bintananth
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You might be thinking of this:
The females actually do get up to about 40+ft.
The Cryptid/ Unexplained Event/ Paranormal Thread.
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The females actually do get up to about 40+ft.
many veteran sailors claimed so.And,that they saw few kinds of sea snake,too.
So,both exist,or at least existed.
Some people I served with saw very weird creatures at sea. One went outside around dusk to have a cigarette and saw a large eye starring at him from the water. He believes it was either a Giant Squid or Giant Octopus. As to the Sea Snakes. Tons of people I served with saw those things. Hard to miss a 30 plus ft long snake swimming right next to your boat.
bintananth
behind a desk
With old sea stories the size of what they encountered was probably exaggerated to make the story more impressive ... but sometimes isn't:
The Wave That Changed Science
Over the centuries many sailors described seeing huge ocean waves, monsters of the seas that towered to heights of 30 meters and more. Those Rogue Waves, as they were called, appeared suddenly and rammed into the unfortunate vessel. Scientists tended to ignore these stories. They considered them...
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December 1942: RMS Queen Mary got hit by a rogue wave and listed 52 degrees. RMS Queen Mary is about the same size as a nuclear powered supercarrier. She almost capsized while taking the 29th Infantry Division to Europe. Just a little bit more and you've got the worst naval disaster ... ever.
She's still afloat and docked in Long Beach, California.
And,according to what i read,there is more than one kind of sea snakes - some look like fishes,other like mammals,other like reptiles.
If i go to sea and claimed that i sea monster,it probably mean some strange wave or normal animal.
But veteran sailors who saw them must be right.
Bear Ribs
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A decade ago, National Geographic estimated that we only knew about 16% of the world's species and the rest were still waiting to be discovered.
Now granted, a majority of those are going to be tiny nimals, it's simply easier for us to see a moose than to notice a new species of flea.... on land. The thing is, it's the opposite in the oceans. Abyssal Gigantism is a thing, when you reach the abyssal zone suddenly sea life starts taking the entire growth feat chain. On top of that, we've only managed to explore 5% of the deep sea floor, where things get really huge. There's a lot of space for weirdness down there.
The probability of really massive monsters in the deep sea we've never seen is very high. And we've seen some stuff...
The giant of kandahar story is, frankly, asinine. Real life is not Attack on Titan where giant humanoids can just jump and attack off ledges like a mountain lion, or subsist in caves for who knows how long without going out hunting for large amounts of food - where the locals would surely notice them and probably kill a few of them. And if they were vastly advanced with technology, they wouldn't be howling and attacking armed soldiers with a spear
In any case, that story was a fabrication from the start
Dude we have put men on the moon. It still does not mean we don't have Stone Age tribes in the Amazon today. And Folklore from all over Eurasia talk about these beings for Thousands of years up to the present day. Newsflash the Tribesman in Afghanistan warned US troops about these beings when they first arrived. But the Brass chose to ignore such warnings until the truth bit them in the ass a few times. You may not believe in Supernatural beings. But those beings don't care about you not believing in them.
How would a hypothetical 13 foot tall humanoid sustain itself calorically, without being blatantly obvious and more well known to the world? And creatures of that size coming out of their cave to hunt, would inevitably come into conflict with the natives of the region. They would end up dead.
Not to mention the story of the creature jumping off the ledge like it's a mountain lion impaling the soldier is asinine. 13 foot tall, half-ton plus bipedal creatures are not moving like that unless they have an INSANE metabolism ... which, would further necessitate them having to eat and, thus, hunt out in the open very often.
It just doesn't add up
It is a Supernatural being and not a normal creature. Why would you think it have normal biological functions.
But the Americans did manage to kill one of them, right?
Yes because just like Fairies which are vulnerable to Iron and Some Supernaturals that are vulnerable to Copper. Destroying a Giants head or Beheading it will kill it. Attacking any other place on a Giants body will do no damage to them. It is why King David when he was young and faced Goliath cut Goliath's head off with a sword because Goliath was not dead yet. Just knocked unconscious. Giant have scary amount of regeneration in Native Lore. Like the Giant Judaculla. Who is Judaculla? Historical Marker
And he was no lightweight in combat.
That place seems to be Cryptid Central. The amount of strange beast in their Folklore is kind of alarming. More so than other areas on the planet.