Friday, July 15th, 2005

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1:22a	Loch Ness Monsters Tooth I dunno is it or isn't ist. Whatever it is it's pretty darn interesting. And being the skeptical cryptozologist I am when someone offers money, I get an immediate Barnaum alert ( there's a sucker born every minute). Right up there with the tooth is now missing,  yep  and I have to wonder about the naivete of our  hapless American college students who  responded to  an authority without really checking his credentials.  Mind you thats the problem with American college students abroad, they end up becoming American Werewolves in London. I’m a college student in the Midwest U.S. In March (2005) my roommate and I went to the U.K and spent our last two days at Loch Ness. The boat rental season hadn’t started so we hired a local who took us on a private boat tour. After a few hours we came across the remains of a dead deer. The animal had literally been ripped in half - hind quarters gone, its spine was broken and severed. There were huge bloody gashes, teeth marks and a bizarre bony protrusion sticking out of an exposed rib. Using a screwdriver, we cracked open the ribcage and pried it loose. It was a tooth - about 4 inches long, barbed and very sharp! I'm about the biggest skeptic you'll ever meet, but this tooth was real, and whatever ate that deer had to have been huge. Our Scottish local told us there are no bears in the area. Excited, we signaled a passing boat to join us. Big mistake! The man told us he was the water bailiff, flashed credentials, then confiscated the tooth and the video tape that was in my camera, claiming we could get everything back from the Highland Authorities as long as we cooperated. Fortunately, he didn’t find the earlier footage in my backpack. We wasted our last day trying to get the tooth back. Most thought we were nuts, one guy who knew the water bailiff threatened to "take our passports if we made trouble." Now we're angry and want the tooth back. I tracked down a Loch Ness expert through some blogs who discovered fresh animal tracks last December. (http://loch-movie.tripod.com) Mr. McDonald says the tooth will prove his own theories apparently - developed for some author. He swears he knows what the creature is and has investors ready to buy the tooth from us. Please look at our footage. Send the links to everyone you know. Anyone whose effort help us to recover the tooth from the Highland authorities will receive a $100,000 reward! You can contact me by clicking here or contact Bill McDonald at bill_kia@hotmail.com View Pictures and Movie del.cryptozology cryptozology Current Mood: curious (3 Comments | Comment on this)
3:50p	Humanities Heritage Blue sheep, whales with feet, and villages recently deserted that had surivived intact for 2000 years, its all part of our heritage. But blue sheep really. And in Alberta Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump which is in Macleod is now designated a UN World Heritage site, great cause we also have very old pictographs in this region along the Saint Mary's river which leads to Writing on Stone Park. These are the ancient lands of the first peoples. Huge crater and whale-with-feet boneyard named U.N. heritage sites Last Updated Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:34:54 EDT CBC News The cultural and education arm of the United Nations on Friday added a giant meteorite crater in South Africa and a whale boneyard from the time the creatures had feet among seven new global heritage sites. The new spots also include two long and deep Norwegian fjords, 244 rugged islands off the coast of Mexico, a forest park in Thailand and the last refuge of the crested eagle off southwest Panama. Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, Japan, was named a UN natural heritage site on Thursday, July 14. (AP photo / Kyodo News) The heritage list, which has 188 sites around the world designated for their importance to nature and to culture, is part of a campaign to encourage conservation in host countries. Nominations are based on a 1972 convention of UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The agency has 191 member nations. Sites get a UN plaque, a boost for conservation efforts and sometimes some money from the UN to help with the cause. Crater caused evolutionary change There are 13 previously named sites in Canada including Old Quebec City and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a site in western Alberta where aboriginals chased buffalo over a cliff for thousands of years. The South African crater, called Vredefort Dome, has largely eroded since the largest meteorite known to have smashed into the earth caused what some scientists believe was major climate and evolutionary change about 2, 023 million years ago. Located about an hour's drive southwest of Johannesburg, it has a diameter of 280 kilometres. "It provides critical evidence of the earth's geological history and is crucial to our understanding of the evolution of the planet," the UNESCO committee wrote. Al-Hitan, the Whale Valley in Egypt's Western Desert, contains bones from the evolutionary time in the distant past when whales made the transition from land to sea. Fossils still showing hind legs on a streamlined body can be seen. Blue sheep and brown bear colour site Another site named Friday in Durban, South Africa, is the Shiretoko Peninsula on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island. It's important for an ecosystem influenced by sea ice that forms at its southernmost point in the northern hemisphere. It's also home to threatened fish and bird species. Two previous designations were expanded. An Indian valley that is home to blue sheep, brown bears and even more colourful flowers was expanded to include a neighbouring mountain wilderness. It's now called Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park. And a volcanic archipelago in the Hebrides off Scotland, initially honoured for its natural features, was expanded to include its cultural history. No one has lived in the islands of Hirta, Dun, Soay and Boreray since 1930, but stone houses and field systems remain from 2,000 years of subsistence farming. (1 Comment | Comment on this)

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