Saturday, 30 June 2018
update
I apologise for lack of posts and news but I have been quite ill and things have been very difficult. Not least because I was sent to physio to help with my arthritis and ended up with torn ligaments and unable to put any weight on my left leg for three months. I am hoping to get things back together by autumn and maybe even to write again. Thanks to all those who have stuck around.,it is appreciated.xx
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
Albanian Nessie?
Bizarre creature caught on camera in Albania, is it
the European version of the Loch Ness monster?
A CENTRAL European version
of the Loch Ness monster has been caught on camera according to local residents
in Albania.
The
creature was filmed in the Albanian section of the Great Prespa Lake, which is
shared by Albania, Greece and Macedonia.
The
footage, which appears to show the head and neck of a large creature emerging
from the water, is proving popular with viewers online.
The
silhouette resembling the infamous “surgeon’s photograph” hoax in Loch Ness can
be seen moving up and down before disappearing beneath the water.
And
believers claim it matches up with another clip from five years ago said to
show the “beast” in the Greek section of the lake, near the village of Nivica.
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
another Nessie sighting
MONSTER SURPRISE
Loch Ness monster spotted by stunned newly weds spot on their honeymoon – after spate of seven new sightings
Newly wed Rebecca Stewart was touring with husband Paul when she became the seventh person to spot Nessie this year.
Mrs Stewart from Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, photographed and saw the large fin shape for five minutes.
Her husband also saw the creature which gatecrashed their honeymoon.
Shop manager Mrs Stewart's sighting on Monday at Fort Augustus has now been accepted by the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register.
"It was hard to tell on size, however birds would fly near it and (they) looked very small in comparison to the thing in the water. We were on the pier and the thing was over near what looks like a small boat house. Birds would fly near it and quickly fly away from it," she said in her report.
"A boat came from the canal and the thing then disappeared. We didn't have binoculars unfortunately and I used my iPhone to take the photos.
/https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4629942/loch-ness-monster-spotted-honeymoon-latest-sightings/
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
New hunt for Nessie.
Could
a Kiwi finally find the Loch Ness Monster?
A New Zealand scientist hunting for the world's most famous
marine monster has begun his journey in Scotland.Neil Gemmel of Otago
University has visited Loch Ness to get the lay of the lake, meet the people
he'll be working with and take stock of the massive task ahead on the loch.
Professor Gemmel is planning to trawl the loch for DNA -
excrement, urine, dandruff, skin cells etc - and it's never been done before."You
don't believe in Nessie as such, but is there a little bit of you - my inner
child - hoping that you might find evidence," says Professor Gemmel."Of
course, we're always excited about the prospect of discovering something new, I
suspect there are new things to be found."
Read rest here:
Thursday, 3 August 2017
A cryptid or mutant toads ?
Richard Muirhead kindly sent me these two strange stories
of animals of peculiar appearance found in the 1600s.The first was written by
Roger L’Estrange who you can find more about here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_L%27Estrange#Family_life
The story is some men out fishing came across a
strange creature and is as follows :
“whilst he had the liberty of viewing this
monstrous creature, which he found to have all the parts of a Toad and
more; therefore having com∣petent skill in Limning,
and having the advantage of Pen∣cil and Paper about him,
did with all exactness Draw this strange Animal,
which from his own hands came to mine, whose Description you shall now have,
and when the En∣graver with whom the
figure is, has finished it, that shall be also presented to you.
This
Creature was in Length exactly Fourteen Inches: as it Sat it was Ten Inches and
a Half over; upon the hinder parts of his Back, and the fore-part eight and a
Barley Corn, how high it might stand he knew not, for it sat all the while
crooling down; its nose was as black as jet, proportionable to the rest of its
body, and of each side adorn'd with Bri∣stles; under his
Eyes was a perfect Seaming made Cistern-fashion, of a Green colour, whilst his
eyes most delicately beautiful, seem'd to drop that way; over which were placed
bristles of a muddy green; under his Gills were Flapps like two scollop shells,
of the Colour of a Gurnets fins, admirably blew and shining, & always
expanded; under them were two Pouches or Bladders, of a deep Orange colour,
larger then the Fins, being a big as ordinary Pear∣plumbs, and something of that figure▪ the head had a
Sea-Green scaly Armour on, which ran along itsback within four Inches of its
tail; the hinder-part was covered with perfect Hair, but dusky, hoary co∣loured, of the same manner was that as went along the sides
and feet. But what is yet most strange, is his Tail, which was thrice as long
as its body, which it wore on its back, somthing like the True-Loves∣knot, and tho' it seem'd so intricate, yet when he of∣fred to turn this creature on its back to view its bel∣ly, it flung its Tail as sudden as the jirk of a Coach∣mans Whip, & had not he stood sideways, he might have
had too much cause to have repented his cu∣riosity; but as
it hapned it's tail fell into a slit of that stone which was its former
Mansion, and though the poor Creature strove hard, yet it could not re∣lease it thus engag'd; upon which there appeared as close
as might be, onely reckonable, a hundred ninety seaven scaly rings, jetty,
black, and shining, which he made a shift by this means to reckon, and may be
guess'd to be the indications of its Annual extension; at the end of the Tail was
a forked sting, within an Inch of which was a small Pouch, of the colour of Gum
Bugiae.
The
Gentleman finding his Over-grown Toad in this posture, would have gagg'd the
Toad, but no sooner had he touch'd its Nose, but it recoil'd back∣wards, even off the Stone, which it seem'd so to Hatch, and
Cherish before. But there being an un∣fortunatehollow
or miss of ground, where this rare Animal falling, & not coming quick
enough to the ground, the said Satchel or Pouch neer the sting broke, out of
which there issued the most Diapha∣nous Yellow
Liquor as ever was seen, deeply stain∣ing the stone,
upon which the Toad that then hung above-ground fell down, his Tail freely
coming to him; which he had not enjoy'd above three Mi∣nutes e're he departed this scurvy world: but before it
received its change, it gave three such shrieks that the stranger was not onely
forc'd to stop his ears: But this Lamentable Dirge, forc'd the Neigbours out of
their Houses: He perceiving the Creature quite dead, took a fresh resolution,
and turn'd it up∣on its back, and found its belly
to be as white as the driven snow; cover'd with a most delightful down: about
that time when he was busie viewing this pleasing Object, his Nose was
surpriz'd with a most ungrateful Stench, which he found to proceed from that
Limpid Yellow substance that the Toad had spilt, in which (it seems) its Seal
of Life was plac'd. Just at its Departure its Head mov'd, and it vomited forth
a Triangular Stone, being an Inch from each Angle, and in Depth according,
which he drew to him with a Staff, keeping his Fingers upon his Nose”
The
second story also concerns a toad like creature:
The
letter from Thomas Flatman to his brother is dated 25.09.1662 and is in the
Bodleian Library Oxford. He described a
strange serpent a yard and a half long with a head like a toad. It had a large
yellow ring about its neck and four yellow legs and wings like a bat. It was
covered in thick scales and had been seen eating a water hen. It seemed to like
the sunshine.
So were
the creatures a cryptid, an unknown creature or simply a normal animal misidentified?
The second sounds like a flying lizard, the first I have no idea .
WW1 sub attacked by sea monster found
The Crew Of This WW1 Sub Claimed They Were Attacked
By A Sea Monster – Now The Wreck Has Been Found
While laying an
undersea power line, Scottish engineers discovered a World War I German
submarine on the sea floor. Experts believe that the wreck is UB-85, a German
U-boat which the rescued crew claimed was attacked and sunk by a sea monster.
It’s a story that has been
repeated through the years, but one historian isn’t buying it. He
believes the story owes more to stories told and retold in the 20s than to the
facts of the war. Innes McCartney, a historian and marine archaeologist at
Bournemouth University, believes credulous journalists are to blame for
spreading the story.
The story goes like this: Captain Günther
Krech and his crew were captured by the crew of the British warship HMS Coreopsis on
April 30, 1918. When questioned, the captain said that their submarine
was no longer able to dive because a beast jumped out of the water and damaged
their vessel. He described a monster with horns, small eyes that were set
deep in his head, and masses of monstrous teeth. When the creature climbed
up the side of the ship, its weight pulled the boat onto its side. The
crew was forced to surrender to the British. They abandoned ship and
scuttled the boat.
Read rest here :
Read more on the sea monster story here :
Sunday, 16 July 2017
News of the Lake Norman Creature
Another clue emerges on Lake Norman ‘monster’ with report of ‘enormous
fish’
A report this month that yet
another person saw a “dinosaur” in the murky waters of man-made Lake Norman has
prompted someone else to step forward with a clue about what the creature might
be.In a July 14 posting on the official LakeNormanMonster.com website,
a diver from Clemmons claims to have seen an “enormous” fish in the lake 20
years ago. The diver, who didn’t give a name, said he was looking for old
bottles among the buildings that were submerged when the lake was first
created.Adding to the creepiness factor: His light found the fish in the black
waters inside one of those submerged buildings, he wrote.
“It was...at least 8 feet long and 3 feet across
the mouth,” posted the diver. “We hovered in the water for a good 5 minutes
with our lights on it, not believing what we were seeing. I’ve never seen a
freshwater fish that big...The only thing it did was to pump it’s gills and
open and shut it’s mouth slowly, like it didn’t even see us.”
He guesses it may have been a
cat fish “a damn big, scary one too.” It could be the monster, he suggested.“That
fish might be a lot bigger in the 20 odd years since,” the diver wrote.
Speculation of the possible origin of the fabled
“monster” has increased in the past week, after a web site called CryptoZoology.com reported
a 35-year-old Mecklenburg County man claimed he saw a “dinosaur-like creature”
two weeks ago while traveling on a boat with friends.The man described the
creature as “splashing around in the water,” 10-feet-long and reminiscent of
the mythical Loch Ness monster. It was visible for about a minute before
dropping below the surface, he told the website.
Doubters believe the creature – if there is one
at all – is a giant catfish or even an alligator, a species that is rare in
local waters.“Couldn’t this be a sturgeon?” asked one skeptic on
LakeNormanMonster.com. “They get MASSIVE and do closely resemble that of a croc
with the spines on their back and large bumpy scales.”
The Observer has covered the ongoing Lake Norman
sightings, which date back nearly 50 years.A few dozen witnesses have posted
sightings on LakeNormanMonster.com. Descriptions range from a dinosaur-like
monster to a giant snake with fins... and thick whiskers.Most describe the
creature, called Normie, as looking like the famed Loch Ness monster that
allegedly inhabits Loch Ness in
the Scottish Highlands.A
page is devoted to The Lake Norman Monster on the web
site UnknownExplorers.com, and it notes there is no physical evidence
to support the existence of a monster living in Lake Norman. The site
speculates the sightings could involve a giant catfish or alligator gar.“Descriptions
of Normie vary from sighting to sighting, and range from a crocodilian like
creature to the more classic three humped serpent,” says UnknownExplorers.com. “Most
that have seen the Lake Norman Monster seem to agree that the beast is more
fish like, with a slender body, thick whisker like appendages, flippers and a ragged
looking dorsal fin.”
More on the Lake Norman monster here:
http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/lake-norman-monster.html
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