Animal X: Monsters of the Deep

Many believe that huge unidentified monsters lurk in the world's oceans and waterways. Do remnants of the dinosaur age still exist, and is this what people are seeing off the coast of Wales in Britain and in San Francisco Bay in the USA?

The Animal X - Natural Mystery Unit is on the hunt for Monsters of the Deep. Daniel and Natalie talk with eyewitnesses who have videotaped a pod of huge sea serpents. We have the videotape analyzed by an expert who says the tape is not a fake and the monsters are real.

So much of the ocean is still unexplored. Could there be large species we are yet to discover? Scientists answer 'yes - it's most likely', and they've even recorded sounds from the depths of the ocean that they can't explain. Have you heard of the Bloop? It's the sound of a huge underwater creature and is the biggest mystery in the ocean today. Could it be the sea monster people have been talking about?

They meet the scientists from NOAA a US government agency. Scientists here say the biggest threat to any species in the ocean is over fishing.

It's time for Daniel and Natalie to slip on their wetsuits and scuba gear and go exploring the big blue. Join them as they dive to 'Aquarius', the only inner-space station in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, searching for answers.

In Search of Lake Monster Ogopogo (Documentary)

An investigation is launched upon British Columbia's Lake Okanagan using the latest underwater technology to search for evidence of the most documented lake monster known as Ogopogo. Ogopogo or Naitaka (Salish: n'ha-a-itk, "lake demon") is the name given to a cryptid lake monster reported to live in Okanagan Lake, in British Columbia, Canada. Ogopogo has been allegedly seen by First Nations people since the 19th century. The most common description of Ogopogo is a 40 to 50-foot-long (12 to 15 m) sea serpent. British cryptozoologist Karl Shuker has categorized the Ogopogo as a 'many hump' variety of lake monster, and suggested it may be a kind of primitive serpentine whale such as Basilosaurus. In 1926 a sighting is claimed to have occurred at an Okanagan Mission beach. This event was supposedly witnessed by about thirty cars of people who all claimed to have seen the same thing. In 1968 Art Folden filmed what is claimed to be footage of the alleged creature, showing a large wake moving across the water.

Bigfoot - With Paul Hayes 8/11/13 7PM EST

Monster X Radio will be back on the air this Sunday. Join us as we discuss Bigfoot with Ohio Researcher, Paul Hayes of The Genoskwa Project

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The Loch Ness Monster: It's Scotland's Fault

The infamous Loch Ness monster often appears, according to legend, accompanied by earth tremors and swirling bubbles from the Scottish lake of the same name.

However, at least one researcher believes the shaking ground and bubbles aren't signs of a monster but rather an active fault underlying Loch Ness and other nearby lakes.

Scientific American reports that Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi credits the Great Glen fault system for reported sightings of the legendary beast.

 "There are various effects on the surface of the water that can be related to the activity of the fault," Piccardi said in an interview published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

Read more here: http://www.livescience.com

Aquatic Cryptids: With Special Guest Jay Michael Cooney - 6/30 7PM EST

Join us Sunday as we discuss Water Monsters with Jay Cooney. Jay is the author of Bizarre Zoology: A blog about the bizarre side of the zoological world.

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2009 Cadborosaurus Video

I stabilized and increased the contrast of the 2009 video filmed by Kelly Nash of a purported Cadburosaurus in Nushagak Bay, Alaska. The footage is short and is repeated in slow motion as it appeared in Hilstranded.

Loch Ness Monster Insurance

The legendary Loch Ness Monster might have turned 80 this week, but one overly cautious cruise company isn’t convinced that she’s any less of a threat. While “Nessie” hasn’t reportedly harmed a soul—or ship—to date (or actually been proved to exist, for that matter), Scottish cruise line Jacobite Cruises isn’t taking any chances.

Should the octogenarian lake-lurker turn up crotchety while any of their fleet is in operation, it’ll be smooth financial sailing for them all the same, thanks to their recently purchased $1.5 million insurance policy against any potential damages incurred by Scotland’s storied monster.

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‘Sea monster’ mystery spawned after bizarre-looking carcass washes ashore in New Zealand

Video screen-grab reveals ferocious-looking head of carcass found on a New Zealand beach.

 A bizarre-looking carcass washed ashore recently on a New Zealand beach, fueling speculation that it was some sort of sea monster. This is because the head and teeth of the deteriorated corpse resembled that of something ferocious and prehistoric, while the rest of the creature was unidentifiable to beachgoers who made the discovery because of its state of decay. A YouTube video described the carcass on Pukehina Beach in the Bay of Plenty as belonging to a “strange marine creature” and the uploader asked: “Can anyone identify what it is? It has a huge head and teeth with rudimentary flippers. It seems about 9 [meters] in length but the lower part of the body is probably mainly entrails from an attack.”

Finally, however, the mystery appears to have been solved. The sea monster, according to a marine mammal expert, was most likely simply a killer whale, or orca. (Killer whales are commonly seen in the Bay of Plenty.)
Anton van Helden told New Zealand’s Sun Live newspaper that his identification was based on the fin structure of the animal.
Discovery News reported on the find under the headline: “‘Monster’ Carcass Washes Ashore in New Zealand,” and explained that creatures washing ashore in severe states of decomposition have been misidentified as sea monsters or dinosaurs for generations.
Some of these massive, unidentifiable blobs have been dubbed “blobsters.”
Discovery cites an 1896 incident in which a massive 6-foot-high “fleshy corpse” came ashore at St. Augustine, Florida. After lots of speculation a naturalist decided it belonged to some type of giant octopus, previously unknown to science.
In 2003, a 40-foot, 13-ton creature washed ashore on a beach in Chile. It was labeled by BBC News as the “Chilean Blob” and the remains were presumed by one expert to be those of a giant octopus or squid, and by another as whale blubber.
Based in DNA analysis, the blubber, in fact, was found to match that of a sperm whale.

via:http://www.grindtv.com

MonsterQuest - Lake Monster of the North

In this episode, divers, biologists and forensic sketch artists team up to search for "Cressie", the mysterious creature allegedly lurking at the bottom of Lake Crescent in New Foundland. Native American legends on this creature date back centuries and refer to a "Pond Devil" and a "Swimming Demon".

There have been recent sightings by witnesses who describe seeing a strange over-sized eel. Discover what the evidence reveals as scientists use the latest hi-tech equipment to get to the bottom of Lake Crescent.

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