“OMG! I may not ACTUALLY be typing at a computer!!” Hmm… News for 2010: Nessie conclusively confirmed by good cameras?

Except once Cthulhu and his polypi spawn rise, they don’t die- everything else does.

And yes I agree the B-Movies of horror are still pretty fun to watch. I hope they never die out.

I seem to remember reading books on cryptozoology as a kid in the 80s and some claiming that the giant squid was a myth. They even tried to explain away the large sucker scars on some sperm whales by saying that the injury happened when the whale was young and expanded as it aged.

And I seem to remember that even one of the Discovery Channel or History Channel shows tried to claim that they didn’t exist.

For those who may not have read it, Tennyson did his own take on this legend (and, since he died over a century ago, it’s out of copyright
The Kraken

Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber’d and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

– Alfred, Lord Tennyson