The most terrible monsters in the history of world cinema. Are there really monsters? The scariest monsters in the world are real
Incredible Facts
These photos of strange and sometimes creepy creatures have left many people shuddering and wondering, “What the hell is this?”.
Their images have spread all over the Internet, which has given many people the opportunity to express their incredible assumptions about the origin of these creatures.
Read also:25 scary creatures found in nature
Here are some of the most amazing creatures that have been discovered and who they actually turned out to be.
strange creatures
1 Montauk Monster
The story began when an unknown creature washed ashore in the Montauk area of New York in 2008. Local youth photographed the carcass and sold the pictures to newspapers.
Since the Montauk monster was discovered, other carcasses have been found in the same area. There have been speculations that it is a turtle without a shell, a dog, a large rodent, or a scientific experiment that was carried out at a government animal testing center.
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Experts concluded that the creature was a raccoon corpse, which matched the shape of the teeth and paws, but which was missing the front jaw. The strange appearance is due to the fact that his body began to decompose.
2 Louisiana Monster
In December 2010, a deer-hunting camera caught something frightening.
The picture shows a thin, clumsy, fast-moving and, apparently, nocturnal creature that seemed to want to swallow your soul.
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The mystery of this creature has not been solved, although many believe that the picture was processed using Photoshop. Two companies attempted to use the image for viral advertising.
For example, the Playstation company stated that the creature was in the game Resistance 3.
There were also those who claimed that this is a "fallen angel" captured on video in the forest, appearing at 45 seconds.
3. Alien child from Mexico
In May 2007, a Mexican farmer Mario Moreno Lopez(Mario Moreno Lopez) discovered a strange creature in a rat trap. He tried to drown him, killing him only the third time.
The creature was small - about 70 cm long with an elongated head, which led to speculation that it was a child of an alien with a high level of intelligence.
However, skeptics have stated that it could be a skinless reptile or squirrel monkey, which explains the presence of a tail and spine, as well as a large head and eyes.
The farmer himself mysteriously died in the car at an abnormally high temperature some time after he drowned the creature, which many ufologists considered the revenge of the aliens for the child.
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Scientists have argued that the creature's teeth are not arranged like human teeth, and it itself has a unique tissue that has not been changed, which refutes the theory of a monkey.
Later, after all, the farmer's nephew and part-time taxidermist admitted that the creature was the corpse of a monkey, which had been skinned and ears removed and placed in the fluids of various animals.
4. Blue Hill Horror
In September 2009, four teenagers playing in the village of Cerro Azul in Panama discovered a strange creature that ran out of a cave. According to them, the monster began to pursue them, and the teenagers began to throw stones at him until they killed him, and then threw the body into the water.
In the newspapers, the creature was nicknamed Gollum (the hero from The Lord of the Rings), as it lived in a cave, and also the Blue Hill Horror.
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Scientists have discovered that the teenagers' story was a fiction, and the creature turned out to be the body of a sloth, which began to decompose. Due to his long stay in the water, his vegetation disappeared, giving him a bloated, rubbery appearance.
5. Alien corpse at a ceremony in Thailand
In 2010, a series of photographs appeared on social networks, taken in 2007 at the funeral ceremony of a strange creature that looks like an alien in Thailand. It had a large round head, gray skin covered with white powder, resembling a satyr with tiny hooves and a tail.
Some claim that the ceremony was held to get rid of the evil spirit associated with the creature, while others considered that the inhabitants worshiped the creature as a deity.
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There were suggestions that the creature was a disfigured cow, although it looked very much like a humanoid. Many point to the large number of anomalous animals appearing around the world, and believe that the aliens are experimenting on animals, creating strange hybrids that will one day take over the world.
Mysterious Creatures
6 Humanoid From Chile
In October 2002, during a trip with his family to Chile Julio Carreno(Julio Carreno) discovered a tiny humanoid 7.2 cm long in the bushes.
The creature had a large humanoid head, nails and opened its eyes, and died 8 days after discovery. When he was alive, he had pink skin that darkened and his body remained warm before rapidly mummifying on its own.
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The body of the humanoid was examined by veterinarians in Santiago, who were divided as to who the creature was. They confirmed that it was not a human fetus or the remains of a feline, and its physical characteristics were more suitable for a mouse opossum. However, the creature did not have small sharp teeth or a possum tail, and the head was twice as large.
7. Chupacabra from Texas
The creature known as the "Yeti" of Latin America has been seen several times in Puerto Rico and the US, specifically in Texas. According to legend, the Chupacabra (which translates from Spanish as "goat bloodsucker") kills livestock and drinks their blood.
According to the descriptions, this creature had no hair, its skin had a bluish-gray tint.
These creatures have been seen and shot several times in Texas for suffocating dozens of chickens.
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DNA tests showed that the animal belonged to a hybrid of a wolf and a coyote, bald due to scabies. Although the ability to suck blood from chickens and goats has remained unclear.
8. Huge boar from A labamas
In May 2007, 11-year-old Jemison Stone from Alabama, USA, shot a huge wild boar weighing almost 480 kg and 2.80 meters long. A boy who hunted with his father shot the animal eight times and chased it for three hours. When the boar was shot, trees had to be cut down to get it. The head of the animal was left as a trophy, and about 200-300 kg of sausages were made from meat.
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Many people signed the petition accusing the boy of animal cruelty. Skeptics, on the other hand, consider the whole story to be fiction, and the boar was, in fact, raised on a farm and fattened in order to make a sensation out of history. Also, many thought that this one was just the result of Photoshop processing.
9. Eastern Yeti caught in China
In April 2010, hunters caught a bald bear-like mammal with a kangaroo tail making cat noises. The creature became a real sensation and was called the "Eastern Yeti". According to legend, the yeti had the figure of a bear, which towered far above the man. This creature was no more than 60 cm long.
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Experts came to the conclusion that it was an ordinary musang, which had scabies. The animal was sent to Beijing for examination, but the results were never made public.
10. "Alien" from Chelyabinsk
This creature was discovered in an abandoned pit in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He had a hard shell, several limbs located one above the other and a tail. Some have suggested that this monster is a huge shield, horseshoe crab, or trilobite that died out before the dinosaurs.
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Apparently, these creatures are shield crustaceans, which are one of the oldest animals, a species that is more than 200 million years old. Usually its size does not exceed 6-7 cm, while the discovered animal reached about 60 cm.
Modern people are by nature skeptics. Maybe it happened because they grew up reading, listening and watching fantastic stories, and then found that real life is much more prosaic? Monsters are not real. Magic does not exist, just like Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Baba Yaga and Brownie. But just because Santa Claus is not some kind of omnipotent magical ruler, it doesn’t mean that in real life there was no person who would not do something good for humanity selflessly and would not leave a lot of good behind him .
Let's put our skepticism aside for a moment and take a look at the ten things below (plus a bonus) that are considered mythical but actually existed or had a real-world equivalent.
10. Dragons
Theories about what exactly inspired people to create dragon stories rely on the lost bones of crocodiles and dinosaurs. However, we cannot call these creatures real dragons because humans have never encountered dinosaurs and crocodiles are too small in size. And that's where the Megalania enters the scene, an ancient relative of the Komodo dragon that terrorized the Australian Aborigines. It grew up to 8 meters in length and weighed up to 1.9 tons. Her poisonous saliva, containing an anti-clotting agent, caused her victims to bleed to death.
9. Hobbits
During the excavations, which were carried out in a limestone cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia, a skeleton about 1 meter high was discovered, the skull of which was only one third of the skull of an ordinary person - a hobbit. The researchers found the remains of nine such people, the skeletal age of the youngest of which dates back to about 12,000 years. They also discovered tools and other signs of civilization. There are skeptics who believe that hobbits are just people who have suffered some kind of growth-suppressing disease, such as microcephaly. However, it is widely believed among scientists that hobbits are actually a separate species, the same as the Neanderthal species, which had a common ancestor with humans. In addition, there are active volcanoes in Indonesia, where, if necessary, you can throw a ring ...
8. Kraken
There is an opinion that the image of the Kraken was inspired by a meeting with a huge squid. It can't help but be frustrating, can't it? With eyes the size of beach volleyballs, the giant squid is truly huge, but it lacks monstrosity. He is not like the creature that we can imagine tearing apart a boat.
However, the Colossal Squid has recently been discovered in the Southern Ocean. It is believed that the length of its body reaches fourteen meters, and its beak and eyes are much larger than those of a giant squid. What makes it different from other squids is that in addition to its suckers, its limbs are covered with sharp hooks, some of which are curved inward and some of which end in three claws. This is truly something that can cause significant damage.
7. Amazons
You have no doubt heard of the Amazons, an all-female tribe who were fierce warriors. They are also known from the legends about the exploits of Hercules. The Greek historian Herodotus (Herodotus) described the fate of the Amazons as follows: he said that they were captured and transported to another territory, then they overthrew their captors, suffered a shipwreck and ended up on the Eurasian steppe, where they fought with the Scythians. Believing that the Amazons could be strong wives, the Scythian men decided to fight them only on the field of love. Surviving after all these vicissitudes, the Amazons agreed to marry Scythian men, but only on the condition that they allow their daughters to continue the proud tradition of mothers and become warriors.
Herodotus is known for his love of embellishing history, so he should not be believed unless his words are backed up by archaeological evidence. However, they are backed up. Excavations of ancient graves in the Eurasian steppe have shown that a significant proportion of Scythian women had bone injuries associated with battles, as well as that they were buried with swords, bows, daggers and other tools of warriors.
6 Dire Wolf
The dire wolf has appeared in many role-playing games, and maybe you even recently read or saw him in the Game of Thrones (Game of Thrones). In real life, dire wolves coexisted with early humans in the megafauna during the Pleistocene era. They were bigger and stronger than a normal wolf, and their teeth were sharper.
However, as the megafauna began to die out, dire wolves lost their main source of food. They were too slow to hunt the kind of prey that today's gray wolves hunt, which forced them to become scavengers - although they were not adapted for this. Ultimately they died out.
5. Scylla and Charybdis
On one of the days of his journey, Odysseus was forced to send his ships through a narrow cave, on both sides of which terrible monsters were waiting for him and his team. On one side of his ship, Scylla, a multi-headed monster, was waiting for him, which dragged part of Odysseus's crew from the deck. On the other side, Charybdis was waiting for him, a sea animal that sucked ships to the bottom with a funnel. Odysseus decided to sail near Skilla, believing that it would be better to lose a few people, but let everyone else survive, than to lose the whole ship and all his people.
The Straits of Messina runs between Sicily and mainland Italy. It was here, according to legend, that Skilla and Charybdis lived. Charybdis is actually a funnel, only there is no monster in it and its course is much calmer than described in the legends. On the other side of the strait are rocky shoals, which inspired people to create the legend of the heads of Scylla. In fact, Odysseus would have been better off choosing Charybdis.
4. Berserkers
Berserkers aren't just heroes from Skyrim screenshots - the first mention of them can be found in old Norse poems. They were quite fearsome warriors in their time. But how did they get supernatural strength and invulnerability? Surely their legendary madness in battle was nothing more than an embellishment of history? But no, it actually happened. They took drugs before the fight, most likely hallucinogens, which made them fearless, strong and immune to pain and danger. The researchers found that the drug bufotenin was able to replicate the effect of their violent anger.
3. Tower of Babel
Unlike the Hanging Gardens, the construction of the Tower of Babel is evidenced by archaeological finds that were found at the excavation site of Babylon and prove that Nebuchadnezzar II received the right to build it.
However, this was not a place where people spoke nonsense that God destroyed. It was a ziggurat called "Etemenanki", a temple to the god Marduk, which was later destroyed by Alexander the Great. He wanted to rebuild it to his liking, but died before he could do so. After that, many people tried to rebuild the temple according to their ideas, each time demolishing what had been built before in order to start all over again. But no one ever managed to finish anything. It turns out that this place, after all, can be a symbol of human inability to work together.
2. Moby Dick and Captain Ahab
Moby Dick was based on stories about a real-life giant white sperm whale. Moreover, the real sperm whale was much more badass than in the book. In fact, his name was Mocha Dick (Mocha Dick), probably due to the fact that he lived near the island of Mocha. He won fights with hundreds of whaling ships, blowing some of them to pieces and sending them to the bottom. Once he fought three whaling ships at once and won.
The character of Captain Ahab was also based on a real person who lived around the same time as Mocha Dick. Captain Pollard didn't seek revenge after the whale destroyed his ship. He and his team had to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. But, he again went to sea, as a captain on a new ship ... which also sank, this time due to a storm. He spent his remaining years working as a night watchman.
1. Imoogi or Korean Dragon
Korean legends tell of Imuji, huge pythons thought to be young dragons. According to legend, the Imuji lived in water or caves and had to live on earth for a thousand years before they could ascend to heaven and become true, fully formed dragons.
Although he lived in South America, and not in Korea, a python of such gigantic size did exist. It was so huge that we might have mistaken it for a young dragon. The length of Titanoboa (Titanoboa) was approximately 14 meters, and it weighed more than 1 ton. He choked his victim with a force of 400psi, which is equivalent to if the Brooklyn Bridge fell on you, only 1.5 times harder. Such a python could swallow a human even without his body expanding anywhere as the human's body moved through its digestive system. They died out many years ago, but I would like to think that they ascended and became dragons.
Bonus:
Dwarka - Krishna's City of Dwarka
According to legend, Krishna (the Hindu equivalent of Jesus) ruled over the city of Dwarka until the city was swallowed up by the sea. Finding the lost city of Dwarka would be tantamount to our finding the Holy Grail or Noah's Ark for the Hindus.
Archaeologists have indeed discovered a sunken city off the coast of India. Stone reliefs found in this city not only confirmed that this was actually Dwarka, the oldest city in history, but also that it was under the rule of Krishna.
“You know, you don’t hear thunderstorms here at all, so it’s not interesting to be afraid. I’d better go and be afraid again in the attic.” Kitten Woof
We watch movies to experience all sorts of different emotions. And fear as well. Vile creatures are great for this. And they are interesting to look at. I half-covered my eyes with my fingers, so as not to be so scary, and you peep. This collection brings together the very best. Even inserting pictures was creepy.
Witches - "Witches" Frame: Warner Bros.Perhaps, in no other film, witches were not so terrible. For many children of the 90s, it was these "beauties" that caused nightmares.
Werewolves - " Another world"
Frame: Sony/Columbia The history of the rivalry between vampires and werewolves is far from new and has become the basis for many books, films, TV shows and even comics. However, regardless of whether these creatures fight each other or have love affairs, they still remain monsters. And in the movie "Underworld" werewolves look especially creepy. These are huge, muscular creatures with the head of a rabid dog. Perhaps this is the last thing you would like to see in real life.
Predator - " Predators"
Frame: 20th Century Fox That's really someone, and a predator can be fully called a terrible creature. Absolutely everything about him is terrible, starting from the name and ending with the appearance. What are at least the jaws, like those of insects. In addition, the Predators are not just some kind of monsters, they are a race of highly intelligent creatures whose development is significantly ahead of ours, and this makes them even more dangerous.
Pumpkinhead - "Pumpkinhead"
Frame: MGM/UA When you hear the name "Pumpkinhead", you might think of a funny cartoon character, but this is not at all the case. Pumpkinhead is an evil demon of revenge, which was summoned from the underworld by the father of a murdered boy, thirsting for retribution. You only have to see this creature once to understand that he really is one of the scariest monsters in the history of cinema.
Clover -" Monstro"
Frame: Paramount Goblins - "Goblins 2"
Frame: Empire Pictures Unlike most of the other monsters on this list, which are mostly much larger and stronger than humans, Goblins are tiny creatures that take the concept of "ugly" to a whole new level. Despite their size, they are vicious and bloodthirsty creatures that attack people.
Something-" Something"
Frame: Universal An alien life form that can take on almost any form. But that image of a creepy dog that we saw in the film is really scary.
Brandle fly -" Fly"
Frame: 20th Century Fox Seth Brundle was a promising scientist who invented a teleportation device. But a fatal accident ended his career overnight. During one of the experiments, a fly got into the teleport device, its cells mixed with Brundle's cells. As a result, Seth began to turn into a terrible humanoid creature.
Mimic - " Edge of Tomorrow"
Frame: 20th Century Fox Aliens are often portrayed in films in a wide variety of forms and guises. But in the movie "Edge of Tomorrow" they are especially frightening. And it's not just their appearance. After all, they are fluent in military tactics and strategy, and they also know how to manage time, which makes them very dangerous opponents.
Acromantula - " Harry Potter And The Chamber of secrets"
Frame: Warner Bros. Acromantula is a huge eight-eyed spider, its entire body is covered with thick black hair, and its legs span reaches several meters. It emits a deadly poison, and when angry or frightened, it clicks loudly. Among other things, he is a predator, and is not averse to eating a human being.
Pale Man -" Faun's Labyrinth"
Frame: Picturehouse A humanoid creature with eye sockets on its palms, into which it inserts its eyes on its own, and then, spreading its fingers wide, looks around, isn't it creepy? Such a fabulous monster rightfully deserves a place on this list.
Viy - " Viy"
Frame: UPI The same old Viy from the 1967 film, of course, is also creepy, and inspired fear in more than one generation of our viewers. But the new Viy from 2014 with many eyes and long eyelids, looking more like a giant insect, is also very scary.
Bear - "Morozko"
Frame: Gorky Studio A clear demonstration of what happens when you do not bow from the waist to the talking humanoid mushrooms. But seriously, this terrible bear face even now looks scary, and even then, in the 1960s, it was just awful.
Stranger - " Stranger"
Frame: 20th Century Fox This two-meter acid-spitting alien monster is without a doubt one of the creepiest creatures ever to appear on movie screens. Aliens are somewhat similar to giant ants, they also have a queen - the main and largest individual in the colony, and also have soldiers and drones. It's scary to even imagine the horror of that world where strangers can be the same harmless ants.
Monster - "Snake Valley Spell"
Frame: Tallinnfilm The terrible monster that Breacher turned into, although he did not live on the screen for very long, managed to scare many of his viewers.
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These findings - with rare exceptions - have not found any scientific explanation. Until now, scientists are wondering what they had to face. But the fact remains...
On the coast of Guinea in West Africa, a huge unknown animal was found on the shallows.
The dead monster washed ashore during a storm. 
Judging by the photo, the possibility of discovering a new species of animals, hitherto unknown to science, is not ruled out. 
You can clearly see the head, paws, teeth and tail of the mysterious monster... 
All the residents of nearby villages gathered to stare at the monster. 
But on July 28, 2008, in the USA, another animal unknown to science washed up on the coast of Long Island by sea. 
While scientists are examining the corpse, many researchers are already guessing. Many tend to believe that the terrible corpse belongs to an ordinary turtle, only without a shell. 
But the fishermen in one of the ponds of the Konstantinovsky district of the Donetsk region caught an unknown creature, which was filmed on the video of a mobile phone. Judging by the record, the creature consists of a tail and a flat, round body covered with a shell. When turned over on its back, numerous moving legs are found under the shell. The size of the animal has not yet been determined. 
According to preliminary data, this is a shield from the order of branchiopods. Shields are considered one of the most ancient animals on earth. Their morphology has been preserved since the Triassic period (220 million years ago). They have about 70 pairs of legs, on which the gills are located. 
Shields can live in any water bodies, including puddles on all continents except Antarctica. They are omnivorous, digging in the mud, feeding on larvae, tadpoles, etc. Shields are the main predators in their ecological niche, they eat everything that is smaller than them. Cannibalism is widespread in most species. 
USA, Texas. A resident of the city of Cuero, Phillips Kanion, found a strange dead animal on his ranch, previously unknown to science. Scientists attributed this animal to the Chupacabra. The photo shows only the head of the animal. 
Eyewitnesses claim that the one and a half meter creature walks on its hind legs and is somewhat reminiscent of a reptile or dinosaur. He has only three toes on his feet, so the footprints are like a chicken, only much larger and with indentations from the claws. The features of a baboon are clearly visible on the muzzle, and the huge red eyes are exactly the same as those of the aliens depicted in the pictures. 
On the Internet every now and then you can find photos of the Chupacabra, allegedly found by one of the farmers. 
But so far, the existence of this very Chupacabra has not been scientifically confirmed. 
On one of the beaches of the Pacific Ocean, Chilean fishermen found a 13-ton carcass of a sea monster. The organism is a huge gray jelly-like body approximately 12 meters long and weighing approximately 13 tons. The carcass has already begun to decompose, which significantly complicates the identification process. Pending DNA analysis, scientists speculate that the organism could be a giant squid, the half-decayed remains of a strange swollen whale, or an octopus. The latter version seems to them the most probable. 
In April 1977, a sensational message about the discovery of Japanese fishermen from the trawler "Tsuyo Maru" went around the world. When fishing for mackerel near New Zealand, the net brought a half-decomposed corpse of an unknown animal. The condition of the find was deplorable. The thirteen-meter carcass, weighing about two tons, spread a stench. The fishermen distinguished a shapeless body with four limbs (either fins or flippers), a long tail and a small head on a thin neck. The prey was measured, photographed, and then had to be thrown overboard. 
On the island of New Britain, which is part of the Pacific state of Papua New Guinea, local residents discovered a huge terrible beast. The first to bring this news was a resident of a remote village, Christina Samey, who personally observed the appearance of a 3-meter monster with a dog's head and a crocodile's tail from the swamp. The tribesmen were rather skeptical about her story, but with an increase in the number of eyewitnesses, as well as frightening details, passions began to heat up. In the end, the local administration felt it necessary to inform the central authorities about the unusual phenomenon, dubbing the swamp hybrid a "prehistoric dinosaur." An animal unknown to science was captured on film: shooting by Robert Le Serrec, Hook Island, Australia. 
This photo has gone all over the Internet. Miracle Yudo whale fish was caught by fishermen from Astrakhan. The fishermen were so surprised at the find that their imagination was enough to capture the monster on a cell phone camera and throw the carcass back into the sea. 
However, often mysterious finds still have their own explanation. So, near the village of Tangi on the northern and almost impassable tip of Sakhalin Island, fishermen discovered the carcass of a huge sea animal, which they identified as a pleosaurus - an animal that lived millions of years ago, in the Jurassic period. 
Soon, ichthyologists issued a verdict - the Sakhalin "fossil lizard" turned out to be an ordinary large killer whale. 
A large killer whale was thrown onto the rocks by a strong storm, where the carcass was stuck in a twisted position. 
The “thick hair” of the animal that struck the fishermen turned out to be algae adhering in a huge amount, and for the “crocodile face” they took the skull, which was flattened from hitting stones and exposed. 
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As they say, in every fairy tale there is some truth, and as it turned out, sometimes this share falls on the role of dragons, hobbits and underwater giants the size of a 10-story building.
For those who dreamed of being in a fairy tale, website made a selection of 7 legendary creatures that actually existed.
Hobbits
The very word "hobbit" was coined by Tolkien, but there is evidence that little people actually existed.
During excavations in 2003 on the island of Flores in Indonesia, archaeologists discovered the skeleton of a man about 1 meter tall and with a head 3 times smaller than that of an ordinary person. A little later, scientists found the remains of 9 more such people, and the age of the youngest of them was 12,000 years old.
Scientists have come to the conclusion that this is a separate species. And they gave him the name "Floresian man" (lat. Homo floresiensis), but most of them are called hobbits.
In addition, there are quite suitable volcanoes in Indonesia to, say, throw a ring at them if necessary.
dragons
Dragons are without a doubt the most famous of the mythical creatures. Huge fire-breathing lizards that only a brave knight could defeat.
But there were also real animals, and it was quite possible to call them dragons. For example, megalania is the largest of the lizards known to science. They grew up to 9 meters long, weighed 2,200 kg, and spit poisonous saliva. Sounds familiar, right? Megalania existed in the Pleistocene era and could meet a person, and their remains could give rise to the myth of dragons.
By the way, dragons still exist today. They are called Komodo dragons, live in Indonesia and can reach 3 meters in length, which is also a lot.
kraken
Giant squid, which, in fact, is a kraken, can exist today. Moreover, sailors and scientists have repeatedly confirmed this.
In 2015, a 3.7 meter long squid was discovered and filmed near Japan. As scientists later said, it was only a cub that can grow up to 25 meters in length. Agree, a 25-meter big man can easily grab with tentacles and drag even a large ship to the bottom.
Imoogi, or Korean dragon
Korean legends tell of imuji, huge pythons thought to be young dragons. According to legend, they lived in water or caves and had to live on earth for a thousand years before turning into dragons and flying to heaven.
The world's largest shark, the megalodon, roamed the depths of the oceans about 28 million years ago. Megalodon was the real king of the underwater world, reaching 16 meters in length and weighing approximately 47 tons.
According to some versions of scientists, which are based on the remains found, these superpredators could survive until the appearance of man. And some believe that megalodons still live in unexplored waters to this day.
direwolves
The famous novel "Moby Dick" was based on stories about a real-life giant white sperm whale. He attacked whaling ships and smashed them to pieces, sending them to the bottom. In 1819, the crew of a whaling ship hunted whales for a year and a half until a huge white sperm whale put an end to it.
- In 1839, an article was published in one of the magazines of that time, which stated that a giant whale was defeated off the coast of Chile near the island of Mocha, since then it has been nicknamed Mocha Dick.
- And in 1974, Canadian sailors spotted an albino whale in the Atlantic. They pursued the animal for many hours until they managed to envelop it in nets in the bay. It turned out that it was a young female. So, exactly the same giant whale could exist.
In addition, experts in Peru found a well-preserved sperm whale skull, which was 12-17 meters long. This animal species was named Leviathan melvillei.