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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? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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