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The thylacine, the Tasmanian tiger, was a striped, dog sized marsupial predator that once ranged across Australia and New Guinea and, by the time Europeans arrived, was holding on only in Tasmania. The last one anyone can prove existed died in a Hobart zoo in September 1936. The story goes it was locked out of its shelter on a cold night, though researchers now lean toward old age. Officially, that was the end of the species.
Except the sightings never stopped. For nearly ninety years, farmers, park rangers, and travelers have reported the same thing, a stiff tailed animal with dark stripes crossing a road at dusk and slipping into the bush. Some reports come from level headed people with nothing to gain. Blurry photos and casts of odd tracks surface every few years. Wildlife authorities have quietly logged hundreds of these accounts.
The truth may be far stranger than we have been told.
An ordinary animal misremembered as something extinct, or a survivor holding on in the deep Tasmanian wilderness, unseen for generations? What do you think people keep seeing out there?
What do you think about this? Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 trance readings, all written down and still on file. He said proof of Atlantis would rise near Bimini in 1968. That year divers found a half mile road of giant stone blocks there. True seer, or lucky guess?
What do you think about this? Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky built a 500 foot tunnel just to move its dead out of sight of the living. It closed in 1961. Visitors still report a boy rolling a ball across empty floors. Restless spirits, or a dark building playing tricks on the mind?
What do you think about this? In 1891, a poor French priest named Bérenger Saunière began tearing up his church floor, then spent the next two decades funding lavish buildings on a stipend that should not have covered it. Real treasure, or a secret about how he ran his church?
What do you think about this? Puma Punku’s H-shaped stone blocks, cut from andesite by a culture dating to roughly 600 CE, are flat to within a couple millimeters, with no known metal tools hard enough to do it. Lost technique, or something we haven’t caught up to yet?
What do you think about this? The Georgia Guidestones were commissioned anonymously in 1979 by a man calling himself R.C. Christian, and no one ever learned his real name before the monument was bombed on July 6, 2022. Message, or a monument that did not deserve to stand?
What do you think about this? Pacifica’s Devil’s Slide has swallowed sections of Highway 1 since 1937, and a WWII watch bunker still perched on its cliff edge has sat abandoned there since 1949. Geology, or a stretch of coast that keeps trying to shrug people off?
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