The strangest creatures of unusual appearance. The most mysterious corpses of unknown animals Find a mysterious creature
It seems that in our time everything has been studied up and down, but our planet over time presents us with more and more surprises. To date, people know about 15% of all living organisms on our planet, and 85% remain a mystery to us.
Sometimes, having discovered the corpses of unknown animals, science comes to a standstill and cannot explain what kind of creature it is and where it came from. Sometimes, of course, it happens that these "corpses" are just a falsification and are made in order to increase their own popularity, and sometimes just for fun.
Trunko
On October 24, 1924, near the town of Marghita in South Africa, local residents witnessed an unusual sight. In the ocean, not far from the shore, two quite ordinary killer whales fought with a huge strange creature of milky white color, whose body was completely covered with thick hair. One of the eyewitnesses later said that the creature vaguely resembled a "polar polar bear", although it had fins and a whale's tail. The animal used this tail to attack - first, the beast fell on killer whales, jumping up from the water to a height of about six meters, and then beat them with its tail.
The white giant was defeated in the fight. In the evening of the same day, his bloodless carcass was washed ashore. It turned out to be even larger than it seemed at first: the length of the body was about 14 m in length, three m in width and 1.5 m in diameter. The tail was three meters long and shaped like a lobster's tail, and the body really turned out to be covered with thick fur 20 cm long. Instead of a nose, the creature had an elephant-like trunk, 1.5 m long and 14 cm in diameter. The creature was named Trunko.
But here's the bad luck - the eyewitnesses examined the body, measured it and told everyone about it, to whom it was possible. But the scientists did not see the unknown monster, despite the fact that the carcass lay on the shore for ten whole days, until the tide dragged it back into the ocean. Hoax? Speculation of the inhabitants? Not at all.
In 1924, information about the strange creature was published in several reputable newspapers, but the case did not attract public attention. People talked about it a little and forgot for years. But in 2007, the cryptozoologist Markus Hemmler published photos of Trunko he found in a newspaper archive, which confirmed that the case really took place. Careful analysis of the photographs showed that Trunko was nothing more than a gloster - a massive, tough "bag" of fat and skin containing collagen. Sometimes this happens with dead whales: when a whale dies, its skull and skeleton are separated from the body and sink to the seabed, and the remains are left to “drift” in the ocean. As for the battle with killer whales, they could simply eat the corpse.
Unfortunately, often the solution to the mystery is the most mundane - as, for example, it was in this case.
Pedro
In October 1932, two prospectors, Cecil Mine and Frank Carr, were looking for gold in the San Pedro Mountains. During the blasting, a cave of clearly man-made origin suddenly opened up to their eyes: the walls and ceiling were reinforced with beams that had hardened from time to time. The cave was small: only 1.2 m high and wide and 4.5 m long. But this is not strange: the fact is that the cave turned out to be “inhabited”.
To tell the truth, the "owner" of the cave was dead. And to be more precise, he was a mummy. Against the far wall, in a lotus position, with arms folded, sat on a small ledge a tiny man, who no doubt had once been alive. The growth of the mummy did not exceed 17 cm in a sitting position, therefore, if the mummy could be straightened, then the height of the little man would be no more than 35 cm. The mummy was preserved so well that the prospectors could examine it in great detail: a flat skull, bulging eyes with eyelids, a flat nose, thin lips and a wide mouth, brown wrinkled skin ... Even flat nails on thin elongated fingers were visible.
The miners removed the little man from the cave and took him to the nearest town, Kasper, where the mummy immediately fell into the hands of researchers. In honor of the mountains where she was found, she was given the name Pedro. The mummified remains were carefully studied over the years, and in 1950 X-rays were taken, which clearly showed a well-preserved skeleton and internal organs, very reminiscent of human ones. It is noteworthy that the fangs of the creature were disproportionately large in relation to all other parts of the body.
An anthropologist from the American Museum of Natural History, Henry Shapiro, carefully studied both the mummy and the photographs, and concluded that the death of the creature was unlikely to be natural - some bones were broken, and gore was found on the head. Consequently, someone killed the creature, or it got into a terrible accident and received injuries incompatible with life. Apparently, at the time of his death, Pedro was about 65 years old.
True, other theories later appeared: for example, it could be the body of a child from some unknown Indian tribe. This hypothesis is supported by the second find made in the same places - the mummy of a woman ten cm in height. The researchers again assumed that it was an infant. But babies do not have such teeth - strong, healthy and with disproportionately long fangs.
Science did not give answers, since both Pedro and his “girlfriend” were bought out by an unknown businessman in the 1960s, and since then no one has ever seen mummies. Now a reward of ten thousand dollars has been announced for them. But on the other hand, the Indians inhabiting those places have their own version, in whose folklore there are many legends about the tribes of little men who inhabited America in ancient times. Legends say that these little men were harmful and vicious creatures, and when they grew old, their fellow tribesmen simply gave them a stone on the head so that they would not eat food in vain. And all these legends arose long before the prospectors found the mummy of Pedro in the mountains.
Persian princess from Balochistan
On October 19, 2000, a strange mummy was discovered in Balochistan. Oddly enough, it was sold on the local black market for a fabulous sum of $ 20 million and would probably have fallen into the hands of not scientists, but some wealthy lover of antiquities, if a certain Ali Akbar had not sent a video cassette to Pakistani scientists, where the mysterious remains were shown in all the details.
Further more. Akbar was found, he testified, and the police arrived for the mummy in the city of Haran. The mummy was discovered in the house of Vali Mohammed Riki, who explained that the mummy was "given" to him by the Iranian Sharif Shah Bahi, who accidentally discovered the corpse near Kveta after the earthquake.
The story itself would be quite ordinary - a mummy is like a mummy, in Egypt, for example, there are many of them. However, a thorough study made it possible to establish the identity of the mummified woman - it turned out that her name was Rodugune, she was the daughter of King Xerxes I of Persia from the Achaemenid dynasty. Information was obtained after deciphering the inscription on the golden crown, which was reclining on the head of the princess. In addition, initially the mummy was in a gilded coffin, and the embalming mixture was not cheap - wax and honey.
Rodugune died 2,600 years ago, and the fact that the remains were so perfectly preserved seemed to be a great success. In addition, it was previously believed that the Persians did not embalm the dead. As a result, there was an uproar in scientific circles. Yes, that's the trouble - the ancient princess ended up being fake. Professor Ahmad Dani, after a thorough study of the remains, found out that Rodugune died only in 1996 at the age of 20 - the young woman was first killed, and then made the subject of speculation. The real identity of the “princess” has not yet been established, and since she is not of scientific interest, according to the laws of human morality, she should have been buried, but due to bureaucratic intrigues, the body still rests in some Pakistani morgue.
Mammoth Lyuba
Lyuba was found by reindeer herder Yuri Khudi in May 2007 in Yamal. Under the conditions of permafrost, the mammoth carcass was perfectly preserved, and it was possible to transfer it to scientists without any damage - even the internal organs, fur and eyes remained intact, not to mention the skin and fur. The discovery made it possible to learn a lot about mammoths, their life and structural features.
The little mammoth died 42 thousand years ago. Then she, according to DNA analysis, was only a month old. Lyuba weighed 50 kg, reached a height of 85 cm, and a length of 1.3 m. Remains of mother's milk were preserved in the stomach of the animal, and feces were preserved in the intestines.
It is noteworthy that the mammoth died, apparently as a result of a fatal accident: it got stuck in the mud and could not get out, and subsequently suffocated. Scientists made such a conclusion because the body of the animal was in perfect condition - there are no signs of disease or physical damage. In addition, Luba's DNA is also perfectly preserved, and thanks to this, it is possible to clone a mammoth someday.
Montauk monster
The corpse of a mysterious animal was found on one of the American beaches in the summer of 2008. The body was found by four young men walking along Ditch Beach near East Hampton, New York. They failed to identify the type of animal, and then, of course, the case was referred to scientists. Those, however, also could not immediately identify him. There was absolutely no hair on the body, the skin was smooth and thick, and the muzzle did not fit any animal living in these places.
But the story was quickly picked up by local newspapers. There were many versions of the origin and type of creature: they said that these were just the remains of a strange sea turtle, or even a raccoon. Or maybe a water rat, a coyote, a dog, a feral cat ... A more fantastic version in the spirit of Stephen King's novels said that this is a mutant that escaped from the Center for Animal Disease Research, over which insidious scientists experimented, did not keep track, and now deny their involvement to history. For such a living monster, they even promised a reward of several thousand dollars. True, no one else has found anything like it - neither alive nor dead.
However, this single monster disappeared rather quickly - after the scientists got the carcass, the public had to be content with a few photographs taken by journalists. According to the same photographs, the animal was eventually officially declared an ordinary raccoon - the body could decompose and swell in the water beyond recognition, and the lack of hair can also be explained by exposure to water.
panama monster
In September 2009, in the vicinity of the Panamanian city of Cerro Azul, children playing on the shore of a lake discovered a strange hairless creature. Children in Panama, apparently, are not timid - they stoned the animal with stones, and later explained their act by the fact that the animal crawled out of the cave and crawled towards them. After killing the animal, the children took a picture of it, and the corpse was thrown into the water.
The photographs show that the muzzle of the beast was disgusting in appearance, and the limbs were disproportionately long. Moreover, in shape, these limbs resembled precisely human hands, only unusually thin.
One way or another, the body was pulled out of the lake a few days later and handed over to scientists. As a result of DNA analysis, it was found that it was just a sloth. It is not clear, however, what the sloth was doing in the cave, why there was no wool on his body, and the shape of the body was so strange. This can be partly explained by the effect of water on the body, but why then did the corpse move, as the children told about it? However, children could and exaggerate.
However, the official version is simple - it was a sloth.
Canadian monster
In May 2010, two women walked their dog along the shore of a lake in the Canadian province of Ontario. Suddenly, the dog jumped off the leash and ran off somewhere. The women followed her and saw that the dog was sniffing the body of a strange small animal the size of a large water rat. Eyewitnesses were frightened, photographed the body and hurried to leave the scene.
The picture, as usual, was published on the Internet and attracted the attention of researchers. An analysis of the image showed that the muzzle of the dead animal was somewhat unusual for a water rat or a warthog: although the tail was “rat-like”, the fangs in the animal’s mouth were long for a rat and protruded strongly forward, and there was no hair on the muzzle at all. It is a pity that when a group of researchers found themselves on the shore of that lake, the body of the animal was already gone.
Where science fails, legends come into play. In the folklore of some Native American tribes, there are references to omajinaakoos (literally, this word means "freak"). The habitat of the legendary "freak" is the swamps of Canada. According to legend, terrible misfortunes will soon fall on the one who found the body of this creature. However, given the fact that both women and their dog are still fine, it remains to be assumed that it was still a dead rat or mink, whose body was damaged by water.
Evolution is a mystery, an incredible mystery! However, from time to time, she gives us some very strange surprises, something like these very strange creatures of unusual appearance, which are presented below. Not only do they look weird, but they are creepy in and of themselves.
water bear
There are over 900 species of water bears - or tardigrades - around the world, ranging from the high mountains to the deep oceans.
membranous predators
These hermaphrodite creatures live by anchoring themselves on the walls of a sea canyon or on the sea bed, waiting for tiny animals that may have the misfortune to fall into their flytrap hood. These creatures produce both eggs and sperm within the same body, so they can safely reproduce themselves.
Aye-aye is a native of Madagascar who possesses many unusual features, such as a long, bony, witch-like middle finger that he uses to pick insects and larvae from tree trunks. Perhaps because of their appearance, these creatures are harbingers of death. There is a local superstition. In the past, people believed that if an aye-aye points its middle finger at you, it is an omen of death. But all this, of course, is not true. In fact, ah-ah harmless and very cute animal.
Bat - fish with red lips
The bat, found near the Galapagos Islands, is a rather unusual fish, especially due to its lips, which seem to be painted with red lipstick. In addition, these fish have a modified set of fins that allows them to "walk" across the ocean floor instead of swimming. Inhabitants of the deep sea, these fish are predatory carnivores whose diet mainly consists of small fish and crustaceans such as crabs and shrimp.
Giant Japanese spider crab
This spider crab has the potential not only to grow to a gigantic size - about 15 feet - but also to live for over a hundred years. The giant Japanese spider crab is the largest of the crabs. In Japan, these crabs are considered a delicacy.
Chimera - ghost shark
The ghost shark or chimera is a distant relative of sharks and rays. Found in oceans around the world. It is edible and can be bought in the market. And the fat of this shark was once used to lubricate weapons.
brazilian humpback
These are small insects, the distinguishing feature of which are outgrowths of the most incredible shape, located on the back. They can be in the form of horns, combs, balls, spikes, horns, etc. These "designs" sometimes exceed the size of the humpback itself. Actually, because of them, this insect got its name.
Black dragon fish
The black dragon fish is a bioluminescent creature that possesses light-emitting organs throughout its body to fool predators by changing its silhouette. She also has long teeth that resemble fangs. The spooky fish also has bioluminescent "lights" next to each ear, which it can use to attract prey or signal for a mate.
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Now it is difficult to imagine that people believed in the existence of such animals as the platypus, gorilla, giant squid and many others relatively recently. Travelers talking about them, showing sketches and photographs, were accused of lies and hoaxes. New species of animals are also discovered in our time, mostly small or leading a secretive lifestyle. We consider the creatures in the pictures below to be fantasy at this point in time, but who knows how our descendants will treat them?
1) strashno.com Mutant fish caught in Japan after the Fukushima accident:
2) In Brazil, locals on the banks of the river photographed something strange. As they say, it was a mermaid:
3) And this is what sea creatures look like after death. This creature was photographed after it was discovered by fishermen on the ocean. It was subsequently confiscated by the FBI:
Another similar creature in full growth:
4) This human-faced fish was caught off the coast of Japan:
5) Photo taken from an airplane over Loch Ness. In the circle you can see the outlines of a body that would fit a dinosaur:
6) Another mutant fish, this time from Australia, which doesn't even have fins.
7) Another miracle from the Green Continent is a poisonous pink jellyfish of an unknown species strashno.com:
8) This gnome-like creature was photographed at night under streetlights in South America:
9) We are lost in conjectures, looking at a strange flyer in the cloudy sky of Nuremberg:
10) This is a figure depicting a Japanese water kappa in one of the local museums. The limbs in the box are the kappa's arm and leg, officially on display. Some Japanese still keep such artifacts at home, because the kappa, in their opinion, is still alive, but now it is not so easy to find him. Kappa is also depicted in many Japanese watercolors, ancient and not so:
11) Orbs - living entities or just a play of light? Here we see the orbs in the cemetery:
12) The most famous picture of Bigfoot. As its authors later admitted, this is a common hoax, made by them for entertainment and for the sake of earning money from selling strashno.com photos to newspapers. Below it is a much less famous one, on which a bear is visible, but who is visible at the top right?
13) What is Chupacabra - the result of genetic experiments or a guest from a parallel world? In each case of the discovery of the corpse of a Chupacabra, it is seized by the FBI, claiming that the body belongs to a sick coyote. Pictured is a baby chupacabra. Please note: there are five fingers on the paws. Below is the head of a chupacabra that was killed in South America by locals:
14) If such a creature, as the author of the photo suggested, really existed, its existence would have been recorded:
15) Could this roe deer stalker caught on camera at night be the mysterious Jersey Devil?
16) Mothman, the progenitor of Batman comics:
17) It looks a lot like a harpy, doesn't it?
18) A mummified fairy handed over to official authorities. Below is a cheerful flock of live strashno.com fairies:
19) Strange ridiculous creature filmed in Florida:
20) A creature similar to him, filmed many years ago in London, but with a head resembling a human:
21) Probably, many have seen the video with Slenderman on our website. The photos below with this character are also very curious:
22) There is quite a lot of evidence that one of the alien races, the so-called "gray", not only actively participates in the life of earthlings, but also in politics:
23) The monster in the photo is waving to the camera. To assure us that there are mermen?
24) Perhaps giant shark monsters are not a Jaws fantasy. Zoologists who have studied this photo taken off the coast of South Africa confirm that this is not a whale, but a shark:
25) Japanese cameras captured an animal resembling the megalodon shark, believed to be extinct millions of years ago:
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26) Finding the mummified remains of an animal unknown to science in South Africa:
27) Who is this creature caught in the frame by a night camera - a vampire or an alien?
28) During archaeological excavations, the remains of a huge human skeleton were found. Perhaps the Titans are not a Greek myth at all.
29) Is the mysterious creature stalking the fence finished in Photoshop?
30) The corpse of a toothy creature, similar to extinct marine life, was found on the beach and baffled experts:
31) We continue the theme of dead animals found on the beach, unknown to science, such as this strange snake, which seemed to have risen from the depths of the sea:
32) Another creepy and apparently dangerous toothy fish:
33) Scientists invited to identify this find suggested that it was a sturgeon mutant. But somehow we don't really believe them:
34) And this four-meter monster, thrown out by the Indian Ocean, strashno.com, apparently, is a mutant mega-jellyfish:
35) Who is this wonderful creature - a hybrid of a pig with someone?
36) The creature, which is impossible to look at without disgust, must have escaped directly from the island of Dr. Moreau:
37) Who is this mysterious clam?
Creepy creatures, right?
Mythical and strange creatures
The search for unknown species of animals is engaged in a special science - cryptozoology. Despite the negative attitude of many academic biologists towards cryptozoology, the real discoveries of new animal species sometimes refute the arguments of skeptics. So in 1992, in a remote mountainous region of Vietnam, a new species of bulls was discovered - Saola, whose weight reaches 100 kilograms. Most expert biologists, at that time, believed that the chances of discovering a new species of large mammals on Earth were close to zero. Why are there animals - some ethnologists seriously say that in the Amazon jungle and the mountainous regions of Papua New Guinea, several unknown primitive peoples who previously had no contact with a modern developed civilization may still be hiding.
However, some scary creatures were clearly born out of the fantasy of primitive peoples living in extreme habitats and afraid of the dark. Even on the very small reef islands of Oceania, where the locals know literally every stone and where there is simply nowhere for unknown animal species to hide, the natives often tell stories about terrible creatures that appear at night on the sea coast and kill people who decide to come there in the dark. Some mythical creatures probably appeared due to the distortion of information that came from distant countries and regions. So, one of the most likely prototypes of the mythical unicorn from European legends are African and Asian rhinos.
Some animals, the existence of which is not recognized by official science, most often attract the attention of journalists and the public. Chupacabra, sucking blood from and killing livestock, was first seen in Puerto Rico (1950s). Subsequently, reports of her attacks came from many countries in South America, and then from other countries of the world (Philippines, Russia, Belarus). According to one version, this creature appeared as a result of secret genetic experiments and was able to escape from the laboratory. There are videos of the Chupacabra.
Loch Ness monster, found in Scotland's Loch Ness, may be a small population of relict plesiosaurs or its highly modified descendants. There are alleged pictures and videos of this creature, including a satellite image (2009). The study of Loch Ness with the help of sonars confirmed the presence of large objects moving at high speed in it.
Snowman(aka Yeti), is most likely a relict hominid (humanoid creature) and such a close relative human that their union may produce offspring. In the last quarter of the 19th century, residents of the foothill Abkhazian village of Tkhina managed to catch in the mountains and then tame a female Bigfoot, which was given the name Zana. In the 60s and 70s of the XX century, Russian biologists Alexander Mashkovtsev and Boris Porshnev talked with the old-timers of the village of Tkhina and ... studied the descendants of Zana (grandchildren and great-grandchildren) there. Their verdict, rendered by the shape of the skull of Zana's descendants, was unequivocal - they were not quite people, but hybrids of a human and a relic hominid unknown to science, possessing inhuman strength and endurance.
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There are objects and phenomena that only a couple of random witnesses know about. But there are those who were lucky enough to see, find something inexplicable and declare it to the whole world.
website I have collected for you several cases where an incredible find can be said to be rather unlucky, instead of lucky. After all, not everyone has the courage to maintain composure when faced with such monsters.
6. Alien from Thailand
In 2010, photos appeared in the media taken three years earlier at a funeral ceremony for a strange animal in Thailand. The remains, similar to a small minotaur, were found near one of the villages. Seeing the resemblance to a man, the locals decided to bury him according to Buddhist custom.
Experts believe the creature was a defective calf and not something supernatural.
5. Chelyabinsk "Alien"
Such crumbs were found in the foundation pit of a house under construction in Chelyabinsk in 2007. They were dubbed local "strangers". It was assumed that these were horseshoe crabs, miraculously surviving to this day, but in fact these "strangers" are none other than shields. The species of crustaceans is over 200 million years old, and their size does not exceed 6–7 cm.
4. Texas Chupacabra
This small (about 15 cm) human mummy was found by Oscar Muñoz in the abandoned village of La Noria in the Atacama Desert in 2003. Later, experts on abnormalities in the development of the skeleton came to the conclusion that it was unlikely that the mummy is a person. All participants in the research are convinced of only one thing, that the Atakama dwarf is not a specially made hoax.
2. Something in the woods of Louisiana
