Ontario Mystery: What Is It?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 9th, 2010
Bonnie Bodine has shared the following image with me. She wonders what it is.
She says her friend found “it while walking and wondered if anyone knew what it was.”
“I guess it’s from around Sturgeon Falls, Ontario,” she writes.
Frankly, it looks like a constructed fake Chupacabras. I am reminded of the faux taxidermy of Sabrina Brewer.
Chupacabras by Sabrina Brewer.
Or the photos of Rosamond Purcell.
Ray by Rosamond Purcell.
Or even the art of Juan Cabana.
FeeJee Mermaid by Juan Cabana.
I’m not buying that this Ontario one is real without more details and confirmation of its origin.
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I’m guessing it is the desicated body of a Chameleon. Just sayin’
I live about an hour away from Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, and I’ve not heard of any stories about any creatures that look like that.
There’s certainly no local lore (that I’m aware of) about an odd creature like that.
>> “I’m not buying that this Ontario one is real without more details and confirmation of its origin.”
Not to mention Xray, Fluoroscope, MRI, Projectional radiograph, CT, Gamma, scintigraphy, SPECT and PET images, before the necropsy and peer review!
Just a poorly made arts-n-crafts gaff, you can get these phoney whats its on ebay a lot better looking too.
I first saw this creature on either “Pink Tentacle” or “Boing Boing”. It is the work of Hajime Emoto, and is “sculpted from paper, modeling paste and bamboo.”
Bingo. You nailed it, Gingerbread_Forest. Here it is:
That site is really cool. Here’s an English-language gateway.
Looks like part of a fish mixed with other things. I’m getting tired of people faking things like this its just giving cryptids a bad name and making them seem ”make believe”.
If it is indeed real, there is no doubt in my mind. It is a petrified Iguana. Probably, it escaped and couldn’t survive the cold climate. They are fairly popular pets.