Comments on: A Giant Winged Cryptid Over Barcelona?

By: lordoftheonionrings

lordoftheonionrings — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:10:09 +0000

One thing many people use as an urgument over the existance of mega-fauna is that they are so big they would be seen all the time. If they in fact did exist they would be at the absolute top of the food pyramid meaning thier would be very few of them as compared to animals lower on down. Also they would have huge territories and would probably be severely endangered due to habitat loss. Also I could see a bird being able to avoid detection almost better than alot of other cryptids. It would be very difficult to determine the size of a flying crptid unless you were very close to it. A gaint bird viewed 1000′ away might just look like a regular turkey vulture 500′ away if you catch my meaning.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:27:25 +0000

@ Tacos_with_Chili (those are NOT tacos, man, and I know tacos!) Personally these sightings seem to have more of a Fortean undertone than the typical cryptozoological sighting.

The fact that these large avian creatures were seen by so many people in such a populated urban area, and then the sightings just stopped, might just mean they were not caused by some unknown or out-of-place flesh-and-blood bird. But that’s just me…

By: Tacos_with_Chili

Tacos_with_Chili — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:20:35 +0000

@ Red_Pill_Junkie, Artist, and Ilikeitdark.
Artist, Red_Pill_Junkie and Ilikeitdark, it seems like this birds might be endangered (just my own theory). Sightings many times before in Spain. I would assume it’s endangered since more than one sighting may mean that these birds for some reason arrived to the public places and probably enjoys something there. I would assume more of these birds would stop by. Apparently it didn’t harm people. I’m assume it doesn’t have a taste for humans. (Hopefully they don’t).

What I don’t understand (although, I have an open mind and I know many things are possible in this earth) is that these birds of tremendous size hid away from the public well. How? I don’t know and I yet to understand. Yes many animals can hide in larger size, but a bird? A bird that flies and walks on land? That’s something that would be seen more often then just a large land animal (mokele-mbembe, bigfoot, dinos..) a 5ft bird to a 10foot bird in height is really getting me to think with a more open mind. I mean where on earth (I truly mean that) are they going to hide? Many trees but smaller birds can hide so well, but birds of larger size and tremendous size can’t hide in trees.

Condors I believe are more visible in trees then a smaller bird. (if they ever nest up there) A 5ft to 10ft bird in height or even 20ft bird in height can’t hide in trees Well maybe a 5+ft but not a 10ft one. I think falcons, eagles, hawks, vultures, condors (I’m not an expert) all live on rocks at some point. I can clearly understand a bit if a thunderbird or an gigantic bird can sustain and live in mountains, nesting in mountains. I don’t understand where in mountains.

I would assume any flying object (driven by people) would be seeing this birds around them mountains. Satellite should be able to pick it up maybe. Although I’m not an expert, I can clearly think with my own knowledge that posses right now and I might be able to figure something out. I know many of you are thinking the same thing as I am.

I can’t clearly see these birds nesting in trees. Honestly I don’t know what mountains, where on the mountains, are these birds located without them/their nest being seen. How high the mt are? I don’t know, I can understand if they live high in the mountains where humans hasn’t possible been. Maybe just maybe modern generation probably hasn’t explored every inch of a mountain.

My only logical explanation is the mountains. If it lives on land/trees, I don’t know how come they haven’t been caught with more views then it has now recorded or video taped..etc if it flies, and walks on the ground like other fowls do. These creature should be more exposed then any other animal. If these birds flies to a city, town, village without getting caught when their on their way to a destination, then I don’t understand how can that be?

By: Tacos_with_Chili

Tacos_with_Chili — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:56:46 +0000

Looks like USA and Spain so far. I’m guessing thunderbirds and other birds at that have been living among us in tremendous size. Looks like they’re either related or in the past they may have been many large birds that we didn’t know existed. As I recall online, I seen a picture of a large bird in a museum. As always they added it’s feature over the fossil or something like that. It looks like a giant crow. The feather however was found. Giant black feather.

This reminds me of that bird. Could be the same species. If it’s the same exact (meaning pure breed), that species didn’t go extinct. At least not when these people saw it. As for the Thunderbird, I’m surprised that these bird still exist. I’m shocked right now to know that It’s not only in America.
I’m happy to know that other large birds of extraordinary size exist elsewhere. I wonder if there’s other sightings other then North American and Spain. Just like giant apes worldwide, or Nessie like creatures worldwide.

So far these birds resembles crows, Mutant Pigeons, and Giant vulture like creatures. I think some resemble giant falcon like or eagle like. I don’t know if the Mothman counts as a supposed giant Owl. Just waiting until someone spots a Giant hummingbird or something resembling a hummingbird. I take it that these Giants are somehow related to the smaller version of what people say they look like. I mean come on, in the past many birds breed with other birds of the same kind (like dogs do), and somehow the birds gotten smaller and smaller. Like the Irish wolfhound to a toy poodle.

Both canines and by many generations the dogs ended up with new breeds and new breeds and then comes the smaller breeds. Looks like dogs like making love to different varieties of the same kind then any other animal would that I know of. I guess birds are the same way as dogs then. I know cats are. And the larger birds seem to survive these days.

By: cloudyboy87

cloudyboy87 — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:43:39 +0000

Very intriguing reports. I am noticing some similarities to the reports of Ropens in Papua New Guinea and to Pterosaurs in North America. I will definitely have to research this more

By: E

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:52:52 +0000

So many sightings of such a big bird for such a long period of time and no one got a camera ready???

By: ilikeitdark

ilikeitdark — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:33:47 +0000

I am an ex-pat from the USA who has been living in Barcelona since 2003.
In late 2004 early 2005 I was living the Gracia bario in Barcelona. One of my roomates was from Praga and one night, maybe around 11pm or so, she came home with a strange story, and was a little shaken. She was at her freinds house in the Vallcarca barrio (which is near Tibidabo mountain in Barcelona), sitting on the terrace at night. All of the sudden, they saw the shadow of what they decribed as a giant bird/bird like creature spreading its wings, and then taking flight, on the buliding opposit them. They decribed it as being from what I recall 5 or 6 meters at least. I don’t remember if they heard a sound or not. She was totally mystified at what she saw, and was not a beleiver in Fortean subjects at all. Being a fortean myself, I asked around a bit, and a Catalan friend told me about the stories of giants birds a few years earlier.

By: Artist

Artist — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:30:09 +0000

Ah, the paranormal rears its mystical head… again.

“…he saw a bird six times larger than his car.”
My brother, walking towards a lakeside fishing spot next to the Temple of Music in Providence’s lovely Roger Williams Park, was astounded to see two gigantic crow-like birds, with bodies “as big as my car”, flying low over the grassy lawn!

“The bird flew by beating its wings barely three meters over the ground.”

The birds flapped their huge wings slowly as they swooped by him, creating a swoosh with each beat – then they turned and silently flew beween the trees along the water’s edge and out over the big lake.

He ran to the lakeshore to see more of them, but in those few seconds, they had disappeared!

“…a bird of tremendous size – dark (mainly black or grey) – a crow – It was dark, silent – seen (day and night) – made no noise whatsoever – an immense black bird in broad daylight…”

That Park is legendary for its mysterious inhabitants – giant birds and eels, white-robed strollers, hovering lights, vanishings etc…

By: whiteriverfisherman

whiteriverfisherman — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:15:33 +0000

Hmmm, 1990? Just a thought but what was seen by some of the witnesses could have been a stealth bomber headed to the Middle East. They would have used allied airspace for the trip. The plane looks like an immense black bird and I am sure the engine noise would have sounded strange.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:33:54 +0000

An article titled Criaturas Misteriosas en España (Mysterious Creatures in Spain), published in the Spanish magazine Año Cero (# 209, December 2007) mentioned those same reports.

It also mentions a case reported in April 2001. That night, a man named Jesús Serrano observed a strange light while he was walking his dog; the light had a boomerang shape and it moved erratically through the air. Later, the same witness (aling with his girlfriend) observed them same light from his home balcony; through binoculars, he realized that the “light” was a giant bird with glowing red wings!

The magazine also reported several cases of strange attacks and mutilations discovered on sheep cattle in 2000 and 2003. Maybe the giant bird had a taste for mutton