"We were patrolling the said area in our car when we were hit by the overwhelming odor of carcass.  We discovered that it came from the skeletal remains of a huge unknown creature."

So were the words of a Brunei LNG Sdn Bhd security guard who was patrolling the Lumut Beach area last month.  The skeletal remains of a large, unidentified creature estimated to be 20 feet long were found washed ashore, with small amounts of flesh still visible.

While the "centerpiece" was apparently the creature's tail, there were still other small joint skeletal remains scattered about five feet away from each other.  So far, no one has been able to make out what the creature is.

The remains might have been washed ashore a few days prior to the finding as a piece of the bone bore a signature, an indication that someone else had stumbled upon the remains and had left his mark.

The police have already been called to investigate the matter, but whether anything significant will come from it is highly unlikely.  Strange carcasses are found all around the world nearly every year, only to be stripped by locals or shunned by scientists as simply being the remains of an already known animal.

Bull Shark Kills Man In Lake
by Jonathan Drake
S: Irish Examiner (8-2-03)

If there is anywhere in the world where one should be careful of local wildlife, it's Australia.  While swimming in Burleigh Lake on Australia’s Gold Coast, a lake that is linked to the nearby Pacific Ocean by a series of canals, a shark attacked and tragically killed an 84-year-old swimmer, police said.

Kayakers found the man’s body about three hours after he went missing while on his regular early morning swim in the salt-water lake. There were bite marks on his legs.

The canals are known for their high population of sharks, and Queensland state’s Primary Industries Minister Henry Palaszczuk said the shark was a bull whaler.

"The canals have hundreds of these sharks in them,” Palaszczuk said. “The method of attack is a single attack – they disable the person or the animal and they come back at a later time to finish off their prey.  They are the most dangerous shark out there. The message is loud and clear to the people who live along those canals – don’t swim in the canals, keep out of the water.”

The Gold Coast is a popular destination for foreign tourists, and it was only last December when a shark attacked and killed a 23-year-old man in a nearby lake. The shark was never found, but the two lakes are not connected by waterways, and so it must have been a different shark.

English Panther Again Spotted
by Jonathan Robison
S: NorthantsNews.com (2-27-03)

“I was doing the Weetabix 10pm run and I was on my way to pick up a couple of the workers from Aldwincle, so no one was on the bus at the time.  I just saw these two huge yellow eyes in front of me. It was such a shock. The cat was bigger than an Alsatian with a large curled tail. I didn’t get to see it for long as it dashed off very fast.

"Luckily I wasn’t going any faster – I was going round the sharp bend on Aldwincle Road – otherwise I would have hit it.”

Yes, a black panther said to have been sighted in Northampton more than 30 times already has yet been spotted again.

Stagecoach bus driver Garry Goodson, 44, says he saw the beast last month at about 9.50pm as he was driving along the Aldwincle Road off the A6116, England.  From Almond Road, Kettering, Mr. Goodson is confident in what he saw: “It was definitely a black panther.  It was huge."

It is the second time Mr Goodson has seen the animal.  The first time was roughly three years ago when he was fishing by Blatherwycke Lake.  The first time the panther was seen in the area was in July 1994 in a field near Blackmore Thick Farm, between Bulwick and Southwick.

Whatever the animal is, it has been creating quite a stir, and sooner or later something is bound to show up . . . either a horrendously large house cat, or, just perhaps, a real black panther.

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