Bayside Mall Creature 👽

 

Possible creature in the upper center of the pic by the cop car

Looks like 2024 is off to strange start.

On January 1 2024, something odd occurred in the Bayside Mall in Miami Florida.

As of January 4th the "official" statement is that police were simply responding to a fight between (Many Teens with Some kind of sticks ) and possible fireworks discharge into a crowd.

However if this was truly the case then why such a huge response, there were several dozen  police cars on the scene, black helicopters overhead flights in and out of the airport were temporarily cancelled the police scanners were silenced and power to several city blocks was turned off by the city. 

Does that sound like a typical response to a fight between teens?

According to several eyewitness there were 7-9 foot tall creature's spotted inside the mall, people panicked and started shooting at them.  

One witness described a creature with long arms and almond shaped eyes walking through the mall that he at first mistook for some kind of street performer.

Other  witnesses were reporting 8-10 foot shadow beings were being shot at by people, with others fleeing. Supposedly people went into fight or flight mode. The reason this story is interesting is the description of these 'aliens' seems consistent with what the Las Vegas family reported several months ago.

 

 

There has been almost no coverage of this story, and no matter how big of a fight in the mall is why would the airspace be closed off and the power in the area cut off? 

So what do you think was there some kind of alien or mutant sighted in Florida? Or could this be a test run for project blue beam(government funded hologram /fake alien invasion program)?

I will update this as new info becomes available.

Austraian Folklore: the Yowie

Australian Folklore

The Land Down under is full of fascinating myth's and Legends, today we talk  about The Yowie AKA  The Bigfoot of the Outback.....


The yowie is usually described as a hairy bypidl  ape-like creature standing upright at between 6 ft 11 and possibly  upward of 12 ft in height.

The yowie's feet are described as much larger than a human's, but alleged yowie tracks are inconsistent in shape and toe number, and the descriptions of yowie foot and footprints provided by witnesses are even more varied than those of the North American cryptid Bigfoot.

The yowie's Call's / Screams are often described as flat or wide.

The Yowie, like most other living things seems to vary in widly in both personality and behavior with  some report saying the creature is timid or shy,
and Others describe it as sometimes violent.

According to an articale published in The Sydney Morning Herald back in 1987, columnist Margaret Jones wrote that the first Australian yowie sighting that was said to have taken place as early as 1795. Though Aboriginal legend's date back hundreds of years earlier...


Rex Gilroy has been studing/ hunting the yowie since the mid-1970s.

Gilroy claims to have collected over 3000 reports over the years.

Mr Gilroy believes that the yowie is related to the North American Bigfoot. Rex Gilroy along with his partner Heather Gilroy,  have spent fifty years amassing his yowie collection, claiming to have  identified at least four different species of yowie, which he believes are a sub-species of Homo erectus.

Another well know yowie researcher called Tim the Yowie Man. Is a published author and claims to have seen a yowie in the Brindabella Ranges in 1994.

Since then, Tim  has investigated yowie sightings and other paranormal phenomena in varied fields. He also writes a regular column in Australian newspapers The Canberra Times and The Sydney Morning Herald.

In 2004, Tim the Yowie Man won a legal case against Cadbury, a popular British confectionery company known for the (Cabbury Cream Egg's) popular arond Easter.
Cadbury had claimed that his moniker was too similar to their range of Yowie confectionery.


Yowie sightings in the 1800's......


In the 1870s, accounts of an "Indigenous Ape" appeared in the Australian Town and Country Journal.
The earliest account dating back to  November 1876 asked there readers; "Who has not heard, from the earliest settlement of the colony, the blacks (Aboriginals) speaking of some unearthly
animal or inhuman creature ... namely the Yahoo-Devil, or hairy man

In an article entitled "Australian Apes" appearing six years later, amateur naturalist Henry James McCooey claimed to have seen an "indigenous ape" on the south coast of New South Wales,
between Batemans Bay and Ulladulla.

MaCooey-- A few days ago I saw one of these strange creatures ... on the coast between Batemans Bay and Ulladulla ... I should think that if it were standing perfectly upright it would
be nearly 5 feet high. It was tailless and covered with very long black hair, which was of a dirty red or snuff-colour about the throat and breast.
Its eyes, which were small and restless, were partly hidden by matted hair that covered its head ... I threw a stone at the animal, whereupon it immediately rushed off ..

McCooey offered to capture an ape for the Australian Museum for £40. According to Robert Holden, a second outbreak of reported ape sightings appeared in 1912.
, The Yowie

the yowie appeared in Donald Friend's Hillendiana,  a collection of writings about the goldfields near Hill End in New South Wales. Friend refers to the yowie as a species of bunyip.

Holden also cites the appearance of the yowie in a number of Australian tall tales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.




Other Yowie Sightings .....

In 2010, a Canberra man said he saw an animal described as "a juvenile covered in hair, with long arms that almost touched the ground" in his garage.
A friend later told him it could be a yowie.

A few Accounts of  yowie sightings in the New South Wales area

In 1977, an article in the Sydney Morning Herald reported that residents on Oxley Island near Taree recently heard screaming noises made by an animal at night.
Cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy was mentioned in the article as soon to arrive in the area in search of the mythological yowie.
   
In 1994, Tim the Yowie Man claimed to have seen a yowie in the Brindabella Ranges.
   
In 1996, while on vacation a couple from Newcastle claim to have seen a yowie between Braidwood and the coast. They said it was a shaggy creature, walking upright, standing at a height of at least 2.1 meters tall, with disproportionately long arms and no neck. similar to a lot of Bigfoot sightings..

   
In August 2000, a Canberra bushwalker described seeing an unknown bipedal beast in the Brindabella Mountains. The bushwalker, Steve Piper, caught the incident on videotape.
That film is known as the 'Piper Film'.
   
In March 2011, a witness reported to Ne South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service seeing a yowie in the Blue Mountains at Springwood, west of Sydney.
The witness had filmed the creature, and taken photographs of its footprints.

   
In May 2012, a United States television crew claimed it had recorded audio of a yowie in a remote region on the NSW-Queensland border.
   
In June 2013, a Lismore resident and music videographer claimed to have seen a yowie just north of Bexhill.

In the mid-1970s, the Queanbeyan Festival Board and 2CA together offered a AU$200,000 reward to anyone who could capture and present a yowie: the reward is yet to be claimed.



Australia, Northern Territory..

In the late 1990s, there were several reports of yowie sightings in the area around Acacia Hills. One such sighting was by a mango farmer named Katrina Tucker who reported in 1997 having been just meters away from a hairy humanoid creature on her property.  Photographs of the footprint were collected at the time.

Sightings in Queensland

The Springbrook region in south-east Queensland has had more yowie reports than anywhere else in Australia.

In 1977, former Queensland Senator Bill O'Chee reported to the Gold Coast Bulletin he had seen a yowie while on a school trip in Springbrook. O'Chee compared the creature he saw as looking similar to Chewbacca from Star Wars.  He told reporters that the creature he saw had been over 3 meters tall.

Reports in the 2000's

A more resent account is that of the Mulgowie Yowie, which was last reported around  2001.

In March 2014, two yowie searchers claimed to have filmed the yowie in South Queensland using an infrared tree camera, collected fur samples, and found large footprints.
Later that year, a Gympie man told media he had encountered yowies on several occasions, including conversing with, and teaching some English to, a very large male yowie
in the bush north east of Gympie,  and several people in Port Douglas claimed to have seen yowies, near Mowbray and at the Rocky Point range.


Other names for the Yowie......


Wawee, Yaroma, Jimbra, Noocoonah, pangkarlangu,  and tjangara.

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More cryptid post's coming soon...

Have a great day.

The Loveland Frog....

The Loveland Frog

Do you believe in other dimensions?

There a re a few very interesting accounts of people claiming to be from another world  one of the more well known story's is of the two green children that appeared in England they claimed to be from a subterranean world that was always in twilight and that everyone there was also green..."Full length post on them soon~"

On the  topic of other dimensions..






Disney has a new show  called Amphibia, it's about the adventures of a girl named Anna who steals a strange box and finds herself magically teleported to another world inhabited by sentient bipedal frog people, so if you haven't already seen it go check out Amphibia and join Anne and her new froggy family on their crazy adventures.! :)

It's a pretty good show so far, Also looking forward to The Owl House..








But what if i told you there is a similar real world counterpart to this show.




The Loveland frog ......

There have been several people with alleged encounters/ sightings of a strange bipedal frog cryptid in or near Loveland Ohio.






The Loveland Frog, is  an amphibious frog like humanoid


According to The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology, it all started in 1955 when a story surfaced about a traveling salesman heading down an unnamed road late at night. The legend claims the man saw three figures standing on their hind legs along the side of the road, about 3 to 4 feet tall with leathery skin and frog faces.

As the original legend goes, the salesman claims he saw the figures converse for a while until one of the “frogs” held a wand over its head, causing sparks to fly and the salesman to flee.
Return of the Legend.

Fast forward to March of 1972. peace love and bipedal frog man or maybe just a little too much "Hippie Tea"

It was around this time   when a Loveland police officer claims  to have seen a weird looking animal cross Riverside Drive next to the Little Miami River, matching the previous description of a leathery skinned, frog-like creature.

Two weeks later  another officer would make a similar claims.

The second officer said  he saw the same thing in the same area, except this time, the officer shoots the creature and puts it in his trunk to show others. So what was it, human frog monster alien or something more mundane?

Well, as it turns out the unfortunate creature was a big iguana that may have been someone’s escaped  or abandon pet.

Well there you go just an iguana,  no magic otherworldly frog people here ,...Move along

But wait right as it seemed like the mystery was over. new evidences emerges

The Frogman meets Pokemon Go, not exactly the water type you were expecting...

In August of 2016 a local man made a video that  according to him, shows the creature once and for all.

 Sam Jacobs says he and his girlfriend were playing “Pokemon Go” between Loveland Madeira Road and Lake Isabella when they spotted the purported Frogman/ Loveland Frog


Jacobs said, “We saw a huge frog near the water.  Not in the game (Pokemon Go), this was an actual giant frog. I took a couple of pictures and a video ’cause I’d never seen one that big.  Then the thing stood up and walked on its hind legs”.

Jacobs went on to say he realizes some people will think he’s crazy.  “I swear on my grandmother’s grave that this is the truth”, Jacobs said.  “I’m not sure whether it was a Frogman or just a giant frog.  Either way, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

So was this as of yet unidentified creature, a hoax, strange visitor from another world a Pokemon ash never caught .... who can really say for certain

In the end, we don’t know if the Loveland Frog is real or not. so the next time your driving along the Little Miami River in Loveland at night, we’ll be keeping our eyes out and a pokeball ready.








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Further reading check out

The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology

and

Classic Cryptid; The Legend of The Loveland Frog

and  watch Amphibia on Disney if you like cute action, adventure, fantasy shows :)

The Black eyed children,

                                          .....       THE BLACK EYED CHILDREN        .....

" BEC" Black Eyed Children or "BEK" Black Eyed Kids

There can be very few people within the field of paranormal research who have not heard of the BEC. But, the MIB parallels might be new to some.

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In the same way that the Men in Black wear black suits and black fedoras, the Black Eyed Children often wear black hoodies.

 So, we have a black outfit and black head-gear present in both phenomena. Both the MIB and the BEC very often surface late at night. Trying to convince people to let them into their homes is one of the most chilling aspects of the activities of both the MIB and the BEC. And they are very good – almost too good – at making their escape. But, certainly, no-one has done more to highlight the MIB-BEC connections and parallels than David Weatherly, whose 2012 book, The Black Eyed Children, is essential reading.

Another good read is “Children of the Men in Black.” by David Running to 18-pages, the paper makes it very clear that there are far more BEC-MIB links than many might imagine. David states in his paper: “On the surface, there may seem to be few connections between the UFO connected MIB and creepy little kids with black eyes showing up on doorsteps. But, when we delve into the actual accounts, we find numerous similarities. Consider the appearance of both beings.”

The BEKs are usually described as having pale or pasty skin. Some witnesses report that the skin looks ‘artificial.’ Still other accounts claim that the children have olive toned skin that implies they are of Mediterranean origin. Both of these descriptions are heard in classic MIB encounters. Oddly, no one who has ever encountered the BEKs report a blemish of any kind. Bear in mind, these are children usually in their pre-teen years. One would expect acne, pimples, freckles, something, but it’s never the case.”

Next is the manner of speech. The black eyed children are reported to speak in a very monotone manner. Their use of language is often awkward and unusual. They will use phrases that simply aren’t natural such as ‘Is it food time?’ Perhaps even more troubling, many people who encounter the BEKs believe that the children are attempting to exert some type of mind control through the use of repeated phrases and their cold, monotone speech patterns.

Typical MIB encounters certainly contain elements of attempted coercion by the strange men as witnesses to UFO sightings are encouraged to ignore what they saw. Are the attempts by the children another form of this same control dynamic?”

Then there is something that is reported very often in MIB-based situations: electronic interference. And, particularly so, problems with phones. .

Whatever they are, the black eyed children don’t appear to be going anywhere and they are leaving as many questions in their wake as the MIB before them. Whether the two are connected or not, it looks like we’re in for more bizarre manifestations ahead. So pay attention.

The next time there’s a knock at your door, there’s no telling what kind of strange figure will be waiting on the other
side....

North American Monster Sightings, Werewolf's.

Do Werewolf's stalk the wood's of rural Kentucky....


For about seventy years a tall biped wolf like creature has been making regular appearances in rural Kentucky.

This creature is known as the Bearilla. The name Bearilla comes from a description given by the first witness to go public with his sighting, in 1972. While being interviewed by the media, he stated the creature looked like a cross between a bear and a gorilla. It was dubbed the Bearilla by the press.
It is most often seen in the Gateway region of the state.

The Gateway is the area located between the flat lands of the Bluegrass region and the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. For this reason it is also referred to as the Gateway Werewolf.

Most witnesses describe it as being basically the same type creature that has been spotted in the Northern states, except the Bearilla is always described as having a white or a silvery grey coat. It is close to the height of an average man, with its arms and legs being similar in proportion to that of a human. The hands, or fore-paws, are said to have long curving, sharp claws. The feet, judging by footprints, are said to be elongated and somewhat human like, but with shorter toes and a configuration more like that of a canine. The most striking feature, according to witness accounts, is the elongated muzzle with large, protruding canine teeth and pointed incisors. This wolf-like creature also has a tendency to be much more aggressive than its Northern cousins.

There have been several instances of aggressive behavior, toward humans. from this creature. Two involved actual attacks; both required treatment at local hospitals.

The first attack and first report of this creature, in Kentucky, occurred in Johnson County in 1944. Here a teenage boy almost had a fight to the death, with the beast, over a string of fish. The boy reported he had been fishing along a small stream and had a considerable number of fish on his stringer. He stated that as he was preparing to leave when a wolf like creature ran up from the creek bank and attempted to take his fish. It was described as being silvery-grey and standing about six feet tall. The boy attempted to keep the fish, but he was overpowered and the creature made of with his catch. The boy stated that as the creature walked off, it turned and smiled at him. The boy was treated at a local hospital for deep lacerations and shock.

The story was never made public, but information of the incident was leaked out by one of the attending medical personnel on duty at the time
The second attack occurred in 1972, along Hinkston Creek in Bourbon County. Here an early morning squirrel hunter was attacked and suffered several deep lacerations across the back and legs. The unfortunate hunter stated he was attacked from the rear and was pushed down on the ground. The hunter did not get a good look at the creature.

 He only saw its hands and a few brief flashes of the rest of the body. He described it as white or silver with hands that were basically like a humans, only with much longer fingernails and they were covered in white hair. The creature then proceeded to basically “bounced” him up and down. The hunter credits his escape from a possible real death, to playing dead. The horrified victim could not think of any possible way he could have provoked the attack. He stated “ It just came out of no where and jumped me”

This werewolf like creature also seems to have an uncanny ability to escape pursuers. After the attack on the hunter, a local group of men formed an old fashioned posse and went in search of the attacker. Around dusk, the group, with assistance from hunting dogs, seemed to have corned the creature in an old barn When the men and dogs attempted to enter the barn, the dogs cowered down and whimpered in fear. The posse then decided to surround the barn and wait for daylight. The next morning the dogs rushed in without showing any fear. To everyone’s surprise the barn was empty.

Whatever frightened the dogs the night before, was now gone. None of the hunters reported seeing anything leave the barn. The only signs anything had been in the barn, were what appeared to be claw marks on the wall of the barn. It appears the creature had climbed to the top of barn and simply vanished,
The last known sightings, in the Gateway Area, occurred in 1999, near Morehead, Ky. A couple observed two of these creatures standing in a clearing near Highway 60. When they attempted to photograph the unusual duo, both creatures bared their fangs and emitted low growls. Needless to say the couple fled the area immediately.

These creatures also seem to inhabit the areas around Ashland, Kentucky. Like their northern counter parts, these entities seem to enjoy hanging out in graveyards. In the 1980’s, the Ashland Cemetery was a hot bed for sightings of a this werewolf like creature.
It was most often seen running between headstones and jumping the wall surrounding the cemetery. The witnesses all commented that the creature had incredible leaping power. It is said to have thad a habit of chasing humans and at one point actually cornered two lawmen, sent to investigate a sighting. The officers stated that the creature came within thirty feet of them and paced back and forth between headstones growling. The creature eventually got bored with harassing the officers and wandered back into the cemetery.

This creatures jumping ability was demonstrated again on a Greenup County back road in 2001. A couple, driving separate cars, encountered this creature running down the road toward them. Instead of going around both cars, it simply leaped over both and continued its journey down the middle of the road.

The last Bearilla sighting occurred in Eastern Kentucky in 2005. A homeowner turned on his porch light, to investigate a strange noise. He was startled to see what he first thought was a child, but after he got a better look, he decide this was no child …. at least not a human one! He described it as being about three feet tall, covered with hair and having a ’dog face”. Whatever it was made a hasty retreat when it realized it had been discovered.


The sighting in 2005 was the last reported werewolf encounter in Kentucky. Did they die, move away or are they still lurking in the woods? Only time will tell!

Is there a Werewolf in Virginia...

The Werewolf of Henrico Conty

The year's there have been several Werewolf sightings in and around Virginia, A large number of them seem to be in  one location in particular....

Henrico County Virginia.

These sighting's are  known as the Werewolf of Henrico County.

Though the story is now somewhat of an of urban legend, sightings continue …

Still it’s hard to find real first-hand accounts, every thing said about this creatur is ether  something that a friend said.  or a friend of a friend had a sighting a few day's / weeks ago...

All  accounts of the werewolf sightings seem to describe a similar beast, a large grayish white creature covered in fur that stands upright  on it's hind leg's and has the face of an animal.

The majority of these sightings seem to be  focused in Henrico County Virginia in and around the Confederate Hills Recreation Center.

But it's still unclear how often the werewolf appears or what its appearances coincide with....

A possible explanations for these werewolf sightings could be a hoax by one or more of the locals.

It's not out of the question to assume  a few  local teen's would be able to fake the sighting's  with a well crafted  Halloween costume and  play prank on the local community. Though that would be very stupid to a attempt, as your likely to get shot doing something like that!

There are also those that deny all the sighting's could be nothing more then a prank.

There are a few other explanation's floating around One such explanation to the sightings  have been offered are actually  bigfoot, and since this area is also a huge spot for bigfoot sightings.

If that's true, this would not be the first time a bigfoot has been mistaken for a werewolf. From a distance, both bigfoot and werewolves can look similar. In the darkness, a large bipedal creature covered in fur looking vaguely human like could be mistaken as either.

Unless you have a close-up encounter, it could be very difficult to determine which creature it actually is.


You would think a real werewolves would steer clear of public places and try to stay hidden, in an area like a park the  chances of being spotted and identified are extremely high.


So..

What do you think, is it real of fake?

Australia Floklore The Bunyip..

Cryptid's of Australia. The Bunyip

Today we visit the land down under a vast continent full of dangerous creatures some of myth and legend others very much real...

From Snake's and Croc's to The Yowie and the Bunyip there are many interesting  things too talk about when discussing Australia, however this post will be focused primarily on the legend of the bunyip one of Australia's most well know and feared cryptids.

When you mention Australia most people immediately think of The iconic Sydney Opera House or the vast area of land that make up the Australian Outback but this country has so much more to see from pristine National Parks to rain forests and even Opel Mines...however like most thing's in life it also has a darker side beneath the beautiful  landscape and city's there may be monster's just around the corner waiting to pounce...

Most myths and legend's have a real life inspiration somewhere in the distant past at least to some extent,and i like to believe the same holds true for most cryptids as well. For instance Dracula by Bram Stoker was inspired in part by  Vlad Tempest AKA Vlad the impaler Or Vlad Dracula ..a fierce 15th century Romanian king that fought of the invading Turkish army or Bigfoot the mythical forest giant that has been seen by thousands of people from all over the world but can be linked back 
to gigantopithecus the largest know now "extinct" member of the great ape's.

The Bunyip is a carnivorous semi-aquatic cryptid that has been spotted in river's lakes and even creeks all over Australia  the word bunyip means devil or evil spirit according to the  aboriginal tribes

The modern Bunyip legend seems to have originated in south eastern Australian in  New South Wales (then just a colony) in 1818  when a group of explorers discover unusual skeletal remains on the shore of Lake Bathurst two members of the group James Meehan and Hamilton Hume described the remains as a hippopotamus or possibly a manatee but that there as something very different about them The PESA (Philosophy of Education Society of Australia) offered to  pay for a small expedition with the hope of returning  with a bunyip specimen for further study. Unfortunately mister hume was unable to find the location again and the bones were never recovered.

There are many different descriptions of the bunyip's appearance, the overall body is said too resemble a strange combination of a hippo, seal and dinosaur , others say it is covered in fur with a head like a dog, some say it has smooth  reptilian like skin and there are even some sightings describing the creature with a more avian appearance I.E  covered in feathers

In his book Bunyip's Australia's folklore of fear author Robert Holden describes 9 different aboriginal variants  of this criptid each differing slightly from one region to the next.


According to aboriginal lore the bunyip is said to have a loud bellowing scream/roar and is very formidable in a fight this combined with it's short tempered nature and propensity for hunting in or near water sources make this creature truly terrifying


As European settlements spread across the continent bunyip sightings increased, allegedly in 1845 bunyip fossils were discovered and later reported in  the Geelong Advertiser that same article recounted other run ins  with the bunyip one unfortunate case was of woman being killed another was of  a man that was allegedly attacked still baring scars from the bunyips claws, the man described the bunyip as having  a head like an emu and a long bill with stingray like protrusions on ether side of the bill and a body resembling  that of an alligator but with thick back legs and somewhat longer front legs each having long claws at the end.

Aside from Biting, Clawing or Drowning it's prey the bunyip has also been said to "hug" it's victims to death with it's longer front legs similar to a python suffocating it's prey..

In some variations the bunyip is smaller in stature in other's it is around 10 to 13 feet in height/length and semi aquatint swimming like a large frog in the water and  bipedal well on land.

A escaped convict by the  named of William Buckley claimed to have encountered the bunyip on several occasions well living among the Wathaurong people an aboriginal tribe in the outback for many years, he said the animal was covered in grey feathers and could be found in inland lakes and even had supernatural powers capable of causing sickness or famine if angered.

One day in January 1846 a strange skull was found near the Murrumbidgee River that same year a bunyip or possibly a giant platypus was spotted on the banks of the Uriarra River.

The Murrumbidgee Skull is supposedly nothing more then the deformed skull of a calf, but many still argue in favor of it's authenticity and proof of the bunyip.

1851 A bunyip allegedly burst out of the water and killed a man in  passing bout on the Challicum Staion creek near  Ararat Victoria the bunyip in turn was killed by another man on the boat and its  body was outlined on the shore the outline was retraced every year at least as late as 1867 when the site was visited by a man from Moonambel a  Mr R.E. John The clerk of petty sessions, who made a messurment and sketch of the outline butting the size of the creature at 21 feet  for the main body and 28ft in overall length. He also made a map of the location. the area was eventually turned into grazing land for sheep farmers and the outline is now  unfortunately lost to history.









In 1857 Edwin Stockqueler a British artist sketched what he said has a bunyip, stating that the animal was mostly submerged in the water with only it's neck back and shoulders visible.

Sighting still persist to this day, could the bunyip be a supernatural creature haunting the outback or possible  a of pre-ice age or even prehistoric animal long since thought to be extinct..

Keep in mind that the Coelacanth a pre historic specials of fish was classified as extinct until a fisherman off the of south Africa caught on in 1938, and other animals like the platypus and silver-back gorilla were thought to be nothing more then local folklore until a live specimen was captured/ observed.

There are undauntedly many new species out there that we have yet to discover, and sadly thousands that have already gone extinct before discovery, and with the rate of human expansion into once untouched land's i think the odds of discovering a creature once thought to be nothing more the  myth, still alive and well are pretty high.

So... what are your thought's are these creatures real or imagined? Are there really monsters in the shadows or are  cryptids just a manifestation of human fears given form through mythology and legends?


Thank you for reading..

Also you can pick up a copy or Robert Holden the bunyip Australia's folklore of fear on Amazon. though it is very expensive! $200 +



Other reading scores....
The Journal of Cryptozoology Volume 1 -4 ..

16 year old toddler

16 year old toddler

Brooke Greenberg. 

The ageless Infant.













Both scientist's and doctors alike are completely  baffled at the discovery of an infant, that for whatever reason doesn't seem to age.


By all standard account's Brook Greenberg appears to be your average care free and happy toddler, at first glance you would think nothing was out of the ordinary there right?....well you would be wrong.

Because baby Brook is not really an infant at all rather she is a sixteen year old girl, who for some reason doesn't seem to age, or at least not in the way we normally think of ageing.

Brooke just turned 16 in January. She is 30 inches tall and weighs 16 pounds.

During  an interview.....

"Why doesn't she age? said Brooke's father Howard Greenberg.

It is that very question that have scientist's so interested in young Brooke! There are many different known ailment's that effect the healthy growth of children, some of which are directly responsible for causing abnormalities such as dwarfism or symptoms of rapid ageing (progeria). But according to her pediatrician Lawrence Pakula, from the Johns Hopkins school of Medicine in Baltimore, Brooke's case may be unique, Even some of the most well known scientific minds in this field of study are at a lose to explain this case, to date they have never seen a case like this, says Dr. Pakula.

Another doctor named Richard Walker from the University of South Florida College of Medicine, in Tampa, says that Brooke's body is not developing as a coordinated unit, rather individual parts seem to be growing out of sync with one another. To date Brooke has never been diagnosed with any known chromosomal anomalies or genetic syndrome's.

Dr. Walker along with two other scientist's, Lawrence Pakula and Maxine Sutcliffe, a geneticist from the All Children's Hospital in St.Petersburg, FL. Recently co-authored a paper for the journal "Mechanisms of Ageing and Development." In this article they say that there were a number of odd occurrence's related to Brooke's growth.... Throughout her life there has been very little change in her brain and cognitive function, and her various body parts arms, legs...etc seem to age at a slightly different pace then the other rather then maturing at the same pace, they also noted that her bone structure seems to be about 10 years old, and even though she is now 16 years old she still has her baby teeth.

Melanie Greenberg Brooks mother says, "She loves to shop"

Brooke rides along in the stroller whenever her mother goes shopping.

Melanie says.........

"That Brooke is in her mid-teens is so mind boggling that if another mother with a toddler asks how old she is?, she usually doesn't try to explain it."

"My system has always bee to turn years into months." She said that way if some one asked today i mite say she's 16 months old."

Brooke's family consists of her mother and father Melanie and Howard Greengerg and her three sisters 22 year old Emily, 19 year old Caitlin and 13 year old Carly, all of which are of an average size.

"She looks like a 6-month old, but she kind of has the personality of a 16 year old."
"Sometimes we joke about how she rebels." said Caitlin.

Brooke will resist and refuse activities that don't appeal to her by vocalizing her displeasure, not with words. but with sounds typical of an infant. "She makes it known what she likes and what she doesn't like." said Emily.

and Carly said,
It no longer seems strange to have an older sister who is still essentially an infant. "As i got older she was just like another little sister to me."

If you would like to know more about Brooke watch ABC's 20/20 this Friday June 26 at 10:00pm EST.

Brooke's story, a documentary about Brooke's and her amazing story will also be airing on TLC on Sunday August 2 at 9:00pm check your local listings for the correct time in your area.