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Group: alt.misc.forteana · Group Profile
Author: Wally AngleseaWally Anglesea Date: Jul 14, 2008 17:49
> From: Garrison Hilliard lists.opn.org>
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>July 14th, 2008 at 16:00 by Shawn Lindseth =
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>Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology,
>aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government
>conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion,
>strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
>
>The Bunyip is an Australian legend that started with the Aborigines, and
>was subsequently spread among the white settlers. It=92s been physically
>described as looking a thousand different ways - having everything from
>horse parts to tentacles.
>
>At one point a skull of the creature was thought to be found, and when
>science at the time could not definitively identify it - it looked like
>the
>legends were all too true.
>
>Here is a definition of the Bunyip as found in the Encyclopedia Mythica:
>
>=93A bellowing water monster from Aboriginal legend, believed to bring
>diseases. It lives at the bottom of the water holes, swamps, lakes and
>rivers of the Australian outback. The creature is roughly the size of a
>calf and requires calm water to live in. Unless its food sources are
>interfered with, the bunyip usually leaves human beings alone. However, if
>necessary it has the strength to pull a person down into the water and
>drown him. The name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning =93devil=94 or
>=93spirit=94.=94
>
>Although no specific sighting or encounters with the creature seem to have
>been reported, there was still plenty of fuel to feed the fire. For
>instance, according to Skeptic World.com:
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>=93In 1846 a peculiar skull was taken from the banks of Murrumbidgee River
>=
>in
>New South Wales. In the first flush of excitement, several experts
>concluded that it was the skull of something unknown to science. In 1847
>the so-called bunyip skull was put on exhibition in the Australian Museum
>(Sydney) for two days. Visitors flocked to see it and the Sydney Morning
>Herald said that it prompted many people to speak out about their
>=91bunyip
>sightings=92 =93Almost everyone became immediately aware that he had heard
>=92strange sounds=92 from the lagoons at night, or had seen =92something
>bl=
>ack=92
>in the water.=94"
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>The skull was eventually called that of a deformed horse or calf, but
>public interest did not fade. Take the Bunyip of the Greta area, for
>instance. Long had locals claimed to hear a =91loud booming sound=92
>coming
>from the swamp. When a search party would be dispatched, they always
>reported the same thing - nothing. Eventually the swamp was drained and
>the
>noise stopped. Some thought the creature had been killed by the death of
>it=92s natural habitat, others thought it just moved.
>
>Perhaps the most convincing piece of evidence that the Bunyip exists is
>the
>fact it was shown in a South Park episode playing the role of God (season
>3). Camera footage like that is very hard to fake, and thus far, science
>has not been able to definitively prove it wrong.
>
>Just you think about that for a minute.
>
>http://www.hecklerspray.com/awesome-or-off-putting-the-bunyip/200815227.php
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