There have been several reports of a
creature in the Loch over the years. Plans for the loch could put an end to
food stocks for any marine life .</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.55pt; margin-bottom: 10.85pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 16.25pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">West
coast locals horrified at inevitable damage to Loch Linnhe<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 14.1pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alarmed locals are calling for government action to halt plans to
create Scotland’s largest fish farm in a loch known for its dolphins, otters,
seals and sea eagles.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 14.1pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Local divers, fishermen, wild swimmers and even a rock band have voiced
opinions and are outraged by Loch Long Salmon’s [LLS] proposals to bring
“semi-closed” fish pens to the renowned shores of Loch Linnhe – using
technology never tested before in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 14.1pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The eight proposed pens would hold millions of fish – with a total
live weight equivalent to 11,000 cows – and unlike conventional fish farms
would need a large shoreside installation running 24 hours a day in support.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 14.1pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James Standley, a retired professional diver with 25 years of
experience, lives on the boundary of the proposed site, and has raised concerns
about the project’s impact on the loch’s wildlife and surrounding community.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 14.1pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Local
angler David Gunn, who has fished these waters for 61 years, fears the proposed
fish farm will all but end the wild Atlantic Salmon population in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 14.1pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Source:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://thehighlandtimes.com/community-bands-together-to-stop-mega-fish-farm-plans/">https://thehighlandtimes.com/community-bands-together-to-stop-mega-fish-farm-plans/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 14.1pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first documented sighting appears
to be in the 1940’s.A witness said that she had seen a creature with a long
neck swimming in the loch. It was dark brown, had small black
eyes, and stubby rounded horns.In June 1954, a Mr. Eric Robinson said he
observed three humps which he estimated were moving at 30 mph and the
water was churning behind the creature. He only saw it for a few
minutes.In June 1964, 10 years later a Mrs. Preston saw the head and neck of a
creature in the Loch.Then in July 1967, John Rankin Muir, William S.
Muir, and others said they saw a snake like head and neck with two or
three humps. They watched for approximately 10 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are ample fish stocks in the
Loch .The southern end around Lismore is known for big
pollack, giant skate, wrasse and conger eels and during the summer
months people expect to see shoals of mackerel, porpoises, dolphins and
even occasionally a Minke whale. The <span class="highlightedsearchterm">Loch</span> <span class="highlightedsearchterm">Linnhe</span> Artificial
Reef was completed in 2006,to study tides I presume but as far as I am aware
its construction did not prompt an appearance of the monster.The Loch is open
to the sea and as it attracts dolphins etc , it could have been a shoal of
these that people have seen or some other large marine creature passing
through. As Fort William is a popular tourist area it would be expected that
photos would appear of the creature or more sightings would be reported. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the last reported sighting :</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09284669125695304599" target="null"><span style="color: #00838f;">Unknown</span></a> said...3 August 2019 at 08:14</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978" target="null"><span style="color: #00838f;"><br />
</span></a>Dos familias españolas (4 adultos y 4 niños) hemos visitado Escocia
durante 9 días. En el camino entre Glencoe y Fort William paramos en un área de
descanso para admirar las vistas del fiordo Linnhe. 4 niños y 2 adultos vimos
avanzar por el fiordo, en dirección a Fort William, la cabeza por fuera del
agua de un animal que avanzaba rápido. Poco tiempo después se sumergió mediante
un movimiento circular dejando ver lo que pareció un largo cuello.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br />
translation:Two Spanish families (4 adults and 4 children) have visited
Scotland for 9 days. On the road between Glencoe and Fort William we stop at a
rest area to admire the views of the Linnhe Fjord. 4 children and 2 adults saw
the fjord move towards Fort William, head out of the water of an animal that
was moving fast. A short time later he submerged himself in a circular motion,
revealing what looked like a long </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">neck.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 14.1pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Roboto","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lets hope the local protest
is successful for the sake of all the local wildlife not just the alleged monster.<o:p></o:p></i></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-24650699976295846972023-11-06T09:37:00.000-08:002023-11-06T09:37:06.404-08:00A Serpent in Eel River<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Eel River Serpent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Eel River is a
major river that runs through north Western California. It is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about 196 miles (315 km) long.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the 1870’s there
were reports of a strange creature being seen in the Phillipsville area of the
river<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ALL
SNAKE AND NO STORY<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">About
three months ago as I was on my way to Garberville, not far below what is know
as Phillip’s Flat I saw what I thought was a foot log coming down the South
Fork [of the Eel] river, and was not a little surprised to see such a thing
adrift at that season of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
was on a cliff of rocks, about 50 feet above the river, and stopped to watch
the curious looking object, when I saw to my surprise it was a large serpent.
The monster was at least 20 feet long in the water, and its head was raised
about 3 feet above the surface of the stream, and was about as large as a dog’s
head. It saw me, but did not seem to be alarmed, for it headed for the last
cliff on which I was standing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
was one of those hot days that we are accustomed on the South Fork, and the
monster seemed to be hunting shade. It was about a foot in diameter; its color
a dark brown, with large light and yellow spots. I watched him until he came
under the cliff where the rocks hid him from view. It was seen twice more at
the same place and once again further up the river. It seems to go to the woods
for food, as there can be no other inducement.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">West
Coast Signal August 19, 1877<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Three other people
wrote to the newspaper to say they had seen it too. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The local native
Americans believe such a creature exists <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and is called Kamoss. It has been seen in the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>river and is a monster serpent that is capable
of swallowing a child .The legend is that it has done so. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some say it is a
sturgeon fish but sturgeon have bony plates which would be obvious.Also
unlikely it would swim with its head above water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since then there have
been no reports unless someone reading this knows of any more recent sightings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-7599495735620313042023-11-06T09:36:00.000-08:002023-11-06T09:36:03.582-08:00Have we lost our way?<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is happening to
Cryptozoology?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Its over 50 years since
I started my interest in cryptozoology. It started as a teenager with a visit
to Loch Ness.Then as an adult and becoming an academic I tried where ever
possible to apply scientific research methods to my study of unknown animals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was hoped that
cryptozoology would be accepted as a discipline such as psychology or zoology. To
that end scientific enquiry methods were essential. However I find myself and
fellow academically qualified crypto enthusiasts have become disillusioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have wobbly webcams
at Loch Ness being cited in the media every weeks as photos of Nessie,only for
them to be a swimmer ,canoeist or birds.Photos said to be taken years before
and just now discovered that have not been submitted for professional analysis
so cannot be proved or disproved to be an animate creature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Big cat photos that are
domestic cats or obviously fakes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>appearing in the media as true .IF you believe
you shouldn’t need to make up proof ,instead you go out and try and find it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cryptozoology is becoming
a laughing stock,a media circus. What is the point of these hoaxes? They only serve
to put off the genuine witnesses from coming forward for fear of ridicule and
destroy any chance of proper scientific study.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What do readers of this
blog think? Comments can take 24 hours to appear so don’t be put off. Has
cryptozoology lost its way ? <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-25634704081227306742023-10-02T08:36:00.003-07:002023-10-02T08:36:58.800-07:00Cryptid or Hybrid?<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">New Hybrid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have often written that a cryptid may be a
prehistoric creature that has evolved and changed to cope with the modern world
and its pollution or a hybrid. Dog/fox hybrids are not unknown but more rare
are aquatic hybrids<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meet
The Wholphin, The Unlikely Hybrid Of Intermingling Cetaceans.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It's
exceptionally rare, but the world has seen a number of cetacean hybrids.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
"wholphin" is the nickname for a hybrid born as a result of some
unlikely canoodling between different species of cetacean, most often a
bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. However, this isn’t the only known
example of interspecies mingling that’s been documented among this infraorder
of animals. From the narluga to dolphin hybrids, a handful of examples of
cetacean hybridization have been documented in recent decades<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
birth of cetacean hybrids was especially surprising given the size difference
between the two parent species: common bottlenose dolphins are typically 2
meters (6.5 feet) long while a male false killer whale can be over 5 meters (16.4
feet) long. Evidently, the creation of this hybrid offspring must have required
some impressive physical feats.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Read rest here :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.iflscience.com/meet-the-wholphin-the-unlikely-hybrid-of-intermingling-cetaceans-70843">https://www.iflscience.com/meet-the-wholphin-the-unlikely-hybrid-of-intermingling-cetaceans-70843</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The size difference did not prevent mating and
therefore it is possible that some large lake monster <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mated with a smaller creature that then survived
the age of the dinosaurs and adapted to live in the modern world. Unlikely
perhaps but more plausible than a living plesiosaur .It could also be why lake
monsters are often not a recognizable creature but described as eels,snakes,
dinosaurs etc. Food for thought as we enter October and the winter means less
sightings are reported as people remain indoors.Please comment if you have any
thoughts on the subjcct.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">( just a reminder it can take 24 hours for comments
to appear as they are externally moderated) <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-70826579695508693282023-09-03T06:53:00.001-07:002023-09-03T06:53:49.065-07:00The first LNIB Expeditions (1962-64) from one who was there.<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Loch Ness Expeditions 1962-64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Quite a few years ago now I met a man called Tom
McMahon. He was retired and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in his 60s
.If he is still alive,and I sincerely hope he is,he will be at least 80 now.
Why is he important? Tom was on the first three LNIB expeditions at Loch Ness.
It occurred to me that if I didn’t record this his version of this piece of
history would be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tom and I got talking and he told me about Loch Ness
so I asked him to write down anything he could remember from that time.He
couldn’t remember everyone’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>names but
he did remember quite a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The story started with the guy who was the film
person for the expedition, a priest called Clem who was a friend of Tom’s
father. They lived in Slough at that time. Tom’s father was invited to go to
Loch Ness but couldn’t go ,so Tom then <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aged about 19/20 years went in his place.It
was October 1962.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tom travelled up in David James’s land drover with
two other young men.David James MP had organized this first expedition.It was
sponsored by Norman Collins of ATV, a friend of David James.Another friend John
Profumo was Minister For War and helped to get a loan of army search lights. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They stayed in a hotel and were there for two weeks.
Tom said he thought there were 24 of them all together.There were two sites to
watch from,one at Cobbs Landing and one on Drumnadrochit beach.Tom was mainly
on night watches ,shining search lights on the Loch to attract Nessie.He missed
some of the hunt after injuring his hand and having to go to Raigmore Hospital
in Inverness.One of the other people there was Sir Archibald James,David’s
father,who would keep them entertained with stories of big game hunting on the
long watches.Also he remembered Lional Leslie the sculptor,a vet David Hall,Professor
Porteous and a girl called Emma who went on to be a costume designer for films.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One night they heard a splash and turning the lights
in that direction were shocked to see two eyes shining back at them. They got
the row boat out and rowed to investigate (rather brave of them I thought).They
found a glass bottle bobbing on the waves from the boat reflecting the lights
back to shore. They had a laugh about it later but at the time they were all
hyped up to meet Nessie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On October 11<sup>th</sup> ,seven of the party saw 2
humps in the water. It was too far for the camera range and they couldn’t get a
clear picture. A few days later something large was seen diving but again too
far away for the camera’s range.Cameras were primitive compared to today and this
one had a 6 inch lens (15cms) which was inadequate for the task. They learned
from this and took a bigger one the next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1963 there were a lot
more people and there were campsites along the Loch,the main one being at
Drumnadrochit.Tom thought there could have 75 people involved.There were 10 watching
stations around the Loch. Tom shared a camper van with Professor Peter Blake a biologist
from Cambridge. ( Peter sadly died very young in his 40s) , a Welsh man who
owned a quarry and set off explosions to mimic the 1930’s road building .They
hoped it would bring the creature to the surface.He remembered Sir Peter
Ogilvie Wedderburn Bart,a New Zealand racing driver,a BEA air hostess and the
artist Sylvia McCartney. Also Sir Pater Scott visited ,landing his gilder in a
field near by.The cockleshell hero Blondie Hassler sailed up the Loch to see
them .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Cuba Crisis was on at that time and there was
much talk of nuclear war .They were tense times. He said there was much pacing
about and discussion about it by the older members .Two films of what looked
like an upturned boat were taken but even with a bigger lens they were unclear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He went again<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in 1964 and stayed in a caravan at Drumnadrochit. They had cameras
nearby at Urquhart castle. His main memory was of a Major Haig playing the
bagpipes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The feeling at the time was it was a great
adventure, even though it was boring just sitting watching .I wonder how many
of those at the time realized they would be part of the history of Loch
Ness.For those who were too young to remember or be around at the time,this is
written down for you. There was an amazing mixture of people interested in
Nessie hunting and the recent search (2023) with lots of volunteers shows that
interest is still there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-53771211896495650672023-08-25T02:58:00.003-07:002023-08-25T02:58:34.628-07:00New Search For Nessie<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hundreds of participants expected to join the Loch
Ness monster hunt with thermal imaging drones and underwater gadgets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hundreds of volunteers are set to descend on Loch
Ness, Scotland, for the search of a lifetime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The volunteers will spend a weekend trying to
confirm the existence of the Loch Ness monster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After high interest in the search, the Loch Ness
Centre invited others to livestream the action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For the first time in over 50 years, hundreds of
people will descend onto Loch Ness, Scotland, with modern-day gadgets, in hopes
of locating a mythic creature known to locals as "Nessie."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This weekend, volunteers and researchers will meet
up in Inverness, Scotland, at the site of the Loch Ness freshwater lake, trying
to find "Nessie," the Loch Ness monster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Loch Ness Centre, a group of researchers and
enthusiasts organizing the trip, claims participants will help to
"scientifically investigate Loch Ness and its famous monster
mythology." The organizers invited participants to join the "hunt for
truth," where they will attempt to locate the mythical beast. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to CNN, at least a hundred participants
are joining from as far as New Zealand, and Japan. Part of the purpose of the
trip is to get to the bottom of the folklore surrounding the mythic creature,
but there is yet to be any physical proof of the animal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Read full story here:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.insider.com/the-loch-ness-monster-search-reached-volunteer-limit-hundreds-join-2023-8">https://www.insider.com/the-loch-ness-monster-search-reached-volunteer-limit-hundreds-join-2023-8</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-19941094564209823312023-08-21T07:52:00.000-07:002023-08-21T07:52:04.806-07:00Classic Text Free to Read Online.<p> MYSTERIOUS CREATURES</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A Guide to </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cryptozoology </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">George M. Eberhart</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You can read
it at the link below. I am not sure if it is permanent so best get in
early,also it may not read well on all formats. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://archive.org/stream/Cryptozoology_201608/Cryptozoology_djvu.txt"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">https://archive.org/stream/Cryptozoology_201608/Cryptozoology_djvu.txt</span></a></span>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-66938093073168896962023-08-21T07:50:00.004-07:002023-08-21T07:50:49.212-07:00Hessie Norway's Giant Sea Worm<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hessafjorden Lake in
Norway has a lake monster, nick named <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hessie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is said to be a huge
sea worm or snake. It is claimed to be 80–100 feet (24–30 meters) in length and
1.5 ( 5 feet) metres thick.Also sporting a square dorsal fin .a massive snake
like head with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>brown coloured skin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In June 1999 a local
person saw Hessie eating a whale carcass through his binoculars. He ran home to
get a camcorder but unfortunately the distance from shore meant little detail can
be seen on the film. Other sightings had been reported in that era,the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1990s, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but most want to remain anonymous.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is little other detail
available but its size would make one think it would be spotted more often.
Perhaps someone will get a clearer film in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-25192667672089192772023-08-21T07:49:00.002-07:002023-08-21T07:49:37.831-07:00More on the Kootenay Lake Monster<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kootenay
Lake Creature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kootenay Lake is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>located in
British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Kootenay River.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Its<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>65
miles (104kms) long and approximately 3 miles (5 kms) wide.It varies in depth
from 33 feet (approx 10 metres)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to a
maximum of 490 feet ( 160 metres) . Large enough to house a few monsters. In<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>October 1900 a Captain WJ Kane reported
seeing a lake monster in the lake. He described it as being large and
bulky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A 12 year old boy also saw
something on October 10th 1900, on the shore of Kootenay Lake, George Goudereau
saw a 12ft ( 4 metres) creature that looked like an alligator<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>crawl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>out of Crawford Bay and made its way towards a pile of rubbish on the
shore. George watched<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as it used
its<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>claws and its snout to search
through the pile. After a while it went back into the lake leaving a trail of
tracks of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>webbed feet. The creature<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>became known as the Canadian Alligator.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The area also has another prehistoric creature
,Big Bertha,a 10-foot Kootenay white sturgeon that weighs over 350 pounds.
However sturgeon don’t normally come out of the water to forage</span></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since writing this I
have discovered more information. Another <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sighting </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“The monster…is ten feet long, six inches in diameter at the
largest part and has a most hideous head.” Dec. 1900, George Graves and
son, of Nelson. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In July 1937 Naomi
Miller and family saw something :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We…were barely out
of sight of Kaslo…a black head reared followed by at least one hump above the
water some eight feet behind… We sat hypnotized until the ‘Ogopogo’ dived….” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then in 1953 two men
from Boswell reported a sighting </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“The visible part about twenty feet long, showed brownish in
the sunlight, and the surface looked rough like a tree trunk with moss growing
upon it.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Naomi Miller stuck to
her sighing and when interviewed in 2015 wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16.3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333;">“My alternative
thought is that the “thing ” that I saw may have had the form of a dinosaur .
(We did not have pictures of dinosaurs when I was a child.) The water monster
beside our boat turned in front of us toward shore, Had it long enough legs
proportionate to its length it might have walked a few steps before diving
under!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16.3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333;">The local indigenous
people have a legend that in ancient history there was a sea monster Yawunik
that ate the local livestock and was chased up the river and back to the lake.
It was eventually killed by a giant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So the lake has a
history . As for the large sturgeon:</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The story of Big
Bertha, a monster of a sturgeon who calls Kootenay Lake home!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
<a href="https://kootenaymountainculture.com/koogopogo-super-sized-sturgeon/"><span style="background: white;">https://kootenaymountainculture.com/koogopogo-super-sized-sturgeon/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How ever most of the sightings do not sound like a
fish but something amphibian. The mystery remains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-61314475265910495862023-07-30T09:10:00.001-07:002023-07-30T09:10:18.442-07:00Giant Turtle or Fish?<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A Giant Turtle?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is said to the
home of a large sea creature called the Moha Moha.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
described as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8 feet wide( 2.7 metres) and
about 5 feet high(1. 6 metres) with a long-necked and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a large, dome-shaped back ending in a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>huge <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tail.Some say it is 30 feet(10 metres) long. Locals
say it is aggressive and had attacked and killed tribe members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">James Cook was said to have seen it in the 1770s
swimming around the ship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1890 a school teacher called Lovell saw it on
Great Sandy Island.It was reported as being seen 9 times over the following
days. In January 1891, an article about the sighting was published in Land and
Water Magazine.It stated the Moha-Moha had a saurian face with teeth. The skin
was glossy and smooth <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and it had no
visible nostrils,Its colour varied from greeny white to shades of grey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1964 Jacob Lack reported seeing a decomposing
carcass on the rocks of the Moha Moha.There is no proof of this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In general the sightings were treated with derision
but the locals believe it exists.It appears to be a combined fish and turtle. I
was reminded of the first descriptions of plesiosaurs from fossil remains as a
snake threaded through a turtle .Food for thought perhaps. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-34998929312446787102023-07-30T09:09:00.002-07:002023-07-30T09:09:23.053-07:00Russian Wild men.<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Russian Bigfoot and Smallfoot?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the Kola Peninsula is said to reside a large
bigfoot like creature called Afonya.Described as 7 or 8 feet (about 2.5 metres)
in height with grayish hair over its body. Its stride is reported to be over 4
feet (1.3 metres) in length and is mainly nocturnal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>legend of
the area talks of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a terrible giant
Kuiva, who in ancient times attacked the inhabitants of the peninsula, another
claims that small people live under the ground there .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1988 six teenagers fishing at Lake Lovozero said
the creature threw stones at their cabin .A local warden /ranger also saw it
and said it had a call like a moo sound.A team of researchers the following year
recorded whistling sounds and saw footprints.The prints were 15 inches (37 cms)
long.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1996, a man looking for pieces of meterorite,illegally,
heard strange sounds near his tent. He claimed he saw three furry creatures with
human faces .He said they had fangs and green eyes and he fled the area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So could both legends be true? Both large and small
human like creatures have been reported.Unfortunately like many of the stories
that come from remote areas it is difficult to get proof.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-88645349278759166272023-07-06T04:04:00.001-07:002023-07-06T04:04:25.291-07:00New film of Canadian Lake Monster ?<p> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Return of a Lake Monster?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">June 23, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A family called
McRae on vacation at Lake Shuswap in British Columbia filmed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what appeared to be a creature that could be a
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lake monster known as Shuswaggi.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
They reported </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">seeing a a
large shape like <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a whale, briefly
surface and then submerge, which caused "these massive ripples" to
radiate from the spot out on the lake.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The subsequent </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">footage largely shows "little
mysterious-looking grey blobs," the protrusions were "as if a circle
was spinning in the water, one hump after another, in a perfect line.When they
saw a motor boat in the area later that day, they were able to compare the wake
that it created and indicated that it paled in comparison to the ripples
created by the creature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can
read the full story and see the video here :<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-vacationing-family-films-legendary-lake-monster-in-canada/">https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-vacationing-family-films-legendary-lake-monster-in-canada/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shuswap Lake is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>located in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>British Columbia, Canada. The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lake consists of four arms, forming the shape of the letter H.It has a
depth of over 500 feet at its deepest point.Shuswap Lake is reputed to
have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a monster called<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shugumu or Shuswaggi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The earliest encounter with the
creature was from a Secwepemc First Nations hunter in 1904 who claimed to have
killed a strange creature in Shuswap Lake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then in 1948, a man fishing on the
lake said<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a large<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>creature swam under his boat, clipping the
bottom and almost tipped it over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On July 27th the same year ,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a farmer by the name of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sinclair had let his cattle out to graze on
his property next to Shuswap Lake. He saw something in the water and as he moved
closer for a better view a large black creature begin to move farther out and
started submerging.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 1970, a family having<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a birthday party next to Shuswap Lake
reported seeing a long, grey-green object moving under the lake water that
appeared to move quickly before rising out of the water, turning around and
heading away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 1984<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Linda Griffiths and her family<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were out on the lake when she saw something
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grabbing her binoculars she saw a
serpent-like creature swim in front of the boat. After the sighting, Linda
described it as being about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>25ft long
with greyish-brown skin and no scales.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2018 Larry Roberts and two others
reported a sighting .It had flat bumps on its back and was estimated to be 60
feet long. You can read his eyewitness report here :
https://pinebarrensinstitute.com/user-submitted-encounters/2018/8/19/user-submitted-cryptid-encounter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On March<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>23rd 2019 Loren and his friend Brodie Blair
,fishermen, were filming another episode of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Two Guys With Flies for their Facebook page when they encountered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the creature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Out of the blue from behind us,
what we heard was almost like the breach of a whale, like the water coming out
of its spout,” Loren told Global News. “As I was videoing my buddy here fishing
I turned the camera around and I started videotaping what we thought was… it
was really weird like waves… but you could see the shininess of the humps.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the video, Blair could be heard
calling what they’re seeing ‘The Shuswaggi’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In May 2019 Dawn Dumont spotted
something in the lake while she was driving her son to an appointment in Salmon
Arm and then again at a public beach in Scotch Creek.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I was kind of hoping to see it again
and to my surprise I think that I did. Whatever it was, it was big. It looked
like there were some kind of black humps. I had seen it twirling around a bit
and then it went under,” Dupont reported.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So does the lake house a serpent
like creature or is it a sturgeon as some claim? Could it be a giant eel or an
unknown creature? The video films are, as usual ,difficult to accurately assess
and could show anything from waves to a monster to birds in formation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-78525791110828733132023-06-30T02:39:00.001-07:002023-06-30T02:40:00.061-07:00Apologies<p> I apologise for the lack of posts in June due to my ill health. The heat wave in the UK did not help. I can only walk with the aid of a walking frame now and rely on morning carers to get me set up for the day.Life is difficult but not impossible. I will endeavor to do better in July. x </p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-41864202858252638452023-05-28T05:05:00.000-07:002023-05-28T05:05:00.339-07:00Lake Travis Monsters and UFOs.<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lake
Travis Strangeness <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lake Travis is a large body of
water <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Texas ,63.75 miles long, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is 210 foot (70 metres) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at its deepest point.It was built as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a reservoir to deal with the Colorado River
flooding the area which was then mostly argricultural.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Pedernales River, a major tributary of the Colorado River, flows into the lake.
Fish in the lake include largemouth bass, guadalupe bass, white bass, striped
bass and catfish .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>September 5,
2020, a boat parade took place . The Travis County Sheriff's office reported
that they had received multiple calls involving boats in distress, and that
several boats had sank.Was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it the wake of
all the boats that caused it or something else?<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 20.4pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #08090e;">Lake
Travis is said to have a mysterious lake monster called <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ole Hippie.The name comes from many supposed
sightings near Lake Travis’s Hippie Hollow area. Many reported sightings in the
early 2000s mention something big below the water’s surface. There have been
old legends about monsters in the area in the rivers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 20.4pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;">On
Saturday, April 4 2009, Steve Jones, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reported seeing a strange creature while
fishing on the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lake.He said it was about 8am and he was in
his boat when a large shadow passed under the boat.He related that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it must have been 50 feet long (approx 16
metres) and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>estimated it was about 20
feet ( 7 metres) below him but the water was murky so difficult to get a clear
view. .It took off at speed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 20.4pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333;">Perhaps
it was a large snake or a catfish. Very large Blue Catfish have been caught in
the area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 20.4pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333;">However
the strangeness doesn’t stop there .</span><span style="color: #08090e;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #08090e; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2007<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a biology professor and a student were at the
lake at night. The professor wanted to test out the flash on his camera so took
a photo. That photo when developed showed a human like figure in the back
ground.Theories abound from a bigfoot type creature, to a mer-being from the
lake to a camper caught unawares with his trousers down.It remains an unsolved
mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #08090e; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UFO sightings have
also been reported around the lake so could it have been extra terrestrial? In
2018, a camper claimed to have filmed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
rod-shaped UFO when visiting the lake. In 2021 NFL player Baker Mayfield and
his wife Emily claimed to have seen something unusual fly over the lake. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #08090e; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have often said on
this blog how some places seem to invite strangeness and maybe Lake Travis is
another of those places.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-22599772382967532222023-05-28T04:27:00.003-07:002023-05-28T04:27:43.479-07:00Loch Long Monster <p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Long Long Mystery <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Loch Long is a body of water in Argyll and Bute,
Scotland. The Sea Loch <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>measures 20 miles
(30 kilometres) in length and is 2 miles (3 kilometres ) wide at its widest.
The loch is joined to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loch Goil, on its
western side.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In September 2022 A “monster”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was photographed in the Loch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Strange
creature spotted in Loch Long could be 'Nessie on holiday'<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jamie
Houghton was bird-watching when he spotted the odd creature breaking the
surface of the loch.A strange creature spotted at one of Scotland's most
popular lochs has led to people asking if Nessie has decided to take a wee
holiday. Jamie Houghton, 50, was bird-watching at Loch Long when he spotted
something odd in the water.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
insurance broker from Derbyshire was shocked when he noticed a commotion on the
surface on the loch, quickly grabbing his phone he was able to capture a few
pics of the creature which appears to have dark mottled skin which is covered
in seaweed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jamie
explained he was visiting the loch in Argyll near the holiday lodges at
Ardgartan in June this year when he snapped the intriguing images.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"It
was difficult to say what size it was as it was some distance away," he
said. "Sort of close to the middle of the Loch, the pictures I took are
zoomed in and cropped heavily on just a basic camera.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">See photo and read rest here :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/strange-creature-spotted-loch-long-28123785">https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/strange-creature-spotted-loch-long-28123785</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However Long
Long has several visitors including grey seals, pilot whales, porpoises, dolphins
and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>even a humpback whale has been
spotted. So the monster could well be the fin or tail of a whale or dolphin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Until you read Loch Goil was also said<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to have a monster.It was called a sea dragon
and according to folklore attacked strangers .A knight may have caused its
demise but very little information is available. A few lines in an old text
written by a traveller.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So a sea creature or a monster? We will see if any
more sightings are reported.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-51837899996711879542023-04-25T04:57:00.003-07:002023-04-25T04:57:44.830-07:00Did a Huge Creature Move this Equipment?<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Who — or what — moved this underwater observatory in the sea off <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Newfoundland?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-top: 10.85pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An underwater observatory was disconnected last
month and found 225 metres (75 yards)from its usual spot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 17.55pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">“You'd think an underwater observatory that weighs over a
ton, is the size of a car and is tethered to fibre optic cable would stay put
on the sea floor of Holyrood Arm, right?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 17.55pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">Well, it hasn't — and researchers at the Marine
Institute are left trying to figure out who, or what, moved it."We really
don't know what happened. And there's been all kind of discussion around
everything from, you know, the ice somehow impacting it. but of course … we're
down almost 300 feet. There was no ice there doing that," Bill Carter,
director of the Institute's Centre for Applied Ocean Technology,
said Wednesday."There's also been discussion around marine animals,
and could they have impacted that? And who knows at this point?"<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 17.55pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">The observatory had been stationary on the sea floor
since February 2021, Carter said, but its video feed was acting up around
4 a.m. on March 27.One hour later, the feed was clear but wasn't shooting where
it should be. Shortly after, Carter said, the observatory lost power and all
communication with researchers."We've managed to get out with, I guess,
three trips with autonomous, remote-operated vehicles," he said."We
found the fibre optic cable and all was looking good with it. And when we
finally traced our way out 4½ kilometres, the cable itself was sitting
there but there was no observatory on the end of it.… [We] went back down on
that mark with an ROV and discovered our observatory upside down on
the sea floor."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 17.55pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">The observatory was located 225 metres from its original
position, Carter said.He said it's not uncommon for equipment to move around in
bodies of water but he's perplexed as to what could have ripped the
cable and shifted the observatory that far."It's … really important
to get this thing back and repaired and back in position," Carter said."But
I think the message really at the end of the day [is] working on the ocean is a
complicated thing. And, you know, it's never predictable."Carter says
researchers have been able to get a line out to the observatory and are
waiting on ideal weather conditions to pull it from Holyrood Arm and assess the
damage.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 17.55pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">While the mystery remains, though, he's just happy they
were able to get it back."You somewhat get used to losing stuff. But it's
never a good feeling," he said."Fortunately I guess in my career I've
always been fortunate enough to find the stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 17.55pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">Source:</span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/marine-institute-observatory-1.6815839">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/marine-institute-observatory-1.6815839</a></span></i></p>
<p class="c-article-bodytext" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">There
is a long history of sea monster sightings in the Newfoundland seas, see links
below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/10/here-be-sea-monsters-legends-of.html">https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/10/here-be-sea-monsters-legends-of.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2010/06/old-sea-serpent-reports.html">https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2010/06/old-sea-serpent-reports.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2010/07/bonavista-newfoundland-sea-creature.html">https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2010/07/bonavista-newfoundland-sea-creature.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-fortune-bay-sea-serpent-1997.html">https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-fortune-bay-sea-serpent-1997.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To say nothing of the famous lake monster:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/11/cressie-of-crescent-lake-monster-eel.html">https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/11/cressie-of-crescent-lake-monster-eel.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So could a huge creature be responsible for moving
the equipment, after all it was encroaching on its territory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-54602418746531121682023-04-14T06:47:00.000-07:002023-04-14T06:47:02.833-07:00New Nessie Sightings <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nessie seen again in UK and USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nessie
‘sighting’ as tourist snaps mysterious shape with ‘huge neck’ on Loch Ness<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John Payne, 55, from Newport in Wales, was admiring
the scenery from his hotel window (Foyers area )when he noticed some strange
movement on the loch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.45pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #141414;">John said: "I was
looking out at the scenery from the window and this huge thing just appeared
out of nowhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.45pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #141414;">"I tried to get a
picture but it was gone and then it popped up again further down the loch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.45pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #141414;">"I took another
picture and then zoomed in on my camera in and waited to see if it would appear
again and it did.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.45pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #141414;">"It must have
been something very large because we were about a mile away from the loch and I
could see it clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.45pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #141414;">"You wouldn't
have been able to see a bird or anything from that far away - it had to be
something large.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Source ..read more see photos here :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/nessie-sighting-tourist-snaps-mysterious-29688248">https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/nessie-sighting-tourist-snaps-mysterious-29688248</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
is different here is that Nessie is described as having a huge neck, normally
it is thought to have a slender neck.Perhaps it was not the head end but the
rear end or a fin? Explanations put forward include a shadow on the water and a
bird in flight.Have a look and make your own mind up.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mean
while in the USA:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mystery
'Loch Ness' Fish Sets New Orleans Fishermen Buzzing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A bizarre creature spotted splashing in a lagoon in
New Orleans City Park has mystified locals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A video of the aquatic enigma posted online by the
local Early Partners preschool shows the animal floating at the surface of the
water, initially still, before it's seen slowly swimming off into the distance."We
looked into the water and saw a mysterious serpent-like creature. It is nothing
I have seen before land or sea," Kim Frusciante, a founder of the school,
told news station WGNO. Frusciante spotted the creature while visiting the park
with her family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My children were a combination of terrified and
excited as many children would be seeing a beast in City Park," she said.
"It was quite long. I have a 4-year-old slightly smaller than it and it
was weaving on the surface and [had] a lot of scales. The tail was red and it
was swishing around aimlessly hanging out on the surface much longer than a
normal fish."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One commenter claimed
that they had seen the very same creature the week before in the same location,
and were surprised that it was still alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Source and read rest
here :</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-creature-new-orleans-loch-ness-monster-1793882">https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-creature-new-orleans-loch-ness-monster-1793882</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Does
New Orleans have its own Nessie or is it as some say just a large carp? It is described
as serpent like which would suggest a snake not a fish.What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-34825421508895327572023-03-30T04:45:00.005-07:002023-03-30T04:45:56.232-07:00Wolverhampton Big Cat<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wolverhampton Panther<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There have been reports for some years of an alien
big cat in the Wolverhampton area.Some say it was a pet released into the wild
when the laws changed over the keeping of wild animals domestically.This report
from 1994 is very dramatic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Black cat
attacks hunters<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3 style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">From the
Wolverhampton Express and Star, 1st February 1994<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="background: white; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">An
article reported that a black cat the size of a Great Dane had attacked an
alien big cat hunter Nick Dyke and a female<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>companion in a churchyard at Inkberrow, Mr Dyke and his companion were
trying to attract <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the animal with dead
chickens when it leapt into a nearby tree. According to Mr. Dyke, the cat <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slammed into his head and shoulders, sending
him flying backwards, then reared up and lashed out at his companion, gashing
her rib cage before running away</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was unable to find out any further information.The
story continues however over a number of years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In 2001 a large black
cat was reported as being seen in Prints Wombourne, near Wolverhampton .Then
large cat like paw prints <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were found in
a garden in the village.The same year in Astley, near Stourbridge a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>large cat was seen and people reported hearing
strange rasping and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>growling noises in
the trees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The headlines continued:</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Panther-like
cat spotted in Wolverhampton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wolverhampton News Published: Nov 5, 2010</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A large panther-like
cat has been spotted in Wolverhampton, alarming eye-witnesses who have warned
local dog-walkers to be cautious.Police are investigating the sighting in
Wednesfield after retired union officer Andrew Hall alerted them to the
potential danger. The 55-year-old was on the phone in his kitchen when he saw
what he thought was a black bin liner stuck in a tree beyond his back garden.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #212529;">"But as I talked I saw the shape move and realised
that it was a living creature, about as big as a German Shepherd," said Mr
Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212529;">"People
will probably think I'm a nutter but it was definitely a cat by the way it moved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212529;">In
Himley, near Dudley - A puma-like cat was spotted in the area. Around the same
time two sheep were found savaged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then in 2018 :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A mysterious creature which some believe could be a lion, has been
filmed roaming the streets of a West Midlands town.Dawn Paige said she got the
"shock of my life" when she spotted the animal as she checked her
security camera footage after someone had moved her bins at her home in
Oldbury, near Birmingham.<span style="background: white;"> Standing at around a
metre tall, the creature which moves in a manner reminiscent of a </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/big-cats"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">big cat</span></a><span style="background: white;">, appears to
have a long tail.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;">Source: <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birmingham-big-cat-cctv-footage-oldbury-west-midlands-dawn-paige-a8357441.html"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birmingham-big-cat-cctv-footage-oldbury-west-midlands-dawn-paige-a8357441.html</span></a></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="story-content-text" style="background: white;">Panthers can live up to 23
years old in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>captivity but tend to only
survive 12 -15 years in the wild. However they would have no natural predators in
the UK.So it could possibly be the same animal but unlikely.What do you think
mistaken identity or living Panther ?<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-41293889076521809122023-03-30T04:44:00.002-07:002023-03-30T04:44:27.005-07:00Mexico Lake Monster?<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lake Monster or Something Else?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An intriguing story about a Lake monster in Mexico
has been in the news.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">New
Loch Ness monster 'spotted' by swimmers with police now searching lake<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Story
by Christopher Sharp <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Extract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.express.co.uk/latest/mexico" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mexico</span></a><span style="background: white;"> are searching for
a </span><a href="https://www.express.co.uk/latest/loch-ness-monster" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Loch Ness</span></a><span style="background: white;">-style
monster they say could be living in a reservoir near a dam in the city of
Atizapan de Zaragoza. The creature has reportedly been seen by locals swimming
in the lake. According to reports, the civic leaders and police have been
inundated with sightings. One photo which is believed to show the monster has
gone viral after being posted on the local town hall website.</span> The
photograph appears to reveal what appears to be a dark body which could have a
fin or a curved back coming from the waters of Madin Dam Basin.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Local town hall
officials have now ordered police to patrol the lake and find out the cause of
the sightings.<span style="background: white;"> Local media quoted Atizapan Town
Hall who said in a statement: "This fact adds to comments from residents
of Atizapan, who assure that a dinosaur lives at the bottom of the dam, which
protects the place.</span><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Some believe it
could be a huge crocodile or a large blob of faeces from sewage water.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nevertheless, local
authorities are taking the matter seriously and aim to get to the bottom of the
sightings.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/new-loch-ness-monster-spotted-by-swimmers-with-police-now-searching-lake/ar-AA18TvvY?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2ab84d72beef4b00bdc188dc6c6eb9f2&ei=27">https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/new-loch-ness-monster-spotted-by-swimmers-with-police-now-searching-lake/ar-AA18TvvY?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2ab84d72beef4b00bdc188dc6c6eb9f2&ei=27</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 11.55pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 18.35pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From the local Paper:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 11.55pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 18.35pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reports
of a strange animal in the Madín Dam, the municipal police of Atizapán
announced that they will do special rounds.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 17.65pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The municipality of Atizapán de Zaragoza, in the State of
Mexico, declared that it has received news of several alleged sightings of a
large animal in the Madín Dam. Presumably, the neighbors would point out that
it is a “dinosaur”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 17.65pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The strange report was made on March 19 through the
municipality’s official Facebook account. According to the publication, local
authorities received intriguing reports about an animal in the dam.Neighbors of
the area surrounding the Madín Dam reported the sighting of a large silhouette
in the depths of the aquatic body.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The government of Atizapán also pointed out
that several inhabitants “say that a dinosaur dedicated to protecting the place
lives at the bottom of the dam.” Therefore, the local government will carry out
patrols around the dam: , others commented that for at least 30 years there
have been suspicions of “a large carp” living in the dam, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://mexicodailypost.com/2023/03/26/neighbors-affirm-that-there-is-a-dinosaur-in-atizapan-dam/">https://mexicodailypost.com/2023/03/26/neighbors-affirm-that-there-is-a-dinosaur-in-atizapan-dam/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Science however may have the answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";"> “It was found that the polluted water of the Madín Dam
gave rise to embryolethality, embryotoxicity, congenital abnormalities, and
oxidative stress on the common carp embryos.”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31103011/">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31103011/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I suspect a mutated large fish is the resident of
the dam rather than a dinosaur. What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613552758192348612.post-5477676393722510552023-02-02T04:18:00.001-08:002023-02-02T04:18:41.034-08:00Wolf Pond Giant Snake?<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Wolf Pond Reptile</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wolf Pond is a fishing lake in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.A
30 foot(10 metres) long creature is said to live there. Last reported in the
1800’s. It's described as black with
yellow bands and a green head, and measured about 6 feet ( 2 metres) wide.One fisherman was said to have panicked
on seeing it and he tried to hit it with an oar.The creature capsized his boat
before disappearing back into the lake.It is mentioned in a book by Charles Skinner “ Buried Treasure and Storied
Waters” written in the 1900s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It appeared to be a
huge snake. Snakes are present in the area but none that large.Could it have
been an aberration ,a one off that grew very large? No recent sightings have
been recorded</span>Tabitcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.com0