That looks like something from my whiskey drinking days that I would hallucinate demons such as this… and they won. Now, I don’t fight my demons, I feed them.
I figured it was an elaborate fake, I just didn’t feel like chasing it down. The eye and the repetitive movements are the give away.
Gotta admit it’s a good one though.
Now that you mention it, it looks like a good CGI job. If this thing
is real, I don’t even want to know what it is. When PJ O’Rourke
was still writing stories for automotive magazines he talked about
Benzedrine fueled marathon drives at a hundred miles an hour
and the 40-foot tall monsters in the middle of the road. He stated
that it was probably a hallucination so you should drive right through
it and if it was real, you’d be doing the world a favor by killing it!
PS I’ve never been that drunk or high even in the old days!
I find the critter to be rather fascinating, but being a Marine biologist, it doesn’t really have any characteristics anywhere similar to any real invertebrates, so, yeah, Hollywood!
Before everyone yell’s hoax there is something quite similar that’s very real and somewhat related to the little gray pillbugs (a.k.a. roly polies, slaters, potato bugs, rolled boys and doodle bugs) found in your garden.
Looks like a giant sand flea we used to use for bait and found in the sand along Florida’s Atlantic coast. We used a kind of scoop with wire mesh and dragged it up the beach and then washed out the sand and collected the sand fleas for fishing.
That looks like something from my whiskey drinking days that I would hallucinate demons such as this… and they won. Now, I don’t fight my demons, I feed them.
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A google image search says it’s from Kentucky… https://insectcop.net/whats-the-deal-with-the-new-mega-insect-found-in-mammoth-cave/
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I figured it was an elaborate fake, I just didn’t feel like chasing it down. The eye and the repetitive movements are the give away.
Gotta admit it’s a good one though.
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Movie prop?
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Now that you mention it, it looks like a good CGI job. If this thing
is real, I don’t even want to know what it is. When PJ O’Rourke
was still writing stories for automotive magazines he talked about
Benzedrine fueled marathon drives at a hundred miles an hour
and the 40-foot tall monsters in the middle of the road. He stated
that it was probably a hallucination so you should drive right through
it and if it was real, you’d be doing the world a favor by killing it!
PS I’ve never been that drunk or high even in the old days!
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If you read the article, it is a hoax.
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I find the critter to be rather fascinating, but being a Marine biologist, it doesn’t really have any characteristics anywhere similar to any real invertebrates, so, yeah, Hollywood!
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Looks like a Wuhan Bed Bug.
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Before everyone yell’s hoax there is something quite similar that’s very real and somewhat related to the little gray pillbugs (a.k.a. roly polies, slaters, potato bugs, rolled boys and doodle bugs) found in your garden.
Looky here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod
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Looks like a giant sand flea we used to use for bait and found in the sand along Florida’s Atlantic coast. We used a kind of scoop with wire mesh and dragged it up the beach and then washed out the sand and collected the sand fleas for fishing.
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No, that’s real, it’s Nancy Pelosi as an infant during the Paleozoic era.
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Kaiju flea from the movie Pacific Rim
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