Kindergarten Cryptozoologist

[jpegghost]

I'm without Alex for the night. Frown.

Even though we spend pretty much every day together, he and I still live separately. If it wasn't for the pandemic, we'd likely be slowly moving his + I's stuff into a warehouse apartment in East Downtown until my lease is up in a few months. But we can't, because Covid. I hope that when I move, it'll be into a shared apartment with him rather than the crappy place I live at right now, but everyone's lives are kind of up in the air right now and there's no solid plans for anything.

On a much more pleasant note, my sister sent me an early birthday present! I only have one sibling, Holly, and she's great and I am constantly texting her and calling her. She was so excited about the present she had me face time her as I opened it.



Isn't it cute! There's all kinds of paranormal cryptids on there, my favorite being Nessie. I have a massive backstory regarding cryptids: As a child, I was obsessed with Nessie and lake monsters. Ogopogo, The Hook Island Sea Monster (Whose pictures scared me so much I would flip past them at hyper speed), you name it, I was obsessed with it. As a kindergartener up until third or fourth grade, I told EVERYONE when I grew up I was going to hunt Nessie, Bigfoot, and the Chupacabra. Imagine! I would be the first person to tame Nessie! And she would be my best friend! And play Pokemon Silver with me!

When my family would go on vacation, Holly + I would beg and plead to go on a ghost tour or to hunt for spooky things. One time we spent the night at a hotel next to a cemetery and 'investigated' it for fun. We also ran around Gettysburg at night being little heathens. Holly and I have always been weirdos so getting a cute lanyard and some stickers reminds me of my childhood... And the eventual Bigfoot roadtrip I'm planning.

You know, if Yosemite doesn't explode or whatever else 2020 may have in store for us.

Comments

[8hyenas]

Happy Birthday(ish)! My favorite is the jackalope, because I thought they were a legitimate animal until like five years ago. Just like, this is a type of rabbit that lives in the NM desert. I learned this fact as a child at a truck stop and it just stuck.

I live near Bigfoot, and he's what parents would use to keep kids in the house at night. He's such a creeper.

[jpegghost]

Thanks buddy!

I used to think that jackalopes were real too -- There were always those kitschy taxidermy ones floating around gift shops, my child brain just assumed "Yes, this is a real thing and yes they have poorly glued in glass eyes"

Bigfoot is neat! And all the branches of Bigfeet-- Skunk Ape, the Yeti, uhhh idk ... Others! In my neck of the South, we would keep kids in at night with talk of 'Melon Heads', 'The Goat Man', or 'The Bunny Man'. I was particularly scared of the Bunny Man, and the Melon Heads. Hydrocephalic cannibals that could run as fast as cars? NAHHHH...

[8hyenas]

I do not know your monsters! More locally we have the Lickskillets (what?) which I guess is the last name (WHAT?) of a small group of short hairy fat humanoids that will kidnap you if you are outside after dark. Don't let the Lickskillets get you.

[jpegghost]

What in the goddamn is a lickskillet! God I love urban legends, especially old Americana legends. I'm gonna talk about melon heads, bunny man, goat man in an upcoming post when I'm not up to my eyeballs in studying formalin vs phenol cleaning practices (gag).

[alee_grrl]

Cryptids are so much fun. I live near Lake Champlain, which is supposed to have a lake monster named Champ. There's also a Sasquatch festival in a small town a few hours away, though I haven't made it to that festival yet. It's usually in the fall.

And like others I also thought jackalopes were real as a kid. Too many truck stop gift shops I guess. :D

Urban legends and such are so much fun.

Also, happy birthday when it comes!

[jpegghost]

Oh, I remember Champ! Yes, that's a cool one! I'd love to go to a Sasquatch festival too -- One time I went to a reptile expo and there was an alien convention happening right next door but tickets were like 200 lol I imagine the sasquatch festival is much less prohibitively priced.

Thanks! It's in about 2 weeks (May 11th) and while I had stuff planned for it I'll probably just end up playing video games and watching Cops or Forensic Files haha

[alee_grrl]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure the festival was either free or very low priced. Certainly not $200. I would have skipped on that too. lol

And nothing wrong with playing video games or watch true crime shows for your birthday. :D Though it may not be as exciting as what you had planned.

[amejisuto]

Very cute! Do you watch Mountain Monsters and that sort of thing? All the crypted hunting you can want from your tv. LOL.

[jpegghost]

Yes I do! My parents like it more though, especially my dad. Wild Bill is his favorite character. It reminds me of my grandparents...

[amejisuto]

I like WIlly, he seems to have some common sense. I was sad to hear that Trapper passed away last December. I wonder if they'll take on a new rookie.

[azurelunatic]

I hope stuff stabilizes enough to let youse move in together, soon!