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Sunday, April 26, 2009

QUATARI GOBLIN THE REAL DEAL? OF COURSE NOT

A few days ago this photograph was splashed across the internet and people who really should have known better were touting it as being an artefact of major cryptozoological importance. We made some facile joke about toy goblins and Adobe Photoshop and ignored it.

Oh how I love the CFZ readership. They are jolly good at hunting out answers to conundra like this.


Mark North, our one-time artist, and long time friend of us all wrote to Richard Freeman with the solution.

I may have found your answer, it is indeed a cheap stretchy rubber toy that can be found in many shops including Hawkins Bizarre where I last saw one, and thought it was the worst depiction of a werewolf I had seen since watching 'Werewolves of the Blood Moon'. Check it out http://www.stocking-fillers.co.uk/find/product-is-07917?img=_d

So the moral of this story is that, in cryptozoological terms as in everything else in life, it is wise to look before you leap.

The thing that particularly amazes me about this whole sorry episode is that there were so few people prepared to stand up and say that this image was obviously nonsense right from the start.
If we are to succeed in making cryptozoology a discipline that is taken seriously by the scientific world at large, drivel like this, and the recent water blackfella saga should be expunged across the board.

Stuff like this only serves to bring cryptozoology and allied disciplines further into disrepute, and it is about time that we as a community realised this and stopped making fools of ourselves.

2 comments:

Neil A said...

These terrible toys retail for £3.99, I had one in my hands only a week ago and wondered why beter figures were not available in shops. I'm now tempted to get my old Chewbacca out and parade it as evidence that Bigfoot exists in Kent! Someone is bound to believe it!

I Doubt It said...

It seems like Cryptomundo takes credit again when you guys posted this days earlier. Perhaps its a coincidence? I don't typically go there anymore.
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/quaintness-qatar/
I prefer to get my news here. It's far superior. Thx.