By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:58:00 +0000

It’s interesting to me how closely the accounts given resemble some of the expeditions for other as yet undiscovered cryptid animals. For example, the account of shooting the gorillas and how the bodies fell into the river and whatnot. If these were still undiscovered animals, there would likely be a whole lot of people who doubt the veracity of these observations. The way they lost the hand to hyenas sounds just like the “almost got the evidence” accounts so frustrating in some accounts of cryptids (although here they at least secured the body). It is so similar to what happens in unknown animal cases, so fantastic and mysterious. And yet in this case, everything was true.

Add to that the stories by the locals, how this animal was so ethnoknown (even if some of the stories of stealing children were no doubt somewhat exaggerated), and it all sounds precisely like some of the more well known cryptids today. It is things like this that give me pause to write off any cryptid accounts out of hand when I remember cases like the gorilla and realize that the circumstances surrounding it and the reports given for this real animal are so very like those of, say, the sasquatch.

It just goes to show you just never know.

By: Spinach Village

Spinach Village — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:05:26 +0000

I hope so, in a discrete, peaceful way… please

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