By: Hettie Basil Lighttower
Halloween is around the corner. Have you stocked up on all the goodies for the neighborhood “trick or treaters”? Ready to OD on candy corn??? Or maybe the sugary pumpkins are your poison of pleasure. There are always lots of choices for a sugar fix at Halloween. Candy should be one of the monsters listed in the list of monsters at Halloween. Has anyone ever thought of dressing up as one big SUGAR CUBE. That would be an excellent consideration. It really is a poison to our system and causes things to go haywire is a recipe for inflammation.
While I’d love to go on about the dangers and pitfalls of sugar I really have something else on my mind that are real live creepy creatures that have been documented and are in current research. Let’s take a look at a few. First up is a 20ft long white hairy sea creature on a Philippine beach!
Some claim this to be a partially deteriorated whale carcass. I’ve looked at several pictures and I am not convinced it resembles a whale no matter how deteriorated it is. Please, google hairy sea creature on Philippine beach and see what you think. I would love to hear your opinions. Anyway this thing is like no other dead whale ever seen. And the thing was dead, people are photographed be beside it and taking pictures. There is a “clean-up” photo where a backhoe is scooping up the carcass in pieces to rid the beach of it. But it literally looks like a huge hairy beast….long hair, not short fuzzy cuddly looking hair. One writer suggests it looks like a huge shih tzu or a fictional character from the TV show called Avatar: The Last Airbender. The character is called Appa. I have never seen that show and didn’t take time to look it up. But I will take their word for it. I wish I could show you a picture of it. I hope you look it up. It is quite intriguing. Other articles refer to it as a “hairy blob” or a “massive hairy blobster”. Now do the terms ‘blob’ or ‘blobster’ put you in mind of a whale carcass?? Not. It is too bizarre.
That monster probably won’t give you nightmares, but this next one might. There are actually large carp in a southwestern Chinese lake with a human looking face. The carp are very large and the features of the markings show very much human like traits. I saw one that was not a carp but larger and plumper that is referred to “AquaFace”. I dare you to look up a picture of THIS one. There are several actually. They are new scientific discoveries. Google Lake Samsara the Karanji Region if you would like to have a few vivid visuals for a real good jolt to your system. CREEPY CREEPY. Whew…. these are alive in the lake. I would not want to have an encounter with any of those. They just look too human and just not right.
And let’s not forget all the crazy monster squids and octopi that fisherman come across now and then. Strange catches are always being recorded. You could spend all day on the internet looking up sea creatures.
A different yet subtle creature is not very large and actual quite beautiful which has been a new phenomenon off the coast of California is one called “By-the-wind Sailor”. These actually have a scientific name of Velella velella. These won’t give you nightmares but might even be appealing to you. They have a gorgeous sapphire blue middle base to them which looks like the crystal. On the top and bottom of them are clear crystal “fins”. They aren’t exactly crystal like the gemstones, but they are more like a jellyfish consistency. The sun shines through them quite beautifully. The creepy thing about them is that they have shown up out of nowhere and covered the beaches by the 100s or possibly 1000s. So, it looks and feels like an invasion.
Why are they here? What are they? They don’t even look like an animal of any kind. They are very peculiar and are a new phenomenon. They have been known to be in the United Kingdom waters and beaches but were seen for the first time in North America in 2014 on the California coast. They float along the top of the water, their top clear fins used like a sailboat sail. And they actually resemble little tiny blue sailboats with a crystal clear sail! Alas, how they got their common name. Check them out.
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