August 1, 2025 • 61 mins
Did the dinosaur die off or are there still giant creatures running around our planet? could man and dinosaur have lived side by side, and maybe a few folks rode them? Here are some things to think about when it comes to our planet.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Are you Are you coming to the truth? Well, Shungama
who says she murdered True Jonge, things have happened that
no stone, Mamma holling truth.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Chris James. Dinosaurs
died out because they didn't have access to good coffee.
Drinking that black goo they called coffee led to their demise.
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be a brontosaurus when you can be a t rex?
When I was growing up, some dinosaurs had different names.
The Brontosaurus name meant thunder lizard from the Greek word
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bronte or thunder and saurus meaning lizard. The boys in
the White Lab Coats got all excited one night after
drinking some bad coffee, and they decided, let's call the
brontosaurus by a new name. The Appatosaurus. The biggest animal
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ever to walk the earth were the long necked, long
tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods, and most famous of these
giants was the Brontosaurus. Some guy in a lab somewhere
wanted to make a name for himself and began writing
letters decrying the thunder lizard in favor of the deceptive lizard.
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That's what a patosaurus means. Now some scientists want to
start calling the biggest animal the brontosaurus once again. All
this renaming things is getting out of hand. Aunt Jemima
was a real person who made really good pancakes. If
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you read nineteen eighty four, you might understand what's going on.
What we learn in school is sometimes and unfortunately this
is a lot of times not correct. Most of what
we learned about World War II is what one man,
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Henry Ford, wanted us to learn. He paid a bunch
of cash to Congress to be granted the exclusive right
to tell the world what had happened. Columbus wasn't even
a footnote in history until the founding Fathers wanted to
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eliminate King George's claim to the colonies. Most of Europe
knew the world was round in eighteen twenty eight, Washington
Irving highly romanticized a story called The History of the
Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, turning this little known
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explorer into the guy who made America great the first time.
Now that's why it's named after him. I was told
all the dinosaurs died off because of that meteorite chick
Salube that hit the Yucatan Peninsula. Well it's Yukatan, but
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it's spelled Yukatan or was it a comet? The boys
in the white lab coats can't even agree on which
kind of space thingy it was. I watched those movies
back in school showing dinosaurs all walking through a dried
out landscape, slowly dying off one by one. Kind of
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depressing to see that kind of thing when you're a
little kid, tongues hanging out, eyes rolling up in their heads,
regardless of the impact type. All the huge lizards that
weren't really lizards but there were reptiles died off, leaving
room for mammals to grow something kind of fish like.
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Sat on the edge of the beach looking up at
a palm tree, wondering how would a coconut taste? So
it dashed up onto the shore and the next thing
we see in the film or a bunch of monkeys
that eventually turned into cavemen sitting around a fire. Seeing
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as my dad had told me that God had created
man and the fish into monkey into humans. Story was
a lie. I was somewhat confused in school. It's a
bad fea to argue with your teachers, I found out.
As for all of those dead dinosaurs, they turned into oil,
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fossil fuel they call it. John Rockefeller came up with
the term fossil fuels to add to the idea that
oil was in limited supply and thus he could charge
a lot of money since one day it would run out.
Have they been telling us that oil is going to
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run on for about the last hundred years now? According
to the fact checkers, this is not true. It's funny
how before the truth began to seep out there weren't
any fact checkers. We are to believe that huge meteorite
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comet thing killed off all the dinosaurs, Yet birds and
mammals survived. The crocodile and snakes managed to live because
they were better adapted at living. There are some scientists
who tell us that birds evolved into dinosaurs or from dinosaurs.
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I should say, now, I kind of know that birds
have those weird three toad feet. They kind of look
like they have scales, But how do you get a
woodpecker from a stagosaurus. Okay, I'm being a bit no
a lot obtuse here, but some of their theories are
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kind of weird. The concept of evolution is anchored in
the belief that God doesn't exist. This way people can
go around being total dicks without the Ten Commandments, saying, well,
that's just made up. The State of Tennessee versus John
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Thomas Scopes, also known as the Scopes Trial or the
Scopes Monkey Trial, was a legal case in nineteen twenty
five in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was
accused of violating the Butler Act, which outlawed the teaching
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of human evolution in a public school. Keep in mind,
evolution is just a theory, zero proof it ever happened.
Folks with an agenda pushed the case forward. April fifth,
nineteen twenty five, George Rappalaya, the local manager for the
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Cumberland Coal and Our Oil Company, arranged a meeting with
the county Superintendent of schools, Walter White, and local attorney
Sue Hicks in Dayton, convincing them that the controversy of
such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity. Replia
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Repeliah said, as it is, the law is not enforced.
If you win, it will be enforced. If I win,
the law will be repealed. Either way, it will give
the area a boost in publicity, which could lead to
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final financial gain for those of us involved. They summoned
a twenty four year old John Scopes, a Dayton High
School science and math teacher. The group asked Scopes, who
had substituted for the regular biology teacher, to admit to
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teaching the theory of evolution, even though he hadn't urged
students to testify against him coaching them. In their testimony,
the jury found Scopes guilty. The case went to the
Supreme Court, where it was overturned due to a technicality.
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Nineteen fifty eight, during the height of the Cold War,
the National Defense Education Act was passed with the encouragement
of many legislators who feared the United States education system
was falling behind those Ruskies of the Soviet Union. The
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act yielded to textbooks produced in cooperation with the American
Institute of Biological Sciences, which stressed the importance of evolution
as the unifying principle of biology. All that God talk
was scaring them. Today, a lot of people think man
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evolved from apes because that's what science told us. Only
some science. But who wants to get bogged down in details.
Science says dinosaurs died off millions of years before that
fish turned into a monkey, that turned into a man.
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People have found tracks of what looked like a man
and a dinosaur walking along the same trail. I wonder
who was hunting who. The mud they both stepped in
dried and was preserved over the years. A large number
of fossilized human tracks have been found in various locations
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around the world. Some of these show the coexistence of
men and dinosaurs at the same time. The Piluxi River
base and in Glen Rose, Texas, is the location of
Dinosaur Valley State Park. Many dinosaur tracks have been found
along the river and a large number have been excavated
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to preserve them from erosion. There have also been human
tracks found in this same rock layer. The Piluxi Icono
fossils or trace fossils were considered by creationists to be
evidence men and dinosaurs coexisted. In the nineteen eighties, John
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Morris wrote Tracking those Incredible Dinosaurs and the People that
knew them. This was followed by the film Footprints in Stone,
produced by Stan Taylor. Evolutionists argued the human footprints were
merely in law ungated dinosaur footprints. You know, those those
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three toad dinosaurs, but these had five. The Sapata track,
which is very much a human footprint, was found in
the Permian limestone in New Mexico. The Permian is thought
to be over twenty two hundred and fifty million years old.
The trouble some croationists run into is their literal interpretation
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of the Bible. God created the heavens and the earth
in six days. What is the day based on? Since
there was no earth revolving around the sun to make
a twenty four hour day, we don't know how long
God's day might have been. I've known of some folks
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who set up late counting and adding up the days
in the Bible, and they came up with forty two No, no,
they came up with around six thousand years. When asked
about the dinosaurs, they said This was a hoax perpetrated
by the devil to make evolution believable. I think there
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were dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden, but that's just
my thought. All I can say as to how long
the earth has been here and man on it, I
don't know, and I don't really care. I believe God
created all of us, but I sometimes imagine he's up
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there saying to himself, why did I do that? We
visited the Arc Encounter back in twenty eighteen. We were
expecting a pretty cool place, but it was a lot
bigger and a lot cooler than I had thought. Life size,
you could say, to add to the fun, It rained
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like mad on the drive up to Kentucky, I mean buckets.
We both laughed about it being somewhat appropriate. Once at
the park, we could see the boat or the ship
or the vessel on top of a small hill. As
we drove towards it, it kept getting bigger. That thing
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was huge. The folks who built it went to a
lot of trouble to make it as accurate as they could.
The lower floor is filled with containers for food and water.
There needed to be enough food and water to keep
the humans and the animals alive. If the big cats
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decided they were hungry and nothing was being delivered, they
might have simply served themselves. The bigger animals were down
there as well, since building a huge ramp to get
them up higher was difficult and kind of out of
the question. The second and third floor held most of
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the smaller animals. Inside some of the cages you would
see what looked like small dinosaur. Some people were upset
to be told there may have been dinosaur on the Ark.
Why not? God brought two of every kind of land
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vertebrate to Noah to put aboard the Ark. Dinosaurs don't
pop into being full sized one day. That would have
been kind of hard on their mothers. Seeing as God
created everything, he created the dinosaurs as well. The only
reason dinosaurs wouldn't have been on the Ark as if
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they had died out long before the flood, which there
is too much evidence showing that they hadn't. The Bible
doesn't say there were dinosaurs. It also doesn't say anything
about most animals. I've heard some ask why there were
no unicorns. The earliest recorded description of unicorns made them
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sound more like rhinoceros. To stop and think that horse
with the curly horn as seen in the movie Legends
and think short legs, thick plated skin, one horn growing
from the center of their muzzle. The Meister print was
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found in Utah within a block of Chambrian shale, a
child's footprint that was so clear that threads on the
sandals were visible to the naked eye. The footprint contains
a trilobyte fossil, as if the kid had stepped on it,
sing it into the mud. A fossil footprint was found
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in Kentucky of a human track left in sandstone of
the Upper Carboniferous period. Numerous scientists have investigated these tracks,
and they have concluded they are genuine. How long has
man been on Earth? Does it really matter? Is your
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faith so weak? Any kind of discrepancy in time will
make you dive headfirst into evolution and make you become
a godless troll. Maybe you need to work on it
a little bit, some folks say, But it says in
the Bible. Have you read the original scrolls for yourself?
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All those people translating and retranslating may have left out
a few details. T us. We haven't found all of
the Dead Sea scrolls yet. Let us ignore all of
the thousands of years or millions of years debate, and
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get on with our life and do what Jesus told
us to do. A new study concludes that human ancestors
survived that asteroid or meteorite impact that killed all the dinosaurs.
New insight into the timeline of animal evolution are rocking
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the scientific community. Scientists are baffled, as John Edwards would say,
some scientists are saying there were a few human ancestors
living amongst the dinosaurs, but once the meteorite comet thing hit,
humans became the dominant species. If scientists admit humans lived
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amongst the dinosaurs, then why can't there be paintings and
pictographs and carvings showing dinosaurs and maybe humans together. In
the nineteen sixties, a local farmer, Basilio Uscoya, was selling
rocks that he had found in caves and gorges near
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the city of Ika, Peru. These stones are composed of
andesite and very in size, from pebbles to boulders. They
were engraved with a variety of images, including carvings of humans,
advanced medical procedures, advanced technological instruments such as telescopes and
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flying machines, animals, dinosaurs, and even humans riding on dinosaurs.
Over the years, he had acquired thousands of these stones. Eventually,
archaeological community heard of these stones and they began to investigate.
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The farmer was arrested and confined by the government of
Peru for selling national treasures, and upon his release, he
recanted his testimony and said he made those himself. This
was probably under duress. He probably wanted to stay out
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of jail. If he made him himself, they couldn't arrest
him because he was just selling his own artwork. If
they were actual, honest to God archaeological artifacts, then I
can see it. But they did arrest him. Nineteen sixty six,
Peruvian physician Javier Cabrera Dorkia was presented with a stone
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that had a carved picture of what Cabrera believed to
be an extinct fish. Cabrera's father had begun a collection
of similar stones in the nineteen thirties, and based on
his interest in Peruvian prehistory, Cabrera began collecting also. He
initially purchased about three hundred from two brothers who also
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collected pre Incan artifacts, and who said they had unsuccessfully
attempted to interest archaeologists in them. Cabrera later found another
source of these stones, a farmer named Basilio Uscare. Yeah,
that guy who sold him thousands more. Doctor Cabrera had
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asked the farmer where he had found these stones, and
the farmer was somewhat evasive, maintaining that he had made
him himself. He was afraid of going back to jail.
Probably it had been determined by some that he was
coerced into his confession. A total of about fifteen thousand
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stones have been recovered. The bulk of these are stored
at the Ica Stones Museum in Peru. These ancient stones
have a varnish over them that is formed over hundreds
of thousands of years. When the varnish is removed, the
lighter color appears. When the carving on the stones were examined,
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it was found that the carvings themselves had this same
varnish on them as well, indicating that the carvings also
were ancient in origin. Because of the vast number of
these stones, it would be very difficult impossible for one
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individual to fabricate all of them in a short time.
Remember the Dare stones, The first one is probably genuine,
but the others were carved for money. The most convincing
evidence these stones are genuine is the discovery of more
of these stones under a house that was built in
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the nineteen twenties. Engraved as stones were first recorded in
the region by a Jesuit missionary, Pedro Sinone, who had
accompanied Pizarro to Peru in fifteen twenty five, and examples
were sent to Spain in fifteen sixty two. Additionally, stones
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dug up in the fifties and sixties have images of
Brontosaurus or Apatosaurus with the correct head shape. It wasn't
until nineteen seventy nine that it was revealed that the
scientific a community that paleontologists had been using the wrong
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skull for the dinosaur. There have been sightings and reports
of monstrous creatures seen all over the world. In Africa,
they have giant creatures who names mean one who stops
the flow of rivers. In the canopies and winding waterways
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of the Congo River basin. People report seeing mokelli Imbembe,
described by those who have seen it and lived to
tell it bears a resemblance to a suropod. The witnesses
talk about the long, sinuous neck rising from the water
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with a small head. The body is a colossal barrel
shaped mass. It has a tail that is almost as
long as the head and body combined. Many folks believed
Mochilium bembe is a living remnant of the past that
simply refused to die off like all the other dinosaurs
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were said to have done. Mochilium bembe is smart enough
to avoid humans. Any sounds of people working or traveling
near the river is said to drive the creature away.
Since sound travels fastest in the water, the creature has
an advantage when it comes to who knows who is nearby.
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If the creature isn't able to or decides not to flee,
it can be a nasty thing to encounter. Mochilium bembe
has a short fuse and a nasty temper. Locals hold
the creature in reverence, almost taking on the place of
a god. A friend of mine, John Kirk, with the
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British Columbian Scientific Cryptozoology Club, traveled to the Congo to
see if his team could find the creature back in
November of twenty twelve. The expedition didn't find the creature,
but it was weary of humans and probably hid the
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Emmela Untunka Ntouka. Emmela Intunka is reported as living in
lakes in the Congo. It has four sturdy legs, its
grayish hairless skin, and is a little bigger than an elephant.
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It has a single, large white horn in the center
of its forehead. It has a single I just said that.
It swims through the water with a powerful tail shaped
like that of a crocodile. Its name comes from the
aggressive habits. Though it eats plants, it is so irritable
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that it will attack other large animals and kill them,
just like the hippo. Near the border of Angola and Zimba, Zambia.
I almost said Zimbabwe. Try that again. Near the border
of Angola and Zombia, there is a similar beast called
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the Chippickway. The chippiquay is said to live in the
Lake Bangzwelu, Lake Mumueru, Cafuo, Swamps, de Lallo Marshes and
the Lukulu River, as well as a number of other
aquatic habitats. It is quite rare, an animal that even
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the natives seldom see, but it is supposed to be
a real flesh and blood creature, not a supernatural being.
It resembles a dinosaur and an phoceros and an elephant
all at the same time. It prefers to remain in
the water most of its life, thus qualifying as a
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lake monster. Thepui Wei chippekui has a single white horn
or tusk made of ivory, and its skin is dark.
Usually described as elephant like, the chippekui has also been
described as a giant lizard, but this is clearly describing
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a different animal than the classic chippek wi. The question
of whether there's a giant lizard in Africa should be
kept separate from the question of whether there's an aquatic
dinosaur rhinobeast with a single horn. The Muhuru is a
cryptid reported from the Jungles of Kenya. Missionary cal Bombay
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and his wife made the first report of the creature
nineteen sixty three. Mister and Missus Bombay were driving in
the Great Rift Valley when they noticed a large creature
laying on its side. It was seven to nine feet
long with a row of triangular ridges on its back.
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Its face kind of resembled an alligator. The two were
able to observe this creature for about ten minutes. The
creature sometimes described as having a hammer or a club
like tail with spikes. This would be something called a
Fogamizer after the late Fog Simmons, as seen in Gary
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Larson comics. The bizarre armor plated, club tailed creature is
said to dwell deep within the impenetrable jungles of West Africa,
and there are some who have speculated that it's a
twenty first century example of a living dinosaur. Although there's
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not much in the way of photographic or biological evidence
regarding this unusual animal's existence, the general consensus among cryptozoologist
researchers is that the muhuru is yet another Jurassic relic.
Lungubu is a surviving ceratopsian like cryptid in the Savannah
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region of Cameroon. It is said to have six horns
and fights elephants for their land. Despite it having a
smaller size, this creature is about the size of an ox.
November two thousand, William Gibbons did some preliminary research in
Cameroon for a future Meculium bembe expedition. He was accompanied
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by David Wetzel while visiting with a group of pigmies,
they were informed about an animal called the ungoombu. Although
in goombo is also a local word for rhinoceros, the
Pigmies assert this was not a rhinoceros. It has six
horns and a frill just behind its head. The father
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of one of the senior members of the community said
he had killed one of these creatures with a spear
several years earlier. The locals had noted there was a
decline in the population of these animals, making them harder
to find. Gibbons identified the animal as being a sty
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a striasaurus, but these are currently only known to have
inhabited North America. It might be related to the Emela intaca,
but this animal is single horned. They don't use enough
vowels in some of these African names. Africa has a
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lot of places for dinosaurs to have lived without running
into folks who have a self appointed authority to say
that they exist. Just because people with letters behind their
names haven't seen them doesn't make them extinct. In April
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twenty and eleven, a woman was walking along West Davis
Street in Hebronville, Texas as she was coming to Rondado Road.
This is as far as the street goes, as well
as the edge of town. She spotted a dust cloud
over the trees ahead. It was about five forty five
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PM and the sun was nearing the horizon. She noticed
the dust cloud was getting close to the side of
the road. It didn't looked like some cattle would have
made It must have been some really fast moving animal
still walking. She glanced at the dust a few times
until something came into view. About forty feet away was
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a two and a half foot tall dinosaur. Not just
any dinosaur, but a t rex. The creature kept running
as it passed by on the opposite side of Rundado Road.
It was running on two legs with its tail stretched
out behind the skin was a reddish brown color. Standing
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there staring at something that shouldn't be there. The witness
was at a loss to explain what she had seen.
I worked in Hebronville many times during my time in
the Border Patrol. I drove up and down Rundado Road
a lot, especially after hearrying about those dinosaur sightings. Several
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people I met while working had suggested I should find
either the dinosaur or at least its tracks. The field
across from Davis Street is open with just small brush
growing here and there. Ranchers in the area complain about
cattle that go missing without any trace and where or
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how they disappeared. Maybe they're on the menu for the
local dinosaur. Another woman saw what sounded like the same
creature running across the main street in town. It was
illuminated by several cars headlights as it went by. People
were all staring at it, then at each other as
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if to ask, did you see that thing too? In
December twenty twelve, a person reported seeing a pair of
dinosaurs in foul Fears, about eighteen miles east of Hebronville.
The description is about the same People have also seen
dinosaurs running around in outside of McAllen and across the
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river in Mexico. In Falfurius, Texas, a couple of kids
that saw a pair of dinosaurs running along the road
that same year. These had big heads, they stood on
two legs, had long tapering tails, and small front legs
that kind of looked useless. The burun Jor, also known
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as the burunnosaur, is an Australian dinosaur cryptid that resembles
the theropod we know as t rex, but maybe a
descendant of the mega raptorids like the astroloventor the mega raptor,
or simply the raptor. But it also could be a
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dinosaur that has so far not appeared in the fossil record.
The Barrunjur is described as being a giant lizard according
to aboriginal stories based on the sightings in its twenty
to twenty five foot long has small clawed hands. It
is bipedal in nature. Throughout the nineteen fifties, Australian cattle
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ranchers reported a large creature leaving bipedal tracks and it
was eating their livestock. Also earlier aboriginal accounts suggest that
this reptile animal possibly had feathers whose diet consisted of
kangaroo and other large animals. If it was not for
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the bipedal footprint findings, the Barungjur could have been mistaken
for a Magliania maggollion yeah Megalanian, the prehistoric giant monitor
lizard that lived in the area more recently, based on
the aboriginal description Megalania, but that then traveled on fore legs.
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The last sighting of the Barunjur happened in nineteen eighty
five when a family was traveling to Roper River and
they reported seeing a twenty foot long monster covered in feathers.
Another report tells of a man named Brian Clark who
went into the woods and got lost sometime nineteen seventy eight.
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After the alarm was raised, he was tracked by the
police and two Aboriginal bushmen. The trackers woke up one
night a sound of loud, thunderous sound and the ground shaking.
After finding the wayward traveler, the police old man if
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he ever went back into the woods and got lost,
they were not coming to look for him. Some think
the sound was the stompings of the barunjor. However, a
light footed theropod dinosaur would not crash around the undergrowth
in this manner. Despite what certain movies would have the
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public believe, there have been no sightings of this creature
in more than thirty years. At least nobody has come
forward with one. What with all the ridicule that folks
have gotten. Once they do report a sighting, who can
say that we're surprised. This has led to many to
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think that if it once existed, it has since become extinct,
but no remains have ever been found. More recently, the
Barungjur has been one of the several living dinosaurs to
be held up by proponents of Young Earth creationism. As
evidence of their belief, people have managed to make casts
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of huge three toed tracks, some nearly three feet long
and wide. The Australian bush is so vast with no visitors,
that all kinds of beasts may be hidden out there.
Cryptosologist Jonathan Whitcomb, author of the book Modern Pterosaurs, published
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an article about these creatures, including pterodactyle sightings in North Carolina.
He commented, my associates and I believe that these are
non extinct terosaurs what many people would call pterodactyls or
flying dinosaurs. Cynthia Lee was studying to become a veterinarian technician,
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and she reported to come a terosaur sighting that she
had in January in Raleigh. She was sure that the
flying creature had no feathers, but it did have a
long tail with a diamond shaped ball, but the end
it also looked like it had a headcrest. Many paleontologists
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say the pterosaurs were covered with feathers As time went by,
they became modern day birds. Lee was on her way
to work when she saw the same crested creature out
the window. The driver of the car did not see it.
Cynthia said she was not the only member of her
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family to see flying dinosaurs. She said her mother and
uncle had also seen one while they were playing outside
her grandmother's house when they were little. They told their grandmother,
but she, of course didn't believe them. Cynthia no longer
believes that they are all extinct, and now that she
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has seen one for herself. In Charlotte, North Carolina, a
man and his cousin saw something he immediately said was
a dragon. He looked closer and he decided no, this
was a flying dinosaur, a pterodactyl. The man said it
looked like what he had seen in the Jurassic Park movie. Asheville,
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North Carolina, a lady saw a huge, black winged creature
flying very low over her car. It had no feathers,
but sharp edges like creatures. And Jacksonville, North Carolina, an
eyewitness saw something huge flying in the sky. It looked
like a pale, greenish white, smooth the skinned creature. It
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didn't appear to have any feathers, and it had a
tail with a dia in shape on the end. North
Carolina is considered by many cryptosologists to be one of
America's seven pterosaur hot spots. Witcim also wrote an extensive
article in Live Oh Boy, Liveterosaurs dot Com which included
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several additional North Carolina sightings. For fifty dollars, you can
buy a drone that looks like a pterosaur. It looks
a lot like one. The drone also makes enough noise
if you listen, you can hear it flying. If you
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spot a flying dinosaur, look close to see if it
has any rotors on it, and listen for the buzzing sound.
If you don't hear a buzzing sound, you just might
be seeing a real dinosaur. Matt Cartmil, Professor emeritus of
evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, said there is not that
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it is not impossible for there to be living pterosaurs today.
The Arika monster is said to be a large surviving
member of the Dramasaurides that inhabited the vast Atacama Desert
in Chile. It has been described as looking like a
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cross between a dramasaur and a kangaroo. Various motorists driving
the main road linking Akike and Arica have reported a
six foot tall, sharp toothed, bipedal dinosaur crossing the road
in front of them or running alongside them. Once the
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creature has moved on, it leaves behind three toed footprints
stick of that of a primitive dinosaur. It kind of
looks like an emu or a kangaroo. In some instances,
it is described as a dinosaur like bird. Two thousand
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and four, several members of a large family saw what
they described as a bunch of dog faced kangaroo like
creatures that ran around their vehicle as they made their
way to Aika, Arica. Several times in two thousand and four,
other people reported seeing these creatures. Sometimes it would be
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one by itself, and other times it would be an
entire group. There are many possibilities of what this animal
could be. It could be a living type of dramasaur,
or possibly some of the other unique prehistoric fauna that
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lived in South America, such as the Forosocus. The Foressocus
is an extinct genus of giant, flightless terror birds that
inhabited Argentina during the Miocene era. Forasaccus was one of
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the dominant land predators in South America at the time
of its existence. Since the Atacama Desert is so vast
and it can barely supply of very few animals that
live there, most people say it was just a hoax.
Others say there could be some unknown creature or maybe
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several living around the edges of the desert that venture
into the wasteland on occasion. The Eureka monster was first
spotted in the Atacama Desert in Chile in nineteen eighty.
Witnesses describe it as running with a kangaroo like bipedal monster.
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The sightings have occurred by people who were traveling by
car on different days through the remote road that links
the cities of Erique and Ikike, some twelve hundred and
forty miles north of Santiago, Chile. The newspapers in these
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cities collect recent accounts from the citizens who claim to
have seen this rare creature. In addition, a military officer
named Hernan Quavis says he spotted two of these beasts
while traveling with two other adults and two children in
a vehicle he was quoted as seeing a huge beast
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much like a two legged dinosaur with huge thick thighs.
I think I used to work with a guy that
sounded like that. They described the animal as being exactly
like a raptor from Jurassic Park. In this case, it's
said to be a living dramasoriitis. This particular desert is
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of great interest in itself, as it is considered the
driest place on the surface of our planet, although water
can be found in if you know where to look.
South America has provided us with fossils from the Jurazic
and Crustaceous periods, and Chile is of no exception. Could
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there be an ancient species that somehow managed to survive
extinction and now is living on in this inhospitable area.
In August eighteen ninety one, the Los Angeles Herald carried
the following story. Hunters north of Bakersfield told people in
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Fresno they had seen not one, but two giant flying
reptiles else while out in the field, described as monstrosities
that were half bird, half alligator. The creatures had swooped
on the hunters, snapping their jaws and making sounds like
that of a swan, but these were no swan. A
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swan will snap its beak as it comes at you.
They also make a lot of noise. If you've never
been attacked by a swan, you don't know what you're missing.
In nineteen oh eight, two associates of the British Museum
were hunting for fossils in a cave near Malibu Ranch
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when they were driven off by huge flying creature described
as half bat, half reptile, and it resembled a living pterodactyl.
The creature escaped into the mountains towards the desert. Even today,
folks have reported seeing pterodactyl flying out in the des
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the last few years. Any sightings will be questionable since
you can buy the drone that looks like a flying dinosaur,
but remember listen for the motor sounds. Someday I want
to visit the Big Bend National Park, spend at least
a week or two there and see what all is
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there to be seen. It's only four hundred and twenty
two miles one way. That's closer than Jefferson and I've
been there many times. There are hiking trails all over
the place, hundreds of native species of plants not seen
in other parts of our country, and there are dinosaurs.
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The Mountain Boomer has been seen by visitors to the park.
The boomer stands five to five and a half feet tall,
is covered in greenish brown skin, and he runs on
two legs. It's called the mountain boomer because it produces
a bark like distant thunder. This monster, described as a
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theropod dinosaur, lives in the remote mountainous regions. There's a
smaller version of the mountain boomer that only stands about
two feet tall. It's called the Eastern colored lizard. In
the nineteen seventies, a Texas man in the Big Bend
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area reported that his car had been run off the
road by a theropod dinosaur. In early nineteen ninety, a
person said he encountered a similar dinosaur eating roadkill. He
saw the monster in the distance as he was driving.
He was certain what he was looking at, but when
the car approached, the dinosaur turned and ran off. UFO
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researcher Jimmy Ward wrote about Mountain Boomer in an article
by the same name. He interviewed a Connecticut family that
was traveling through Texas that saw an enormous lizard with
heavy back legs small front legs that looked like it
came from the movie Jurassic Park. Two men were transporting
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a car to Presidio. They had it on a car
carrier attached to the rear of their pickup. As they
were passing the small cliff face, they saw a huge
bird flying from the rocks. It was massive and the
two just stared at it. It was joined by a second,
huge flying creature. As they drew closer, the pair could
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make out details. These creatures didn't have any feathers, but
skin like a lizard. These were not birds, but flying
dinosaurs pterodactyl. The two creatures glided along the sky, heading
towards the river. Jurassic Park was a cool movie, so
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they made twenty more. Hollywood can't seem to come up
with any new ideas, so they just keep churning out
sequels and remakes until folks simply stopped buying tickets. We
saw Jurazaic Park at the theater. When the lawyer Donald
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Gennaro played by Martin Ferrero, was eaten by the t rex,
the audience cheered, Okay, he wasn't that likable of a character. Naturally,
some folks began to ask when, if ever, were the
boys in the white lab coats going to clone dinosaur.
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The scientist guys say this can't be done because they
don't have any DNA from dinosaurs to do the deed.
I'm sure they would tell us if they did. The
long dead wooly mammoth will be making its return from
extinction sometime in twenty twenty seven. That's only two years away. Colossal,
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the biotech company actively working to reincarnate the ancient beast,
is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company says that they
have labs, but I'm not too sure where they're located.
I couldn't find any exact details. Just because they think
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they know what they're doing doesn't mean they do. What
possible use is there for a twelve foot tall, eight
ton herd of sort of kind of elephants. Are they
planning to keep them in zoos? If so, that is
going to call lost an arm and a leg just
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to feed them. Do they plan to release them into
the wild where unsuspecting campers might just get smashed as
the herd walks through their camp. How about the impact
this is going to have on any place that these
giants turn up. Colossal scientists have already created three dire
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wolf pups by using ancient DNA cloning and gene editing
technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf. Just
what the planet needs, giant killer wolves who have no
known enemies. Doctor Malcolm from Jurassic Park said, now I
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can't do his voice. Your scientists were so preoccupied with
whether or not they could they didn't stop to think
if they should. Jeff Goldbloom had all the best lines
in the movie The Boys in White. Think they have
thought of every possible danger and installed safeguards like that
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leak back in twenty twenty. Of course, a lot of
folks say it wasn't really a leak. Hunters aren't going
to want to get in on some of this action.
The government will come out with extraordinarily expensive hunting licenses
for wooly mammoth, and there will be restaurants. I can
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just imagine the size of a mammoth burger makes me
hungry just thinking about it. There are people in our
world who have bizarre ideas. They want what they want,
when they want it, and they don't care who gets
hurt by what they want to do. Somewhere there is
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some person with way too much money who wants his
own pet dinosaur, a t rex, or maybe a couple
of velosco raptors. Like how Pablo Escobar decided he needed
a couple of hippos. It was that day before Christmas,
and his men heard him singing, I don't want a
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hippopotamus for Christmas, and they thought he was being serious.
Some super rich crime lord or dispot in some far
off country is good to decide he or she simply
has to have a dinosaur. How many times do we
hear about private zoos that have lost a couple of
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their animals, or they discover that the cost far outpaces
their income, so instead of selling off their illegal animals,
they just turn them loose. Let nature handle this minor problem.
Once a science has been developed, it cannot be undeveloped.
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You can't put the genie back in the lamp. Governments
will pass legislation regulating dinosaur development, which will only affect
the folks who obey the law. It's going to get
exciting out there. Folks. Hope you enjoyed tonight's show. If
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somebody asked me the other day how come I always
say until next Saturday? And I got to wondering about it.
I used to do the show a long time ago.
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Before I learned better. I would go over to the
Arkanassa studio. We would put the show out live. That's
why I don't care to edit out any mistakes. The
show was on at five o'clock Saturday afternoon every Saturday. Well,
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I got tired of not being able to control the
show quite you know, having to be there every Saturday,
that sort of thing. So I started to record the
show and then send it to Arkanassa and they would
put it out five o'clock on a Saturday. Well, one
thing led to another. The next thing, you know, my
show is being played on other platforms, but I'm still
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saying Saturdays. Let's just say until next time. This is
Chris James for Strange Things. Are you?
Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Are you coming to the tree where they strung up
a man who they said he murdered. Three strange things
have happened there. No stranger would it be if we
met at midnight in the hanging tree
Are you Are you coming to the truth? Well, Shungama
who says she murdered True Jonge, things have happened that
no stone, Mamma holling truth.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Chris James. Dinosaurs
died out because they didn't have access to good coffee.
Drinking that black goo they called coffee led to their demise.
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or at least you're sick of drink thanking substandard coffee,
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get there from there, check out Organicmancoffeetrike dot shop. Why
be a brontosaurus when you can be a t rex?
When I was growing up, some dinosaurs had different names.
The Brontosaurus name meant thunder lizard from the Greek word
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bronte or thunder and saurus meaning lizard. The boys in
the White Lab Coats got all excited one night after
drinking some bad coffee, and they decided, let's call the
brontosaurus by a new name. The Appatosaurus. The biggest animal
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ever to walk the earth were the long necked, long
tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods, and most famous of these
giants was the Brontosaurus. Some guy in a lab somewhere
wanted to make a name for himself and began writing
letters decrying the thunder lizard in favor of the deceptive lizard.
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That's what a patosaurus means. Now some scientists want to
start calling the biggest animal the brontosaurus once again. All
this renaming things is getting out of hand. Aunt Jemima
was a real person who made really good pancakes. If
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you read nineteen eighty four, you might understand what's going on.
What we learn in school is sometimes and unfortunately this
is a lot of times not correct. Most of what
we learned about World War II is what one man,
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Henry Ford, wanted us to learn. He paid a bunch
of cash to Congress to be granted the exclusive right
to tell the world what had happened. Columbus wasn't even
a footnote in history until the founding Fathers wanted to
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eliminate King George's claim to the colonies. Most of Europe
knew the world was round in eighteen twenty eight, Washington
Irving highly romanticized a story called The History of the
Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, turning this little known
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explorer into the guy who made America great the first time.
Now that's why it's named after him. I was told
all the dinosaurs died off because of that meteorite chick
Salube that hit the Yucatan Peninsula. Well it's Yukatan, but
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it's spelled Yukatan or was it a comet? The boys
in the white lab coats can't even agree on which
kind of space thingy it was. I watched those movies
back in school showing dinosaurs all walking through a dried
out landscape, slowly dying off one by one. Kind of
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depressing to see that kind of thing when you're a
little kid, tongues hanging out, eyes rolling up in their heads,
regardless of the impact type. All the huge lizards that
weren't really lizards but there were reptiles died off, leaving
room for mammals to grow something kind of fish like.
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Sat on the edge of the beach looking up at
a palm tree, wondering how would a coconut taste? So
it dashed up onto the shore and the next thing
we see in the film or a bunch of monkeys
that eventually turned into cavemen sitting around a fire. Seeing
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as my dad had told me that God had created
man and the fish into monkey into humans. Story was
a lie. I was somewhat confused in school. It's a
bad fea to argue with your teachers, I found out.
As for all of those dead dinosaurs, they turned into oil,
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fossil fuel they call it. John Rockefeller came up with
the term fossil fuels to add to the idea that
oil was in limited supply and thus he could charge
a lot of money since one day it would run out.
Have they been telling us that oil is going to
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run on for about the last hundred years now? According
to the fact checkers, this is not true. It's funny
how before the truth began to seep out there weren't
any fact checkers. We are to believe that huge meteorite
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comet thing killed off all the dinosaurs, Yet birds and
mammals survived. The crocodile and snakes managed to live because
they were better adapted at living. There are some scientists
who tell us that birds evolved into dinosaurs or from dinosaurs.
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I should say, now, I kind of know that birds
have those weird three toad feet. They kind of look
like they have scales, But how do you get a
woodpecker from a stagosaurus. Okay, I'm being a bit no
a lot obtuse here, but some of their theories are
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kind of weird. The concept of evolution is anchored in
the belief that God doesn't exist. This way people can
go around being total dicks without the Ten Commandments, saying, well,
that's just made up. The State of Tennessee versus John
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Thomas Scopes, also known as the Scopes Trial or the
Scopes Monkey Trial, was a legal case in nineteen twenty
five in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was
accused of violating the Butler Act, which outlawed the teaching
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of human evolution in a public school. Keep in mind,
evolution is just a theory, zero proof it ever happened.
Folks with an agenda pushed the case forward. April fifth,
nineteen twenty five, George Rappalaya, the local manager for the
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Cumberland Coal and Our Oil Company, arranged a meeting with
the county Superintendent of schools, Walter White, and local attorney
Sue Hicks in Dayton, convincing them that the controversy of
such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity. Replia
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Repeliah said, as it is, the law is not enforced.
If you win, it will be enforced. If I win,
the law will be repealed. Either way, it will give
the area a boost in publicity, which could lead to
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final financial gain for those of us involved. They summoned
a twenty four year old John Scopes, a Dayton High
School science and math teacher. The group asked Scopes, who
had substituted for the regular biology teacher, to admit to
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teaching the theory of evolution, even though he hadn't urged
students to testify against him coaching them. In their testimony,
the jury found Scopes guilty. The case went to the
Supreme Court, where it was overturned due to a technicality.
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Nineteen fifty eight, during the height of the Cold War,
the National Defense Education Act was passed with the encouragement
of many legislators who feared the United States education system
was falling behind those Ruskies of the Soviet Union. The
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act yielded to textbooks produced in cooperation with the American
Institute of Biological Sciences, which stressed the importance of evolution
as the unifying principle of biology. All that God talk
was scaring them. Today, a lot of people think man
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evolved from apes because that's what science told us. Only
some science. But who wants to get bogged down in details.
Science says dinosaurs died off millions of years before that
fish turned into a monkey, that turned into a man.
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People have found tracks of what looked like a man
and a dinosaur walking along the same trail. I wonder
who was hunting who. The mud they both stepped in
dried and was preserved over the years. A large number
of fossilized human tracks have been found in various locations
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around the world. Some of these show the coexistence of
men and dinosaurs at the same time. The Piluxi River
base and in Glen Rose, Texas, is the location of
Dinosaur Valley State Park. Many dinosaur tracks have been found
along the river and a large number have been excavated
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to preserve them from erosion. There have also been human
tracks found in this same rock layer. The Piluxi Icono
fossils or trace fossils were considered by creationists to be
evidence men and dinosaurs coexisted. In the nineteen eighties, John
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Morris wrote Tracking those Incredible Dinosaurs and the People that
knew them. This was followed by the film Footprints in Stone,
produced by Stan Taylor. Evolutionists argued the human footprints were
merely in law ungated dinosaur footprints. You know, those those
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three toad dinosaurs, but these had five. The Sapata track,
which is very much a human footprint, was found in
the Permian limestone in New Mexico. The Permian is thought
to be over twenty two hundred and fifty million years old.
The trouble some croationists run into is their literal interpretation
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of the Bible. God created the heavens and the earth
in six days. What is the day based on? Since
there was no earth revolving around the sun to make
a twenty four hour day, we don't know how long
God's day might have been. I've known of some folks
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who set up late counting and adding up the days
in the Bible, and they came up with forty two No, no,
they came up with around six thousand years. When asked
about the dinosaurs, they said This was a hoax perpetrated
by the devil to make evolution believable. I think there
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were dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden, but that's just
my thought. All I can say as to how long
the earth has been here and man on it, I
don't know, and I don't really care. I believe God
created all of us, but I sometimes imagine he's up
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there saying to himself, why did I do that? We
visited the Arc Encounter back in twenty eighteen. We were
expecting a pretty cool place, but it was a lot
bigger and a lot cooler than I had thought. Life size,
you could say, to add to the fun, It rained
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like mad on the drive up to Kentucky, I mean buckets.
We both laughed about it being somewhat appropriate. Once at
the park, we could see the boat or the ship
or the vessel on top of a small hill. As
we drove towards it, it kept getting bigger. That thing
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was huge. The folks who built it went to a
lot of trouble to make it as accurate as they could.
The lower floor is filled with containers for food and water.
There needed to be enough food and water to keep
the humans and the animals alive. If the big cats
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decided they were hungry and nothing was being delivered, they
might have simply served themselves. The bigger animals were down
there as well, since building a huge ramp to get
them up higher was difficult and kind of out of
the question. The second and third floor held most of
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the smaller animals. Inside some of the cages you would
see what looked like small dinosaur. Some people were upset
to be told there may have been dinosaur on the Ark.
Why not? God brought two of every kind of land
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vertebrate to Noah to put aboard the Ark. Dinosaurs don't
pop into being full sized one day. That would have
been kind of hard on their mothers. Seeing as God
created everything, he created the dinosaurs as well. The only
reason dinosaurs wouldn't have been on the Ark as if
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they had died out long before the flood, which there
is too much evidence showing that they hadn't. The Bible
doesn't say there were dinosaurs. It also doesn't say anything
about most animals. I've heard some ask why there were
no unicorns. The earliest recorded description of unicorns made them
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sound more like rhinoceros. To stop and think that horse
with the curly horn as seen in the movie Legends
and think short legs, thick plated skin, one horn growing
from the center of their muzzle. The Meister print was
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found in Utah within a block of Chambrian shale, a
child's footprint that was so clear that threads on the
sandals were visible to the naked eye. The footprint contains
a trilobyte fossil, as if the kid had stepped on it,
sing it into the mud. A fossil footprint was found
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in Kentucky of a human track left in sandstone of
the Upper Carboniferous period. Numerous scientists have investigated these tracks,
and they have concluded they are genuine. How long has
man been on Earth? Does it really matter? Is your
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faith so weak? Any kind of discrepancy in time will
make you dive headfirst into evolution and make you become
a godless troll. Maybe you need to work on it
a little bit, some folks say, But it says in
the Bible. Have you read the original scrolls for yourself?
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All those people translating and retranslating may have left out
a few details. T us. We haven't found all of
the Dead Sea scrolls yet. Let us ignore all of
the thousands of years or millions of years debate, and
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get on with our life and do what Jesus told
us to do. A new study concludes that human ancestors
survived that asteroid or meteorite impact that killed all the dinosaurs.
New insight into the timeline of animal evolution are rocking
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the scientific community. Scientists are baffled, as John Edwards would say,
some scientists are saying there were a few human ancestors
living amongst the dinosaurs, but once the meteorite comet thing hit,
humans became the dominant species. If scientists admit humans lived
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amongst the dinosaurs, then why can't there be paintings and
pictographs and carvings showing dinosaurs and maybe humans together. In
the nineteen sixties, a local farmer, Basilio Uscoya, was selling
rocks that he had found in caves and gorges near
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the city of Ika, Peru. These stones are composed of
andesite and very in size, from pebbles to boulders. They
were engraved with a variety of images, including carvings of humans,
advanced medical procedures, advanced technological instruments such as telescopes and
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flying machines, animals, dinosaurs, and even humans riding on dinosaurs.
Over the years, he had acquired thousands of these stones. Eventually,
archaeological community heard of these stones and they began to investigate.
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The farmer was arrested and confined by the government of
Peru for selling national treasures, and upon his release, he
recanted his testimony and said he made those himself. This
was probably under duress. He probably wanted to stay out
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of jail. If he made him himself, they couldn't arrest
him because he was just selling his own artwork. If
they were actual, honest to God archaeological artifacts, then I
can see it. But they did arrest him. Nineteen sixty six,
Peruvian physician Javier Cabrera Dorkia was presented with a stone
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that had a carved picture of what Cabrera believed to
be an extinct fish. Cabrera's father had begun a collection
of similar stones in the nineteen thirties, and based on
his interest in Peruvian prehistory, Cabrera began collecting also. He
initially purchased about three hundred from two brothers who also
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collected pre Incan artifacts, and who said they had unsuccessfully
attempted to interest archaeologists in them. Cabrera later found another
source of these stones, a farmer named Basilio Uscare. Yeah,
that guy who sold him thousands more. Doctor Cabrera had
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asked the farmer where he had found these stones, and
the farmer was somewhat evasive, maintaining that he had made
him himself. He was afraid of going back to jail.
Probably it had been determined by some that he was
coerced into his confession. A total of about fifteen thousand
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stones have been recovered. The bulk of these are stored
at the Ica Stones Museum in Peru. These ancient stones
have a varnish over them that is formed over hundreds
of thousands of years. When the varnish is removed, the
lighter color appears. When the carving on the stones were examined,
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it was found that the carvings themselves had this same
varnish on them as well, indicating that the carvings also
were ancient in origin. Because of the vast number of
these stones, it would be very difficult impossible for one
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individual to fabricate all of them in a short time.
Remember the Dare stones, The first one is probably genuine,
but the others were carved for money. The most convincing
evidence these stones are genuine is the discovery of more
of these stones under a house that was built in
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the nineteen twenties. Engraved as stones were first recorded in
the region by a Jesuit missionary, Pedro Sinone, who had
accompanied Pizarro to Peru in fifteen twenty five, and examples
were sent to Spain in fifteen sixty two. Additionally, stones
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dug up in the fifties and sixties have images of
Brontosaurus or Apatosaurus with the correct head shape. It wasn't
until nineteen seventy nine that it was revealed that the
scientific a community that paleontologists had been using the wrong
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skull for the dinosaur. There have been sightings and reports
of monstrous creatures seen all over the world. In Africa,
they have giant creatures who names mean one who stops
the flow of rivers. In the canopies and winding waterways
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of the Congo River basin. People report seeing mokelli Imbembe,
described by those who have seen it and lived to
tell it bears a resemblance to a suropod. The witnesses
talk about the long, sinuous neck rising from the water
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with a small head. The body is a colossal barrel
shaped mass. It has a tail that is almost as
long as the head and body combined. Many folks believed
Mochilium bembe is a living remnant of the past that
simply refused to die off like all the other dinosaurs
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were said to have done. Mochilium bembe is smart enough
to avoid humans. Any sounds of people working or traveling
near the river is said to drive the creature away.
Since sound travels fastest in the water, the creature has
an advantage when it comes to who knows who is nearby.
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If the creature isn't able to or decides not to flee,
it can be a nasty thing to encounter. Mochilium bembe
has a short fuse and a nasty temper. Locals hold
the creature in reverence, almost taking on the place of
a god. A friend of mine, John Kirk, with the
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British Columbian Scientific Cryptozoology Club, traveled to the Congo to
see if his team could find the creature back in
November of twenty twelve. The expedition didn't find the creature,
but it was weary of humans and probably hid the
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Emmela Untunka Ntouka. Emmela Intunka is reported as living in
lakes in the Congo. It has four sturdy legs, its
grayish hairless skin, and is a little bigger than an elephant.
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It has a single, large white horn in the center
of its forehead. It has a single I just said that.
It swims through the water with a powerful tail shaped
like that of a crocodile. Its name comes from the
aggressive habits. Though it eats plants, it is so irritable
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that it will attack other large animals and kill them,
just like the hippo. Near the border of Angola and Zimba, Zambia.
I almost said Zimbabwe. Try that again. Near the border
of Angola and Zombia, there is a similar beast called
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the Chippickway. The chippiquay is said to live in the
Lake Bangzwelu, Lake Mumueru, Cafuo, Swamps, de Lallo Marshes and
the Lukulu River, as well as a number of other
aquatic habitats. It is quite rare, an animal that even
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the natives seldom see, but it is supposed to be
a real flesh and blood creature, not a supernatural being.
It resembles a dinosaur and an phoceros and an elephant
all at the same time. It prefers to remain in
the water most of its life, thus qualifying as a
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lake monster. Thepui Wei chippekui has a single white horn
or tusk made of ivory, and its skin is dark.
Usually described as elephant like, the chippekui has also been
described as a giant lizard, but this is clearly describing
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a different animal than the classic chippek wi. The question
of whether there's a giant lizard in Africa should be
kept separate from the question of whether there's an aquatic
dinosaur rhinobeast with a single horn. The Muhuru is a
cryptid reported from the Jungles of Kenya. Missionary cal Bombay
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and his wife made the first report of the creature
nineteen sixty three. Mister and Missus Bombay were driving in
the Great Rift Valley when they noticed a large creature
laying on its side. It was seven to nine feet
long with a row of triangular ridges on its back.
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Its face kind of resembled an alligator. The two were
able to observe this creature for about ten minutes. The
creature sometimes described as having a hammer or a club
like tail with spikes. This would be something called a
Fogamizer after the late Fog Simmons, as seen in Gary
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Larson comics. The bizarre armor plated, club tailed creature is
said to dwell deep within the impenetrable jungles of West Africa,
and there are some who have speculated that it's a
twenty first century example of a living dinosaur. Although there's
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not much in the way of photographic or biological evidence
regarding this unusual animal's existence, the general consensus among cryptozoologist
researchers is that the muhuru is yet another Jurassic relic.
Lungubu is a surviving ceratopsian like cryptid in the Savannah
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region of Cameroon. It is said to have six horns
and fights elephants for their land. Despite it having a
smaller size, this creature is about the size of an ox.
November two thousand, William Gibbons did some preliminary research in
Cameroon for a future Meculium bembe expedition. He was accompanied
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by David Wetzel while visiting with a group of pigmies,
they were informed about an animal called the ungoombu. Although
in goombo is also a local word for rhinoceros, the
Pigmies assert this was not a rhinoceros. It has six
horns and a frill just behind its head. The father
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of one of the senior members of the community said
he had killed one of these creatures with a spear
several years earlier. The locals had noted there was a
decline in the population of these animals, making them harder
to find. Gibbons identified the animal as being a sty
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a striasaurus, but these are currently only known to have
inhabited North America. It might be related to the Emela intaca,
but this animal is single horned. They don't use enough
vowels in some of these African names. Africa has a
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lot of places for dinosaurs to have lived without running
into folks who have a self appointed authority to say
that they exist. Just because people with letters behind their
names haven't seen them doesn't make them extinct. In April
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twenty and eleven, a woman was walking along West Davis
Street in Hebronville, Texas as she was coming to Rondado Road.
This is as far as the street goes, as well
as the edge of town. She spotted a dust cloud
over the trees ahead. It was about five forty five
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PM and the sun was nearing the horizon. She noticed
the dust cloud was getting close to the side of
the road. It didn't looked like some cattle would have
made It must have been some really fast moving animal
still walking. She glanced at the dust a few times
until something came into view. About forty feet away was
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a two and a half foot tall dinosaur. Not just
any dinosaur, but a t rex. The creature kept running
as it passed by on the opposite side of Rundado Road.
It was running on two legs with its tail stretched
out behind the skin was a reddish brown color. Standing
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there staring at something that shouldn't be there. The witness
was at a loss to explain what she had seen.
I worked in Hebronville many times during my time in
the Border Patrol. I drove up and down Rundado Road
a lot, especially after hearrying about those dinosaur sightings. Several
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people I met while working had suggested I should find
either the dinosaur or at least its tracks. The field
across from Davis Street is open with just small brush
growing here and there. Ranchers in the area complain about
cattle that go missing without any trace and where or
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how they disappeared. Maybe they're on the menu for the
local dinosaur. Another woman saw what sounded like the same
creature running across the main street in town. It was
illuminated by several cars headlights as it went by. People
were all staring at it, then at each other as
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if to ask, did you see that thing too? In
December twenty twelve, a person reported seeing a pair of
dinosaurs in foul Fears, about eighteen miles east of Hebronville.
The description is about the same People have also seen
dinosaurs running around in outside of McAllen and across the
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river in Mexico. In Falfurius, Texas, a couple of kids
that saw a pair of dinosaurs running along the road
that same year. These had big heads, they stood on
two legs, had long tapering tails, and small front legs
that kind of looked useless. The burun Jor, also known
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as the burunnosaur, is an Australian dinosaur cryptid that resembles
the theropod we know as t rex, but maybe a
descendant of the mega raptorids like the astroloventor the mega raptor,
or simply the raptor. But it also could be a
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dinosaur that has so far not appeared in the fossil record.
The Barrunjur is described as being a giant lizard according
to aboriginal stories based on the sightings in its twenty
to twenty five foot long has small clawed hands. It
is bipedal in nature. Throughout the nineteen fifties, Australian cattle
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ranchers reported a large creature leaving bipedal tracks and it
was eating their livestock. Also earlier aboriginal accounts suggest that
this reptile animal possibly had feathers whose diet consisted of
kangaroo and other large animals. If it was not for
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the bipedal footprint findings, the Barungjur could have been mistaken
for a Magliania maggollion yeah Megalanian, the prehistoric giant monitor
lizard that lived in the area more recently, based on
the aboriginal description Megalania, but that then traveled on fore legs.
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The last sighting of the Barunjur happened in nineteen eighty
five when a family was traveling to Roper River and
they reported seeing a twenty foot long monster covered in feathers.
Another report tells of a man named Brian Clark who
went into the woods and got lost sometime nineteen seventy eight.
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After the alarm was raised, he was tracked by the
police and two Aboriginal bushmen. The trackers woke up one
night a sound of loud, thunderous sound and the ground shaking.
After finding the wayward traveler, the police old man if
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he ever went back into the woods and got lost,
they were not coming to look for him. Some think
the sound was the stompings of the barunjor. However, a
light footed theropod dinosaur would not crash around the undergrowth
in this manner. Despite what certain movies would have the
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public believe, there have been no sightings of this creature
in more than thirty years. At least nobody has come
forward with one. What with all the ridicule that folks
have gotten. Once they do report a sighting, who can
say that we're surprised. This has led to many to
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think that if it once existed, it has since become extinct,
but no remains have ever been found. More recently, the
Barungjur has been one of the several living dinosaurs to
be held up by proponents of Young Earth creationism. As
evidence of their belief, people have managed to make casts
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of huge three toed tracks, some nearly three feet long
and wide. The Australian bush is so vast with no visitors,
that all kinds of beasts may be hidden out there.
Cryptosologist Jonathan Whitcomb, author of the book Modern Pterosaurs, published
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an article about these creatures, including pterodactyle sightings in North Carolina.
He commented, my associates and I believe that these are
non extinct terosaurs what many people would call pterodactyls or
flying dinosaurs. Cynthia Lee was studying to become a veterinarian technician,
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and she reported to come a terosaur sighting that she
had in January in Raleigh. She was sure that the
flying creature had no feathers, but it did have a
long tail with a diamond shaped ball, but the end
it also looked like it had a headcrest. Many paleontologists
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say the pterosaurs were covered with feathers As time went by,
they became modern day birds. Lee was on her way
to work when she saw the same crested creature out
the window. The driver of the car did not see it.
Cynthia said she was not the only member of her
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family to see flying dinosaurs. She said her mother and
uncle had also seen one while they were playing outside
her grandmother's house when they were little. They told their grandmother,
but she, of course didn't believe them. Cynthia no longer
believes that they are all extinct, and now that she
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has seen one for herself. In Charlotte, North Carolina, a
man and his cousin saw something he immediately said was
a dragon. He looked closer and he decided no, this
was a flying dinosaur, a pterodactyl. The man said it
looked like what he had seen in the Jurassic Park movie. Asheville,
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North Carolina, a lady saw a huge, black winged creature
flying very low over her car. It had no feathers,
but sharp edges like creatures. And Jacksonville, North Carolina, an
eyewitness saw something huge flying in the sky. It looked
like a pale, greenish white, smooth the skinned creature. It
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didn't appear to have any feathers, and it had a
tail with a dia in shape on the end. North
Carolina is considered by many cryptosologists to be one of
America's seven pterosaur hot spots. Witcim also wrote an extensive
article in Live Oh Boy, Liveterosaurs dot Com which included
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several additional North Carolina sightings. For fifty dollars, you can
buy a drone that looks like a pterosaur. It looks
a lot like one. The drone also makes enough noise
if you listen, you can hear it flying. If you
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spot a flying dinosaur, look close to see if it
has any rotors on it, and listen for the buzzing sound.
If you don't hear a buzzing sound, you just might
be seeing a real dinosaur. Matt Cartmil, Professor emeritus of
evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, said there is not that
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it is not impossible for there to be living pterosaurs today.
The Arika monster is said to be a large surviving
member of the Dramasaurides that inhabited the vast Atacama Desert
in Chile. It has been described as looking like a
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cross between a dramasaur and a kangaroo. Various motorists driving
the main road linking Akike and Arica have reported a
six foot tall, sharp toothed, bipedal dinosaur crossing the road
in front of them or running alongside them. Once the
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creature has moved on, it leaves behind three toed footprints
stick of that of a primitive dinosaur. It kind of
looks like an emu or a kangaroo. In some instances,
it is described as a dinosaur like bird. Two thousand
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and four, several members of a large family saw what
they described as a bunch of dog faced kangaroo like
creatures that ran around their vehicle as they made their
way to Aika, Arica. Several times in two thousand and four,
other people reported seeing these creatures. Sometimes it would be
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one by itself, and other times it would be an
entire group. There are many possibilities of what this animal
could be. It could be a living type of dramasaur,
or possibly some of the other unique prehistoric fauna that
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lived in South America, such as the Forosocus. The Foressocus
is an extinct genus of giant, flightless terror birds that
inhabited Argentina during the Miocene era. Forasaccus was one of
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the dominant land predators in South America at the time
of its existence. Since the Atacama Desert is so vast
and it can barely supply of very few animals that
live there, most people say it was just a hoax.
Others say there could be some unknown creature or maybe
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several living around the edges of the desert that venture
into the wasteland on occasion. The Eureka monster was first
spotted in the Atacama Desert in Chile in nineteen eighty.
Witnesses describe it as running with a kangaroo like bipedal monster.
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The sightings have occurred by people who were traveling by
car on different days through the remote road that links
the cities of Erique and Ikike, some twelve hundred and
forty miles north of Santiago, Chile. The newspapers in these
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cities collect recent accounts from the citizens who claim to
have seen this rare creature. In addition, a military officer
named Hernan Quavis says he spotted two of these beasts
while traveling with two other adults and two children in
a vehicle he was quoted as seeing a huge beast
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much like a two legged dinosaur with huge thick thighs.
I think I used to work with a guy that
sounded like that. They described the animal as being exactly
like a raptor from Jurassic Park. In this case, it's
said to be a living dramasoriitis. This particular desert is
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of great interest in itself, as it is considered the
driest place on the surface of our planet, although water
can be found in if you know where to look.
South America has provided us with fossils from the Jurazic
and Crustaceous periods, and Chile is of no exception. Could
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there be an ancient species that somehow managed to survive
extinction and now is living on in this inhospitable area.
In August eighteen ninety one, the Los Angeles Herald carried
the following story. Hunters north of Bakersfield told people in
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Fresno they had seen not one, but two giant flying
reptiles else while out in the field, described as monstrosities
that were half bird, half alligator. The creatures had swooped
on the hunters, snapping their jaws and making sounds like
that of a swan, but these were no swan. A
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swan will snap its beak as it comes at you.
They also make a lot of noise. If you've never
been attacked by a swan, you don't know what you're missing.
In nineteen oh eight, two associates of the British Museum
were hunting for fossils in a cave near Malibu Ranch
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when they were driven off by huge flying creature described
as half bat, half reptile, and it resembled a living pterodactyl.
The creature escaped into the mountains towards the desert. Even today,
folks have reported seeing pterodactyl flying out in the des
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the last few years. Any sightings will be questionable since
you can buy the drone that looks like a flying dinosaur,
but remember listen for the motor sounds. Someday I want
to visit the Big Bend National Park, spend at least
a week or two there and see what all is
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there to be seen. It's only four hundred and twenty
two miles one way. That's closer than Jefferson and I've
been there many times. There are hiking trails all over
the place, hundreds of native species of plants not seen
in other parts of our country, and there are dinosaurs.
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The Mountain Boomer has been seen by visitors to the park.
The boomer stands five to five and a half feet tall,
is covered in greenish brown skin, and he runs on
two legs. It's called the mountain boomer because it produces
a bark like distant thunder. This monster, described as a
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theropod dinosaur, lives in the remote mountainous regions. There's a
smaller version of the mountain boomer that only stands about
two feet tall. It's called the Eastern colored lizard. In
the nineteen seventies, a Texas man in the Big Bend
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area reported that his car had been run off the
road by a theropod dinosaur. In early nineteen ninety, a
person said he encountered a similar dinosaur eating roadkill. He
saw the monster in the distance as he was driving.
He was certain what he was looking at, but when
the car approached, the dinosaur turned and ran off. UFO
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researcher Jimmy Ward wrote about Mountain Boomer in an article
by the same name. He interviewed a Connecticut family that
was traveling through Texas that saw an enormous lizard with
heavy back legs small front legs that looked like it
came from the movie Jurassic Park. Two men were transporting
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a car to Presidio. They had it on a car
carrier attached to the rear of their pickup. As they
were passing the small cliff face, they saw a huge
bird flying from the rocks. It was massive and the
two just stared at it. It was joined by a second,
huge flying creature. As they drew closer, the pair could
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make out details. These creatures didn't have any feathers, but
skin like a lizard. These were not birds, but flying
dinosaurs pterodactyl. The two creatures glided along the sky, heading
towards the river. Jurassic Park was a cool movie, so
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they made twenty more. Hollywood can't seem to come up
with any new ideas, so they just keep churning out
sequels and remakes until folks simply stopped buying tickets. We
saw Jurazaic Park at the theater. When the lawyer Donald
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Gennaro played by Martin Ferrero, was eaten by the t rex,
the audience cheered, Okay, he wasn't that likable of a character. Naturally,
some folks began to ask when, if ever, were the
boys in the white lab coats going to clone dinosaur.
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The scientist guys say this can't be done because they
don't have any DNA from dinosaurs to do the deed.
I'm sure they would tell us if they did. The
long dead wooly mammoth will be making its return from
extinction sometime in twenty twenty seven. That's only two years away. Colossal,
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the biotech company actively working to reincarnate the ancient beast,
is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company says that they
have labs, but I'm not too sure where they're located.
I couldn't find any exact details. Just because they think
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they know what they're doing doesn't mean they do. What
possible use is there for a twelve foot tall, eight
ton herd of sort of kind of elephants. Are they
planning to keep them in zoos? If so, that is
going to call lost an arm and a leg just
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to feed them. Do they plan to release them into
the wild where unsuspecting campers might just get smashed as
the herd walks through their camp. How about the impact
this is going to have on any place that these
giants turn up. Colossal scientists have already created three dire
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wolf pups by using ancient DNA cloning and gene editing
technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf. Just
what the planet needs, giant killer wolves who have no
known enemies. Doctor Malcolm from Jurassic Park said, now I
(55:51):
can't do his voice. Your scientists were so preoccupied with
whether or not they could they didn't stop to think
if they should. Jeff Goldbloom had all the best lines
in the movie The Boys in White. Think they have
thought of every possible danger and installed safeguards like that
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leak back in twenty twenty. Of course, a lot of
folks say it wasn't really a leak. Hunters aren't going
to want to get in on some of this action.
The government will come out with extraordinarily expensive hunting licenses
for wooly mammoth, and there will be restaurants. I can
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just imagine the size of a mammoth burger makes me
hungry just thinking about it. There are people in our
world who have bizarre ideas. They want what they want,
when they want it, and they don't care who gets
hurt by what they want to do. Somewhere there is
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some person with way too much money who wants his
own pet dinosaur, a t rex, or maybe a couple
of velosco raptors. Like how Pablo Escobar decided he needed
a couple of hippos. It was that day before Christmas,
and his men heard him singing, I don't want a
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hippopotamus for Christmas, and they thought he was being serious.
Some super rich crime lord or dispot in some far
off country is good to decide he or she simply
has to have a dinosaur. How many times do we
hear about private zoos that have lost a couple of
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their animals, or they discover that the cost far outpaces
their income, so instead of selling off their illegal animals,
they just turn them loose. Let nature handle this minor problem.
Once a science has been developed, it cannot be undeveloped.
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You can't put the genie back in the lamp. Governments
will pass legislation regulating dinosaur development, which will only affect
the folks who obey the law. It's going to get
exciting out there. Folks. Hope you enjoyed tonight's show. If
you did, spread it around, tell other folks they need
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to be listening to me. Let people hear about all
the strange things there are out there. If you enjoyed
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have a story you'd like to share, or you'd like
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you can say, yeah, that's what happened, or wait a minute,
(59:40):
that's not quite how it was, and then I'll print it,
or I'll tell it on the show till next Satura. Well,
somebody asked me the other day how come I always
say until next Saturday? And I got to wondering about it.
I used to do the show a long time ago.
(01:00:02):
Before I learned better. I would go over to the
Arkanassa studio. We would put the show out live. That's
why I don't care to edit out any mistakes. The
show was on at five o'clock Saturday afternoon every Saturday. Well,
(01:00:23):
I got tired of not being able to control the
show quite you know, having to be there every Saturday,
that sort of thing. So I started to record the
show and then send it to Arkanassa and they would
put it out five o'clock on a Saturday. Well, one
thing led to another. The next thing, you know, my
show is being played on other platforms, but I'm still
(01:00:45):
saying Saturdays. Let's just say until next time. This is
Chris James for Strange Things. Are you?
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