This is a test
February 19, 2013
This is only a test. There is nothing to see here.
One of the more successful cryptid hoaxes of modern times was executed by Mike Agrusa, with the help of disc jockey Steve Cook. Using vintage equipment and vehicles and the legend of the Michigan Dogman as a backdrop, Agrusa created a period-perfect home movie that culminates in an attack by an unknown creature. He even followed it up with a second film documenting the gruesome aftermath. Cryptozoologists everywhere declared it proof but MonsterQuest revealed the hoax in 2010.
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April 27, 2012
Jenny Haniver
April 25, 2012
Alien? Cryptid? Mermaid? In fact, this strange-looking creature was likely the handiwork of Belgian sailors, who in centuries past regularly collected the carcasses of normal rays and skates, dried them, and added a coat of varnish to preserve them. Then they carved them into fanciful forms that resembled dragons or demons or mermaids and sold them to travelers. The earliest known picture of a Jenny Haniver appeared in Konrad Gesner’s Historia Animalium Vol. IV in 1558. Also known as Devil Fish, or Jenny Haviers, the exact origin of their name is unknown, but it is likely derived from the French phrase jeune d’Anvers or “youth of Antwerp,” and was later bastardized by British collectors.
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