FreudianSlippers posted:

30 meters as long as the largest blue whales. Blue whales being he largest animal ever to exist. That thing would have to weight at least a 100 tons. I'm no kaiju biologist but I think it would be pretty difficult for something that large to walk around on just two legs

stereobreadsticks posted:

That's the one. I haven't seen that picture in over 20 years. I definitely didn't remember how messed up her face was.

Mokelumne Trekka posted:

Now here is a something of a 'white whale' for me. There is a book called The Field Guide to North American Monsters (very tongue-in-cheek) which features a monster called Penelope, basically a person mutated by toxic waste that roams the Sierra Nevada.

I am starting to conclude the source of this story is ONLY from that book as a complete troll, but I do wonder if anyone has heard of it elsewhere.

http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=163

veni veni veni posted:

Don't get me wrong white people are racist as gently caress I'm just hesitant to call this specific breed of nutjob racially motivated.

I will not see this man slandered

Otteration posted:

https://i.imgur.com/hGF0IYn_d.jpg

Mutant Headcrab posted:

My favorite ghost hunting show was Paranormal Home Inspectors.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Also I have no firm evidence to explain why the chupacabra urban legend evolved from "upright spiky reptilian alien vampires" to "coyotes with mange" but I'm just assuming it was random chance that there was a spate of mangy coyote sightings in the US (and possibly some animal mutilations) soon after the chupacabra thing went viral online and people just rolled them up together.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Well, an easy way to find out is just to translate the text at the bottom of the woodcut.

Besides obviously not being to scale, the artist’s representation fails to convey various facts - like that the event took place around 4am, and that the image is a composite of various reports from the subsequent hour(s) of people watching the sunrise. The sky was red, and the black shape both appeared afterwards and was pointing in another direction.

The author makes it clear that these are not objects but inscrutable images placed there by God - most of them described as being inside the sun. He also complains that people aren’t taking this seriously. He’s clearly way less concerned with what these spots are than with just urging repentance.

(Imagine that a fuckin spaceship has crashed nearby, and it might literally be an angel sent by God. This is your full report: “yeah, it was doing battle inside the sun. I guess it got tired and hit the ground somewhere? There was some smoke. The end.”)

So picture the scene: it’s fuckin’ dark because it’s basically night-time. The sun starts rising, and it’s unusually red. Sleepy Germans are looking up at the spectacle, and seeing a few glowing red shapes around the sun - like maybe clouds backlit by the red sunrise???

In any case, it seems like most people there did not see these as signs from God, and just shrugged and went on with their lives.

quote:

In the morning of April 14, 1561, at daybreak, between 4 and 5 a.m., a dreadful apparition occurred on the sun, and then this was seen in Nuremberg in the city, before the gates and in the country – by many men and women. At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the color was blood, there stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous color. Likewise there stood on both sides and as a torus about the sun such blood-red ones and other balls in large number, about three in a line and four in a square, also some alone. In between these globes there were visible a few blood-red crosses, between which there were blood-red strips, becoming thicker to the rear and in the front malleable like the rods of reed-grass,

twistedmentat posted:

He was a man, and she was a floating head with her organs freely hanging below her and required human blood to live

The_Doctor posted:

New Bioshock looks good.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Jetto Jagga posted:

News you can use, from an article by David Fideler and Loren Coleman: "Kangaroos From Nowhere." Featured in Fate, Volume 31 - Number 4, April 1978.

Captain Hygiene posted:

I Found Bigfoot...Maybe
A fun little article about a group of Bigfoot hunters, I really want to root for them but they fall into the trap of "knowing" they've seen Bigfoot but not releasing much physical or recorded evidence until some vague time in the future when it's been more heavily analyzed. Honestly, they should just upload it all for the public and say up front that they're aware that much of it is capturing other stuff like the bears they mention. Maybe deep down they know that the spooky stuff they recorded is just going to be normal spooky nighttime animals rather than Bigfoots.

feedmyleg posted:

This is rad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M79HwJHKHoU

stereobreadsticks posted:

And finally, we have De Loy's Ape. It's a nonsensical racist hoax that I've talked about in this thread before but it's also a genuinely creepy image of a dead spider monkey propped up in a very unpleasant way.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Marcade posted:

This photo reminds me of this video

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

In the 1800s and early 1900s there were a whole bunch of sensationalist newspaper reports of UFOs which were made out of wood and canvas and had propellers

nonathlon posted:

That is weird. Most of the sightings are of their time - wooden craft with rudders, mad inventors, talk of the enemies and concerns of the day - but there's that small number that could come from a century later, with metallic spaceships and aliens. It demands explanation but what kind of explanation, I'm not sure.

IBroughttheFunk posted:

nonathlon posted:

I think the most recent "theory" about Oak Island attributes it to the Templars, which mostly just adds another level of handwaving over an already vague mystery

big dyke energy posted:

Skinwalker Ranch by Colm Kelleher & George Knapp is a classic, too. Seems like the actual ranch is being turned into a tourist destination/merchandise machine now, though.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

America is apparently littered with dead bodies in every nook and cranny. Recently when Gabby Petito's boyfriend murdered her and then went missing and had presumably killed himself out in the wilderness the police went searching for his body and turned up the corpses of ten other missing people before they found him.

BrownPepper posted:

There is at the very least an aesthetic difference and since this stuff is pop culture, aesthetics are as important as anything. I like the Loren Coleman types who make a good faith faith effort to present as serious researchers. Not really into the Bigfoot chaser reality tv guys. They’re funny for like a 15 minute YouTube clip but they’re obviously self aware and cashing in.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Hanging out on bigfoot community discussion boards during that period was amazing with people arguing maybe this time he really DOES have the evidence!!! Let's give him one more chance!!!! This time for sure!!!!! and others going

feedmyleg posted:

I liked this vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXuXzB8VEAs

Captain Hygiene posted:

Oh man, I remember reading about that one when I was a kid (although I don't remember the light beam, just the creature). I got so convinced that pteronadon-ish things could still be around that I was briefly convinced I saw one.
(it was a heron flying quite a ways overhead, we lived near a river)