Comments on: An Art Motif Origin For U28′s Croc Monster?

By: Conor

Conor — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:54:24 +0000

Well, it’s pretty obvious that what is drawn in the picture doesn’t represent what was actually seen (if it was actually seen of course)

First of all…Look at EVERY sketch of ANYTHING drawn that long ago, especially if it’s a cryptid that’s been discovered, and see if it really turned out the way it was should have.

Secondly, the picture obviously shows an air breathing (You can clearly see it’s nostrils) cold blooded croco-zoid, that supposedly jumped 60 to 100 feet out of the water, or was “Blown” out of the water….That’s just impossible, I don’t care what anybody says, I’ve personally detonated underwater explosives, and nothing short of a thermonuclear device would throw even a 30 foot croc-i-gator that high into the air, or that a cold blooded animal in the north sea would ever have the energy to jump that high OUT of the water. It’s just common sense

It was also published 20 years after it happened. That’s the most obvious one.

Lastly, if there was enough explosion to propell this animal out of the water, or at least parts of a sunken ship….. It would have killed this animal deader than a doorknob. And they probably would have further investigated it.

Being that most of your body and most of the other creatures on this planet are made mostly out of water, when an explosion happens next to you in water, the force is directly transferred into your vital organs (turning your insides to soup.) Even active sonar can kill people and large sea mammals in water if at close enough range.

I know it’d be an unidentified species, but most dead things float (especially ones with nostrils), And I’m pretty sure they would have came up for a closer look to check out a dead 65 foot sea monster (or at least stay in the area to deal with survivors of the ship wreck)

By: gavinf

gavinf — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:56:08 +0000

I am a little surprised that the veracity of this account is questioned simply because the drawing isn’t original enough?
Von Forstner said the animal was ”more like a crocodile than anything else”. He did not say it was a crocodile. The drawing is representative of a crocodile, apparently based on a stuffed specimen.
How is that indicative of a weakness in the account?
I don’t have my copy of ”In the Wake of the Sea Serpents” at hand, but I remember the account to indicate the creature was blown out of the water after the Iberia sank. I realize there is also controversy surrounding that, but it would seem the animal was not on the surface, but deeper underwater. That may show this is not a surface dwelling, air-breather, but an animal with gills.
The idea that there are no specimens, or other sightings (that have been reported), should not be considered proof that Von Forstner lied.
I don’t know what it was, but I think it is a great encounter in the annals of cryptozoology.

By: alanborky

alanborky — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:32:09 +0000

Loren, ‘speaking’ with the mindset of an artist, I suspect the reason juveniles are drawn/mounted with their jaws closed is because this makes them look less threatening/predatory and therefore more childlike.

As for von Forstner, I’m not so sure his account was merely a topical yarn, simply because it would’ve been almost more believable – as well as more delightful to a readership inflamed with notions the Loch Ness Monster might be some sort of Jurassic hangover – if he’d described something more typically dinosaur-like, rather than an oversized biological oopart.

By: Dr. Strings

Dr. Strings — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:33:04 +0000

I think the U28 account is a croc *rimshot!*. In all seriousness, you lose me when you speak of a 65-foot long crocodile jumping 60-100 feet in the air. You could speculate that it was a saltwater croc (which would look enormous to someone that’s never seen one), if they actually saw something, but they reportedly only come as far east off Australia as the Seychelles.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:44:15 +0000

Ever think it was a young sea monster ala Gorgo for an example?

By: loopstheloop

loopstheloop — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:45:33 +0000

wunderbar!

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:32:20 +0000

As you’ve said ‘Flying crocodilians are all about us’. I know of one hanging around in the ‘sea-hall’ of Stuttgart’s Natural History Museum called Rosenstein-Museum. Our both friend Sordes has taken a beautiful picture of it. This white (or better yellow-white – it was not a true albinism) Crocodile was famous because of his unusual colour in the nearby ‘Wilhelma’-Zoo before it died in 2000. BTW today the Zoo has imported other ‘white’ crocodiles.

Another form of ‘flying crocodilians’ I know from you can see in the Zoo of Berlin. Their Crocodilian-Hall lies in the second floor so it’s possible to watch the crocodiles through glass swimming above your head… (unfortunately I found no picture but I hope you can imagine).