Comments on: Croyde Carcass Case Closed by CFZ

By: nzcryptozoologist

nzcryptozoologist — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:42:21 +0000

Well done Jon and team and acolades to all involved, particularly Darren also for being on the ball as usual.

Well done chaps.

Tony Lucas
NZ Cryptozoologist

By: Lightning Orb

Lightning Orb — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:03:36 +0000

Not to worry mystery_man, I don’t think the media’s latest carcass craze will last much longer; they’ll soon switch over to a flap that doesn’t raize such a stench

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:40:26 +0000

It’s rather amazing how out of proportion the media blew this thing. I really can’t see how this could come to this since it was plainly obvious to anyone who got a good look at that skull that this was that of a Grey seal. It was my immediate reaction when I saw the skull comparison.

I understand that the media likes to propagate the mystery of these things, but this was a little ridiculous. To my understanding, the CFZ from the very beginning thought of this as nothing more than the skull of a mundane animal, and it is the media (which unfortunately is the source most people are going to get their information) which spun this into something more than it was. This was never really anything cryptozoological to anyone other than the media, it was a completely fabricated phenomena based on nothing. I think the CFZ did the right thing and I’m glad the matter has been cleared up to everyone’s liking, but it’s amazing that it was necessary to do that in the first place.

Seals wash up, they die, they decompose, they leave skulls, it is a completely normal and non mysterious process. Does every carcass found have to be demonstrated to be that of a known animal or else be assumed to be something more? This is the very opposite of how things should work. Unless something is anomalous to the point that the evidence shows that it cannot be or possibly is not a known animal, something that it seems at no point anyone involved (barring the media) really thought, it is probably relatively safe to think that the source of the carcass is mundane. I mean, there was nothing even particularly odd about this skull. I dread to think that every decomposing corpse found is potentially going to have to go through the same process that happened here just to appease the sensationalist proclivities of the media and prove it is not a monster.

Sometimes a seal is just a seal. Hopefully level heads and rational thinking will prevail in the future, or at least that the level heads of those involved (like the CFZ) will be heard.

By: crapple

crapple — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:01:08 +0000

If they hadn’t gotten a hold of that skull immediately, this may have gone on for weeks/months. Some crackpot would take it, sell a story to the tabloids, and further destroy the reputation of people like you.

I can imagine the tabloid headlines…

“Flying Mutant Mermaid/seal halfbreeds help Bigfoot repair UFO, Bigfoot returns favor by Eating them”

“Nessie had Kids with Champ, one baby washed up on shore and died.”

“Mutant Mermaids! Alleged Crackpot Bigfoot research Loren Coleman Part of Seal-Based Government coverup!”