Cryptozoology

[Garza]

The Chupacabra is a genetically engineered top secret FBI type experiment that escaped.

The Chupacabra is a cross between a feral dog and a coyote. They killed one, for some reason the crossbreed makes the canine teeth bigger they usual, the hind legs are longer than usual and they are almost completely hairless.

[Garza]

I had an agrument with a cryptozologist online about the existince of Thunderbirds (not the cartoon )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_(cryptozoology)

Basically, there is not a chance this bird can exist, being a biologist I was explaining energy trophic levels and how this bird would need alot of large mammals to stay alive, therefore making in likely it would be spotted (more than the usual hicks of course), he wasn't having any of it lol.

[Garza]

hiya

just stumbled on this thread!

I've been into cryptozoology for a long time! The two I think are most likely to exist are Orang Pendek (Sumatra) and the Mongolian Death Worm (Gobi Desert) there are decent eyewitness accounts for both and if you trim off the more bizarre features of both you can come up with an acceptable animal yet to be discovered

Mongolian Death Worm spits out venom and is fearful/attracted to the colour yellow (I can't remember which)?

[Versa]

a mongolian thread worm ?

not something I want!

[Versa]

The Chupacabra is a cross between a feral dog and a coyote. They killed one, for some reason the crossbreed makes the canine teeth bigger they usual, the hind legs are longer than usual and they are almost completely hairless.

In my opinion that is a coyote with mange.... I think most of the carcasses have been proven to be coyotes with mange.

The old chupacabra is a different kettle of fish though The modern sightings dont really bear any resemblance to the goat sucker.

[Versa]

Mongolian Death Worm spits out venom and is fearful/attracted to the colour yellow (I can't remember which)?

theres a few accounts of it... It spits something different accounts say venom or blood (a bit like lizards that force blood from their eyes or snakes that spit venom)

I dont recall it being fearful of a colour but accounts have it as being a ruddy red colour with a yellowish stripe along its side.

[kensei]

I'd like to try and bring some clarity here. Cryptozoology is one of my great interests. I traveled to Loch Ness in 2008 and had a great visit but didn't see Nessie. However I did see a Bigfoot in 1976 when I was eight years old and I don't just believe but KNOW that there are things out there that have not yet been proven. The whole chupacabras thing really annoys me. The first reports in Puerto Rico were of a bipedal reptilian creature with spines down its back that could fly and which sucked the blood from small mammals. People swore that they saw it. Then this ridiculous thing started in Texas and other southern U.S. areas in which some kind of bug caused coyotes or dogs or coyote-dog hybrids or something to start appearing, and because of their strange appearance the media started referring to them as chupacabras. Hey, maybe this is what was responsible for all those weird reports from before.

NO!!!!!

In Puerto Rico, people actually swore that they saw a short bipedal reptilian creature that looked like something out of a science fiction movie that actually had the ability to fly without wings. In the U.S., what has been labeled "American chupacabras" are nothing but some kind of medical condition or genetic mutation among dogs and coyotes. The two have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with each other.

[Steven Russell]

Hello, kensei.
Please tell us about your bigfoot sighting.

Best wishes,
Steve.

[Errata]

I saw a UFO once, well maybe twice... not saying it was aliens, just saying I have no idea what it was.

I would love for Nessie to be real, I just don't think a creature that size could support itself in a loch.

[Garza]

In my opinion that is a coyote with mange.... I think most of the carcasses have been proven to be coyotes with mange.

The old chupacabra is a different kettle of fish though The modern sightings dont really bear any resemblance to the goat sucker.

No dog has that severe mange.

A bipedal reptile is far more unlikely.

[Scorpio]

Does cryptozoology include alien life forms?.

[glyn]

The Chupacabra is a genetically engineered top secret FBI type experiment that escaped.

How exactly did it escape? Did it bribe a guard or something?

[Steven Russell]

It used its laser-vision to slice through the cage. The FBI must be idiots to have not forseen this but there you go.

Best wishes,
Steve.

[glyn]

Where theres a will-theres a way

[kensei]

Hello, kensei.
Please tell us about your bigfoot sighting.

Best wishes,
Steve.

Hey Steven, didn't look back at this thread for quite a while so missed your request. Summer 1976 when I was 8 I was with my family on a Sunday drive near a place called Strawberry Lake in west-central Minnesota, a heavily forested area. I suddenly noticed something 100 yards or so ahead of our car standing beside the road, a solid black object a little taller than a man, and my first thought was that it looked like a burned, blackened tree trunk. But then after a few seconds it walked away from the road on two legs and disappeared into the woods. I didn't see arms but they could have been held motionless at the thing's sides. It could not have been a bear because it had long legs, stood perfectly vertical and strode like a man. Bears have short legs and can stand upright for short periods but kind of waddle if they try to walk that way and always drop down to all fours to actually go anywhere. And if it was a person in a costume I would think he would have let our car get a lot closer if he was trying to scare people. No one else in the car saw it. Why not? Well, I once had an Indian shaman tell me that it appeared only to me. Not sure what to make of that.

Visited Loch Ness in Sept. 2008- some charming little souvenir shops and very interesting Nessie information centers in the town of Drumnadrochit where I stayed one night, but not nearly the pervasiveness there would be if Nessie had been invented as a tourism draw as some have accused. In fact the area is quite understated and very peaceful. I went on an hourly cruise that is offered out of Drumnadrochit in Urquhart Bay, the operator of which made it clear that he himself doesn't even believe Nessie exists and his narration consisted entirely of the natural and cultural history of the area- William Wallace, the Jacobites and such. Adrian Shine, a well known cryptozoologist who runs the big info center in Drumnadrochit, is also very conservative in his view of Nessie and thinks it will turn out to be something like a giant sturgeon. Personally, with the size and depth of Loch Ness, I do think that something incredible could live in it and remain officially unclassified and only occasionally seen as it continues to be every year. Though admittedly, having been there, and coming from an area of Minnesota where there are many lakes, I have to say that since you can not see the entire 24-mile length of the loch when you're on the shoreline, it felt like being at any smaller lake I've ever been to. While on the cruise in the bay, I noted with amusement that the area is surrounded by so many sheep pastures that the air did not smell fishy or seaweedy at all but exactly like the childrens' barnyard at the county fairs I recall fondly from my youth.