The Realm Of Bizarre News 30: Is Nessie Real?
We are treated to different a hat this week from our favorite dino loving doctor, Dr. Ruehl. He makes some good points about extinct fish and then goes on to tell us about itchy cows and their power outage creating abilities. Then an eyeball tale and another doofus of the week.
Step 1: Welcome & Introduction
Welcome once again, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls to the Realm of Bizarre News. I'm your host, Dr. Franklin Rule and we start off with a trivia question. Let me extricate it here from its paper prison.
Step 2: Fear Of Lakes
The question: what is the term for the fear of lakes? Multiple choice, inverse alphabetical order. Is it pluviophobia, nephophobia, limnophobia, or chionophobia? Now the prize. The only prize for the correct answer. One, pat on the back that you'll have to administer to yourself. Heck of a lot better than a slap on the belly with a wet trout.
Step 3: Lake Monsters
Now some people fear lakes because of lake monsters. And of course the most famous, Nessie in Loch Ness Scotland. We also have Champ in Lake Champlain and Chessie in the Chesapeake Bay, just to name a few. They're found globally.
Skeptics claim they're nothing but large fish such as pike or catfish. But we have new evidence from Lake Qianchi in China. There are reports there from hundreds of years back of a lake monster and paleontologists recently found the fossil remains of a long necked plesiosaur, an aquatic dinosaur.
Step 4: Fish History
The thought is that possibly some of their descendants from ecological niches to exist, accounting for lake monster reports and also those of sea serpents. For skeptics, I point out that in 1938 off the coast of Madagascar, the coelacanth was discovered. This is a fossil fish that actually dated back 410 million years before the dinosaur's existed.
Was thought extinct for millions of years, then suddenly found, not only just of off Madagascar but also off of South Africa and Java. And I point out it's not a guppy. It's a large fish, five to six feet in length, a hundred pounds, could have easily been seen but was missed all those centuries. So possibly, some aquatic dinosaur has existed till recent times, accounting for lake monster reports. Yes
Step 5: What Is The Fear Of Lakes
Now for the trivia question. What is the fear of lakes? Is that or pluviophobia, nephophobia, limnophobia, or chionophobia? Is that your answer, nephophobia? No. It's limnophobia. For the record, pluviophobia fear of rain, nephophobia clouds and chionophobia snow.
Step 6: Herd Of Cows
You know, this reminds me of a case from Wales involving a herd of cows near the town of Gwen Fir. They developed scratch backs, possibly due to fungus. But they didn't have any back scratchers so they began rubbing their backs against electrical pylons, triggered a massive, 16-hour power outage. Now someone's got to develop a back scratcher for cows to avoid such a problem. Yes.
Step 7: Other Scenarios
Now let's look into the little black medical bag. What can it be? Do you see that? And this pertains to a tourist in Hobart, Tasmania who checked into a hotel. Shortly thereafter a courier arrived with a box for him. He opened the box and was shocked to find a human eye in it. Now he didn't panic, he put it in the refrigerator then called the desk clerk.
They determined it was set for a hospital nearby. They delivered it and a corneal transplant was carried out successfully because he refrigerated that eye. So if someone gives you an eye, don't panic, refrigerate it first then ask questions.
Step 8: Strange Deaths
Now it's time to open the vault of strange deaths. What do we have? Don't chase airplanes. This pertains to a man in Port Morrissey, Papua New Guinea who was late. He's chasing the plane, hoping to stop it, right on the runway. He ran right into the propeller and was decapitated. A strong candidate for our Doofus of the Week Award.
Perhaps he saw that Twilight Zone episode where Harold J. Stone, playing an FAA investigator, put his hand into an airplane propeller and the plane de-materialized. It's not going to happen. Please, please do not become a candidate for our Doofus of the Week Award. We can't afford to lose even one of you. Thanks. Now until next time, may the power of the cosmos be with you.
