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クラケン・トッド、ロヒネス・モンスター・クラス

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クラケン・トッド、ロヒネス・モンスター・クラス

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It seemed we already know everything about the world we live in but still there are some mysteries that we want to reveal.
Loch Ness is the home of probably the world’s most famous monster. People say that from time to time you can see a big monster who they call “Nessie” in this lake. There are some reports about seeing great black humps on the surface of the lake and then their disappearing. The main question is – is it a fact or fiction?

Experts have been discussing that question for years, but in recent times more and more people believe that a whole colony of giant creatures may live in the lake. In 1962 a group of people formed an organization called the Bureau for the Investigation of the Loch Ness Phenomena.

Each summer they invite volunteers who watch the lake. And in 1966, they installed cameras on the banks to prove 'Nessie's' existence. Other people made some photographs on the lake’s surface, but the pictures weren’t good enough to convince anyone, although a film made in 1961 convinced a lot of people that something exists in this lake. The film showed an object twenty-eight metres long, travelling at sixteen kilometers per hour.

People who claim they saw a monster describe it in a very similar way: it has four fins, a tail and it has a length of around eighteen meters.

Some years ago an 18-year old girl from England had a thirty-seven kilometers journey across Loch Ness. It took her thirty hours, some of which she was swimming in the darkness and everyone applauded her for her strength and bravery.

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The monster Kraken !!

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Monster kraken killing people .

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КОТЫ ЮТУБЕРЫ

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5 СЛУЧАЕВ КОГДА КРАКЕНА СНЯЛИ НА КАМЕРУ [Черный кот]

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Kraken is a mythical sea monster of gigantic proportions, known from the descriptions of Norwegian and Icelandic sailors, from whose language its name derives.The image of the Kraken was repeatedly used in fiction and film. According to the Danish author, this Kraken confuses the minds of sailors and cartographers, as sailors often take it for an island and cannot find it a second time. According to the testimony of the Norwegian sailors, once a huge squid, similar to the kraken, was cast ashore in northern Norway.Next, Pontoppidan transmits the words of the sailors that it takes Kraken three months to digest the swallowed food. During this time, he releases such an amount of nutrient excrement that he is always followed by clouds of fish. If the fisherman has an exceptional catch, then they say about him that he “fished on the kraken”. The academic community reacted critically to the arguments of Montfort. Skeptics believed that seamen’s evidence of Kraken could be explained by the underwater volcanic activity off the coast of Iceland, which manifests itself in bubbles emanating from the water, a sudden and rather dangerous change of currents, the appearance and disappearance of new islands. It was only in 1857 that the existence of a giant squid (Architeuthis dux), which apparently served as a prototype for the Kraken, was proved.

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Kraken is a mythical sea monster of gigantic proportions, known from the descriptions of Norwegian and Icelandic sailors, from whose language its name derives.The image of the Kraken was repeatedly used in fiction and film. According to the Danish author, this Kraken confuses the minds of sailors and cartographers, as sailors often take it for an island and cannot find it a second time. According to the testimony of the Norwegian sailors, once a huge squid, similar to the kraken, was cast ashore in northern Norway.Next, Pontoppidan transmits the words of the sailors that it takes Kraken three months to digest the swallowed food. During this time, he releases such an amount of nutrient excrement that he is always followed by clouds of fish. If the fisherman has an exceptional catch, then they say about him that he “fished on the kraken”. The academic community reacted critically to the arguments of Montfort. Skeptics believed that seamen’s evidence of Kraken could be explained by the underwater volcanic activity off the coast of Iceland, which manifests itself in bubbles emanating from the water, a sudden and rather dangerous change of currents, the appearance and disappearance of new islands. It was only in 1857 that the existence of a giant squid (Architeuthis dux), which apparently served as a prototype for the Kraken, was proved.

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Ian Bremner, a 58-year-old amateur photographer, rode through the mountains in search of a deer, but instead witnessed a startling spectacle — he seemed to see Nessie floating in the calm waters of Loch Ness.

A father of four children spends most of his weekend in the vicinity of the lake, photographing stunning natural beauty.

But when he returned to his home in Nigg, in the city of Invergordon, he noticed in the picture a creature whose torso with three humps cut through the surface of the lake and which, he believes, can be the most elusive monster.

The picture shows a floating two-meter creature with a silvery wriggling body - its head flickered in the distance, and about a meter away it could see the tail, with which the animal rushing away was beating with a splash on the water.

The creature was seen at the moment when it surfaced to take a breath of air - this happened on Saturday afternoon, not far from the shore of the lake, halfway between the villages of Dores and Inverfargeig.

“This is such a part of the world around us, looking at which one always has to doubt what he saw,” says Ian.

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Nessie

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A lot of time has passed since the last article in the unsolved mystery series of the 20th century was published, the editors of our site decided to continue this series. And the next in turn is the Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie).

If you turn to the very depths of Celtic legends, then this creature was first noticed by the Roman conquerors. The very first mention of the Loch Ness monster dates back to the 5th century AD, where in one of the chronicles the water beast of the River Ness is mentioned. Then all the references to Nessie disappear right up to 1880, when, with perfectly normal weather, the sailboat with people went to the bottom. The northern Scots immediately remembered the monster, and began to produce all sorts of rumors and legends
The avalanche of rumors reached the point that in one of the major newspapers there was even a story of a married couple, face to face with a monster. On the wave of popularity, a road was built here, many curious people came here to see for themselves the existence of the beast. The once quiet surroundings have become a noisy place, and the shores of the lake have always been filled with photographers and onlookers. A certain enterprising citizen even arranged a number of observation posts along the perimeter of the lake. And lo and behold - during the month the Loch Ness monster was seen as many as 15 times
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10 ft. tall

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500 lbs.

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strength and teeth as weapons

Appearance Edit

Sasquatch or more commonly known as Bigfoot is described as being a large humanoid creature. It is reported to appear very human-like and walking on two legs. It is said to be similar to human and great ape. Its height ranges from 6-10 feet tall and weighs in excess of 500 pounds. It is typically covered in dark brown or dark reddish hair. Bigfoot is said to have enormous feet for which it is named. The average length offootprints found are 16 inches in length.The creature is often reported as having a very strong, unpleasant odor.

Bigfoot was first reported as seen by a white man in Jasper, Alberta, Canada in 1811. Bigfoot hoaxes were spawned since that time and newspapers from over a hundred years ago referenced him as Sasquatch due to the Canadian sightings. The first Bigfoot attack was reported in 1924 in Washington State. Miners and prospectors alike reported attacks of stones thrown at their cabins and big footprints left as evidence of the Bigfoot. The Bigfoot craze sort of subsided until the 1950' s in California.

In 1958, plaster footprint casts of Bigfoot first emerged with Jerry Crew from Humboldt, California. He found the Bigfoot tracks while operating a bulldozer. This is when the name "Bigfoot" was first coined, as newspapers around the United States ran the story. But the biggest Bigfoot craze began when Roger Patterson and Bib Gimlin claimed to have the first video capture of Bigfoot ever. The 1967 Bigfoot movie contained only seconds of what appeared to be a female, hairy creature, walking away and turning to look at the camera . This is the most famous of Bigfoot videos, and is known around the world. Many have tried to de-bunk the film as a fraud, but it still stands today as the best evidence of a Bigfoot creature in existence. Since that time, there have been many Bigfoot videos proven to be hoaxes. The use of Bigfoot fake wooden feet, and gorilla suits have tricked many. So if you want to find Bigfoot, then you will need the best surveillance camera available.

Yet, still today many pursue the elusive creature, trying to capture evidence of his existence. Some aim to kill a Bigfoot if found, while others are desperately trying to collect video or photographic Bigfoot evidence.

Reported sightings Edit

I was heading back home on by Route 262 when I heard strange sounds in the Plymouth, CT area on the Mattatuck Trail in the state forest at night.

This is a dense area hilly and very heavy wooded and this is only about 10 minutes away from Waterbury, CT.

Plymouth is like a whole different state, not very populated and the sounds I heard were not coyotes or owls. I the best way for me to describe them is like a grunting sound with higher pitches.

I've been in very heavy woods throughout the state and never heard sounds like this before. I'm a fairly large man, but the noise scared me and I walked as fast I could back to my truc k.

On Saturday, January 5th, 2013, my girlfriend and I heard a very loud and bellowing "whoop" that lasted for several seconds. This happened around 12:20 p.m. in the afternoon in Naugatuck State Forest, CT.

It sounded like we were roughly 20-30 yards away. I will be returning to the forest on Saturday 19th. October 1993 8:00 a.m.

I was hunting with my brother in Winthrop below First Butte Lookout. The area is mostly dry, evergreen trees, plenty of open spaces, rocky and steep. We usually stay in the higher open areas, but on this day we decided to trek further down the mountain and walk out to the road (which I would guess to be about 5 - 7 miles below).

We, most of the time, stay together when we are walking. After a while of continuing downward, the scenery changed drastically. There was many deciduous trees, lots of brush, moisture on the ground, and the tree canopy made it fairly dark.

I do specifically remember smelling what I describe as skunk cabbage, which made sense because of the moist, dark surroundings. As we were walking, we had to change directions and walk around a huge thicket that was impassible.

All of a sudden we heard two very loud screams, which I describe as a large moo that lasted several seconds come from the thick brush (about maybe 20 yards away). Raised on a farm, I know what cows sound like and it was not a cow.

It was a very loud, low yell that went to a higher pitch, but lasted what seemed like 10 seconds each. Being scared out of our minds, we jumped behind a log and drew our rifles towards the area.

Whatever it was sounded like it was coming right at us. It was breaking limbs, making loud thumps as it walked, it was not stealth at all. Then just like that, it stopped, but we could not see anything.

Obviously we didn't stick around either. This is an annual hunting town for our family, but we never went that deep into the forest since that trip.

I really don't remember the circumstances, but a friend and I hooked up with a few local members of the BFRO. We were interested in what research they were doing in the area, so we met up in Sultan, WA.

They said they were checking out a forest service road that apparently had a lot of recent activity. So we followed them up Forest Service Road #62. We got to the site and we started a small campfire.

We listened to the members discussing what they had learned of the location, and their own experience from visiting it a few days earlier. After a couple of hours we left.A few days later my friend and I decided to go back up there ourselves. It was night with a little snow coming down. I only had a two-wheel drive truck, so we couldn't get to the exact location where we were with the BFRO guys. We were about a quarter of the way up a hill and could go no further. So we left the engine running, lights on so we could see, grabbed the video recorder and started walking up the road thinking that the top of that hill was our previous location.

We were approximately 100 yards from the vehicle and I noticed footprints in the snow! The footprints were coming down the side of road towards us and the turned and went straight up what I think was a logging skid opening.

It was probably a 45 degree embankment. I obviously took video of all of it. I got close up footage of them, and it was very clear that it had toes, heel and large. It was snowing so the tracks couldn't have been very old.

On the other side of the road under the protection of a fir tree was more tracks, but were partially melted, which we assumed were a couple of days older, but we could not see any leading to those.

As we were looking and filming, we looked back at the truck with its lights glaring back at us, and we both got an eerie, unsettling feeling. I think we were so amazed and excited to find the prints, we didn't realize that it was a scary situation at first. So we quickly got back in the vehicle and left.

Several months later hoping the snow had melted enough to re-visit the location, we went back. However, unfortunately the road was washed out at almost the beginning of the service road.

Anyways, there are my two encounters. I have no idea what I witnessed either time, but it is definitely something I will never forget. I moved to South Carolina three years ago and have been bigfoot free ever since.

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DOES THE LOCH NESS MONSTER REALLY EXIST ? . No one knows for certain. But one thing is certain: there cannot be just ONE monster. lf there is one monster, there must be a whole family of them....at least twenty. No creature could have survived alone for over 7000 years! ..

Photomontage - the monster at the visitor centre with Loch Ness in the background

A VERY OLD STORY

The first written story of the monster is in a text from the year 565 AD by a Celtic biographer: this writer describes how a man was attacked by a monster while he was swimming in the river Ness. Perhaps the legend already existed in those days: it has certainly existed for many centuries in Scottish folklore.
However, the story of the monster was not very well-known in England for one simple reason: Loch Ness is a very long way from the rest of Britain. Until the age of the railway, very few people ever went to the Highlands of Scotland....except soldiers or officials from the cities of the Scottish Lowlands. No-one else had any reason to go there: the North of Scotland was wild and desolate, wet and generally cold, and inhabited more by sheep than by people.
The myth became big news in 1930; three men, out in a boat on the lake, said that they had seen a monster. Immediately, several other people said that they had seen one too. In 1933, a man took the first "photo" of the monster, from a distance of about 100 metres. The photo was not clear, but Kodak said that the photo was real. The most famous photo of all was taken in 1934 by a London surgeon; it seems to show a long neck and a small head sticking up out of the water. "Nessie" - if the photo is real - looks something like a dinosaur.
A lot of other photos have been taken since then, but none of them have been clear. Obviously, if there is a monster, it is a shy one! It doesn't often come to the surface, and it never does so near the shore on a sunny afternoon in summer!
If it had done so, lots of people would have taken photos of it, and there would be no more mystery. Until now it has tried to avoid publicity.... if it exists!
In 1987, some people used sonar equipment to try to discover Nessie.... but they found.... nothing. So no-one has proved that the Loch Ness monster exists; but no-one can prove that it does not exist. It's a great story.

biographer: writer - legend : myth, old story - folklore : popular traditional stories - desolate: empty - inhabited: lived in - surgeon: a specialist doctor - shy : timid.

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However, the story the monster was not very well-known England one simple reason: Loch Ness is a very long way the rest Britain. Until the age the railway, very few people ever went the Highlands Scotland....except soldiers or officials the cities the Scottish Lowlands. No-one else had any reason go there: the North Scotland was wild and desolate, wet and generally cold, and inhabited more sheep than people.
The myth became big news 1930; three men, out a boat the lake, said that they had seen a monster. Immediately, several other people said that they had seen one too. 1933, a man took the first "photo" the monster, a distance about 100 metres. The photo was not clear, but Kodak said that the photo was real. The most famous photo all was taken 1934 a London surgeon; it seems show a long neck and a small head sticking the water. "Nessie" - if the photo is real - looks something like a dinosaur.

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