Saru Posted September 3, 2002 #1 Share Posted September 3, 2002 Here's a weird looking thing I saw on a web site of strange pictures. The text underneath it is rather interesting, claiming there were thousands of these things in an area of Tanajib. This looks basically like someones taken the remains of a crocodile and a monkey and attached them together somehow. The thing looks like it's been decomposing for weeks, certainly not a snapshot of a live animal sitting on the beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted September 3, 2002 #2 Share Posted September 3, 2002 If these things actually exist(ed, I think we would have known about them by now. : FAKE 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerberus Posted September 3, 2002 #3 Share Posted September 3, 2002 Hi Saruman, i have posted a link featuring this picture on the cryptozoology forum already, under the topic 'A NEW PETS IN TOWN'.it has some other strange pics, real and unexplained. i think it is a FAKE photo, but it is a fascinating picture, none the less.For entertainment value its 10/10. And how comes only half of it is decomposed? because its a cut and paste job! aha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kira Posted September 4, 2002 #4 Share Posted September 4, 2002 Ewwwwwww Definatly Fake!!!!!! :s9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerberus Posted September 4, 2002 #5 Share Posted September 4, 2002 if that photo is real.... i'll eat my hat. but it has the same chance of being real, as seeing a UFO land on the loch ness monsters head. :s9 or alternatively, elvis and dracula being members of the MIB's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test_Bear Posted September 5, 2002 #6 Share Posted September 5, 2002 You really have to wonder how stuff like this gets started. It would take a lot of time and effort, not to mention intestinal fortitude, to sever in two the corpses of an alligator and a simian, and then to merge the two together using some degree of sewing talent. (or gluing, or my person favourite, the duct tape.) That's just a lot of effort, and then to write the little article, and then to translate the litttle article into the matching language. (My international languages are rusted, so I'm aware of that only being some form of middle eastern dialect.) That's a whole lot of effort. And look where it got them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althalus Posted September 5, 2002 #7 Share Posted September 5, 2002 The ancient Egyptians used to do this kind of thing, recently a group of egyptologists decided to x-ray a mummy of a child they had found, to their surprise they discovered that it was actually a human upper torso that had been sewn onto a crocodiles lower torso. They came to the conclusion that i must have been done as votive offering to Sebek, a crocodile headed god, quite why they chose to put the top half of the body as human I can't think. But the Egyptians seemed to have done it as a way of being near their god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerberus Posted September 5, 2002 #8 Share Posted September 5, 2002 interesting story althalus.... :s4 :s9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azazel Posted September 7, 2002 #9 Share Posted September 7, 2002 :sn Maybe tourism is a little slow in Tanjib ??? If you observe closer around the shoulder area of the torso, there seems to be an irregular gap that does not blend naturally into the background. Pardon my cynicism :s8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarro Posted September 11, 2002 #10 Share Posted September 11, 2002 no one merged two corpses together- this photo is definitely a fake. how is it a fake? look at the focus on the crocodile section and then look at the focus on the 'man' section and you will see they are clearly from 2 different photos just photoshopped together. a really badly faked job in my opinion. anyone with half a brain would make sure they photographed the croc and the 'man' from the exact same distances and also the same lighting if possible. the problem then would be making the picture look a little bad so it wouldnt be too good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin6th Posted September 11, 2002 #11 Share Posted September 11, 2002 ;D Arf! ;D Two joined corpsed...or I'm beginning looking for Ninja Turtles in the sewers!!! COWABUNGA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentalcase Posted September 11, 2002 #12 Share Posted September 11, 2002 You guys are wrong, I see those things around my house all the time! :s04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotastraphy Posted January 18, 2003 #13 Share Posted January 18, 2003 RIght where the body changes the arm is blocking it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Davero Posted January 27, 2003 #14 Share Posted January 27, 2003 Ripley's Believe it or not has a mermaid that very much resembles this thing.The mermaid was found to be half money half fish.This is half monkey half alligator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted January 27, 2003 Author #15 Share Posted January 27, 2003 Davero, The one your thinking of was called the "Fiji Mermaid", and as you say it was half monkey, have fish. It was on display for quite some time, before it was officially debunked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty Posted February 10, 2003 #16 Share Posted February 10, 2003 that's a scary pic i have to say but it's fake it looks lika mummy that was mummyfied with a lizard or crocodile and the mummy is in it's mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest David Bowcott Posted February 15, 2003 #17 Share Posted February 15, 2003 I think that It looks pretty real, and if it is a fake, they really put it together really well because from what i can see, there is nomajor change in textur that you can see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snuffypuffer Posted February 27, 2003 #18 Share Posted February 27, 2003 I saw this picture in a crypto-zoology book sometime back. It was the mummy of a monkey sewed onto a croc I think. It was an old book, predating photoshop. In fact I think it was a postcard from Florida I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messiah 01 Posted February 28, 2003 #19 Share Posted February 28, 2003 I think i could do better with some play dough. FAKE!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althalus Posted February 28, 2003 #20 Share Posted February 28, 2003 This type of 'fake' has been found before, the ancient egyptians used to mummify people, usually little kids in such a way as this. It actually showed egyptologists unwrapping the mummy nce on telly, Discovery Channel, I think it was. It was supposed to represent Sobek a crocodile headed god, only the top half of the mummy was human and the bottom half the crocodile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messiah 01 Posted March 1, 2003 #21 Share Posted March 1, 2003 They could have choose a prettier head to stick on him couldnt they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Playfair Posted March 6, 2003 #22 Share Posted March 6, 2003 This picture appeared way back in Dec 1992 in fortean times, he is Jake the alligator man from marsh's free museum in Long beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxfan Posted March 6, 2003 #23 Share Posted March 6, 2003 its easy to see things like this but you need to drink vast quantities of tequila though. All I can say is why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magikman Posted March 7, 2003 #24 Share Posted March 7, 2003 Thanks for the tip, Mike. Here's a link to the original ; CLICK HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaCeMonKeY03 Posted March 9, 2003 #25 Share Posted March 9, 2003 Totally fake man. I've seen something simular to this but it was a human-fish creature that was surpose to have been a mermaid. It was proven to be a fake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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