June 20, 2025 • 68 mins
There are some strange creatures out there that we get to live with. Did you know the unicorn is based on a real beast? The wild boar is more dangerous than most folks would think. In ancient times, people had a creature known as Scorpion-Men. There was a giant blood sucking bat known as the Camazotz. People are still reporting seeing it today. The Kludde is one of the most bizarre cryptids I've ever read about. Not even sure it's a cryptid or something else.
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Back when Art Bell was still hosting Coast to Coast,
he played a lot of what he called bumper music
just before or after a commercial break. One he played
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a lot, and he said he really liked it was
called Boom Boom Bah. The odd thing about this song
is if you check it out, they say that it
is the theme music from a TV show called Dead
Like Me. They only played the song a couple of times.
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It didn't show up until the sixth episode, and like
I said, they only played it once or twice during
the entire run of the show. Art loved that show.
He talked about it a lot. If you've never watched it,
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you're missing out on one strange show. The main character
is dead, so or all of the others, well, they're
actually undead. George Lass is a reaper. She collects souls.
The show is not recommended for kids or a lot
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of adults. Lots of sex and violence, and they swear
more than I ever did. I can't believe this show
used to be on TV unless it was highly edited.
I believe it was two thousand and three that it
was on. That seems like so long ago, while at
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the same time just a few years ago. I had
a hard time watching it back then because I worked
shift work and we didn't have a VSR that we
could record the show with, so I only had I
was only able to catch the episodes once in a while.
Well guess what, It's on YouTube, all the episodes. So
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me and my wife are binging watching every episode we
can and trying to figure out what's going on in
a few of them. Funny thing is Vic Hermanson, when
I mentioned the show to him, said, oh, yeah, that's
that show that Art Bell used to talk about all
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the time. I did a show about half human and
half something else back in July of twenty twenty four.
I got the looking old were some bizarre creatures from
the years, past, decades, past centuries past. Ugh, I thought
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this would be a good time to bring the subject
up again. I know some legends are based on fantasy,
but others are from actual encounters. For example, the unicorn
was a real, live creature. People are Oh, they've never
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found a unicorn skeleton in the fossil record. Well, actually
they have. I hear some of y'all laughing out there.
The ancient Greek writers hold of a creature that lived
in India. It was described as being as big as
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a cow, short stubby legs. Its body was covered in
armor plates that were difficult to pierce with an arrow.
They had one huge horn that stuck out of their
head just above the mouth. The Indian Rhinoceros, also known
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as Rhinocereus unicornis, or the greater one horned rhinosaur, is
a species of rhino found in the Indian subcontinent. It
is the second largest living rhinosaur rh Rhinosaur rhinoceros species,
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with the adult male weighing up to two tons. Its
thick skin is gray brown with pinkish skinfolds. It has
a single horn on its snout that can grow up
to twenty two inches long. Its legs and shoulders are
covered in wart like bumps, and it is nearly hairless
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except for its eyelashes, ear fringe, and tail bush. It
can flutter its eyelashes. That beautiful horse creature that people
think was the unicorn actually came from the Vikings. They
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hired the Inuits to hunt Norwall and cut the tusk off,
which they then sold to Europeans. The Vikings wouldn't hunt
the nor Wall because they were a little worried it
might be a supernatural creature, so they got somebody else
to do it for them. Did not look anything like
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a rhino. As time marched on, legends grow up around
some not so fantastic stories. How many are based on
actual creatures or simply some weird uncle trying to scare
the family. Wild boar is something you don't want to
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mess with. Boor Zilla, the largest wild hog ever caught
in Texas weighed in at seven hundred and ninety pounds.
That's close to the size of the average grizzly bear.
Wild boar have no fear. They will attack anything, including
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us puny humans. They eat anything, including us puny humans.
You can mortally wound a boar and instead of fleeing,
it will still charge and try to kill you. In
ancient Rome, the wild boar was considered a symbol of strength, courage,
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and ferocity. War pigs, not the song. The creature was
an actual thing. They were used as countermeasures against the
war elephants of the Carthaginian general Hannibal at the Battle
of Tribea in two hundred and eighteen BC. The tenth
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Roman legion had a bore as their symbol. People always
say that they used pigs against the elephants, but they
were actually wild boar. Some folks might think the wild
hog problem in parts of the world is kind of
a joke. In Aniak, Texas, in twenty twenty, just east
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of Houston, authorities say a pack of faral hoggs attacked
and killed a woman outside a home where she worked
as a caretaker. Christine Rollins cared for an elderly couple
at their home in a small town. Chambers County Sheriff
Brian Hawthorne said the eighty four year old wa she
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cared for was waiting for Rollins, who lived in Liberty, Texas.
She was supposed to come by Sunday. The woman went
outside and found the fifty nine year old Rollins in
the front yard between her car and the front door.
The sheriff said Rawlins had a severe head wound and
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several other injuries consistent with wild animal bites. The coroner
in neighboring Jefferson County ruled rollins bled to death after
an attack by Farrell hogs. Authorities in Nelson County, North
Dakota are warning people about wild, violent pigs in their region.
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The Sheriff's department says a wild pig tried to attack
a farmer several times just north of Tulna. The pig
was finally put down, vanquished, unalive, killed, made Kurputski. The
attack happened Thursday, April thirteenth, two thousand and three on
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rural farmland. YEP. Just something to keep in mind next
time you're trying to decide if you should carry your
side arm or not. Like Chester Moore says on his
podcast The Dark out Doors, pray, prepare and pack heat.
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Never leave home without it. I can't talk about wild
hogs without mentioning Hogzilla not to be mistaken for Boorzilla.
In two thousand and four, Chris Griffin from Alapaha, Georgia,
said he shot a twelve a foot long hog that
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weighed one thousand pounds. Wild hogs do not make for
good eats. You never see Alton Brown cooking wild hog.
Something about their lifestyle makes the meat not so tasty.
Most wild hogs are either left for scavengers to eat,
or they're buried. Hogzilla had his moment of fame photo taken,
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and then into the dirt he went. Two thousand and five,
the forensic scientists filming an episode of Explorer in the
National Geographic dug up the remains to have a closer look.
What they found was actually closer to eight and a
half feet long and weighing about eight hundred pounds. Still
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a substantial creature, especially if it's trying to kill you.
This thing was a crossbreed between a domesticated pig and
a wild boar. Its tusks were twenty eight inches long.
Picture a tooth that is as long as your own.
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Most fox folks fox what the fox? Most folks walk
around out in the wild with hardly a thought towards
what might be lurking in the underbrush. They hear something
rustling in the grass, the tall grass, and they think, oh,
it's a deer, it's a it's a this, it's a that.
They never stop and think it could be a killer pig.
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I shot a wounded hog with a nine millimeter one time.
It had been run over by a truck and everything
south of the rib cage was smushy, bits and pieces
were hanging out where they shouldn't be hanging out. To
end it suffering, I took careful aim and I put
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one round right between its eyes. The pig attacked me.
It came charging, pushing itself across the ground using just
its front legs. I jumped to the side, and as
the hog got close enough, I put a second round
right behind the ear. Blood squirted out through the hole
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between the eyeballs. And I know, a nine millimeters not
a very big round, and it's not adequate for doing
such a thing, but at the moment it was the
only thing I had. I should have had a forty
five or a ten mil or something. When I hear
coyotes at night, I always wonder what are they laughing about.
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Have they come across a dead hog somewhere and they're
having a picnic. Hogs and boar are not any kind
of cryptid until they get up into the epic size
where experts say they can't possibly be that big, and
then they find one that is eight hundred pound hog.
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That's a lot of bacon, but they don't make bacon.
Way back when things were written in stone, literally and
sometimes on papyrus. There were tales told of the scorpion men.
Some of these were found in Acaddean language from ancient
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Mesopotamia in the epic enuma Elish, which was the standard
Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh. In art work,
the form of the scorpion man varies, though they often
have the head torso in arms of a man, and
they have a tale in the body of a scorpion.
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Scorpion men appeared in the visual arts of the Mesopotamia
and ancient Iran. Among the earliest representations of scorpion men
are the example from the Giroffte in Iran, as well
as a depiction of a bull lyar from the early
domess Dynastic period city of Earth that's where they found
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the stargate, and the epic poem and numa Alish, a
scorpion man is listed among the monsters created by Tiamat
in order to wage war against the gods who had
murdered her husband Apsu. In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh.
They stand guard outside the gates of the sun god
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shamash As at the mountains of Mashu. These gates are
the entrance to Kernougi, the land of darkness. The scorpion
men opened the door for Shamash as he travels out
each day, and they closed the door and the evening
after he returns from the night. When Gilgamesh came to
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Mount Mashu, he encountered scorpion men guarding the gate. A
scorpion women also appear in the Guiltlgamesh story as well.
During his travels, he encountered scorpion men. One of the
men tells his female Gilgamesh carries the flesh of the
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gods in his body. The scorpion woman responds that Gilgamesh
is two thirds god and one third human. I kind
of get the impression that Gilgamesh thought a lot of himself.
The scorpion man hybrid, also known as Acrabuemmulay or Gerta
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blue boy these words Gerta Blilou, is a creature that
can be found in the legends of ancient and Near East.
The creature had been the subject of many debates and theories,
as its origin and symbolism are still unclear. Was it
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real creature seen by Gilgamesh? While historians tend to agree
that Gilgamesh was a historical king of the Samerian city
state of Uruk, and he ruled a sometime during the
early part of the Early Dynastic period around twenty nine
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hundred to twenty three point fifty BC. Assyrian stone reliefs
from the temple at Nunuruta or Kalu or Nunruta at
Kalu A show the god with his thunderbolts pursuing Anzu,
who had just stolen the tablet of destinies from the
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Inlil sanctuary boy. Some of these names are hard to say.
In other stories, Akrabu Melu is said to be a
creature of the god a creation of the god Inki,
who is the god of wisdom and water. Akerabummelu has
the ability to protect the gates of the underworld. In
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some other tales, there are also said to be guardians
of the sun god Shamash, or a protector for the king.
The Babylonian Creation Epic tells that Tiamat first created Aquabummulay
to wage war against all of the younger gods. They
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possessed the ability to see beyond the horizon, and they
would warn travelers of impending danger. According to Akadean writings,
the akra Melu had heads that reached the sky and
their gaze could cause painful death. Artifacts uncovered in Jiroft
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and Anuji districts of Kerman Province Iran revealed that the
scorpion men also played an essential role in the Giroff's mythology.
Acrabemilu is often depicted in art as a fierce warrior
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with the body of a human and the tale of
a scorpion. It is often shown holding a weapon, such
as a sword or a bow and arrow. The creatures
also sometimes are shown wearing armor and a helmet. In
some depictions, these creatures are shown with wings, which may
symbolize their ability to fly. Was there really such a creature?
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If you follow the teachings of Zachariah Sitchin, you'll know
about the ananaki a. Sichin was born July eleventh in
nineteen twenty. He studied ancient languages, and he translated ancient
Sumerian writings about the ananaki A. Sichen said Sameri historians
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told about a planet called Nibiru with an elongated three thousand,
six hundred year long elliptical orbit around the Sun. Sitchen's
books have been sold millions of copies worldwide and have
been translated into more than twenty five languages. Jenanaki, we're
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doing all kinds of genetic splicing to see what would
work well attached to what you know. Put a bull's
head on a chihuahua's body, or put a lion's head
on a giraffe. If these stories are true, maybe the
idea of a scorpion man isn't so wild. I don't
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think it would look anything like the photoshop pictures that
you'll see on the internet. It was probably a little
more messed up looking, but still anything that big with
a scorpion's tail would be a bit off putting. The
boys in the White lab courts, of course, say that
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Sitchen didn't know what he was talking about, but they
waited until after he died to say that. For some
odd reason, anytime the experts want to deride anyone who
has anything to say that they don't agree with, they
almost always wait till they're dead before they start throwing
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mud at them. The Aztec legends also refer to a
similar scorpion men known as seats of Meme. These beings
were believed to be defeated gods who destroyed the sacred
grove of fruit trees and were cast out of the sky.
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The seats of Mime were associated with stars, particularly those
visible during a solar eclipse, and were depicted as skeletal
females wearing skirts with skulls and crossbones, and having the
tale of a scorpion. In the post conquest era, they
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were often referred to as demons or devils. The leader
of the Tisamime was a goddess, It's Popotl, who was
the ruler of to toman Chan, the paradise where the
Titsumime resided. I can't pronounce that volcano's name either. Depending
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on who you are, Titsumime played a dual role, protecting
humans on some occasions and killing them on others. They
just depended on who you were and when you ran
into them. In the Maya legend of popol Vu, a
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kamma zoats is a bat spirit that works in service
of the lords of the underworld. Kama Zoats means death
bat a meso American. Generally, the bat is associated with knight,
death and sacrifice. In the popol Vu, kama zoats are
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encountered by the Mayan hero twins Hanah, Hannah pooh and
zbolink yes. I look these words up on how to
pronounce them several times, stick a microphone in front of me,
and I suddenly cannot pronounce a lot of these. During
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their trials in the underworld of Zibolba, the twins had
to spend the night in the house of bats, where
they squeezed themselves into their own blowguns. That's quite a trick.
In order to defend themselves from the circling bats upstairs,
Hanapu stuck his head out of his blowgun to see
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if the sun had risen, and Kamas Kama Zots immediately
snatched off his head and carried it to the ball court,
where it was going to be used by the gods
in their next game. In classic Maya iconography, the leaf
nosed bat exhales unhealthy vapors and is often depicted as
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a person's nahual or waste spirit, bringing disease over an enemy.
H The classic bat's spirit is rarely, if ever, part
of the narrative context, nor does it appear to play
the role of assigned to it by the poupo vu.
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The ancient Maya had hundreds of deities that they believed
watched over humanity, established order, and controlled the realm of
the dead. Many of these gods and spirits were somewhat
off putting them. Portrayed as an anthropomorphic leaf nosed bat,
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Kamatzots was a spirit of death, knight, and sacrifice. He
fed on blood, and legend says he even played a
role in the origin of sacrificial rituals the Mayans were
so well known for. Experts believe Kamazots was inspired by
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a giant vampire bat that used to swarm the skies
over Central America. One of these species of bats, de
Mesodis d'raculi, is known to be extinct today, or at
least they hope it is, but it's nearly two foot wingspanned,
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It had a tendency to prey on deer and other
larger animals. It had a thing for big creatures with
blood in them. Today, vampire bats are tailless and are
considerably medium sized, with a length of about two to
three and a half inches. Their weight is variable owing
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to the large volume of blood that a bat ingests.
A two ounce bat can double in its weight during
one feeding. Its fur is short ranging in color, from
brown to reddish orange. Its wings are long and pointed.
The first segment of the thumb is exceptionally long, enabling
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it to hop and creep in a strangely agile but
frog like manner. The common vampire bat is the only
bat that is capable of taking off from the ground.
It uses its long thumbs to leap about three feet
into the air before flying off. Any other bat laying
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on the ground is not able to get airborne. Be
careful if you go to pick one up, though. They
do tend to carry rabies except the well, that's one
of those things people tell you, Oh, be careful of bats.
They do carry rabies on occasion. According to ancient stories
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handed down over the centuries, kamazants was said to fly
out of caves, grab victims by the neck, and pull
their heads off, and then drink their blood. This i
idea may have come from one of the most well
known legends about the death bat. The stories of kamazots
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are still around today. In the nineteen fifties, a couple
walking in Pelotoss, Brazil, late one night reported seeing two
large humanoids in a tree. Authorities wrote them off, insisting
they'd simply spotted a large bird, but then the sightings
continued to come. In nineteen seventy six, two girls saw
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a large bird like figure they described as having a
gorilla like face. The next day, it was discovered the
creature had left behind several three toed tracks. Sightings of
this bird or bat with a gorilla face have occurred
as far north as parts of Texas, where several farmers
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have said that they have encountered these beasts in their fields.
With so many sightings on record, it's difficult to write
off the existence of some sort of a humanoid back
creature that flies around and likes to feed on people's livestock.
The kamisotes sounds a lot like the batsquatch that was
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seen near Mount Saint Helen's in the nineteen eighties. It
resembles a flying primate the similar to an ahul or
a rang bati or Southeast Asia. One witness took several
pictures of the creature, but these images have yet to
be analyzed by experts. If they are ever analyzed by
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these experts, they're going to say that they're not real,
or it's paradolia, or it's just people are all stupid,
or something like that. It's amazing how these experts can
look at a photograph of an actual, honest to god
crypt it and say that's not what you think you're seeing.
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You're nuts. Anytime any show, I don't care what it is.
If I'm watching it, they bring in the expert who's
going to debunk everything. It's like it's time to watch
something else. Sighting of the batsquatches began in the nineteen eighties,
shortly after the eruption of Mount Saint Helen's. Reports from
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this period describe it as a monkey like creature with
red eyes and wings. Remember the flying monkeys from The
Wizard of Oz. April nineteen ninety four, Brian Cainfield was
driving in Washington, Pierce County when his truck suddenly died.
Canfield said a large creature landed in front of him.
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He said it was human looking, It was nine feet tall,
and it had enormous bat like wings. It was covered
in bluish fur. As canefield reports became well known, a
series of new reports came in. A person named Butch
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Whittaker reported that he was in a private plane in
the vicinity of Canefield's encounter with the batsquatch when he
saw one flying. Nineteen ninety eight, a truck driver hauling
logs in northern Oregon reported a collision with a batsquatch.
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This creature was described as being fifteen feet tall with
purple eyes, nose, and small wings. Two thousand and nine,
near Mount Shasta in California, several hikers witnessed a huge
creature with leathery wings spanning about fifty feet fly out
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of a crevice in a mountain. At first, and eyewitnessed
described the creature as having a head similar to a pterodactyl. However,
upon reconsideration, the witness said that it was more like
a flying fought fox bat. That's the one that you
almost always see in a movie that they claim as
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a vampire bat, fruit bat or fox bat they eat
rotting fruit. April fourteenth, twenty fourteen, at the Archbishop Hobbin
High School in Akron, Ohio, a second period Spanish class
spotted a giant black mass zipped by the window of
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the classroom at incredible speed. The students all said it
looked like a nine foot tall human with a twenty
to thirty foot wingspan. In Greek legends, they have the
hecatone cheris or the hundred handed one, also called the
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hundred handed or the sentimentus I like the sentimonus better
it's easier to pronounce. These were three monstrous giants of
enormous strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms.
They were individually named Cotis the Furious, Barius the Sea Goat,
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and Geigis the long limbed. How come the first guy
gets the cool name. They were the offspring of Uranus
and Gaia. These three helped Zeus and the Olympians overthrow
the Titans during their epic battle. According to the theogony
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of Hacid Hacid, they were the last children of Uranus
to be born, while according to the mythographer Apollodorus, they
were the first children born. In the Hesiodic tradition, they
played a key role in the Greek succession stories, which
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told how the Titan Chronos overthrew his father Uranus, and
how in turn Zeus overthrew Chronos and his fellow Titans,
and how Zeus was eventually established as the final and
permanent ruler of the Cosmos. They had a very violent
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story back then. The hundred Handers, along with their brothers
the Cyclops, were imprisoned by their father Uranus. Gaia induced
Chronus to castrate Uranus. Good Lord, what a story, and
Chronos took over the supremacy of the Cosmos with his sister,
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the Titanus Rhea. Chronos fathered several offspring, yes his own sister,
but he swallowed each of them at birth because he
was afraid that his children were going to do to
him what he had done to his old man. Well,
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Zeus was spared by this for by Rhea because she
actually gave Chronos a rock to swallow and then hid
Zeus away in a cave. Eventually, when Zeus was old enough,
he freed his brothers and sisters by cutting Chronos open,
and then they went to battle with him and his minions.
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Very interesting stories. Back then, a guy had foretold that
with the help of the hundred handers, the Olympians would
be victorious. So Zeus released them from their captivity, and
the hundred handers fought alongside the Olympians against the Titans
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and were instrumental in their defeat. The Titans were then
imprisoned and Tartarus with the hundred handers as their prison guards.
One hundred hands that's just way too many. How would
you manage so many digits one hundred hands, that's five
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hundred fingers fifty heads. Who is going to be in charge?
I have enough trouble just trying to manage one. But
that was the Greek mythology or was it based on
something real and just the guy telling the story got
a little carried away with his numbers In these flanders.
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In Belgium, people fear the nocturnal clue Day or shouting monster.
People know him as a horrifying tormentor. Some people have
described the clue Day as a furry about as big
as a large dog that works on its walks on
its hind legs, with heavy beaded bracelets on each arm
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and ankle. It has claws like a bear, a black
maw bat wings with green glistening scales on its back,
and crimson glowing eyes. The creature is always depicted as
being male. One of his claims to fame as he
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drags children into the river. The origin story of the
clue Day is found in the mid eighteenth century. Just
outside a forest near a small town of village called
Ternat in Belgium, there was an old, broken down cottage
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and nobody knew where it had come from or how
long it had been there. Woman, who was said to
have been a hideous evil woman like the devil. She
was also said to be in league with Old Scratch,
lived in this cottage. The villagers believed that they had
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to do something to drive her away, as it was
only a matter of time before the evil that she
was working with would infect their town. The men of
Turnout wished to burn the witch, like that scene in
The Holy Grail. Burn the witch. She turned me into
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a newt I got better. The villagers wanted to get
rid of her, but none would dare do so. She
might kill them back instead. One night, during a thunderstorm,
the town okay, trying to again. One night, during a thunderstorm,
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lightning struck the old cottage m the witch inside was
burned to death. Three days later, a group from the
village went to inspect the charred rubble, and they found
her blackened corpse. Even being dead, the villagers were still
afraid of her. She might still kill them back. A
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wealthy landowner who wished to purchase the property so he
could have more land, sent his servants over to do
something about that dead witch. They took shovels and pitchforks,
and they went to the corpse to bury it. You
can't have a dead witch laying around your property. The
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moment one of the servants touched the corpse, the ground shook,
the sky resounded with a thunderclap. The burnt corpse split open,
and a small, ash covered man clumb out. Within moments,
he grew to an astonishing height. His body contorted, He screamed,
and then growled. His face extended into a wolf like snout,
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his legs curved and bent into those of a dog.
Claws grew on his feet in his hands, and he
became the clue Day. With the beast now fully formed,
the clue Day ran off in search of clothing. You
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have a monster that is embarrassed about being naked, a
modest monster. I can't have a naked monster running around
the place. As the monster ran away, it was heard
yelling cludin, which translates to clothing. Other times, the name
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has morphed over time. The name has morphed the clue Day.
We can call this thing the clothes monster. They have
never in my life heard of a monster that was
embarrassed about being naked until now. As for the witch,
her corpse had become a pool of black sludge. Folks
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began to say that the witch had given birth to
a monster that was there to spoil the land. Returning
back to the village, the men told others that the
town was now cursed because the witch had given birth
to a clue Day in order to rain havoc across
the land. I still can't get over the idea of
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a squeemish monster. A group of villagers was rounded up
to hunt the clue Day, but this turned out to
be more of a challenge than they thought. The clue
Day was a shapeshifter and could take on many different forms.
Several hunters witnessed its shape shifting into a large bird
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that was on fire. It dragged a long chain behind it.
Others saw it turn into a large white and red
haired dog, a small white rabbit, a starving horse, a stallion,
a pig, and even a woman. The hunters continued chasing
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the Clue da through the forest over the course of
several weeks. The clue Dae was reportedly making butter and
milk turn rancid and rendering cows and horses in fertile
simply by being near them. There were claims the Clue
da wasn't as dangerous as it appeared. It simply wandered around,
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scaring drunkards and laughing at their screams. Others told of
more malevolent acts, such as killing a stable full of horses,
kidnapping and defiling young women who were walking through the
forest at night. The hunters eventually caught up to the
Clue Day, but found all their weapons were ineffective. Arrows
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and pitchforks simply passed right through it, and then it
would laugh at them as it just stood there unharmed.
One man tried to grab the clue d with his
bare hands, and he said it was like trying to
grasp smoke of another. Man was somehow able to pin
the clue d to a wall, but the beast simply
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shot fire into his eyes and killed him. The clue
Dae escaped, and to this day many have claimed to
see it on in one of its many disguises. It's
said to haunt the lonely roads, looking for those traveling alone.
If you're lucky, it might just play a prank on you.
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While others have disappeared and have never been seen again.
As time moved on, the Clue Day began being as
time moved on. The clue Da was being created from
any cremated bodies of witches or wizards, so now you
had more than one running around. It can move at
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immeasurable speed. Some say if you're able to kill a
clue Day, seven more creatures would crawl from its corpse.
He likes to play dangerous games, such as glomping. He
glomps unsuspecting passers by and becomes increasingly heavy while sitting
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on them. I'd never heard of glomping before, so I
had to look it up. To Glomp is to lunge
enthusiastically over the top and potentially dangerously hug so that
other begin to have a difficulty breathing. You run at somebody,
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kind of tackle them, and then squeeze them in your arms. Yeah,
I'm seeing glomping suddenly becoming popular out there. The monster
can sometimes be found in the reeds, underbridges and inside
hollow trees. If you're out for a stroll in Flanders
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and you run into a clue Day, you had best
run as fast as you can. If the creature's gaining
on you throw your handkerchief on the ground. That is,
if you still carry a handkerchief, which most folks don't.
Today the booger vault is fallen out of fashion. I
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never thought a handkerchief would save my life. The clue
Day seeing a handkerchief on the ground, will be overpowered
into stopping and tearing the thing into tiny pieces while
you continue to run away. The clue Day has an
ability to change into a wide assortment of animals, such
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as ravens, snakes, cats, frogs, bats. It can also turn
into a tree that grows to enormous heights. Other times
he will show up looking like a human being, just anything.
In other words, don't trust anyone they might be a
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clue Day. Sometimes he appears as a horse and he
will offer to give people a ride. I don't know
how a horse offers to give you a ride, but
it offers you a ride. If you climb onto the
horse's back. He will immediately run to the nearest river
or stream, dash out into the water, and then shake
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you off, making you fall into the water when he
gets up on the bank of the river and laughs
at you. Other times people believe that the clue Da
is a werewolf or a demon. Just depends on who
you talk to. The first written record of the clue
Day's appearance was penned in eighteen forty internet by the
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Baron of Saint Genoese. This back writing shapeshifter appeared in
Brabant and Flanders, where he lived in the Dendre, which
is a forty mile long river. In Austen. He is
considered a Necker or a Nix, and the flat country
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knows him as a werewolf. A Necker or a Nix
is a spirit who dwells in quiet rivers and lakes
in England, Germany and Scandinavia. Their love of water is
equal only by their love of music, and their beautiful
songs often draw listeners to the banks of their watery homes.
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In human form, they usually have an elegant appearance, although
their features may be just a bit sharp looking. Their
ears and their eyes are sharper than usual, and their
hair and their skin might be tinted green or blue.
In more extreme cases, they may have gills of bulbous
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eyes and webbed hands and feet. Their garments, of those
stylish are chronically wet around the edges. Sounds like somebody
I worked with flue Day cause fear and confusion, and
they drink green pond water, but they avoid crosses and
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consecrated areas. In other words, they won't go into churchyards
or churches. Flu Dach do all kinds of weird things,
but a lot of it is just pranks. Clue Da
come out at night in the Flemish mists. He has
earned his name from the call that he cries while
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fleeing clue Da clue Day as a shape shifter, he
has no fixed appearance, and clue Dae has been encountered
in the forms of great black dogs with a rattling
chain that it drags behind them, a half starved horse,
a sheep, a cat, a bat, a frog, or a tree.
The only constant in clue da transformation is the presence
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of two blue flames that are flighting around where its
eyes should be. Now these are all clue Day, but
from different parts of different regions of the area. Some
say that the pranks that the clue d play are
mischievous but not deadly. In the guise of a black
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dog or a werewolf, he'll jump on a person's neck
and vanish after wrestling the victim to the ground. As
a horse, he tricks people into riding and then he
gallops and knocks them off into a river or a
streams as a tree, the clue Dae will start out
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as a small sapling, growing either in the middle of
the road or right close to the edge, and then
suddenly it'll sprout forth and shoot up into the sky,
becoming as tall as the clouds. Suddenly. Ode rode Ogan
or the Old Red Eyes, which is also called the
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Beast of Flanders, was a spirit reported in Belgium in
the eighteenth century who would take the form of a
large black dog with fiery red eyes. In Wallania, the
southern region of Belgium, folk tales mention the chained hound,
a hellish dog that is once again dragging along chain.
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It was thought to roam the fields at night. In
Germany and the Czech Republic, it was said that the
devil would appear in the form of a large black
dog in East Groningen. In the northern parts of Holland
there was the Boris, a ghostly black dog with huge
glowing eyes. Now could this all be the same creature,
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just different parts of the world, or are we dealing
with more than one creature here? Why do so many
cultures have similar creatures in them? The Gabriel hounds are
said to rerelated to the black dog, also related to
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hell hounds and yeth hounds stories in English folklore. They
possess the heads of human infants, with glowing white eyes
and dog like bodies. These hounds are heard more often
than seen. Their presence is made known by eerie wailing cries.
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They've been known to travel in pairs or packs. If
a Gabriel hound is witnessed flying over a house, legend
says that doom will fall upon that household. If a
person is on their deathbed, the hound as cries are
said to indicate it is time for that person to go.
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Once the person is dead, the hounds are rumored to
capture the soul of the person who has died. A
Gabriel hounds are also called Gabriel ratchet and sky yelpers.
Once a Gabriel hound appears in an area, it may
remain for weeks or months. Is seeking out victims and
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terrorized the locals with its horrific cries or their horrific cries.
It is rumored that black magicians summoned these hounds in
order to perform evil deeds and to reveal hidden treasure.
It is also said that a Gabriel hound's origins may
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be utilized by powerful magicians organs not origins organs. How
in the heck would you use somebody's origins for magic? Yeah,
the Gabriel hounds organs can be used for powerful magic.
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A Gabriel hound may disappear and then re materialize anywhere
within fifty yards of its original location. The hound's disappearance
is preceded by a shimmering like the darn what's that
thing they're always talking about? On expanded perspectives, the glimmer man.
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It starts to shimmer and then it disappears. If you
happen to be touching the hound as it begins to shimmer,
you will vanish along with the hound. Then you will
reappear whereof the hound reappears. If it should decide to
reappear high up off the ground, you're going to fall
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down and hurt something. Sometimes a Gabriel hound will attach
itself to a person. The creature will slowly drain away
all of the victim's energy to the point of death.
The only way to end the curse is by destroying
the hound. However, nobody seems to know how to destroy
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a great Gabriel Hound. It just says you have to
do it. This may have been used to explain away consumption,
which is today known as tuberculosis. Somebody has incorporated the
Gabriel Hounds into a game. I got all kinds of
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information on these creatures, only to find it's all game rules.
Legend meets modern technology. Just because somebody gives a creature
a name, or they use a creature from ancient times
doesn't mean they invented that creature. It just means they
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put it in a game or gave it a name,
like the pale Crawler. The Dip is a Catalina legend,
a legendary being. It's an evil, hairy dog who is
an emissary of the devil and is seen to be
lame in one leg It feeds by sucking on people's blood.
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According to legend, the Dip sucked the blood out of
cattle they only moved about at night. Among their other
victims were folks who frequented bars drinking establishments and found
themselves staggering around in the dark. You'd think drinking the
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blood from somebody who was toasted, the dogs would become
quite drunk as well. At the entrance to Prot Dip,
Spain is a monument devoted to this being. Because of
his thirst for blood, the Dip served to inspire Joanne
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Peruco in his novel Lists Historia's Naturalis or Natural Stories
of the sixties, He tells the story of on a
free day Dip, a vampire with the ability to transform
ormond animals. This story takes place in Prot Dip at
the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the midst of
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the First Carlist War, and the Dip is actually an
ambassador of James, the first of the Conqueror, who seven
hundred years earlier had gone to the Carpathians on a
diplomatic mission, where he had been attacked by a vampire.
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The Carpathian Mountains are in Romania, you know that part
they call Transylvania. In other parts of Spain, such as
the Canary Islands, there's a belief in a being or
an evil spirit in the form of a wooly dog
known as a Goyota, the demon. Nineteen fourteen, German troops
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had occupied Monz, Belgium. The British, in their first foray
into the battle during World War One, marched in to
try to liberate the area. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the
German army not only dug trenches, they made them livable.
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The sides were reinforced, the floors were sloped so that
water would drain. There were bridges so that troops could
move over the trenches without having to climb down and
then back up. The British high command, the folks in
the rear with the gear, decided that trenches should not
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be improved because the idea was the soldiers wouldn't feel
motivated to climb out and charge the enemy. Most British
trenches were just a hole in the ground trying to
oust the Germans. The British soon discovered they're not going
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to secede in just a few days, not even a
few years. The area between the German and the British
lines became known as no man's land. It was where
most of the dying took place. One side of the
other would jump up and run across this open area
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while the other side shot at them. The ability to
kill had far outpaced the idea of tactics. During the
first few months of the war, at sun up and sundown,
both sides would stand two, which meant they were either
ready to attack or to repel an attack. Once the
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stand i was over, troops would try to relax and
find things to do that did not involve killing or dying.
If an attack was launched and hundreds of men were
shot out in no man's land, after the shooting had stopped,
both sides would walk out into the battlefield to recover
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the dead and wounded. After several months of this, somebody
got the idea that anyone out in no man's land
was a target. So suddenly you were not able to
recover the dead or the wounded, and they simply laid
where they fell. The wounded had one of two choices.
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They could crawl back to their own lines, or they
could lay there and wait for death. Shells rained down
from above, landing in between the two sides, causing the
land to take on more of a moonscape. Bomb craters
were everywhere. In some places, the two sides were only
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a few hundred yards apart. Barbed wire was strung back
and forth, making a charge less manageable. Trip Wires with
cans filled with stones were used to alert the centuries
at night. As one side would succeed in an attack,
the other would withdraw The lines began to wander about.
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Soon the battlefield was a mass of trenches that might
be on either side. Depending on the time of the day,
you might find yourself fighting from a German trench or
shooting into a formerly British trench. Snipers became quite popular.
They would sit in a spot, waiting and watching for movement.
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Any part of a soldier that appeared above the top
of the trench was a target. As their abilities improved,
as snipers began using shields to protect themselves. These could
be just a steel plate to hide behind, or a
metal housing that gave cover from the front, the sides,
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and the top. At night, the barbed wire fencing needed
to be repaired, intel needed to be gathered. Soldiers from
either side would be voluntold they were going to go
out on a night patrol. Each man had to be
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sure that there was nothing that might make a sound,
giving the snipers a heads up to their movements. All
their gear was tied down or left behind. Rifles were
exchanged for bayonets or trench knives. In total darkness, the
squad would sneak out to fulfill their mission. Squads of
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soldiers would venture out moving in the darkness, time would
tick by, the century would watch for their return. If
by sun up the squad had not come back, it
was assumed they'd been captured by the enemy. On occasion,
the men on duty through the night would hear blood
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curdling screams coming from the middle. Stories began to be
told of some crazed killer lurking out there in the mud,
waiting for a patrol to come by. Some said this
was some lunatic that had been released from the Germans
and set out there to kill anyone that had encountered.
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After too many missing soldiers, centuries began seeing or hearing
a huge black hound moving around out in no man's land.
A few lucky soldiers actually managed to get back after
their night patrol, telling stories of something that had followed
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them all night long. This thing had been picking them
off one by one. It was a huge dog, as
big as a horse, with glowing red eyes. What neither
side knew was this was happening to both sides. This
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creature became known as the Hound of Mons. The stories
of a different kind of monster e merged. Soldiers would
find themselves trapped between the two sides as thirst and
hunger took over. They might decide that that dead guy
was looking mighty tasty. Having both sides a shooting at you,
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these lost men began to band together. It didn't matter
which side of the war you started out fighting for.
Once you began living in the middle, you were no
longer really a soldier. These men were called wild deserters.
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They might be British, French, Belgian, Austrian or German. There
were so many bands in trenches and underground tunnels that
these no longer men could slip back and forth as
they wished, looking for food in any form it was
to be had. A dead body might be dinner, or
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somebody from the night patrol who just happened to wander
by in the dark. As time went on, these deserters
grew in numbers and diminished in humanity. They became more
like zombies or ghouls. The story goes that as the
trenches moved back and forth, if either side found any
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of these no longer men, they were immediately executed. From
November eleventh at eleven o'clock onwards, any wild deserters found
were simply shot and buried where they were found. If
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Back when Art Bell was still hosting Coast to Coast,
he played a lot of what he called bumper music
just before or after a commercial break. One he played
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a lot, and he said he really liked it was
called Boom Boom Bah. The odd thing about this song
is if you check it out, they say that it
is the theme music from a TV show called Dead
Like Me. They only played the song a couple of times.
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It didn't show up until the sixth episode, and like
I said, they only played it once or twice during
the entire run of the show. Art loved that show.
He talked about it a lot. If you've never watched it,
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you're missing out on one strange show. The main character
is dead, so or all of the others, well, they're
actually undead. George Lass is a reaper. She collects souls.
The show is not recommended for kids or a lot
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of adults. Lots of sex and violence, and they swear
more than I ever did. I can't believe this show
used to be on TV unless it was highly edited.
I believe it was two thousand and three that it
was on. That seems like so long ago, while at
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the same time just a few years ago. I had
a hard time watching it back then because I worked
shift work and we didn't have a VSR that we
could record the show with, so I only had I
was only able to catch the episodes once in a while.
Well guess what, It's on YouTube, all the episodes. So
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me and my wife are binging watching every episode we
can and trying to figure out what's going on in
a few of them. Funny thing is Vic Hermanson, when
I mentioned the show to him, said, oh, yeah, that's
that show that Art Bell used to talk about all
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the time. I did a show about half human and
half something else back in July of twenty twenty four.
I got the looking old were some bizarre creatures from
the years, past, decades, past centuries past. Ugh, I thought
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this would be a good time to bring the subject
up again. I know some legends are based on fantasy,
but others are from actual encounters. For example, the unicorn
was a real, live creature. People are Oh, they've never
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found a unicorn skeleton in the fossil record. Well, actually
they have. I hear some of y'all laughing out there.
The ancient Greek writers hold of a creature that lived
in India. It was described as being as big as
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a cow, short stubby legs. Its body was covered in
armor plates that were difficult to pierce with an arrow.
They had one huge horn that stuck out of their
head just above the mouth. The Indian Rhinoceros, also known
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as Rhinocereus unicornis, or the greater one horned rhinosaur, is
a species of rhino found in the Indian subcontinent. It
is the second largest living rhinosaur rh Rhinosaur rhinoceros species,
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with the adult male weighing up to two tons. Its
thick skin is gray brown with pinkish skinfolds. It has
a single horn on its snout that can grow up
to twenty two inches long. Its legs and shoulders are
covered in wart like bumps, and it is nearly hairless
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except for its eyelashes, ear fringe, and tail bush. It
can flutter its eyelashes. That beautiful horse creature that people
think was the unicorn actually came from the Vikings. They
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hired the Inuits to hunt Norwall and cut the tusk off,
which they then sold to Europeans. The Vikings wouldn't hunt
the nor Wall because they were a little worried it
might be a supernatural creature, so they got somebody else
to do it for them. Did not look anything like
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a rhino. As time marched on, legends grow up around
some not so fantastic stories. How many are based on
actual creatures or simply some weird uncle trying to scare
the family. Wild boar is something you don't want to
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mess with. Boor Zilla, the largest wild hog ever caught
in Texas weighed in at seven hundred and ninety pounds.
That's close to the size of the average grizzly bear.
Wild boar have no fear. They will attack anything, including
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us puny humans. They eat anything, including us puny humans.
You can mortally wound a boar and instead of fleeing,
it will still charge and try to kill you. In
ancient Rome, the wild boar was considered a symbol of strength, courage,
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and ferocity. War pigs, not the song. The creature was
an actual thing. They were used as countermeasures against the
war elephants of the Carthaginian general Hannibal at the Battle
of Tribea in two hundred and eighteen BC. The tenth
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Roman legion had a bore as their symbol. People always
say that they used pigs against the elephants, but they
were actually wild boar. Some folks might think the wild
hog problem in parts of the world is kind of
a joke. In Aniak, Texas, in twenty twenty, just east
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of Houston, authorities say a pack of faral hoggs attacked
and killed a woman outside a home where she worked
as a caretaker. Christine Rollins cared for an elderly couple
at their home in a small town. Chambers County Sheriff
Brian Hawthorne said the eighty four year old wa she
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cared for was waiting for Rollins, who lived in Liberty, Texas.
She was supposed to come by Sunday. The woman went
outside and found the fifty nine year old Rollins in
the front yard between her car and the front door.
The sheriff said Rawlins had a severe head wound and
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several other injuries consistent with wild animal bites. The coroner
in neighboring Jefferson County ruled rollins bled to death after
an attack by Farrell hogs. Authorities in Nelson County, North
Dakota are warning people about wild, violent pigs in their region.
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The Sheriff's department says a wild pig tried to attack
a farmer several times just north of Tulna. The pig
was finally put down, vanquished, unalive, killed, made Kurputski. The
attack happened Thursday, April thirteenth, two thousand and three on
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rural farmland. YEP. Just something to keep in mind next
time you're trying to decide if you should carry your
side arm or not. Like Chester Moore says on his
podcast The Dark out Doors, pray, prepare and pack heat.
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Never leave home without it. I can't talk about wild
hogs without mentioning Hogzilla not to be mistaken for Boorzilla.
In two thousand and four, Chris Griffin from Alapaha, Georgia,
said he shot a twelve a foot long hog that
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weighed one thousand pounds. Wild hogs do not make for
good eats. You never see Alton Brown cooking wild hog.
Something about their lifestyle makes the meat not so tasty.
Most wild hogs are either left for scavengers to eat,
or they're buried. Hogzilla had his moment of fame photo taken,
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and then into the dirt he went. Two thousand and five,
the forensic scientists filming an episode of Explorer in the
National Geographic dug up the remains to have a closer look.
What they found was actually closer to eight and a
half feet long and weighing about eight hundred pounds. Still
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a substantial creature, especially if it's trying to kill you.
This thing was a crossbreed between a domesticated pig and
a wild boar. Its tusks were twenty eight inches long.
Picture a tooth that is as long as your own.
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Most fox folks fox what the fox? Most folks walk
around out in the wild with hardly a thought towards
what might be lurking in the underbrush. They hear something
rustling in the grass, the tall grass, and they think, oh,
it's a deer, it's a it's a this, it's a that.
They never stop and think it could be a killer pig.
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I shot a wounded hog with a nine millimeter one time.
It had been run over by a truck and everything
south of the rib cage was smushy, bits and pieces
were hanging out where they shouldn't be hanging out. To
end it suffering, I took careful aim and I put
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one round right between its eyes. The pig attacked me.
It came charging, pushing itself across the ground using just
its front legs. I jumped to the side, and as
the hog got close enough, I put a second round
right behind the ear. Blood squirted out through the hole
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between the eyeballs. And I know, a nine millimeters not
a very big round, and it's not adequate for doing
such a thing, but at the moment it was the
only thing I had. I should have had a forty
five or a ten mil or something. When I hear
coyotes at night, I always wonder what are they laughing about.
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Have they come across a dead hog somewhere and they're
having a picnic. Hogs and boar are not any kind
of cryptid until they get up into the epic size
where experts say they can't possibly be that big, and
then they find one that is eight hundred pound hog.
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That's a lot of bacon, but they don't make bacon.
Way back when things were written in stone, literally and
sometimes on papyrus. There were tales told of the scorpion men.
Some of these were found in Acaddean language from ancient
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Mesopotamia in the epic enuma Elish, which was the standard
Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh. In art work,
the form of the scorpion man varies, though they often
have the head torso in arms of a man, and
they have a tale in the body of a scorpion.
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Scorpion men appeared in the visual arts of the Mesopotamia
and ancient Iran. Among the earliest representations of scorpion men
are the example from the Giroffte in Iran, as well
as a depiction of a bull lyar from the early
domess Dynastic period city of Earth that's where they found
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the stargate, and the epic poem and numa Alish, a
scorpion man is listed among the monsters created by Tiamat
in order to wage war against the gods who had
murdered her husband Apsu. In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh.
They stand guard outside the gates of the sun god
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shamash As at the mountains of Mashu. These gates are
the entrance to Kernougi, the land of darkness. The scorpion
men opened the door for Shamash as he travels out
each day, and they closed the door and the evening
after he returns from the night. When Gilgamesh came to
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Mount Mashu, he encountered scorpion men guarding the gate. A
scorpion women also appear in the Guiltlgamesh story as well.
During his travels, he encountered scorpion men. One of the
men tells his female Gilgamesh carries the flesh of the
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gods in his body. The scorpion woman responds that Gilgamesh
is two thirds god and one third human. I kind
of get the impression that Gilgamesh thought a lot of himself.
The scorpion man hybrid, also known as Acrabuemmulay or Gerta
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blue boy these words Gerta Blilou, is a creature that
can be found in the legends of ancient and Near East.
The creature had been the subject of many debates and theories,
as its origin and symbolism are still unclear. Was it
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real creature seen by Gilgamesh? While historians tend to agree
that Gilgamesh was a historical king of the Samerian city
state of Uruk, and he ruled a sometime during the
early part of the Early Dynastic period around twenty nine
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hundred to twenty three point fifty BC. Assyrian stone reliefs
from the temple at Nunuruta or Kalu or Nunruta at
Kalu A show the god with his thunderbolts pursuing Anzu,
who had just stolen the tablet of destinies from the
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Inlil sanctuary boy. Some of these names are hard to say.
In other stories, Akrabu Melu is said to be a
creature of the god a creation of the god Inki,
who is the god of wisdom and water. Akerabummelu has
the ability to protect the gates of the underworld. In
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some other tales, there are also said to be guardians
of the sun god Shamash, or a protector for the king.
The Babylonian Creation Epic tells that Tiamat first created Aquabummulay
to wage war against all of the younger gods. They
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possessed the ability to see beyond the horizon, and they
would warn travelers of impending danger. According to Akadean writings,
the akra Melu had heads that reached the sky and
their gaze could cause painful death. Artifacts uncovered in Jiroft
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and Anuji districts of Kerman Province Iran revealed that the
scorpion men also played an essential role in the Giroff's mythology.
Acrabemilu is often depicted in art as a fierce warrior
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with the body of a human and the tale of
a scorpion. It is often shown holding a weapon, such
as a sword or a bow and arrow. The creatures
also sometimes are shown wearing armor and a helmet. In
some depictions, these creatures are shown with wings, which may
symbolize their ability to fly. Was there really such a creature?
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If you follow the teachings of Zachariah Sitchin, you'll know
about the ananaki a. Sichin was born July eleventh in
nineteen twenty. He studied ancient languages, and he translated ancient
Sumerian writings about the ananaki A. Sichen said Sameri historians
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told about a planet called Nibiru with an elongated three thousand,
six hundred year long elliptical orbit around the Sun. Sitchen's
books have been sold millions of copies worldwide and have
been translated into more than twenty five languages. Jenanaki, we're
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doing all kinds of genetic splicing to see what would
work well attached to what you know. Put a bull's
head on a chihuahua's body, or put a lion's head
on a giraffe. If these stories are true, maybe the
idea of a scorpion man isn't so wild. I don't
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think it would look anything like the photoshop pictures that
you'll see on the internet. It was probably a little
more messed up looking, but still anything that big with
a scorpion's tail would be a bit off putting. The
boys in the White lab courts, of course, say that
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Sitchen didn't know what he was talking about, but they
waited until after he died to say that. For some
odd reason, anytime the experts want to deride anyone who
has anything to say that they don't agree with, they
almost always wait till they're dead before they start throwing
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mud at them. The Aztec legends also refer to a
similar scorpion men known as seats of Meme. These beings
were believed to be defeated gods who destroyed the sacred
grove of fruit trees and were cast out of the sky.
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The seats of Mime were associated with stars, particularly those
visible during a solar eclipse, and were depicted as skeletal
females wearing skirts with skulls and crossbones, and having the
tale of a scorpion. In the post conquest era, they
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were often referred to as demons or devils. The leader
of the Tisamime was a goddess, It's Popotl, who was
the ruler of to toman Chan, the paradise where the
Titsumime resided. I can't pronounce that volcano's name either. Depending
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on who you are, Titsumime played a dual role, protecting
humans on some occasions and killing them on others. They
just depended on who you were and when you ran
into them. In the Maya legend of popol Vu, a
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kamma zoats is a bat spirit that works in service
of the lords of the underworld. Kama Zoats means death
bat a meso American. Generally, the bat is associated with knight,
death and sacrifice. In the popol Vu, kama zoats are
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encountered by the Mayan hero twins Hanah, Hannah pooh and
zbolink yes. I look these words up on how to
pronounce them several times, stick a microphone in front of me,
and I suddenly cannot pronounce a lot of these. During
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their trials in the underworld of Zibolba, the twins had
to spend the night in the house of bats, where
they squeezed themselves into their own blowguns. That's quite a trick.
In order to defend themselves from the circling bats upstairs,
Hanapu stuck his head out of his blowgun to see
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if the sun had risen, and Kamas Kama Zots immediately
snatched off his head and carried it to the ball court,
where it was going to be used by the gods
in their next game. In classic Maya iconography, the leaf
nosed bat exhales unhealthy vapors and is often depicted as
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a person's nahual or waste spirit, bringing disease over an enemy.
H The classic bat's spirit is rarely, if ever, part
of the narrative context, nor does it appear to play
the role of assigned to it by the poupo vu.
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The ancient Maya had hundreds of deities that they believed
watched over humanity, established order, and controlled the realm of
the dead. Many of these gods and spirits were somewhat
off putting them. Portrayed as an anthropomorphic leaf nosed bat,
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Kamatzots was a spirit of death, knight, and sacrifice. He
fed on blood, and legend says he even played a
role in the origin of sacrificial rituals the Mayans were
so well known for. Experts believe Kamazots was inspired by
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a giant vampire bat that used to swarm the skies
over Central America. One of these species of bats, de
Mesodis d'raculi, is known to be extinct today, or at
least they hope it is, but it's nearly two foot wingspanned,
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It had a tendency to prey on deer and other
larger animals. It had a thing for big creatures with
blood in them. Today, vampire bats are tailless and are
considerably medium sized, with a length of about two to
three and a half inches. Their weight is variable owing
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to the large volume of blood that a bat ingests.
A two ounce bat can double in its weight during
one feeding. Its fur is short ranging in color, from
brown to reddish orange. Its wings are long and pointed.
The first segment of the thumb is exceptionally long, enabling
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it to hop and creep in a strangely agile but
frog like manner. The common vampire bat is the only
bat that is capable of taking off from the ground.
It uses its long thumbs to leap about three feet
into the air before flying off. Any other bat laying
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on the ground is not able to get airborne. Be
careful if you go to pick one up, though. They
do tend to carry rabies except the well, that's one
of those things people tell you, Oh, be careful of bats.
They do carry rabies on occasion. According to ancient stories
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handed down over the centuries, kamazants was said to fly
out of caves, grab victims by the neck, and pull
their heads off, and then drink their blood. This i
idea may have come from one of the most well
known legends about the death bat. The stories of kamazots
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are still around today. In the nineteen fifties, a couple
walking in Pelotoss, Brazil, late one night reported seeing two
large humanoids in a tree. Authorities wrote them off, insisting
they'd simply spotted a large bird, but then the sightings
continued to come. In nineteen seventy six, two girls saw
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a large bird like figure they described as having a
gorilla like face. The next day, it was discovered the
creature had left behind several three toed tracks. Sightings of
this bird or bat with a gorilla face have occurred
as far north as parts of Texas, where several farmers
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have said that they have encountered these beasts in their fields.
With so many sightings on record, it's difficult to write
off the existence of some sort of a humanoid back
creature that flies around and likes to feed on people's livestock.
The kamisotes sounds a lot like the batsquatch that was
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seen near Mount Saint Helen's in the nineteen eighties. It
resembles a flying primate the similar to an ahul or
a rang bati or Southeast Asia. One witness took several
pictures of the creature, but these images have yet to
be analyzed by experts. If they are ever analyzed by
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these experts, they're going to say that they're not real,
or it's paradolia, or it's just people are all stupid,
or something like that. It's amazing how these experts can
look at a photograph of an actual, honest to god
crypt it and say that's not what you think you're seeing.
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You're nuts. Anytime any show, I don't care what it is.
If I'm watching it, they bring in the expert who's
going to debunk everything. It's like it's time to watch
something else. Sighting of the batsquatches began in the nineteen eighties,
shortly after the eruption of Mount Saint Helen's. Reports from
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this period describe it as a monkey like creature with
red eyes and wings. Remember the flying monkeys from The
Wizard of Oz. April nineteen ninety four, Brian Cainfield was
driving in Washington, Pierce County when his truck suddenly died.
Canfield said a large creature landed in front of him.
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He said it was human looking, It was nine feet tall,
and it had enormous bat like wings. It was covered
in bluish fur. As canefield reports became well known, a
series of new reports came in. A person named Butch
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Whittaker reported that he was in a private plane in
the vicinity of Canefield's encounter with the batsquatch when he
saw one flying. Nineteen ninety eight, a truck driver hauling
logs in northern Oregon reported a collision with a batsquatch.
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This creature was described as being fifteen feet tall with
purple eyes, nose, and small wings. Two thousand and nine,
near Mount Shasta in California, several hikers witnessed a huge
creature with leathery wings spanning about fifty feet fly out
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of a crevice in a mountain. At first, and eyewitnessed
described the creature as having a head similar to a pterodactyl. However,
upon reconsideration, the witness said that it was more like
a flying fought fox bat. That's the one that you
almost always see in a movie that they claim as
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a vampire bat, fruit bat or fox bat they eat
rotting fruit. April fourteenth, twenty fourteen, at the Archbishop Hobbin
High School in Akron, Ohio, a second period Spanish class
spotted a giant black mass zipped by the window of
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the classroom at incredible speed. The students all said it
looked like a nine foot tall human with a twenty
to thirty foot wingspan. In Greek legends, they have the
hecatone cheris or the hundred handed one, also called the
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hundred handed or the sentimentus I like the sentimonus better
it's easier to pronounce. These were three monstrous giants of
enormous strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms.
They were individually named Cotis the Furious, Barius the Sea Goat,
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and Geigis the long limbed. How come the first guy
gets the cool name. They were the offspring of Uranus
and Gaia. These three helped Zeus and the Olympians overthrow
the Titans during their epic battle. According to the theogony
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of Hacid Hacid, they were the last children of Uranus
to be born, while according to the mythographer Apollodorus, they
were the first children born. In the Hesiodic tradition, they
played a key role in the Greek succession stories, which
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told how the Titan Chronos overthrew his father Uranus, and
how in turn Zeus overthrew Chronos and his fellow Titans,
and how Zeus was eventually established as the final and
permanent ruler of the Cosmos. They had a very violent
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story back then. The hundred Handers, along with their brothers
the Cyclops, were imprisoned by their father Uranus. Gaia induced
Chronus to castrate Uranus. Good Lord, what a story, and
Chronos took over the supremacy of the Cosmos with his sister,
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the Titanus Rhea. Chronos fathered several offspring, yes his own sister,
but he swallowed each of them at birth because he
was afraid that his children were going to do to
him what he had done to his old man. Well,
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Zeus was spared by this for by Rhea because she
actually gave Chronos a rock to swallow and then hid
Zeus away in a cave. Eventually, when Zeus was old enough,
he freed his brothers and sisters by cutting Chronos open,
and then they went to battle with him and his minions.
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Very interesting stories. Back then, a guy had foretold that
with the help of the hundred handers, the Olympians would
be victorious. So Zeus released them from their captivity, and
the hundred handers fought alongside the Olympians against the Titans
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and were instrumental in their defeat. The Titans were then
imprisoned and Tartarus with the hundred handers as their prison guards.
One hundred hands that's just way too many. How would
you manage so many digits one hundred hands, that's five
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hundred fingers fifty heads. Who is going to be in charge?
I have enough trouble just trying to manage one. But
that was the Greek mythology or was it based on
something real and just the guy telling the story got
a little carried away with his numbers In these flanders.
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In Belgium, people fear the nocturnal clue Day or shouting monster.
People know him as a horrifying tormentor. Some people have
described the clue Day as a furry about as big
as a large dog that works on its walks on
its hind legs, with heavy beaded bracelets on each arm
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and ankle. It has claws like a bear, a black
maw bat wings with green glistening scales on its back,
and crimson glowing eyes. The creature is always depicted as
being male. One of his claims to fame as he
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drags children into the river. The origin story of the
clue Day is found in the mid eighteenth century. Just
outside a forest near a small town of village called
Ternat in Belgium, there was an old, broken down cottage
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and nobody knew where it had come from or how
long it had been there. Woman, who was said to
have been a hideous evil woman like the devil. She
was also said to be in league with Old Scratch,
lived in this cottage. The villagers believed that they had
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to do something to drive her away, as it was
only a matter of time before the evil that she
was working with would infect their town. The men of
Turnout wished to burn the witch, like that scene in
The Holy Grail. Burn the witch. She turned me into
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a newt I got better. The villagers wanted to get
rid of her, but none would dare do so. She
might kill them back instead. One night, during a thunderstorm,
the town okay, trying to again. One night, during a thunderstorm,
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lightning struck the old cottage m the witch inside was
burned to death. Three days later, a group from the
village went to inspect the charred rubble, and they found
her blackened corpse. Even being dead, the villagers were still
afraid of her. She might still kill them back. A
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wealthy landowner who wished to purchase the property so he
could have more land, sent his servants over to do
something about that dead witch. They took shovels and pitchforks,
and they went to the corpse to bury it. You
can't have a dead witch laying around your property. The
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moment one of the servants touched the corpse, the ground shook,
the sky resounded with a thunderclap. The burnt corpse split open,
and a small, ash covered man clumb out. Within moments,
he grew to an astonishing height. His body contorted, He screamed,
and then growled. His face extended into a wolf like snout,
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his legs curved and bent into those of a dog.
Claws grew on his feet in his hands, and he
became the clue Day. With the beast now fully formed,
the clue Day ran off in search of clothing. You
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have a monster that is embarrassed about being naked, a
modest monster. I can't have a naked monster running around
the place. As the monster ran away, it was heard
yelling cludin, which translates to clothing. Other times, the name
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has morphed over time. The name has morphed the clue Day.
We can call this thing the clothes monster. They have
never in my life heard of a monster that was
embarrassed about being naked until now. As for the witch,
her corpse had become a pool of black sludge. Folks
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began to say that the witch had given birth to
a monster that was there to spoil the land. Returning
back to the village, the men told others that the
town was now cursed because the witch had given birth
to a clue Day in order to rain havoc across
the land. I still can't get over the idea of
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a squeemish monster. A group of villagers was rounded up
to hunt the clue Day, but this turned out to
be more of a challenge than they thought. The clue
Day was a shapeshifter and could take on many different forms.
Several hunters witnessed its shape shifting into a large bird
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that was on fire. It dragged a long chain behind it.
Others saw it turn into a large white and red
haired dog, a small white rabbit, a starving horse, a stallion,
a pig, and even a woman. The hunters continued chasing
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the Clue da through the forest over the course of
several weeks. The clue Dae was reportedly making butter and
milk turn rancid and rendering cows and horses in fertile
simply by being near them. There were claims the Clue
da wasn't as dangerous as it appeared. It simply wandered around,
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scaring drunkards and laughing at their screams. Others told of
more malevolent acts, such as killing a stable full of horses,
kidnapping and defiling young women who were walking through the
forest at night. The hunters eventually caught up to the
Clue Day, but found all their weapons were ineffective. Arrows
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and pitchforks simply passed right through it, and then it
would laugh at them as it just stood there unharmed.
One man tried to grab the clue d with his
bare hands, and he said it was like trying to
grasp smoke of another. Man was somehow able to pin
the clue d to a wall, but the beast simply
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shot fire into his eyes and killed him. The clue
Dae escaped, and to this day many have claimed to
see it on in one of its many disguises. It's
said to haunt the lonely roads, looking for those traveling alone.
If you're lucky, it might just play a prank on you.
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While others have disappeared and have never been seen again.
As time moved on, the Clue Day began being as
time moved on. The clue Da was being created from
any cremated bodies of witches or wizards, so now you
had more than one running around. It can move at
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immeasurable speed. Some say if you're able to kill a
clue Day, seven more creatures would crawl from its corpse.
He likes to play dangerous games, such as glomping. He
glomps unsuspecting passers by and becomes increasingly heavy while sitting
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on them. I'd never heard of glomping before, so I
had to look it up. To Glomp is to lunge
enthusiastically over the top and potentially dangerously hug so that
other begin to have a difficulty breathing. You run at somebody,
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kind of tackle them, and then squeeze them in your arms. Yeah,
I'm seeing glomping suddenly becoming popular out there. The monster
can sometimes be found in the reeds, underbridges and inside
hollow trees. If you're out for a stroll in Flanders
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and you run into a clue Day, you had best
run as fast as you can. If the creature's gaining
on you throw your handkerchief on the ground. That is,
if you still carry a handkerchief, which most folks don't.
Today the booger vault is fallen out of fashion. I
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never thought a handkerchief would save my life. The clue
Day seeing a handkerchief on the ground, will be overpowered
into stopping and tearing the thing into tiny pieces while
you continue to run away. The clue Day has an
ability to change into a wide assortment of animals, such
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as ravens, snakes, cats, frogs, bats. It can also turn
into a tree that grows to enormous heights. Other times
he will show up looking like a human being, just anything.
In other words, don't trust anyone they might be a
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clue Day. Sometimes he appears as a horse and he
will offer to give people a ride. I don't know
how a horse offers to give you a ride, but
it offers you a ride. If you climb onto the
horse's back. He will immediately run to the nearest river
or stream, dash out into the water, and then shake
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you off, making you fall into the water when he
gets up on the bank of the river and laughs
at you. Other times people believe that the clue Da
is a werewolf or a demon. Just depends on who
you talk to. The first written record of the clue
Day's appearance was penned in eighteen forty internet by the
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Baron of Saint Genoese. This back writing shapeshifter appeared in
Brabant and Flanders, where he lived in the Dendre, which
is a forty mile long river. In Austen. He is
considered a Necker or a Nix, and the flat country
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knows him as a werewolf. A Necker or a Nix
is a spirit who dwells in quiet rivers and lakes
in England, Germany and Scandinavia. Their love of water is
equal only by their love of music, and their beautiful
songs often draw listeners to the banks of their watery homes.
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In human form, they usually have an elegant appearance, although
their features may be just a bit sharp looking. Their
ears and their eyes are sharper than usual, and their
hair and their skin might be tinted green or blue.
In more extreme cases, they may have gills of bulbous
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eyes and webbed hands and feet. Their garments, of those
stylish are chronically wet around the edges. Sounds like somebody
I worked with flue Day cause fear and confusion, and
they drink green pond water, but they avoid crosses and
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consecrated areas. In other words, they won't go into churchyards
or churches. Flu Dach do all kinds of weird things,
but a lot of it is just pranks. Clue Da
come out at night in the Flemish mists. He has
earned his name from the call that he cries while
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fleeing clue Da clue Day as a shape shifter, he
has no fixed appearance, and clue Dae has been encountered
in the forms of great black dogs with a rattling
chain that it drags behind them, a half starved horse,
a sheep, a cat, a bat, a frog, or a tree.
The only constant in clue da transformation is the presence
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of two blue flames that are flighting around where its
eyes should be. Now these are all clue Day, but
from different parts of different regions of the area. Some
say that the pranks that the clue d play are
mischievous but not deadly. In the guise of a black
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dog or a werewolf, he'll jump on a person's neck
and vanish after wrestling the victim to the ground. As
a horse, he tricks people into riding and then he
gallops and knocks them off into a river or a
streams as a tree, the clue Dae will start out
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as a small sapling, growing either in the middle of
the road or right close to the edge, and then
suddenly it'll sprout forth and shoot up into the sky,
becoming as tall as the clouds. Suddenly. Ode rode Ogan
or the Old Red Eyes, which is also called the
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Beast of Flanders, was a spirit reported in Belgium in
the eighteenth century who would take the form of a
large black dog with fiery red eyes. In Wallania, the
southern region of Belgium, folk tales mention the chained hound,
a hellish dog that is once again dragging along chain.
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It was thought to roam the fields at night. In
Germany and the Czech Republic, it was said that the
devil would appear in the form of a large black
dog in East Groningen. In the northern parts of Holland
there was the Boris, a ghostly black dog with huge
glowing eyes. Now could this all be the same creature,
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just different parts of the world, or are we dealing
with more than one creature here? Why do so many
cultures have similar creatures in them? The Gabriel hounds are
said to rerelated to the black dog, also related to
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hell hounds and yeth hounds stories in English folklore. They
possess the heads of human infants, with glowing white eyes
and dog like bodies. These hounds are heard more often
than seen. Their presence is made known by eerie wailing cries.
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They've been known to travel in pairs or packs. If
a Gabriel hound is witnessed flying over a house, legend
says that doom will fall upon that household. If a
person is on their deathbed, the hound as cries are
said to indicate it is time for that person to go.
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Once the person is dead, the hounds are rumored to
capture the soul of the person who has died. A
Gabriel hounds are also called Gabriel ratchet and sky yelpers.
Once a Gabriel hound appears in an area, it may
remain for weeks or months. Is seeking out victims and
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terrorized the locals with its horrific cries or their horrific cries.
It is rumored that black magicians summoned these hounds in
order to perform evil deeds and to reveal hidden treasure.
It is also said that a Gabriel hound's origins may
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be utilized by powerful magicians organs not origins organs. How
in the heck would you use somebody's origins for magic? Yeah,
the Gabriel hounds organs can be used for powerful magic.
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A Gabriel hound may disappear and then re materialize anywhere
within fifty yards of its original location. The hound's disappearance
is preceded by a shimmering like the darn what's that
thing they're always talking about? On expanded perspectives, the glimmer man.
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It starts to shimmer and then it disappears. If you
happen to be touching the hound as it begins to shimmer,
you will vanish along with the hound. Then you will
reappear whereof the hound reappears. If it should decide to
reappear high up off the ground, you're going to fall
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down and hurt something. Sometimes a Gabriel hound will attach
itself to a person. The creature will slowly drain away
all of the victim's energy to the point of death.
The only way to end the curse is by destroying
the hound. However, nobody seems to know how to destroy
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a great Gabriel Hound. It just says you have to
do it. This may have been used to explain away consumption,
which is today known as tuberculosis. Somebody has incorporated the
Gabriel Hounds into a game. I got all kinds of
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information on these creatures, only to find it's all game rules.
Legend meets modern technology. Just because somebody gives a creature
a name, or they use a creature from ancient times
doesn't mean they invented that creature. It just means they
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put it in a game or gave it a name,
like the pale Crawler. The Dip is a Catalina legend,
a legendary being. It's an evil, hairy dog who is
an emissary of the devil and is seen to be
lame in one leg It feeds by sucking on people's blood.
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According to legend, the Dip sucked the blood out of
cattle they only moved about at night. Among their other
victims were folks who frequented bars drinking establishments and found
themselves staggering around in the dark. You'd think drinking the
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blood from somebody who was toasted, the dogs would become
quite drunk as well. At the entrance to Prot Dip,
Spain is a monument devoted to this being. Because of
his thirst for blood, the Dip served to inspire Joanne
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Peruco in his novel Lists Historia's Naturalis or Natural Stories
of the sixties, He tells the story of on a
free day Dip, a vampire with the ability to transform
ormond animals. This story takes place in Prot Dip at
the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the midst of
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the First Carlist War, and the Dip is actually an
ambassador of James, the first of the Conqueror, who seven
hundred years earlier had gone to the Carpathians on a
diplomatic mission, where he had been attacked by a vampire.
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The Carpathian Mountains are in Romania, you know that part
they call Transylvania. In other parts of Spain, such as
the Canary Islands, there's a belief in a being or
an evil spirit in the form of a wooly dog
known as a Goyota, the demon. Nineteen fourteen, German troops
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had occupied Monz, Belgium. The British, in their first foray
into the battle during World War One, marched in to
try to liberate the area. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the
German army not only dug trenches, they made them livable.
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The sides were reinforced, the floors were sloped so that
water would drain. There were bridges so that troops could
move over the trenches without having to climb down and
then back up. The British high command, the folks in
the rear with the gear, decided that trenches should not
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be improved because the idea was the soldiers wouldn't feel
motivated to climb out and charge the enemy. Most British
trenches were just a hole in the ground trying to
oust the Germans. The British soon discovered they're not going
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to secede in just a few days, not even a
few years. The area between the German and the British
lines became known as no man's land. It was where
most of the dying took place. One side of the
other would jump up and run across this open area
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while the other side shot at them. The ability to
kill had far outpaced the idea of tactics. During the
first few months of the war, at sun up and sundown,
both sides would stand two, which meant they were either
ready to attack or to repel an attack. Once the
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stand i was over, troops would try to relax and
find things to do that did not involve killing or dying.
If an attack was launched and hundreds of men were
shot out in no man's land, after the shooting had stopped,
both sides would walk out into the battlefield to recover
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the dead and wounded. After several months of this, somebody
got the idea that anyone out in no man's land
was a target. So suddenly you were not able to
recover the dead or the wounded, and they simply laid
where they fell. The wounded had one of two choices.
(01:01:30):
They could crawl back to their own lines, or they
could lay there and wait for death. Shells rained down
from above, landing in between the two sides, causing the
land to take on more of a moonscape. Bomb craters
were everywhere. In some places, the two sides were only
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a few hundred yards apart. Barbed wire was strung back
and forth, making a charge less manageable. Trip Wires with
cans filled with stones were used to alert the centuries
at night. As one side would succeed in an attack,
the other would withdraw The lines began to wander about.
(01:02:16):
Soon the battlefield was a mass of trenches that might
be on either side. Depending on the time of the day,
you might find yourself fighting from a German trench or
shooting into a formerly British trench. Snipers became quite popular.
They would sit in a spot, waiting and watching for movement.
(01:02:39):
Any part of a soldier that appeared above the top
of the trench was a target. As their abilities improved,
as snipers began using shields to protect themselves. These could
be just a steel plate to hide behind, or a
metal housing that gave cover from the front, the sides,
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and the top. At night, the barbed wire fencing needed
to be repaired, intel needed to be gathered. Soldiers from
either side would be voluntold they were going to go
out on a night patrol. Each man had to be
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sure that there was nothing that might make a sound,
giving the snipers a heads up to their movements. All
their gear was tied down or left behind. Rifles were
exchanged for bayonets or trench knives. In total darkness, the
squad would sneak out to fulfill their mission. Squads of
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soldiers would venture out moving in the darkness, time would
tick by, the century would watch for their return. If
by sun up the squad had not come back, it
was assumed they'd been captured by the enemy. On occasion,
the men on duty through the night would hear blood
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curdling screams coming from the middle. Stories began to be
told of some crazed killer lurking out there in the mud,
waiting for a patrol to come by. Some said this
was some lunatic that had been released from the Germans
and set out there to kill anyone that had encountered.
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After too many missing soldiers, centuries began seeing or hearing
a huge black hound moving around out in no man's land.
A few lucky soldiers actually managed to get back after
their night patrol, telling stories of something that had followed
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them all night long. This thing had been picking them
off one by one. It was a huge dog, as
big as a horse, with glowing red eyes. What neither
side knew was this was happening to both sides. This
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creature became known as the Hound of Mons. The stories
of a different kind of monster e merged. Soldiers would
find themselves trapped between the two sides as thirst and
hunger took over. They might decide that that dead guy
was looking mighty tasty. Having both sides a shooting at you,
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these lost men began to band together. It didn't matter
which side of the war you started out fighting for.
Once you began living in the middle, you were no
longer really a soldier. These men were called wild deserters.
(01:05:53):
They might be British, French, Belgian, Austrian or German. There
were so many bands in trenches and underground tunnels that
these no longer men could slip back and forth as
they wished, looking for food in any form it was
to be had. A dead body might be dinner, or
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somebody from the night patrol who just happened to wander
by in the dark. As time went on, these deserters
grew in numbers and diminished in humanity. They became more
like zombies or ghouls. The story goes that as the
trenches moved back and forth, if either side found any
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of these no longer men, they were immediately executed. From
November eleventh at eleven o'clock onwards, any wild deserters found
were simply shot and buried where they were found. If
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