For open minds
This is a rather cute Nessie is no monster. This Nessie is actually a ladle that would be happy swimming around in your stews, soups and perhaps even a batch or chilli or not.
You can see how the two might get confused. Here’s the side by side comparison of the two.
This Lessie is designed by OTOTO and can be bought from Animi Causa. Just click I need this Nessie Ladle.
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Are you tempted to add Nessie to your kitchen collection? Perhaps it would amuse your own little monsters?
Does this picture show a monster in Loch Ness?
The photograph was taken by paranormal investigator Jonathan Bright and seems to show something other than a wave in the choppy waters of the Scottish loch.
Bright is a professional monster-hunter, who’s been on TV shows and even History Channel documentaries. He found the photograph three years after he took it as he’s spent months analysing thousands of his own surveillance of the area. He told the Express;
I investigate the paranormal but I also investigate legends and Nessie is one of them.
“Three years ago, I came to Scotland to investigate the Nessie legend and took thousands of photographs.
“It took me six months to look at them all and I found this one which I showed when I spoke at the Scottish Paranormal Festival in Stirling this week.
Bright is now expected in Edinburgh where he’ll search the capital for ghosts.
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What do you think? A fake? Just a rock peaking through the loch? Surely we’ve now seen enough scientific evidence to prove there’s no Nessie?
What’s your favourite photograph of the Loch Ness monster? Is it a fake?
This Loch Ness monster is certainly faked. It’s a banana not a monster. It’s a puddle not Loch Ness. Despite that; take a look and you’ll still think “I recognise that shape! It’s the Loch Ness monster!”
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The internet is full of food pretending to be other things. Do you know of any more? Share your links and discoveries in the comment section below.
Picture credit: imgur.
Created by Vladimir Stankovic this book charts a range of mysterious animals; these creatures are part of myth and legend but there is no strong evidence for their existence.
The word “cryptozoology” means the “study of hidden animals”, combining zoology with the Greek root “kryptos” or “hidden”. The book was created as part of a master thesis project at the University of Lapland. Sadly, it’s not something you can pick up at Amazon.
I think there’s some traditional European monsters in here along with new world horrors too.
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Which is your favourite illustrated cryptid from the collection above?
Car hire company Europcar have produced this animated food map of the United Kingdom. Viewers start at the top by John O’Groats and the Castle of Mey and can actually drive down the page, using their mouse wheel, until they get to Land’s End.
Along the way the car passes through or near to places like Stonehenge, the Cheddar Gorge, York Minster and Hadrian’s Wall. It’s really a tour of food, though, showing places like the Black Isle Brewery, Moffat Toffee Shop, Bradely’s Bakery, Tewkesbury Mustard, Cox & Baloney and the Town Mill Bakery.
It’s nice to see so much history on the map.
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You can find the interactive map of Britain’s Best Bites here.
Did you go for a ride? Any highlights? What’s missing? No haggis? No Blackpool Rock?
Known sometimes only as the Iceland Worm Monster, the Lagarfljóts worm is one of those creatures like the Yeti or Bigfoot that science dismisses and yet people keep on seeing. Unlike Yeti or Bigfoot there have been fewer faked sightings of the worm.
The myth daets back, at least, to the 14th century in Iceland – to Lagarfljót in Egilsstaðir – when the locals believed worm sign would herald natural disasters.
There are some explanations as to why the myth persists. Some suggest that rising gas from the lakebed could create openings in the ice and bubble deris to the surface.
Check out the video below and let us know whether you think this strange slithering shape in the icy lake is natural or not.
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Does this video show the Lagarfljóts worm worm?
