Real or Legend, What's Your Favorite Cryptid?

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I thought Ketchum sounded reasonably sane.
It was late for me. I was sober, a bit sleepy.

bun

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An old friend used to say, "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a
duck and is seen in the company of ducks, it is probably a duck."

Re: Dr. Melba Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA study which proves the exis-
tence of Sasquatch and it's pending publication is almost upon us ...

I'm too tired, used & bruised to go into the details, but --

Since late November when Igor Burtsev mistakenly leaked on Facebook
Dr. Ketchum's intended press release, forcing her to make the actual
press release by way of clarification ...

Most of what's been coming out of the Ketchum camp is good or bad
carnival, depending on your taste in entertainment. To me, it's in
bad taste and offensive.

The latest is that some sweet young thing with a sweet handle put
out a petition calling for federal protection of Bigfoot. So when
that was also excused as an error in timing, "but please do sign it
anyway," I sorta gagged on my cookies.

I really want to believe that the woman did an actual DNA study on
Bigfoot tissues, has a 50-page report written by herself and other
experts; it's about to be published ... but I'm not able to believe
it now, today.

Dr. Ketchum is walkin' like a duck.


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"All I suggest is Oonjerah hears what she wants to hear, and disregards the rest"

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Walkin' Like A Scientist Yet? Not quite to my likes.

Most would agree that the discovery of a Sasquatch, dead or alive,
would be an epic discovery for anthropology.

Last week of November, I said that a DNA study proving the existence
of Bigfoot was about to be published; the head of the study and primary
author is Dr. Melba Ketchum.

Today,Dr. Ketchum self-published that study. Costs $30 to download
and read. Well worth it if it's a true & fine paper that will prove the
elusive 'Squatch.
http://www.denovojournal.com/#!special-issue/crrc

Everything about the publication seems odd. Early reviews are bad.
"It's a mess." ... Well, yeah! But is it a hoax?
I don't know that any actual genetics expert has reviewed it yet.

As for the "truly amazing" video that comes with the report (pay extra?
I dunno) ... like so many Bf films, we're looking in thru the bushes and
we see ... a shag rug that breathes. Wow!

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    Update: 13 Nov 2017
Dr. Ketchum Is a hoax, & BF is half lemur?
Melba Ketchum: Bigfoot is part human and part lemur. She
says it on YouTube. I've not got the link to work, though.

  HolyCredibilityTilt!! The woman claims to be a veterinarian,
& I know more about high school biology than she does!

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The Real Deal:


Genetics professor investigates the Yeti
http://thebookseller.com/news/yeti-title-genetics-professor.html

"in the provisionally titled "The Quest for the Yeti, A DNA
Detective Story" ... Bryan Sykes, professor of genetics at
Oxford University, is to investigate whether there are genetic
traces of species including the Yeti."
...
The Quest for the Yeti will describe Sykes' hunt for genetic
traces of species whose existence remains scientifically
unconfirmed, including the Yeti, the Sasquatch and Big Foot.

For the most part the samples he has tracked down for analysis
have turned out to be known species such as bears, raccoons or
cows; however two samples taken towards the end of his quest
will "change our understanding of human history," he says.

Towards the end of his quest, BTW, he spent about a week in
the Pacific NW visiting a well-known "Footers."


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18-foot-long oarfish carcass discovered! Now, what do they do with it?
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-18foot-oar-fish-found-cata
lina-island-20131015,0,5192122.story

"The discovery of an 18-foot oarfish off Catalina Island thrilled the
staff at Catalina Island Marine Institute. Now they’re wondering: What
do you do with the carcass of a very rare 18-foot-long fish?

"Jeff Chace, program director of the institute, said it took about 15
people on Sunday to lug the serpent-like "leviathan" onto shore after
it was discovered dead in about 20 feet of water.

"It just amazed me," he said. .....

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery," Chace said."


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Not just another fish story.

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17 Animals that Scientists want to bring back from Extinction

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Quote:

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Originally posted by Penguin:

Quote:

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Originally posted by FloralBunny:
I love hummingbird moths!

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We always called them "Sphinx moths".

Do penguins count as Cryptid??

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King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Yes!! Penguin counts as a cryptid.

He hasn't been seen in here since the last week of June.
Is it up to Little Me to track him down?
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Come Back, Pengy!!



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A man's gotta know his bird tracks.

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The Spanish 'wolf man' who survived 12 years in the wild:
Modern Mowgli: Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja, raised by wolves from age 7 to 19.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Pantoja

Yes, he's on YouTube, but nearly all the posts are in Spanish.
There is also a full length movie in Spanish.

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10 Feral Human Children Raised by Animals
http://www.smashinglists.com/10-feral-human-children-raised-by-animals/

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Cryp'tid: In cryptozoology and sometimes in cryptobotany,
a cryptid is a creature or plant whose existence has been
suggested but is not recognized by scientific consensus.
Bernard Heuvelmans (1916-2001), a Belgian-French scientist,
explorer, & writer is said to be "the father of cryptozoology."

The thylacine, tho it may be extinct or not, believed to be
wiped out by humans, I do not consider a cryptid, because it
has a record in botany. In any case, it may be resurrecting
itself.

The Mokèlé-mbèmbé, otoh, a smallish dinosaur living in the
Congo River basin, is a cryptid until a person with really
good credentials & a really good camera gets its picture &
returns to civilization with it. When asked to select the
creature closest to it in a picture book, the locals mostly
pick a rhinoceros. So alternate theory is that mokele-mbembe
is a forest-dwelling, water-loving, pygmy rhino. Evenso, it
is a cryptid, 'cause it's not in the botany books.

A dwarf Diplodocus or a Brontosaurus, surviving relic of
a prehistoric mega-dino, would be a cryptid because it is
a) not documented, b) too incredible, & c) too much fun
to contemplate.



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All I suggest is a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ~Paul Simon

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