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Bizarre Accounts of Living T-Rexes in Texas
By Brent Swancer
Some of the strangest cryptids reports there are congregate around sightings of what appear to be some sort of living dinosaurs stalking through the wild places of our world. There are certainly places where one could sort of imagine this happening, such as the deepest, darkest unexplored jungles of Africa or South America, and certainly these places have their reports of living dinosaurs. Yet, these strange creatures seem to make appearances in other areas that would not traditionally be at the top of most people’s lists for places to find actual surviving dinosaurs, and one of these is in the desert badlands of the U.S. state of Texas. Here in Texas there have long been reports of something that seems very much like a T-Rex or other similar bipedal dinosaur, and the reports are just as bizarre as they are surprising.
A very strange string of what seem to be some sort of living theropod dinosaurs in Texas comes to us from the author and paranormal blogger Lon Strickler of Phantoms and Monsters. In October of 2013 he published a report with the heading “Dinosaurs Run Amuck In South Texas Town?” and gave the truly outlandish account of a witness identifying himself as simply “MR,” of Hebbronville, Texas. MR says that this had happened during the summer months of that year, when temperatures were sweltering and when it seems dinosaurs were on the prowl. The witness says it started when a friend of his claimed to have spotted what looked like a bipedal theropod dinosaur very much like a small T-Rex scramble across the street right through the swath of the headlights of her car at approximately 8:45 PM. He says that when he heard of this sighting it brought back memories of his own weird experience just a few months before, and put it all into much clearer focus. He says of his own bizarre encounter:
At around the same time, Strickler posted another eyewitness report, this time from a man in Falfurrias, TX which is about 18 miles east of Hebbronville. The witness, calling himself “LM,” claimed that the region was actually undergoing quite a spate of such bizarre sightings, and becoming ground zero for all manner of dinosaur encounters. LM tells Strickler:
The witness also claims that her guard dogs have been acting skittish and afraid, and even speculates on what it all could mean, suggesting that it is the legendary “Chupacabras” blood sucking goat killer. Yet another report from the area of Hebronville was apparently made all the way back in 2011, by a witness called “MG.” She says that at the time she had been walking along a dusty lonely road on his way home from work at around 5:45 PM when he noticed something odd, in the form of plumes of dust wafting up into the air from a nearby field as if something were running along there. This would perhaps not be so strange in and of itself under normal conditions, but it would soon prove to be something very bizarre indeed, and the witness says:
This could possibly all tie into other sightings of dinosaur-like creatures spotted in different areas of rural Texas, such as a report called in to an episode of Coast to Coast AM in October of 2014. The witness, calling himself “Dan,” told of an experience he had had as a teenager in the area of Midland, Texas, where he would often go out dirt biking with his buddies in the rugged desert scrubland stretching out all around them. On one such excursion he claims that they spotted what he calls a “mini T-Rex,” of which he says in a transcription of the call by Jamie Brian:
It is interesting to note that Texas has long supposedly been the haunt of a cryptid called the Mountain Boomer, which are said to lurk mostly in the rugged mountain wilderness of the Big Bend region, near Big Bend National Park. The Mountain Boomers are said to stand between 5 to 7 feet tall and look like a miniature T. rex, with a bipedal gait, long tapered tail, powerful hind legs, and tiny fore legs tipped with sharp claws. Some reports mention large flaps of skin above and below the head, and the creature is said to sometimes emit a low, booming howl which has been described as sounding like a rumbling distant thunder. These creatures are said to be mostly shy and elusive, but one report from the early 1970s claimed that one actually ran a car off of the road. Is there any relation between the reports we have looked at here and the Mountain Boomer? What are we dealing with here?
There are quite a few ideas on what could be behind the sightings of these “mini T-Rexes” in Texas, ranging from the mundane to the fringe. One possibility is that these are misidentifications of some other wort of wildlife, although that doesn’t really seem to add up or match with what people seem to be seeing. What sort of animal lives in Texas that could possibly be mistaken for a bipedal dinosaur, other than perhaps roadrunners, which would probably be familiar to people who live there? It could also be that these represent a relic population of some sort of extinct species, maybe not a T-rex, per say, but some other small species of theropod dinosaur or even a type of ornithopod dinosaur called an iguanodon. A bit odder is the idea that people are seeing something more inter-dimensional in nature, or even seeing scenes from the distant past somehow etched upon the landscape, which play out almost like a movie reel, sort of like ghosts from the long lost past.
Of course there is much skepticism to be had with such reports as well. For one, such creatures would need massive amounts of food to sustain themselves, which in some of these desert locales would be hard to come by in sufficient amounts. Some of the wilderness of Texas where these sightings have occurred is a moonscape of bleak desert wastelands, which does not seem to be the ideal habitat for such creatures. There is also the inconvenient detail, of which I have mentioned before in other articles on “living dinosaurs,” that these creatures simply did not look like the way we imagine them to be from films such as Jurassic Park and other pop culture depictions of dinosaurs. For instance, it is now widely believed that many of these dinosaurs actually had feathers and were quite bird-like to some extent, and the fact that modern sightings such as these make no mention of that and paint them as the common public image of dinosaurs tends to certainly raise some eyebrows knowing what we know now.
One way this has been explained away is that perhaps these creatures are indicative of some sort of shapeshifting entities that can take the form of what is in our mind, but which is easier to buy, that these are shapeshifting spirits or that people are just simply making these reports up? It is all really hard to accept, that living dinosaurs could be roaming about the wilds of Texas, and yet reports like these keep coming in from time to time. Are these real dinosaurs, interdimensional phenomena, hoaxes and lies, or something else? It is hard to say, but it definitely gives one something to look out for if you are ever in Texas driving along a remote, lonely road.
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By Brent Swancer
Some of the strangest cryptids reports there are congregate around sightings of what appear to be some sort of living dinosaurs stalking through the wild places of our world. There are certainly places where one could sort of imagine this happening, such as the deepest, darkest unexplored jungles of Africa or South America, and certainly these places have their reports of living dinosaurs. Yet, these strange creatures seem to make appearances in other areas that would not traditionally be at the top of most people’s lists for places to find actual surviving dinosaurs, and one of these is in the desert badlands of the U.S. state of Texas. Here in Texas there have long been reports of something that seems very much like a T-Rex or other similar bipedal dinosaur, and the reports are just as bizarre as they are surprising.
A very strange string of what seem to be some sort of living theropod dinosaurs in Texas comes to us from the author and paranormal blogger Lon Strickler of Phantoms and Monsters. In October of 2013 he published a report with the heading “Dinosaurs Run Amuck In South Texas Town?” and gave the truly outlandish account of a witness identifying himself as simply “MR,” of Hebbronville, Texas. MR says that this had happened during the summer months of that year, when temperatures were sweltering and when it seems dinosaurs were on the prowl. The witness says it started when a friend of his claimed to have spotted what looked like a bipedal theropod dinosaur very much like a small T-Rex scramble across the street right through the swath of the headlights of her car at approximately 8:45 PM. He says that when he heard of this sighting it brought back memories of his own weird experience just a few months before, and put it all into much clearer focus. He says of his own bizarre encounter:
At around the same time, Strickler posted another eyewitness report, this time from a man in Falfurrias, TX which is about 18 miles east of Hebbronville. The witness, calling himself “LM,” claimed that the region was actually undergoing quite a spate of such bizarre sightings, and becoming ground zero for all manner of dinosaur encounters. LM tells Strickler:
The witness also claims that her guard dogs have been acting skittish and afraid, and even speculates on what it all could mean, suggesting that it is the legendary “Chupacabras” blood sucking goat killer. Yet another report from the area of Hebronville was apparently made all the way back in 2011, by a witness called “MG.” She says that at the time she had been walking along a dusty lonely road on his way home from work at around 5:45 PM when he noticed something odd, in the form of plumes of dust wafting up into the air from a nearby field as if something were running along there. This would perhaps not be so strange in and of itself under normal conditions, but it would soon prove to be something very bizarre indeed, and the witness says:
This could possibly all tie into other sightings of dinosaur-like creatures spotted in different areas of rural Texas, such as a report called in to an episode of Coast to Coast AM in October of 2014. The witness, calling himself “Dan,” told of an experience he had had as a teenager in the area of Midland, Texas, where he would often go out dirt biking with his buddies in the rugged desert scrubland stretching out all around them. On one such excursion he claims that they spotted what he calls a “mini T-Rex,” of which he says in a transcription of the call by Jamie Brian:
From the site Frontiers of Zoology there is another report of an apparent mini T-rex, from an unidentified witness who was interviewed about it by a site contributor named Phillip O’ Donnell. The witness says he saw it in the wilds of South East Texas, and describes the creature as a “baby T-rex,” of which he says:
It is interesting to note that Texas has long supposedly been the haunt of a cryptid called the Mountain Boomer, which are said to lurk mostly in the rugged mountain wilderness of the Big Bend region, near Big Bend National Park. The Mountain Boomers are said to stand between 5 to 7 feet tall and look like a miniature T. rex, with a bipedal gait, long tapered tail, powerful hind legs, and tiny fore legs tipped with sharp claws. Some reports mention large flaps of skin above and below the head, and the creature is said to sometimes emit a low, booming howl which has been described as sounding like a rumbling distant thunder. These creatures are said to be mostly shy and elusive, but one report from the early 1970s claimed that one actually ran a car off of the road. Is there any relation between the reports we have looked at here and the Mountain Boomer? What are we dealing with here?
There are quite a few ideas on what could be behind the sightings of these “mini T-Rexes” in Texas, ranging from the mundane to the fringe. One possibility is that these are misidentifications of some other wort of wildlife, although that doesn’t really seem to add up or match with what people seem to be seeing. What sort of animal lives in Texas that could possibly be mistaken for a bipedal dinosaur, other than perhaps roadrunners, which would probably be familiar to people who live there? It could also be that these represent a relic population of some sort of extinct species, maybe not a T-rex, per say, but some other small species of theropod dinosaur or even a type of ornithopod dinosaur called an iguanodon. A bit odder is the idea that people are seeing something more inter-dimensional in nature, or even seeing scenes from the distant past somehow etched upon the landscape, which play out almost like a movie reel, sort of like ghosts from the long lost past.
Of course there is much skepticism to be had with such reports as well. For one, such creatures would need massive amounts of food to sustain themselves, which in some of these desert locales would be hard to come by in sufficient amounts. Some of the wilderness of Texas where these sightings have occurred is a moonscape of bleak desert wastelands, which does not seem to be the ideal habitat for such creatures. There is also the inconvenient detail, of which I have mentioned before in other articles on “living dinosaurs,” that these creatures simply did not look like the way we imagine them to be from films such as Jurassic Park and other pop culture depictions of dinosaurs. For instance, it is now widely believed that many of these dinosaurs actually had feathers and were quite bird-like to some extent, and the fact that modern sightings such as these make no mention of that and paint them as the common public image of dinosaurs tends to certainly raise some eyebrows knowing what we know now.
One way this has been explained away is that perhaps these creatures are indicative of some sort of shapeshifting entities that can take the form of what is in our mind, but which is easier to buy, that these are shapeshifting spirits or that people are just simply making these reports up? It is all really hard to accept, that living dinosaurs could be roaming about the wilds of Texas, and yet reports like these keep coming in from time to time. Are these real dinosaurs, interdimensional phenomena, hoaxes and lies, or something else? It is hard to say, but it definitely gives one something to look out for if you are ever in Texas driving along a remote, lonely road.
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