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     "The most dramatic of the dragon models, however, is on the
ridge of Ben Cruachan above the Pass of Brander.  It overlooks
Lock Awe (Note: The popular encyclopedia of mythology, 'THE
MYTHOLOGY OF ALL RACES', contains a volume titled 'CELTIC
MYTHOLOGY' which refers to a cavern called 'Cruachan' in Great
Britain from which strange and frightening beasts were said to
emerge over the centuries, creatures which would cause death a
havoc to the residents of the countryside.  Although it may be
nothing more than a 'legend' could Cruachan cavern be connected
to the 'Cruachan Ridge' just mentioned? - Branton).  The Great
Beast of Loch Awe (BEATHACH MOR LOCH ODHA) was celebrated in
Celtic folklore.
     "...Oddly, no dragon models seem to have been found in
Ireland.  it is possible that they were levelled by early
Christians.  'St. Patrick may have struck a more subtle and
fundamental blow at paganism than is generally realized when be
banished the serpents from Ireland,' comments Dr. Anne Ross.
With this I entirely agree.
     "Place-names suggest a relationship with the old dragon
cult.  'I went round the whole of Ireland until I found the girl
at Loch Bel Dragon at CROTTA CLIACH,' says an unknown eighth-
century author.  The modern name for this lake in the Galtee
Mountains is Loch Curra.  The word 'Bel' is a reference to the
Babylonian god Bel-Marduk.  The Scots seem to have changed it to
'Bill', the name they used for a bull.  As recently as 200 years
ago it was customary to sacrifice a bull on 25 August, on the
isle of Inishmaree, to the dragons in Lough Maree.  So the idea
must have been well-rooted.
     "How and when the religion of the dragon...crossed to
America is not known.  Quite the best dragon-simulation is the
earthwork at Peebles, Ohio.  The ground-plan of this structure
with its thin neck, bulky frontal portion and coiling eel-like
tail is a good representation of the phenomena that appear in
lochs.  So it looks as if someone, somewhere, had a really gook
look at a specimen.
     "The centre of activity of the culture seems to have been at
the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.  It was in
this area that Marquette, a missionary-explorer, found
petroglyphs of dragons on a bluff in 1675.  He appears to have
named the bluff 'Piasa Rock' or 'Piast Rock' (Rock of the Pest).
The dragons, painted in red, black and green, were the objects of
worship by the Indians.  The bluff was near the present town of
Alton.  Unfortunately, the face of the rock was quarried away in
1846-47 and the only trace of the dragons are the illustrations
in a rather rare German book.
     "These Illinois dragons had slightly Chinese features.  You
would have to march a long way into the hinterland of art forms
to find a more unlikely combination than a pair of Chinese
dragons painted by Amerinds which were given the Latin name
'Piast' by a French priest.
     "However, it doesn't seem to be very likely that the
Amerinds, as a whole, were much given to dragon-worship.  Rather
the reverse...
     "Monsters and U.F.O's are no longer observed solely in the
isolation of lonely communities.  People are becoming aware.
     "...The American Indian doesn't need a Condon Report to tell
him about U.F.O.s.  He needs only to look at the history of his
people.
     "The question arises: does dragon-worship still go on?
     "Britain's best-known Satanist was the late Aleister
Crowley.  At the end of the last century he bought Boleskine
House on Loch Ness and started signing his letter 'The Great
Beast'.  This was years before the WORLD heard about Loch Ness
monsters.  Crowley than came into contact with the ideas of Dr.
John Dee.
     "Dee lived in Wales during the sixteenth century.  He was an
occultist (and) Queen Elizabeth I consulted him over all her
major decisions.
     "...In spite of everything, the universe is one and hydrogen
atoms dance on Mars and Venus just as they dance on earth.
Although it now seems that Satan and his dragons really do exist,
we are already beginning to perceive dimly that they are actually
components of a much greater reality extending through
unthinkable gulfs of time and space.
     "...dragon phenomena, although apparently objective in
nature, can be demonstrated only to the extent that U.F.O.
phenomena can be demonstrated.  That is to say, both can be
occasionally photographed at a distance, both yield returns using
sonar and radar respectively, yet neither leave behind any
material analysis (Some would argue with that however, and state
that in MOST cases when such hard 'evidence' surfaces it is
immediately apprehended by officials and given the highest
secrecy classification - Branton).  The U.F.O., as we have seen,
can actually disappear while under observation in the manner of
an apparition.  Whether dragons can do so also must remain a
possibility until we know more about the real nature of these
strange happenings."
     Drawing some links between traditional supernatural or
'paranormal' phenomena, Mr. Holiday relates the following
experience:
     "On 7 October 1965, Annabelle Randall was driving her
fiance, John Plowman, back to his home near Warminster (England).
At 11:30 p.m. they approached a railway bridge near Heytesbury,
Wiltshire, where several FATAL ACCIDENTS have occurred.
     "As the car approached the bridge they saw a sprawled
[creature] lying with its legs and feet on the road.  Miss
Randall managed to avoid them and stopped.  It was found that the
figure had vanished.  A search of the road, the bridge and the
surrounding area failed to reveal any trace.
     "About 12:25 a.m. the girl set off alone on the return
journey.  Near the same bridge she saw a bright orange glow
against an embankment.  She described it as a 'large orange ball'
which suddenly shot across the road and took off into the sky.
     "Simultaneously, she became aware of a second round object
except thit this one was dark and stationary.  And walking along
the road towards her came two figures wearing tight-fitting dark
clothes and some sort of headgear.  From the thighs downwards
they glistened as if wet.  The car almost ran them down as the
now frightened driver kept going at top speed till she reached
town.
     "...From all this there is a case to be argued that monsters
and U.F.O.s are in some way linked.  Abnormal chains of causation
tending to frustrate inquiry into the nature of the phenomena
have been reported in both cases.  John A. Keel, an American
journalist who has been delving into the mystery for over thirty
years, talks about a 'conspiracy'.  He warned me: 'Proceed with
great caution in your Loch Ness work.  We are caught up in a
series of games which must be played by "their" rules.  Anyone
who tries to invent his own rules, or breaks the basic pattern,
soon loses his mind or even his life.' (This might apply in many
instances, except of course in the case of those who are working
for and 'on the side' of someone much 'greater' than the
draconian forces apparently working behind much of the 'UFO' and
'creature' events - Branton).  Those who think that this is
dramatic and absurd may care to remember the words of St. John:
     "'And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire to come
down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men and deceiveth
them that dwell on the earth by THE MEANS of those miracles which
he had power to do in the sight of the BEAST.'
     "'The beast' that performed these miracles was what the Jews
called 'The Shining One', 'The Great Serpent' and 'Satan'.  If
this is the underlying truth of the phenomena then Keel's warning
is by no means too strong."

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In 'POPULAR SCIENCE', March 1990 issue, p. 24, we read of an
apparently quite intelligent, predatory lizard which constantly
walked upright on two legs in a remarkable human-like manner,
counter balanced by a tail.  This lizard, in fact, may have been
the original ancestor of all the reptilian species throughout the
world (and beyond?).  If left to it's 'natural' course (of not so
much 'evolution' as 'mutation') over the years, according to
some paleontologists, a race of creatures such as described below
might have through natural selection become more intelligent and
'hominoid' in nature, and as its brain and physical form
developed, and it's limbs became stronger through 'survival of
the fittest', the 'tails' of such a predatory race may have
become atrophied.  Anyway, this is what some scientists have
theorized.  But such creatures are long extinct, according to
'official' scientific knowledge.  Because of this, they say, we
need not worry about being threatened by such a race which, if
they existed today, might be a formidable challenge to man's
dominion of the planet.  But 'what if' such a race did not become
extinct for reasons we still have yet to answer, but instead
'disappeared' from the 'face' of the earth to 'somewhere else'.
It's a scary thought, to say the least.  According to 'POPULAR
SCIENCE':

     "The oldest known dinosaur, HERRERASAURUS... (was) a
flyweight when compared with some of its ponderous descendants.
HERRERASAURUS weighed perhaps 300 pounds and stretched a mere six
to eight feet long.  It had enormous claws and small forelimbs,
showing that it spent much time ambling on two legs.  It also has
a peculiar, double-hinged jaw...that allowed it to clamp down on
wriggling prey.  And its teeth were finely serrated.  These
characteristics...clearly mark HERRERASAURUS as an active flesh
eater.
     "The site of the fossil find (of remains of the saurian -
Branton), the Ischigualasto Formation in northwestern Argentina,
is the only area in the world where there are no gaps in the
fossil record across the time zone being investigated."
     In reference to the discoveries made by researcher Paul
Serano, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, who with
colleague Alfredo Monetta discovered some remains of the bi-ped
sauroid lizard near San Juan, Argentina, the article states:
     "Serano says that the very first dinosaur should have lived
at the time of the rock layer containing HERRERASAURUS, but that
climate and geological factors combined to keep any fossils from
bring preserved there.
     "'We'll have to concentrate above and below that zone,' says
Serano, 'Fortunately, those layers are very good.  It's likely
we'll be able to find more interesting fossils there.'
     "The paleontologist won the $500,000 Packard Foundation
Award last October, which he says will enable him to continue on
the track of dinosaurs."

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In 1948, the SATURDAY EVENING POST published an article titled
'THERE COULD BE DINOSAURS.'  Three men, the Belgian Bernard
Heuvelmans, the Russian Boris Porchnev, and the American Ivan T.
Sanderson, the article stated, had been involved in developing a
strange science--cryptozoology--the search for animals whose
existence 'established zoology' does not wish to acknowledge.  At
the time the article appeared it created something of a scandal.
Sanderson, a notable zoologist, in later years retracted non of
his assertions.  The article states:

     "...A well-known South African big-game hunter, delighting
in the name of Mr. F. Gobler, returned from a trip to Angola and
announced to the Capetown newspaper, the CAPE ARGUS, that there
was an animal of large dimensions, the description of which could
only fit a dinosaur, dwelling in Dilolo Swamps, and well known to
the natives as CHIPEKWE.  He stated: 'Its weight would be about
four tons AND IT ATTACKS rhino, hippo and elephants.  Hunters
have heard a CHIPEKWE--at night--DEVOURING A DEAD RHINO, CRUSHING
THE BONES AND TEARING OUT HUGE LUMPS OF MEAT.  IT HAS THE HEAD
AND TAIL OF A LIZARD.  A German scientist has photographed it.  I
went to the swamp to search for it, but the natives told me it
was extremely rare, and I could not locate the monster.
Nevertheless I am convinced the CHIPEKWE does exist.  Here is the
photograph."
     This article produced a terrific outburst in the editorial
and correspondence columns of the paper, both scientific and
sporting, and all with much logical knowledge, agreed that it
might exist.  The fact that the descendants of the dinosaurs
exist is not disputed, since alligators and crocodiles are known
to be in this category.  The question is, did the 'larger'
reptiles survive or did they die-off when the enormous food
supplies which they required disappeared?  What about the smaller
reptiles, those bi-pedal predators about human size or slightly
larger which walked on two legs?  Did they die out with their
more massive counterparts for lack of 'food' as well?  In 1920 a
certain 'Monsieur Lepage' brought out of the Congo an account of
an alleged creature which is believed to exist there.  Unlike the
reptilian beast which tribesman swore roamed the swamps of
Angola, the Congo reptile described by Lepage seemed to be a
plant-eater, through deadly nevertheless.
     Lepage returned from his hunting trip and announced that he
had come upon an extraordinary animal of great size in a swamp.
It had CHARGED him, making a snorting noise, and he had fired
wildly but, seeing that the monster did not halt, he beat a hasty
retreat.  When the beast abandoned the chase Lepage turned and
examined it through a pair of binoculars for a considerable
period of time.  He stated that the creature was eight meters, or
about twenty-six feet, long, had a long pointed snout, a short
horn above the nostrils and a scaly hump on its shoulders.  The
forefeet appeared to be solid, like those of a horse, but the
hindfeet were separated into digits.
     Aside from this, a leader of a German expedition to the
Cameroons in 1930 made a very interesting report which has never
been published in full, although it has been quoted by several
writers.  In widely separated areas, the expedition leader
collected descriptions of an alleged beast or beasts which went
by the name MOKELE-MBEMBE, from experienced native guides who
could not possibly have known each other.
     His description is as follows: "The animal is said to be of
a brownish-gray color with a smooth skin, its size approximating
that of an elephant; at least that of a hippopotamus.  It is said
to have a long and very flexible neck and only one tooth but a
very long one; SOME SAY IT IS A HORN.  A few spoke about a long
muscular tail like that of an alligator.
     "Canoes coming near it are said to be doomed; the animal is
said to attack the vessels at once and to kill the crews, but
without eating the bodies.  The creature is said to live IN CAVES
that have been washed out by the river in the clay of its shores
at sharp bends.  It is said to climb the shore even in daytime in
search of food; its diet is said to be entirely vegetable.  This
feature disagrees with a possible explanation as a myth.  The
preferred plant was shown to me; it is a kind of liana with white
blossoms, with a milky sap and applelike fruits.  At the Ssombo
River I was shown a path said to have been made by the animal in
order to get at its food.  The path was fresh and there were
plants of the described type near by.  But since there were too
many tracks of elephants, hippos, and other large mammals, it was
impossible to make out a particular spoor with any amount of
certainty."
     The now famous report of the late King Lewanika, of the
Barotse tribe, seems to confirm the above description.  This
king, who took great interest in the fauna of his country,
constantly heard of a large reptile that lived in the large
swampy regions.  He passed this information on to white men, but
since few if any of them believed it, he gave strict orders that
the next time any of his people saw the creature they were to
immediately tell him.  After some time three men did report a
sighting, stating that they had come across the beast at the edge
of a marsh, that it had a long neck and a small, snakelike head
and that it had retreated into the swamp on its belly.  King
Lewanika immediately visited the spot and states in his official
minutes that it hed left a track in the reeds 'as large as a
full-sized wagon would make were its wheels removed.'
     Other evidence comes from widely diversified sources.  For
instance an experienced white hunter named Stephens, who was also
in charge of a long section of the telegraph line which runs
along the banks of the Upper Nile, has given a great deal of
information about a large, swamp-dwelling reptile known to
several tribes as the LAU.  The natives described the beast to
Stephens in great detail and more than one of them affirmed that
they had been present at the killing of a LAU.  They variously
described it as being between forty and a hundred feet long, but
concurred in stating that the body was as big as a donkey, that
it was dark yellow in color and that it had a vicious, snake-like
head, with large tentacles or wiry hairs with which it reached
out to seize its prey.  Later a Belgian administrator from the
Congo asserted that he had seen a LAU several times in a swamp
and had shot at it.  These reports seem to come from all over
Africa, and not be limited to a single area.  There are vast
areas of Africa which, no doubt, have never seen the foot of man.
     One of the most convincing of the native accounts, however,
emerged from Northern Rhodesia.  The report seemed to describe a
creature which was more akin to the CHIPEKWE, the flesh eating
saurian which has been reported elsewhere.  An Englishman who
spent eighteen years on Lake Bengweulu in that country has given
an account of the slaying of one of the beasts, as it was
described by a local chief, who heard the account from his
grandfather.  Apparently the tribesmen had killed the creature
with the hippo spears.  It had a smooth, hairless, dark body and
the head was adorned with a single ivory horn.  The story was
firmly rooted in the local tradition, and the Englishman in
question believed in the existence of the creature, for he
reports that a retired local administrator had heard some very
large animal splashing in a lake at nighttime and had the next
morning examined large unknown spoors or tracks on the bank.
     Some years ago during the excavation of the Ishtar Gate in
ancient Babylon by the German professor Robert Koldewey, the
scientist and his associates brought to light a number of
startlingly realistic bas-reliefs of a dragonlike creature with
curiously mixed features.  It had a body covered with scales, a
long tail and neck, the hind feet of a 'bird' although many of
the early saurians are known to have had three-pronged feet like
'birds', the forefeet of a 'lion' and a strange reptilian head
sporting a single straight, upright horn like that of a
rhinoceros, wrinkles under its neck, a crest like a modern iguana
lizard, and a very pronounced, serpentine tongue.  Could the real
or imaginary existence of such a creature have given rise to
legends of 'horned dragons'?  At first this creature was classed
along with the winged, human-headed bulls and other grotesque
monsters from Babylonian mythology, but continued research
gradually forced professor Koldewey to quite a different
conclusion.
     The creature had the name of the SIRRUSH and the priests
were said to have held it in a dark cavern in the temple.  It was
depicted on the walls of the Ishtar Gate in great numbers and in
association with a large, ox-like animal which is now known to
have been the extinct aurochs and very definitely a real animal.
     When analyzed, except for some considerable Babylonian
artistic license, the strangely 'mixtured' characteristics of the
SIRRUSH appeared to be much less incredible than had at first
been supposed, and in spite of his solid Teutonic background,
Professor Koldewey became more and more convinced that it was not
a representation of a mythical creature but an attempt to depict
a real animal, a beast which had actually been kept alive in
Babylon in very early days by the priests.
     As one researcher put it, paraphrasing the Professors own
findings, "...After much searching in the depths of his cautious
scientific soul, he even made so bold as to state in print that
this animal was one of the plant-eating, bird-footed dinosaurs,
many types of which had by that time been reconstructed from
fossil remains.  He further pointed out that such remains were
not to be found anywhere in or near Mesopotamia and that the
sirrush could not be a Babylonian attempt to reconstruct the
animal from fossils.  Its characters as shown in Babylonian art
from the earliest times had not changed, and displayed great
detail in scales, horns, wrinkles, the crest and the serpentine
tongue, which, taken together could not all have been just
thought up after viewing a fossilized skeleton."

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