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Cryptid Aesthetics  [4/?]: The Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately referred to as Nessie since the 1940s, is an aquatic being which reputedly inhabits Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.  It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere.

The earliest report of a monster in the vicinity of Loch Ness appears in the “Life of St.Columba” by Adomnán, written in the sixth century AD.

Modern interest in the monster was sparked by a sighting on 22 July 1933, when George Spicer and his wife saw “a most extraordinary form of animal” cross the road in front of their car. They described the creature as having a large body (about 4 feet high and 25 feet long) and a long, wavy, narrow neck, slightly thicker than an elephant’s trunk and as long as the width of the road. They saw no limbs.  It lurched across the road towards the loch 20 yards away, leaving a trail of broken undergrowth in its wake.

In December 1933, the first purported photograph of the monster taken by Hugh Gray was published; the Secretary of State for Scotland soon ordered police to prevent any attacks on the creature.  In 1934, interest was further piqued by another image known as "surgeon’s photograph" revealing the creature’s head and neck.  Further purported sightings of the creature as well as investigations via sonar and submarine have occurred over the years, and Nessie has become somewhat of a cultural icon in Scotland.

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Cryptid Aesthetics [2/?]: Bigfoot/Sasquatch

Supposedly a simian-like creature that inhabits forests, the term “sasquatch” is an Anglicized derivative of the Halkomelem word “sásq'ets”.  “Wild men" stories found among the Pacific Northwest coastal Indian tribes can be confidently related to Bigfoot and correspond to the areas where white Americans have reported sightings.  Similar accounts and legends are found on every continent except Antarctica.

Individuals claiming to have seen Bigfoot describe it as a large, hairy, muscular, bipedal ape-like creature, roughly 6–9 feet tall, and covered in hair described as black, dark brown, or dark reddish.  Some descriptions include details such as large eyes, a pronounced brow ridge, and a large, low-set forehead.  The top of the head has been described as rounded and crested, similar to the sagittal crest of the male gorilla.  The creature has been reported as having a strong, unpleasant smell.

The enormous footprints for which the creature is named are claimed to be as large as 24 inches long and 8 inches wide.  Some footprint casts have also contained claw marks.

Proponents of Bigfoot’s existence claim that the creature is omnivorous and mainly nocturnal.

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Cryptid Aesthetics [5/?]: UFOs

An unidentified flying object or UFO is defined as any perceived object in the sky not identifiable by standard criteria. However, the term is widely used for claimed observations of extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Early reported sightings of unknown flying saucers usually described them as silver or metallic, sometimes reported as covered with navigation lights or surrounded with a glowing light, hovering or moving rapidly, either alone or in tight formations with other similar craft, and exhibiting high maneuverability.  While disc-shaped flying objects have been interpreted as being sporadically recorded since the  Middle Ages, the first recorded use of the term “flying saucer” for an unidentified flying object was to describe a probable meteor that fell over Texas and Oklahoma on June 17, 1930.  The highly publicized sighting by Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947, resulted in the popularity of the term by U.S. newspapers.

Famous UFO sightings include the 1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico.  The 1961 case of Betty and Barney Hill, as well as the 1957 case of Antônio Vilas-Boas, were among the first alien abduction stories to receive widespread attention.

The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range. The base’s current primary purpose is publicly unknown; however, the intense secrecy surrounding the base, together with reports of unusual phenomena, have led Area 51 to become a focus of modern UFO and other conspiracy theories. Some of the activities mentioned in such theories at Area 51 include the storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft, the study of or meetings with extraterrestrials, and the manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology.

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