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A selection of works from Artimalia’s 2017 thylacine tribute, 81 años sin Tilacino (81 years without thylacine).


Artists from left to right: Jaume Marco, Guiomar González, Jorge Ochagavía, Sol Álvarez and Amaya Oyón.

loch ness monster designs - signs, footprints, research

A rare glass plate photograph of two thylacines at the Beaumaris Zoo, taken in 1924. [x]

The Tasmanian Tiger - Thylacinus cynocephalus

The Mammals of Australia. Krefft, from photographs by Victor A. Prout, 1869.

pet peeve of mine is people laughing at this w/out knowing this is literally how the bigfoot looks in the famous footage. xfiles didn’t make this up bigfoot has always had huge boobs

Loch Ness Monster Plushie!

A classic cryptid, this rendition of Nessie even has her own little tam o' shanter!

Available from Nerd Bird Studios on Etsy!

“Driftwood Thylacine” by Fiona Francois, done in pencil and charcoal. [x]

Midnight Monster Bestiary • 4/? - Church Grim 

 A black dog spirit that guards church graveyards and is an embodiment of demonic and spectral energy.  

Thylacine at Hobart Zoo, c. 1928. Photograph by H J King, Hobart.

Source: QVMAG

Here’s my little thylacine figurines! I’ve just finished stringing a bunch. Theyre kind of BJDs (they’re smaller than the more articulated BJD thylas I posted the other day). I’ve just listed a few on my website: www.palaeoplushies.com

This thylacine footage was recently rediscovered by researchers Gareth Linnard, Branden Holmes and Mike Williams on March 4, 2020.

Originally filmed by the Bester family c. 1933-1936, the 9.5mm black and white film includes 7 seconds of a captive thylacine in its enclosure at the Beaumaris Zoo.

Such a rare and amazing find!

I went to a book fair today and bought a bundle of book plates depicting marsupials and relatives. I will be scanning these and posting them.

Cryptid of the Day: Javan Tiger

Description: Tigers were hunted to extinction in the mid 1970s, but only declared extinct in 2008. Despite this, reports of the tiger’s survival were recorded in that same year. Many beilve there’s a some tigers alive around Mount Merbabu National Park, in Central Java. The latest sighting was recorded in August of 2017.

THE BLACK SHUCK OF COLTISHALL BRIDGE

Late one night, between 1960 and 1962, two RAF officers were travelling by car back from Norwich to RAF Coltishall. Passing over Coltishall Bridge, which straddles the River Bure, they were forced to break as an enormous black dog crossed the road. It slowly turned its head and glared at them and then vanished near the other side of the road. Its build was like a Labrador, only level with the roof of their car (1.35 metres or 53 inches in height). A perfectly proportioned giant black dog.

Another encounter took place in the same area in the 1950s, when a woman and her husband were parked on the Coltishall Bridge at nightfall and saw a black dog about the size of a pony, walking towards them, that then suddenly vanished before reaching the other side of the road.

Yet another encounter was experienced by a man and a woman who swear that a Black Shuck passed them one evening on Coltishall Bridge. They initially heard its footfalls and heavy breathing and turned sharply to see the creature approaching them.

A final sighting was made again on Coltishall Bridge, this time by a middle-aged couple. The man was striking a match to light his wife's cigarette when a Black dog the size of a Calf, noiselessly, passed within a foot of them.

Something I’ve been working on for some time. A 3D printed fully pose-able BJD-style Thylacine. I’ve got a couple for sale going live on my website at 4PM GMT 23/02/2020 and I’ll be making more in future. I anticipate these selling quickly! https://www.palaeoplushies.com/

“Treading Softly” by CherishLoveArt.

Thylacine snippet from Australian Museum Magazine, 1958. [x]

Black Dogs -

An English ghost, a black dog can be seen as an omen of death and bad luck. They are often described as monstrously large with eyes of flaming red or green, appearing to those who are doomed to die. It is possible for them to have other demeanours though, some black dogs are benevolent and choose to watch over humans, even going as far as to walk women home at night and watch over children while they play. In some stories they are not so friendly, attacking and killing humans where they find them.

A notorious black dog from Suffolk was Black Shuck. This dog burst into a church during a service and killed a man and a boy who were attending church. The claw marks from the dog’s attack can be still seen in the church to this day.

Dartmoor is said to be home to many ghostly black dogs. They inspired the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spend some time there. The story of the hounds of Dartmoor tells of a huntsman who sold his soul to the devil. When he died he became a ghost that rides through the moors with a pack of black dogs running alongside him. 

Thylacine from Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia, 1930s. Tiny little illustration.

Let’s say you’re being chased by a demon. Your first instinct is to run to a church because evil beings can’t step foot on holy ground, right? Well, that rule doesn’t apply to hellhounds. These black canines have been spotted across the world, and while some think they’re Satan’s attack dogs, others say they’re the devil incarnate. And despite their hellish nature, churches offer no sanctuary.

The most infamous hellhound attack took place on Sunday, August 4, 1577 in Suffolk, England. As the citizens of Bungay prayed inside St. Mary’s Church, a thunderstorm rocked the countryside. Hail pelted the church, and lightning flashed outside its walls, when suddenly a giant dog appeared. The canine leaped into the congregation and began ripping out throats. Just the heat emanating from the beast vaporized anyone who got too close. Some even say it used its front paws to strangle worshipers. By the time it was done, the hellhound had killed three churchgoers, but the night was still young! The black dog ran towards Blythburgh Church where it continued its carnage, claiming more souls before disappearing into the night.

So did a hellhound really attack Bungay and Blythburgh? Records show there was a thunderstorm on August 4, 1577, and that St. Mary’s steeple was struck by lightning. Further, the Churchwarden’s records indicate that two men died in the belfry that night. So was it a natural occurrence? Perhaps. But an old verse claims, “All down the church in the midst of fire, the hellish monster flew. And, passing onward to the quire, he many people slew.” And if you visit Blythburgh, you can still see where the hellhound supposedly scorched the church door.

Unicorns are the creatures of fairytales,  commonly horses with one horn atop their head. But a unicorn is technically any creature with just one horn growing out of their head. It is agreed that a two horned animal that has lost its horn is not a unicorn. 

The Rhinoceros, commonly referred to as a Rhino, is a real life unicorn. They are a creature with one horn growing out of their head in the midline of their body. Though some people wonder if the fabled unicorn of fiction actually exist outside of one’s imagination. 

There have been many sightings over the years, but nothing has come from them except the attention of scientists and cryptozologists. But many people say that such commotion and “hoopla” could not be for nothing and believe there may be some truth to those sightings. 

Manipogo is a lake monster living in Lake Manitoba in Canada. Manipogo is described as a giant creature with flippers a sheep-like head, and razor sharp teeth. Many think it could be a thought to be extinct Mosasaur. The town of St. Laurent holds a Manipogo festival every year during the first week of March in honor of the legendary lame monster. People claim to have been seeing the Manipogo since the 1800′s but still with no concrete evidence of its existence.

Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot clip, my extended GIF

Cryptid Fact Number 2: WSDOT East Tweeted out a Bigfoot sighting in Washington State today. The sighting was reported at Route 20 on Sherman Pass. The photograph shows what appears to be a Bigfoot running by some trees. This sighting made the national news.

Lonely Benjamin

Name: Barghest, Barguest

Area of Origin: Northern England

Prevalent in Northern English folklore, the Barghest is a monstrous black dog, with fiery eyes, large teeth and claws, though the name has been known to refer to ghosts or household elves in other regions of the country. The word “Ghost” was pronounced “Guest” in Northern England, and the etymology of Barghest is thought to be the combination word, Burh-ghest or “Town-Ghost”. Similar to other mythical Black Dogs like the Black Shuck, Grim, Padfoot, Gwyllgi and Gytrash, the Barghest is believed to be an omen of death, foretelling the passing of an individual by laying on or near their doorstep. In some tales, the dog is but one form the entity can shapeshift into, with other appearances being that of a headless man or woman, a white cat or a rabbit. They are said to attack lone travelers in the countryside as well as the narrow alleys in those of the old English cities.

837: Cabbagetown Tunnel Monster

Primate matches the body type the most but really could have been another skinny and wet animal like a cat perchance? Raccoon even, depending on how much light the witness had when viewing.

A tiny wolpertinger painting (appr 2 x 3.5in) for FC this upcoming weekend!!

rat king for @dungeon-rat

Said to reside in Normandy, particularly the commune of Bayeux, is the legend of the Rongeur d’Os. This large black dog’s name can be translated to “Bone Gnawer” or “Gnawer of Bones”. The Rongeur d’Os is said to drag a long chain behind it and always have a bone in its mouth. Like many black dog legends, the Rongeur d’Os is said to be an omen of death and strikes fear into travelers that it comes across.