Move over skeletons in the closet, the demon behind the couch has taken over! If you’ve been anywhere on the internet lately, you’ll surely recognize this image, which has gone completely viral. And yes, I’m guilty; I shared it – more than once! So what is it about this photo that has everyone buzzing? Sights seem to point back to the scare factor, but more stories are beginning to circulate. Is there something more sinister brewing here? We are just as anxious to find out.
Everyone seems to be asking, could there really be a demon behind the couch? Did someone accidentally capture pure evil? “PhotoShop” seems to be the most common explanation to be found but no one has come up with a logical explanation, yet. With the origins of the photo still up in the air, there are tales being spun across the internet world on where it came from. From stories of a murderous ghost, to “a friend of a friend captured this in their living room”, most viewers agree on one fact: this photo is very disturbing. Personally, it left me totally creeped out, and I had to scoop my stomach up off of the the floor after I finally saw the face. Although the idea behind it was exciting, I am still doubtful that there is any paranormal presence. Only time will tell… and I’m certain there is an investigations team out there, somewhere, waiting to debunk this one. I patiently await their discovery… I hope the creator is as startling as the photo; I’ll be waiting to scare, I mean “share” it with the world!
Earlier this week, we reported on the supposed video footage of a woolly mammoth. But that wasn’t the only alleged footage of a monster to hit the internet this week. Now comes news that Lagarfljót’s Worm, the Icelandic version of the Loch Ness Monster, has been filmed in a glacial river by an amateur cameraman. Check out the video and story.
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My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun...
Icelanders are known for their belief in elves and trolls – but could there be a giant worm monster swimming around in the company of the water fairies?
Footage filmed by an amateur cameraman at a glacial river in the east of the country seems to show a huge snakelike creature slinking through the icy water.
Legend has it that a 25 mile-long lake is home to Lagarfljót’s Worm, the Icelandic version of the Loch Ness Monster, with tales being told of the beast going back to 1345.
As the story goes, the monster grew from being a tiny worm after a girl placed a gold ring on it to increase the size of the piece of jewellery.
On her return however, it wasn’t the ring that had grown but the wriggling creature – into a giant serpent.
And the worm didn’t stop getting bigger. Flung into Lake Lagarfljot by the terrified child, the beast eventually turned into a ferocious, humped and poision-spitting dragon nearly 100 metres long that continued to live in the lake.
Some fanciful reports suggest that the monster has been spotted slithering into the trees and that it is as long as the lake itself.
Unsurprisingly, sightings of Lagarfljót’s Worm are considered a bad omen.
One sceptical explanation might be that the worm monster is actually an abandoned fishing net that was frozen in the river and, once partially-thawed, was wound through the waters by the current.
Gases rising from the lakebed, creating openings in the ice and sweeping along tangled debris that has fallen from the mountainside has also been offered as an account of some sightings.
But cryptozoology expert Loren Coleman suspects a greater degree of human hoaxery.
“What concerns me the most is the robotic look of this creature,” he is reported to have said.
“If you look at that head, it appears like somebody’s put a constructed anaconda head there, and behind it, the natural movement of a snake should give a much more flowing curve to the sections.”
Coleman added: “What concerned me immediately was when I saw the tail section moving in unison with the next section; there’s no movement in that one section as it goes side-to-side.
“A snake moves in a sort of ’s’ curve. But in this video, you get a blocking of the movement of the creature, which tells us it’s probably very artificial.”
I have to agree with Loren Coleman here. This looks very artificial, and some other things I noticed are that 1) the “worm” is always at the exact same depth in the water, and 2) the wake of this creature seems to be a little bit ahead of the actual head, indicating some sort of mechanism beneath the water, perhaps towing the mechanism. I also always wonder why the cameramen who shoot these videos never seem more shocked to be filming the alleged Bigfoot, UFO, ghost, lake monster, chupacabra, or whatever it is they claim to be filming. We can hear the wind clearly in this clip, so why no exclamations of excitement? And what’s with the two very different camera angles? To me, this all screams hoax. What do you think?
I came across this article today, and the accompanying video, and I have to say, I’m not impressed at all. Supposedly, a woolly mammoth was captured on video, crossing a river in Siberia. Now, while I do believe that the possibility exists that small populations of these creatures could still be surviving in the farthest reaches of Siberia, this video does not prove that they still exist. Take a look for yourself, and then read my thoughts and analysis.
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Big Bird saw a woolly mammoth too, Mr. Cohen.
A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all.
The animal – thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago – was apparently filmed wading through a river in the freezing wilds of Siberia.
The jaw-dropping footage was caught by a government-employed engineer last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia, it is claimed.
He filmed the elephant-sized creature as it struggled against the racing water.
Its hair matches samples recovered from mammoth remains regularly dug up from the permafrost in frozen Russia.
The official was reportedly in the area surveying for a planned road.
Paranormal writer Michael Cohen said: “Rumours of a handful of mammoths still kicking around in the vast wilderness of Siberia have been circulating for decades and occasionally sightings by locals have occurred.
“Siberia is an enormous territory and much of it remains completely unexplored and untouched by humans. “
Woolly mammoths roamed the Earth 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age.
A small pocket remained on and around Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, and these did not die out until 3,500 years ago.
Mr Cohen, 41, added: “It is highly possible that a number of species, extinct elsewhere, survive in the area.
“If surviving woolly mammoths were found in Siberia, it could run against Russia’s plans to further develop and exploit the area’s considerable resources.
“It would be potentially one of the greatest discoveries ever.”
But viewers are divided on the nature of the animal seen in the video. Some have dismissed it as a hoax while others reckon it is an elephant lost in the Siberian wilderness. The third theory is the sighting shows a bear eating a huge fish. What do you think?
I only had to watch the video once to notice something very odd about it. If you look closely, you can see the white foam of the river waves hitting the “mammoth” moves along with it perfectly, almost as if it was superimposed, or digitized. The subject also never takes its trunk out of the water. And why didn’t the cameraman try to get any closer? To me, all of these things scream hoax. It’s also interesting to note that they quote Michael Cohen, the same paranormal researcher that thought the ghost of Princess Diana was captured on film at a Scottish Church. This mammoth video has his copyright on it, and the actual cameraman is never named. Similar to the case of Princess Diana’s ghost (which is a horribly obvious fake), the actual cameraman is not named, but Michael Cohen has the “exclusive scoop.” I’d say Mr. Cohen is someone to be extremely wary of. Shenanigans, I say.
Well, we can now add Fran Drescher to the growing list of celebrities who claim to have been abducted by aliens (see Hagar, Sammy). The star of “The Nanny” is claiming that she was abducted by UFO occupants in junior high school and had an alien chip implanted in her that caused her to meet her ex-husband. Yeah…
I could see why aliens would want to abduct and probe her. Now if only they could have done something about her voice...
Fran Drescher, whose “Happily Divorced” has been a hit for TV Land, believes that she was abducted by aliens while she was in junior high. She also, very seriously, says that said aliens planted a chip in her hand and programmed her to meet her ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, who inspired the TV series.
“You know, it’s funny because Peter and I both saw [aliens] before we knew each other, doing the same thing, driving on the road with our dads,” she tells HuffPo. “We were both in junior high.”
Years later, they met and compared experiences. “We realized that we had the same experience. I think that somehow we were programmed to meet,” she says, pointing out a small scar on her hand. “We both have this scar. It’s the exact same scar on the exact same spot.”
Jacobson doesn’t share her opinions. He suggests that Drescher got the scar from a drill bit or a burn from a hot beverage. “I said to him, that’s what the aliens programmed us to think,” Fran explains. “But really, that’s where the chip is.”
…It could explain some things.
Alien abduction stories are always a bit suspect for me. First off, I feel like most can easily be explained by sleep paralysis. Simply put, the brain shuts your muscles down when you sleep so that you don’t act out your dreams. But sometimes we wake up when our bodies are still paralyzed, and one can get the sense of being immobilized. And since the brain is still technically dreaming, hallucinations can occur, such as the feelings of an ominous presence nearby. The implanted chips, which are always thought to be extraterrestrial in nature, always turn out to be completely terrestrial in origin. They are weird, to be certain, but alien control devices? That has yet to be proven.
In what seems to be an epidemic, ghosts are now apparently comitting a series of crimes. And the criminal activity is escalating. Whereas last time it was just a case of stolen goods, now a Wisconsin man, who is accused of beating his wife, says that a ghost is responsible for her injuries. Hell, it’s better than “she fell down the stairs.”
He may be available soon, ladies. But the ghost that follows him may strangle and beat you.
JANUARY 20–A Wisconsin man charged with domestic abuse told cops that a “ghost” was actually responsible for injuries suffered by his wife, according to police.
The bizarre claim by Michael West, 41, did not prevent the Fond du Lac man’s arrest for strangulation, battery, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. West is pictured in the mug shot at right.
According to a January 18 criminal complaint, West and his spouse got into an argument Sunday that turned violent. The victim told cops that West twice strangled her, and that he punched her in the face when she tried to dial 911.
When cops arrived at the couple’s home, the crying woman was bleeding from the nose and had blood on her Packers jersey.
During police questioning, West claimed his wife sustained her injuries to her face and neck during several falls. When pressed by a cop–who pointed to marks on the woman’s neck–the intoxicated West shifted his story. “A ghost did it,” he said.
In light of the apparition claim, officers sought to place West in custody. After a struggle, he was handcuffed and transported to the county lockup, where he remains in custody in lieu of $1000 bail.
It’s no surprise that this guy was drunk. But still, that’s the best excuse he could come up with? In other news, 37 local paranormal teams have been trying to contact the couple to see if they could go in and investigate.
If you’ve been anywhere on the internet lately, you’ll surely recognize this image, which has gone completely viral. And yes, I’m guilty; I shared it – more than once! So what is it about this photo that has everyone buzzing? Sights seem to point back to the scare factor, but more stories are beginning to circulate. Is there something more sinister brewing here? We are just as anxious to find out.
