Things Science Can't Explain

I've read that pig story before.

Anyway, I have always found the "Bloop" fascinating. It inspires so much awe. I have been interested in cryptozoology for a long time. Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Champ, Bunyip, the long necked dinosaur of the Congo, the Chupacabras, all that creepy stuff.

I loved this! XD. Cracked is awesome.

AspiringAuthorA..M. wrote:I've read that pig story before.

Anyway, I have always found the "Bloop" fascinating. It inspires so much awe. I have been interested in cryptozoology for a long time. Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Champ, Bunyip, the long necked dinosaur of the Congo, the Chupacabras, all that creepy stuff.

I'm uber fascinated with Chupacabras! Don't forget the Montauk Monster (I think it's a mutated thing-y from the animal testing lab just miles from where it was found)!!

Yay, another person who has an interest in the unknown.

Don't forget the Yeti and the Jersey Devil.

Ahh... I love the Jersey Devil!!!

*high fives*

There are so many unknown things. HA! Whenever I go somewhere away from settlements I am always on the look out for Bigfoot. Silly me.

For a long time I wanted to be a field biologist so I could go to all sorts of secluded regions of the world. It would be awesome to go boating deep in the Amazon. Or go hiking through it. Though, there are those tales of monstrously huge snakes. *Shivers* And considering most of the rain forest is unexplored... you never know.

Plus there are giant bugs in the rain forest. Can you imagine finding a huge spider in your tent or something? Or having one fall on your head while you were hiking?

magnusbanefan13 wrote:Plus there are giant bugs in the rain forest. Can you imagine finding a huge spider in your tent or something? Or having one fall on your head while you were hiking?

Yes, that is a giant spider eating a bird.

Wow! Refer to the post above me.

I'm not afraid of spiders, but I think I'll make an exception here.

*Shivers*

Whoa...dude...um...what sort of a spider is that?

Ranger Hawk wrote:Whoa...dude...um...what sort of a spider is that?

It's called a golden orb weaver. Their webs are high in protein which makes them strong enough to catch large prey (like birds for example).

Their bites, though painful and irritating, are not lethal to humans. Still, it'd suck to have one of those land on your head or something.

*Cringes* My wild imagination made that happen to me in my mind.

*Screams*

AGHH! Get this bloody thing off me!

Black Thought wrote:Still, it'd suck to have one of those land on your head or something.

Ahahaha it'd suck to have one of those be within 50 feet of my person. Where do they live?

Ranger Hawk wrote:

Black Thought wrote:Still, it'd suck to have one of those land on your head or something.

Ahahaha it'd suck to have one of those be within 50 feet of my person. Where do they live?

The one in the picture is in Queensland Australia, but they are in the same genus as a few different species in the US. Back when I lived in Texas, we'd have them every year. These huge yellow spiders with black stripes. They weren't nearly as big as the one in that picture, but they had pretty big webs. They like windows and the edges of the roof on people's houses. And they always sit in the center of their webs with their heads pointed to the ground. They hold their front and back legs together so it makes an X pattern on the web.

When I was a kid, I used to catch grasshoppers and throw em in their webs and watch them wrap them up with their silk before biting them. You wouldn't think by looking at them, but those suckers are fast. And if you get too close to them, they start shaking their webs so it looks like they're about to jump on you.

My gosh, I've seen some pretty big spiders around my house.

They didn't scare me, but still... they were wicked fast. I'd say it was about four or less inches around. Maybe the body was two or three inches and the legs added anther two or three. Never the less, it was still an unnervingly huge arachnid.