• We have updated the guidelines regarding posting political content: please see the stickied thread on Website Issues.

Search results

  1. oldrover

    Wolves In British & Irish folklore

    Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of any folk tales which contain references to wolves and are likely to have been in circulation in Britain and Ireland during the 19th century. Thanks for reading.
  2. oldrover

    Sun Position Question

    Hi, I need to try and understand whether the angle of shadows in two series of photos can shed any light on roughly what time of day they were captured. I have the date and location where they were taken and I've looked at the sun position calculator, but unfortunately it doesn't make too much...
  3. oldrover

    Suspicious Lack Of Injuries

    Hi, can anyone think of a group of reports which regularly describe an attack from something, anything really, that never leaves the victims with any form of injuries?
  4. oldrover

    Supporting Actor Identity

    Hi, I don't know how or why this came up but it's really driving me mad. During the 70s when it seemed that there was an endless amount of American WWII films on our 3 channels there was very often this blonde guy in a supporting role. I think he was blonde but but I only remember him with a...
  5. oldrover

    Etiquette Question

    I have a slight concern about what's OK and what's not in a paper. I'm in the position where I (we) have evidence which is fairly game changing in our own little area, but there's been another paper published recently which thought the same thing. Trouble is the other paper is bluntly awful...
  6. oldrover

    Contacting The Author [Philippe Godard]

    I've hit a brick wall in my research. Normally I can find the people I need to speak to quite easily through contacts etc, but due to the passage of time, there seems to be only one person left who could potentially clear up one of the big outstanding unknowns in the photographic record of the...
  7. oldrover

    Old Footage Question

    Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help with this. Here's the film http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/captivity/films/flv/film_2.htm The film here can be divided into two parts, broadly speaking, there's the section with the darkened edges showing one tiger standing off from the other two...
  8. oldrover

    Photo Estimate

    Is there any way to estimate the distance in the following photo? I can't post it directly due to copyright issues, but it's here http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/captivity/zoos/Tasmania/Tasmania_6.htm Second photo, tiger looking straight at you. What I'm wondering is how far the curved...
  9. oldrover

    Historical Weather Records For Tasmania

    Hi, As strange as it may seem, I'm really struggling to find weather records for Tasmania, June 1923. You'd think this'd be easy but I can't get anywhere, except going through the Tasmanian newspaper weather reports, and frankly I'm already combing through those records for pub licensees, shop...
  10. oldrover

    Photo Enhancement

    Are there any photo boffins here who could tell me whether it's realistic to do anything about making this clearer? from here http://www.milamba.com/australia/inhabit/animals/anim22.htm Thanks for reading
  11. oldrover

    Sail Speed?

    Hi, Could a 19th C brig cover 1,742 miles in 15 days? The Journey was from Macquarie Island to Tasmania. I have no idea what the winds were, or the state of the ship, all I know it was a sealer. Cheers
  12. oldrover

    Frog-People Book

    I'm posting this on behalf of someone else. I suggested they ask about it here, but they're having trouble joining and so asked if I'd post it for them, because it's driving them mad. I'll put their request as I read it, but slightly edited. HI I am looking for a book that I read in the 80's...
  13. oldrover

    Moths

    I have a lot of wool in my wardrobe, and I have a moth infestation. Any advice as to how to kill the bastards. Seriously, they've done hundreds of pounds worth of damage and have the potential to do much, much more.
  14. oldrover

    Computer Clock Out

    I've just noticed that the clock on my computer is eight minutes fast, I thought that this wasn't possibly with a digital clock like this, how can that happen?
  15. oldrover

    Can Anyone Get Sound On This?

    This video came up on an FB page recently. http://thelasttasmaniantiger.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/interview-with-neil-mcculloch_21.html?spref=fb Now, I have terrible trouble with computers, and no device I've got will play the video. So, I contacted someone to ask them what it said, and they...
  16. oldrover

    Burrowing Terror Of The Outback May Be Related To 'The Thief Of The Dead'

    Like Gaul, the class Mammalia is currently divided into three parts. Monotremes (the egg laying mammals), marsupials (Metatherians) and placentals (Eutherians). The latter two forming the Therians. But, as per Asterix's Gaul, there is some suggestion that it should be divided into four. I came...
  17. oldrover

    Finding Graves From A 60s House Fire

    Bit of practical advice sought. I'm trying to find the graves of four children who were killed in a house fire in Essex in the mid sixties. All that's known is that they were buried by the council, and bizarrely to me, the graves, according to their families' tradition, were poorly or...
  18. oldrover

    Adamsfiled Thylacine Carcass (Foot Fetish)

    Hi, this is a subject that's been coming up a bit these days, so I've put it in a new thread. Apologies if that's not right. It's a bit long, and probably only of interest to those who follow the subject. For at least twenty years now there's been at least one colour photograph doing the...
  19. oldrover

    Black and white measuring tape.

    Bear with me. This question is going to be a bit garbled. In the photo, which will come out somewhere, there's a measurement scale marked off in alternating black and white. My question is does anyone own a tape measure marked out like this. Or, has anyone ever used one. If so where, and if...
  20. oldrover

    Thylacoleo documentary.

    Came across this interesting documentary, briefly outlining the discovery of the most complete T C skeleton ever found. Well worth a watch if that's your thing
  21. oldrover

    Do You Believe In Monsters?

    OK so not monsters, but cryptids. A few years ago I remember this place being a lot busier than it is now. The same is true of Cryptozoology.com, which seems to me to have really slowed down these days. Although the latter example may be to some extent due to the passing of a very central...
  22. oldrover

    The Square House?

    Does anyone remember this; I think it was called 'The Square House', it aired nightly for a few days on the Sci-Fi Channel, probably around 2000/2001. Each episode was about fifteen to twenty minutes long and its format was a sort of a forerunner to 'Most Haunted'. I must admit I didn't...
  23. oldrover

    Australian cryptozoology

    Came across this old documentary on the work of Rex Gilroy. More charming than informative. I'm not sure how old it is but I suspect it's early 80s or before judging by the way he talks about the thylacine as being extinct on the mainland as opposed to extinct period...
  24. oldrover

    Giant aye aye (Tratratratras not welcome)

    Does anyone here have any info on the supposed death of an Daubentonia robusta in the 1930s, or indeed any accounts of sightings etc of this animal? I know about the Tratratratra I've read those accounts. Thanks for reading.
  25. oldrover

    Anomalous photography exercise

    I went into the village of Mumbles this afternoon to do a bit of Christmas shopping as this may be one of the last chances I get this year. As I was pulling in I was lucky enough to be a witness to a bloody good UFO hoax. I'm not going to bother describing what I saw flying and hovering over...
  26. oldrover

    Giant Catfish Pops Clogs in Thames.

    http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news ... __catfish/ When I read this I immediately thought of Lordmongrove's piece from last year about the beast of the Lea River. No idea whether Richmond is near there or whether the Lea River runs into the Thames though, in fact the only other time I've...
  27. oldrover

    The relict hominid inquiry

    Came across this site over on the Cryptozoology.com website, apparently it's run by Geoff Meldrum and is aiming to collate and improve the more serious(muffled sound of cat laughing) research in this area. http://www.isu.edu/rhi/
  28. oldrover

    Online crypto publications.

    Came across these today while looking around for 19th C crypto sources, firstly; http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7030339M ... al_history. Got the title of that one from an FT article, apparently it's the first major work on the subject. Secondly I came across this...
  29. oldrover

    Thylacines, Vampyres & Vampirism

    As well as the crimp extinction has naturally put in the thylacine’s day, it also regularly suffers the indignity of having a pretty wide selection of myths and misconceptions attached to it, two of which are to do with vampirism. Of these the first to appear was contemporary to the living...
  30. oldrover

    Come to Irian Jaya see the lovely thylacines.

    In my opinion this is a separate issue to any questions abut the thylacine in Tasmania or the mainland. Fairly often the question comes up these days about whether PNG or Irian Jaya might be a possible place to find a relict population of thylacines. Personally I think it's entirely possible...
  31. oldrover

    Borneo mystery animal is a sodding squirrel.

    Came across this over on Cryptozoology.com. Darren Naish puts the boot of reason into this most plausible of mystery creatures. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tet ... mentarang/
  32. oldrover

    Minnesota Iceman

    The Minnesota Ice man has apparently surfaced on Ebay. A snip at $20,000. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Minneso ... 3ccebbd5cf If ever there was an exhibit for a museum of Cryptozoology this has to be it.
  33. oldrover

    Sad, stupid and really not worth it.

    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/poison ... 6130899612 I'm all for people making a living and feel sorry for the farmers losing their stock to feral dogs, but seriously.
  34. oldrover

    Name That Critter

    Here is an apparently rarely seen photo which was supposedly taken in an Indonesian Zoo in the nineteen seventies. I recognised it straight away, as I know at least one other poster here will. http://s1170.photobucket.com/albums/r53 ... 4f968b.jpg A few clues; it comes from a big island...
  35. oldrover

    Arthur's Stone (Maen Ceti; Megalithic Site)

    (Copied from: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/celtic-megaliths-in-new-england.49633/) http://www.one-foot.com/Walks%202009/Th ... %20151.jpg http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1247/762 ... 7efea3.jpg This is King Arthur's Stone on Cefn Bryn in Gower, it comes from an area where...
  36. oldrover

    Bengali Road Ghost.

    Came across this over on Doubtfulnews; Full article at; http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-new ... 22312.aspx Also this section caught my eye; I know this reminds me of something. Also it's interesting to note that the night vision brigade have reached India.
  37. oldrover

    Last Exit To Tal Y Bont

    This has to have a rational explanation but I can't think of it. Twice in the last few months I've driven up from the south to Snowdonia, instead of going direct up through the middle I prefer to take a more westerly scenic route part of which is on a road which passes right by Plynlimon and...
  38. oldrover

    Paleolithic slide show

    . Full article for what it's worth at; http://news.discovery.com/history/prehi ... pgn=emnws1 Personally I don't go for this, the sizes of the pictures change in the sequences for one thing. Still I find it an interesting thought. You can see a nice picture of some of the horses...
  39. oldrover

    Looking for Chris Packham

    I don't suppose anyone can help but I'm very keen to track down an episode of Chris Packham's X Creatures from 1998 entitled 'Beyond the Jaws of Extinction'. It's about the thylacine. I've tried looking around on the net and can find the other episodes from the series but not this one...
  40. oldrover

    What colour are Thylacines?

    Came across discussion on an Australian zoo website, http://www.zoochat.com/2/thylacine-livi ... ndex4.html when one of the posters dropped the little bombshell; I thought that this must be wrong because I was sure I've seen too many contemporary paintings of the animal which show it as...
  41. oldrover

    Dead Regular

    Speaking to my cousin today, who reads this board but doesn’t post :hello:, when the conversation turned to the ghost that inhabits or used to inhabit (info dried up) the ‘Welcome to Town’ pub in the Gower village of Llanrhidian. The only bit about it on the internet is this...
  42. oldrover

    Reconstructions (Extinct / Prehistoric Fauna)

    Just thought I'd post a link to this site, it's full of beautifully done and very convincing artist's reconstructions of a good range of extinct fauna. Many of the animals reconstructed are also floated as being candidates for contemporary cryptid reports. Even if, like me, that sort of thing's...
  43. oldrover

    Cryptid cats

    Saw this on another site; http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/anom ... gcats.html If, as I do, you like your cryptids to be viscous, slavering man eaters, then I recommend the link. Plenty of mystery cats and cat like animals from around the world. Pretty well written and harks back to the...
  44. oldrover

    Peer reviewed Cryptozoology journal

    Came across this on another site; http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/ Sounds good and the review panel seem very credible. My only concern though and this comes from reading the article describing the journal's parameters, is how can you have a serious peer review of articles examining 99.9%...
  45. oldrover

    Hard Evidence

    Excluding what’s either been recently found or is currently under examination, The CFZ Sumatra expedition for example, I’m curious to know whether there’s ever been any tangible evidence for a cryptid’s existence. Specifically I’m looking for something that’s been accepted as genuine or...
  46. oldrover

    Romanzo Criminale

    Has anyone else been watching this, I've missed pretty much all of it. I came across it about halfway through and decided not to waste it but to try and get the DVD or whatever. Every time though I've caught it on the Arts channel I can not put it off. You could even say it's a bit Fortean...
  47. oldrover

    Surviving Homo floresiensis

    I'm sure we've all noticed how even mainstream science, or at least its media personas, seem to be uncharacteristically receptive when it comes to the possibility of H. floresiensis surviving well beyond the dates they've obtained from the specimens so far recovered. For a start it spawned the...
  48. oldrover

    ? - Sea Creature That Decorates Its Lair with Bits of Prey?

    Had a phone call this morning from a friend of mine who asked me if I'd heard of a recent article that claimed to have evidence for an ancient highly intelligent sea creature of a very large size that used parts of it's prey to decorate it's lair. He thought, as do I, that it was nonsense but...
  49. oldrover

    Cholera burials

    Apologise if this is better fitted in another thread, but I did a search and couldn't find any. During the mid 1800's Swansea suffered a series of cholera outbreaks. This was especially felt in the Irish community, who were forced into the area of poorest housing and worst conditions...
  50. oldrover

    What Happened To The Epona Planet Simulation?

    Years ago many documentaries on the life elsewhere in the universe theme used to feature a complex looking online simulation of a planet named Epona. AFAIR it was a collaborative type of thing. I remember some details such as the Pergoda Trees and flying sort of Manta ray looking things, but...
Back
Top