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It feels as though I have been trying for years to get an adequate photo of London's Goatman on Parkland Walk - almost as hard as getting a shot of the actual cryptid that inspired it. I think this was something like my fifth attempt. I was always foiled by bad weather, bad light and the fundamental problem that I was shooting up towards the sky into deep shadow. And even this shot is a combination of two images edited together to make it work.
This, of course, is the Spriggan sculpture by Marilyn Collins but the Goatman legends date back to the 70s. The story goes that way back in the day, a bunch of people set up a commune nearby - a haven of shared income and possessions and a certain amount of self-sufficiency. And among other things, they had some goats providing milk and cheese. Every so often, one of the guys named Dick Harris would load the goats into their little car (I'm not making this up!) and take them down to Parkland for some fresh food and exercise. So far, so wholesome, and it does conjure up images of better times in London when things were a little more possible and there was still some hope of living in the city rather than just surviving.
However, humans being humans, and Parkland Walk being a more than usually eerie and lonely place, the encounters with this maybe somewhat eccentric character began to take on the stuff of legend. The Goatman became a known presence and a weird encounter that you might have in the lonely places - and soon people would start to whisper "Hush kids, or the Goatman will come and get you." And thus we have a direct link from a guy who put his goats in a Morris Minor and took them out to play fifty years ago to, well, this sculpture that I memorably first encountered at about 2AM as the lights of my bike pierced the utter dark of Parkland.
Unless, of course, there really is a spriggan haunting the lonely places of London. Tales of Spring-Heel Jack and others don't seem quite so far away when you walk down the uniquely eerie Parkland, especially at night.
On a whim I decided to take part in Inktober 2018 by making dodgy sketches of Cryptids featured on the wonderful podcast "The Cryptid Keeper". These are the results.
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“Faeries are nice beings, they grant wishes. Right?” – Unknown
While some certainly do nice things and some may even grant wishes; others still play harmless pranks to fool the mortals they encounter.
To most the fae are mischievous tricksters on the surface and no true threat. However the fae hierarchy stretches and grows like the roots of the oldest trees in the forest and for every bit of light and shimmer as branches raise high in the sky; there is dark and shadow as roots dig deep into the earth.
The Duskfall Court is the seat of shadow and where pranks are rarely harmless. Those who abide by its laws find themselves watched over by the nobility of the court.
Those who tread these woods best watch out because the woods watch back and will not hesitate to ensnare the unwary.
The Duskfall Court is sponsored by Quills & Curiosities and Cryptid
The region is magically created by Dacien & Marcel Blackwood, Crow, and Lemony Nova
This build was inspired by medieval cryptids known as “wild men” or “woodwose,” which were very hairy humanoids who lived in the forest and shunned human society.
According to legend, hunters would attempt to capture these wild men by luring them with alcohol, getting them drunk, tying them up, and then trying to extract whatever secret knowledge the wild men might posses.
“It once happened in that country (and this seems indeed strange) that a living creature was caught in the forest as to which no one could say definitely whether it was a man or some other animal; for no one could get a word from it or be sure that it understood human speech. It had the human shape, however, in every detail, both as to hands and face and feet; but the entire body was covered with hair as the beasts are”
-Excerpt from Konungs skuggsjá c. 1250
This is my entry for the 12x12 vignette category of the Summer Joust 2024
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AI creation on Dreamwombo
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Chimera at the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum in post apocalyptic Wonderland, in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, painting by H.R. Giger, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymus Bosch, Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, imperial colors; Bogomils Universe
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A new story I've been working on about a family of Cryptids
mother is a Loch Ness Monster
Father is a bigfoot
The daughter is a chupacabra (her name is Abra)
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, home of the Mothman Museum. Photographs made on a road trip to Minnesota via Mississippi on 1/2/19.
Photo by Pat Jarrett
This build was inspired by medieval cryptids known as “wild men” or “woodwose,” which were very hairy humanoids who lived in the forest and shunned human society.
According to legend, hunters would attempt to capture these wild men by luring them with alcohol, getting them drunk, tying them up, and then trying to extract whatever secret knowledge the wild men might posses.
“It once happened in that country (and this seems indeed strange) that a living creature was caught in the forest as to which no one could say definitely whether it was a man or some other animal; for no one could get a word from it or be sure that it understood human speech. It had the human shape, however, in every detail, both as to hands and face and feet; but the entire body was covered with hair as the beasts are”
-Excerpt from Konungs skuggsjá c. 1250
This is my entry for the 12x12 vignette category of the Summer Joust 2024
This build was inspired by medieval cryptids known as “wild men” or “woodwose,” which were very hairy humanoids who lived in the forest and shunned human society.
According to legend, hunters would attempt to capture these wild men by luring them with alcohol, getting them drunk, tying them up, and then trying to extract whatever secret knowledge the wild men might posses.
“It once happened in that country (and this seems indeed strange) that a living creature was caught in the forest as to which no one could say definitely whether it was a man or some other animal; for no one could get a word from it or be sure that it understood human speech. It had the human shape, however, in every detail, both as to hands and face and feet; but the entire body was covered with hair as the beasts are”
-Excerpt from Konungs skuggsjá c. 1250
This is my entry for the 12x12 vignette category of the Summer Joust 2024
This build was inspired by medieval cryptids known as “wild men” or “woodwose,” which were very hairy humanoids who lived in the forest and shunned human society.
According to legend, hunters would attempt to capture these wild men by luring them with alcohol, getting them drunk, tying them up, and then trying to extract whatever secret knowledge the wild men might posses.
“It once happened in that country (and this seems indeed strange) that a living creature was caught in the forest as to which no one could say definitely whether it was a man or some other animal; for no one could get a word from it or be sure that it understood human speech. It had the human shape, however, in every detail, both as to hands and face and feet; but the entire body was covered with hair as the beasts are”
-Excerpt from Konungs skuggsjá c. 1250
This is my entry for the 12x12 vignette category of the Summer Joust 2024
Series created on ClipDrop SDXL 1.0 - I use the site to test my prompts
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10.29.2015 | Bigfoot in Texas: History, Legends & Modern Sightings --- The Bedford Library is proud to present Bedford resident Lyle Blackburn, author, musician, and cryptid researcher. His investigative cryptozoology books, "The Beast of Boggy Creek" and "Lizard Man," reflect his life-long fascination with legends and sighting reports of real-life monsters.
Lyle has been on numerous radio programs including Coast to Coast AM, and television shows such as Monsters and Mysteries in America, Finding Bigfoot and the CBS Sunday Morning Show.
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AI creation on Dreamwombo
PROMPT:
Chimera at the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum in post apocalyptic Wonderland, in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, painting by H.R. Giger, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymus Bosch, Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, imperial colors; Bogomils Universe
Sponsored by Quills & Curiosities and Cryptid
Region by Dacien & Marcel Blackwood, Crow, and Lemony Nova
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A CD of The Bigfoot Recordings at the 1st Annual ECBRO Bigfoot Conference at Expoland in Fishersville, Virginia on 7/1/18.
Photo by Pat Jarrett
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10.29.2015 | Bigfoot in Texas: History, Legends & Modern Sightings --- The Bedford Library is proud to present Bedford resident Lyle Blackburn, author, musician, and cryptid researcher. His investigative cryptozoology books, "The Beast of Boggy Creek" and "Lizard Man," reflect his life-long fascination with legends and sighting reports of real-life monsters.
Lyle has been on numerous radio programs including Coast to Coast AM, and television shows such as Monsters and Mysteries in America, Finding Bigfoot and the CBS Sunday Morning Show.