Many moons ago while surfing Amazon’s Listmanias I came across an author by the name of Jeremy Robinson. To cut a long story short, he was running a viral video contest to promote his new book, Pulse. I bribed my good buddy Lesmondj into spending a Saturday afternoon in the bush and what eventuated was two versions of the [...]

In relation to a recent Facebook thread, I couldn’t help but take 5 minutes out of my afternoon to write a quick post about the mysterious Goonies Octopus scene.
Back in the day (1985 to be precise), Goonies paraphernalia came out months before the release date here in NZ. The ever popular (at the time) Goonies Bubblegum Cards contained a couple [...]

Those of us with a fascination for cryptozoology will be familiar with Americas ‘Thunderbird’ (giant man-eating) bird legend. Well, wouldn’t you know… I Came across an extremely interesting article in this week’s NZ Herald about New Zealand’s very own man-eating bird with a 3-meter wingspan and talons as big as tiger’s claws that terrorised the early Maori.
Now if that’s not [...]

I had to unblock the bathroom sink the other evening… joy. With the help of a crochet hook borrowed from PaisleyJade (yes, they really are good for something), I was able to pull out what I can only describe as a greeny, slimy, smelly, hairy, stringy goop that had to be seen to be believed. What caused it? Who [...]

A couple of weeks ago Lesmond and I entered a viral video contest promoting PULSE by Jeremy Robinson.
Although entertaining, the movie was far too long and I hate to say it… boring. Good news folks. I have re-edited it to a lean 1.15 minutes, and thanks to a blood-nose (don’t ask), it now has an alternate ending (like special [...]

About this time last year, I wrote of the time when my parents had a close encounter with the urban legend known as ‘The Mair Park Ghost. The original post created quite a stir, and you can read the subsequent shenanigans here:

The Mair Park Ghost
Haunted houses, ghosts and demons
Ghost mystery solved… or is it?
Symon Drake… Ghostbuster (heh)
Revenge of the Mair [...]

Don’t ask me why I’m writing multiple posts about giant snakes. I really don’t have a clue, other than the concept is an entertaining one.

Anyway, I came across this diagram depicting the size of Titanoboa in comparison to a bus and human… goodtimes.

For those wondering if Titanoboa is just a fable, click here to read all about it.

And just when you thought my giant-snake obsession was over!
While having some brief down-time and browsing some crypto blogs I came upon the above photo (click on image to enlarge). The caption translated follows (the original photograph has it written on the back):
“This is a ‘jiboia’ snake of which only part appears. It has approximately 48 meters and was found [...]

At last, tangible proof has surfaced that giant snakes do exist (at least they did, once). A snake so huge it could swallow a crocodile in one gulp.
Remains from no less than eight giant snakes have been unearthed in a coal mine in Colombia. Aptly named ‘Titanoboa‘, researchers estimate (from the size of its vertebrae) that it was 15 [...]

I’ve always been fascinated by the giant squid. Click here to read the account of when my father’s friend witnessed a giant squid attacking a whale.
Imagine my excitement when I discovered the following?
On November 11, 2007, an unknown species of giant squid (6 meters long) was filmed off a drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico. A portion of [...]