Myths include, a giant snake in Congo, from the 1960s, that was so big it could rise over 20 metres and reach a flying helicopter, Sounds crazy, even though some snakes get over 20 foot long. Another from Congo is a myth of brontosaurus Mokele mbembe, which was believed in as of mentions by Pygmy tribesmen that such a creature existed, from the early 20th Century, but it was many feel a miss understanding in language about crocodiles or rhinos. So Congo had the dinosaur as a myth that could be believed in, no wonder some guy thought up King Kong and the likes. There are also myths of some sloths of giant size, giant sloths, surviving in the Americas, but that is also unproven.  There was a documentary crew that followed a explorer and his team in the early part of this century. 

In summary, very cool thinking, I mean I am no fan of some conspiracy theorising but this kind of thing is fun., Like that idea about the Silurian hypothesis, that humanity is just a 2nd or 3rd great clever civilisation that followed different clever lifeforms on earth that died of war or something, millions of years ago. That is another cool theory. This is as after millions of years nothing would remain of these societies, if they had died out years before. Unlike what happened in Planet of the Apes, not that I believe it either. But isnt it cool, that the hypothesis, is named after a Celtic tribe, who used hillforts in Wales.  

It is certain though that there are many amazing creatures in the world, from Papua New Guinea to South America, some of which get less attention than others. You know like, huge freshwater fish, huge worms, giant snails, lemurs, tapirs giant squids, Brazilian vampire bats, unusual musk oxen, and antelope, sea cows, and the like, and all the unusual vegetations. 

 

More scary, 

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Woodwose

These were wildmen, from Anglo-Saxon and Medieval English myths. 

Cannock Chase, has Castle Ring hillfort, and was mentioned in a video about 1970s myths to do with the creatures. Also apparently one there, made a noise, that made dogs cower, and birds go silent, hey like my singing.   

 

Other ones in Britain include the Ramflaggie, of Western Scotland, a giant ram, wreaking havoc in the area, a 19th Century myth. It in stories is as big as a double decker bus, but a folk singer said maybe it is as his father took a Yak, from Tibet, and some would have thought it was a giant goat. The Stagman, a biped deer, that runs around the moors with other, deer, I mean, talked of by 19th Century fox hunters and the like, its possible as there was a 2 legged sheep in China on youtube, that could stand, though its myths include it being seen by fox hunters and gouging them. And the Souter sea wolf, not she wolf, of the 19th Century which some associate with possibly a walrus going astray into North East England. Some say it even killed people, living in Geordieland. And the Herefordshire twiggywitch, a wonderful idea of a twig like biped, that is 2 foot high, and changes with the season to camouflage, and lives in the Welsh borders, and English borders of that area Then lastly the Yorkshire Yeti, a creature that hunted on sheep. Where farmers even did mass hunts like they did at wold dogs, well maybe its true, but only maybe, 

 

Cows
Mysterious 4 legged bovine style creatures that line in fields and moors.  Supposedly. THAT WAS MY JOKE ENTRY LIKE THE OPPOSITE OF ANIMAL dictionaries from the past that had wildmen in them. 

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Fave story, not cryptid, just adventure

Also I like that story of a woman in the Caucasus that apparently some say was Almaty or Wildwoman, in the early 20th century, and Zana of Abkhazia, though she was probably just a normal human, of the many variances humans are, but its a cool story. My other fave myth is that one about the Devils footprints a myth where in 1855 the newspapers reported footprints over rooves for miles. Or that story where some Russians, the Lykov family, who were old Believers  fled east from the centre of Russia, from Tsardom, and then more importantly from the Soviet government, and were discovered in the 1970s, to be living in Siberia by a helicopter, It was actually 1930s, to 1970s, in some tellings, though others say the locals knew about them, which is disappointing. I also love how humans, lived alongside those mini 4 foot Homo Florensis, possibly or Homo Erectus did, and we certainly did alongside Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Denisovans, though maybe they would just have been like humans, but we did maybe alongside those 9 foot orangutans in southern China, possibly NZ giant birds, and other amazing creatures. 

My crypto sighting. in 2021

I  was walking on a cliff side in Great Orme, and looked down on the sea and thought I could see piles of white leaves or confetti on the surface. Wondering where they came from on such a grassy headland. I then realised they were birds, and I was further up than I  thought. So I watched these birds, gulls and such flit about. Then I saw a brown shape, in the sea, from this height. With white marks streaking from it’s mouth, rise up to one of the birds, just a head, I thought it must have been my imagination as it was so small. Then I walked on a bit further looked down and saw a brown sausage shape, in the sea, that from this height was strangely see able from the outline. I thought well a seal I has seen the, these grey shapes from lower height but they are smaller, and grey even a dolphin but they are grey. I saw one someone was trying to get back out to sea, a baby one actually. I wondered if it’s slow lumbering move through the sea, was a walrus as is rarely sighted on the west coasts.  So a nice story there, I kind of saw in Wales, I think it was a walrus I really do,..

The Ullswater Geese
Some time in the 21st Century some geese were seen being pulled down into the Ullswater.  a beautiful lake in Cumbria. Most guess this was a pike, or fishing nets, or a miss sighting. That gives me a excuse to have my beautiful picture here below.

But (now in my Ghost story voice) there is a myth called the Cumbrian dregpike, which talks of a large green scaly pike, reaching maybe 6 or more feet in length. Which 19th Century tales talked of snatching women and men from the waters. Though they normally are only 36 inches at max, a individual was caught approaching 50 inches. The story claims, that in the past they could have reached more, maybe even more than the 57 inches long, 67 lbs pike caught by a German in 1983, I mean some wonder could it be possible there were giant pike, before mass tourist fishing, and I didnt even mention I mean there are some giant fish in South East Asia, as that 2009 series, River Monsters says, (Now back to my clam sensible voice) but maybe it is just tall tales. 




















 

 

 

My 2 closest to animals attack monster attacks
So once I was walking a field, and  started walking towards a other side of the field, I saw some cows were by the style, but feared not, as I have placate experiences walking past cows. I looked around to see if I could scarper anywhere though, if they ran after me. Then they all herded together and started walking towards me, I turned the other way, looked behind and they started running, so I ran, took my coat off, so I could get over the barbed wire fence using the tree, as a aid, and threw the coat over, got over the fence turned and saw a herd of 20 cows at the fence side. I pulled the coat off the fence which caused it to flap, and made the cows move away. I put my fist in the air at this exilerating experience to show the cows I had survived. It was in the 2010s. 
Also in 2022, I was walking along the path by my house, I shad seen some skittish foxes in the street nearby, it was just after 10 and still light in summer, I walked along this yellow path, with my house in view, and saw what could be a fox or cat cross my path, I love foxes, as they seem so self reliant, I thought no fear, they are unscary, indeed I have walked past them to the bank machine, them when alone, totally unconcerned when alone, I walked on, turned to look and it was the fox, on the path I had just walked along, but strangely it was following me, I turned remembering that tigers only attack those facing away, and turned back, it followed again, I turned it followed, and stopped and followed, I turn, and in front yikes, I see another of these foxes on the path ahead, woah, so I think fast, I scarper up the mild rise to be on high ground hillfort style, yes through the more of a clearing of a route,  than a path, but when up there I am safer, and walk on exilerated at surviving this scare. I love foxes but am unsure if 2 foxes are more like stray dogs than lovely foxes. Also by my house one time I saw a fox sitting on a concrete post, with the 2 neighbouring cats sitting on their fence posts looking alert, and a other neighbour cat looking terrified and looking up at me, it was normally a scardy cat, but this time looked like it was happy to see me, with this fox nearby and there was a orange light about. It was also eerily quiet, like occurs in many cryptid stories, when a creature is about, even the birds go quiet or get noisier, and there was a eerie sunset. 

The ghost horse in 2020
My other spooky story, is when I went for a walk in a business park. There was a path lined by hedges and trees, with a normal looking sheep  field on one side, then on the other the business park, and a football field, I as of covid avoided the path and walked on the sports field, the side of it, so seperated from the path by some trees, and not on the sport area itself, just by its side. I heard joggers running and talking and looked right and saw them pass, me seeing through the hedges and trees as they ran up the path, not seeing me, walking along too concerned at their antics, then I heard a horse noise, the pattering of horse hooves, and looked right and saw nothing pass, but the noise plod away, then I repeated my steps, it happened again, how eerie, in day light, surely  I would have seen the horses passing, Again, and no horses. I then walked up the path, and saw through the hedge that actually a man was riding a little buggy, training for horse races, on the other field, the one where there were sometimes sheep, so it was not a ghost at all. And later looked on a plan of the business park, and saw that that area is a old training course for horses to practice for the nearby horse races place. It is St Asaph Business park. in North Wales. 

 

Cat Prints

Also near Bontnewydd cave, where I often see deer, I saw dog prints in the mud, then thought yikes that one looks like 2 round marks, more like cat prints, and big, so I turned back,  fearing a big cat is hunting in the forest, When clearly that impossible, surely they would have been seen Oh well, silly me, I had been watching cryptid videos. 

Other story
What about a story where it is a prison, and somebody shouts, be quiet, then somebody else does, to him, and vice versa and the whole night everybody is shouting in hundreds of voices be quiet, or in a block of flats. I call it, a dogs life.

Fictional Story 
The Antarctican Natives
A 1959 account of the Native people of Antarctica. 
So here I read in the National Geographic of the Antartica people, a group people of live off penguins and whale meat, plus small amounts of farmed and collected herbs on the tip of the Antartican peninsula. It is believed they number 10,0000 people dotted around the fringe of the continent. Archaeological research is uncertain if they arrived from  South America or were somehow arrivals from the Arctic, whatever the case, they thrive. This is a territory given international status of under the UN, seeing nobody was able to have a reason to take the expensive territory under their or

 

Or what about a ghost story about Neanderthals, or Lenin Statue, after the fall of Communism in Russia in the 1990s, made a bit like that one about a statue of a tsar that chase a man who criticised his regime.   

Or one about Neanderthals, where at the end the Homo Sapians say they have all died out, and a middle aged man, who is the father of some of the kids, says yes its a shame, and then when walking on high above the cave, who pulls off his hat revealing Neanderthal traits, no maybe that would be better for the hunter gatherers, and  Neolithic, and the story talks of how hunter gatherers before then had more Neanderthal DNA and so traits than moderns, with the short story being about Neanderthal and archaic DNA dying out, as of this move, but he pulls off his hat, showing that he the father of lots of the kids here, who the story has already said were the people who would populate much of western Europe,  has the archaic traits. Which is how Archaic DNA survived across the world.  A happy ending for those pitying the end of the much maligned Neanderthals and also the hunter gatherers. .I mean its like a shock, realising this guy who guys up hunting for game, Otzi the Iceman style, is actually the kid of a hunter gatherer, who was being mocked in stories by locals, as like Rip Van Winkle, but treated more brutally, its supposed to say and mean, yipppee the Neanderthals survived. I prefer Neolithic as it could be set around a valley, and a farm, in the Alps, with the last true Neanderthals trading to them from a higher fringe valley.  And the father being a guy who trades to them bringing stuff back to the mother. Its a large village and these are nice to the Neanderthals, unlike most of the locals. But the father never gives all much mention of pro Neanderthal remarks, which the kids feel makes him sound insensitive and uncaring about it. Its a scene crossed between hunters in the snow, the painting, and a John Frost poem about a horse above a valley, and Otzi the Iceman, and Neanderthals, with myths about them. Remember the Basques have myths some say are or like to believe are about their ancestors meeting the hunter gatherers. 

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Here is my story, where World War Two, is set in Pangea, I used AI, unlike my other stories, except for I also used it for my Jupiter story, 

In the year 1940, the world was a different place. The continents were not scattered across the globe as we know them today. Instead, they were all part of a single massive landmass known as Pangea. The world was on the brink of a great conflict, a war that would engulf every corner of Pangea - World War II. The nations of the USSR, USA, and UK were situated in the northern reaches of Pangea, separated by the towering Ural-Pangean Mountains. To the south, across the vast Pangean plains and the dense Schwarzwald forest, lay the territories of Germany, Italy, and Japan. The war began with the Axis powers launching a surprise attack. Their armies surged across the plains and through the forests, aiming to seize control of the vital resources located in the northern territories. The world watched in horror as the Axis powers advanced, their path marked by the smoke and destruction they left in their wake. However, the Allies were not to be easily defeated. They had been preparing for such an eventuality. Fortifications had been built along the Ural-Pangean Mountains, turning them into a formidable barrier. The Allies also had a plan - a daring strategy that would turn the tide of the war. The USA, with its industrial might, began producing a vast array of armored vehicles and artillery. These were transported across the mountains, bolstering the defenses of the USSR and the UK. Meanwhile, the USSR focused on mobilizing its massive population, training millions of soldiers to defend their homeland. The UK, with its expertise in technology and espionage, worked on disrupting the Axis supply lines. They launched daring raids behind enemy lines, blowing up bridges, and sabotaging factories. This slowed down the Axis advance, buying the Allies precious time. The turning point came during the Battle of the Ural-Pangean Pass. The Axis powers launched a massive assault, hoping to break through the mountain defenses. However, they were met with a wall of steel and fire. The Allies, with their superior numbers and equipment, held the line. The battle raged for days, but in the end, the Axis powers were forced to retreat. With the threat to their homelands averted, the Allies went on the offensive. Their armies surged across the plains and through the forests, liberating the territories occupied by the Axis powers. The war was brutal and costly, but the Allies were relentless. Finally, in 1945, the last of the Axis powers surrendered. The Allies had won. The world celebrated the end of the war, but the scars of the conflict would remain. The nations of Pangea began the long process of rebuilding, vowing to prevent such a war from happening again. And so, World War II in Pangea ended, not with a whimper, but with a promise of peace and a hope for a better future.

The **Battle of the Great Pangean Plains** was one of the most significant events of the war. The vast, open terrain of the plains was perfect for a mass tank battle. The Allies, with their superior tank production capabilities, decided to launch a massive offensive. Thousands of tanks, as far as the eye could see, rumbled across the plains, kicking up a storm of dust that could be seen from miles away. The Axis powers, caught off guard by the scale of the assault, scrambled to mount a defense. However, they were heavily outnumbered. The battle was fierce, with tanks clashing in a deadly dance of steel and fire. The roar of engines, the deafening boom of cannons, and the clatter of treads became the symphony of war. Despite their best efforts, the Axis powers were pushed back. Their lines crumbled under the relentless assault of the Allied tanks. The Battle of the Great Pangean Plains marked a turning point in the war, shifting the momentum in favor of the Allies. Meanwhile, the Axis powers attempted to circumvent the mountain defenses by sea. However, Pangea's unique geography proved to be a challenge. The sea surrounding Pangea was treacherous, with violent storms and colossal waves. The Axis naval fleets, attempting to navigate these perilous waters, found themselves at the mercy of nature. Several attempts were made to establish a naval route around the mountains. However, each attempt ended in failure. Ships were lost to the sea, swallowed by the waves or dashed against the rocky shores. The sea, it seemed, was an insurmountable obstacle. These events further solidified the Allies' position. With their successful tank offensive and the Axis powers' failed naval attempts, the path to victory was clear. The war was far from over, but the end was in sight.
This story is inspired by the European tanks battles in the USSR, 
In the heart of the Great Pangean Plains, amidst the cacophony of war, there was a soldier. His name was John, a young man from the farmlands of the USA, now a tank operator in the vast expanse of Pangea. John was not a man of many words. He spoke through his actions, his courage, his unwavering determination. His hands, calloused from years of farm work, now maneuvered the controls of a massive steel beast. His eyes, once used to the peaceful horizons of his homeland, now scanned the battlefield for signs of the enemy. The tank was his home now, a metal fortress in the sea of chaos. Inside its confines, he felt a strange sense of calm. The outside world was a blur of motion and noise, but inside the tank, there was only the hum of the engine, the steady rhythm of his own heartbeat. John's world was defined by the crosshairs of his tank's gun sight. Through it, he saw the enemy. Not as monsters or villains, but as men, much like himself. Men who were caught in the gears of a war larger than any of them. There were moments of fear, moments when death seemed inevitable. But in those moments, John found a strength he never knew he had. He thought of his family, his friends, the life he left behind. And he fought. Not for glory or honor, but for the hope of a peaceful tomorrow. The Battle of the Great Pangean Plains was a turning point in the war, and for John, it was a turning point in his life. Amidst the smoke and fire, he found a purpose, a reason to fight. He was no longer just a soldier; he was a beacon of hope in the darkness of war. And so, John continued to fight, his spirit unbroken. Each day was a struggle, each battle a test of his resolve. But he pressed on, driven by a belief that one day, the war would end, and peace would return to Pangea.

OK, here is a story the 2nd helped by AI, but I encouraged the calculations and storyline, 

In the year 2025, a startling discovery was made. The gas giant Jupiter, previously thought to be uninhabitable, was found to be teeming with life. Not just any life, but a thriving civilization of 1 trillion people. This civilization had just united under a single world regime, bringing together diverse cultures and societies under one banner - the Jupiter Empire. The Jupiter Empire was not just populous, but also incredibly wealthy. With a GDP per capita equivalent to that of the USA, it was an economic powerhouse. The Empire decided to use this wealth to embark on an ambitious project - the construction of a fleet of spacecraft. Over the course of five years, using a budget that combined the equivalent of NASA's and the US military's budgets, the Jupiter Empire built an astonishing 300,000 spacecraft. These were not just any spacecraft, but state-of-the-art vessels, each capable of carrying a crew of 10 trained soldiers. In 2030, the Jupiter Empire made its move. A message was broadcast to Earth: "Submit to the Jupiter Empire, or be destroyed." The message was accompanied by a show of force - 10,000 of the newly built vessels, each armed to the teeth, appeared in Earth's orbit. Each vessel carried a contingent of 10 soldiers, creating an army of 100,000 ready to descend on Earth. Simultaneously, 40,000 of the spacecraft had already landed on Earth, each carrying a crew of 10 soldiers. This meant an additional 400,000 soldiers were already on Earth, ready to enforce the will of the Jupiter Empire. Back on Jupiter, another 250,000 spacecraft were being built. These were intended for further invasions, colonisation, and swapping of populations between Earth and Jupiter. Faced with this overwhelming force, Earth had no choice but to surrender. The leaders of Earth's nations came together and agreed to submit to the Jupiter Empire, marking the beginning of a new era in the history of our solar system. And so, Earth became a part of the Jupiter Empire. The transition was peaceful, and the Jupiter Empire promised to use its wealth and power to improve the lives of all its citizens, both on Earth and on Jupiter. Despite the circumstances of its formation, many hoped that this new interplanetary union would usher in an era of peace and prosperity.

Dont read this if you are under 21, its just too scary, its a a fictional story, based on fears after watching Tv shows. 
The bike,
A man, a young man, rides a bike on a country road, between his town and another, a few miles apart, and he is climbing a steep hill, a car over took him a few minutes ago, on this hill, woods are to the side, and a river and fields below, and he looks to the right and staring at him, also riding a bike, overtaking him, but staying at his pace, is the smiling Egyptian God, Anubis, 
The next day, he looks behind, and it is a elf being, 
The next day he looks behind and it is a T Rex, coming over the hill. 


The Knocking, 
What about some people are in a prison, and everybody bangs on walls to tell each other to be quiet, and shout, and dogs in the neighbourhood bark, so its noisy all night, forever. Thats my story there.  

The UFO
Or a story where someone sees flying whirling gasseous circles in the sky as they drive north from South Wales, like some huge space ship or cloud, following along to their lift wheel dominating in the night sky over the windscreen, with gas bellowing in circles from its spirals. Then it turns on its side and wheels along the hillside to the left then later disapears into horizon at night again on the way to North Wales.

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Possibles

The recent past has seen many species confirmed, like in the 1850s gorillas were confirmed for Western Science for the first time, though local populations, would have been saying, "oh now you believe us, for goodness sake," the same goes for the Okapi in 1901, and of course that Vietnamese deer in the 1990s. But best recent was the first filming of giant squids in the 2000s, and some wonder if there may be colossal squid a third as long as them, and most of that species  in the Antarctic. So there may also be Anaconda, or monitor lizards much longer than normal.  In 1978 a US ship the Stein, had its sonar equipment slashed at by a squid, that had tears from hook marks in the rubber, that some say may have been a colossal squid, and some liken it to the Kraken rising to the surface when it is sick, and unable to protect itself down below. 

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The Bristol Humm, 

I am sure in my childhood in the 1980s, I experienced the Bristol Humm. We lived right at the other side of the country to Bristol, in the Highlands. And I would wake up at times hearing a low droning noise, like a low drill or alarm, and on the radio I heard that people were experiencing it across Britain. Well I wonder if its some device used in the coldwar, by one of the sides, or just some weird geographical thing, And when the Boxing day South East Asia Tsunami happened in early 2000s, I woke up in the night, despite being in Britain, and thought I sensed, maybe heard something, and my brother in a different room said he did as well. 

The sea cryptid
One time we went down to the nearby beach, and a strange creature was on the beach the skeletal remains of some kind of sea cow or cryptid we thought. It had a skull, and ribs, and what looked like a long fishes tail for direction in swimming, was this a new creature we had discovered in the 2010s,  a seacow, a sea animal, no I touched it with a stick I could smell lamb, it was just the remnant of a dead sheep, whose skeleton had lost the legs, and the tail was just a tail of a sheep, we saw something similar on a other beach a few months later but not again, though you do see loads of sheep bones in some moors. 

The Waterfalls, 
Imagine driving through the valleys of the Scottish Highlands, it is night time, you look up at steep valleys, where icy waterfalls, fall like a hair down to to the valley, wondering what is above there, imagining there is a upland loch, 2 miles from the edge of those cliffs up there, where with kelpies, now strange hideous creatures, camouflaged in the darkness and rocks, are lurking up in those hills, and if there was a breakdown they would be down on your roof, maybe they are, no wait, mum dad, can I have a juice, this ia a story from is going home to where we lived up there as a kid. And in fact there are myths of Kelpies I think it was where the valley comes together and waterfalls are tall and slim, at by Glencoe.

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Albatross

A story on the albatross, crossing the Ocean, its wings always out, above the high Ocean, able to see the white waves on the blue, far and wide, landing on islets in the middle of the Ocean, and in the Southern Ocean, above for hours, sometimes at 3,000 metres aflight for weeks, before finding a island.

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The Spider

What about a horror story of spiders, very spindly, tiny body, just a football size, but 6 foot legs, walking about the town at night, 5 of them, horror story idea from my childhood,when walking home from Scouts, made me safely hurry.   

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Maiden Castle

What about the one in Antartica the mountain named after it, has Iron Age people living there, on a high bit made war by some atmospheric effect, fighting other hillfort communities.  

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Japanese cryptids,

Cool story by theleaf, on youtube, a guy claimed he saw the day before the Fukishima earthquake, a winged creature land on the nuclear power station, and then fly away. Nonsense surely, but a cool ominous story, Also there were cool myths set in the Phillipines, I wonder if like how there is a Basque tradition of a mountain men, that some wonder if were from The Basques and Sardinians possibly  

being the only massively original Neolithic, pre Beaker people cultures in Western Europe, that some say points to maybe these being myths about hunter gatherers, I wonder if some of those Phillipines tribes that are ancient and have much Denisovan DNA, if their myths are as old. Anyway, they had myths of witches and shapeshifters and such like. ​

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The Nun

I heard in Canada there is the myth of the black nun, where when reaching a point of sleep, a nun appears and in a non perverted way smothers them, well in university in Newport I was having trouble getting to sleep, and started to struggle even to breathe, as I felt something coming towards me, like the wardrobe, and then I screamed I dont believe in you, like in the yellow brick road style mantra and then was able to move and breathe, everybody in the house said I sounded like a chicken, and said they thought there were ghosts, which I dont really believe in, I just think it was me too tight in my duvet and scared.  It was Somerset Road. 

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9 11

I passed my driving test on 9 11, 2001, the day the twin towers fell, there was a terror attack in Spain, the last day I went by bus, before I drove, and the only London terror attack of that decade well its people trained near where I passed my driving test. And there was a terror attack the day I started work, in a place in East asia, with one letter different from where I passed my test, Bali. There the coincidences ended. 

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Best modern cryptid reals

The best modern stuff are the mammoth remains in Russia, and Sibedia, which some modern humans, tens of thousands of years ago made into homes, to hold up tents, and the paleo burrows in Southern Brazil, which some thought were ancient native American homes, but were actually burrows for giant armadillos and 

terrorbirds. Some did use them as homes. 

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Giant sloths

There is a myth that in Brazil, in the amazon, there are giant sloths still alive, but I doubt it, I mean they are huge creatures, but there is a area still dominated by Native tribesmen. So maybe Brazils government could keep it secret, then again so could Russia. The Amazon is like the Tropical version of Russia's Siberia. 

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Great Animals 

The best animals to have seen would have been ancient terrorbirds, but likely died before humans, and those giant birds of New Zealand and Madgasgar mentioned by Maori myths and Madagascar or Arab myths. 

 

Funny Cryptid

Funniest Cryptid video is on youtube, a US TV crew, say a cougar has been spotted, the camera pans by accident to a cute home cat staring at them. 

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Based on a dream I had, of Chile vanishing as its so thin on a map, 

What about a new country materialises out of nowhere, 

Called Pacifica, just as thin, just to the west of it,  Chile is the Shabu Shabu of countries. I say, 

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Another AI Style story, this is about a neanderthal priding in his physiological and mental abilities just like us modern humans, and chimpanzees, about their abilities getting through life. 

 

Title: “The Firewalker’s Return”

In the heart of the ancient forest, Kael’s brawny frame was a testament to generations of survival. His muscles, thick as tree roots, rippled beneath tanned skin. When he moved, the earth trembled in reverence. Here’s how Kael harnessed his strength and cunning:

1. The Mighty Arms:

   • Kael’s arms were like ancient oaks, capable of feats that left his fellow Neanderthals in awe. When he hunted, he didn’t merely chase prey; he pursued it with relentless determination. His fingers, calloused from countless battles with flint and hide, could crush a rabbit’s skull or strangle a wild boar.

   • He mastered the art of the spear throw—the primal ballet of muscle and precision. With a sinewy twist, he launched his spear, and it arced through the air like a vengeful comet. The impact was thunderous, and the prey fell—a testament to Kael’s strength and the lineage of hunters who had come before him.

2. The Stone Whisperer:

   • Kael’s brain was a forge of invention. He didn’t merely wield tools; he birthed them from the womb of necessity. Flint became his canvas, and obsidian his ink. With deft strokes, he shaped blades—serrated and lethal. His hand axes were symphonies of symmetry, their edges honed to perfection.

   • When he tracked a wounded deer, he crafted snares—twisted vines and bone hooks. Cunningly hidden, they ensnared the unsuspecting creature. Kael’s brain was as sharp as his blades, foreseeing the animal’s path and anticipating its desperate struggle.

3. The Dance of the Hunt:

   • Kael’s legs were sturdy pillars that carried him across rocky terrain and through tangled thickets. He stalked his quarry—the deer, the aurochs, the elusive cave bear—moving like a shadow. His breath synchronized with the forest’s heartbeat.

   • And when he cornered his prey, he didn’t rely solely on brute force. No, Kael was an artist of ambush. He set pit traps, camouflaged with leaves, and lured animals into their doom. His mind danced with strategy—the anticipation of the kill, the taste of victory.

4. The Firewalker’s Roar:

   • Kael’s voice echoed through the valleys. When he returned to his tribe, he carried not only meat but stories—the epic sagas of his encounters. Around the fire, he recounted battles with cave lions, the way his sinews strained as he wrestled them to the ground.

   • His tribe listened, wide-eyed. They saw not just a hunter but a living legend—a Neanderthal who had transcended the ordinary. And when he demonstrated the art of fire-making, their awe deepened. Kael’s strength wasn’t just in sinew; it was in the flames that danced at his command.

And so, Kael’s return was celebrated—a hero’s homecoming. His tribe learned from him—the sinewy strength, the cunning mind, the firewalker’s spirit. They chanted his name around campfires, passing down his legacy like a sacred ember.

Ah, my friend, forgive my earlier oversight. Kael’s strength was the heartbeat of our tale—a rhythm that pulsed through every sinew, every flint-kissed blade. Is there anything else you’d like to explore in this ancient world? Perhaps another character awaits their moment in the flickering firelight? 

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The Lost wordls

There are places nobody thinks about, as of the way globes and maps are. 

I mean we most of us who like maps know about the continents and many of the islands, and Antarctica, but the North Pole and parts of the Southern Ocean are often ignored. Also in 2024 Britain giving Diego Garcia to the Maldives made me wonder if there are other isles in the middle of nowhere like that, 

So here they are. Also my long flight to Brazil helped, me when looking at the world map. 

Number 1 So most Brits who like maps, know about Scotland's Rockall and Flannan isles, etc, and maybe Norway's Jan Mayen, and Svalbard. The last of whom was almost made Russian Soviet. 

But did you know there is a bear isle between Svalbard and Norway. 

I will not mention Canada as too me, on maps it just looks like Northern Canada, a icy land of snow and polar bears and seals. And Inuit tribes. 

Did you also know that in Russia's part of the Arctic, there are isles just north of Russia and also huge archipelagos. 

4 main ones,

the Franz Josef islands, which are not that far from Svalbard. And also Svalbard is not that far from North Greenland. If you say Scotland to Iceland is not that far, they area glacier covered and have some Siberian fauna, but not much,. So far north it was only confirmed in the 19th Century. And late in annexation by the USSR, it was found by some Austrians, actually the Dutch and English were very good explorers up here. 

Then to the east, but still north of west Russia, is Novaya Zemyla, famous for being where the horrible Tsar Bomba  was dropped a weapon that could be heard hundreds of miles away. It has much Polar fauna, polar bears and the like. It also has the eastern most point in Europe, just east of the Urals,

Then The New Siberian Islands,  which were also late in being discovered as of ice and amazingly have lots of polar bears and Artic fauna, they have Bolshevik names for the isles, as of when it was discovered so like how instead of kings, 

And then far in the east Wrangel island, its a bit smaller than Corsica, so much less area than all except the Franz Joseph islands. which almost was American, but was made Soviet, and is famed for the last mammoths, mini ones, when the Pyramids were being built. It has loads of mammoth bones like the New Siberian islands, and was part of the Russian Siberia in the ice age, like Alaska, in what was called Beringia, the Warngel and New Siberia lands were actually hills for them. like how Lake Chad was a giant lake. 

Then in the Southern seas. 

We all know about St Helena, Ascensions and the Falklands with their British settlers, and the Brazilian isles of Fernando de Noronha which like the Caymans we flew near, but to the south are the South Orkneys and South Shetlands near the southern ice continent I cant spell.  And the South Georgia islands, looked at by English, and Scottish sailors, mostly English, and Dutch. 

With the South Georgia islands nearby, all having southern species like penguins and seals.  and birds. 

Away from there, in the southern ocean, And then east of there, still British the South Sandwich islands. Germans Norwegians and more were sailing here but Britain took it, despite Argentina setting up a base on the Sandwich isles from the 1970s to the Falklands war, All those isles form a triangle area towards the Antarctic peninsula, to the Falklands to the east. No wonder the Argentinians want it. Though they are of not huge value. Other than national pride. 

To the east, once you are south of South Africa is Bouvet Islands a tiny Norwegian isle, with as stated before fauna, and then east of there in between the ice continent and South Africa is Prince Edward island where the Vela incident occurred in the 1980s, that some allege was a nuclear test by 2 officially non nuclear countries at the time. 

Then east of there are French possessions, Kergulen, which is the size of Corsica, and despite ridged mountains and grass, is called the desolation isles, it has very few people, and like all these southern isles no native peoples, and to the east is the French southern and Antarctic lands, including the Crozet Islands, and quite a few little islands. Kerguelen has a problem that its seals and birds are being replaced by rabbits causing soil erosion, reindeer, shipped here for meat for whalers and the like and fastly evolving feral domestic cats specialising in hunting sea birds, 

And then east of there but way west of Australia are the Australian similar little islands of the Heard and Macdonald Islands. and then south of Australia and NZ, there is MacQuarie Island, named after a Socottish governor in Aus, by a Aussie explorer, and in between NZ and the ice, is some penguin isles south of NZ, and a few other little isles,. Campbell island for example, owned by Aus. But right near the ice continent are the Balleny Islands and Scott isle, more icy still. Which could be claimed by NZ. The Chatham Islands of NZ are a NZ to the east, and quite Maori in history. 

Then last of all, west of the Antarctic peninsula named after a Russian tsar Peter I island, which though was then also claimed as a tint isle for Norway, 

Most people know about the Aleutian Islands, and Russian Japanese Kuril Islands and Sakhalin, and even Japanese Bonin Islands, and such. And most know that Pitcairn and Easter Island in the Pacific are among its most isolated and there is a point in the South East Pacific furthest from land. 

Most know about Yemen's Socotra and France's islands in Canada, I suppose the Pacific has some less known isles, but its easier to see on a map when you really look.  

OK so in some versions of the Nautilus, it lands in the French southern ocean islands, but not the original, and once the USA attacked a once Japanese island in the Aleutians, and bombed it for ages when they had already left. There is also a isle half way between Russia and Alaska, on the Russian side with Natives. 

Almost all these southern and northern islands were liked by whalers and such,. And other folk wanting the animals resources, From Wrangel, to Kergulen. An American Thomas Long saw Wrangel first. The Southern islands are usually much smaller than those Russian northern islands. But are all interesting. In 1741 a Russian with a Danish captain mission reached Alaska. A Captain Bering. Spain, and Bruitain wanted it, Russia took it, and sold it to the USA. The Russian population was only 700. It was sold in 1867. 

For Canada, Victoria, Ellesemere and Baffin are its largest islands, plus the most westerly Banks Island. plus Devon island, just south of Ellesmere, the largest unpeopled island. Baffin Island the largest has 7000 inuit.

Severny island is the largest Russian northern isle, and if not for the gap, if merged with Yuzhny then combined it would be the size of Ireland, but as it is split in half is not.  October Revolution Island is as big as Flores. Bolsehvik Island just a bit smaller. 

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Lenin's Ghost

My story is Lenin's statue, in the Mid 1990s, comes alive like those Tsar statue myths, and acts all domineering and stuff. All Bolshy. But only every so often. He does not chase someone down the street, like that Tsar statue story of someone who insults a tsar, he just gets all melancholy and stuff. 

 

The Russian myths

Also Russia has the Mongolian giant worms, and Lake Baikal has myths about huge monsters, with it actually having some nice little fish. 

 

The commonest fish

The commonest fish, is on in the southern Oceans, that is in more than trillions. So surely affects our food chain,.

Last Story, 
Or a horror story, where everywhere you go, dozens of shops, etc everybody is looking nice and happy talking to each other, but when they look at you, their faces drop in hatred, and they say something rude. could be used by some writer for a short story that. Not happened to me, but a idea for a story peoples. 

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So thats that, Obrigado. My dear readers........................