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Pop Goes The Cryptid

Analogue Boy said:
I can already do that and it’s cost me nothing.
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I would very much like to see someone pull out this Cryptozoology Diploma to use for cred.

Here's my doctorate degree in cryptozoology, also costs nothing (worth just as much, but it's fancier).
Hill_diploma.jpg
 
Paul_Exeter said:
In the History section in WHS Exeter:

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That's awesome. The text is probably copypaste garbage or AI generated.

True Story: Once upon a time, I picked up one of these overpriced impulse mags in the market checkout line. It was about science solving mysteries or something. Only to find that I was quoted in it. I did not expect that. I think they used my blog posts.
 
Pop Cryptid Spectator no. 7. https://sharonahill.com/pop-cryptid-spectator-7/

In this edition:
  • Cryptozoology diploma
  • Saxsquatch in Rolling Stone
  • Past and future of Small Town Monsters
  • Modern resurgence of mokele-mbembe
  • Fresno Nightcrawler on Monstrum – Is it a cryptid?
  • Frogman Festival in March
  • Cryptid biographies
  • Book review: A Natural History of Sea Serpents
 
Pop Cryptid Spectator 9 https://sharonahill.com/pop-cryptid-spectator-9/

In this edition:
  • Cryptid media: Creating the Loch Ness Monster
  • Ogopogo statue updated
  • Don’t forget Frogman fest
  • The Big Muddy Murphysboro monster file
  • Continuing the tradition of paranormal lore in West Virginia
  • Wild Fictions comic is great intro to Fortean topics
  • Snallygaster vs Snoligoster
 
Sharon Hill said:
Pop Cryptid Spectator 9 https://sharonahill.com/pop-cryptid-spectator-9/

In this edition:
  • Cryptid media: Creating the Loch Ness Monster
  • Ogopogo statue updated
  • Don’t forget Frogman fest
  • The Big Muddy Murphysboro monster file
  • Continuing the tradition of paranormal lore in West Virginia
  • Wild Fictions comic is great intro to Fortean topics
  • Snallygaster vs Snoligoster
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According to an explanation in Merriam-Webster dictionary, snollygoster comes well before snallygaster; the former dates to the 1840s, while our earliest use of the latter comes in 1900 (in what appears to be a misspelling of snollygoster). The term also was widely used in the 19th and early 20th century to mean “a shrewd, unprincipled person” particularly one intent on running for political office. (Consider that Maryland borders D.C.)
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Interesting comment @Sharon Hill. I wonder if the "creature" originated from some political satire comic strip?

I miss that particular type of cartoonist. They seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. Even as a young teen, I would read them. Ting was a well known local cartoonist at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Tingley
 
brownmane said:
Interesting comment @Sharon Hill. I wonder if the "creature" originated from some political satire comic strip?

I miss that particular type of cartoonist. They seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. Even as a young teen, I would read them. Ting was a well known local cartoonist at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Tingley
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I sort of doubt it. The snallygaster legend comes from South Mountain area of Maryland which was settled by people who didn't care too much for political comments in newspapers. But the later creature's appearance was certainly manufactured to sell papers. As a creative process of evolution, I'm not sure that the real origin will ever be known.
 
Pop Cryptid Spectator 11 https://sharonahill.com/pop-cryptid-spectator-11/

In this edition:
  • Digital hoaxes flooding social media
  • Questioning the assumptions we make about supernatural cryptids
  • Cryptid media – The Sasqualogist
  • Blurry feral Florida cat causes a stir
  • Loch Ness Quest 3
  • Royal Mail mythical stamps
  • Cryptids are “hot”, particularly in WV
 
Pop Cryptid Spectator 12 https://sharonahill.com/pop-cryptid-spectator-12/

In this edition:

  • New cryptid alert: North American Pine Squid
  • Bigfoot in the Backyard
  • Be the Bigfoot
  • Cryptid media: Nessie, the Musical
  • Big little cat makes headlines in UK
  • Fiji mermaid seen at Margate beach in Kent
  • The mokele-mbembandwagon
 
Pop Cryptid Spectator 13 https://sharonahill.com/pop-cryptid-spectator-13/

In this edition:
  • The crypt-illogical slip into the irrational
  • News people don’t know their animals
  • AI cryptid articles – It’s how stuff works
  • Cryptid merch: Squishables Mothman series
  • The Hebridean Mermaid
  • Ogopogo float may sink
  • Cryptid Media: More podcasts
 
Sharon Hill said:
Pop Cryptid Spectator 13 https://sharonahill.com/pop-cryptid-spectator-13/

In this edition:
  • The crypt-illogical slip into the irrational
  • News people don’t know their animals
  • AI cryptid articles – It’s how stuff works
  • Cryptid merch: Squishables Mothman series
  • The Hebridean Mermaid
  • Ogopogo float may sink
  • Cryptid Media: More podcasts
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Sharon, that one picture that you think may be a coatimundi, looks similar to an anteater as well.
 
brownmane said:
Sharon, that one picture that you think may be a coatimundi, looks similar to an anteater as well.
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The coati is the far more likely choice since some people keep them as pets.

Incidentally, this story continues to spread. Now it's in the Daily Mail even, as a chupacabra, of course. No one so far has even mentioned coati. They keep repeating the raccoon stuff, which I don't agree with.
 
Sharon Hill said:
The coati is the far more likely choice since some people keep them as pets.

Incidentally, this story continues to spread. Now it's in the Daily Mail even, as a chupacabra, of course. No one so far has even mentioned coati. They keep repeating the raccoon stuff, which I don't agree with.
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There is another video out with more of a close up through a window. It does NOT look much like a coati. I'm not sure what it is, but it looks injured. I hope they catch it.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/13978600/mythical-chupacabra-terrifying-mystery-red-eyed-creature/
 
Its face reminded me of a kinkajou, but its snout is too long and its tail too short.

EDIT It clearly has quite dextrous forepaws, though. It's no surprise folk are looking at procyonidae for an identity.
 
It appears to be a racoon with mange. It looks a little like a fisher but the tail is too short and legs too long so i'd go with mangey racoon. Its not at all like an anteater and the tail is no nearly long enough to be a coati.
 
lordmongrove said:
It appears to be a racoon with mange. It looks a little like a fisher but the tail is too short and legs too long so i'd go with mangey racoon. Its not at all like an anteater and the tail is no nearly long enough to be a coati.
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You can't see a tail in the Photograph?
 
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