Comments on: Real Monsters of Madagascar

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:15:53 +0000

dang… I guess this pulled blog-post will teach me to go a couple of days without reading Cryptomundo, thinking I can always “catch up later”

By: Sky King

Sky King — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:29:24 +0000

I TOTALLY AGREE about the resemblance to drawing of Chupacabras! That was my first thought: “it’s CHUPACABRAS!”

By: shovethenos

shovethenos — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:27:30 +0000

shumway10973-

A body would be nice, but short of that there is no credible reason why DNA and other scientific evidence, like metal content analysis for hair samples, should not be accepted, or at least strongly considered.

By: mcd

mcd — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:03:37 +0000

From 1997:

“The last American official the Peace Corps Director, departed on an MC-130 for Libreville, Gabon

Americans Depart Brazzaville, Congo

STUTTGART, Germany - (NENS) –Operation Firm Response is complete. All U.S. citizens, who desired evacuation, have departed Brazzaville, Congo, including the U.S. European Command’s (EUCOM) Survey and Assessment Team (ESAT).

The ESAT, with assistance of French forces, evacuated American Ambassador, Aubrey Hooks, and approximately 17 Americans to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, early Wednesday morning (June 18). Shortly thereafter, the ESAT and the last American official the Peace Corps Director, departed on an MC-130 for Libreville, Gabon. The MC-130 from the 7th Special Operations Squadron at RAF Mildenhall, delivered the ESAT to Brazzaville last Wednesday and took 56 people to Gabon where it remained on stand-by.

The ESAT is comprised of special operations personnel from the Special Operations Command Europe, commanded by BG Geoffrey C. Lambert. "Army Green Berets, Navy Seals, and Air Force Special Operations–what a team," said BG Lambert, the commander of Operation Firm Response. "This was a superb performance in an ambiguous situation. They stayed in Brazzaville until all American citizens were evacuated." ”

(1997-2002 was the period of the large-scale Congo civil war following the ouster of Mobutu.)

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:58:46 +0000

I would love these animals to be real if possible.

PEOPLE out there are seeing something out there. I think the NAVY SEALS are seeing something.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:48:37 +0000

Right, I was talking about the kind of hard evidence -we’d like- namely the kind that moves an uncatalogued animal to catalogued status, and scientific study of it’s biology and behaviors.

By: DWA

DWA — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:14:41 +0000

There are two types of hard evidence: scientifically accepted evidence, and that that science doesn’t accept.

And scientists have a substantial and documented tendency to think inside very narrowly constrained boxes, as the constant rethinking of the path of evolution based on new discoveries shows us again and again.

There is much more — MUCH more — hard evidence for the sasquatch, to cite what I think is the best example, than there is for a number of species that science accepts. It’s just that the evidence for the latter fits inside the nicely constrained boxes scientists tend to construct.

Just like the rest of us, science constructs its own reality, and rejects anything that doesn’t fit that reality…which will inevitably be different, by the unquantifiable degree of What Isn’t Known Yet, from actual reality. It’s the human way of doing things. It’s not bad; in fact it’s essential. But we should recognize it for what it is.

Just a thought.

By: Dark-Obsessor

Dark-Obsessor — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:27:19 +0000

Interesting. The illustration doesn’t exactly resemble an ape, though… It’s kinda creepy.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:15:51 +0000

We certainly lack the sort of hard evidence we’d all like to have on these uncatalogued animals, but, a ’skeptic’ who proposes instead the “Swiss Mahariji’s” belief in globally-experienced archetypes eminating from the overmind as a ’scientific’ response to folkloric reports and amateur sitings is a bit oh, bizzare.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:24:27 +0000

shovethenos - I actually found this guest skeptic at least intelligent and very “truthful” in the way things were worded. He is right, we can have as many encounters with big foot and other cryptids, but without a body (hopefully and best alive) there will be no way to prove any of these creatures do or have ever existed.

I just greatful that Loren will allow people with other view points in here, providing they keep it intelligent and professional.