I was going to write about my new laptop today, but I was just passed something a million times better. It looks like the little gnome from the Travelocity commercials has an evil twin. Or maybe it’s a baby chupacabra. Whatever it was, something very strange was spotted in General Guemes, in the province of Salta, Argentina. In fact, it was caught on video by a teenager using the built-in camera on his cell phone.
Quite frankly, he’s a lot more creepy when you watch him move. Don’t let the little gnome photo on this post fool you. Check out the news item ‘Creepy Gnome’ Terrorizes Small Town and watch the embedded video. There is something creepy about that thing.
As technology becomes more pervasive, there will be fewer and fewer places of refuge for creatures of myth. How much longer until a reputable bigfoot video shows up? Or a lake monster is killed by a speed boat? In fact, when you consider consider the population growth in China and the widespread civil unrest and poaching in Afria, South America may be one of the few refuges left. It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s been a general migration there over the last few decades. Just imagine the North American Sasquatch migrating from the Rockies down into Texas, through Big Bend into Mexico, and through Central America to South America. It could be the backdrop for one heck of an interesting novel.
Anyway, check out the creepy gnome.
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Told you. That was absolutely weird. It just doesn’t move normally, at all.
I watched a new show on Sci Fi very late last night (yeah, I read your last post, f*$k you very much…:)).
Anyway, the show is some kind of Mythbuster type show that’s just started on that channel. They go to Nepal to find a Yeti. They’re looking around with FLIR and all sorts of stuff around this mountain stream where there have been several sightings and one attack, very late at night. They catch something really weird on the FLIR, and then it goes away.
They run to where they saw the image on the FLIR, and sure enough: there’s a couple of big-assed footprints in the rocky soil, that vanish up into some flat rocks around the stream. They do casting of the print, bring it back to America, and have an anthropologist look at it. It’s weird, and matches closely several of the Sasquatch prints that have been cast in the last few years. This apparently made the news. It gave me the cold chills. Well, my house is drafty, but you get the idea.
I like the thought of things like that still running around. The world becomes a little less mysterious every day, and maybe a bit less macabre, but there’s still some rationality for the fear that kicks in when things go bump in the night.
I just hope the Abominable Snowf$*k ain’t bullet proof.
You’re welcome for the show of concern for your sleep health. Clearly it didn’t make enough of an impression. :p
I think we’ve been crowding out the mysterious ever since settlers left the east coast states and settled the West. Where man ventures, nature must eventually retreat. Places like Nepal, the Andes, and the rainforests of central and South America are some of the last refuges for the creatures that have faded into myth. I think humans need mystery. We think we want to know everything there is to know and conquer every square inch of our planet, yet we feel a loss for each phenomenon explained away. When there’s an amusement park ride up the side of Mt. Everest, our world will be a much diminished place.