Gef The Talking Mongoose Is Obviously A Most Unique Creature. Unsatisfied By Others’ Renditions Of

Sunbathing thylacines. Source/date unknown.

strongly considering this one now

I feel like I gotta clarify that yes Japan does have a cryptid that is just a fat snake

84 years ago today the last known thylacine died. It died of exposure after being locked outside in its bare concrete pen overnight. 

(The body was reportedly thrown out in the garbage shortly after)

Thylacine art by my friend and fellow thylacine enthusiast Sam Tung.

“A thylacine painted on the ceiling of a rock shelter in Kakadu NP. They have been extinct on the mainland for >3000 years, but the artist obviously knew them in life.” - Sam Sweet

Source: Sam Sweet

Some of the things that Gef the Talking Mongoose had said were written word for word in James Irving’s personal diary. It is thought that Voirrey Irving was behind it all using ventriloquism. 

“I am not evil. I could be if I wanted. You don’t know what damage or harm I could do if I were roused. I could kill you all, but I won’t.” 

“I am a ghost in the form of a weasel, and I shall haunt you with weird noises and clanking chains.” 

“Of course I know what I am, and you are not going to get to know, and you are only grizzled because I won’t tell you. I might let you see me some time, but thou wilt never get to know what I am.” 

“I have three attractions.  I follow Voirrey, Mam gives me food, and Jim answers my questions.” 

“I’ll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!” 

“If you are kind to me, I will bring you good luck. If you are not kind, I shall kill all your poultry. I can get them wherever you put them!” 

some more images of the thylacine you have probably never seen before

A rare glass plate photograph of two thylacines at the Beaumaris Zoo, taken in 1924. [x]