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There used to be a place on the Seattle waterfront called Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe, and they had some pretty freaky display items. I remember two cased mummies in the back (no tails on those) and a dried blue whale penis hanging from the ceiling. It was like 25 years ago I got to see the place, which may not even still be there.
The fish on the sign in the photo above is one of the great stories of cryptozoology. Coelacanths were believed to have been extinct for millions of years until a fisherman near the Comoro Islands (I think they're off the African coast near Madagascar) pulled one up in the 1930s. Now we not only know they're still there, we have underwater footage of live ones AND we've discovered there are at least 2 species!
The most recent trend I saw in wandering around the edges of the cryptozoology world is every time something weird shows up someone screams 'Chupacabra!' I've seen a dead otter, a dead raccoon, and a hairless or extremely short-haired live gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargentus) all called chupacabras.
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05-26-2017, 07:25 AM
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