Friday, 28 February 2025

YE EDITOR HEALTH BULLETIN

Ye Editor is suffering from reaction to a vaccine, so he's going off to have a cup of tea.  At 76, I'm entitled to the occasional refreshment! 

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

JEAN DE L'OURS (JOHN THE BEAR)

The bear-man, the hero of  widespread folktales.  (Article in French with translation facility)





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BLUE MOUNTAIN PANTHER

Alien Big Cat of New South Wales, Australia.





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DINOSAUR APPEARANCE

What scientists think dinosaurs really looked like.


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Monday, 24 February 2025

BEITHIR-NIMH

Scottish reptilian folklore creature.


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BELIEVERS IN BRITISH BIGFOOT

How a Bigfoot might exist in Britain presents problems.





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INVISIBLE DNA

The atmosphere  is sniving with invisible DNA and scientists are hoping to analyse it.  From this they will glean a great deal of information about the fauna of the planet, past and present. 


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CAMPBELLTOWN LOCH MONSTER

Campbelltown Loch is allegedly the home of a long necked monster which looks like a giraffe - this, presumably, is the neck.  It was also noted that it had a dorsal fin.  The sighting was reported in 1924.  



Sunday, 23 February 2025

Saturday, 22 February 2025

EBU NGIU

Many cryptozoologists are familiar with the Ebu Gogo, who, it is suspected, are a surviving group of Homo floresiensis.  Less well known are the Ebu ngiu, who enjoy a forested habitat.  The locals say they were there before humans.  They seem to be very similar to the Ebu gogo, and Ye Editor suspects they are in fact the same speciesThey too are found on the island of Flores in Indonesia and are spoken of as still existing.



 

BURES DRAGON

A hill carving in Suffolk that caused great far in the Middle Ages.





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GHOST ELK

A spectral beast seen by the Laird of  Ardblair, Scotland. in modern times.  His wife also had a sighting.  His first impression was that it was like an American moose - actually the European elk is identical with the American moose and is known to have roamed Scotland until about the year 1300.  Could there be a few surviving?  He also entertained the impression that it could have been a Great Irish Elk - an extinct creature which was in fact no elk but a deer and whose range as far from confined to Ireland.  To add to the confusion, in America the term elk is applied to the wapiti.



 

Friday, 21 February 2025

TUATARA

An amazing reptile that hasn't changed in 200,000,000 years.  I remember seeing one in the Dublin Zoo.  Karl Shuker had a  theory that the Cenaprugwirion of Wales might be escaped tuataras, brought home rom New Zealand.






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Thursday, 20 February 2025

MANGANI DICTIONARY

Edgar Rice Burroughs invented a species of ape in his Tarzan  novels.

Follow the link for a dictionary of the language he gave them.



 

PECH

Diminutive being of Scottish folklore.





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FERAL CHILDREN

Cases of children raised in the wild.


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Wednesday, 19 February 2025

AIGAMUXA

Humanoid of the Kalahari Desert.


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Tuesday, 18 February 2025

TUTYR

King of wolves in Ossetian folklore.





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BRER RABBIT

A leading character in American folklore.





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MYSTERY ANIMAL - NO SOLID LEADS

The creature identified by some as a chupacabra.


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Monday, 17 February 2025