Are Photos of Borneo's Monster Snake Real? Scientific American
Computer science professor Hany Farid of Dartmouth University is an expert on digital photography forensics, but he has some problems putting down the photos cryptozoologist Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo hints are fakes. Commentary by readers of this article add to the confusion. Recent publication of the photos in offline media have said the photos were snapped last month, but have these photos actually been on the Internet since 2007? In other coverage of the same photos: Two Pictures Show the 100-Foot 'Borneo Monster'; Borneo Monster, a Giant 100-Foot-Long Snake, Haunts the Baleh River; and Are Photographs a Fake of a Giant Snake? Meanwhile, as the debate concerning these photos and some other stories of cryptids continues, Cryptomundo offers a look at the role of the professional naysayers in Short-Sheeting by Skeptics.
Nick Redfern, investigator of all things that resonate with high strangeness, puts on his columnist's hat for an examination of the beasts of legend, lore and history from the world's smallest continent, Australia. Redfern discourses on such Aussie monsters as the Bigfoot-like Yowie, the giant monitor-lizard Megalania and the Thylacine, also called the Tasmanian Tiger. Elsewhere, Redfern visits with Richard Thomas at Binnall of America for the interview presented in A Sci Fi Worlds Interview with Nick Redfern. Meanwhile, those recent tales of Yetis in Siberia may not be as believable as first reported, as Loren Coleman notes in Siberian Yeti Story: "Sorry, It's a Mistake".
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G,day I am from down under, and here at Lightning Ridge in Australia there have been sightings of a small, under 4 foot hairy humanoid creature, like a small Yowie. Aborigine tales talk of there being a smaller version of the Yowie that lives in holes in the ground or caves, and who smell very bad when they are near.
Nexus had a good article about the Australian Yowie.
Lord Of The Rings depicts a creature called Gollum, who is called 'Little Stinker' by Sam and who stinks of the bog.
On another note please see my sci-fi novel Doom Of The Shem, doomoftheshem.blogspot.com.
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