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A very amazing story published in May 1992 famous American tabloid “Weekly World News”. The newspaper was incredibly popular due to the fact that on its pages told a great many stories about supernatural and unexplained phenomena. Due to proving reality similar Paranormalism journalists sometimes could not, many belonged to the publication skeptically and dismissively called it “yellow the press. ”
Nevertheless, they do not rush to dismiss this story as obvious fiction and fake. Many famous cryptozoologists considered that the events described below could well have taken place in reality. This story seems too believable for outright fake. Moreover, there are indirect scientific evidence that all this actually happened. Mysterious history has acquired a kind of cult status and has been many times reprinted, and also added to various collections and encyclopedias about monsters.
The appearance of a monstrous moth
So, employees of the “Weekly World News” wrote that in January 1992 year a moth of colossal size, having a wingspan of at least 10 meters, flew up at night to the existing coastal lighthouse and burned down in him. “Like a moth crashed into a street lamp,” spent by analogy, the only eyewitness to a startling incident. it happened near the Norwegian city of Buda in the Salten region for Arctic Circle.
Karl Fridensen, who worked as a caretaker of this lighthouse in the 90s, At first he took a huge fantastic monster for an airplane. When the Norwegian realized that this is not an aircraft, but a flying one living creature of unimaginable size, the man was dumbfounded by excessive horror, not knowing what to think.
Of course, this could not be a plane, told reporters excited witness. The plane would not flutter its wings and rush from side to side in the spotlight. But my brain just could not at first admit that it was a moth with wingspan, like an airplane.
Friedensen said that he was at that moment at the foot of towers. A giant winged one suddenly appeared from the night darkness a creature that began to rush frantically in the light of the lighthouse. IN in the end a monstrous moth crashed into an electric emitter. The impact was so strong that the lighthouse keeper it seemed like there was an intense tremor, and now an earthquake will begin. Karl hurried up the spiral the stairs.
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Seen there literally shocked the Norwegian. Cryptid smashed the powerful glass of a Fresnel lens, ended up on a red-hot electrodes and burned alive, ending in charred dust. The stench was so strong and caustic that our hero almost lost consciousness.
It was like a scene from some horror movie. A stink was just unbearable. I held my breath and rushed down with a bullet to fresh air, Friedensen recalls.
Where did the monster come from?
The lighthouse, of course, was quickly repaired and cleaned of remains. critters. However, Karl managed to take samples of the burnt monster and sent them to entomologists. Researchers conducted a thorough analysis. tissues and concluded that they actually belonged to an unknown the representative of the order Lepidoptera. However, determine which namely, it was not possible. After listening to Fridensen’s story, astonished scientists suggested that the moth flew here from virgin forests of South America that were not yet fully studied. Perhaps such strange creatures live in impassable jungle, where no man’s foot has stepped.
There are other entertaining versions of the origin of cryptid. Alone experts believe that the monstrous moth was mutant. Others suggest that it is a creature from parallel world – about the legendary moth-man. According to third, it was a representative of an extraterrestrial civilization, or even alien organic flying saucer. Fourth lean toward the opinion that the government’s secret experiments on living things. In short, curious theories have a carriage and a small trolley, however one cannot say anything with precision. Maybe someday in Europe such a monster will appear again, and this once he can be caught alive?
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