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22:20:48 Oct 10 2010
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Copy pasta-ing a thread I made two years ago, because this forum needs less sucky topics.




''The Morgawr is a sea monster that many people have claimed to have seen over the years in the Falmouth Bay area of Cornwall. Its name Morgawr is simply from the Cornish (and Welsh too as it happens) words 'mor' for 'sea' and 'cawr' for 'giant'.

The first recorded sighting dates back to the nineteenth century when in the year 1876, two fishermen claimed they had caught what they described as a sea serpent at Gerran's Bay. Exactly fifty years later in 1926, another group of fishermen caught a creature supposedly twenty feet long with an eight foot tail, scaly legs and a beak-like head.

Morgawr was then quiet for another fifty years until the mid seventies when there was a rash of sightings of the monster.

There were two sightings in 1975; one at the river Helford, near Durgan where two London bankers out on a fishing trip reported seeing a pair of monsters frolicking at the mouth of the river and another at Pendennis Point in Falmouth where a Mrs Scott from Falmouth reported seeing a humpbacked creature with a long neck, stumpy horns and bristles down its back. Mrs Scott described how she'd seen the creature dive and resurface with what appeared to be conger eel in its jaws.

In the January of 1976 there were another two separate sightings off Rosemullion Head and another off Trefusis Point by a woman enigmatically identified only as 'Mary F' photographed the monster. The photographs which were published in a local newspaper the Falmouth Packet, are disappointingly typical of all such photographs and depict a shapeless blob floating on the water that could be just about anything. As it turns out the 'Mary F' photographs, according to an investigation carried out by one Mark Chorvinsky and published in Strange Magazine, were indeed a hoax and believed to be the work of one Tony 'Doc' Shiels.

Another six sightings occurred in 1976 - a family spotted the beast at the mouth of the river Helford once more; a sailor saw a forty foot long 'worm-like' creature pass by as he sailed about thirty miles north-west of the Scilly Isles; a couple in a motorboat saw two large humps in the water off Restronguet Point and a man described a creature like a gigantic eel with humps on its back swimming offshore at Gyllyngvase.

On the 9th July 1976 another local newspaper the Western News, published a report of two fishermen who saw the creature, who said that;

It looked like an enormous tyre about four feet up in the water, with a back like corrugated iron. We came towards it and it could have woken up, because a great head like an enormous seal came out of the water. It just turned it's long neck, looked at us, and slowly submerged. The body was black and the head was grey, and we saw a total length of about 22 feet.
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From everything2.

Another source. [picture from above comes from here].

This creature is one that seems related to the supposed 'Lochness monster'. Do you think there could possibly be a connection with them? or is it chance two such creatures have remained alive so long?

Could this creature be a dinosaur left over from the age of dinosaurs? As there have been fish found to still be alive from that age.

Or is it a genetic mutation of something? Could it simply be a hoax?



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02:27:01 Oct 11 2010
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This does seem to be related to Nessie. While I do not have enough scientific knowledge to say for sure what these creatures are, it seems within possibility that they are descended from dinosaurs (with less evolution than other creatures).

As deep and vast as the oceans are, who is to say they aren't? For all we know, these creatures hibernate for long periods of time, and then, on occasion, venture to the surface.



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04:33:49 Oct 11 2010
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Well all the possibilities that you listed are possible, genetic mutation, hoax, even real there could be many sea creatures out there that has yet to be seen on a more basis as the whales, sharks etc. yet, if there are such creatures would they not hide knowing how humans may treat them from the past and even now humans hunt down whales and seals etc just inhumane, maybe if there are such creatures they are just smarter. anything can be possible in my opinion.



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04:53:35 Oct 11 2010
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Great post. I never knew one existed in Cornwall.



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09:36:02 Oct 12 2010
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well chances are there are more of them out there, i mean what are the odds that there is only one member of a species



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There are creatures evolving constantly from water to land and it shouldn't be too surprising that a creature like Nessy are found , however from the look of the photograph, the creature seems to have a very odd-shaped head so it makes it look questionable. Almost looks identical to an Apatosaurus.



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07:57:05 Oct 14 2010
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see all i see in the picture is something like on a Rorschach test



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18:12:38 Oct 14 2010
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while im not a person to rule things out, i think nessie is pretty much done in. they did a full sonar scan of loch ness a few years back, and didnt find anything of interest, much less a breeding population of animals.

also they estimate that the loch doesnt have enough fish in it to support such large creatures as the monster if it did exist.


as for actual "sea" monsters, i certainly think its possible.

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20:14:21 Oct 14 2010
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Perhaps, like other animals, the deep sea creatures return to a place to consumate and then go home where it's safe. I want to believe that there is more in this world than what science can justify. Science is man-made, proven perhaps, but created by man. Man is flawed. What if a slight tilt to the axis on which we spin ... it changes everything... just because we can't see it does not mean it does not exist... these creatures have left an impact on those who saw them... just as the wind leaves an impact during a tornado... or as it caresses your skin on a gentle day... niave? perhaps... I won't even argue that... but if this is all there is... why bother? Go stand at the ocean... does it make you feel small?



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04:07:03 Oct 15 2010
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science is only a method of asking a question, and then testing possible answers to the question.
if the answer put forth doesnt add up, its disgarded, and if it fits, its kept.

ofcoarse science can be manipulated to create a fraud such as piltdown man, or global warming, but if used as just a tool and the raw data is not slanted for political or personal gain, then its the best way to study a problem and discover the actual answer.
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