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Many great texts free to read.
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Update on Yeti Expedition.

A team from Monster Quest History Channel, visited Chokpot, Silkigre, Siju, Rongsu and Rongrigittim villages and interviewed eyewitnesses and villagers, who had encountered a Mande Burung(Yeti). They also visited Nokrek National Park, and other adjoining areas where the Mande Burung is believed to have sighted.

The camera crew was equipped with various types of cameras and electronic gadgets including solar powered motion activated cameras, GPRS based digital still camera, GPS - global positioning system, high definition professional broadcast cameras, animal scent baits, electronic animal baits, etc.

The Centaur Adventure Team accompanied the History Channel for the filming. Dipu Marak, a Mande Burung enthusiast said, “We have provide the channel with all the video tapes of the earlier sighting, photographs, bone samples,a few strands of a suspected hair sample and a blood sample for DNA testing and identifications.”

The results should make interesting reading!

more Big cats

Fresh sightings of a mysterious big black cat in north Norfolk have made the news.
Andy Blake, says he spotted the creature in the field at the front of the Muckleburgh Collection museum last June.
He said: “We were driving past about 5.30pm on a summer's evening and about 100 rabbits in the field with a tank in it suddenly scattered. I slowed down and we saw this dark grey animal, about 12 feet long, run across the field and jump clean over two 4ft-high fences.

“The only time I've seen anything like it was when I was younger and saw the black panther in the Jungle Book film,” said Mr Blake, of Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester. “I did not know about these big-cat sightings in the past, but we have now spending more time here and saw the headlines.”

There have also been reported sightings of big black cats near Aylsham and Aylmerton in recent weeks. Is a large cat on the prowl in the area? The dark grey colour is a confusing issue. Not sure there are dark grey large cats in the world.Black would have indiacted a puma/ panther type beast.The Big Cat Conference is taking place in Middlesbrough on 20th-22cnd March, wonder if this will be mentioned?
www.bigcatsinbritain.org
For details of conference.

Here be monsters:sea serpent sightings

There is a history of sea serpent sightings. Here are some of the most well known.

On August 6th, 1848, the Royal Navy frigate HMS Daedalus was cruising near the Cape of Good Hope when the Officer of Watch spotted an object in the sea. He drew the attention of the Captain and several crew members on deck to it. It was a large sea snake, or sea serpent, that they estimated to be sixty feet long, 15 inches in diameter, and moved through the sea with it's head some four feet out of the water.

1937 Alfred Peterson, a nurse aboard a British troopship in the China Sea, spotted what at first he thought was a big tree floating in the sea. A few minutes later it was still there, keeping pace with the ship. It was a 25 foot long, grey-black, body with a head shaped like a giraffe.

The most accepted sighting to date was by three fellows of the Zoological Society of London. Their account of "a creature of most extraordinary form and proportions" is recorded in the 1906 edition of the Society's Proceedings and in Nicoll's 1908 book Three Voyages of A Naturalist.On December 7, 1905, at 10:15 AM, Nicoll and Meade-Waldo were on a research cruise aboard the yacht Valhalla. Fifteen miles east of the mouth of Brazil's Parahiba River, Nicoll spotted a large dorsal fin which "resembled that of no fish I had previously seen."Nicoll turned to his companion and asked, "Is that the fin of a great fish?" Meade-Waldo looked. The fin was cruising past them about a hundred yards from the yacht. Meade-Waldo described it as "dark seaweed-brown, somewhat crinkled at the edge." The visible part of the fin was roughly rectangular, about six feet long and eighteen inches to two feet high.Meade-Waldo turned his binoculars on the object, and immediately a head on a long neck rose from the water in front of the frill. He estimated the neck was "about the thickness of a slight man's body, and from 7 to 8 feet was out of the water; head and neck were all about the same thickness."The head had a very turtle-like appearance, as also the eye," Meade-Waldo wrote of the incident. It moved its head and neck from side to side in a peculiar manner: the color of the head and neck was dark brown above, and whitish below-almost white, I think."The neck threw up a significant wave where it entered the water, and Nicoll noted that, "Below the water we could indistinctly see a very large brownish-black patch, but could not make out the shape of the creature."Nicoll added, "This creature was an example, I consider, of what has been so often reported, for want of a better name, as the 'great sea-serpent.'"In a 1929 letter to sea-serpent writer Rupert T. Gould, Meade-Waldo added that "I will never forget poor Nicoll's face of amazement when we looked at each other after we had passed out of sight of it."The sighting lasted for several minutes. At 2:00 AM on December 8th, however, three crewmembers saw what appeared to be the same animal, almost entirely submerged, overtaking and passing the Valhalla at a speed of about nine knots.

Most people would accept this account as genuine as the fellows concerned were naturalists and scientists, one would hope not easily fooled by seeing a mating whale or other such explanations given for sea serpent sightings.

I wonder if there have been any more modern sightings That have not been recorded?

more big cats!

There has been a sighting of a big cat in Kent and a footprint found. More details see the link below.







http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=57459

and in the Lincolnshire wolds
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1138110/Do-huge-paw-prints-s


Another print was found in the snow and a big cat seen in Sleights near Whitby in North Yorkshire.
I used to live in Sleights and our house backed onto fields and it was surrounded by country a big cat could survive in. It's not that far from Scarborough where there is a Zoo/ theme park. it is possible that a big cat escaped at some point but it wasn't reported or perhaps not noticed and is living in the area. However it is also very cold there and has been cut off by snow before. The question is would a cat from a warmer climate survive in the snow? There are lots of farms around the area and barns to shelter in. I would have thought though there would have been reports of sheep being attacked. An interesting one with lots of Hows and whys? How is it surviving and why is it staying in that area? Why has it not been seen more often and why no reports of sheep being attacked or hen coops being raided? Maybe some more reports will surface to answer those questions. Time will tell.

Japanese Lake monster?

Over a cryptomundo a very nice piece on the Japanese lake monster "Mossie"

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/mossie/

Isn't interesting that all lake monster sightings have similarities. Compare the the eye witness testimony in the piece to Loch Ness sightings and Ogopogo sightings. It certainly makes you think.Most of the lakes are of a similar type, formed in similar ways , and have similar phenomena.They can't all be caused by optical illusion or mass hysteria surely? Maybe something similar evolved in all this type of lake, all over the world. What is needed is someone to sponsor a proper expedition to all the lakes to find out.Same old song.

Belief in Yeti?

David Attenborough confesses on the Johnathan Ross show that he isn't sure if the Yeti may exist.No denial of it's existance but he confesses to confusion as he states convincing footprints have been found.
Link to Cryptomundo version of the story below.
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/attenborough-yeti/

Maybe it is time some money was invested in a proper expedition to find out.The BBC could pay for the exclusive footage and maybe the Natural History Museum could also spare some funds.A proper scientific investigation ,could decide the question once and for all:Does the Yeti exist or is it just a folk tale.