Kasa-obake

 

One of the most strangest looking monsters is the Kasa-obake. This is part of Japanese folklore and it's also called a a Karakasa-kozo. They resemble umbrellas with one large eye and a single leg, which they use to hop around. They are said to have very large tongues. 

The Kasa-obake are a type of Yokai (spirits) and often said to have started in the Edo period (16th Century to the 18th Centuries). 

While there are unknown sightings of them, many associate the Kasa-obake with hauntings and nightmares. It could be another kind of "bogeyman" in Japanese tradition. 

Often its' assumed these entities are just fabrications in stories. These creatures mostly appear in popular media such as cartoons, manga and computer games such as "The Legend of the Mystical Ninja".    

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Divine Canines: The Aralez

The Aralez is type of supernatural creature that looks like a winged wolf or a winged dog. They dwell in the caves of Mount Ararat, and these beings often fly at high altitudes in the sky. They were also connected to the spirit realm, and they assisted the souls of dead warriors into the afterlife. Sometimes the Aralez could heal and bring back the dead. This legend comes from Armenian folklore. There is something very angelic about the Aralez who share many characteristics with a lot of benign ethereal beings. 

Linking to all of this is a story called Ara the Beautiful. It's said that there was a war between the Armenian King Ara the Beautiful and Queen Semiramis of Assyria. Many had died and Queen Semiramis commanded her soldiers to locate her lover. All of the dead were to be placed inside her castle and this included the body of Ara, who was considered one of the nobles and given a tomb in an upper chamber. The Armenians announced war again and the queen said: "I have commanded the gods to lick wounds and they shall live again." It seemed Queen Semiramis kept the fallen warriors for that reason.

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The future of humanity?

 

According to scientists, its possible that humans could one day be able to spit venom, the way that snakes do. 

At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, they studied mammals and snakes then concluded how there is a similar saliva producing gland make-up. While venom making animals such as snakes, spiders, jellyfish and scorpions, it's also interesting to learn that humans may one day be capable of doing this! 

There are many animals that produce venom, including mammals! These mammals that can produce venom are moles, the duckbilled platypus, water shrews, solenodons and also a primate species called slow loris. 

Could humans one day be capable of spitting venom? Remember that 80's science fiction series "V"? It was about an alien invasion led by Diana (pictured above), who was able to spit venom. Could that be the reality of humans one day? 

Maybe if humans will be able to spit venom in the far distant future, there would have to be stricter rules on social distancing!

To read more visit Live Science:  https://www.livescience.com/could-humans-be-venomous.html 

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Earth Hounds

 Among the spooky Hellhounds and Black dogs of legend and cryptozoology, there are the less known Earth Hounds. These creatures are often smaller than the phantom Black Dogs, but just as menacing and eerie. They were witnessed eating corpses in graveyards. Described as being like small dogs with dark fur, burrowing into the ground to look for the dead. A face of a dog, but with tusks and a very long tail. Many have claimed to witness these creatures in Scotland. Some think these are rats but these only resemble rats from a distance, close up they appear very different. Others think these could be moles but these animals don't burrow in graves to eat corpses and they don't have certain features like tusks. Another possibility is that this is a badger, that do burrow into the soil of graveyards, but they also lack the physical traits of the Earth Hound. People in the countryside would know what a badger looks like. The Earth Hounds were such a bad problem that it was known to have nests around graveyards and becoming pests. Whatever it is, the Earth Hound is a well deserved cryptid mystery. 

More: Earth Hound at Cryptid Archives           

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Island of ghosts and dinosaurs

 The Isle of Wight, which is a small island off the south coast of England, has been called the "dinosaur capital" because of the vast amount of dinosaur bones found there. More dinosaur bones have been found on the Isle of Wight than on mainland Britain! New species of dinosaur have been uncovered often. Last year, they found the bones of a new dinosaur called Vectaerovenator inopinatus, that lived during the Cretaceous era. It is a European relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex!

As a kid I visited the island and spent Summer holidays over there, seeing places such as the Victorian theme park called Blackgang Chine. It's attractions vary from dinosaurs to pirates and nursery rhymes. Over the past two hundred years, a lot of the region has fallen into the sea due to unstable ground that keeps eroding. This is just sad when that happens. So the park has to keep changing and moving.

If that isn't all, the island is also nicknamed "Ghost island." There are many haunted locations, and one is a lighthouse called St Catherine's that is shaped like a tower chess piece. There is also a haunted ruin and an appearing manor house that no longer exists. People have witnessed ghosts of Roman soldiers, pirates, phantom ships, ghost trains, and much more. There are many haunted buildings and haunted locations outside and along the beach. Things couldn't be stranger, when sightings of a Loch Ness type of monster has been seen in the waters around the island.  

More on the Isle of Wight's magic and history:

Ghost Island

Dinosaur Isle

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