I Caught Ogopogo – A Whale of a Tale

September 19, 2009 by tdomf_a0502 · Leave a Comment

Last summer my father surprised the family by packing up the SUV with our camping gear, fishing poles and sleeping bags; then we headed to British Columbia for the week. We found a nice campground on Okanagan Lake. We spent most of the day setting up the camping area. I found amusement watching my father setup the tent. He had tent poles sicking up every which way, and because he forgot the hammer he had to use a tire crowbar to bang the tent stakes into the ground.

I went to gather firewood near the waters edge. I found a piece of drift wood up near the shore as I approached it I remember seeing the signs in town about some sort of monster that lived in the lake or something or another. I wasn’t scared I just was cautious as I grabbed the drift wood and started back to the camping site.

By then my father had the tent in place and had just finished setting up my own tent. It was blue and much smaller than the origional tent but I my sleeping bag fit and I still had some room to place my radio and such.

I got a good fire going and we cooked some hotdogs that we bought at the local gas station. We bought too many packages and because we had no refrigerator we went ahead and cooked all 2 packs of hot dogs. I was sick of hotdogs.

The next morning we were to go fishing. We just went into town to get some worms. Then headed out to the lake. I decided to do some fishing near where I had found a piece of drift wood the day before. The water looked calm and deep, and it was like a small cove or something. I popped the lid on my coke can and started drinking it. It was a little hot out so I put my hat on and listened to my ipod as I fished.

When I fish I am not in a hurry to catch anything, I figure I have bait and a bobber so that should do the trick. If a fish comes by then fine otherwise the bobber is just going to float around until it gets near shore if the wind happens to carry it. Which in my case was what kept happening so I decided to bottom fish without the bobber.

I casted out the line and reeled it in some so that the line was snug against my finger. The sun was in my eyes so I just looked down.
I was there about 10 minutes when a shadow appeared on the ground around me. I heard some splashing and looked up.

Ogopogo CaughtI couldn’t believe what I was seeing. “I saw a creature with a long neck and I could clearly make out flippers.” I was not more than 100 feet from this creature. It started to swim up back and forth catching my line in the process. My line started feeding from the fishing rod. The creature was about 20 feet long, not as big as I thought it was suppose to be. “It had something in its mouth. It continued to swim up and down a amazing speed for about 2 minutes then it dived under the water.

At this time my line was still feeding. I started to reel in the line when all the sudden the line just snapped. I looked out over the water looking to where the creature was. I slowly walked up to the shore, see I wasn’t scared I was just being cautious. I was about 1 foot from the water and continued to lookout into the water. I was looking really hard at where the creature was. I was still wondering what was going on or what I had seen. I scanned the open waters…but the creature was gone… perhaps it headed out to deeper water.

I never did catch a fish that day but I had one heck of a story to tell, not that anyone believes it.

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Embryonic Alien Found? What exactly is Cryptozoology?

September 18, 2009 by Captain Ahab · Leave a Comment

For many a years man has been searching for the missing link, hunting high and low across the planet. They have searched for the mythical ‘Big Foot’, the Loch Ness monster. We call these people Cryptozoologists, or those who study Cryptozoology.

But what is Cryptozoology? Where did the word come from?

The word is given to the science of hidden animals.

The word was first printed in 1959 in a book written by Lucien Biancou, a biologist. He wrote a book that was to praise the ‘master of cryptozoology’. However even Heuvelman wrote later that Ivan T. Sanderson a student was using the word Cryptozoology in writings back in 1947 and 1948.

embryonic-alienBenard Heuvelman was given much credit however for also writing the book in 1955 titled ‘On the Track of Unknown Animals’. The book written in French which is Benard native language. It was later written in english and other languages and soon became an international bestseller and has sold over one million copies and is in print through 1995.

Cryptozoology is the study of animals that are believed to exist but has yet to be proven. There have been many new species that are still yet discovered in recent years. In Feburary of 2009 scientists announced the discovery of 10 amphibians in Colombia’s mountains near Panama.

Many scientists refuse to accept the belief that the ‘hidden animals like Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster exist because the lack of evidence supporting them. However many Cryptozoologist’s still hang on to the belief that evidence will someday become available to give credibility to the science of Crpozoology.

The focus and goal of Crptozoology is to study unknown animal species that are also called ‘cryptids’.

Cryptozoology has no interest in unreal creatures. Instead it is the study of living creatures that might exist now or have existed once but are not yet known formally.

There is division among noted Cryptozoologists, some only want to study ‘cryptids’ that are likely to be unknown species while others try to have a broader definition. However, for the most part, Crypozoologists are mostly interested in creatures that look different from other known species.

Cryptozoology however by some standards was the way orignal animals were discovered.

Expeditions would be led to often unknown and new areas where they would document or capture and bring back to have them classified by a zoo or academia. But often their work would be dismissed or not recognized by anthropologists or zoologists and they would classify their work as pseudo-science due to the lack of documentation on their claims. For many, ‘the search for unknown animals’ was pure folly.

The study of “Hidden Animals’ carrys on. Much of our globe has many areas that have yet to be explored, but until the Crptozoologists make a more definite factual discover, the legend of the Big Foot and Loch Ness Monster will remain under scrutiny by most scientists. Will the big discovery every come true. Hard to say but the imagination and the dreamer of many hope so.

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Big Black Cat Sightings in the US – Fact or Fiction?

September 15, 2009 by Captain Ahab · Leave a Comment

I believe there are a lot more sightings of so called “black panthers” than you will ever get people to admit. But the few that have stepped forward have gotten the UFO crazy treatment or were just bluntly told that seeing a black panther was physically impossible.

Why are we so quick to dismiss the idea that big cats can migrate to different areas? Birds do it. Penguins migrate as well. And how about the dog that shows up at his owner’s home some 3 years later, finding exactly where they moved to 300 miles away? We eat that up like candy on a stick. So why can’t a cat relocate?

A black panther is not a specific breed. It could be a cougar, jaguar, puma or leopard. They all come in black. Sightings have been reported in almost every area of the United States, New York, North Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Texas and many of the western states. Maybe these panthers migrate to Canada in the summer and go back to Mexico in the winter. Who knows? But I find it hard to believe that hundreds of people in such a vast spread of our nation, are reporting sightings, even though they don’t exist.

A few black panthers even have names. Read on. . .

Palmer Ranch Panther

Palmer Ranch Panther

March 18, 2009

“I saw the Palmer Ranch panther last week. It was about 4 feet long. . . plus a long tail. It was 2 ½ feet high. It ran in front of the car and behind a home.”
You can see the Palmer Ranch panther a displayed in this article.
Out of reading hundreds and hundreds of stories on black panther sightings in the United States, this has to be my favorite. . .

June 23, 2008

“I’ve been holding back on this subject for some time now. Fact is, I have personally seen at least 20 cougars in Southern Illinois and around 10 black panthers. I’ve heard them scream hundreds of times. For something that doesn’t exist, they sure do get around! Everyone around here knows they are here, its common knowledge. Most likely they won’t tell anyone other than close friends in fear of riticule.  Many wildlife biologists I have spoken to keep to the party line that these big cats simply don’t exist in the United States.   In my book they are a bunch of educated fools.   These big cats aren’t making a comeback, they never left to begin with.  They could at this very moment be passing through your back yard as they have been spotted both during the day and late at night.

I read a post somewhere that described the opinion that these cats are visitors from some  occult and believe that these awesome cats are actually evil spirits sent here to give us a message.  I don’t even want to go there.  Rather it is easier just to examine the evidence.  These cats exist, they are small in numbers but it is funny how animals can somehow find each other over a larger area.  It only takes 2 to keep the species going.  In upstate NY the deer are abundant and sufficient enough to sustain several large cats if they live in the same woods, not to mention stray dogs and cats roaming around.

I believe that there are big cats roaming throughout the United States just keeping to themselves, trying to make the best of their environment, like a lot of other animals. They don’t bother us and we don’t bother them. By the way, I have a cougar in my woods but don’t tell anyone.  Sometimes in the winter, he comes up in my yard, just to have a peek then disappears. Of course my friend, the environmentalist, says I’m wrong.

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