The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings - Galaksija

The husband of another witness, Hugh Kennedy, described it this way: ”It was a large cat-like
animal, similar to a lynx. It was larger than my blue cattle dog, possibly eighteen to twenty inches
in height, tawny colored, with a long, smooth, cat-like tail. The body was long, narrow, and sleek.
”The most frightening part was the cat-like head, small pointed ears, and terrific fangs. It hissed like
a cat and used its front paws to keep off the dogs. Unfortunately, by the time the wife had returned
to the house to get a rifle, the animal had vanished. However, it was afraid neither of dogs nor
humans.”
The town of Emmaville, Australia, was caught up in a routine monster panic in the early 1960s
when a beast killed seventy sheep, sometimes eating four in one night and leaving nothing but the
hides. Although many people saw the culprit, it was never caught or killed. One witness described
the thing that ran in front of his auto headlights as being about two feet high, with slender back legs,
smallish back paws, a heavy head, a long tail with a blunt end, and irregular, black and white stripes
on both body and tail.
In Furred Animals of Australia, author Ellis Troughton remarked:
Although such an animal has been reported on several occasions, no specimen has ever
reached any museum to verify the occurrence scientifically. There are often simple
explanations for such reports, but the consistency of the accounts suggests the possibility of
the presence of some large carnivorous marsupial of the dasyurid family (which includes the
thylacine).
In future, observers should make every effort to obtain both the skull and complete skin of a
specimen and ensure the preservation by heavy salting before forwarding the remains to the
local museum... The failure of observers to obtain any parts of the hide, hair, or skull, casts
much doubt over the reports of such an animal.
The thylacine, referred to above, is the Tasmanian tiger, a freakish and elusive beast found on the
island of Tasmania. It has been caught and caged. It looks something like a cross between a mongrel
dog and a hyena, has stripes on its back, and comes equipped with a kangaroo-like pouch in which
it carries its young. Before one of these animals was finally brought to bay, you can imagine the
kind of reaction Tasmanian witnesses got when they reported seeing a giant striped dog carrying its
young in a pouch.
Gippsland, Australia, has produced another Unbelievable. It is a giant earthworm which looks like a
garden hose and grows to as much as ten feet in length. It burrows deep in the earth and is hard to
catch because it can coat itself with a very slippery lubricating fluid. But it has been caught and
studied, as has another monstrous Australian worm known as the Megascolides. In the Bulletin of
the New York Zoological Society (March-April 1938), Charles Barrett announced, ”I have seen
many specimens extending seven feet when extended, and a number about two feet longer. My
record Megascolides was over ten feet.”
If you ever go fishing for a sea serpent you should probably use a Megascolides for bait. The trick
to catching one, according to the experts, is to tie it in a knot so it can't burrow into the ground and
get away from you. It can squirt its lubricating fluid a couple of feet, so wear old clothes.
Perhaps giant earthworms may account for some of the grotesque snake stories that have been
produced in nearly every state over the years. Enormous reptiles, sometimes described as being
twenty feet or more in length, are seen with astonishing frequency in the United States but, so far as
science knows, no snakes of such unusual size exist here at all. Minor constrictors such as the king
snake and the black snake are common enough and can grow to six or seven feet in length on a diet
of rodents and smaller snakes. But they avoid men. In fact, contrary to all the Hollywood jungle
movies, even the largest known boa constrictors will not wantonly attack anything they cannot
swallow – which, of course, includes man. In self-defense a boa will wrap itself around a man, bite
him, and hammer at his head with its bony snout, inspiring considerable discomfort. But there is
only one reasonably documented story about a boa attempting to swallow a human being. This is
supposed to have occurred in the jungles of Burma during World War II, when some Japanese