ANIMALS TAKING OVER

With social distancing and people remaining off the streets, animals of various kinds are taking over public thoroughfares.

In San Francisco there are reports of coyotes on the streets.

In Bergamo (Italy) wild boar have come into the city.

In LLandudno (UK) wild goats have come in from the wilds and are frolicking about the streets of the town.  (For those who don't know, that double-LL is treated as a single letter in Wales.  I won't even try to tell you how it is pronounced in the Welsh language, from which it comes.  You need to hear someone Welsh pronounce it!)

ABOARD NOAH'S ARK

While most of us are familiar with Noah and his Ark, Jewish legends grew up about both of them, legends that you won't find in the Bible.  Some pretty odd animals ended up accompanying Noah on the Ark's maiden voyage, according to these.

First of all, there were the abstractions, Falsehood and Misfortune.  How they managed to pass themselves off as animals is anybody's guess.

The re'em, a huge ox in Hebrew legend, also was preserved.  Legend said there were only two of these animals, a male and a female, on the earth at any time.  They lived at either end of the earth.  Every seventy years they met and the female killed the male.  Later, she would give birth to twins and die in the process.  The twins would be the next pair of re'ems, who would set off for their respective locations.

The re'em is in fact based on the aurochs.  We know this because the Akkadians also spoke of this beast as rimu and the identity of the aurochs with this is unquestioned.  Legend says that Noah took to of these following behind the Ark, as they were too big to clamber aboard.

Noah also took the giant Og on the Ark.  He had to sit on the roof.

There was also the Urshana (sometimes spelled Orsinia).  When all the animals were kicking up a fuss waiting to be fed, this amiable bird kept quiet, so as not to put pressure on Noah.  When Noah found this out, he blessed the bird, asking God to give it long life.

Again, legend informs us that when Noah was told to make the Ark, he was nonplussed.  He was not a shipwright.  Happily, God sent him the Book of Raziel, an artifact which contained more information than Wikipedia.  This contained the necessary instructions.  

The story of Noah is the kind of tale to which legends are bound to accrue.  As to whether an actual Flood literally occurred, that is a matter for the exegetes to study.

WHITE MOUNTAIN MONSTER

Bigfoot or something else?

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ARE THERE INTERDIMENSIONAL DOORWAYS?

A video asks this question.

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MEN IN BLACK

What is the story of these mysterious persons?

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MAN CLAIMS FAIRY ENCOUNTERS

Can only some people see them?  Many reports come in these days.

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DEVIL-MONKEYS OF VIRGINIA

What are these mysterious creatures?

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BEAR-LIKE ANIMALS IN U.K.

What are they?

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WHY DOGS HAVE COLD NOSES

Scientists have discovered the answer.

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SKINWALKER RANCH

The mysterious locale featured on Coast to Coast.

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SEVEN FOOT DOGMAN

Scary creature reported.

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GOATMAN OF ARIZONA

Humanoid with caprine characteristics.

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DOG-DEER AND STRANGE HUMANOID

Reported from the Pennsylvania Road.  (Item courtesy Loren Coleman)

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FILEY SEA MONSTER

Report of incident in 1934.

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THE GREEK ROSWELL

Did a UFO crash at Megaplatanos?  Was there a recovery mission?

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GRAY CREATURE IN OHIO

But, if the report is true, it is not identified.

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FLYING HORSE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Report of incident in 1878.  (You'll need to scroll down on the page to reach article.)

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TOMPONDRAMO - CRYPTID WATER SNAKE OF MADAGASCAR

The term also applies to other creatures, just to be confusing.

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BIG GRAY MAN

A hiker's experience involving the Fear Liath Mor.

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HOMO FLORESIENSIS ON CAMERA?

Was a living Homo floresiensis filmed?  See the video.

Homo floresiensis skull

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PTEROSAUR IN FLORIDA

The report says the sighting is "recent", but as it (the report) is undated, it may not still be recent.

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GBAHALI

Mystery reptile of Liberia.

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EARLY BIGFOOT ACCOUNT?

A legend of "giants" recorded in 1840.

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RUSSIAN REPORT ON BIGFOOT FOOTAGE

The Patterson-Gimlin film scrutinized.

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LOCH NESS MONSTER ON LAND

Witnesses report monster ashore.

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10 AMERICAN CRYPTIDS

A nice little selection.

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WAS IT BIGFOOT?

Outside a tent in Alaska.

Image courtesy Lon Strickler

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DO GIANT SPIDERS EXIST?

Some people don't like spiders - think of what they'd make of giant ones.

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CUMBERLAND DRAGON

American monster reported 1794.

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NAHUELITO: ARGENTINE LAKE MONSTER

Footage from 2016.

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BIGFOOT AND THE BULLET

Accounts of Bigfoot being shot/shot at.

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SHUSWAGGI LAKE MONSTER

Has it been caught on video?

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BIGFOOT: FACE TO FACE

I hope he was socially distancing.

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BIGFOOT PROTECTION

Debate in Trinity County, California.

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BIGFOOT INCIDENT AT MILITARY BASE

It happened at Tacoma, Washington.

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CHILD SEES FAIRIES

First hand account.

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CRESCENT LAKE MONSTER

Mystery denizen reported from this Newfoundland lake.

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SUKOTYRO - IS IT A CRYPTID PIG?

If not, what is it? (Youtube)

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MYSTERY CREATURE - WHAT WAS IT?

It was seen eating a lamb.

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MULTIPLE ANIMAL NOISES

A strange experience.

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WHAT WAS A MUSCALIET?

Creature that appears in a bestiary.

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REMARKABLE BIGFOOT PHOTO

Item courtesy Loren Coleman.

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YELLOW FEVER THREATENS TAMARIN

The Golden Lion Tamarin is endangered by this illness.

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GLIMMER MAN - MULTIPLE ENCOUNTERS

A number of encounters with this mysterious creature.

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TIGERS IN THE UNITED STATES

There are more than in the wild.

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BAKE-KUJIRA

Ghost whale of Japan.

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IN CHARGE OF SKINWALKER RANCH

Youtube interview with its superintendent.

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BIGFOOT IN MISSOURI

In the Cherryville area.

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PATRON SAINT OF EPIDEMICS

Did you know that Saint Corona is the patron saint of epidemics?

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-germany-saint/german-cathedral-dusts-off-relics-of-st-corona-pa

LOCH NESS MONSTER SIGHTING

It happened in 1952.

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SIGHTING OF PIXIE

Youtube documentary.

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MYSTERY HAIRLESS CANID

What is this strange dog?

Image courtesy Lon Strickler

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IS FAWCETT ALIVE?

Mystery of the intrepid explorer.

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Is Fawcett Alive?  Part 2

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CFZ ON THE TRACK #113

This is now available.  Follow the link.  (You'll need to scroll down.)

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DRAGON BATTLE IN ENGLAND

An account of a battle between two dragons in 1449.  What lies behind this account?

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WHAT IS AN OGRE?

The fairytale creature - but what is it?

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OHIO CREATURE

This animal may be a cryptid isolate.  It may also be a known animal which its pursuers failed to identify.  It was nearly 7' long and brindled.  Hunters killed it in 1846 after a chase of about 150 miles.  A curious thing was, in the course of that chase it never crossed a fence.

DOES STELLER'S SEA COW SURVIVE?

It's supposedly extinct.  (Video)

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"LITTLE PEOPLE" OF AUSTRALIA

Found in Aboriginal folklore.

(The above work features these genuine folklore creatures, but is itself fiction.)

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BEAST OF LIMESTONE

A creature reported from Maine: it looks like an ape with a reptilian tail.

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BIGFOOT FEAR

It envelopes hapless wayfarer.

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MYSTERY OF THE POSSUM TAILS

How are they getting strewn around New Zealand?

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WAS THIS A PUKWUDGIE?

Encounter in Maine woods.

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CFZ YEARBOOK 2020 NOW OUT

The yearbook of the society has appeared.

258pp.

Contents include: Yowies, Black Dogs in German Folklore, Monsters in Your Backyard, Phantom Kangaroos and Other Macropods, Mystery Animals of Greater Manchester, etc.

Authors include: Mike Hardcastle, Carl Marshall, Ulrich Magin, Scott Mardis, Bob Skinner, etc.

It hasn't reached Amazon USA yet, but should do so shortly.
It is available at Barnes & Noble for $18.99.
In the UK it is available from Book Depository at £13.76

TREE LIKE CREATURE IN BEDROOM

Scary experience in Texas.

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LAKE NORMAN MONSTER

The lake monster of North Carolina.

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WAS THIS A FAIRY?

It bumped into witness' cheek.

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MOMO: NEWSPAPER DEPICTION

1972 drawing of Missouri monster.

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TROLLS IN NORWEGIAN FOLKLORE

What are they?

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