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National Geographic Tales of the Weird

National Geographic Tales of the Weird

Readers cannot get enough information about the often weird, sometimes miraculous things being discovered by scientists every day - Incredible flying sharks, the life of Bigfoot, mind-controlling fungus that turns ants into zombies.

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Unexplained Monsters - The Many Unexplained Creatures

This website is based upon facts about Unexplained Monsters compiled from several different sources. There is Bigfoot, Mummys, Sharks, Giant Squids and many others. Some of the world's oldest and most provocative unexplained monsters will be descibed with pictures, history, and several fun facts. From the forests of Northern California to the deserts of Egypt and down to the deepest darkest parts of the oceans, this website will take you on a journey all over the world, in search for the Unexplained Creatures that plague this world.

For nearly 50 years, the concept of Bigfoot has been a part of American consciousness. By virtue of newspaper reports in 1958, the Pacific Northwest has historically been considered the birthplace of such strange animal activity. However, over the years, sightings of large, hairy hominids recorded throughout the United States suggest that, if these animals exist, they occupy or migrate through a widespread territory. In fact, Bigfoot reports have arisen from nearly every state in this country.

The curse of the Mummy began when many terrible events occurred after the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Legend has it that anyone who dared to open the tomb would suffer the wrath of the Mummy. Because Mummies have been associated with many magical powers throughout history, some of the Mummies found from Egypt were ground into a fine powder and sold as mystical Mummy powder. It's believed the powder had magical healing powers and it wasn't until the discovery of King Tut and the hype of the media that things would change forever.

Sharks have prowled Earth's seas, essentially unchanged, for 400 million years. Their size, power, and great, toothy jaws fill us with fear and fascination. And though Sharks kill only a few people each year, media coverage and movie portrayals of Shark attacks have marked Sharks as voracious killing machines. Our fears—and appetites—fuel an industry that hunts more than 100 million Sharks each year and threatens to purge these vital predators from the oceans.

Like something straight out of a Jules Verne novel, an enormous tentacled creature looms out of the inky blackness of the deep Pacific waters. But this isn't science fiction. A set of extraordinary images captured by Japanese scientists marks the first-ever record of a live Giant squid (Architeuthis) in the wild. The Giant squid measures roughly 25 feet (8 meters) long—was photographed 2,950 feet (900 meters) beneath the North Pacific Ocean. Japanese scientists attracted the Squid toward cameras attached to a baited fishing line.

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