Similarly, vintage images can be repaired now in a way unavailable to collectors of past decades, so the only reasons I can figure out for movie poster books to include less-than-pristine reproductions Ð fold-lines in one-sheets, causing light and tone shifts, ragged edges, damage Ð are (1) laziness or (2) the folds and grease pencil marks somehow "authenticate" the item as genuine. This is probably blasphemy to the dedicated poster collectors out there, but when I collect images to display on a wall or even sock away in a file, the choice is based on the image quality more than the fact the piece of paper it's on might be half a century old. A little contrast adjustment, a little sharpening. They're 72 dpi but the main photo is 22 inches tall, so it shrinks 50% (ie., to 8x10 size) without pixelating. Is the Creature from the Black Lagoon just a piece of old, but classic, horror-fiction brought to life to thrill fans of fantasy-driven monsters? Or, might it be the case that the Texas Boomers, Lizard Man, the Frog-People of Ohio, and the beast that Gabriel Figueroa had heard about are, indeed, real-world versions of one of Hollywood's most famous monsters? It's a question well worth pondering on.Frame-capture the images from the eBay ad and print them out on glossy photo paper. And the rest of it, as is so often said, is history. Alland said that a famous Mexican cinematographer named Gabriel Figueroa told him of a half-human, half-fish-like animal that lived in the Amazon and which once a year "claims a maiden." Alland recognized that such a story could easily be translated into a big-screen format. He was interviewed in 1995, for Starlog magazine, by Tom Weaver (in an article titled " Producer from the Black Lagoon," and which Lyle Blackburn references in Lizard Man). Ken has also uncovered a report from Montgomery County, Texas, of "a tall, dark, upright," green-colored beast that stood around seven feet tall.Īnd, finally, we have the fascinating words of Creature from the Black Lagoon producer William Alland. Many old-timers from the foothills claim to know someone who has stumbled upon these menacing creatures feasting on road-kill, although the original source of these stories is often difficult to pinpoint."Īs Ken also notes, the Mountain Boomers are typically described as being around five to six feet in height, with green-brown skin, and small front limbs that resemble arms. Ken continues: "Their name is, apparently, a reference to the thunderous sounds these monsters make when they bellow out from the distant canyons. Ken Gerhard, cryptozoologist, good friend, and the author of Encounters with Flying Humanoids, says of the Mountain Boomer: ".the legendary Mountain Boomers of west Texas's Big Bend National Park are purported to be gigantic, bipedal lizards that greatly resemble certain types of dinosaurs." One breed of beast that may fall into this category, but which often fails to get the attention it deserves, is the Mountain Boomer of Texas. Moving on, and as I noted in a recent article here at Mysterious Universe, we have the freaky "Frog-People" of Loveland, Ohio. Then there was the Lizard Man of South Carolina - who exploded onto the scene in 1988, and whose exploits are chronicled in the pages of Lyle Blackburn's excellent, 2013 book, Lizard Man: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster. Net Entertainments monster video slot game, created in cooperation with Universal, absolutely will grab-and hold-your attention with its 5 reels, 20 lines and multiple entertaining features. But, the one term that really struck a chord – to the extent that it was soon adopted by both UFO researchers and conspiracy theorists alike – was Reptilians. Creature from the Black Lagoon opens with a black and white film of the half-fish, half-human creature rising up from the water then reaching to grab you. Some referred to them as being dinosaur-like in appearance. Adding to their serpent-like appearance are their eyes which have vertical slits in their pupils and golden irises” Their faces are said to be a cross between a human and a snake, with a central ridge coming down from the top of the head to the snout. In "Abduction Notes," published in the April 1993 issue of the MUFON UFO Journal, John Carpenter said: “Typically, these reptilian creatures are reported to be about six to seven feet tall, upright, with lizard-like scales, greenish to brownish in color with claw-like, four-fingered webbed hands. In these cases, the experiencers reported abductions at the hands and claws of what one might consider to be the closest, real-life equivalents of the beast in the aforementioned movie of 1954, Creature from the Black Lagoon. In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, more and more people, and predominantly women, reported alien abduction encounters of a kind very different to those involving the so-called, black-eyed, large-headed "Grays" of Ufology. Is it possible that Hollywood's Creature from the Black Lagoon has a real-life counterpart? Or, maybe, not exactly a counterpart, but something that is broadly similar? Just possibly, yes - as amazing as it might sound.
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