MesozoicMind

MesozoicMind, 3 days ago

Also, I saw a plover not too far from it.

MesozoicMind, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

@john Oh god even you have joined the AI bandwagon!? No! Don't get on it!

MesozoicMind, 6 months ago

@gay_ornithischians .... Are you a creationist?

MesozoicMind, 6 months ago

My favorite sight was seeing Bactrian Camels gorging on fallen leaves, often reaching with their lips. Camels really do embody stately yet goofy.

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MesozoicMind, 7 months ago

Okay, according to some Redditors, it's supposed to be Ray as in the short form of the name Raymond.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cryptozoology/comments/16t2yme/for_some_reason_i_am_obsessed_today_with_the/

MesozoicMind, 10 months ago

First from Selbyville, comes a swamp monster of the Hairy Biped kind. Sightings of what are known as the Selbyville Swamp Monster began in the early 1900's in an area of swampland outside the town, and in 1964 newspsper editor Ralph Grapperhaus and actor Fred Stevens pulled a prank where the latter dressed up as it and jump at those going along a backroad in the swamp.

MesozoicMind, 10 months ago

And speaking of road, from Highway 12 up north in rural Kent Co. is the Fence Rail Dog, a varient of the classic Black Dog myth from the British Isles. This 10 foot-long dog's a bit more harmless then most black dogs, content to race cars along the highway. Varients of the folk myth alternately say its the ghost of a criminal who died in a shootout, the avenging ghost of a killed slave boy, or the avenging ghost (see a pattern?) of a dog looking for the murder of itself and its owner.

MesozoicMind, 10 months ago

On the coast at Prime Hook there was a single sighting of a long-legged creature in 2007, also along the side of a road by a mother and daughter, resembling a cross between a Maned Wolf and a Pug, the latter due to having a flattened face. It is unknown what it was.
Source: https://www.jahernandez.com/posts/prime-hook-swamp-creature-of-delaware

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MesozoicMind, 10 months ago

Another single sighting occured in 1993 according to a Reddit user staying at their grandparents in Hockessin, along the PA border. It was of a creature resembling an anthropomorphic deer or the stereotypical wendigo, and the user describes it looking at him through a window after he woke up before it walked off. I have no explaination for this, though this is most likely a hoax.
Source
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Deer_Man#Hockessin,_Delaware,_1993

MesozoicMind, 10 months ago

Moving onto more mundane cryprids, there are reported sightings of eastern cougars from across the state, specifically Concord, Harrington, and Wilmington. My source here is George Eberhart's book Guide to Mysterious Creatures.
The same book also notes a phantom kangaroo sighting in Concord, and according to @bestcryptids there is an account of kangaroo hair being found and confirmed by DNA test in the state. I might have gotten things wrong/misremembered on the last bit though.

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MesozoicMind, 10 months ago

Moving on (or back) to outright hoaxes, there is the Holly Oak Mammoth gorget, which was a shell engravinf discovered and researched in the 1800's, but it was only in 1998 was it discovered the shell dated back to just 885 AD, long after mammoths were wiped out. The conclusion here is that this was a forgery by the original discoverer, Harvard archeologist Hilborne Cresson who had a history of such things.
http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/holly_oak_pendant

MesozoicMind, 10 months ago

Finally there is the Zwaanendael Mermaid, a feejee mermaid forgery in the collection of the Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes, an example of maritime taxidermy sailors would buy from ports overseas, in this case China.
Source: http://statecryptids.blogspot.com/2016/09/zwaanendael-mermaid-delaware.html

MesozoicMind, 10 months ago

@john Dryptosaurus