2001-03, UK : 採石場で博物学者の集団が生きたドラゴンを数分間にわたって目撃 ⇒ この謎を解く
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Karl Shuker (後述)の作り話の可能性も考えられはするが、記録しておく。ついでにこの謎解きをしておく。
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Family Terrified After Seeing This… You Won't Believe Their Story
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219,700 views 2024/01/27 The Strange, The Mysterious, The Supernatural Shocking eyewitness accounts of possible dragon sightings that suggest these mythical beasts may actually exist. In 2001, a group of British naturalists had a chilling encounter with a small, wingless dragon flying above the ground in Wales. Years later, campers and families in the United States began to experience similar sightings, vividly describing dragons flying through the sky and landscapes. Are dinosaurs still alive today? Do creatures from our folklore and imagination actually walk among us? Or is there something even stranger awaiting discovery? Don't miss this mind-bending video!
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まずは2001年に話を戻そう。その年の3月、ウェールズのポーイスにある採石場の近くで、奇妙なものを調査するためにあるグループが呼び出された。そこで彼らが発見したものは、その後何年にもわたって彼らを困惑させることになる。
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。見ているうちに、それが石切り場の中をのそのそと歩いているのではなく、羽がないにもかかわらず、なぜか地上に出ていることに気づいた。メートルほど離れたところから、一行は蛇のようなドラゴンとしか形容しようのないものが風景の上を進んでいくのを見ていた。それは体長2.5フィートもない比較的小さなものだったが、目撃者たちが比較せざるを得なかったほど、神話上の生き物に酷似していた。 (0:01:46)
彼らの証言によると、その生き物は緑色でうろこ状で、その皮膚は日光に照らされて光っていた。尾は一対の水平なクジラのようなフクで終わ っており、それが地面から10フィートほど飛んでいたことを説明できる唯一の付属器官であった。 体のもう一方の端には、他のどの生物よりもタツノオトシゴによく似た頭部があった。 (0:02:22)
目撃者全員が驚いて見守ること約4分、ついにそのドラゴンは視界から飛び去り、採掘作業によってできた多くの隙間のひとつに姿を消した。その瞬間は過ぎ去った。彼らはしばらく黙って互いを見つめ合った後、それぞれが見たものと印象を比較しながら熱狂的な議論を始めた。この説明が実に印象的なのは、観察者たちの血統である。 (0:02:50)
カール・シューカーによれば、この神話的な獣、つまり私たちが子供の頃からただ存在するはずがないと聞かされてきたものを見たグループは、イギリスの博物学者の集まりだった。つまり、ウェールズの風景に生息する動物を熟知していただけでなく、自分たちの目で見たものを否定する理由も十分にあった人たちだ。しかし2001年3月、近代的な採鉱作業という現代的な環境の中で、おとぎ話とはかけ離れた小さなドラゴンが地上に浮いているのを見たのだ。 (0:03:34)
科学者仲間から嘲笑されるのを恐れて、彼らは自分たちの身元を秘密にすることにこだわったが、自分たちの体験を真剣に受け止めてくれる唯一の人物、カール・シューカーに目撃談を話した。カール・シューカーは、この目撃談の最後にこう書いている。「一行を率いていた博物学者は、この生き物が意図的に自分たちを遠ざけ、縄張りに近づかないように警告しているようなはっきりとした印象を、この生き物を見ながら持った。 (0:04:09)
目の錯覚でも模型でもなく、本当に生きていたのである。"しかし、その姿はあまりにも不気味で、彼はその遭遇に寒気を感じた。ドラゴンがいる。古代の地図によく見られるとされるこの言葉は、人類がまだカタログに載せていない世界の暗い一角を埋めるために使われた。全世界の地図が作られた今日、私たちはもはやこの言葉を使わない。 (0:04:37)
Let's first go back to 2001, where the story really begins. In March of that year, a group of individuals were called out to investigate something strange near a quarry in Powys, Wales. What they found there would puzzle them for years to come. According to the report as presented by cryptozoologist Carl Shuker, the eyewitnesses were startled when, emerging from the woods near the quarry, they saw something wriggling among the rocks below their feet. (0:01:14)
As they watched, they soon realized that it wasn't slithering through the quarry, it was somehow moving above ground despite not having any wings. From a distance of around 50 feet, the group watched as what they could only describe as a serpentine dragon made its way above the landscape. It was relatively small, no more than 2.5 feet long, but it so closely resembled one of the mythical creatures that the witnesses were forced to make the comparison. (0:01:46)
According to their testimony, the creature was green and scaly, its skin shimmering in the sunlight. The tail ended in what were described as a pair of horizontal, whale-like flukes, the only appendages that could account for the way it flew about 10 feet off the ground. The other end of its body bore a head that more closely resembled a seahorse's than any other living animal. (0:02:22)
All the witnesses watched astounded for around 4 minutes until, at last, the dragon soared out of sight, disappearing into one of the many nooks and crannies created by the mining operation. The moment had passed. All they could do was look at each other in silence for a moment or two before launching into a frenzied discussion, comparing their impressions to what they had each seen. What makes this account truly impressive is the pedigree of the observers. (0:02:50)
According to Carl Shuker, the group who saw this mythological beast, something that we have been told since childhood simply cannot exist, was a collection of British naturalists. In other words, these people who were not only intimately familiar with animals populating the Welsh landscape, but also had every reason to dismiss what they had seen with their very eyes. Yet there, far removed from any fairy tale in the contemporary setting of a modern mining operation in March of 2001, none of them could deny what they had seen, a small dragon levitating above the ground. (0:03:34)
Although they insisted upon keeping their identities a secret, for fear of being ridiculed by fellow scientists, they shared their sighting with the only person they knew who would take their experience seriously, Carl Shuker. Closing his retelling of the account, Carl wrote, "...the naturalist who led the group had the distinct impression while watching it that this creature was deliberately seeking to keep them at bay, warning them off from approaching further into its territory. (0:04:09)
It was neither an optical illusion nor a model, but was truly alive, although its appearance was so uncanny that he felt chilled by the encounter." Here be dragons. This phrase, commonly believed to appear on ancient maps, was used to fill in darkened corners of the world the ones human beings had yet to catalogue. Today, after the entire world has been mapped, we no longer use this phrase. (0:04:37)