Engineer captures video footage of what appears to be a woolly mammoth crossing a Siberian river. These creatures have been thought to be extinct since about 2,000 B.C.



This is a large animal thought extinct for thousands of years, now spotted. Along with historical notes like that mountain gorillas weren't discovered until the early 1900's, this gives more hope for some day discovering definitive evidence of the existence of Sasquatch.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Thinklings on Vimeo.

This one's in my neck of the woods!

What did a Vermont trail camera capture?



More info here.

HT: Cryptomundo

#1:



Bigfoot. I love this guy. I can't get enough of him. In fact, my wife gave me a Bigfoot T-shirt for Christmas featuring the famous frame 352 from the legendary Patterson-Gimlin film of a supposed sasquatch (same shot as above). I give him about a 60 percent chance of being real.

#2:

Thunderbird. This birdbrain is a distant second. I do enjoy reading some T-Bird accounts online from time to time, but I'd give him about a 20 percent chance of being real. Hey, that's a chance at least!

#3:

Lake Monsters like the Loch Ness Monster or Champ from Jared's neck of the woods. I think there's a solid 50 percent chance that a lake monster exists somewhere.

#4:

Orang pendek. He's a smallish, bipedal Sumatran ape of some sort. There have been some credible sightings of an orang pendek, but the reason this little monkey is so far down on my list is because he's not indigenous to America. In other words, I have no chance of ever seeing him. :-( I give him a 40 percent chance of being real.

#5:

Blo. He's also supposedly bipedal, and despite some credible sightings in the past, I don't think he's real. I give him a zero percent chance of existing. It is fun to read about him, though.

Yes!

Cryptomundo shares a researcher's report:

Last night ~ November 30th, police on the west side of San Antonio received a 911 call from multiple eyewitnesses who claimed that they saw a hairy, hominid standing over six feet tall, run out of the woods and kill a deer. The incident was reported to the local media and broadcast earlier today. The witnesses were apparently homeless and responding officers who interviewed them found them to be completely sober and rational, though understandably scared. The police chose not to search for the creature.

I have just returned from a stake out of the area, which is located at the intersection of Loop 1604 and highway 151, about ten miles from where I live. The area is somewhat developed, although fairly wooded and located near several creeks. Most of the area is private property and is fenced with barbed wire.

Obviously I was not about to trespass and I’m still not 100% sure of the exact location of the incident. Reporter Joe Conger from Eyewitness News did visit the exact spot earlier today and told me there were some animal bones present.

I plan on returning there with him tomorrow to look for tracks and other evidence.

Best Wishes All! ~
Ken Gerhard,
December 2, 2009,
2:13:02 AM EST.

Breaking new Champ video. From Cryptomundo:

There is breaking news from Vermont of new footage of an alleged lake monster (”Champ”?) from Lake Champlain.

This appears to be a developing story in the state . . .

I thought this would be appropriate to post this weekend. Ignore the glam rock hairdos ...

So says a Japanese spokesman.

Am I overplaying this to note that this is the same country that was gung ho about hosting a big conference to persuade us that global warming is real?

Today is Blo's birthday. He's 39 and counting. Everyone wish him a happy day.

Anyone who knows Blo knows a few immutable facts. Namely, Blo is not tangible. You can feel Blo's essence, but you can't see him. Furthermore, if you are lucky enough to encounter an apparition of Blo, then you know his tendency toward verbiosity. To put it in layman's terms, Blo knows how to talk. He's, well, long-winded; he's sort of a chatty fellow.

After much thought, I decided to invent a new word: bloviate. To bloviate means to speak or write verbosely and windily. It's a perfect word to describe someone who's acting like Blo!

I think I'll call the Webster guys to see if they'll include the definition in their dictionary. I'll be right back ...

... I'm back. My homeboy Noah Webster hooked me up right way. Check it out.

It's all coming together...

Update: Let's stroll down memory lane and look at some BloSighting® favorites:

The Bloshank Redemption

The Blolympic Games

Blo, Our "Brilliant Beast"

Meet Billblo Baggins

Blo-Info

G. I. Blo

Blo-Pac Shakur

I've heard it's very good:

A good day this is. Thinklings is back up, and is appearing to hold steady with snappy response times.

And I am now sitting at Java House with the one and only Blo. A real live Thinkling! I used to be one too, but now I have to live vicariously through Blo. Pathetic, I know.

We're here with Jay, Jeff, "Thundergeek" Fred, Honorary Thinkling Thor, and Brian the no "H" Budda. Jeff and Fred are newly back from a whirlwind trip to Mississippi to help a relative. They were up 40 hours straight and, although they have had some sleep, they are punchy but talkative.

This is reminiscent of a real Moot, as the conversation is percolating.

Perhaps I'll liveblog this. I'm on Blo's laptop. Blo has manifested tonight and appears, for the moment, to be real.

Jared - come back! We miss you, man.

Update: 9:22pm - Thor (supplier of this awesome webhost we're on) is holding forth on God's grace, God's judgement, God's will. Astute and insightful fellow, this Thor.

Update: 9:28 - someone just said something about magic underwear. I never caught what that was about. Thor is now sending me over to Egomaniac Pyromaniac - evidently there's some brouhaha going on over there? We'll see.

Magic underwear? [De cocks a quizzical snook]

Update: 9:36pm - We're now discussing how none of us feel ready to withstand real tribulation after the Katrina aftermath.

Update: - 10:03pm - Just got through a great convo on just war, gun-toting pastors, etc. Now the Mini-Moot is moving to IHOP (sans Jeff, who is heading home).

Update: - sometime the next morning - unfortunately, IHOP was without wireless access, although Blo made a valiant attempt to find internet packets using BloStation 2000™ but to no avail. The remainder of the night was extremely enjoyable; including great conversation, scripture readings and prayer.

It was a great Mini-Moot.

Update: Oh, this isn't going the way I thought it would . . .

Original post:

You may have noticed that the nebulous group known as "The Thinklings" is really a sham. The Thinklings is primarily one guy (Jared Wilson) who is currently on "hiatus" and thus posting like a crazed banshee.

I hardly ever post, and when I do I generally craft idiotic posts which are purposed solely for generating lots of filler commentary (by the way, Word Tag Memers, keep up the great work! We're almost there!!!).

Phil posts thoughtfully and well, albeit in waves.

There are several honorary Thinklings who do their part, laboring in obscurity like the "featured" members of the SNL cast.

There is Kenny, who checks in periodically, but is too busy losing weight and fathering children to post much. He does, however, claim one or two top ten posts as his own.

Asbell remains our wise patriarch. Descending from on high to post something would sully his shining robes.

Bird is on a true hiatus, and is much missed, but will never lose his Thinklinghood (in no small part because of his award-winning Gatorade post)

Then there's Blo. He never posts. We're not even sure he's real for crying out loud!

I've been waiting, hoping, dreaming of the day when Blo becomes re-engaged in the Thinklings blogotorium. But, alas, I've had it. I am therefore opening up the comments thread on this post as a vote for the continued Thinklingdom of Blo. Do we de-Thinkling him? Leave your vote in the comments thread.

Original Update: We're going to do this vote like Blo's in the coliseum, surrounded by snarling lions and dressed in a smashing leather sarong that compliments his girlish figure:

Make your vote count. A "thumbs down" vote means Blo is history (or legend, depending upon your view of the corporeal reality of Blo). A "thumbs up" vote means that he retains his Thinkling status.

Blo - if the comments start going against you, the only way you can stay the swift hand of justice is to come up with a substantive post. Godspeed.

The Abominable Blo-Man

The Abominable Blo-Man is a humanlike creature so named because it is associated with the perpetual snow region of the Himalayas. A figure unknown except through tracks ascribed to it and through alleged encounters, it is described as being 6 to 8 ft (1.8 to 2.4 m) tall, although, ironically, it's hooping-skills leave much to be desired. Attempts after the 1950s to verify the authenticity of its tracks (notably by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1960) have yielded no conclusive results. Most scholars dismiss the existence of the creature. A somewhat similarly described creature of W North America is known as Blofoot or Blosquatch.

Dr. Marvin Monroe of Springfield Anatomical Research: "After extensive biological and anatomical testing, I regret to announce that our findings are... inconclusive. This thing may or may not be human."

"This specimen is either a below-average human being or a brilliant beast."

If you're like me, you've been missing our friend Blo who is, reportedly, a real person and not just a mythological man-beast.

You've been wondering, hoping, and waiting for his return to Thinklingdom.

I think I found out where he's been these past few weeks. I was researching the Olympic standings/results and discovered, to my great joy, that our Blo has done good. He is indeed in Athens, where he just won the Gold in the women's gymnastics all-around championship!


Yay Blo!!!

Thor (a.k.a. Chris at Cozumel Community Church) snapped a photo of Blo hoopin' for the Lakers. It's no wonder Blo doesn't have time to post here at Thinklings, he's too busy with the NBA Playoffs!

photo by Ken Light

Has anyone seen Blo lately? Probably not. He?s been in the slammer playing chess with a hard core mobster named Darlok. They?ve got a pretty good game going, but it keeps getting interrupted because the warden likes to toss cells.