Strange Creatures in the Media

nivek

As Above So Below
Here's a few older reports from various newspapers, exaggerations or descriptions of deformities, perhaps in some cases, others may be something more...

The San Antonio Light of March 20, 1888 includes a small, yet tantalizing, article that states: “A monstrosity was born in Parker County a few days ago, that seemed to be part pig, part elephant and part human. It only lived a few minutes, but is preserved in alcohol, and can be seen in Weatherford.”

The Dallas Morning News of July 20, 1889: “A physician of this city recently removed a tape worm 40 feet in length from the stomach of a little 3-year-old child of this city. The little one had been in wretched health for some time but is now improving rapidly.”

Also from the Dallas Morning News – this time from February 3, 1901 – comes a truly odd, little tale: “A freak of nature was found by J.C. Yoakum, near Honey Grove, this week. It was half pig and half calf, the head and body being that of a calf, while the lower jaw, legs and feet were those of a hog. It was dead when found.”

The Galveston Daily News, on March 22, 1892 reported on the then-recent sighting on the San Antonio River of a “Wild-Man” whose body was “covered with a thick growth of black, shaggy hair,” who “walked erect,” and whose “beard and hair were long and wavy.”

The Galveston Daily News – 16 years later. “A supposed wild man is creating consternation in the Charles Steelhammer neighborhood. He visits houses at night or while the families are away and helps himself to whatever his fancy craves. He has been seen a number of times, and each time those who saw him describe his manner of running as resembling the lope of a wolf.”

The San Antonio Daily Light on April 18, 1894: “News of a strange freak of nature comes from Burton, a small town in the western part of Washington County. Today a colored woman, attended by Dr. Laas, gave birth to a child, the trunk of which bore a striking resemblance to a red snapper. The community is greatly excited over it. They declare the mother to have been hoodooed or conjured.”

Strange Creatures and Media Coverage
 

August

Metanoia
Possibly Hoodoo from West African Voodoo ?
hoo·doo
(ho͞o′do͞o)
n. pl. hoo·doos
1.
a.
Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean. Also called conjure.
b. A practitioner of hoodoo.
2. Voodoo.
3.
a.
Bad luck.
b. One that brings bad luck.
4. Geology A column of eccentrically shaped rock, produced by differential weathering.
tr.v. hoo·dooed, hoo·doo·ing, hoo·doos
1.
To practice hoodoo on; affect with a charm or curse.
2. To bring bad luck to.
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
Well, there are a lot of switches that have to work right to crank out a kid.

Sometimes they don't and what comes out doesn't look right.

If it doesn't live that usually indicates a lot went wrong.
 

1963

Noble


Great find Toroid that thing sure is freaky! .... and I have to confess to being a veritable whimp as compared to the guy in the video.... there's no way that I would have even touched the damn thing!! ... I'll go with the 'Sponge' that Karl Shuker suggested. ... Still not touching it though!! :eek:



What can I say about this one?... except Eeeek! ...At first I thought that it was a pet gerbil or something in a sock... but it's not is it... it's bloody real!
Well it just goes to prove that you live and learn. Apparently according to the general consensus of opinion, it's an "uncharacteristically-large rat-tailed maggot" .... the true wonder about the creature in the clip is that the rat-tailed maggot usually only grows to about 20mm, and the one in the film looks to be at least 3 or 4 x that size. ... Yuck! wouldn't like any of those little buggers creeping around my porch!! :dtm:

Cheers Buddy.
 

1963

Noble
Here's a few older reports from various newspapers, exaggerations or descriptions of deformities, perhaps in some cases, others may be something more...













Strange Creatures and Media Coverage

Good thread Nivek, the subject matter is something that should be taken as read ... that being that the media have always exaggerated the unusual to sell newspapers to the general public. The Elephant Man springs to mind , and how the publicity of the day was that his condition was the result of his mother being frightened by an elephant when she was pregnant. .. And the Platypus was initially rejected as a fake ... "It was thought that somebody had sewn a duck's beak onto the body of a beaver-like animal. Shaw even took a pair of scissors to the dried skin to check for stitches." ... but of course it turned out to be just another natural weird and wonderful production of this world. of which there are many.
Here's a few that you might or might not already be familiar with ..... 21 More Strange Animals You Didn’t Know Exist

...my favourite on this short list being this little beauty...
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...reminds me of one of those little 'off-world-findings' that look so cute, and then eats ya! lol... like that cute little "Calvin from the movie Life" that I watched last year!

Cheers Buddy.
 

1963

Noble


Hi Toroid, hope you are well my friend. ... And i'm afraid that the 'mysterious stalker' in the video seemed so easy to bust that i'm not sure that you haven't posted it with a wide grin on your face. :Whistle:

... Even on the first look at the film, I could see that the 'strange stalker creature' was no more anomalous than a smudge on the windscreen ... and that the apparent movement was caused by subtle movement of the filming apparatus [camera phone etc] ... I believe that this theory is amply corroborated by the accompanying spec of detritus [a few inches above and slightly to the right] of the 'stalker' which makes identical movements.


Cheers buddy.
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
Hi Toroid, hope you are well my friend. ... And i'm afraid that the 'mysterious stalker' in the video seemed so easy to bust that i'm not sure that you haven't posted it with a wide grin on your face. :Whistle:

... Even on the first look at the film, I could see that the 'strange stalker creature' was no more anomalous than a smudge on the windscreen ... and that the apparent movement was caused by subtle movement of the filming apparatus [camera phone etc] ... I believe that this theory is amply corroborated by the accompanying spec of detritus [a few inches above and slightly to the right] of the 'stalker' which makes identical movements.


Cheers buddy.

Not convinced, it "seems" to disappear behind the vegetation.

But the "object" doesn't seem to flex and moves as a unit which works in favor of your theory.
 
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