Posts Tagged ‘cryptozoology’
Designing Hope
Bigfoot, Death Worms, & Devils! OH MY!
Lately, I have been coming across a lot of articles dealing in cryptozoology. It got me thinking about their place in the world, well, in MY world, and what they meant to me.
When i was young, I was camping with my family in Vernon, BC. My dad was sick with giardia and air-mattress-confined in the tent. To give him some time to be alone in his vomitous misery, my mom took myself, and my 3 year old sister down to the beach on Okanagan Lake. To entertain us and give us a reason to leave the fire as dusk was fast approaching (bringing with it prime marshmallow-roasting hours), my mom spun a yarn worthy of R.L. Stine, or even a mentally retarded Steven King. She told us about “Land Sharks”. Yes…. Land sharks.
(I’ll give you a minute to think about that)
Apparently….
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