Atmospheric beasts are the strangest of the flying monsters from cryptozoology. According to eyewitness reports, they are things that seem like living creatures, but they break all the usual rules that we apply to living things. They fly without the need for wings and their bodies are only semi-solid, often partially invisible.
Such organisms are widespread in science fiction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle anticipated these ideas in his short story "The Horror of the Heights", where an airman discovers a previously unknown ecosystem of life forms in Earth's atmosphere.
In various eyewitness accounts, atmospheric beasts can change their density, becoming smaller, harder masses that are usually metallic in color, or they can become larger and cloudlike, even to the point of invisibility. In some reports, they may glow. Atmospheric beasts may roughly resemble whales and are sometimes called air whales or cloud beasts.
http://www.newanimal.org/a-beasts.htm
Thought i'd start a thread on parasites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parasitic_organisms
Real parasites mostly live of plants and other animals. Anyone speculating human targeting parasites? Would it be awesome if there were human controlling parasites? Or are there already and we just don't know about it :O
Also a parasite called broomrape,lol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomrape
/z/, I've come to you, because I'm not sure what board to go to with this problem, and you seem like the most likely candidate.
A couple of weeks ago, the area I lived in had a large snowfall. It was probably the largest we'll get this year, about a foot or more. I live in the country, essentially the middle of nowhere. My house is surrounded by farmland for about 200 yards in each direction, before small forested areas. Roadrunner isn't even offered to my area, I have to suffice with WatchTV.
I digress.
As I was saying, we had an above average snowfall. I had to work at about 4pm that day, so at around 11 I decided to start shoveling the snow off from around my car and down my driveway.
I shrugged into my heaviest, water resistant coat and went outside. Snow was still coming down in a fury. There was about 20mph winds and a wind chill of around 10F, I believe. Looking down the driveway I could see that the road had been plowed, but most likely in the early morning, it was already covered in about an inch of snow.
I cleaned off my car and scraped all the snow off the windows and moved to the driveway. I started at my car and worked down the way. In about 15 minutes I was halfway down my driveway. I reached the end of one row of snow and bent down to get a better grip, this shovelfull was especially heavy. Bending over in this manner I formed about a 135 degree angle. Then I felt an impact.
Sea monsters have existed in the myths of man since he first gazed into the waters, could not see bottom, and wondered what lived there. The modern age has seen the discovery of such creatures become actuality in the form of giant squid, the varieties of ribbon fish, and in our submarine aided abyssal encounters. These real life beings account for the majority of folk tales and sea stories told through the centuries. There is always that small percentage which cannot be explained by errant tentacles washing up on shore or sillouettes across the sides of ships. These are the instances that I live for.
This is the case of the Dracus icthyae murkodontus, otherwise known as The Murker. I've only witnessed one of these beasts in my life and it was dead. The decomposing corpse of an unknown creatures was found on the shore of a public beach near Adelaide, Australia. Local authorities concluded it was a shark carcass and one could be led to believe that based on the size (roughly 25 feet long by 8 feet in girth at its widest) and the obfuscating amount of decay the body succumbed to, as most of a shark's recognizable features would deteriorate after some time. This was what was in the morning paper the next day.