Comments on: Cryptozoology on Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World

By: bccryptid

bccryptid — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:31:28 +0000

The best series ever done on the subject. Absolutely fascinated me as a kid (and still does, obviously!). Also, mr. Clarke was a gifted narrator and really got you thinking. His line that ’somewhere right now within the sonar data files of the US Navy, there is likely evidence of sea monsters unknown to science’ or something similar, still gives me goose bumps.

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:17:10 +0000

An interesting aside (which will be of use to absolutely NOBODY here I guess LOL) is that in the sea serpent episode, the British guy who was talking about the giant squid attack on the sailor is John Cloudsley Thompson. He was at the battle of Villers Bocage in Normandy in June 1944 when famous German Waffen SS Tiger Tank ace Michael Wittmann blew his tank away from under him. He only just escaped with his life before his tank blew up.

He later became a Professor of Zoology.

http://www.war-experience.org/collections/land/alliedbrit/j-cloudsley-thompson/default.asp

Like I said, I doubt that will interest anybody though.

By: mrbf2007

mrbf2007 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:29:49 +0000

I have the Yeti and Bigfoot segments on DVD, as well as a segment on the Russian Wildman with Valentin Sapunov. God bless Arthur C. Clarke and may his family be comforted at this time.

By: maslo63

maslo63 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:31:13 +0000

A. C. Clarke’s show was my childhood inspiration for my interest in cyptozoology. I still have a bunch of them recorded on old VHS tapes.

By: Gary the Cat

Gary the Cat — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:27:07 +0000

Just for info-the series has just been released on a 2 disc DVD set in the UK. You can get it via Amazon.

By: Clark

Clark — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:45:51 +0000

I notice what Michael Newton may wish to examine as a possible eurypterid or sea scorpion in one of the topmost series of videos. Immediately after the three Mysterious World videos, in the fourth video, there is a lobster-like creature very briefly shown in a very clear photo. To judge from Newton’s illustration in his encyclopedia and from my Smithsonian Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life, this may be a eurypterid, since there were a number of varieties. It does not exactly match either illustration, and the eyes may not be big enough, but it does seem remarkably similar. It’s so briefly shown, you won’t see it by fast forwarding, but it’s near the start of that video. The video is called “Cryptozoology and the bizarre” and the photo is right after the fish with one head and two bodies.

By: ZenBug

ZenBug — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:22:20 +0000

Best theme song ever. Too bad it’s cut out of them.

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:39:56 +0000

Remember watching these as a kid in the early 1980s. One of the first documentaries that got me interested in bigfoot/yeti.