Strange creature in Thailand - looks like an Imp

[fr0sty]

http://graphics2.snopes.com/photos/odd/graphics/thaicreature4.jpg
http://graphics2.snopes.com/photos/odd/graphics/thaicreature.jpg
http://graphics2.snopes.com/photos/odd/graphics/thaicreature2.jpg
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http://www.santharia.com/bestiary/beasts_pics/imp.jpg

Looks like the creature named Imp in many games and movies.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v2vU92Yvyew/R24rtDWdn-I/AAAAAAAAAY4/xZRwAtZkn1A/s400/The%2BLincoln%2BImp.jpg
http://www.jzartworks.com/Sketchbook/HouseImp_FULL.jpg

"Comment: I don’t think these photos requires any special comment. This
creature, found on Thailand, is very strange to me. You can see a lot of
local folks in the background that seem to worship this creature they have
“found”. The end result is an even more absurd and even humorous scene.
At least they managed to turn my amazement into laughter by this baby
powder and juices they brought as a tribute to this creature. They have
even brought a fan to keep it well preserved for the scientists.

There has been a lot of debates about what this creature might be and
that is exactly the beauty of mystery, the inability to solve it. It might
be some kind of strange animal, it even looks like a mythical creature.
Honestly I don’t know what to think about this funny and strange event.
These pictures do raise more questions than answers…"
Source: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=61018

[runlikehell]

Looks like the creature named Imp in many games and movies.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v2vU92Yvyew/R24rtDWdn-I/AAAAAAAAAY4/xZRwAtZkn1A/s400/The%2BLincoln%2BImp.jpg




Gargoyles

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building. Preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls is important because running water erodes the mortar between the stone blocks.[1] Architects often used multiple gargoyles on buildings to divide the flow of rainwater off the roof to minimize the potential damage from a rainstorm. A trough is cut in the back of the gargoyle and rainwater typically exits through the open mouth. Gargoyles are usually an elongated fantastic animal because the length of the gargoyle determines how far water is thrown from the wall. When Gothic flying buttresses were used, aqueducts were sometimes cut into the buttress to divert water over the aisle walls.

The term originates from the French gargouille, originally "throat" or "gullet";[2] cf. Latin gurgulio, gula, gargula ("gullet" or "throat") and similar words derived from the root gar, "to swallow", which represented the gurgling sound of water (e.g., Spanish garganta, "throat"; Spanish gárgola, "gargoyle"). It is also connected to the French verb gargariser, which means "to gargle."[3] The Italian word for gargoyle is doccione o gronda sporgente, an architecturally precise phrase which means "protruding gutter." The German word for gargoyle is Wasserspeier, which means "water spitter." The Dutch word for gargoyle is waterspuwer, which means "water spitter" or "water vomiter." A building that has gargoyles on it is "gargoyled."

A grotesque figure is a sculpture that does not work as a waterspout and serves only an ornamental or artistic function. These are also usually called gargoyles in layman's terminology,[2] although the field of architecture usually preserves the distinction between gargoyles (functional waterspouts) and non-waterspout grotesques.

Gargoyles are said to scare off and protect from any evil or harmful spirits.


Animal gargoyles

The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans all used animal-shaped waterspouts.[11] During the 12th century, when gargoyles appeared in Europe, the Roman Catholic Church was growing stronger and converting many new people.[12] Most of the population at this time were illiterate, and therefore images were very important to convey ideas. In the medieval world many creatures had mystical powers attributed to them. Also, human qualities were sometimes ascribed to specific animals—that is, the animals were anthropormorphized. This was especially common for pagans, and using these ideas helped conversion to Catholicism.[10] Some animals (such as the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus) were unknown in western Europe during the Middle Ages so gargoyles of these species (such as the ones at Laon Cathedral) are modern gargoyles and therefore did not have symbolic meaning in Medieval times.[13] Below is a list of some animals commonly used as gargoyles, and some of the meanings behind them.


Lion


Lions were the most common non-native animal crafted as a gargoyle in the medieval period. In ancient times, the lion was linked to the sun, most likely due to its golden mane bearing similarity to the solar wreath of the sun. Lion gargoyles were popular with the ancient Greeks and were frequently used on houses in Pompeii during Roman times.[14] During the medieval period lions became the symbol of pride, one of the 7 deadly sins. Cats other than lions were rare among gargoyle carvings because of their dark nature and association with Satanism and Witchcraft.[15]


Dog

Dogs were the most common native animal crafted as a gargoyle. Dogs were seen as faithful, loyal, and intelligent, making them excellent guardians. They were, however, not without their faults. Their well-known hunger and tendency to steal food from kitchens showed that even dogs were vulnerable to the Devil's temptation.[16]


Wolf

Although the wolf was a feared creature in medieval times, it was also respected. Wolves have the ability to live and cooperate as a pack which gave rise to the metaphor that a wolf could be a leader of a pack and protect the members. This was linked to priests who would fight off the evil of the Devil for the common folk. The wolf was also linked to the deadly sin of greed.[17]


Eagle

A powerful bird who was said to be able to slay dragons. Eagles were respected for their ability to see far away objects, and were also said to renew themselves by looking into the sun (accounting for the glint always seen in the eagle’s eye in paintings).[18]


Snake

From the story of Adam and Eve, the serpent represents a struggle between good and evil. The serpent was related to the deadly sin ‘envy’. They were also thought to be immortal due to the shedding of their skin. This gave rise to the symbol for immortality being the Ouroboros, a serpent with a tail in its mouth.[19]


Goat

The goat had two viewpoints in medieval times. One perspective was that the goat was equated with Christ due to its ability to climb steep slopes and find edible food. On the other side it was seen as a symbol for lust and even linked to Satan.[20]


Monkey

Monkeys were seen as what happened to humans when nature went awry. They were thought to be stupid creatures, and their intelligence was misrepresented as cunning. The monkey was linked to the deadly sin of ‘sloth’.[21]


Chimeras

Chimeras are merely carvings of faces (usually grotesque) or mixes of different types of animal body parts to create a new creature. Some of the more notable chimeras are griffins, centaurs, harpies, and mermaids. Chimeras often served as a warning to people who underestimated the devil.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle




Grotesque

The word grotesque comes from the same Latin root as "Grotto", meaning a small cave or hollow. The original meaning was restricted to an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the 15th century. The "caves" were in fact rooms and corridors of the Domus Aurea, the unfinished palace complex started by Nero after the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, which had become overgrown and buried, until they were broken into again, mostly from above.

In modern English, grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. In art, performance, and literature, grotesque, however, may also refer to something that simultaneously invokes in an audience a feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as empathic pity. More specifically, the grotesque forms on Gothic buildings, when not used as drain-spouts, should not be called gargoyles, but rather referred to simply as grotesques, or chimeras.


architecture

In architecture the term "grotesque" means a carved stone figure.

Grotesques are often confused with gargoyles, but the distinction is that gargoyles are figures that contain a water spout through the mouth, while grotesques do not contain a water spout. This type of sculpture is also called a chimera. Used correctly, the term gargoyle refers to mostly eerie figures carved specifically as terminations to spouts which convey water away from the sides of buildings. In the Middle Ages, the term babewyn was used to refer to both gargoyles and grotesques.[10] This word is derived from the Italian word babuino, which means "baboon."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque#In_architecture




have a look at the links if you wana know more :cool:

[fr0sty]

http://stiri.rol.ro/include/showthumb_resize.php?img=http://stiri.rol.ro/images/stories/creatura_main.jpg&width=500&height=400&quality=80
http://stiri.rol.ro/images/stories/creatura_thailanda/creaturath2.jpg

[lieorrists]

Ah mate what the fuck is that..

Gargoyle? possibly..

there's a few things like this happening, personally I think it's to do with scientific tests and such.

[imaginarysoul]

"The locals said it was born by a cow, it’s dead, and deformations may look like that. It was probably so deformed that it was aborted."
"The white powder over it is baby powder"

http://forgetomori.com/2007/criptozoology/alien-corpse-in-thailand/

[lieorrists]

"The locals said it was born by a cow, it’s dead, and deformations may look like that. It was probably so deformed that it was aborted."
"The white powder over it is baby powder"

http://forgetomori.com/2007/criptozoology/alien-corpse-in-thailand/


Thanks for the info.

[ashtarcommand]

http://stiri.rol.ro/include/showthumb_resize.php?img=http://stiri.rol.ro/images/stories/creatura_main.jpg&width=500&height=400&quality=80
http://stiri.rol.ro/images/stories/creatura_thailanda/creaturath2.jpg I dont really know but does it look like the creature has been killed by a hard hit to the head? since there is blood around its head it doesnt seem like a natural death.. I find it sad to know that humans kill anything they find scary on reaction :(

It does really look like an Imp to be honest.

[cupoftea]

it's a deformed and undeveloped baby cow

[yass]

Here are several more images.

http://kr.image.yahoo.com/GALLERY/read.html?img_filename=473b20c758d2

I put it in the translator.

The residents do as this living thing coming out from the inside of the stomach of one cow.

It was difficult to follow the thoughts. I read the story and each of the comments and it seemed to me there were lots of thoughts about it, including environmental, mutation, and different sorts.

Here's one that was in the story that I tried hard to figure the meaning of:
Recent Thailand which to the small town the place where the kick of the people are not cut everyday
Says that is. On top of that even the military personnel service to the day when there is not training
Comes always and burns a direction and says that paragraph.

Will mean that to that place what does [iss] as expected forever like that?

I'd say it is 'cryptic'. It'd be nice to have a human who understands the language to translate and explain the concept meant there.

Translator
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

I translated from Korean to English as that appears to be yahoo Korea.

[yass]

I had to look in my history today to get the link, but there was a Chinese site I'd visited also and it seems like they're saying the Thai people are worshipping it as a God.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-res&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.backchina.com%2Fviewnews-95115-gb2312.html&lp=zh_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

http://news.backchina.com/viewnews-95115-gb2312.html

The Thai villagers worship the mystical unclear biological corpse doubtful alien! (group chart)

This mystical living thing looks like already does not look like the humanity, also does not look like the animal.


　　According to Germany "Picture Newspaper" on June 28 reported that recently, a shocking video frequency initiated the argument on the Internet. In a Thai village, the people dress up the temple with the fresh flower, in the temple sacrificial altar is lying down a mystical living thing corpse.

　　Looks like, it already does not look like the humanity, also does not look like the animal. Is the Thai villagers is worshipping alien's corpse? Some experts believed that this corpse belongs to outside one kind of unknown place the life, has been regarded the God by these villagers.

[fennellal]

AAAaaah so thats what happened to Charlie Brown


http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/16/charlie-brown.jpg

[sputnik 666]

Does it come with a side salad and chips ?

[the nine]

it's a deformed and undeveloped baby cow

well it looks to me to be a cross between a human and a cow..
which religion holds the cow as sacred?
are they prevalent in this area?

it would be my guess that there has been some genetic manipulation going on..trying to signify a coming event..project bluebeem perhaps?

just my meanderings..

[leathal]

:eek: Looks like someones been up to some 'hanky panky' with the livestock
LOL:D