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LordGeekington, to Tolkien
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Surprised to learn in Fonstad’s Atlas of that is 21,400 square miles (55426 square km) — way larger than I was imagining! That would make it slightly smaller than West Virginia and larger than Switzerland. And that isn’t counting the later-added Westmarches or Buckland either.

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@john Ahh! Also, probably much more walkable than the examples I was thinking of

LordGeekington, to Black_cats
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Imprisoned on !



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@WideAtlanticWeird Aww. And thankfully, all has been forgiven!

LordGeekington, to animals
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Oh my lord, he shrinkwrapped himself.



LordGeekington, to random
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Elliot O’Donnell’s THE GREY HORROR… not an easy yarn to find! This spooky tale of a funereal Lost Valley, a fathomless pit, and a gigantic glistening specter has been inexplicably regarded as — one topic of a recent @WideAtlanticWeird episode:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3vOJ4nq3Eu6YQxXz63nUBx

As the tale is quite obscure but, I feel, also enjoyable, I will re-tell it in a special thread. With annotations, of course!

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LordGeekington, to Paranormal
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Images of the #Chimpanzee #Ufiti that give off intense #cryptid vibes. This chimpanzee was apparently a captive individual released in Malawi, according to Benson (1968). Despite that conclusion, this primate still makes appearances in #Cryptozoology works.

Image credit:
https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00382353_8619

Benson (1968):

Black and white photo showing a chimpanzee in dense brush.

LordGeekington, to random
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Recorded something BIG with @WideAtlanticWeird and figured, better start a thread to back up some of my claims!

LordGeekington,
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@WideAtlanticWeird Did Ivan T. Sanderson discuss eastern in the 1960’s? Yep! He discusses (very strange) reports from Southern Illinois, Kentucky, and Alabama in the 1968 edition (p. 124-127).

https://archive.org/details/abominablesnowmenlegendcometolifeivansanderson/page/n127/mode/1up

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@WideAtlanticWeird I mis-stated how long Gigantopithecus and Orangutans diverged, it’s more like 10-12 million years ago instead of 8 (which I think I said?)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6908745/

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@WideAtlanticWeird I should have better explained the purported “True Giant” “footprint” “morphology” that Hall/Coleman/Huyghe claim — the four toes are even in size. And hey, managed to track down one source:

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19610212-1.2.77

LordGeekington,
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@WideAtlanticWeird Okay, just read the summary. 718 pages and three pseudo-primate marsupial cryptids!!!!??! Really wish it wasn’t so expensive!

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@WideAtlanticWeird This reminds me — have you come across Philippe Coudray’s Cryptozoology book? It also has 3-4 Yowies, albeit they are sadly apes of some sort. Peculiar vibe to the book, definitely owes a ton to Heuvelmans. For some reason, the .pdf in English is available for free:

http://www.philippe-coudray.com/Pages/Cryptozoologie%20philippe%20coudray.html

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    LordGeekington,
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    @idoubtit My in-laws have a neighbor who will literally do 8 hour shifts leaf-blowing on the weekend. Must be nice apparently having no problems or obligations!

    WideAtlanticWeird, to random
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    @LordGeekington do you fancy talking about the work of Mark Hall?

    LordGeekington,
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    @WideAtlanticWeird YES!!! Things are a bit chaotic at the moment, but let’s make this happen!

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    @WideAtlanticWeird
    Mark’s astounding website:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20040605062545/http://home.att.net/~mark.hall.wonders/

    And his archived journal Wonders:
    https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=Magazines%2FUnited%20States%2FWonders%20%28Mark%20A%20Hall%29

    LordGeekington,
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    @WideAtlanticWeird Oh wait, that doesn’t seem to have gone through. Wonders!

    https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=Magazines%2FUnited%20States%2FWonders%20%28Mark%20A%20Hall%29

    LordGeekington,
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    @WideAtlanticWeird Alas…

    http://www.cryptozoonews.com/hall-obit/

    LordGeekington,
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    @WideAtlanticWeird Saturday Feb. 3 work for you?

    LordGeekington,
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    @WideAtlanticWeird Sure!

    WideAtlanticWeird, to random
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    @LordGeekington do you remember talking about a book with me a year ago, probably 80s or 90s, that had Mokele Mbembe illustrations in it? The animal being attacked by tribesmen, and coming across a pith helmeted-hunter

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    @WideAtlanticWeird I believe so — was that also the one where it had an illustration of Sanderson’s encounter?

    LordGeekington, to UFOs
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    Somewhere out there is an alternate version of myself that’s really all about

    LordGeekington, to Paranormal
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    One time, 22 Halloweens ago, I carved the menagerie onto a pumpkin with… limited success. I should probably re-attempt this one of these years!

    idoubtit, to Paranormal
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    LordGeekington,
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    @idoubtit @john They’re also quite bad about hyping up new species descriptions that, erm, are far from discoveries.

    LordGeekington,
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    @john @idoubtit And distinctive structure-making behavior H. sapiens is incapable of!

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