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ParaNews: Raising the Dead and Paychecks

27 Tuesday Mar 2018

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Paranormal News for the Week of March 27, 2018

ParaNews: Raising the Dead and Paychecks

  1. The 6-inch skeleton discovered in Northern Chile positively identified as not being an alien. The mummified remains appeared to be disproportionate and fodder for many rumors since being found in a Chilean ghost town. “Ata” was aptly named for the Atacama Desert near the deserted town. Researchers were finally able to test Ata’s DNA. The findings revealed that she was genetically deformed. Scientists have not precisely dated the girl; however, they estimate she lived after 1500. She is privately owned. The findings are published in peer-reviewed journal Genome Research. Read the abstract here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/29567674/

 

  1. Decomposing body of a sea creature is not the corpse of the mythical Georgia river monster “Alty.” Jeff Warren was boating with his son along the Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge when he spotted a disfigured, dead animal. He took pictures and video, headed inland, and passed along his tale. Locals were eager to claim “Alty” has been found, but not so fast. Area experts theorized the animal was a frilled shark, an elusive shark that has a long body. Read the blog here: https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/2018/03/23/sorry-its-not-alty-or-nessie-or-any-other-mythical-creature/

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  1. Season 3 of Stranger Things begins production next month (April) with a very happy cast. All of the cast members secured huge pay raises. Adult actors Winona Ryder (“Joyce”) and David Harbour (“Hopper”) will earn between $300,000-350,000 per episode while at least two of the boys, Finn Wolfhard (“Mike”) and Gaten Matarazzo (“Dustin”) will earn upwards of $250,000 per episode. Caleb McLaughlin (“Lucas”) and Noah Schnapp (“Will”) will earn over $150,000, while Natalia Dyer (“Nancy”), Charlie Heaton (“Jonathan”), and Joe Kerry (“Steve”) will take home $150,000 per episode. The only unknown is Millie Bobby Brown. News media reports that she negotiated separately from the teenagers and will earn between $250,000-350,000 per episode. Considering the kids earned $30,000 per episode for the first two seasons, they have proven their worth on and off the set.

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Note: Still waiting for the official Season 3 poster for Stranger Things.

Sorry, It’s Not Alty or Nessie or Any Other Mythical Creature

23 Friday Mar 2018

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Sorry, It’s Not Alty or Nessie or Any Other Mythical Creature

Georgia’s version of “Nessie” may have beached itself along the Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge. Or so the news media reports. Although it is easy to claim it was “Alty,” the bloated remains were probably something more common.

Last Friday, March 16th, boater Jeff Warren spotted a decomposing sea creature along the beach. He snapped a picture and took some video showing a long-necked, flippered grey dead animal. The only sure thing was that the animal was dead. He left the carcass and headed inland, sharing his tale with locals, who wondered if Warren had indeed witnessed “Alty,” the mythical Altamaha-ha creature reported to be haunting the Altamaha River since the 1830s.

He did not. According to Dan Ashe, former Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service and current President and CEO of the Association of zoos and Aquariums, Warren probably spotted a marine animal whose shape was altered during the decomposition process. [Multiple media outlets keep reporting that Ashe is the current Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He isn’t.] Ashe went on to theorize that the altered shape made the creature appear to be the prehistoric Plesiosaur, a creature common in the Jurassic Period that was located all over the globe. The Plesiosauria measured between 5-49 feet and had a broad, flat body, 2 sets of flipper-like limbs, and a tail. It died off some 200 million years ago. A full-sized preserved body of a Plesiosaur has never washed onto a beach.

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Fig. 2. Heinrich Harder’s illustration of a Plesiosauria from the Jurassic Period.

Other marine scientists opined that the creature was possibly a juvenile frilled shark, an elusive “elongated deep-sea shark with prominent gill covers that give the appearance of a frill around the neck.” Seems the easier and more logical explanation. However, some people of Georgia hope it is “Alty.”

The river monster is a popular North American legend. It was first documented when on April 22, 1830, when Captain Delano of the schooner Eagle spotted her. Witnesses included 5 men on the vessel and people on St. Simons Island. For more information on “Alty,” read my upcoming blog. Suffice it to say, Warren’s creature isn’t “Alty” either.

However, there is a lesson here. When out exploring and you come across a strange dead creature, take the initiative and bag it for future identification. Who knows! Maybe next time it may be a prehistoric creature.