Our world is fraught with many unsolved mysteries. And somewhere in the dark, in impenetrable thickets of forests isolated from prying eyes, at the depths of the seas and oceans or in the intricate labyrinths of city sewers, mysterious creatures live. They appear in front of dumbfounded witnesses for a few seconds and also suddenly and instantly disappear, leaving almost no evidence of their existence, except for the testimony of eyewitnesses, rare photos or video frames. Of course, it is human nature to exaggerate and human fantasy in most cases has nothing to do with reality, and a few centuries ago the usual natural phenomena, seemed something incredible and fabulous. But "there is no smoke without fire." Indeed, in different parts of our planet, eyewitnesses saw almost identical representatives of the "other world" or "fabulous" world. And perhaps, mysterious creatures live next to us, considered fictional by skeptics. In this section, we will provide information about the most interesting and mysterious representatives of the oceanic abysses and "urban legends". And it's up to you to decide if they really exist.
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It seems that in our time everything has been studied up and down, but our planet over time presents us with more and more surprises. To date, people know about 15% of all living organisms on our planet, and 85% remain a mystery to us.
Sometimes, having discovered the corpses of unknown animals, science comes to a standstill and cannot explain what kind of creature it is and where it came from. Sometimes, of course, it happens that these "corpses" are just a falsification and are made in order to increase their own popularity, and sometimes just for fun.
Trunko
October 24, 1924 near the town of Marghita in South Africa local residents witnessed an unusual spectacle. In the ocean, not far from the shore, two quite ordinary killer whales fought with a huge strange creature of milky white color, whose body was completely covered with thick hair. One of the eyewitnesses later said that the creature vaguely resembled the "polar polar bear”, although it had fins and a whale tail. The animal used this tail to attack - first, the beast fell on killer whales, jumping up from the water to a height of about six meters, and then beat them with its tail.
The white giant was defeated in the fight. In the evening of the same day, his bloodless carcass was washed ashore. It turned out to be even larger than it seemed at first: the length of the body was about 14 m in length, three m in width and 1.5 m in diameter. The tail was three meters long and shaped like a lobster's tail, and the body really turned out to be covered with thick fur 20 cm long. Instead of a nose, the creature had an elephant-like trunk, 1.5 m long and 14 cm in diameter. The creature was named Trunko.
But here's the bad luck - the eyewitnesses examined the body, measured it and told everyone about it, to whom it was possible. But the scientists did not see the unknown monster, despite the fact that the carcass lay on the shore for ten whole days, until the tide dragged it back into the ocean. Hoax? Speculation of the inhabitants? Not at all.
In 1924, information about the strange creature was published in several reputable newspapers, but the case did not attract public attention. People talked about it a little and forgot for years. But in 2007, the cryptozoologist Markus Hemmler published photos of Trunko he found in a newspaper archive, which confirmed that the case really took place. Careful analysis of the photographs showed that Trunko was nothing more than a gloster - a massive, tough "bag" of fat and skin containing collagen. Sometimes this happens with dead whales: when a whale dies, its skull and skeleton are separated from the body and sink to the seabed, and the remains are left to “drift” in the ocean. As for the battle with killer whales, they could simply eat the corpse.
Unfortunately, often the solution to the mystery is the most mundane - as, for example, it was in this case.
Pedro
In October 1932, two prospectors, Cecil Mine and Frank Carr, were looking for gold in the San Pedro Mountains. During the blasting, a cave of clearly man-made origin suddenly opened up to their eyes: the walls and ceiling were reinforced with beams that had hardened from time to time. The cave was small: only 1.2 m high and wide and 4.5 m long. But this is not strange: the fact is that the cave turned out to be “inhabited”.
To tell the truth, the "owner" of the cave was dead. And to be more precise, he was a mummy. Against the far wall, in a lotus position, with arms folded, sat on a small ledge a tiny man, who no doubt had once been alive. The growth of the mummy did not exceed 17 cm in a sitting position, therefore, if the mummy could be straightened, then the height of the little man would be no more than 35 cm. eyelids, a flat nose, thin lips and a wide mouth, brown wrinkled skin ... Even flat nails on thin elongated fingers were visible.
The miners removed the little man from the cave and took him to the nearest town, Kasper, where the mummy immediately fell into the hands of researchers. In honor of the mountains where she was found, she was given the name Pedro. The mummified remains were carefully studied over the years, and in 1950 X-rays were taken, which clearly showed a well-preserved skeleton and internal organs very human-like. It is noteworthy that the fangs of the creature were disproportionately large in relation to all other parts of the body.
An anthropologist from the American Museum of Natural History, Henry Shapiro, carefully studied both the mummy and the photographs, and concluded that the death of the creature was unlikely to be natural - some bones were broken, and gore was found on the head. Consequently, someone killed the creature, or it got into a terrible accident and received injuries incompatible with life. Apparently, at the time of his death, Pedro was about 65 years old.
True, other theories later appeared: for example, it could be the body of a child from some unknown Indian tribe. This hypothesis is supported by the second find made in the same places - the mummy of a woman ten cm in height. The researchers again assumed that it was an infant. But babies do not have such teeth - strong, healthy and with disproportionately long fangs.
Science did not give answers, since both Pedro and his “girlfriend” were bought out by an unknown businessman in the 1960s, and since then no one has ever seen mummies. Now a reward of ten thousand dollars has been announced for them. But on the other hand, the Indians inhabiting those places have their own version, in whose folklore there are many legends about the tribes of little men who inhabited America in ancient times. Legends say that these little men were harmful and vicious creatures, and when they grew old, their fellow tribesmen simply gave them a stone on the head so that they would not eat food in vain. And all these legends arose long before the prospectors found the mummy of Pedro in the mountains.
Persian princess from Balochistan
On October 19, 2000, a strange mummy was discovered in Balochistan. Oddly enough, it was sold on the local black market for a fabulous sum of $ 20 million and would probably have fallen into the hands of not scientists, but some wealthy lover of antiquities, if a certain Ali Akbar had not sent a video cassette to Pakistani scientists, where the mysterious remains were shown in all the details.
Further more. Akbar was found, he testified, and the police arrived for the mummy in the city of Haran. The mummy was discovered in the house of Vali Mohammed Riki, who explained that the mummy was "given" to him by the Iranian Sharif Shah Bahi, who accidentally discovered the corpse near Kveta after the earthquake.
The story itself would be quite ordinary - a mummy is like a mummy, in Egypt, for example, there are many of them. However, a thorough study made it possible to establish the identity of the mummified woman - it turned out that her name was Rodugune, she was the daughter of King Xerxes I of Persia from the Achaemenid dynasty. Information was obtained after deciphering the inscription on the golden crown, which was reclining on the head of the princess. In addition, initially the mummy was in a gilded coffin, and the embalming mixture was not cheap - wax and honey.
Rodugune died 2,600 years ago, and the fact that the remains were so perfectly preserved seemed to be a great success. In addition, it was previously believed that the Persians did not embalm the dead. As a result, there was an uproar in scientific circles. Yes, that's the trouble - the ancient princess ended up being fake. Professor Ahmad Dani, after a thorough study of the remains, found out that Rodugune died only in 1996 at the age of 20 - the young woman was first killed, and then made the subject of speculation. The real identity of the "princess" has not yet been established, and since she does not represent scientific interest, according to the laws of human morality, she should have been buried, but due to bureaucratic intrigues, the body still rests in some Pakistani morgue.
Mammoth Lyuba
Lyuba was found by reindeer herder Yuri Khudi in May 2007 in Yamal. In conditions permafrost the mammoth carcass was excellently preserved, and it was possible to transfer it to scientists without any damage - even the internal organs, fur and eyes remained intact, not to mention the skin and fur. The discovery made it possible to learn a lot about mammoths, their life and structural features.
The little mammoth died 42 thousand years ago. Then she, according to DNA analysis, was only a month old. Lyuba weighed 50 kg, reached a height of 85 cm, and a length of 1.3 m. Remains of mother's milk were preserved in the stomach of the animal, and feces were preserved in the intestines.
It is noteworthy that the mammoth died, apparently as a result of a fatal accident: it got stuck in the mud and could not get out, and subsequently suffocated. Scientists made such a conclusion because the body of the animal was in perfect condition - there are no signs of disease or physical damage. In addition, Luba's DNA is also perfectly preserved, and thanks to this, it is possible to clone a mammoth someday.
Montauk monster
The corpse of a mysterious animal was found on one of the American beaches in the summer of 2008. The body was found by four young men walking along Ditch Beach near East Hampton, New York. They failed to identify the type of animal, and then, of course, the case was referred to scientists. Those, however, also could not immediately identify him. There was absolutely no hair on the body, the skin was smooth and thick, and the muzzle did not fit any animal living in these places.
But the story was quickly picked up by local newspapers. There were many versions of the origin and type of creature: they said that these were just the remains of a strange sea turtle, or even a raccoon. Or maybe a water rat, a coyote, a dog, a feral cat ... A more fantastic version in the spirit of Stephen King's novels said that this is a mutant that escaped from the Center for Animal Disease Research, over which insidious scientists experimented, did not keep track, and now they deny their involvement to history. For such a living monster, they even promised a reward of several thousand dollars. True, no one else has found anything like it - neither alive nor dead.
However, this single monster disappeared rather quickly - after the scientists got the carcass, the public had to be content with a few photographs taken by journalists. According to the same photographs, the animal was eventually officially declared an ordinary raccoon - the body could decompose and swell in the water beyond recognition, and the lack of hair can also be explained by exposure to water.
panama monster
In September 2009, in the vicinity of the Panamanian city of Cerro Azul, children playing on the shore of a lake discovered a strange hairless creature. Children in Panama, apparently, are not timid - they stoned the animal with stones, and later explained their act by the fact that the animal crawled out of the cave and crawled towards them. After killing the animal, the children took a picture of it, and the corpse was thrown into the water.
The photographs show that the muzzle of the beast was disgusting in appearance, and the limbs were disproportionately long. Moreover, in shape, these limbs resembled precisely human hands, only unusually thin.
One way or another, the body was pulled out of the lake a few days later and handed over to scientists. As a result of DNA analysis, it was found that it was just a sloth. It is not clear, however, what the sloth was doing in the cave, why there was no wool on his body, and the shape of the body was so strange. This can be partly explained by the effect of water on the body, but why then did the corpse move, as the children told about it? However, children could and exaggerate.
However, the official version is simple - it was a sloth.
Canadian monster
In May 2010, two women walked their dog along the shore of a lake in the Canadian province of Ontario. Suddenly, the dog jumped off the leash and ran off somewhere. The women followed her and saw that the dog was sniffing the body of a strange small animal the size of a large water rat. Eyewitnesses were frightened, photographed the body and hurried to leave the scene.
The picture, as usual, was published on the Internet and attracted the attention of researchers. An analysis of the image showed that the muzzle of the dead animal was somewhat unusual for a water rat or warthog: although the tail was “rat-like”, the fangs in the animal’s mouth were long for a rat and protruded strongly forward, and there was no hair on the muzzle at all. It is a pity that when a group of researchers found themselves on the shore of that lake, the body of the animal was already gone.
Where science fails, legends come into play. In the folklore of some Native American tribes, there are references to omajinaakoos (literally, this word means "freak"). The habitat of the legendary "freak" is the swamps of Canada. According to legend, terrible misfortunes will soon fall on the one who found the body of this creature. However, given the fact that both women and their dog are still fine, it remains to be assumed that it was still a dead rat or mink, whose body was damaged by water.
Incredible Facts
These photos of strange and sometimes creepy creatures have made many people shudder and wonder: "What the hell is this?".
Their images have spread all over the Internet, which has given many people the opportunity to express their incredible assumptions about the origin of these creatures.
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Here are some of the most amazing creatures who were discovered and who they actually turned out to be.
1 Montauk Monster
The story began when an unknown creature washed ashore in the Montauk area of New York in 2008. Local youth photographed the carcass and sold the pictures to newspapers.
Since the Montauk monster was discovered, other carcasses have been found in the same area. There have been speculations that this is a turtle without a shell, a dog, a large rodent, or a scientific experiment that was carried out at a government animal testing center.
In fact:
Experts concluded that the creature was a raccoon corpse, which matched the shape of the teeth and paws, but which was missing the front jaw. strange sight due to the fact that his body began to decompose.
2 Louisiana Monster
In December 2010, a deer-hunting camera caught something frightening.
The picture shows a thin, clumsy, fast-moving and, apparently, nocturnal creature that seemed to want to swallow your soul.
In fact:
The mystery of this creature has not been solved, although many believe that the picture was processed using Photoshop. Two companies attempted to use the image for viral advertising.
For example, the Playstation company stated that the creature was in the game Resistance 3.
There were also those who claimed that this is a "fallen angel" captured on video in the forest, appearing at 45 seconds.
3. Alien child from Mexico
In May 2007, a Mexican farmer Mario Moreno Lopez(Mario Moreno Lopez) discovered a strange creature in a rat trap. He tried to drown him, killing him only the third time.
The creature was small - about 70 cm long with an elongated head, which led to speculation that it was the child of an alien with high level intellect.
However, skeptics have stated that it could be a skinless reptile or squirrel monkey, which explains the presence of a tail and spine, as well as a large head and eyes.
The farmer himself mysteriously died in the car during an abnormal high temperature some time after he drowned the creature, which many ufologists considered the revenge of the aliens for the child.
In fact:
Scientists argued that the teeth of the creature are not arranged like human teeth, and it itself has a unique tissue that has not been altered, which refutes the monkey theory.
Later, after all, the farmer's nephew and part-time taxidermist admitted that the creature was the corpse of a monkey, which was skinned and ears removed and placed in the fluids of various animals.
4. Blue Hill Horror
In September 2009, four teenagers playing in the village of Cerro Azul in Panama discovered a strange creature that ran out of a cave. According to them, the monster began to pursue them, and the teenagers began to throw stones at him until they killed him, and then threw the body into the water.
In the newspapers, the creature was nicknamed Gollum (the hero from The Lord of the Rings), as it lived in a cave, and also the Blue Hill Horror.
In fact:
Scientists have discovered that the teenagers' story was a fiction, and the creature turned out to be the body of a sloth, which began to decompose. Due to his long stay in the water, his vegetation disappeared, giving him a bloated, rubbery appearance.
5. Alien corpse at a ceremony in Thailand
In 2010 in in social networks appeared a series of photographs taken in 2007 at the funeral ceremony of a strange creature that looks like an alien in Thailand. It had a large round head, gray skin covered with white powder, resembling a satyr with tiny hooves and a tail.
Some claim that the ceremony was held to get rid of evil spirits associated with the creature, while others considered that the inhabitants worshiped the creature as a deity.
In fact:
There were suggestions that the creature was a disfigured cow, although it looked very much like a humanoid. Many point to a large number of anomalous animals appearing around the world, and believe that the aliens are experimenting on animals, creating strange hybrids that will take over the world one day.
6 Humanoid From Chile
In October 2002, during a trip with his family to Chile Julio Carreno(Julio Carreno) discovered a tiny humanoid 7.2 cm long in the bushes.
The creature had a large humanoid head, nails and opened its eyes, and died 8 days after discovery. When he was alive, he had pink skin that darkened and his body remained warm before rapidly mummifying on its own.
In fact:
The body of the humanoid was examined by veterinarians in Santiago, who were divided as to who the creature was. They confirmed that it was not a human fetus or the remains of a feline, and its physical characteristics were more suitable for a mouse opossum. However, the creature did not have small sharp teeth or a possum tail, and the head was twice as large.
7. Chupacabra from Texas
The creature known as the "yeti" Latin America seen several times in Puerto Rico and the USA, namely in Texas. According to legend, the Chupacabra (which translates from Spanish as "goat bloodsucker") kills livestock and drinks their blood.
According to the descriptions, this creature had no hair, its skin had a bluish-gray tint.
These creatures have been seen and shot several times in Texas for suffocating dozens of chickens.
In fact:
DNA tests showed that the animal belonged to a hybrid of a wolf and a coyote, bald due to scabies. Although the ability to suck blood from chickens and goats has remained unclear.
8. Huge boar from A labamas
In May 2007, 11-year-old Jemison Stone from Alabama, USA, shot a huge wild boar weighing almost 480 kg and 2.80 meters long. A boy who hunted with his father shot the animal eight times and chased it for three hours. When the boar was shot, trees had to be cut down to get it. The head of the animal was left as a trophy, and about 200-300 kg of sausages were made from meat.
In fact:
Many people signed the petition accusing the boy of animal cruelty. Skeptics, on the other hand, consider the whole story to be fiction, and the boar was, in fact, raised on a farm and fattened in order to make a sensation out of history. Also, many thought that this one was just the result of Photoshop processing.
9. Eastern Yeti caught in China
In April 2010, hunters caught a bald bear-like mammal with a kangaroo tail making cat noises. The creature became a real sensation and was called the "Eastern Yeti". According to legend, the yeti had the figure of a bear, which towered far above the man. This creature was no more than 60 cm long.
In fact:
Experts came to the conclusion that it was an ordinary musang, which had scabies. The animal was sent to Beijing for examination, but the results were never made public.
10. "Alien" from Chelyabinsk
This creature was discovered in an abandoned pit in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He had a hard shell, several limbs located one above the other and a tail. Some have suggested that this monster is a huge shield, horseshoe crab, or trilobite that died out before the dinosaurs.
In fact:
Apparently, these creatures are shield crustaceans, which are one of the oldest animals, a species that is more than 200 million years old. Usually its size does not exceed 6-7 cm, while the discovered animal reached about 60 cm.
The world is full of unexplained mysteries and mysterious creatures that at one time or another inhabited our planet. Many of them, according to eyewitnesses and traces found by scientists, may still exist. We bring to your attention the TOP 7 most mysterious creatures on the planet, studied by pseudoscience cryptozoology.
The most big shark in the world, megalodon, which belongs to an extinct species of prehistoric sharks, plied the depths of the oceans about 28 million years ago (the end of the Oligocene era - the beginning of the Neogene). Megalodon - the strongest and largest predatory fish that ever existed on our planet. This incredible predator was the king underwater world. In length, the megalodon reached 16 meters and weighed approximately 47 tons. According to some versions of scientists, whose assumptions are based on the remains of prehistoric sharks found, these super-predators could live up to the time of the appearance of man. And some believe that megalodons can still live in the unexplored depths of the ocean to this day. So be on the alert, going on a round-the-world trip on a steamer.
The Yeti, a two-legged creature covered with long white hair, or simply Bigfoot, according to most modern scientists, is just a myth created by people. However, this mythological creature, similar to a person, according to eyewitnesses, was often observed in the Himalayas (namely, in Nepal and Pakistan), various forest and high mountain regions of the Earth. Yeti is one of the most popular mysterious creatures, whose image has been repeatedly used in literature and cinema. There is an opinion that Bigfoot is a mammal of the order of primates, preserved from prehistoric times to the present day. Some regions even offer a hefty reward for capturing Bigfoot.
Chupacabra exists or not? This question is one of the most popular among Internet users who are fond of mystical phenomena and mysterious creatures. Everyone who supposedly saw the Chupacabra with their own eyes describes this creature in their own way. But most of the readings have a number of similarities. Chupacabra in size resembles a small bear 1.2-1.3 meters tall, looks like a kangaroo, from the base of the tail to the neck, its body is covered with spikes. When anxious, the Chupacabra squeals or hisses.
What the chupacabra looks like - there are no real photos, but there are graphic images that will help you understand what this creature looked like.
Of all the most mysterious creatures, the werewolf is closest to the category of myths. According to legend, a werewolf is a person who can turn into a creature that looks like a wolf. This happens as a result of a bite or scratch of the same werewolf, who infects his victim with the disease (or gift) of reincarnation. Such a transformation is very often, especially in books and films, associated with the appearance in the sky full moon. The most popular waswolf among Native Americans, who often used and still use the image of a werewolf in their fairy tales and legends.
Many netizens often enter the query "werewolf photo of eyewitnesses", but, as you understand, there are no such photos, but the werewolf looks like this.
Scientists believe that the mysterious creature, allegedly living in the Scottish lake Loch Ness, is one of the long-extinct representatives of the plesiosaur species. In the 1950s, locals affectionately named the lake monster "Nessie" and since then, this nickname has become associated with the more formidable title of the Loch Ness monster. Nessie resembles a gigantic long-necked seal with two black humps, and the first mention of the monster of Loch Ness appeared during the exploration of the Celtic expanses by Roman legionnaires.
Whether or not the Loch Ness Monster exists or not is up to you, but here is how it has been portrayed since ancient times.
It is unlikely that today there will be those who have never heard of mermaids. In cartoons, movies, fantasy works, the mermaid is one of the most popular mysterious creatures. A mermaid has the head and torso of a woman, with a fishtail instead of legs. As a rule, a mermaid lives in various water bodies. This is a character Slavic mythology guardian of forests, fields and waters. In art, mermaids are often portrayed as good-natured creatures, although in mythology this mysterious creature is a harmful spirit in the form of a long-haired woman with a fish tail, which usually appears in the summer with the aim of drowning someone or tickling to death. Some cultures consider the mermaid to be the soul of an unnatural death, that is, a drowned woman.
So far, no one has managed to get a photo of a real live mermaid, but a mermaid looks like this.
And finally, the most popular mysterious creature from ancient mythology- the Dragon. In contemporary art, the so-called "dragon boom" has come, and every year interest in dragons only increases. In the fantasy genre, dragons are leaders, and cinema, literature, and painting today are simply unthinkable without using the image of an ancient flying creature. Dragons are flying snakes, somewhat reminiscent of dinosaurs that can breathe fire, incinerating everything around. Dragon-like monsters are also mentioned in the Bible in the New Testament. In our time, dragons have ceased to be carriers of absolute evil, and have even become friends of man. Many of them began to be considered more developed spiritually and physically, when compared with a person. Dragons are clear favorites in the race of mythological mysterious creatures.
This is what the dragon looks like fine arts and cinematography.
Our world is not so harmless. After all, somewhere out there, in the dark, in forests isolated from the eyes and in the deep bowels of reservoirs, mysterious creatures live. They appear unexpectedly and just as suddenly disappear. Frightened bystanders are dumbfounded and bewildered.
As a result, no evidence of such meetings remains. But creatures continue to exist, in their secluded places, and even in our imagination. We will tell below about the ten most mysterious creatures that, according to many, still exist on our planet.
After all, there are eyewitnesses who saw them with their own eyes. Let some creatures be more incredible than others, but we will leave it to our imagination to decide whether they really exist.
Yeti. Bigfoot is perhaps the most frequently encountered mysterious creature. Yeti met in the forests and mountains almost all over the planet. Scientists still can not get reliable evidence of the existence of the Yeti. But every year there are more and more evidence of its existence. I wonder what from Florida to Australia people describe Bigfoot pretty consistent and similar. The growth of the creature is from 2 to 2.5 meters. The yeti itself is covered in long brown, red, or white hair. A foul odor emanates from it. O big size the feet, like the hands, bear witness to the imprints on the ground. It is said that the yeti shuns humans and can howl at night. A huge number of meetings suggests that this creature has every chance of becoming real, unknown to science so far. But what is it? The missing link in evolution? Ancient ancestors of people left to live in deserts and mountains? Or maybe it's just an unknown species of monkey? Perhaps soon the secret will be revealed. After all, digital technology can significantly improve the observation of the area. In America, cameras are beginning to be installed in the forests, which will monitor movement around the clock, trying to detect a mysterious creature. In the meantime, all that enthusiasts have are prints of large feet, tufts of wool and eyewitness accounts.
Loch Ness monster. In this series, it is worth noting several monsters living in the depths of lakes at once. Although today scientists are equipped with sensitive electronic devices, water monsters still elude observation. But good observations witnesses exist. The most famous monster is Loch Ness, also called Nessie. It is known that this inhabitant of the depths long head and neck, the back is humpbacked. Similar animals were met in other places - Chessy in the Chesapeake Bay, Storsi in the Swedish lake Storson, Selma in Norway, Champion on Lake Champlain in New York. Most observers say that they noticed a towering hump above the water, only a few lucky ones were able to see an elongated breach with a head. Usually, the creature begins its dive immediately. Photo and video evidence of water monsters is very small and almost all of them are blurry. The most famous is a photograph of a fin taken by the Reines expedition in 1975. If the creature actually exists, then researchers believe it could be a plesiosaur. But he died out more than 66 million years ago! But maybe these incredible creatures could somehow survive deep underwater?
Chupacabra. In our area, this mystical bloodsucker monster is little known. The first data about it appeared in the 70s. But the real fame came to this creature in the 90s with the development of the Internet. This creepy creature attacks livestock and poultry and sucks the blood out of them. The Chupacabra was most often seen in Puerto Rico. Farmers who observed the practice of killing wild dogs say that the monster, when killing them, did not eat them and did not drag them away, but drained the blood through small incisions. Eyewitnesses say that the Chupacabra is the size of a small monkey, while jumping like a kangaroo. The creature has red eyes, hairy skin, a tongue like a snake, and sharp fangs. Around the spine are feathers that can open. Some believe that these may be wings. By the end of the 90s, evidence of the existence of the monster began to become more and more. He was credited with killing animals in Mexico, south Texas, and South America. In 2000, a series of incidents involving the creature occurred in Chile. There are many theories about the origin of the mysterious creature. Perhaps this is just a natural, but unknown species of predator. Perhaps - the result of foreign genetic experiments. Most serious researchers believe that the Chupacabra is just an element of folklore, which the local superstitious people inspired. One can only be sure that news about the tricks of this creature will periodically appear.
Jersey Devil. They say that in the vicinity of the American city of New Jersey, a terrible humanoid creature roams. Its fearsome appearance has earned it the nickname the Jersey Devil. The legend about him first appeared in the middle of the 18th century. Then the appearance of this creature was considered an omen of war or great trouble. All this time, evidence of a meeting with this creature periodically appeared. There have been about 2000 of them for several centuries. Even today there are eyewitnesses of meetings with this monster. Although descriptions vary, there are some common signs. The height of the devil is about a meter, the face is horse-like, and the head is elongated, like that of the Collie dog breed. The neck of the creature is long, there are half-meter wings on the back, and hooves on the legs. The creature holds its front paws in front of it. Many believe that this devil can become invisible. It is curious that there is some resemblance to the Chupacabra. The Devil is blamed for the unexplained deaths of dozens of animals and their injuries. Did some eyewitnesses go crazy after meeting him? What kind of creature is this? The theories are similar to those that explain the Chupacabra. One thing is clear, something definitely scary lives in the woods near New Jersey.
Moth Man. Starting in November 1966, for 13 months, strange events occurred in Point Pleasant, in West Virginia. In addition to many reports of UFO and poltergeist sightings, some witnesses have spoken of encountering a strange creature. As stated in John Keel's classic book The Moth's Prophecy, hundreds of witnesses saw a winged humanoid. He is described as a two-meter giant with a wingspan of about three meters. His gray skin was covered with scales. The huge red eyes had a hypnotic effect. Mothman could take off and land vertically, reaching speeds of up to 130 km / h in the air. Most often, the monster ate big dogs. The creature squealed like a rodent or an electric motor, causing radio and television interference. Some of the eyewitnesses of the meeting with the mothman said that they had opened an information channel. With its help, eyewitnesses began to receive strange predictions of the future, however, very inaccurate.
Elves and fairies. AT modern society there are few people who believe in the existence of fairies and elves. Some of them are ready to swear by anything that they saw these creatures with their own eyes. In the same way, someone saw Nessie, and someone saw a Bigfoot. Stories about elusive little ones magical creatures quite ancient, they are found in almost every culture on Earth. The legends about elves, gnomes and trolls from Europe and Scandinavia are best known to us. These creatures have become the heroes of numerous children's fairy tales. Fairies were described as tiny, ephemeral creatures with wings that lived in forests. Elves and dwarves lived there. However, they outwardly resembled a person, differing only in small stature. It is often claimed that they had their own civilization, hidden from our eyes. In the summer of 1919, 13-year-old Harry Anderson saw a column of 20 men walking one after another. Their path was illuminated by moonlight. They were wearing leather pants with suspenders. The men were shirtless, bald and had pale white skin. As they passed the astonished boy, the creatures mumbled something under their breath. In Stowmarket, England, in 1842, a farmer recounted his encounter with fairies as he was returning home through the meadows: “There were at least a dozen of them, the largest being about a meter high. from the light. I saw them very clearly." When the man called his family to see the fairies, they were gone. In past cultures, elves and fairies were considered quite real, and part of their folklore has come down. Today, society has become much more technologically advanced, perhaps in our imagination, aliens with their spaceships have taken their place.
Trust Demon. In April 1977, near the city of Dover, in Massachusetts, a strange creature was seen several times. They called him the dover demon. Although there has been only a few evidence of its appearance, the creature is one of the most mysterious. For the first time, the monster was met by 17-year-old Bill Barnet, who, along with friends, was driving late at night. Suddenly he saw that an unusual creature was crawling along the stone wall not far from the roadside. Although the other boys did not see anything out of the ordinary, they noted their friend's great shock. Just a few hours later, 15-year-old John Baxter, returning from his girlfriend, saw something wrapped around a tree trunk. His description was the same as before. The final testimony came the next day, when 15-year-old Abby Brabham, along with a friend, saw a strange creature in the headlights of a car. It was about 1.2 meters high and stood on two legs. The body was naked with rough skin. His limbs were long and thin, brown in color. The head was shaped like a watermelon, it was as big as the body. The monster's eyes glowed orange. Further research on this unusual occasion did not give a single proof of its reality. True, no motives for deception were found either. Skeptics suggest that teenagers could see a young elk, and ufologists prove the theory of meeting with aliens.
Loveland lizard. This creature is rather little known, because only two people saw it, albeit separately. On March 3, 1972, a police officer drove along Riverside Avenue, which lies along the Little Miami River in Loveland, Ohio. Suddenly, on the side of the road, he saw something that looked like a dead dog. The policeman stopped to move her out of the way. As the man approached, the creature quickly reared up on its hind legs. It turned out that this was not a dog at all, but some kind of monster a meter high. His weight was 20-30 kilograms, his skin was all in folds, his body had tangled hair, a short tail. The face and head of the monster looked like a frog or a lizard. The creature looked at the man and jumped into the river. The officer reported the incident and returned here with a partner. Evidence was immediately found - footprints on the slope that the lizard left when it rushed to the river. This story would have been forgotten, but two weeks later another policeman saw the monster. He also stopped when he saw a strange thing in the middle of the road. And in this case, the lizard disappeared towards the river. Subsequent investigations that one farmer said he saw some kind of large creatures, like lizards. Since then, no one has seen the lizard.
Living dinosaurs. In "Park" jurassic"Digital technologies have been able to create a very realistic world of dinosaurs. Many people are already looking forward to the time when cloning will bring out the long-gone inhabitants of the planet. What if dinosaurs are still alive? Maybe some of them have not died out at all? Many people believe that this is - true.For more than 200 years, from the secluded forests of Africa and South America there are stories that the local tribes were familiar with large creatures. Their description perfectly fits the species of sauropods and apatosaurs. The natives called them giant divers. In 1913, the German explorer Freiherr von Stein said that the pygmies told him about a strange creature "river jam". It had brown smooth skin, it was the size of an elephant (up to 10 meters in length), a long flexible neck. The animal fed on plants, but could also attack people if they disturbed it. When an expedition to these tribes took place in 1980, and zoologists showed the natives large sauropods, they recognized them as their "river plugs". However, the testimony of illiterate tribes alone was not enough. It is assumed that the researchers were able to detect huge footprints. And in 1992, the Japanese were able to film 15 seconds of the movement of something huge in the water in these places from an airplane. There is no doubt that the search for dinosaurs in virgin forests will continue.
Jumper Jack. This creature is also called Spring-heeled Jack. It appeared in Victorian England. This monster is said to have attacked its victims in the dark in London in the 19th century. The victims got off with terrible scratches, and it was impossible to catch Jack because of his truly inhuman abilities. Waitress Polly Adams, who suffered from the monster, said that he tore her weekend blouse, touching her stomach with iron claws. Victims paint the big picture. The creature looks like a human, but with a hideous appearance. His claws were sharp and iron. He himself was thin, strong, tall and powerful. Jack's eyes burned, he himself could spit fire out of his mouth. Something tight was worn over the body of the monster, but on top was a dark cloak. He was said to be wearing some kind of helmet. And the fact that he was able to jump to incredible heights, even jumping over walls, gave him a nickname. The attacks prompted an official mayoral order to capture the perpetrator. But all attempts to catch him were unsuccessful. Rumors about the appearance of Jack appeared in the following decades. He scared people with his appearance and quickly disappeared. Interestingly, Jack did not kill anyone, only 18-year-old Vesa Lucy, whom Jack exhaled flames in the face, was seriously injured. Who was this Jack? Devilishly smart maniac or demon? Or maybe an alien? We will hardly ever know the answer, and the Jumping Jack remains one of the most mysterious creatures of our time.
