Pursuing The Strange And Weird

Bearing in mind today's giant squid story and the fact that I have books to sell...time for a commercial break!

Although all three of my books have dealt with unidentified creatures of the seas, this one expanded on that to make it a good, fully referenced read.

Pursuing The Strange And Weird -A Naturalist's Viewpoint

Terry Hooper-Scharf
Paperback, 

A4

249 Pages

Price: £15.00

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UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures; submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans.

There is a fully expanded section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video footage.

Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered. The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja.

Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.

Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle. Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird 

A Giant squid makes a rare appearance in Japan

Incredible footage of a juvenile 12 footer but it was alive and even guided out of the harbour by a diver.  Well done that diver!

Now,if only the press and idiots would stop calling anything big in the sea a "monster"!

According to The Washington Post online:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/12/28/giant-squid-makes-a-rare-appearance-in-japan/?tid=sm_tw
By Rachel Feltman

A giant squid made its way into Japan's Toyama Bay on Christmas Eve, treating onlookers to a rare sighting of the magnificent creature. Japan seems to be the place to find these staggeringly large beasts: The first-ever images of a giant squid in the wild were snapped off the coast of the Ogasawara Islands in 2004, and the first film of a living adult came from the same area in 2012.


CNN reports that one intrepid diver had a close encounter with the real-life sea monster.

"My curiosity was way bigger than fear, so I jumped into the water and go close to it," Akinobu Kimura told CNN. "This squid was not damaged and looked lively, spurting ink and trying to entangle his tentacles around me. I guided the squid toward to the ocean, several hundred meters from the area it was found in, and it disappeared into the deep sea."

 

It may seem massive, but the squid seen in the footage above is probably pretty young. It's estimated to be just over 12 feet long, and giant squid are thought to grow over three times that size. Researchers used to think that the giant squid Architeuthis dux (which is the only species of giant squid, as far as anyone can tell) could grow over 60 feet long, but a recent study of the available literature found no evidence to support this. In fact, since most of the giant squid seen by humans have been long-dead specimens, it's quite plausible that they might have stretched out as their tissues weakened.

But the 40 or so feet long they've been confirmed to reach is still pretty impressive. Heck, the 12 feet our buddy in the video above has reached is already pretty freaky looking.

Architeuthis dux may be the longest squid in the sea (or the longest we know about, anyway) but the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) is the biggest in terms of mass. Scientists dissected a 770-pound colossal squid back in 2014, and you can check out our recap of the gross-but-awesome event here.