This is a treatise on monsters seen off the Nova Scotia coast. I understand the e-Book may be accessed from the link to the Nova Scotia Museum website.
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Monday, 30 November 2015
MONSTERS OF OKLAHOMA
Some of the creatures reputed to be in this state. These include a woman who is half human, half deer, a giant octopus and the Alligator Man.
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BABA YAGA
The cannibal witch of Russian folklore.
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| Baba Yaga used to enter her house through the chimney. |
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TIGER AND GOAT
In Russia's Primorsky Safari Park, a goat was placed in the tiger compound for Timur the Tiger to eat. The goat did not find this arrangement congenial and resisted when the striped gourmet approached. Timur backed up and now the two have become good friends.
story with video....
story with video....
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, November 30...
1966: While changing a flat tire at night, on a lonely road near
Brooksville, Florida, a witness known only as "Miss M. B." reports
being watched by a green-eyed Bigfoot or "Skunk Ape."
Sunday, 29 November 2015
CHESSIE - MARYLAND'S SEA MONSTER
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| Chessie coloring book |
An early report of Chessie may date from 1840. The creature described is likely to have been a turtle. In 1936 an unknown reptile was seen in the Bush River, which flows into the Bay, by a helicopter. A serpentine creature was reported by fishermen in 1943. In 1978 a serpent was reported in the Potomac River, which also flows into the Bay. There were other sightings in this river in 1980. In August, 1984, there were further sightings. A possible sighting from a boat named the Impasse was reported in 1980, but those involved never claimed to have seen a monster, merely anh animal, which may have been a manatee. In 2014 a serpentine creature, 25'-30' long, was seen from the Arundel Beach Road at a distance of only 5 feet.
My own suspicion is that we may be dealing here with large eels. However, we should not forget that a dinosaur called the Astrodon roamed Maryland, but the fossil record would indicate it died out 100 million years ago. Could there be a few lingering specimens off the Maryland coast?
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| Chesapeake Bay |
DOES BIGFOOT TRY TO COMMUNICATE?
Has the Hairy One been attempting to communicate with humans?
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| Image courtesy Lon Strickler |
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, November 29...
1893: The New York Herald reports that multiple
witnesses, including locals George Farrell and "Red" McDowell, have
seen a large, hairy "wild man" roaming near Long Island's Rockaway
Beach. The man—or thing—is never captured.
Saturday, 28 November 2015
RUPERT SHELDRAKE AND SCIENTIFIC DOGMATISM
An article from the Guardian on Sheldrake's view of a science which, he avers, holds fiercely to its tenets.
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| Rupert Sheldrake |
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GRAY ALIENS AND HYBRIDS
Assuming you believe in the possibility of Gray Aliens, do they have an alien-human hybridization program?
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THUNDERBIRD
Article on the creature first found in Native American legend.
The above picture shows a painted skin featuring a Thunderbird.
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The above picture shows a painted skin featuring a Thunderbird.
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NEW ROSALES BOOK
Albert Rosales, who has long provided invaluable online works on encounters with humanoid beings, has now released another book of his findings. The title is available from Amazon.
282pp.
Price: $15.95 [paperback]; $6.06 [kindle].
BIGFOOT AND GIGANTOPITHECUS
Video featuring Mike Rugg who opposes the identification.
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| Gigantopithecus |
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, November 28...
1977: While hunting in Tippah County, Mississippi, the
unnamed witness sees what he first mistakes for a man, then realizes it is a
hairy biped 7.5 to 8 feet tall, with a "black
face, shaggy reddish brown fur, standing upright, then running" through
thickets of thorns, muskedine and kudzu vines. He reports the sighting to the
GCBRO 28 years later, on November 31, 2005.
Friday, 27 November 2015
ANIMALS OF STRANGE APPEARANCE
This link brings you to animals which, though they may look like cryptids, actually exist.
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| Bergamasco Shepherd |
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, November 27...
1973: Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette reports a
sighting of the "Fouke Monster" by witnesses Orville Scoggins, his
son and grandson.
Thursday, 26 November 2015
SEA SERPENT REPORT
The following report comes from the 19th Century - 1830, to be precise.
The British navy ship Rob Roy was sailing towards St Helena, an island in the middle of the Atlantic which has the distinction of not being near anywhere else. At about 5p.m. the huge head of a serpentine creature rose out of the water to the fore of the ship, to the great astonishment of those aboard. This creature may have been as surprised as the jolly tars concerned - it certainly seemed somewhat nonplussed. Captain James Stockdale was later to write that twenty foot snakes he had killed would have fitted into the animal's mouth. He estimated the animal to be about 129 feet in length. It had a fin between its shoulders. Captain Stockdale in his report evinced a desire never to meet the creature again.
The British navy ship Rob Roy was sailing towards St Helena, an island in the middle of the Atlantic which has the distinction of not being near anywhere else. At about 5p.m. the huge head of a serpentine creature rose out of the water to the fore of the ship, to the great astonishment of those aboard. This creature may have been as surprised as the jolly tars concerned - it certainly seemed somewhat nonplussed. Captain James Stockdale was later to write that twenty foot snakes he had killed would have fitted into the animal's mouth. He estimated the animal to be about 129 feet in length. It had a fin between its shoulders. Captain Stockdale in his report evinced a desire never to meet the creature again.
BLUE DOG ON TAPE
A Blue Dog of the kind that is sometimes mis-called "chupacabra" has been caught on tape.
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
Happy Thanksgiving to all readers who celebrate it!
On This Day in Weird, November 26...
1977: North Dakota's Bismarck Tribune reports a
Bigfoot sighting by Mrs. Angus Long Elk along the Grand River near Little
Eagle, South Dakota.
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
CHANEQUES
Illustrated article on diminutive beings in the folklore of Mexico. You'll need to scroll down a little on the page to read the article.
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Additional article on this subject in Spanish:
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Additional article on this subject in Spanish:
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BIGFOOT IN COLORADO
Whether he's there or not, he's the subject of interest in a shop in Bailey, where Bigfoot merchandise is available. Site includes video.
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, November 25...
1968: While hunting north of Floodwood, Minnesota, witness Uno
Heikkila reportedly saw a hairy biped roughly four feet tall jump down from a
tree and flee into the forest, watching it from a distance of some 125 feet.
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
THE OTHER HEDGEHOG
Forbes, in his Gaelic Names of Beasts (1905) gives details of a very curious animal in the folklore of the north of Scotland. To this animal is applied the name of hedgehog, but it is not the creature to which we normally give this name. If you should chance upon it, it looks like a stone. However, it can change shape. If farmers harvesting met with it in a cornfield, they would leave a clump of corn around it. Forbes himself saw such a clump.
REDFERN'S BIRTHDAY
Happy birthday to paranormal author/investigator Nick Redfern...and many happy returns!
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, November 24...
2006: A resident of Itawamba
County, Mississippi, reports hearing a "long, drawn out noise that sounded like
kind of a cross between a yell and a moan," which he also heard around his
house several times during the previous week. He sees nothing unusual outside, but in his
subsequent report to the GCBRO, claims the cries sound "exactly like the
howl that is on your multimedia page," purportedly caused by Bigfoot.
Monday, 23 November 2015
BULLBEGGAR OF CREECH HILL
The term bullbeggar may have originally signified a mythical goblin which looked in some respects like a bull. Nowadays the term has a somewhat vaguer application, equating to American booger. This one hung out on Creech Hill, Somerset, England.
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| Creech Hill |
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MISSOURI MONSTERS
A look at monsters in this state.
[This Coat of Arms is semi-official]
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| Coat of Arms Missouri |
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MAGNIFICENT PICTURE OF ALPHYN
The Alphyn is an heraldic beast. The name means 'pursuer' or simply 'wolf'. This creature is not frequently met with in heraldry.
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, November 23...
1977: Following multiple Bigfoot sightings on the Standing
Rock Indian Reservation, a dozen members of the Yanktonai Native American tribe
stage a nocturnal campfire gathering to lure the creature. Afterward, they
report seeing two hairy bipeds crouching in the brush nearby.
Sunday, 22 November 2015
DID BRITISH ARMY SHOOT YETI?
An army report says it did about 1903, but private reports of the expedition make no mention of it.
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TROLLS
Carrying on from my Norwegian giant/troll story yesterday, the term troll is very imprecise and has been used for a wide number of creatures, ranging from the gigantic to the diminutive. However, I would hold that it was sometimes used to designate groups of wildmen which, I suspect, persisted in Europe into historical times and may be found even today in remote locations.
In the 19th Century there were so many reports in Sweden, a highly forested country, that mythologist Benjamin Thorpe postulated that there were populations of uncivilized human still living in the woods. There have been other reports of wildmen from a number of European countries, some even being quite recent. Whether these are permanent residents, interdimensional beings or mere figments of the imagination is, of course, another matter.
In the 19th Century there were so many reports in Sweden, a highly forested country, that mythologist Benjamin Thorpe postulated that there were populations of uncivilized human still living in the woods. There have been other reports of wildmen from a number of European countries, some even being quite recent. Whether these are permanent residents, interdimensional beings or mere figments of the imagination is, of course, another matter.
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, November 22..
1963: The JFK assassination. It doesn't get much weirder
than that, with the mangled Warren Report, a "magic bullet," and
countless conspiracy theories.
1969: Nocturnal motorist Ivan Wally reports sighting a
seven-foot-tall Sasquatch beside the Trans-Canada Highway near Lytton, British
Columbia. The creature allegedly stands with arms raised overhead, watching
Wally's vehicle pass by.
Saturday, 21 November 2015
THE GIANT'S DOOR
Should you find yourself in Norway, there is a curious geological structure there called Juluporten (Giant's Door). Beyond it dwells the giant Jutul (sometimes described as a troll), so legend has it. It is said if you throw three stones in succession at the door, the Giant, referred to as Jutul, will answer it. This structure, by the way, is to be found on Road 454 in Oppland. The Giant's wife also dwells within.
Now, if I believed a Giant dwelt on the far side of the door, I wouldn't go so far as to cast stones at it, lest it provoke him to anger. I am somewhat advanced in years, not up to tackling a wrathful giant. However, this particular giant has a story told about him which is worth mentioning.
A Norwegian called John Blessom, an historical person who throve in the 17th Century, was down in Copenhagen for litigious purposes. He was, however, homesick. Jutul happened also to be visiting the city and offered him a ride home on his sled. The speed with which Jutul's horse drew this vehicle was breathtaking. Blessom could not discern sea or sky. At one stage they stopped for a rest and, as they shot off again, Blessom thought he saw a pole with a skull on the top of it. At last they reached the Giant's doorway. Jutul went in and told Blessom to go home and not to look back. Guess what? He looked back and there was a twist in his neck ever after.
The reader may have noticed there is some apparent confusion about whether Jutul is a Giant or a Troll. Actually, however, the word Troll was used in Northern Europe to cover a wide variety of supernatural beings. Very big trolls were said to turn to stones or trees if daylight struck them. A variant of this, supplied by the folklorist G. Hyltén-Cavallius, is that Giants died if struck by sunlight but Trolls burst asunder.
I don't think I would like to be in the vicinity of a bursting troll. It would not be pleasant to be struck by the débris flying through the air.
Now, if I believed a Giant dwelt on the far side of the door, I wouldn't go so far as to cast stones at it, lest it provoke him to anger. I am somewhat advanced in years, not up to tackling a wrathful giant. However, this particular giant has a story told about him which is worth mentioning.
A Norwegian called John Blessom, an historical person who throve in the 17th Century, was down in Copenhagen for litigious purposes. He was, however, homesick. Jutul happened also to be visiting the city and offered him a ride home on his sled. The speed with which Jutul's horse drew this vehicle was breathtaking. Blessom could not discern sea or sky. At one stage they stopped for a rest and, as they shot off again, Blessom thought he saw a pole with a skull on the top of it. At last they reached the Giant's doorway. Jutul went in and told Blessom to go home and not to look back. Guess what? He looked back and there was a twist in his neck ever after.
The reader may have noticed there is some apparent confusion about whether Jutul is a Giant or a Troll. Actually, however, the word Troll was used in Northern Europe to cover a wide variety of supernatural beings. Very big trolls were said to turn to stones or trees if daylight struck them. A variant of this, supplied by the folklorist G. Hyltén-Cavallius, is that Giants died if struck by sunlight but Trolls burst asunder.
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I don't think I would like to be in the vicinity of a bursting troll. It would not be pleasant to be struck by the débris flying through the air.
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| Giant King |
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