Damn it - I missed that conference. If I'd known about it before, I'd have been there like a shot.
Cryptozoology is the study of animals that are legendary, extinct, or unknown, and whose existence is disputed or unsubstantiated. Not that anyone in their right mind would dispute Bigfoot or Nessie... but there are some crazy folk out there.
Here's a few more appropriate tunes...
That's Huey Morgan's favourite Queen song. He used to do a Radio 2 show in the middle of the night between Friday and Saturday that I always used to listen to (one of the last Radio 2 shows I bothered with) and he'd play that every other week.
Lalo Schiffrin - Enter The Dragon
Squirrel Nut Zippers - The Kraken
The Kraken was a famous many tentacled sea monster, who probably hung out with this (surprisingly popular) underwater cryptid...
Manic Street Preachers - Leviathan
Back onto dry land now for the scary prospect of a half-dragon, half-chicken hybrid...
Shearwater - Open Your Houses (Basilisk)
Even scarier - part-Lion, part-man, part-eagle, part-scorpion... it's the Manticore!
And next, we have a best straight out of the old testament, And next, we have a best straight out of the Old Testament, whose "bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron”...
The Shadows of Night - The Behemoth
To be honest, I think I'd rather find a bunch of these guys at the bottom of my garden...
Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots
Magnetic Fields - I've Run Away To Join The Fairies
But I've saved the best till last today... well, it had to be, didn't it?
From the album Loch'd & Loaded, of course...
