The Library of The Strange

A collection and gathering of various paranormal, unusual, and strange happenings that traverse our lovely and unique planet every single day. This blog mainly focuses on cryptozoology, ghost hunting, and visitors from other planets. Oddities, Macabre, Horror, Serial Killers, and the downright disturbing will sometimes grace these pages too.

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I grew up in Wisconsin fishing with my Uncle Ned at my grandfather’s cottage on lake Lucerne. Amongst the many fish tales of the Great Lakes is the legend of the fur bearing trout. A furry fish that is said to have evolved do to the extremely cold temperatures.

Many believe that the legend comes from the fresh water mold called saprolegnia. Saprolegnia will sometimes infect fish, causing tufts of fur-like growth to appear on the body. A heavy infection will result in the death of the fish, and as the fungus continues to grow afterwards, dead fish that are largely covered in the white “fur” can occasionally be found washed ashore.

At some point locals started making them in faux taxidermy. They are a common site in bars and bait shops. Here are two of them that Ive recently made and added my grandfather, Curtis Romaine, as the fisherman and his home town as the catch spot.

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Gangkhar Flying Squirrel

This squirrel is found only in the forests of Gangkhar Puensum, a remote mountain along the borders of Tibet, China and Bhutan. Like all flying squirrels, it achieves flight through gliding, a trait that it has covalently evolved alongside it’s avian cousins over millions of years. It’s most striking features are the feather-like adaptions, unique to the genus, that make its flight possible.

I made this gaff out of a squirrel that my friend brought over. It looked like it was killed by a domestic cat. Skinning it was one of the grossest thing I have ever done. I hope that the joy it brings was worth the effort.

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Patterson Bigfoot footage.

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The Sarcastic Fringehead is a small, extremely territorial fish found along the Pacific Coast from San Francisco to Baja California, and Mexico. They usually make their homes in cracks, small caves, shells, and even cans and bottles, and they defend their territory fearlessly, attacking anything from larger fish to even divers. 

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Also known as the soul cannibal, the Kikiyaon is simultaneously one of the most terrifying and least seen of all cryptids in the Gambian forests.

The Kikiyaon has been described as having a huge, owl-like head with enormous talons on its feet and arms.

The Bambara, who reside in Mali, tell of a creature with feathered wings and a sharp spur on its shoulders. Others describe it as having short, greenish-grey fur and still others claim it has a tufted tail.Its deep-throated grunting has been heard more often across the African savannahs than the creature has been seen. The Kikiyaon has another call, however, one that sounds more like a man slowly being strangled.

[thecryptidkeeper]

A number of new reports in Oregon have surfaced claiming the presence of a Bigfoot.

It makes me mad that I live so far away from Oregon.

My dream is to one day be able to make enough money to travel to Bigfoot hot spots, luckily I can begin my search in my home state of Michigan. 

BIGFOOT I WILL FIND YOU.

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One of the scariest places I’d like to visit.

200 years ago Paris ran out of room to bury their dead, so they used a limestone mine underneath the city to bury them. So far 6 to 7 million people’s remains are in this tomb and the romantic city in the world is on top of it!

The entrance sign say’s “Arrête, c’est ici l’empire de la Mort” (‘Stop, this is the empire of Death’)

Is this place haunted? Well, according to Paris it is. I once read that a man in the late 1800’s early 1900’s used to go down into the tunnels and play a song every morning. One day when they heard him playing he suddenly stopped reports said and you heard him scream. When police and investigators went down to investigate. There was no sight of him. But people of Paris even today say that you can still hear music playing in the tunnels and it stops where the man was last heard.

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The bunyip, or kianpraty, is a large mythical creature from Aboriginal mythology, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes. The origin of the word bunyip has been traced to the Wemba-Wemba or Wergaia language of Aboriginal people of South-Eastern Australia. However,...

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Speed Bumps

According to the legend, there is a certain road in Watchung, New Jersey known as 13 Bumps Road. It is a long and winding road and when you drive up it, there are 13 large bumps in the middle of the road. They say that, centuries ago, 13 witches were killed and buried on the road.

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 Shadow People

Shadow People, also known as Shadow Folk, or Shadow Beings, are usually attracted to one person or location for unknown reasons. Often they are seen as dark silhouettes of human-shape, generally male, that prefer to watch someone unseen and flee the moment they are noticed. Still this doesn’t always fit the experience. While some people distinctly see a shadowy human form others have dexcribed shapeless wispy black blobs and swirling columns of dark smoke.

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Giant Squid Captured On Film Its Natural Habitat For The First Time!

Whoa!

The hardest part about finding a Kraken in its natural surroundings is sneaking up on it. You can’t sneak up on a Kraken. The Japanese team that captured this footage, of a comparatively tiny 3 meter giant squid (the largest ever caught was 18 meters!), by fitting their submersible with lights that were invisible to both squid and human eyes. Those wavelengths were captured by the camera, though … and the results are stunning.

Read about the incredible work that went into capturing this amazing beast of the deep, this real-life sea monster, this ghost of the seas, at Scientific American. Check out the full video footage from ABC News.

(click through if these GIFs aren’t animating on your dashboard … it’s an amazing thing to see)

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Bachelors Grove

This remarkable photo, taken in Bachelor’s Grove in 1991, is one of the most famous paranormal pictures. It was taken during an investigation by a group of Ghost Research Society members. The picture is a black and white infrared shot taken of an area where many of the group...

[thecryptidkeeper]

Hello all.

As the new admin, I bring to you a video of a space man by the name of Riley Martin, a man who has claimed to have been abducted by aliens at the young age of 7 years old and was only allowed to unlock these memories when the aliens helped him. He claims to have been aboard the mothership countless times and knows of 7 different types of alien life.

This guy really is an interesting person to look into, he had his own radio show on Howard Stern's network I am sure could be found.

I want you all to know that this blog will hold a very special place in my heart, though I may not be updating as frequent as some may want, I am a true believer and lover of anything paranormal. 

[thecryptidkeeper]

well, it's been a fun ride.

I have seen some really weird things, have met some nice people, and had a blast running this blog for the short span that I did. 

but sadly, I just haven't got the time anymore!

I love the paranormal, cryptozoology, and all of that stuff just as much as anyone else but I just never seem to find the time to ever make anything for this blog and with my new blog coming around in the jits community, I have a feeling I am going to spending a lot of time on that, which means even less time for this.

I however am handing this account over to a good friend of mine, Mr. Korey Brodzik. He is going to be taking care of things from now and I am sure he'll do a great job of providing you all with the weirdest, latest, and freakiest news that there is out there in this strange, wonderful, and crazy world that we live in.

I want to leave on this note.

We don't know what is out there. We really don't. We think we do, we think we know every bit of the world, but we don't. You don't know what is lurking in those woods when you aren't looking. You don't know what beasts lay at the bottom of the oceans vast in the deepest of the depths. You don't know what eyes are peering down on you from above. You don't know if there is life in the stars. You just don't know. You never will. Even if we do find these things, there will always be more out there. There will still be legends. There will still be folktales and ghost stories. There will still be monsters, ghouls, and crazy humanoids. There will always be giant animals and two headed things. It will always be there. And that is what is so beautiful about this community. It will truly never die. We will always wonder. We will always believe. But, we will still never truly know everything.

It really was fun.

Take care everyone.

- Cody

[thecryptidkeeper]

I want to make posts but I don't feel like there is enough interest. 

If there is, I may consider making posts again.