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The Fantastic Tale of Gef the Talking Mongoose
It began as quiet scraping within the walls of their home that progressed into hisses, growls, shouts, and eventually mimicking the family’s own words. Before long the bizarre entity was speaking entire sentences through the cracks of their floorboards, claiming to be both a spirit, and a very clever mongoose. It even gave itself a name; Gef. I don’t remember when exactly I first learned about…
The Legend of the Grafton Monster
On June 16, 1964, at around 11pm, a 17 year old part time reporter for the Grafton Sentinel named Robert Cockrell was driving home down a wooded street alongside a river in Grafton, West Virginia. As he rounded a bend in the road, his headlights passed over a “huge white obstruction” that gave him pause, as it was like nothing he had ever seen before. The Creature It was between 7 and 9 feet…
Trans People Have Always Existed...And We Always Will.
Note: I have written a few posts [1] [2] about being trans in the past that you may want to read as a primer before reading this. At the bottom of this post is a short glossary of acronyms you may encounter while reading. A pre-WW2 photo taken from a costume party at the Hirschfeld Institute (Magnus Hirschfeld on the right in glasses). When trying to understand and learn about the complexities…
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The Amazing Axolotl
Image belongs to The Detroit Zoo I’m not sure when the first time I ever saw an axolotl was, but I do know that from that very first moment, I wanted one. I was fascinated and enamored with the strange little creatures, and being a lover of both oddities and animals, the idea of obtaining one as a pet seemed like a no brainer. I did plenty of research, as one must do before taking on the…
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Polychaete Worm (Lumbrineridae sp.)
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Quick Cryptid Snippet: Hodag
The Hodag is a cryptid creature of folklore that originated in the state of Wisconsin in late 1800’s. The location of origin comes from the city of Rhinelander which is located in the upper north of the state.
The story goes that in 1893, a creature was discovered that had a reputation for disrupting the work of the lumberjacks in the area. It was extremely vicious and enjoyed snatching up and eating the white bulldogs in the area. Reports of the creature describe it as having the “head of a frog, the grin of a giant elephant, short and thick legs that were adorned with huge claws, the back belonging to a dinosaur, and a long tail covered with spears at the end.” The reports to the newspapers and people of the area were instigated by a well-known Wisconsin land surveyor and prankster by the name of Eugene Shepard.
Shepard told the tale of how he rounded up a group of locals to chase and capture the creature. He reported that the Hodag was so mean that the only way to kill it was with multiple sticks of dynamite. After it was killed, a photograph showing “proof” of the creatures body was released to the newspapers. The townspeople went into a frenzy. The dead creature was described as the last of its kind and that it was the “fiercest, strangest, and most frightening monster to ever set its sharp claws upon the earth.”
Three years later, Shepard reported to the media that he captured another Hodag, only this time, he was able to take it alive. According to Shepard, he brought together a group of gigantic bear wrestlers and trekked into the woods to capture the creature. Upon discovering the creatures cave home, the men attached a rag soaked in chloroform to a long pole, stuck it into the cave, and knocked the creature out.
The men retrieved the creature, Shepard got it into a cage, and it was promptly displayed in multiple county fairs (as well as in a specially built shanty at Shepard’s house) which attracted thousands of people. Eventually the onlookers included scientists from the Smithsonian Institution from Washington D.C. who announced that they were coming to examine and study the creature. Soon, the Hodag would no longer be a unique creature local only to Wisconsin.
It was the visit from the Smithsonian scientists that ended the tour of the Hodag. Shepard announced that the creature was, and had always been, a Hoax. But stories of the Hodag are still told to this day in Rhinelander and the entire state of Wisconsin, where the people speak of their local hoax with pride.
-The Pine Barrens Institute
Animal Crossing is a Game About Death
When I consider death, and the idea of an afterlife, I have often thought to myself what it may be like. If ‘heaven’ were real, and it was all ‘perfect’, then…wouldn’t it get boring?
Humans do not find joy in life through total contentment, we find it through accomplishment. Without goals our lives stagnate. Therefore a heaven without any kinds of goals to accomplish doesn’t sound like all that…
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The Disappearance of Sandra Crispo
The Disappearance of Sandra Crispo
“If I knew it was the last time I would talk to you, I would’ve talked longer. If I knew it was the last time I would see you, I would’ve told you I love you.”
These are the words of a grieving daughter, trying to come to terms with the unsolved disappearance of her mother.
Sandra Crispo, 54, of Hanson Massachusetts, was last seen in the afternoon of Aug. 7 2019.
Her daughter Laina McMahon has…
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This fly would not stop buzzing around my face until I took a picture of it. Hope you’re happy now, fly.
Lantern Fly (Fulgora lanternaria)
is not a fly at all but a species of planthopper endemic to Central and South America. This species get’s its name form its long protuberance on its head which at one point was thought to be luminescent. Those two eye spots on the insects wings are user to deter potential predators because large eyes are the scariest thing ever. It is also though that its huge head is also is a display to deter predators.
Phylogeny
Animalia-Arthropoda-Insecta-Hemiptera-Fulgoridae-Fulgora-lanternaria
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The 27 Club is a term used to refer to popular musicians who have died at the age of 27, often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse all died at the age of 27, giving rise to the idea that…
Hoshitabi (Star journey) kimono design, seen on Gofukuya
I guess I am lucky to be broke because I would definitly buy everything this kimono designer comes up with xD
May I have the baby Griffin?
OMG THE BABY CHIMERA IS BACK ON MY DASHBOARD
BABIES
A flower for you, my lady.
Sloths are what happens when coconuts come alive
Spilosoma luteum (Buff Ermine)
