Monster attacks on people. The horror of the deep sea is the kraken. Who are they
In early August 2002, riots broke out in several districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Local residents demanded that the police protect them from monsters that attack at night and injure their victims.
Muchnohwa showed himself monotonously at first - suddenly, for no apparent reason, multiple cuts were discovered on the victim’s body, as if made with a scalpel.
After August 12, flourhwa began to occasionally appear to residents of the poor Shanwa district in the form of a red and blue glowing ball the size of a soccer ball. According to scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, who investigated these cases, “a strange and brightly lit object flies up to the victims, and when it flies away, claw marks are found on their bodies.” Police officers were also among the eyewitnesses.
However, these attacks fit into the system called "scratching monsters" only to a limited extent. After all, the mealworm not only scratched the victims - it also burned them and made them lose consciousness. In addition, the visible "one who tears the face with his claws" had a round shape, and not a humanoid, as in the other cases. Therefore, we have no choice but to move on and study new facts...
The apes are attacking!
They came to Delhi in the early spring of 2002 and attacked every night - between midnight and four o'clock in the morning. Unknown creatures attacked people, biting and scratching them, but, having received at least the slightest rebuff, they immediately ran away. Doctors recorded monkey bites from people who went to hospitals. But it was not a monkey: in not a single case did the victims develop rabies, a natural consequence of a monkey bite. The police were overwhelmed, responding to incoming calls about monster attacks, and, in the end, there simply weren’t enough patrol cars.
By May 15, nearly 100 incidents had been reported, and at least 16 people had reported scratches to police, saying they had been injured by the monster's claws.
On May 18, the first victims appeared, directly killed by the monster. A railway worker and a homeless tramp were killed within six hours in Ghaziabad. Both were found with punctures in the skull 5-8 centimeters deep and abrasions on other parts of the body. Witnesses in both cases reported seeing a monkey-like “shadow” attacking each of the victims.
After this, the attacks stopped. At all. We are left to wonder what the Indians saw in the spring of 2002. Maybe the same as the Londoners in the fall of 1837?
Jumping Jack.
If the tortoiseshell is clearly something robotic, and also has a number of technotronic advantages (glow, flight, invisibility, both visual and radio-electronic, loss of consciousness, burns and just scratches), then monkey-like monsters are already more like living beings, being, perhaps, more cyborgs (living beings interspersed with technotronic parts). Jack the Jumper, as the Londoners called him, was an “improved version” - he was very similar to a person, but at the same time, he had a number of the above properties - he could cause deep and extensive scratches, and also jumped high.
Jack's first attack took place one autumn evening in 1837. At 9 o'clock in the evening, right in the middle of the roadway, a poorly dressed girl was attacked by someone dressed in a long gray cloak that hid her entire figure. When Mr. William Scott, who lived nearby, accompanied by several servants, ran out into the street, the creature had already disappeared. All that was left on the road was a corpse with a face twisted in horror.
Since then, the monster began to attack late passers-by almost every day, sometimes without hesitation from witnesses. And it’s unlikely that any of the civilians, frozen in horror and surprise, could do anything with Jack. And even if he could, then the Jumper had his own answer to this - he could quickly move in giant leaps, thus quickly escaping from pursuit.
An interesting detail - sometimes witnesses noticed flames escaping from the monster’s mouth.
The fact that the monster was very similar to a person is evidenced by the following fact. On February 20, 1838, someone knocked on the door of the house where the Alsop family lived. 18-year-old Jane Alsop opened the door and saw in front of her a thin policeman in a gray raincoat, in which he was chilly wrapped.
The stranger asked Jane to bring a rope to tie up the newly caught Jumping Jack, who was being held by two more policemen on a nearby street (as we see, the monster could not only speak at the level of a native Londoner, but also had a peculiar sense of humor). The girl, glad that London's nightmare had finally been caught, quickly returned with the rope. But when she handed it to the policeman, he suddenly threw off his cloak, breathed out tongues of blue flame and grabbed Jane with his claws. The whole family came running to her screams, and Jumping Jack released his victim.
On average, the monster attacked Londoners once every two weeks, but sometimes it calmed down for a month or even more. But soon after the lull, like a werewolf thirsty for blood, he appeared again, becoming more and more bloodthirsty. However, gradually the monster's crimes faded away, and he was never caught. He was last seen in Liverpool in 1904, when he attacked a homeless man sleeping on the street...
Who are they?
Who are they, these elusive creatures that kill and maim people for no apparent reason? Why do they do this, where did they come from and where did they go? There are many questions, but, alas, much fewer answers. I hope someday we will be able to answer them. If we don't get caught by another monster on a dark street...
For many years, the kraken, a terrible sea monster that attacks ships and drags them under water, was considered a fairy tale like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. But time has made its own adjustments.
Stories from time immemorial
The Kraken has been known since ancient times. The sailors had no doubt about its existence. From mouth to mouth, chilling stories were passed on of how a giant monster, wrapping its tentacles around a ship, turned it over and pulled it into the cold depths of the sea. The Kraken was described as a very real creature by Aristotle and Pliny the Elder. In the Chinese treatise Catalog of Mountains and Seas, the kraken was described as a “hill fish” with a human face, arms and legs.
In Europe, the kraken became known thanks to the Scandinavians. This formidable sea monster was described in the 13th century Norwegian treatise “The King’s Mirror”, and in the work of the Swedish educator Olaf Magnus (1490-1557) it was first referred to as the “kraken”. Let's open the book to the page that interests us.
“His appearance is terrible. The head is covered with thorns, horns protrude from it in all directions, which is why the kraken looks like an uprooted tree. The length of the body is 15 cubits, the head is 12. The eyes are red, fiery, at night it seems as if a flame is burning in the depths of the sea. The width of each eye is 1 cubit. (For reference: a Scandinavian cubit is 0.5938 m. That is, the length of the kraken according to the treatise is about 27 m.)
When it emerges, its tentacles soar above the water like masts, with which it can pull even the largest ship to the bottom. Sinking to the bottom, it creates a strong whirlpool and the ship caught in it has no chance of salvation.”
However, until the middle of the 19th century, the kraken did not find a place for itself on the pages of encyclopedias. Scientists are a distrustful people, stories are not enough for them, give them skin and bones. Soon they had both.
Material evidence
In November 1861, the steamship Alekton met a kraken in the Canary Islands. Worried about the fate of the ship, the captain ordered cannon fire on the monster. They tried to lift the dead monster on board, but this idea was quickly abandoned: the weight of the monster was about 2 tons.
The story could have become just another tale, but the sailors brought with them fragments of the body, weighing a total of 20 kg, which were provided to the French Academy of Sciences. According to academics, the terrible kraken was a giant squid. The French Academy recognized their existence with great reservations.
Recognition of the kraken by science
The real breakthrough came in 1873. In the Newfoundland area, fishermen came across a giant carcass floating in the sea and showing no signs of life. One of the brave souls poked her with a hook and immediately regretted it. The carcass came to life. With its long tentacles, the kraken grabbed the side of the boat and began to plunge into the sea. One of the fishermen grabbed an ax and began to chop the tentacles. The Kraken released an ink cloud and disappeared into the depths. A fragment of a tentacle of a mythical animal, quite suitable for study, fell into the hands of scientists.
Literally a month later, in the same area, a complete specimen was found online. There was a struggle between man and animal for several hours; man won. Scientists have already received a whole 10-meter monster. Soon there were dozens of such cases. Unknown reasons caused a massive pestilence among marine life, and the sea increasingly washed up giant carcasses on the shore.
The Kraken has been studied, measured and described. It turned out to be a giant squid, a cephalopod, and was named Architeuthis. The size ranges from 2.5 to 12 m. In 1887, the sea washed up a specimen 17.4 m long on the coast of New Zealand.
So, is there one less legend? Are the stories of sailors about how the kraken sinks ships a fairy tale? Take your time.
Recent attacks on ships
In January 2003, a giant squid attacked the yacht Jerome in the waters of Madeira. “The monster stuck to the stern, threw several tentacles (each thicker than my leg!) overboard and began to pull the ship to the bottom with all its might. I don’t know what happened, but for unknown reasons the monster let go of the ship and went into the depths. If the monster had kept trying, I wouldn’t be here.” This is how yachtsman Olivier de Kersuason shared his impressions of his experience.
In 2011, in the Gulf of California, in front of people, a squid attacked a 12-meter fishing boat. He grabbed people with his tentacles and pulled them under the water. Finally, he grabbed the side of the ship with his tentacles and began to rock the ship until he capsized it. According to zoologists, the ship was attacked by the carnivorous Humboldt squid, which lives in these waters. As a result of uncontrolled fishing, there is less and less food in the sea. The appearance of man-eating squids in the sea is a bad sign. Cases of squid attacks on divers and scuba divers have already been recorded.
There is a Kraken!
As for the possible size of giant squids, there is evidence of sightings of squids up to 20m long. Zoologists admit the existence of individuals up to 50 m long in the depths of the ocean. Scientists proceed from the fact that all found specimens of giant squid (12-15m) belong to young individuals. The size of their suckers is 5 cm. And on many whales there are traces of suckers up to 20 cm in diameter. So take and multiply 15 by 4. Impressive?
Muchohwa - "One who tears an egg with his claw."
In early August 2002, riots broke out in several districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Local residents demanded that the police protect them from monsters that attack at night and injure their victims.
Muchnohwa showed himself monotonously at first - suddenly, for no apparent reason, multiple cuts were discovered on the victim’s body, as if made with a scalpel.
After August 12, flourhwa began to occasionally appear to residents of the poor Shanwa district in the form of a red and blue glowing ball the size of a soccer ball. According to scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, who investigated these cases, “a strange and brightly lit object flies up to the victims, and when it flies away, claw marks are found on their bodies.” Police officers were also among the eyewitnesses.
However, these attacks fit into the system called "scratching monsters" only to a limited extent. After all, the mealworm not only scratched the victims - it also burned them and made them lose consciousness. In addition, the visible "one who tears the face with his claws" had a round shape, and not a humanoid, as in the other cases. Therefore, we have no choice but to move on and study new facts...
The apes are attacking!
They came to Delhi in the early spring of 2002 and attacked every night - between midnight and four o'clock in the morning. Unknown creatures attacked people, biting and scratching them, but, having received at least the slightest rebuff, they immediately ran away. Doctors recorded monkey bites from people who went to hospitals. But it was not a monkey: in not a single case did the victims develop rabies, a natural consequence of a monkey bite. The police were overwhelmed, responding to incoming calls about monster attacks, and, in the end, there simply weren’t enough patrol cars.
By May 15, nearly 100 incidents had been reported, and at least 16 people had reported scratches to police, saying they had been injured by the monster's claws.
On May 18, the first victims appeared, directly killed by the monster. A railway worker and a homeless tramp were killed within six hours in Ghaziabad. Both were found with punctures in the skull 5-8 centimeters deep and abrasions on other parts of the body. Witnesses in both cases reported seeing a monkey-like “shadow” attacking each of the victims.
After this, the attacks stopped. At all. We are left to wonder what the Indians saw in the spring of 2002. Maybe the same as the Londoners in the fall of 1837?
Jumping Jack.
If the tortoiseshell is clearly something robotic, and also has a number of technotronic advantages (glow, flight, invisibility, both visual and radio-electronic, loss of consciousness, burns and just scratches), then monkey-like monsters are already more like living beings, being, perhaps, more cyborgs (living beings interspersed with technotronic parts). Jack the Jumper, as the Londoners called him, was an “improved version” - he was very similar to a person, but at the same time, he had a number of the above properties - he could cause deep and extensive scratches, and also jumped high.
Jack's first attack took place one autumn evening in 1837. At 9 o'clock in the evening, right in the middle of the roadway, a poorly dressed girl was attacked by someone dressed in a long gray cloak that hid her entire figure. When Mr. William Scott, who lived nearby, accompanied by several servants, ran out into the street, the creature had already disappeared. All that was left on the road was a corpse with a face twisted in horror.
Since then, the monster began to attack late passers-by almost every day, sometimes without hesitation from witnesses. And it’s unlikely that any of the civilians, frozen in horror and surprise, could do anything with Jack. And even if he could, then the Jumper had his own answer to this - he could quickly move in giant leaps, thus quickly escaping from pursuit.
An interesting detail - sometimes witnesses noticed flames escaping from the monster’s mouth.
The fact that the monster was very similar to a person is evidenced by the following fact. On February 20, 1838, someone knocked on the door of the house where the Alsop family lived. 18-year-old Jane Alsop opened the door and saw in front of her a thin policeman in a gray raincoat, in which he was chilly wrapped.
The stranger asked Jane to bring a rope to tie up the newly caught Jumping Jack, who was being held by two more policemen on a nearby street (as we see, the monster could not only speak at the level of a native Londoner, but also had a peculiar sense of humor). The girl, glad that London's nightmare had finally been caught, quickly returned with the rope. But when she handed it to the policeman, he suddenly threw off his cloak, breathed out tongues of blue flame and grabbed Jane with his claws. The whole family came running to her screams, and Jumping Jack released his victim.
On average, the monster attacked Londoners once every two weeks, but sometimes it calmed down for a month or even more. But soon after the lull, like a werewolf thirsty for blood, he appeared again, becoming more and more bloodthirsty. However, gradually the monster's crimes faded away, and he was never caught. He was last seen in Liverpool in 1904, when he attacked a homeless man sleeping on the street...
Who are they?
Who are they, these elusive creatures that kill and maim people for no apparent reason? Why do they do this, where did they come from and where did they go? There are many questions, but, alas, much fewer answers. I hope someday we will be able to answer them. If we don't get caught by another monster on a dark street...
It is often said that war is hell. But what would hell be without at least one random demon? Perhaps this is why the most unlikely monsters are usually seen at a time when the world is immersed in the horrors of war, be it the First World War or the Vietnam War. Eyewitness accounts indicate that there are still monsters in the world, whether it really happened or whether it was just a vision—it’s up to you to decide.
Crocodile and U-28
During World War I, the British ship Iberian was off the coast of Ireland when it was attacked by the German submarine U-28. The Iberian tried to escape, but the submarine pursued it, constantly attacking it. As a result, after two direct hits, the ship sank. This incident would have been long forgotten today if it were not for the article by U-28 captain Baron Von Forstner, which he wrote in 1933. In it, he said that literally half a minute after the ship completely went under water, there was an explosion that threw the remains of the ship and some huge creature resembling a crocodile out of the water.
Morbach monster
There is a legend in the German town of Wittlich that may not be a legend at all, according to the American soldiers stationed there. According to legend, a deserter from Napoleon's army found this town, where he attacked and killed a farmer and his wife before escaping to the farm. But before the wife died, she placed a curse on the soldier, turning him into a monster that terrorized the area until the peasants gathered together and killed him in the vicinity of the village of Morbach, which is how he got his name.
The Dog of Mons
In 1919, many newspapers in Oklahoma printed the story of a Canadian World War I veteran. In the trenches of Mons, the soldiers found themselves under threat from a terrifying beast. It all started in 1914, when a captain of the London Fusiliers sent four soldiers to patrol no man's land. When they did not return, many thought they had been intercepted by the Germans. However, a few days later their bodies were found in a terrible state, with their throats chewed out. After that, everything only got worse - a terrible howl was constantly heard, and people were afraid to take an extra step. It turned out that this was an experiment to create a universal weapon - the brain of a crazy person was transplanted into a huge dog, and this dog was released into neutral territory.
Little Bigfoot
British zoologist John MacKinnon achieved fame when he was able to find three new species of mammals in the forests of Vietnam. However, he said that a much more unusual creature could also be hiding there. McKinnon discovered a huge footprint that resembled a human one, but much larger. Local residents said the tracks belonged to the Batatut forest people, but the zoologist chose not to continue his investigation. Later during the war, soldiers noticed low (one and a half meters) creatures that left huge footprints behind them, for which they were nicknamed little Bigfoots.
Brosno monster
About 400 kilometers south of Moscow is Lake Brosno, a not very large but extremely deep lake with an impressive reputation. According to legend, the Mongol-Tatar troops were on their way to capture Novgorod when they stopped at a beautiful lake to rest and enjoy the view. Suddenly, a reptilian creature appeared from the water and began to attack both people and horses. The Tatar-Mongols took the “dragon’s” attack as a bad sign and decided to leave Novgorod alone.
Congo snake
Colonel Remy van Leerd is a Belgian pilot who is known throughout the world for his heroic exploits during World War II. However, he is also famous because, returning from his mission in the Congo, he flew over the jungle, where he noticed a huge snake, green with a light belly, and it was, according to the colonel, at least fifteen meters long.
Kraken
The Kraken is a squid-like Scandinavian sea monster that is one of the most famous mythological creatures around the world. Many books have been written about him, and a huge number of films have been shot. And, naturally, many people say that they themselves saw the Kraken. One of the most famous meetings took place during World War II. A British trawler was moored in the Maldives and crew member Starkey spotted a huge squid-like creature over fifty meters long.
Fog
Robert L. Pollock, a crew member on a C-130 cargo plane, was aboard the plane during the Vietnam War when he noticed a strange movement in the rear of the plane's cargo hold. There, a gray foggy mass began to form, which swirled clockwise and soon filled the entire tail section of the aircraft.
Big Foot
Russia not only has its own Loch Ness monster, but also its own Bigfoot. These creatures are believed to inhabit the Pamir Mountains, and one of the most famous encounters with them occurred in 1925, when General Mikhail Topilsky and his subordinates collected spoils from defeated anti-Soviet opponents. During interrogation, he learned that the rebels were attacked by strange creatures in the cave, and when he went there, he discovered unusual dead bodies that resembled people, but were not them.
Maskelyne's effigy
As you can see, during a war a lot of strange and incomprehensible things happen. And it is not surprising that many people are trying to come up with something of their own in order to also get into history. For example, during World War II, the British hired the famous magician and wizard Jesper Maskelyne to help them deceive the Germans using camouflage and various tricks. Maskelyne coped with his task, but felt the need to seriously embellish his achievements in his memoirs - so a stuffed Maskelyne appeared, twelve feet in height, which could independently move forward, spewing sparks and flames.