Important hour guest, Richard Freeman of The Centre for Fortean Zoology discussed Japanese monsters, called yokai, and other peculiar creatures. Yokai is sooner a entire term... it possibly will be suchlike from a 1000-ft hunger dragon to a dog as a result of shape-shifting testicles, a cat that animates unfeeling bodies, a manifestation, every one compassionate of curious creature you can pin down of," Freeman explained. Selected yokai are based on real plants, such as Japan's raccoon dog, which is held to take in mythological powers. Others zip as arched humans, parallel the Rokurokubi-a woman whose neck grows hopelessly hunger and serpentine, he extra.Freeman touched on dragons and their merger as a result of water and rain in Asia. He held sightings of dragon-like creatures in that portion of the world cycle to this day and suggested they may be based on a good, time-consuming submerged reptile that is unknown to science. Freeman talked about an elephant-like being that sucks up nightmares as a result of its snout, a giant upright-walking rabbit that eats corpses, and a whale-sized flesh-eating sea cucumber that grows out of the weaken knickers of a youngster. He in the same way recounted his several expeditions to ensnare unknown plants, including his hunt for the mysterious ape-like Orang Pendek of Sumatra.Numerology and Spring-heeled JackIn the instant hour, author and Anglican nun Lionel Fanthorpe common reliable of his crony stories and talked about numerology. Fanthorpe and his companion, Patricia, are at the present scrawl a book on numerology due out in 2012-a year of "5" that Hopi mythology says soul mid a time of alter, he made known. Fanthorpe commented on the affable 11/11/11 date, associating it as a result of "8" and noting it would momentous, parallel Treaty Day (which occurred on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918). He spine about the Onwards Egyptian aura of finish up having sexual characteristics and being living as a result of make and force.Fanthorpe recounted the untruth of Spring-heeled Jack, a magnificent 'jumping run who terrorized Victorian Britain and possibly will supposedly storming as high as 20 feet over defenses and houses. The first believed sighting of this peculiar leaping tallness occurred in London in 1837. Separate report from the extraordinarily decade recorded the attack of a immature youngster named Polly Adams, who described her assailant's hands as level claws, he noted. Unorthodox victims depicted Jack as a tall, lightly-built man as a result of scarce distance downward, exhausted ears, and the buff to moment blaze from his chops, Fanthorpe extra. He suggested Jack may generate been an extraterrestrial humanoid from a high intensity planet. Fanthorpe in the same way touched on reliable theories going on for Jack the Ripper.The carcass of the show featured Open Coldness.Report split guests: Mitch Battros / Robert Zubrin
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