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And Lo! Twas done (kept your fleabeetle email address though - the gmail one.) Any problems let me know.Please: I'd like all of that to be done.
And Lo! Twas done (kept your fleabeetle email address though - the gmail one.) Any problems let me know.Please: I'd like all of that to be done.
the paranormal / supernatural could be in play on this scene: that (don’t ask me how) beasts-unknown-to-science could be physically and solidly on earth, but only some of the time
If I remember correctly from reading your book, you considered an extremely large varanid to be the likely identity of Mokele Mbembe, and other central African cryptids. Do you still feel that way? I think many people here would be surprised at that putative identity. Apologies if I've misremembered.There may be huge monitor lizards in Central Africa...
Nice to hear from you again. You've been away ages.
No, not those.Even the ones under my bed? Scary.
No, not those.
Yes i still think a huge, semi-aquatic monitor is the best theory.If I remember correctly from reading your book, you considered an extremely large varanid to be the likely identity of Mokele Mbembe, and other central African cryptids. Do you still feel that way? I think many people here would be surprised at that putative identity. Apologies if I've misremembered.
A seal or sealion (they have been known to swinm hundreds of miles inland uprivers) is the best explanation for the bunyip. The yeti is no bear. Yetis walk erect like men, can hurl rocks and swing clubs and habve flat, gorllia-like faces. None of these features are posessed by bears. The tracks i saw in the Garo Hills were certainly not bear.I think the Yeti is likely to be real. Sadly though I think it is probably a type of bear rather than a primate. The Almasty could well be real too. The Bunyip sounds a bit like an out of place walrus from the descriptions I have read. The Mongolian Death Worm might well be real as well as quite different to other animals we know, which is intriguing.
The yeti is a trained bear? It's that old caretaker trying to scare folk away from the treasure again, isn't? "I'd have gotten away with it, too..."Bears can be trained to walk on two legs and sun bears for example leave paw prints that look primate-like.
Yes, cryptozoologists have found marks in the Himalayas that are clearly tire tracks from a unicycle.
I could well imagine Nessie being some kind of leopard seal. They are used to frigid waters and do grow quite large. If they then developed a longer neck, they might well seem quite scary.
I could well imagine Nessie being some kind of leopard seal. They are used to frigid waters and do grow quite large. If they then developed a longer neck, they might well seem quite scary.
Bears only walk on two legs for short periods. Wild bears hardly ever do this (exceot when injured). I've seen sunbear tracks many, many times. They are nothing like primate tracks and nothing like orang pendek tracks, or yeti tracks.Bears can be trained to walk on two legs and sun bears for example leave paw prints that look primate-like.
Yep, plenty of strange creatures left to find in the oceans I expect. I've stopped believing in the physical existence of monsters though - I suspect they all arise from the same murky depths of the mind that produce aliens, ghosts, fairies etc. (I'm open to considering these may all be the products of encounters with an intelligence so 'other' that our little monkey minds can't process experiencing it as it actually is, and can only view it through the distorted lenses of our cultural and mythic programming.)
The whole Bigfoot thing in particular seems to have turned into a self-perpetuating circus along the lines of Roswell. An endless stream of conferences, documentaries, podcasts, talking heads, websites, and self-proclaimed experts, but no new tangible evidence behind any of it. It's just all got a bit boring, hasn't it?
Yes, cryptozoologists have found marks in the Himalayas that are clearly tire tracks from a unicycle.
I could well imagine Nessie being some kind of leopard seal. They are used to frigid waters and do grow quite large. If they then developed a longer neck, they might well seem quite scary.
I agree, the Bigfoot stuff has become somewhat boring. Although, given the fact I find large areas of wilderness, especially forested areas, quite spooky I still like reading about supposed Bigfoot sightings.
Reading up about the hairy humanoid also led me to this site about folks going missing in US State Parks.
http://www.canammissing.com/page/page/8396197.htm
The podcasts available online (in various places including YouTube) where David Paulides speaks about these missing people are both scary & sad. For people familiar with Davids other work, yes I know he is a Bigfoot researcher but even if you do not believe in Bigfoot the missing cases are compelling to listen to.
In some cases the reports are so eerie. Good late night listening, I'm addicted to them and the whole 'missing people' stuff in general.