Miss Cryptid 2020 Week 2

Blurry Photos

David Flora

Science, Society & Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The carnage continues with 3 new loathsome ladies in week 2 of the 2020 Miss Cryptid Contest! In the second week of this year's Miss Cryptid competition, Melon Heads, the Con Rit, and Black Annis battle for savage supremacy. Who will move on to the finals? Will it be Leicestershire's horrid hag? Vietnam's atrocious arthropod? Or the misshapen monstrosities of the U.S. Melon Heads? Listen to this cavalcade of folklore, urban legend, and cryptozoology then cast your vote on the Blurry Photos Home page. The winner of week 1 is also announced! Special thanks to Amberrose Hammond for speaking about Melon Heads. Special thanks to Grant Howitt for reading accounts of Black Annis. Links to their works are below. Find Amberrose's work here: Personal Page ; Ghostly Talk Podcast ; Ghosts and Legends of Michigan's West Coast ; Wicked Ottawa County ; Wicked Grand Rapids Find Grant's game design work here: R R D Games Music Danse Macabre, Myst on the Moor, Aftermath, Long Note 4, Awkward Meeting, Mystic Force, Unlight - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Melon Heads of Connecticut. New England Historical Society. Web. https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-melon-heads-of-connecticut/
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0:17.0	Ladies and gentlemen, check your fuel gauges, magnetos and radio.
0:25.0	Set your altimeters and directional gyros,
0:29.0	secure your five-point harnesses,
0:31.0	take the parking break off, and queue up your Kenny Logans.
0:35.8	We're about to take off once again to the danger zone as we fly straight into week two of the
0:42.0	2020 Ms. Krip-Doo. straight into week two of the 2020
0:43.2	Ms. Cripted Conting. It's not true. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome,
1:05.0	you, yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:10.0	yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:12.0	welcome once again to the not so friendly skies. I'm David Flora and I'll be your
1:19.3	captain on this particular flight of fancy guiding you through the turbulence of cryptozoology,
1:25.8	folklore, myth, and legend. We set our sights on three new bogeys this week and fight g-lock as we climb to get a better
1:35.6	visual on the carnage. Fire up the afterburner as we're about to tally these
1:41.7	bandits as they're flying in a delta gourmation in the
1:45.6	contested skies over the UK, Vietnam, and the US. First target acquired from the United States the disturbing melon heads. Second
1:58.5	target acquired from the seas around Vietnam, the terror-inducing gong-zit, and final target acquired from the UK, the
2:08.1	incredibly creepy Black Anis. We're headed for a furball and you're all my wingmen and women,
2:17.0	as the choice is yours for who will be top gun this week.
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