Comments on: The Mystery Fish - X-CMing

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:15:31 +0000

Well, I guess everyone makes mistakes. Turns out this is very similar to the elephant’s trunk snake, but the apparent coloration is wrong, as is the positioning of the eyes, nostrils, and the fact that most of us agreed that it was found in the SE United States, not Java.

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:44:10 +0000

It’s either a brutally killed mosasaur or a fish that was beaten with an ugly stick.

By: Neila

Neila — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:14:29 +0000

I think we’re looking at a skinned shark of some sort. In the link below which shows a dead shark; skin, gut and de-fin it and you’d have basically the same type of critter at roughly the same scale.

This photo happens to also be a postcard image. It’s of a 20 foot tiger shark caught in 1964.

By: frogman1975

frogman1975 — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:16:18 +0000

Someone said it reminded them of the “silure”.
I don’t know if that is indeed what it is, as I don’t know much about the fish, but some sort of large catfish pulled dead from the water, would seem logical to me. I’ve seen a lot of skinned fish and while skin seems to be missing from this one, it strikes me as more likely slightly decomposed than “skinned”. Besides, wouldn’t you take a photo before skinning a fish if you were going to skin it?
At first glance I honestly thought shark, but the silure/giant catfish theory is intriguing too.

By: shovethenos

shovethenos — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:25:29 +0000

I’m fairly certain I saw it before because there were some heated discussions about it - just like now. It might have been a book from one of those book clubs that kids used to order from through school - Troll was one of the companies, there were others. Could be wrong, through.

By: purrlcat

purrlcat — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:35:47 +0000

Are you sure this isn’t like everyone thinking they have SEEN the magazine picture of the men in front of the barn wall with the ‘thunderbird’ or ‘pteradactyl’ pinned to it?!?

By: shovethenos

shovethenos — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:15:08 +0000

The picture looks very familiar. It might have been a kid’s book, as I was a kid at the time.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:58:05 +0000

Nope, not at all, or I won’t have asked here. But we know what it looks like now, so what is it?

By: shovethenos

shovethenos — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:59:44 +0000

Loren-

I seem to remember a friend having a book on cryptozoology with that picture in it sometime in the early 80’s. Do you know which book that was?