The Ngani-vatu Killer Bird.

 

The Ngani-vatu 

Ngani-vatu  is a huge bird from Fijian lore. Said to carry off people and animals to devour and able to block out the sun with its wings.  Male birds have  a light green back, while females are  a light brown hue. Sounds like prehistoric giant terror birds,the phorusrhacids,except they were flightless.

A story from local legend.

Okova and Tutu-wathiwathi, a married couple, were out fishing in their boat when the ngani-vatu swooped from the sky and carried Tutu-wathiwathi away. Okova went  to enlist the help of his p brother in law , Rokoua., to pursue the bird. They followed  the bird to its home  home on the island of Sawa-i-Lau, but were too late. All they found left of Tutu-wathiwathi were her fingers -. They swore revenge, and the two lay in wait.The ngani-vatu eventually returned, with a load of prey and began to eat. Okova and Rokoua plunged their spears into it . The bird collapsed, causing an avalanche, but the two managed to escape.

Sounds like the thunderbirds sighted in the USA . There are reports of giant birds from all over the world. Mistaken identity or prehistoric survivors..what do you think?

Zeegangsa of Indonesia.

 

Zeegangsa

A Zeegangsa is a water dwelling  cryptid that is said to live  in the Kali Miring River in Java, Indonesia.

In  1907, some  British businessmen working  in Surabaya, Java, went on a trip  crocodile hunting on the Kali Miring River.

Sitting in a boat near the mouth of the river, they saw something like  a swan's head appeared out of the water on the east bank . The group thought it was a dead tree trunk, but when they looked closed   they discovered that the top of the object had a mouth that opened and closed with teeth. The helmsman saw a crescent-shaped object protruding from the water on the starboard side, which he thoughts  was the creature's tail. They estimated it be  about 9 metres ( 27 feet) long between its head and its  tail.

One of the group shot at  the monster with a crocodile  gun. The bullet appeared to hit the creature and it slowly disappeared into the water. They told their story to a local  fisherman, who told them that it was a creature called Zeegangsa, a mild and harmless river-dwelling creature.

It sounded like many aquatic cryptids ,a sort of plesiosaur shape but not aggressive. A creature worth studying  and perhaps in the future someone may do so.

The Gyedarra.,Australian Cryptid.

 Gyedarra

The gyedarra is a cryptid that has been said to live in Queensland  Australia. The local indigenous people describe it as a giant wombat ,the size of  a horse,that lived near water holes.

 It  has stocky legs and is a herbivore. Mainly a solitary creature it was seen digging in creek beds for vegetable matter and plants.

A man from Gowrie Station in Queensland  was shown the fossilized bones of  a Diprotodon  in 1871 and identified them as the bones of a gyedarra.. The Diprotodon was thought to be extinct about 10,000years ago. The Wiradjuri people, who live near Gowrie Station, said the Gyedarra are now rare animals,

In June  1997, a man called  John claimed to have seen a giant wombat-like creature while driving in  New South Wales. The animal walked out of the bush in front of him and he had to brake suddenly. The  creature  turned to face him . He said it looked like a very large  wombat, with dark fur and long limbs. Afraid John fled at speed .

In 2001, a woman  named as Claire said she saw an unusual animal near Foster, Victoria. Walking through a thicket, a dark brown, long-limbed, tailless animal roughly the size of a sheep run across in front of her.She was left shaken.

So could the Diprotodon still be living in the Australian bush? Many animals thought to be extinct have been discovered  again in recent years,so it is a possibility