The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings - Galaksija
The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings - Galaksija
The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings - Galaksija
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ONE<br />
A WORLD FILLED WITH AMBLING NIGHTMARES<br />
No matter where you live on this planet, someone within two hundred miles of your home has had a<br />
direct confrontation with a frightening apparition or inexplicable ”monster” within the last<br />
generation. Perhaps it was even your cousin or your next-door neighbor. <strong>The</strong>re is a chance – a very<br />
good one – that sometime in the next few years you will actually come face to face with a giant<br />
hair-covered humanoid or a little man with bulging eyes, surrounded by a ghostly greenish glow.<br />
An almost infinite variety of known and unknown creatures thrive on this mudball and appear<br />
regularly year after year, century after century. Uncounted millions of people have been terrified by<br />
their unexpected appearances in isolated forests, deserted highways, and even in the quiet back<br />
streets of heavily populated cities. Whole counties have been seized by ”monster mania,” with<br />
every available man joining armed posses to beat the bushes in search for the unbelievable<br />
somethings that have killed herds of cows and slaughtered dogs and horses.<br />
Over the past hundred years, thousands of intriguing human interest items have appeared in<br />
newspapers all over the world, describing incredible encounters with awesome creatures unknown<br />
to science. Can all these items be hoaxes and journalistic jokes? Can we believe that the major wire<br />
services, whose very existence depends on their reliability, employ men to concoct and circulate<br />
irresponsible tales about hairy giants and helmed pygmies stepping from circular flying machines?<br />
Can we conclude that the millions of badly frightened people who have reported such encounters to<br />
the local police and authorities are merely pathological liars and lunatics?<br />
We know that our little planet is infested with remarkable animals and insects that defy common<br />
sense. Have you ever considered the total absurdity of the giraffe? Or that inane rodent, the<br />
lemming, swarms of which periodically march across miles of ice in the Arctic to drown themselves<br />
in the sea?<br />
Scientists had a good laugh in 1856, when Paul du Chaillu returned from the Congo and described<br />
his encounter with a hairy giant. ”He stood about a dozen yards from us, and was a sight I think I<br />
shall never forget,” du Chaillu reported. ”Nearly six feet high, with immense body, huge chest, and<br />
great muscular arms, with fiercely glaring large deep gray eyes... he stood there and beat his breast<br />
with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass drum.”<br />
We know now that du Chaillu was the first white man to meet a gorilla in Africa. Gorillas did not<br />
exist in 1856 simply because the desk-bound scientists of London and Paris said they did not exist.<br />
People are still seeing things that do not exist scientifically. <strong>The</strong>y are seeing them in Nebraska, in<br />
England, in Siberia, in South East Asia, and in national parks everywhere.<br />
A Reuters dispatch from Malaysia on August 15, 1966, reported that an ape twenty-five feet tall was<br />
on the loose. Residents of the little village of Segamat were quoted in the Malay Mail as describing<br />
a shy, harmless giant who blundered about in the bushes, leaving huge eighteen-inch footprints in<br />
his wake. <strong>The</strong> report speculated that perhaps the giant ape was on the move because of the pressure<br />
of advancing civilization and the loss of feeding grounds.<br />
An ape twenty-five feet tall is a biological impossibility. But that does not mean that one cannot<br />
exist.<br />
Berwick, Nova Scotia, sounds exotic and faraway. Actually it is on the Canadian peninsula lying<br />
just off the coast of Maine. In April 1969 a giant eighteen-foot-tall figure was seen by many<br />
residents on the outskirts of that little town in the Annapolis valley, according to the Evening News.<br />
It was allegedly a ”tall, very dark form” seen striding about the landscape at a speed of about twenty<br />
miles per hour. After the initial witnesses reported the ”Phantom,” as it became known, local police<br />
had to assign two cars to the area to control the bumper-to-bumper traffic.<br />
People in Nova Scotia have been seeing all kinds of oddities for years. Giant luminous snakes that<br />
appeared suddenly and melted away mysteriously were reported there in 1967.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se things are ”erratics” and ”anomalies.” <strong>The</strong>y have been entertaining us for years, and their