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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

PAUL CROPPER WONDERS WHETHER THIS COULD BE THE EARLIEST PRINTED REFERENCE TO IRISH LAKE MONSTERS






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Anonymous said...

You would mean "First Irish eyewitness account printed in a newspaper" since stories about these things go back to the earliest Irish mythology.

I should think they were seeing Horse Eels, too: eel-like creatures of about thirty feet in length would be the typical description. That would correspond to my Sea-serpent category of Megaconger. I have no problems with that idea.

1:20 PM
Ego Ronanus said...

You will find this account in the book "Mystery Animals of Ireland" (CFZ Press - just out). However, there are earlier accounts from the Middle Ages, also to be found in that peerless work. That book again is "Mystery Animals of Ireland", a work which no cryptozoologist should lack. If you've forgotten the title, that's "Mystery Animals of Ireland".
Available on Amazon (USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan). Also directly from the CFZ.

2:25 PM
Andrew D. Gable said...

Oh, awesome, didn't realize that was out. Another addition to the old Amazon list, I guess... always had a weak spot for weird stuff in the lands of my forefathers.

8:37 PM
Anonymous said...

"What I Tell You Three Times Is True"

1:46 AM
Ego Ronanus said...

Funnily enough, with regard to dale Drinnon's second comment, there was once a Snark on the River Shannon - but it was a boat, not a cryptid.

3:10 PM

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