cryptozoology – Live Pterosaurs in America

September 20, 2018

New Cryptozoology Book

just east of Griffith Park in Los Angeles

By living-pterosaur author Jonathan Whitcomb

Upcoming ebook “Live Pterosaurs in America” (fourth edition)

The following quotations are from a preliminary version of this book’s interior. The final publication may differ, at least in a few details. This will be the fourth edition of Live Pterosaurs in America, to be published first in ebook format. (The third edition, only in print format, was published in 2011.)

Chapter 2: Sightings of Pterosaurs in California

Long before getting this report early in 2018, I had concluded that at least some modern pterosaurs in the United States navigate by following stream beds or storm channels. This is more obvious in some of the many reports from Southern California, not that a flying creature always needs to be directly over such a structure on the ground, in order to use it for navigation.

Chapter 4: More-Recent Reports

I can only describe . . . a dragon or flying dinosaur. . . . I saw this large dark colored flying animal. At first I thought it was a vulture. However, I notice that it had pointed wings and a long tail that was skinny and had a pointed shape at the end of it like a triangle or something . . .

The fourth edition of SFRFG mentions this encounter in Raleigh, North Carolina, and says, “The many hundreds of comments on this encounter, some positive but mostly negative, deserve attention, yet not here.” It’s time to dive into some of those details. . . .

The [apparent living pterosaur] seen flying over the I-540 in Raleigh, in March of 2013, appeared to have a wingspan of five to six feet, much smaller than the one in Idaho. It had small things in the middle of the wings that could have been claws, according to the eyewitness, who reported the sighting on a musician’s forum within hours of the encounter. . . .

Let’s now pause to take all this in context. This forum discussion began in March of 2013 (The Gear Page—still online early in June of 2018), when the great majority of Americans had little or no comprehension of any reports of pterosaur sightings in North America. Not until January of 2018, apparently, did newspapers like The News and Observer or the news outlet Charlotte Stories report sightings of apparent “flying dinosaurs” in North Carolina and specifically in Raleigh. That’s when some of the media in that area responded to my press release. In other words, many of those who commented on The Gear Page forum knew little or nothing about pterosaurs except what they had been exposed to all of their lives: universal extinctions.

“Los Angeles River, near location of sighting of May 13, 2013 . . .”

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New cryptozoology book

“I found this book very interesting. . . . The problem with science is that we think we know it all and that is far from reality. This book shows courage to continue the search. If you have an interest in cryptozoology you should read this.” [reader comment from Dale, who lives in Pennsylvania]

Nonfiction cryptozoology book

Searching for Ropens and Finding God – fourth edition

Live Pterosaurs in America (cryptozoology book)

Some of the publications listed are these:

Bird From Hell
Mysteries of the Unexplained
Live Pterosaurs in America
Searching for Ropens and Finding God

Cryptozoology book by Whitcomb

On the verge of the most astonishing discovery in the history of biology . . . “Live Pterosaurs in America”

Modern pterosaurs in North America

Two sightings of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs in eastern Cuba in the mid-20th century, one by Patty Carson and one by Eskin Kuhn

Living pterosaurs (or pterodactyls) in California

Sightings included in CA:

Fremont
Anaheim

Non-extinct pterosaurs in North Carolina

Where do these flying creatures appear? They have been reported in Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, Wilmington, and in other areas of N.C., as well as in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and in many other states

December 21, 2010December 21, 2010

Flying Creatures in a Cryptozoology Book

“Winged Wonders” is the chapter on flying creatures in Williams Gibbon’s cryptozoology book Missionaries and Monsters, and wonderful indeed are those huge apparent pterosaurs (“pterodactyls” or “flying dinosaurs”) in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. I recommend this cryptozoology book that has a spiritual undertone. It is filled with cryptid-encounter reports from long ago and more recently. Some of the information about reports from Papua New Guinea (about the ropen and the “Duah”), however, is outdated and needs clarification.

On page 78 of Gibbon’s book, we read, “villagers of Gumalong, on the mainland, observed a huge Duah as it flew from Mount Bel, across the jungle valley, then directly over the village as it headed out to sea.” I would like to make some corrections here, even though the sighting mentioned appears to be a true encounter with a giant flying creature (or two sightings which have been confused and fused in their details).

Based on my experiences in the village mentioned, I think a better spelling is “Gomlongon,” based on my memory of how those villagers pronounced it; the word skips off their tongues so easily and quickly that we can easily miss the details and simplify the word. This village is not on the mainland but on Umboi Island, the island called by the people of Papua New Guinea “Siasi.” How do I know that Gibbons is not referring to another village (and another sighting), a village on the mainland? I interviewed many natives in villages within sight of Mount Bel; that mountain is near Gomlongon Village, on Umboi Island. For almost two weeks, my base camp was in the morning shadow of Mount Bel, at the edge of Gomlongon, next to the Baptist Church.

Perhaps this account in “Missionaries and Monsters” comes from confusing two encounters, one of which involved the name “duwas.” I know Gibbons uses the word “Duah,” but I think that comes from another mistake: The correct word is “duwas.” I have written much about that elsewhere, however, so I will leave that subject of “duwas” versus “Duah” aside for now.

Perhaps the sighting mentioned in Missionaries and Monsters (” . . . it flew from Mount Bel . . . it headed out to sea.”) was the one described by this eyewitness (the young woman motioning with her hand), notwithstanding this video seems to have been recorded in Lab Lab (east coast of Umboi Island). If so, that might explain the word “duwas” in the report, for Lab Lab has natives with languages different from that of Gomlongon, where the giant featherless flying creature is called “ropen.”

April 7, 2010May 5, 2010

Introduction to “Live Pterosaurs in America”

From the Introduction of Live Pterosaurs in America (published in 2009), first paragraph:

I know that this book might make a few Americans uneasy to walk alone at night; I am sorry for that. But I’m glad to enlighten as many readers as possible to know about live-pterosaur investigations. Those who’ve been shocked at the sight of a flying creature that “should” be extinct—those eyewitnesses, more numerous than most Americans would guess, need no longer be afraid that everyone will think them crazy; and they need no longer feel alone. Those of us who’ve listened to the American eyewitnesses, we who have interviewed them, we now believe. So, if you will, consider the experiences of these ordinary persons (I’ve interviewed most of them myself) and accept whatever enlightenment you may.

Buy this nonfiction cryptozoology book on Amazon. This book is in English; nevertheless, there are many web pages on modern living pterosaurs, and some of them are in languages other than English: French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.