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Apparently there is a man-eating catfish [09 Oct 2008|02:58pm] mrs_ralph I was looking up something else and came across this article http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1844 Five to cover man-eating catfish There are quite a few pictures of a very recognisable catfish with needlelike teeth. This is not the same area or fish mentioned in the previous post but I thought it might be interesting since the other article stirred up some interest. The program will air in the UK on 14th October at 8PM on Five. ( Read more... ) 7 comments|post comment

"Huadu Reservoir man-eating monster" [09 Oct 2008|01:08am] monkey_kong "Giant man-eating catfish found in Guangdong reservoir?". Before I read the description, I thought it looked like a whale shark. And then the writer of the article said the same thing. I'm no expert, so I'm not sure. Definitely skeptical. It sure doesn't look like a catfish to me. And if it's a whale shark, what is it doing in fresh water? Or maybe it came from somewhere else entirely and the story is 100% fabricated? Anybody able to ID it, or know the real story? It also claims that human remains were found in the fish, but the pictures do not seem to depict this. It looks more like they are going for the roe. Ummm, also, some of the comments are worth reading. ( A very confused commenter, behind the cut as it doesn't contain any valuable information ) 15 comments|post comment

Short Faced Bears [29 Sep 2008|10:49am] rhapsody_98 I don't have anything particular to note, I just wanted to see if anyone else had caught the MonsterQuest show on the Giant Bears. Dr. Blaine Schubert, the paleontologist, is from the museum where I volunteer. We'd all been looking forward to seeing the episode, and I finally caught it last night. We knew that they'd flown him out to Alaska, but didn't have any other details because, hey, we're just the peons who lead the tours and clean the fossils, we don't really get a chance to see the Doctors that often, they're always off on one conference or another, or teaching classes. Turns out, they drug him out there to try to find some bears. In Alaska, you'd think that would be a sure thing, but apparently not! Instead, some guy in New Jersey found on practically on command. Maybe Alaskan bears can turn invisible, that would be a cool new species. At any rate, Dr. Schubert got to go look at McFarlane's Bear in the Smithsonian, and declared it just a really big regular old brown bear. Kinda disappointing, from a cryptologist stand point, but still fascinating. 1 comment|post comment

Info please [28 Sep 2008|12:59am] spazzbit First its nice to find people that share such a large interest in cryptozoology such as i do. But i am not interested in bigfoot at all its way to popular. But when i came across a site on bigfoot another creature did catch my interest "Beast of bray road". I have been cought up on this creature for a while and planning at trip to accualy to camp out around the area the creature was sited. But what I am looking for is what time of the year the siteings are at its peek. So I am hopping someone could have some info on this and could share it would be greatly appreciated. 8 comments|post comment

Monster Mondays: Too Many Bigfoot [22 Sep 2008|07:42pm] boju yeti-sasquatch_low, originally uploaded by Boju. Dapper Cadaver is going to to be visited by the Believe It Tour on Friday, Sept 26th as part of their ongoing quest to teach and learn about the all mysterious of the universe, but mainly Bigfoot. In honor of the ambassadors of Sasquatch, I'm using Monster Mondays to shine some light on the whole Bigfoot clan. Cause there's lots of bigfoots, or bigfeet as their known to "science." Think you can tell a wookie from Harry and The Hendersons? Take this quiz and find out. I'll send something weird to the first person who get all the bigfoots correctly identified. 1. This Bigfoot lives in Brittish Columbia. It is 12 feet tall with bizarre long arms that end in yellow paddles. Unlike most apes, it only has 4 toes on its feet. Bigfoots 2 -12 after the jump post comment

Monster Mondays: Wisconsin Weirdos. [16 Sep 2008|06:33pm] boju hodag_capture, originally uploaded by Boju. This edition of Dapper Cadaver's Monster Monday's is dedicated to my lovely Wisonsonian wife, Eileen. Wisconsinites are a weird breed. As well as the beer basket of America, they're also the home of Barnum and Baily, the House on The Rock, The Forevertron, and the only company in America that still makes straight jackets for use in mental institutions. Likewise their monsters fall a bit on the strange side. The following beasts are only visible to Wisconsinians. Hodag - The beast pictured above. A small rhino/dragon like beast that is the earthbound soul of Minnesota's Babe the Blue Ox. The hodag had risen from the ashes of the ox. It was born when Paul Bunyan's ox, Babe, was burned for seven years to cleanse its soul of the profanity hurled at it by lumberjacks and its master. The cleansed part of the oxes soul went to Heaven, and from the earthbound ashes rose the foul smelling Hodag. The hodag is now a popular team mascot for various Wisconsin teams. More Wisconsin Monsters under the jump post comment

Not really cryptic, but... [13 Sep 2008|08:25am] skidspoppe watch this video - it will make you smile 5 comments|post comment

stupid monster hunter [12 Sep 2008|07:25pm] luckeyisis So I was watching Destination Truth, and I see why people have no respect for Cryptozoologists. The host John Gates is a total idiot. They were in Iceland going after the Death Worm, and at dusk the go on the lake to set up their equipment and get thermal readers out there, however they did not have a compass or GPS unit. So they go on a lake at night in cold weather with ice an fog around and take nothing with them to see how to move around. People that stupid deserve to get eaten by what they are hunting for. So people watch this and see how dumb the host is and think all crypto research is like that. 18 comments|post comment

[11 Sep 2008|11:35am] creaturesfromel 11 comments|post comment

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Storsjödjuret filmed! [30 Aug 2008|02:34am] bionaut Looks like they have some interesting film on the possible Storsjodjuret monster in Sweden. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZEG1zQVHBf7jD2pWsdiTcYNVXYQ http://www.storsjoodjuret.nu/ (video included here) 8 comments|post comment

Georgia Bigfoot Hoax Made National Public Radio [21 Aug 2008|03:02pm] alicemuggleland [ mood | Still pissed at Georgia Hoax ] I'm telling you, Bigfoot doesn't get any respect from the media, and certainly not from NPR. It is all a nice amusing story for them. If you check out the page that pops up with Real Media there is also an audio bit about the Pennsylvania man who using a camera set up to photograph wild critters caught what looks to to be a very long legged bear - the NPR reporter stated that critter was a mangy bear. Oh well. Bad month for those who think the forensics on Bigfoot is proof enough that it's out there. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93784613 1 comment|post comment

The Yeti de Bourganeuf [20 Aug 2008|09:38am] _omega_man [ mood | cynical ] Of course the "GA Gorilla" body hoax is not the first. In March 1997, a supposed Yeti corpse went on display for a short time at a fair in the town of Bourganeuf (on le pronounce BORG-AH-NEW-F:) in southwest France. It measured 2.63 meters or approximately 8' 7-1/2". Where it came from and how it got there are unknown. Investigator Christian Le Noel attempted to find the answers, but instead got stories about Tibetan monks finding it in an avalanche, then trying to hide it in a well from the Chinese army ,who found it anyway and it went on display for a time in Shanghai (Poor Yeti got Shanghaied:). After that it ended up at a state run circus in East Germany, which went bankrupt following the collapse of the communist bloc. None of this rang true to Le Noel. So the hoaxer then claimed that because of the creatures' similarity to humans, anyone who killed one, even by accident or out of fear, would be afraid to come forward and tell the truth. When Le Noel pressed further, both hoaxer and corpse disappeared. Over a year later, in the July-August edition of the journal Cryptozoologia, the sculptor who created supposed corpse, came forward admitting everything and explaining how he'd done it: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cryptozoo/actualit/1998/bourgane.htm The title translates as The frozen mannequin of Bourganeuf. The story is also related by Loren Coleman on Cryptomundo: http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/eyesjohor ( the key excerpts from which I shall quote here in case Cryptomundo is still under bandwidth bombardment ) There you have it friends; sponge rubber, horse hair and glass eyes from a taxidermy shop. Created to show off the artist's skill and as a tribute to the notorious Minnesota Iceman: http://paranormal.about.com/od/othercreatures/ig/Gallery-of-Monsters/Minnesota-Iceman.htm Now that took some creativity and imagination! Not simply buying a costume, stuffing it with possum entrails and sticking it in a beer fridge! To this day there are many who still believe that the created creature corpse was real. It certainly looks convincing, as you can see...Ladies and gents I present unto you the Yeti de Bourganeuf! post comment

DAMMIT!!! [20 Aug 2008|12:50am] x_tiger_blood_x [ mood | annoyed ] http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/08/sasquatch-detec.html There you go. The Bigfoot story is a hoax. Read the link there about how it was just a rubber costume. If that wasnt enough, the hoaxers being the dishonest liars that they are took the money that was given them too. The little thieves. 16 comments|post comment

Monster Mondays: Chupacabras [18 Aug 2008|08:43pm] boju 4 ft chupacabra 2, originally uploaded by Boju. This is a prop chupacabra I built for a freak show. As part of the Dapper Cadaver Blog's Monster Mondays project today I bring you another cryptid on the brink of being real - The Chupacabra, or in Spanish, El Chupacabra. The Chupcabra has only been with us a little over 10 years, being named in Puerto Rico in 1995. It was described as a reptilian or alien looking bipedal creature with huge eyes, a round head, and spikes down it's back. But the Puerto Rican Chupe bears little resemblance to the globe trotting hairless vampire dog thats been seen from Chile to Maine, and even Russia. Our Chupacabra haunts mostly Mexico and Texas, where its described as a hairless kangaroo-dog with spikes down it's back, or just an ugly wrinkled hairless dog, with a huge muzzle, and saber-like fangs. They can travel by running or hopping. I wonder if the hopping may be due to injury or disease? From the Russian Chupacabra of 2006 "“It’s definitely a chupacabra! It has small front and large hind paws. To begin with the animal was walking on four legs, stood on its hind legs at the water, lifting up its long tail, and then started jumping like a kangaroo,” he says. In May Dmitry is determined to seek out the Russian chupacabra along with colleagues from the Ural Ufology Monitoring Station." In Texas multiple corpses have been recovered, centered around Cuero Texas, and most recently a video of a Chupe running down the street looking a lot like a mexican hairless. DNA evidence shows it to be closely related to, or a diseased, domestic dog or coyote. If we drop the name Chupacabra from this tale, which is a completely different looking Puerto Rican monster that also sucks the blood of livestock, then the story gets older, and more interesting. The earliest "Chupacabra" attack I could find is in England nearly 200 years ago. It goes something like this - "In the month of May, 1810, something appeared at Ennerdale, near the border of England and Scotland, and killed sheep, not devouring them, sometimes seven or eight of them in a night, but biting into the jugular vein and sucking the blood....Upon the 12th of September, someone saw a dog in a cornfield, and shot it. It is said that this dog was the marauder, and that with its death the killing of sheep stopped" -Charles Fort Charles Fort then recounts of another Vampire Dog attack in Ireland in 1847, likening them to vampire bats, but finding it difficult to believe dogs can be vampires. As with the Chupacabra, the livestock was killed and drained of blood, but the body left in tact. When giant canine tracks were discovered near the kill sites, locals began shooting stray dogs on sight. During this wave of attacks several people were attacked an bitten by the vampire dogs, and suffered strange symptoms and madness. For the next 200 years, vampire dog attacks have sporadically appeared. Like today's Chupacabra attacks, the vampire dog attacks come in waves. They're devastating at the time, often taking dozens of livestock and whipping people into a panic, but the soon halt. Whatever is going on, it's clear we're not dealing with a species that feeds on blood to survive generation after generation. Could we be dealing with a mutant? A disease? A madness? Malnutrition? The Supernatural? Could something be driving otherwise normal canines to become vampires? Here's one of the Texas Chupe specimens. It's DNA showed it was most likely a coyote, but the muzzle is much thicker and the canine fangs are much longer. While mange may explain hair loss, something else would need to explain the changes to this "coyotes" teeth and snout. 7 comments|post comment

discovery article. [17 Aug 2008|11:24pm] joshunderwood we've all been following the georgia bigfoot report - discovery posted an article on it. its pretty much the same stuff that everyone else has been saying, seems a little more cemented (from the way they're handling it) as a possible hoax. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/15/bigfoot-sasquatch-hoax.html post comment

Big guy [15 Aug 2008|10:40pm] creepycourt [ mood | amused ] i know everyone is discussing the whole bigfoot thing i am really skeptical about it myself and really feel its a hoax... anyhow someone posted this link on my friendslist and i felt like sharing it.. Interesting read.. :P 4 comments|post comment

‘Bigfoot’ press conference reveals ‘possum DNA [15 Aug 2008|04:57pm] lone_concertina Promised evidence of mythical man-ape’s existence is not presented By BOB KEEFE Cox News Service Friday, August 15, 2008 PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bigfoot lives in North Georgia, and several of his relatives are still there. At least that’s what a pair of Georgia outdoorsmen and a California “Bigfoot expert” continue to claim. But if they have definitive evidence to prove it, it wasn’t presented at a press conference here Friday where they had assured the world they’d make believers out of everyone. A second round of DNA testing on the remains of a 7-foot-7, 500 pound man-ape they allege to have stumbled upon while hiking in North Georgia is still being completed, they said. Of three samples in a preliminary DNA test, one came back inconclusive, one contained traces of human DNA and one had traces of opossum DNA — probably from something the creature ate, they said. They didn’t produce a body - that’s in a hidden location, they said. They won’t say where they found the creature and saw others. They won’t let anyone but their own hand-picked scientists examine the body, and none were present on Friday. Still “we’re now the best Bigfoot hunters in the world,” said Matt Whitton, 31, who lives in the Atlanta suburb of Ellenwood. Whitton and his hiking buddy, 28-year-old Forest Park resident Rick Dyer, wore the promotional bigfootracker.com Web site hats to prove it. Whitton, a Clayon cop who’s on disability and Dyer, a car salesman and tow truck operator, say they’re not sure how they’re going to make money from their alleged find; earlier they had said they wanted to run Bigfoot expeditions in the North Georgia mountains. Tom Biscardi, a longtime Bigfoot enthusiast from Menlo Park, Calif. known for his questionable Bigfoot promotions in the past, swears it isn’t a hoax. “This is as real as you’re standing right where you are, sir,” Biscardi said when asked point blank about it. Others disagree. “This is becoming like an alien autopsy,” said Jeffery Meldrum, a noted Bigfoot researcher and a professor of anthropology at Idaho State University. “It’s shenanigans.” Care to weigh in, zhivoi? 37 comments|post comment

[15 Aug 2008|04:17pm] citizensnips420 [ mood | worried ] I just wanted to say, if all this turns out to be real, they better leave the sasquatches alone and not try to capture them and put em in zoos. Because I would be really pissed, and we would have to start a Bigfoot Liberation Front. 6 comments|post comment

[15 Aug 2008|10:32am] shiftcommathree where can we watch/hear the bigfoot press conference? or will it just be reported on later...? 10 comments|post comment

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