Comments on: Globsters’ Glory Days Are Gone

By: Ceroill

Ceroill — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:03:27 +0000

Well said, Mystery-Man!

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:40:46 +0000

This to me is a very good example of how science can help us to get to the bottom of some of these mysteries. Being someone who at one time held a certain fondness for the mystery of globsters, I feel a certain sadness that this mystery is no longer one but at the same time, I am pleased at how science can take a seemingly unfathomable mystery of ages past and get to what is really going on. Beautiful. All I really want with any cryptozoological phenomena is to know the truth, no matter what that truth turns out to be.

By: flame821

flame821 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:49:55 +0000

As for globsters I realize most of them are whale carcasses, but where can I find any pictures of stranded Octopus (Octopi?) or Squid that may have been mistaken for globs? Or do they decompose in a significantly different way from mammals?

By: fallofrain

fallofrain — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:43:59 +0000

I’m a frequent beachcomber along the Oregon Coast north of Seaside. I had occasion to contact Keith Chandler of the Seaside Aquarium a couple years ago to report a dead harbor porpoise. He and an associate arrived quickly and recovered the whole animal, which had not yet begun to decompose. He said in cases of small mammals like the porpoise they freeze the carcass and send it to the Oregon State U. Marine Sciences Lab for autopsy. A creature as big as the recent Seaside whale cannot be reasonably recovered intact, but tissue samples are taken and sent to the lab. If it’s unrecognizable they may speculate on what it is, but they don’t dismiss it and dispose.

By: The_Yardstick

The_Yardstick — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:06:52 +0000

Don’t get too cozy–all of them should be tested, not just declared “whales” and disposed of. It’s dangerous to automatically called all globsters whales. They may all be whales, but they still need to be examined.

By: Bob Michaels

Bob Michaels — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:59:44 +0000

From Richard Ellis “Monsters of the Sea”. Eugenia Clark, a Zoologist & Cryptozoologist at the university of Maryland was able to get a sample of tissue of the St Augustine and Bermuda blob and had them analyzed by Skip Pierce a molecular biologist. Pierce concluded they were not octopus or squid tissue but pure collagen. However, this raises more questions. Collagen is the fibrous constituent of bone, cartilage. Connective tissue does not exist in two or three ton lumps. It it would have to be one hell of a tumor.

By: AtomicMrEMonster

AtomicMrEMonster — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:54:55 +0000

timbo21 is correct about the St. Augustine carcass. Interested parties should check out the “St. Augustine Monster” Wikipedia entry for more information.

By: captiannemo

captiannemo — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:20:12 +0000

Did they ever find out what the original one in Tazmania was ?
The detailed description was amazing!

By: timbo21

timbo21 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:12:05 +0000

All globsters have been proven to be dead whales including the one found in St. Augustine, FL. A sample from that stranding was recently tested by a scientist in San Diego. I don’t remember his name but that info is available on an episode of “Is It Real” titled “Monsters of the Deep” that periodically airs on the National Geograpic Channel. Dr. Roy Mackel is wrong. Technological advances in DNA testing have proven this to be true. Sorry!

By: Ceroill

Ceroill — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:29:21 +0000

I’ve always had a bit of a fondness, if that’s an applicable word here, for Globsters. Thanks for the update Loren.