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Tjerwerk Fireball Humanoid
The Tjerwerk Fireball Humanoid is a creature sighted in Tjerwerk, Friesland, the Netherlands, in 1927. It was sighted by a man named Lieuwe Klaasens and a local pastor. They saw what resembled a fireball descending from the sky, and then morphing into a humanoid shape. This figure walked toward a Frisian burial ground, called a terp, before rolling back into a fireball and disappearing into the sky. Citations: Rosales, Albert. Humanoid Encounters 1 AD-1899: The Others Amongst Us. N.p., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
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Good Hoop/Tasmanian Bunyip/Universal Eye
Good Hoop is an alternate name for the Bunyip, commonly from Tasmania. They often have serpentine forms and may have small or non-visible ears, a sheepdog head, small wing-like fins, shaggy black hair, and/or crooked feet. They measure between 1.2 and 1.35 meters in length and are thought to move 50 km per hour. One was sighted in Lake Tiberias in 1952. It was first viewed in shallow water and quickly disappeared into deep water. Citations: Bayley, Harold. The lost language of symbolism; an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies. London, Williams and Norgate, 1912. Hargreaves, Joyce, and Hargreaves, Beryl Joyce. Hargreaves New…
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Tarasque/Tarasconus/Taras/Tauriskos
The Tarasque was a bizarre chimerical dragon from Medieval France. It was an amphibious beast thought to live in the forest around the Rhone River. It was believed to be the child of the Leviathan and the Onachus. It was larger than an ox, had six legs ending in bear paws, a lion head, a serpentine tail ending in a scorpion stinger, a hard shell covered in spikes, and impenetrable scales covering its body. It was incredibly vicious, being known to sink ships and kill anyone moving along its river. It was believed a village requested the assistance of Saint Martha, who then went and found the creature in the…
