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There is a fine article in the today's Guardian about Loch Ness (link). I believe this article highlights the need for a new educational institution to be established in this most strange and exciting location.
The Loch Ness University will only offer study in one subject: monsters.
Students
will investigate all aspects of monsters, naturally devoting much of their time to Loch Ness's own resident monster. Other monsters will feature on the course, including field trips to different parts of the world where less well known monsters terrorise the locals.
For their first project, students will have to prove that they have had an actual encounter with the Loch Ness monster. Other projects will focus on noise, smell, colour, habitat, breeding, and of course their eating activities. At the end of the course a totally new monster will be constructed by the students, and placed in a special theme park.
https://www.theguar...ional-trust-suffolk
[xenzag, Aug 03 2021]
I think the wolf in Red Riding Hood was a Dogman
https://tunein.com/...ters-Radio-p639972/
[xandram, Aug 04 2021]
The Original Troll Stroy
https://en.wikipedi...e_Billy_Goats_Gruff
[xenzag, Aug 04 2021]
Three Billy Goats Gruff
https://www.youtube...watch?v=QbfzUPWNfVE
the story of the original Troll [xenzag, Aug 04 2021]
https://www.youtube...watch?v=BQlCDykWMR4
My copy has more "charachter" wouldn't you agree? [pocmloc, Aug 04 2021]
Dogman!
https://pilkey.com/series/dog-man
[RayfordSteele, Aug 04 2021]
[link]
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Of course they don't advertise, and the campus is hidden. |
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I think it was either in Greece or Spain where I paid for a temporary maze of wall paintings showing monsters from mythology. Many of them were Greek. They weren't actually monsters but gods sometimes, at least in Egypt or earlier. |
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You're hired for the second semester "Greek
Monsters" |
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As long as there are living examples engaged in
terrorising a community somewhere. |
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Did you just assume their mind-set?! Shame on you. |
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Maybe they are horrifically terrifying and yet identify as caring, cuddly and completely misunderstood. |
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I've been an agnostic all my life, but as with the Greek gods, I really wonder if gods with human failings are a better replacement for mystical perfection. Are homosexual alternatives to clerics going to create organizations to help the poor en masse for example, whatever their motives. I suspect they will have the same problem or worse with pedophiles. |
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As well as the Yeti, don't forget the Australian
Yowie, the Canadian Nuk-luk, the Missouri Momo,
and the Louisiana Swamp Ape. |
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There are a number of self-taught Fortean experts who have published catalogues of strange sightings. Some of these experts may have somehow become time travellers or backwards psychics and can see monsters in ancient times as well as far into the future. |
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You seem very well informed. Would you like to
teach a module on your specialisation? |
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Not sure if xenzag is unaware of or is alluding to the actual
monstrous abuse of children at the Loch Ness-adjacent Fort
Augustus Abbey School... |
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I am not well informed re the abuse of children in any locale. If they have been eaten by the monster, that will definitely feature in the curriculum. |
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Just another reason visitors may be wary to go on "Virgin Offer Specials" |
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+ a crypto school might enlighten a lot of people
that all the *horror* in children’s stories are based
on facts. (Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and
Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood etc.) |
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There are certainly plenty of trolls around, and
they no longer just lurk under bridges. (song link - just ignore unwanted shite advert at start) |
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Its bizarre to hear the record without the big crack |
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Did somebody say 'Dogman?' Why, my son's favorite book
series... |
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//an actual brick and mortar site would add some polish// |
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Hmm .. if you're interested I think I can get you a deal on
Bran
Castle, we can take it down numbering the bricks for
transport & rebuild at the sight of your choice along the loch? |
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Isn't properly speaking a real monster you know. |
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It was just great uncle
Tobias, he'd both Hypertrichosis & Albinism. |
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Apparently he was spotted on his solo expedition to the
Himalayas in 1925. |
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Claims he just popped
out of the tent for a pee the previous night & didn't think
to get dressed
because he didn't expect to be gone that long then got lost
ln
the
snow couldn't find his tent & was too embarrassed to
approach Tombazi's group on the way back down the next
day while naked so ran away when he
saw them. |
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Or so he says, popular family gossip has him as
something of an exhibitionist & a joker though, so he may
have
done it
deliberately. |
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