Posts by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
(DIR) Post #AQc42UkS0AtyPm4hs0 by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2022-12-14T23:41:16Z
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@john @idoubtit It’s certainly fun to imagine an alternate ultra-euhemerist present. Now what fossil taxa would TikTokers link to spooky vending machines…
(DIR) Post #ASGlV9jOrV0K85w89o by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-02-01T18:56:17Z
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Janet and Colin Bord’s #CreaturesFromElsewhere has perhaps the only accurate depiction of the… critter… the Tombstone Epitaph reported as being shot down by two ranchers in 1890. It was approximately the size of Rodan at 92’ (28 m) long with a 160’ (49 m) wingspan.Jack Pearl changed the date to 1896, the ranchers to prospectors, the critter into a California Condor with a 36’ (11 m) wingspan, and added the legendary #ThunderbirdPhoto aspect. It has further morphed into a pterosaur-like monster
(DIR) Post #ASGlVGmqd4vC0obU0G by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-02-01T22:05:54Z
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I’m a FOOL! Tyler Greenfield found another version in the May 1968 Desert Magazine! https://archive.org/details/sim_desert_1968-07_31_7/page/30/mode/2up
(DIR) Post #ASGlVN7z3PORg6XRmS by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-02-01T22:12:40Z
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And then there is the very funny illustration from the San Francisco Examiner.
(DIR) Post #ASdIAz6YMfeZTPlUx6 by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-02-13T00:32:34Z
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I don’t prefer realistic depictions of #Cryptids — in my mind, they’re best embodied by amateurish ink sketches on yellow photocopied paper. Gene Duplantier’s depiction of #Mothman is just… perfection. I especially love that it looks like a modified Great Horned Owl!
(DIR) Post #ATHO8re60ofauBHSam by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-03-04T17:54:06Z
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@john Ultra-light aircraft used to hunt Bigfoot?
(DIR) Post #ATLNev4vcobUctamRc by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-03-04T19:33:19Z
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Harry Trumbore’s assignment to illustrate about 50 hairy hominids for Coleman and Huyghe’s “Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide” is unenviable — nevertheless he did great with the material he was given! This giant fella is part of the #MarkAHalliverse (not a co-author?!?!) and depicts an Am Fear Liath Mòr as a SUPER-supersized Gigantipithecus… in this canon these “True Giants” are convergently quite human-like.#Cryptid #Cryptozoology #Bigfoot #AmFearLiathMòr
(DIR) Post #ATLNevk39vUsgQpcXY by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-03-04T19:44:46Z
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I’m also quite fond of the Ngoloko depiction which doesn’t shy away from John Elliot’s absolutely bonkers description. More context about this… I’d hesitate to call it a cryptid, really a spirit could be more accurate:https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Ngoloko
(DIR) Post #ATLNewUqLwvZ1YizTc by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-03-04T20:02:03Z
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In this weird alternate cryptid-planet, North America has more apes than sub-Saharan Africa. This is the Fort Worth Monster / Goatman, depicted as a particularly large and almost bipedal white ape. And I’ve also included what exists of this creature from our world — a blobby photo.
(DIR) Post #ATLNexXMU4XIFeuW2a by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-03-04T20:16:51Z
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The illustration of the Tano Giant really freaks me out. It’s in the “True Giant” “Class” but Trumbore illustrated it as a 15 foot tall cape-wearing, bobbleheaded, anthropophagous, monkey-like monster. Yikes.The original source is reprinted here (and uh… is definitely pretty gory):https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Tano_Giant
(DIR) Post #ATLNf5uLMVfmDFiyyO by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-03-04T23:25:39Z
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And finally — MoMo, the Missouri Monster! The next makes no mention of Ghillie suits, hmm, but DOES speculate that this creature is a *hybrid* between two “Classes”: the Paranthropithecine “Neo-Giants” and the Homo gardarensis-derived “Marked Hominids”. This notion must have seemed extra-fantastical when published in the late 90’s but now it’s ripped from the headlines! Momo confirmed?
(DIR) Post #AXYYZU3YuhrCKV3XqC by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-07-10T16:04:43Z
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Every once in a while, as a treat, I pick a paragraph by Bernard #Heuvelmans and try and parse out what the heck is going on. The #BeastOfGévaudan appears on his checklist of “Apparently Unknown Animals” (i.e. #Cryptids ), fair enough… but the paragraph self-debunks and proposes feral dogs and serial killers (!?!) as being behind the legend (!?!). As there is no new species this shouldn’t be #Cryptozoology but its “Father” apparently thinks otherwise! Bizarre.
(DIR) Post #AXYZBg6cYxKOhihQMy by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-07-10T16:16:19Z
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@john The sentence becomes more certain as it continues!There’s also great synchronicity with Memo’s “Criminal Cryptid” video
(DIR) Post #AXaJvO9SRFZ1OGijnE by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-07-11T12:25:05Z
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@llewelly @TetZoo @john They’re so weird! They look quite Minke-like in life but for some reason have a giant ribcage and almost no lumbar vertebrae… why?
(DIR) Post #AXaJvPsA2WusjCdx6u by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-07-11T12:32:39Z
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@llewelly @TetZoo @john Their vertebral formula (and giant ribs) are more manatee-like than other cetaceans, including other cetotheres… why?
(DIR) Post #Ac8fCR55qsPC9CtmWO by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-11-24T17:35:08Z
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@idoubtit @john They’re also quite bad about hyping up new species descriptions that, erm, are far from *discoveries*.
(DIR) Post #Ac8fjZZFJwyY1Wnrge by LordGeekington@sauropods.win
2023-11-24T17:47:49Z
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@john @idoubtit And distinctive structure-making behavior H. sapiens is incapable of!