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Fighting Trousers posted:I mean, the English did it, so And the Japanese gave it the ol' college try!
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So here's a quasi-cryptid sighting I was wondering if anyone here had any insights on. A friend of mine is transcribing letters from one of his family members who had been a Connecticut soldier in the US Civil War. In one letter home, he wrote about seeing baboons on Tybee Island in Georgia. I'm trying to figure out what he could have seen (other than the earliest recorded Skunk Ape sighting, of course).
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I'm guessing some rich weirdo had some pet baboons.
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feedmyleg posted:I'm guessing some rich weirdo had some pet baboons. That's what I was thinking too. (but deep down, I know it was skunk ape)
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There's been reports of baboon-like monkeys in the Appalachians region (Tennessee, Kentucky and up through Virginia) since at least the 1920s and 30s: https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Devil_Monkeys Coincidentally enough, St Catherine's island just to the south of Tybee island is currently the permanent home to a colony of lemurs and Morgan Island just to the north is home to 4,000 wild rhesus monkeys but those colonies were deliberately created in recent times https://wildlife.org/on-georgia-island-clever-lemurs-get-all-the-attention/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Island,_South_Carolina feedmyleg posted:I'm guessing some rich weirdo had some pet baboons. There was a thriving trade importing exotic pets such as monkeys and parrots into the US in the mid 19th century: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-monkeys-and-parrots-caught-up-in-the-california-gold-rush-180980236/ Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 18:11 on May 7, 2023 |
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May 7, 2023 17:58
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Charles Ford posted:I wish there was a mothman of San Jose, California, there's very little good folklore out here How can you say that when we have a haunted Chuck E. Cheese and a haunted Toys `R’ Us? Sure, the latter was in Sunnyvale, but it all runs together, and it was on Unsolved Mysteries, so you know it’s legit.
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quote:Sure, the latter was in Sunnyvale, but it all runs together, and it was on Unsolved Mysteries, so you know it’s legit. Isn’t that place built on a Hellmouth?
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i have vague memories of reading about a ghost appearing in a toys r us. looking into it Sylvia Brown inserted herself into the situation which is probably why i heard about it. didn't know about the Chuck E Cheese though.
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The_Doctor posted:Isn’t that place built on a Hellmouth? That would explain a lot:  uber_stoat posted:didn't know about the Chuck E Cheese though. Oh, it seems very much like something ginned up by a bunch of teens from the last time I looked into it. Though I will say that it is a really weird Chuck E. Cheese - it’s got multiple floors, it’s hard to keep an eye on your kids, and feels especially run-down.
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https://twitter.com/BestCryptids/status/1657269914900525056 What the 
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Someone tagged Loren Coleman into the discussion and he could identify the original art source used as reference for the painting but no details on the story https://twitter.com/CryptoLoren/status/1657422061600399360?cxt=HHwWgICzia2lrIAuAAAA  https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1077809 Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 18:43 on May 13, 2023 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Someone tagged Loren Coleman into the discussion and he could identify the original art source used as reference for the painting but no details on the story Oh huh, I saw the tweet because he retweeted it, but I missed that actual response. Neat art, but still  I guess.
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Has anyone asked the artist? Someone should email him: https://alexisrockman.net/contact/
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A podcast episode interviewing Professor Ronald Hutton about his encounter with a Leannán Sídhe. People in this thread might already know about Hutton, but if you don't he's an interesting guy.
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If anyone's interested in the Bunyip, Loren Coleman posted a link to download a PDF of an article on it from the latest issue of Folklore. https://twitter.com/CryptoLoren/status/1659192169763053568
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This just dropped and is fun as heck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYMrLkIFicA
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Chairman Capone posted:If anyone's interested in the Bunyip, Loren Coleman posted a link to download a PDF of an article on it from the latest issue of Folklore. hell yeah
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Chairman Capone posted:If anyone's interested in the Bunyip, Loren Coleman posted a link to download a PDF of an article on it from the latest issue of Folklore. This is actually pretty good, the indigenous beliefs and knowledge and the colonists corruption of them constantly referred to through the whole article. Wee has a new favorite as of 18:21 on May 18, 2023 |
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Hey, I just sent an article to a mate about the Bunyips that live in the swamps right next to him today! The Haunted Swamp: The Mystery of the Hexham Bunyip Sent it as a joke, but it's actually a pretty interesting historical article based on the diaries of a local living in the area around the 1870-1900's, and includes other research into historical thoughts and misunderstandings about bunyips by Europeans at the time. Anyway if my mate gets ate by a bunyip I'll let you all know!
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While we're on the topic of Australian cryptids, scientists have announced that drop bears were once a completely real* animal: https://theconversation.com/these-giant-drop-bears-with-opposable-thumbs-once-scaled-trees-in-australia-but-how-did-they-grow-so-huge-205117 * Or there at least used to exist a large arborial marsupial which closely resembled a huge koala and maybe fell out of trees sometimes so everyone is calling it a drop bear because that's pretty funny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbadon  They're the largest arborial marsupials so far discovered, growing at least 1m long and weighed up to 70kg which is around the size of a small sun bear.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They're the largest arborial marsupials so far discovered, growing at least 1m long and weighed up to 70kg which is around the size of a small sun bear. I mean even if they're not trying to eat you having a 70kg weight dropped on you from leaf height of a lot of Australian trees is going to leave you having not a great day. Also drop bears are currently a real animal! Stop talking nonsense. One of my mates was ate by one of them the other day when he went out side for a smoko. They he ate the rest of his family cos it had the taste for blood and that's just how the get.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:While we're on the topic of Australian cryptids, scientists have announced that drop bears were once a completely real* animal: https://theconversation.com/these-giant-drop-bears-with-opposable-thumbs-once-scaled-trees-in-australia-but-how-did-they-grow-so-huge-205117 Turns out Carnifex (2022), the dropbear movie, was not only surprisingly good but scientifically accurate too!
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Turns out Carnifex (2022), the dropbear movie, was not only surprisingly good but scientifically accurate too! It's a real shame that thylacoleo carnifex (marsupial lion/pouched lion) didn't take off in cryptozoology circles like the thylacine (marsupial wolf/Tasmanian tiger) has, there's been reports of panther-like creatures in the Australian bush for well over 100 years and you'd think it would really fit the bill. It was real! It was here! It was exactly panther-shaped! Some of the paleo-art reconstructions make it look pretty cool and badass  :   ..... but most of the time it ends up looking like a goofy goober      The current state of panther sighting in Australia isn't great, here's a guy who grew up in Africa (which somehow makes him an expert on big cats) who had a sighting down on the Vic southern coast of an animal which he swears up and down was the size of a cheetah except stockier. Not only that, it was walking down main street so there was CCTV footage of it!! Irrefutable evidence!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjE7qsn-QGE .... except then you get to see the footage and it's clearly a domestic cat which is way way smaller than a cheetah and is easily walking underneath some pretty low park benches. You can check on google street view that those benches are definitely not cheetah-height
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Cryptids invented alcohol to invent Cryptids
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's a real shame that thylacoleo carnifex (marsupial lion/pouched lion) didn't take off in cryptozoology circles like the thylacine (marsupial wolf/Tasmanian tiger) has, there's been reports of panther-like creatures in the Australian bush for well over 100 years and you'd think it would really fit the bill. It was real! It was here! It was exactly panther-shaped! These things are terrifying in ARK.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:.... except then you get to see the footage and it's clearly a domestic cat which is way way smaller than a cheetah and is easily walking underneath some pretty low park benches. I mean Cats are their own sort of monstrous beasts leaving trails of death and carnage where ever they go! "Fierce beast attacking Florida residents revealed as domestic cat with attitude posted:But a stalking “beast” currently terrifying residents of Suwannee county after sending two people to the emergency room in separate attacks turns out to be a domestic cat with attitude that has evaded capture for almost a week, officials have said.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Turns out Carnifex (2022), the dropbear movie, was not only surprisingly good but scientifically accurate too! Trailer for this looks like a solid monster movie- I'm gonna give it a watch. Thanks for the rec.
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BrownPepper posted:Trailer for this looks like a solid monster movie- I'm gonna give it a watch. Thanks for the rec. Yeah I watched it yesterday after SMG's recommendation and it was pretty good
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Highly recommend you all listen to the Otherworld podcast episode 33 titled "The Unwharries pt 1" Very cool story about a wild encounter on a camping trip. I don't know if any of it actually happened but I did get the strong impression that the guy who experienced it believes it happened.
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Oh yeah Carnifex was a good time. Love a monster movie with a realistic animal/ecohorror.
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If anyone has Netflix, the third season of I Think You Should Leave dropped, and the start of the second episode has a good cryptid/monster-related sketch.
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I recently stumbled on a new conspiracy theory which I guess is tangentially related to "hollow earth" stuff. The idea that there's a perpetual titanic underground war, which is supposed to explain things like unexpected earthquakes. It also seems to be connected to covid insanity somehow??? https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1667640020629323776?s=46 Complete with giant, elaborate maps of the UNDERGROUND ROUTES and UNDERGROUND BATTLE ZONES. Don't ask me why there's a grid of giant tunnels underneath Greenland in particular, though. Anyone bumped into this one before?
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PurpleXVI posted:I recently stumbled on a new conspiracy theory which I guess is tangentially related to "hollow earth" stuff. The idea that there's a perpetual titanic underground war, which is supposed to explain things like unexpected earthquakes. It also seems to be connected to covid insanity somehow??? Lol, that's nuts. I read a scifi novel a while back that involved secret underground installations and tunnels starting around the US Southwest and connecting to at least the Midwest, which involved some type of secret extraterritorial overlords, human experimentation, and high tech military buildup down there. I had a good laugh at it, then later found out that it came basically verbatim from ideas some part of the tinfoil hat crowd believes. I don't think I ever saw anything like this scaled up to the whole world, though.
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Content from the PYF graphs thread Apparently don't move to Nevada just in case, I'd have thought they'd be better prepared, what with all the alien tech they're working with!
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Captain Hygiene posted:Content from the PYF graphs thread Look everyone knows, like most people, the aliens are pissed at the state of Nevada and wants vengeance. Somewhat because of Area 51 stuff, but mostly just because it is universally consider an offense to conscious life. I mean once they lay waste to Nevada they'll probably just leave.
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