Plesiosaur

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Recently I had spoken about a sea creature that had been rumored to be inhabiting Antarctica and was first brought to the forefront of enthusiasts, after a Japanese website called 2channel had a poster who was working with a whale research ship, that observed a massive albino humanoid creature in the waters.

One of the most famous of sea-creatures that modern day man has been obsessed over, where stories have streamed in of it being observed all over the world, is the plesiosaur. Yes, by the name itself, it’s a pre-historic dinosaur that inhabited the oceans millions of years ago. It’s believed that they became extinct, around the same time the land dinosaurs did.

But because of these various sightings, it’s always hope or maybe a thought of the possibility that these massive sea creatures have retreated to the depths of the ocean and have stayed there since the beginning of their existence.

One of the biggest events associated with plesiosaur sightings, came from the retrieval of a carcass by a Japanese trawler back in 1977, off the coast of New Zealand. This massive carcass was unidentifiable, but had the resemblance of a plesiosaur.

Plesiosaurs were described to have long necks and flippers, on the sides of their torso, with very short tails. They were massive creatures, with the smallest having a length of over 6 feet and the largest over 49 feet (15 meters). Now that’s some massive measurements. They’ve been coined as the largest sea creature to have ever existed. The excitement of possibly finding one of these, is extremely grand. It was no wonder that the Japanese trawler crew, were confused by what they had found.

Eventually the crew decided to throw the carcass back into it’s watery grave because of the possibility of it contaminating and spoiling their cargo. As they hoisted and maneuvered the carcass back to throw it into the ocean, it slipped and fell onto the deck of the ship. It’s from this point that an oceanological high school graduate decided to take better observation and pictures of this water creature. Tissue samples were also collected.

When the oceanological high school graduate got back to shore, this news was spread to the masses. There were grand events to announce the findings and various scientists taking observations of the pictures and making their own speculations. Some claimed and were positive that it was the decomposing carcass of a shark, specifically a basking shark.

Eventually, before the hype of this find could be stopped, rumors of a plesiosaur found off the coast of New Zealand was in Japanese newspapers and media. Unfortunately, after this had been spread and deemed to be true, and caused grand production of items in relation to the finding; stamps, toys, etc., the tissue samples results brought back that this lovely find, was no other than a shark.


Decomposing process of a basking shark, to show how it can resemble a plesiosaur

Click the link to read the whole story, about the plesiosaur found in New Zealand and how it was determined to be just a shark.

Ningen

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Many of us have heard about the Lochness monster, Abominable snowman or even Big Foot but many of us can say for sure, that we have never heard of the legend of the Ningen.

The Ningen is believed to be a sea creature that has a humanoid appearance that has been observed in Antarctica since the 90s. It was first observed by some Pacific fishermen who found it had a human-like appearance to it. The legend of the Ningen has a huge rumor amongst the Japanese. It’s told to be about 60 to 90 feet long and have a whale-like appearance, with albino skin.

From many eyewitness accounts, it also has the appearance of arms, legs and even hands with 5 digits.

The notoriety of the Ningen escalated from a Japanese forum called 2channel where the word Ningen, which translate to human, stemmed from. Here’s a link that talks about the whole story that originated from the 2channel forum: Nifty.com (This requires you use Google Translator, to read, unless you know Japanese :P ) Copy and paste link to get it translated.

Although many observations have been made, there is no concrete evidence proving the existence of the Ningen. There are videos and pictures, that show an albino like sea creature, of extreme size that do seem to have limb-like appendages, but no absolute surety can come from these videos or pictures.

I am not sure if this is a computer generated image of the Ningen, but from my research there hasn’t been any information on what this is.

This is an artistic rendition of a Ningen with legs, but as you can see, no arms.

A possible google image of a Ningen? It does seem to have arms or some sort of limbs extending from it, if it’s a living creature of course.

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CDC says there is no zombie virus

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It was only recently I had made my comment on the whole zombie apocalypse issue, that has been streaming the masses since the various zombie like attacks that have occurred last month. But I guess the issue has gotten so out of hand, that the CDC had to send an email to Huffingtonpost, containing the details that ‘there is no virus that can reanimate the dead”. Now doesn’t that sound like something straight out of Resident Evil?

If my fellow fanatics of the Resident Evil franchise can definitely recall, or even if you’re into the video games, you will be able to identify the similarities in what’s happening in 2012, with what was introduced in the franchise.

First, there’s the Umbrella Corporation, which is suppose to be conducting genetic research of the “curing” type, but in fact have been developing a virus that can reanimate dead tissue. If you could remember from Resident Evil: Apocalypse, there was a doctor who had a degenerative muscle disorder which he knew was hereditary and to help prevent this same unfortunate future to happen to his daughter, he developed what was called the T-virus. His research was force-ably taken from him by the Umbrella Corporation, who he happened to be also working for, but not before he tried it out various times on his daughter, Angela.

Besides the cannibalism by the naked man in miami, along with the 21 year old engineering student who killed his roommate and ate piece of his heart and brain, we have a mysterious or baffling case in Africa that has struck it’s children. Doctors are rushing to figure out what it is and how they can treat it. The symptoms include seizures, that could be accompanied by violent behaviors but various new reports have retracted those statements and that symptom is currently being debated, and abnormal personality changes in the child.

The source of these violent behaviors, comes from one mother who has 2 children who are currently suffering from the illness, as described by the Daily Tech. The mother claims for her and her children’s safety, before she leaves the house she has to tie their hands.


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I would consider kids gnawing at the cloth that is used to restrain them, as very much zombie like behaviors, wouldn’t you say? I mean it is 2012, and the whole world coming to an end thing, may just have some truth to it. Maybe, the end of the world is a zombie apocalypse! It may sound crazy but the amount of zombie stories recently, has become a little funny and a little concerning to say the least.

Just in case Z-day does arrive sometime soon or in the distant future, the CDC has even provided a Zombie preparedness guide as explained by CNN.com. Unfortunately the blog that has these break downs, is currently down. I will keep checking on it, to see if it comes back up and provide a link update.

But, a little synopsis of the guide basically is that once one is able to handle and be prepared for any type of catastrophe like a hurricane, massive earth quake, terrorist attack, etc., all these preparedness apply to a zombie apocalypse.

To be honest, I say get your pitch forks, haunting tools, flash light, your bodybuilding neighbor and make some booby traps around your house because when these suckers start a-coming, you are going to want to be prepared!

I will provide more precise “How to” for a zombie apocalypse, so stay tuned for that!

The Mothman

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In 2002, there was a movie released named The Mothman Prophecies staring Richard Gere and Laura Linney. It’s story was based on true events that occurred in Point Pleasant and West Virginia between 1966 and 1967. Supposedly, there were reports of sightings of a winged like creature, along Point Pleasant and other various areas. On December 15th 1967, the Silver Bridge, which connects Point Pleasant and West Virginia and Gallipolis, Ohio, spanning above the Ohio River, collapsed and no more sightings of the winged creature, was claimed after the event. Because of this, there’s been connections between the mothman and the Silver Bridge disaster, assuming that it was a warning of disastrous events to come. The movie follows a reporter, who through arts of his wife, and other symbols or sightings by others, in relation to this winged creature, appropriately named Mothman, puts them together to realize it is a warning of something terrible to come.

Point Pleasant isn’t the only account of sightings of the mothman. Various accounts can be observed and read, over the internet, spanning into the hundreds. Not only that, but what makes the mothman an eerie subject, is the fact that the description of the mothman, is nearly always the same even prior to illustrations being passed around from person to person. You have to ask yourself, how did all of these people, provide the same basic description of a big winged creature, that stood to several feet tall with bright eyes?

So what and who are these mothmen that people have claimed to see? Some say they are aliens, others say other dimensional creatures, here specifically to guide us and warn us about impending dooms. Many witnesses have mentioned that they have a feeling that the mothmen are more there to guide rather than hurt us.

One recent event that we all can relate to, is 9/11, where photographs of flying humanoid creatures, were taken:

In 2003, a man was walking his dog in Kentucky, who resides in the border of Kentucky and Ohio took a picture that has some very interesting details involved in it. As you can see in the two following pictures, one minute there’s a winged creature on the top of the bridge, at it’s highest point and then in the next frame, it jumps and flies off. Some people claim it maybe a camera shot of someone just unfortunately committing suicide but does this unfortunate individual also have wings?

If you look at the encircled area in the first picture, you’d see there’s definitely a wing form along with this silhouette of a person.

These other set of images, are also associated with the 9/11 disaster. To understand these images, you have to focus on the circled part in the first image and recognize that it has moved to the other building. Not only that but the length of this creature, makes it that it has to be something pretty big and that it couldn’t possibly be a bird. Not only that, but it can definitely not be a person jumping out of the building as obviously, the distance wouldn’t make any sense. You can also see the shadow behind the creature in the first picture and again on the next building. It’s kind of blurry yes, but what could possibly be flying next to the burning towers at this time of the event?

There continues to be mothman sightings to this day and I believe it will continue. There’s been a lot of interesting and scary stories in relation to the viewing of mothmen. Some have felt threatened by them but like previously mentioned, others have said there is nothing to fear.

It’s up to you, after viewing and reading different stories related to mothman sightings. It’s a very eerie phenomenon and should peak any lucid person’s curiosities.

For a nice long list of sightings, visit Mothmen.us

Here is a mothman death list, associated with their sightings: Mothman Death list

If you are as interested in Mothmen as I am, bookmark this entry of mine and I will continuously update it with more information as I find them!