The Lake Worth Goat Man story

A very comprehensive article on the Lake Worth Goat Man

Lake Worth Monster Revealed? 

Forty years later, developments shed new light

on the legend of the “Goat Man.” 

by E.R. Bills

 

see here: http://fwtx.com/content.php?page=cms&id=44

 

a loch ness timeline

I found this yesterday. A sort of timeline of sightings on Loch Ness. Worth a look :

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=loch+ness+monster+sightings&hl=en&sa=X&tbs=tl:1&tbo=u&ei=rn_JS-7xGpe80gTY5-zHBA&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=17&ved=0CD8Q5wIwEA

Giant Shark or Monster?

A MONSTER hammerhead shark caught off the NSW north coast could soon become a Queensland tourism attraction. Famed Hervey Bay shark hunter Vic Hislop has bought the 1200kg, 5m monster and this week transported the amazing catch to Queensland. The huge shark made headlines in northern NSW last month when it was caught by a fishing boat four nautical miles off the coast of Evans Head. It had eaten a smaller shark hooked by the fishing boat and then became trapped itself. At 5m long, the shark is longer than a family car and could probably comfortably fit a few family members inside its massive belly. Researchers estimate the shark was at least 40 years old. Speaking to The Courier-Mail , Mr Hislop said he had not decided whether to house the spectacular specimen at his Hervey Bay shark show. "It's a magnificent specimen that's for sure," he said. "I haven't decided what I am going to do with it yet though. "If I keep it there (at the shark museum) I will freeze it first." Some species of hammerheads are on the global endangered list, but they are rarely implicated in attacks on humans. Although that would be of little comfort to someone faced with a shark bigger than most Great Whites, the most feared of all sharks. And Mr Hislop had even more chilling news. "That's not the biggest one I've seen either," he said. "I've caught bigger."

Source plus photo:

 http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/monster-hammerhead-shark-heads-to-queensland/story-e6freoof-1225853776227

Read the comments below the article . The term monster I agree is not helpful. I am not sure it should be applied to a known creature , or any creature for that matter, but the media leads us that way.The first time the Loch Ness creature was called "monster" was by the press In saying that I would not want to meet a creature 5 metres( 15 feet) long in the water!. 

  An article  apparently about our 10 favourite monsters:

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/top-10-monsters-1.html

 

Interesting bigfoot story

Could there be interbreeding between bigfoot and humans?

This story has appeared over at Phantoms and Monsters(A good site btw)

http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2010/04/villagers-remember-descendants-of.html

It leads to a link to this story of supposed bigfoot descendants. Read it and see what you think:

http://www.hominology.narod.ru/zanai.htm

Wild woman, supposed relict hominoid, captured somewhere in a forest and having given birth from a local man in Abkhazia in the eve of 19th sentury

By Igor Burtsev, translated by Dmitri Bayanov

A P.S. I did wonder looking at the photos of the sons if they were suffering from acromegaly,a disease which causes gigantism or abnormal growth including distorted facial features. It is genetic. It would explain how they looked and also why they were not hairy like bigfoot. It may have been the villagers way of explaining the deformities and they were not children of a bigfoot at all. Just a thought.  

Loch Treig monsters frighten divers.

Loch Treig is a freshwater loch east of Fort William, in Lochaber, Scotland. There are no roads that run alongside the loch but there is  the West Highland Railway Line which runs along the  eastern bank. Loch Treig is accessible only by a single track road which ends before the dam at the north end. There is a tidal nature to Loch Treig ,the causes of  this tidal effect are the wind acting on the surface of the east west orientated Loch and thermal stratification. Surface oscillations(Seiches), are seen on the loch. The building of the Laggan dam by Balfour Beatty which is 700feet (213metres) long and 180feet (55metres) high, is part of the hydro electric scheme in the area. 1933 Mr B. N. Peach an engineer in charge of the hydro electric  scheme claimed some of the divers working on the project had said there were monsters inn the depths and had left or asked to be moved to other jobs.

There is a long history of kelpies or water horses in the Loch:

The Rev. Dr. Stewart gives the following particulars about water-horses and water-bulls in his "Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe." They are thought of "as, upon the whole, of the same shape and form as the more kindly quadrupeds after whom they have been named, but larger, fiercer, and with an amount of `devilment' and cunning about them, of which the latter, fortunately, manifest no trace. They are always fat and sleek, and so full of strength and spirit and life that the neighing of the one and the bellowing of the other frequently awake the mountain echoes to their inmost recesses for miles and miles around. . . Calves and foals are the result of occasional intercourse between these animals and their more civilised domestic congeners, such calves bearing unmistakable proofs of their mixed descent in the unusual size and pendulousness of their ears and the wide aquatic spread of their jet black hoofs; the foals, in their clean limbs, large flashing eyes, red distended nostrils, and fiery spirit. The initiated still pretend to point out cattle with more or less of this questionable blood in them, in almost every drove of pure Highland cows and heifers you like to bring under their notice." The lochs of Llundavra, and Achtriachtan, in Glencoe, were at one time famous for their water-bulls; and Loch Treig for its water-horses, believed to be the fiercest specimens of that breed in the world. If anyone suggested to a Lochaber or Rannoch Highlander that the cleverest horse-tamer could "clap a saddle on one of the demon-steeds of Loch Treig, as he issues in the grey dawn, snorting, from his crystal-paved sub-lacustral stalls, he would answer, with a look of mingled horror and awe, 'Impossible!' The water-horse would tear him into a thousand pieces with his teeth and trample and pound him into pulp with his jet-black, iron-hard, though unshod hoofs!"

source: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/water/chapter11.htm 

The loch being so isolated and the stories around it may have preyed on the men’s  minds. (In 1933 the divers would have all been male.), but if they were not local they were unlikely to have heard the stories. The loch being so isolated and it appears to have little habitation around it , means something could live undisturbed in the water. An intriguing one ,if anyone has any information please post a comment.

The story of the divers is similar to the one about Wastwater in Cumbria  here:

http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/search?q=wastwater

Dragon Tales

I have often come across this on certain sites on the internet as proof of living dinosaurs:

1572 May 13--A famous naturalist, Ulysses Aldrovandus, recorded the details of a peasant killing a small dragon along a farm road in northern Italy on this day. He obtained the dragon carcass, thoroughly documented the encounter, and had it mounted and placed in a museum.

Ulysses Aldrovandus was a naturalist in the sixteenth century, and his work on natural history, in thirteen volumes, contains a large proportion of fables and folklore. So I think that says a lot about why no carcass was ever found. Some say the origin of the phrase “Cock and Bull story “comes from a description of his work. Whether that is true no one really knows.

There are of course other dragon stories from around that time:

1593 London UK : A "flying dragon" surrounded by flames was seen over the city. Some say this was an early UFO sighting.

1649 Sightings of "flying dragons" reported . The woods around Penllin Castle, Glamorgan, had the reputation of being frequented by winged serpents, and these were the terror of old and young alike. The winged serpents were described as very beautiful. They were coiled when in repose, and "looked as if they were covered with jewels of all sorts. Some of them had crests sparkling with all the colours of the rainbow". When disturbed they glided swiftly, "sparkling all over," to their hiding places. When angry, they "flew over people's heads, with outspread wings, bright, and sometimes with eyes too, like the feathers in a peacock's tail". Locals had killed some of them, for they were as bad as foxes for poultry, and the extinction of the winged serpents was due to the fact that they were "terrors in the farmyards and coverts."

And for the modern sighting in Wales see here:

http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2010/02/dragon-sighting-in-2001.html

Loch Quoich water horse?

Loch Quoich(Gaelic Loch Cuaich) is about 24 miles northwest of Fort Williams in Scotland. With Loch Garry it forms part of the Glen Garry hydroelectric project from the 1950s which was completed in 1962.The dam built on Loch Quoich is the largest rock fill dam in Scotland at 960 feet( 310 metres) long and 114 feet ( 35 metres) high. The dam flooded some of the old settlements in the area, including Glen Quoich Lodge. A single-track road goes along the loch shore to Kinloch. The fishing there is by boat only and it is mainly for brown trout and Char.

The loch is said to be home for a water monster described as a large serpent like creature with a horse like head. It is typical description for a Kelpie or water horse.

The Duke of Portland related that after becoming tenant of the salmon angling in Loch Quoich was told by the forester, hotel keeper and fishing ghillies of a beast . I think this was in the late 1800s, but have been unable to find and exact date.

In Peter Costello,s book “In Search of Lake Monsters” (1975 ed Granada Publishing ltd page 153) , is the following story. I have paraphrased it.

A certain lord, not named, ( n.b.I wonder if this was also the Duke of Portland?) used to fish in Loch Quoich and one day whilst fishing there, he saw a monster lying on the shore close to the water. He swore the two ghillies with him to secrecy in case people thought they were drunk. A fishing party is said to have seen the monster swimming under the water the same time period (no date given).

In the Northern Chronicle newspaper in 1933 there were reported some stories about the Loch Quoich creature but there were not substantiated , so could have simply been rumours after the reports in 1933 of the Loch Ness creature.

The Loch is quite isolated and it could be that any reports of anything seen in the loch were hushed up by the local dignitaries. It could just be the usual folktales of the Kelpie. There doesn’t seem to be any historical record of tales about a kelpie though. If anyone knows any more about this isolated Loch please post.