Monsters Inc Two

Finally as its the dawn of another New Year, I spotted another couple of those web stories that promote the stranger beliefs out there .... the first was that the 'Loch Ness Monster'  had been spotted on Google Earth and can be seen by entering the co-ordinates Latitude 5712'52.13" N, Longitude 434'14.16" W.

'Loch Ness' Monster?

Actually it looks more like a squid, or even the 'Queen Alien' than 'Nessie'  ....

Alien Swimming - Loch Ness Monster?

The second site, seems to be a creationist religious site, but has on it what it suggests are genuine pictures of dinosaurs that are or were still alive until recently ..... I have cleaned all the pictures up (just backgrounds, not main figures), because they were torn or marked, but the originals can be seen here and here.

'Pterodactyl' shot down by Confederate soldiers during the Civil war

Man Holding a 'Rhamphorhynchus'

Again, its on faith that these are 'genuine' .... the first and second both show what I believe is also sometimes referred to as the "thunderbird", but look fake to me. For instance in that second picture, that could just be a spade behind the man. not a tail, and the bird, some kind of vulture.

And the first picture, looks remarkably like this one of another bunch of civil war soldiers shooting yet another large creature or thunderbird (which must have been filling the North American skies at the time! )  ... this has also been declared as a fake (See this post for faking pictures).

US Soldiers Kill 'Thunderbird' or 'Roc'

Ah well, as I have said before, the world wide web is a wonderful invention, and its sites and photo's like these that make it such fun.

Happy New Year for 2012!