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Sunday, 31 January 2016
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, January 31...
1930: The research ship Dana captures an apparent
leptocephalus (eel larva, literally "slim head") off Africa's Cape of
Good Hope. Its size astounds examiners, measuring 6 feet 1.5 inches long. The
average leptocephalus for European eels measures three inches and metamorphoses
into an adult roughly one meter long, suggesting to some that the adult form of
what they dub Leptocephalus giganteus might exceed 400 feet in length.
Others dismiss the notion, observing that leptocephali of various species grow
at different rates. The preserved specimen presently resides at Copenhagen
University's Zoological Museum. No other members of its species have been found
to date.
The Dana Leptocephalus
Saturday, 30 January 2016
BROWNIE - THE SCOTTISH HOMESPRITE
Belief in Homesprites - being of a preternatural nature who take care of the home - was once widespread in Europe. In Scotland, such creatures were called Brownies. There follows a general account.
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| A book with details of Homesprites |
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MELDRUM AT THE GALLUP
Bigfoot expert Dr Jeff Meldrum is to visit the University of New mexico Gallup campus.
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, January 30...
2013: Scott McClean, widely known Bigfoot researcher with
special emphasis on antique newspaper reports, dies at age 50 in Southern
California, from cancer.
Friday, 29 January 2016
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, January 29...
1970: New Mexico's Gallup Independent newspaper
reports a claim by witnesses David Chiaramonte, Robert Davis, Clifford
Heronemus, and Carl Martinet of a Bigfoot sighting near Whitewater, in Grant
County. The four claim a large hairy biped ran beside their car at 45 miles per
hour until one of them fired gunshots at it, upon which it wisely gave up the
chase.
Thursday, 28 January 2016
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, January 28...
2012: A deer hunter in his Elmore County, Alabama, tree
stand hears a "yell/scream" emanating from some 60 yards away at 6:15
a.m. Seconds later, another identical vocalization sounds "off in the
distance." He relates the sounds to Bigfoot and reports the incident to
the GCBRO's website, adding that one year earlier, in the same vicinity, he
"smelt the worst stink, smelt like
a dead rotting animal," apparently circling around him three times
in a counterclockwise direction.
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
SOUNDS OF BIGFOOT
Strange sounds are reported from the woodlands. In this article we learn of a local name for Bigfoot, the Uma.
WHAT WERE THE ANUNNAKI?
Many people have come to believe that the Anunnaki, the ancient gods of Mesopotamia (now Iraq) were extraterrestrials. This is largely as a result of a series of books by Zecharia Sitchin, which have attained considerable popularity.
His argument is that there is a planet called Nibiru which circles our sun but has a 3600 year orbit and is somewhere out on the edge of the solar system. From this aliens arrived 450,000 years ago and in due course created the Sumerians. A planet called Tiamat was fragmented by a collision, forming the asteroid belt. This event is remembered in the epic Enuma Elish.
What played into Sitchin's hands is that the Sumerians, among whom the Anunnaki flourished, were a somewhat mysterious people. Archaeology tells us they appeared in Iraq about BC 4000. They seem to have been civilized from the start. Their language is an isolate - as far as can be determined, it is related to no other language. They had invented writing, in the form of the cuneiform script. Sitchin put myths+urban civilization+unrelated language together and claimed they were created by aliens.
However, if you look closely at the myths, you will see that there is no more reason to think their gods were aliens than there is the gods of other mythologies. The epic Enuma Elish (15th Century BC) tells that the goddess Tiamat, a sort of monster, determined to destroy the gods and Marduk, the god of Babylon, slew her, making out of her body the sky and the earth. This epic was written in Akkadian, a Semitic language that in time supplanted Sumerian. It looks more like sheer myth than the recollection of a planetary disaster.
In the earlier Sumerian myth contained in the Eridu Genesis we find that the gods An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursag created the
Sumerians.
With regard to these various beings, Tiamat started out as the salt water of the ocean, her consort Abzu being the fresh water of the rivers. Her eyes, when she was slain, exuded water forming the Tigris and Euphrates while her tail became the Milky Way. Marduk sliced her in two, making her upper part the sky and the lower part the earth.
As for the planet Nibiru, just what it signified has caused speculation. The word means 'crossing' in Akkadian and it may have designated whatever planet was most visible at the equinox. If it in fact spent most of its time beyond the currently known planets of the solar system, the climate would have been unendurably cold.
The chief of the Anunnaki was the god An, who was the sky. Ki signified the earth. This seems to be inconsistent with the notion that sky and earth were parts of the corpse of Tiamat. Inconsistency is a feature of mythhology. The various tales told about the Anunnaki in ancient Mesopotamia sound no more historical than the myths of other countries. The Anunnaki were only some of the gods and in later myths were the judges of the Underworld.
Of course, there are some mysteries associated with the Sumerians, such as their provenance and the origin of their civilization. Some historians think they are nothing more than a development of the pre-Sumerian Ubaid Culture, some that they may have come from the Zagros Mountains in Iran. In fact, nobody knows. There is nothing in their myths unequivocally indicating extraterrestrial involvement. Sitchin's knowledge of the Sumerian language has also given rise to unfavorable comment among experts.
I do not dismiss the possibiliy that aliens may have visited the earth at some time in antiquity or prehistory. I merely feel considerable doubt that the stories of the Anunnaki are more likely to contain a reminiscence of such an event than many other mythologies.
His argument is that there is a planet called Nibiru which circles our sun but has a 3600 year orbit and is somewhere out on the edge of the solar system. From this aliens arrived 450,000 years ago and in due course created the Sumerians. A planet called Tiamat was fragmented by a collision, forming the asteroid belt. This event is remembered in the epic Enuma Elish.
What played into Sitchin's hands is that the Sumerians, among whom the Anunnaki flourished, were a somewhat mysterious people. Archaeology tells us they appeared in Iraq about BC 4000. They seem to have been civilized from the start. Their language is an isolate - as far as can be determined, it is related to no other language. They had invented writing, in the form of the cuneiform script. Sitchin put myths+urban civilization+unrelated language together and claimed they were created by aliens.
However, if you look closely at the myths, you will see that there is no more reason to think their gods were aliens than there is the gods of other mythologies. The epic Enuma Elish (15th Century BC) tells that the goddess Tiamat, a sort of monster, determined to destroy the gods and Marduk, the god of Babylon, slew her, making out of her body the sky and the earth. This epic was written in Akkadian, a Semitic language that in time supplanted Sumerian. It looks more like sheer myth than the recollection of a planetary disaster.
In the earlier Sumerian myth contained in the Eridu Genesis we find that the gods An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursag created the
Sumerians.
With regard to these various beings, Tiamat started out as the salt water of the ocean, her consort Abzu being the fresh water of the rivers. Her eyes, when she was slain, exuded water forming the Tigris and Euphrates while her tail became the Milky Way. Marduk sliced her in two, making her upper part the sky and the lower part the earth.
As for the planet Nibiru, just what it signified has caused speculation. The word means 'crossing' in Akkadian and it may have designated whatever planet was most visible at the equinox. If it in fact spent most of its time beyond the currently known planets of the solar system, the climate would have been unendurably cold.
The chief of the Anunnaki was the god An, who was the sky. Ki signified the earth. This seems to be inconsistent with the notion that sky and earth were parts of the corpse of Tiamat. Inconsistency is a feature of mythhology. The various tales told about the Anunnaki in ancient Mesopotamia sound no more historical than the myths of other countries. The Anunnaki were only some of the gods and in later myths were the judges of the Underworld.
Of course, there are some mysteries associated with the Sumerians, such as their provenance and the origin of their civilization. Some historians think they are nothing more than a development of the pre-Sumerian Ubaid Culture, some that they may have come from the Zagros Mountains in Iran. In fact, nobody knows. There is nothing in their myths unequivocally indicating extraterrestrial involvement. Sitchin's knowledge of the Sumerian language has also given rise to unfavorable comment among experts.
I do not dismiss the possibiliy that aliens may have visited the earth at some time in antiquity or prehistory. I merely feel considerable doubt that the stories of the Anunnaki are more likely to contain a reminiscence of such an event than many other mythologies.
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, January 27...
1963: A witness phones the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office
to report a Bigfoot sighting at Cold Springs, California, off the Sonora
Highway. When a deputy arrives to investigate, he reports hearing
"horrible screams" in the woods but sees nothing.
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
KETOS - LEGENDARY SEA MONSTER
In Greek mythology Perseus killed this creature to save Andromeda. Stories of heroes saving maidens from serpentd or dragons are, of course, commonplace. Whether the Ketos was based on any real creature is, of course, a matter of conjecture.
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, January 26
1996: Sarah Ellen Spiers, age 18, becomes the first presumed
victim of the still-unidentified "Claremont Serial Killer" when she
vanishes after leaving a nightclub at the Ocean Beach Hotel in Claremont, West
Australia. She apparently called a taxi from a phone booth but was absent when
the cab arrived. Baffled police credit at least two more women's murders to the
elusive slayer and report having no valid suspects today, 20 years after the
crimes.
Monday, 25 January 2016
BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS
They were in Washington, Arizona and Illinois. Accounts are by witnesses.
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| Image courtesy Lon Strickler |
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HUMBER SEA SERPENT
About the year 1936 trawlermen reported a sea serpent off the North Sea coast of England. It was named the Humber Monster, after the Humber River in northern England. It had large terrifying eyes. Its head was compared to that of an ostrich.
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, January 25...
2012: Bigfoot blogger Robert Lindsay reports the "first
DNA-proven photo of Bigfoot ever revealed," allegedly obtained in summer 2009,
when the creature approached and licked a wildlife camera in the Olympic
Mountains of western Washington State. The photo offered in evidence as proof
is blurred beyond recognition (at least for me), then enhanced with an unnamed
artist's rendering of the presumed face. For a look at the "proof"
see https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/bigfoot-news-january-25-2012/
The Olympic Mountains
Sunday, 24 January 2016
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, January 24...
2006: Jennifer Joyce Kesse, age 24, vanishes without
explanation from her home in Orlando, Florida. Police searchers find her car
abandoned at a nearby apartment complex. Video from a security camera captures
an unknown person parking the car and walking away, but police fail to identify
the individual. Despite national publicity, no further clues are found and
Kesse remains missing today, as her parents mark the tenth anniversary of her
disappearance. Outstanding rewards are offered for information leading to Kesse
and/or to the person videotaped dropping off her car.
