Cryptozoology

basking shark.seen those a millions times. nothing special really. it's just an odd coincidence that the way basking sharks decay causes them to look a little like pleisiosaurs. and i mean a little. the neck is far too short.also, pleisiosaurs were not dinosaurs. actually, i think they did. certain african tribes have beening telling stories of mkele-mbembe for several hundred years. it's largely regarded as mythology, but well, so was the mountain gorilla.

we have a few really nice fuzzy pictures of the loch ness monster et al... it's really funny. no one ever seems to be able to take a GOOD CLEAR picture of something like that. maybe it's partially because if it were in focus it might looks like something else...here's something maybe someone can help me with. i'm looking for even a fuzzy picture of mokele-mbembe. i can't find a single thing. there's one aerial shot that, well, could be a rock. but that's about it. apparently, almost no one is even CLAIMING they've got on film.

yeah, and champ in lake champlain. (why i wrote nessie et al) these stories are rather common. i don't entirely disbelieve them, as there is a possibility of something being there. the hump stories, as you pointed out, could well be anything. it's the neck stories/pictures that i find interesting and worth actual inquiry. oh, do tell. what was it like?i've only seen something mysterious in the water once, and it was in our big canal. it was pretty large, a single hump with spines and a membrane between them. i can say it was an actual object because i was at most 20 feet away, and could see skin texture and barnacles on it. it made two passes and displaced water. if i had to guess at what it was, i'd have to say a really big example of a goliath grouper (jewfish) or something similar. they actually live in the area, but they don't look exactly like what i saw.

ah, ok, so nothing special. i wasn't sure one point followed from the next. my mistake.