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The Spectral Voyager Episode 7: The Giant Squid (Sample)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In past QAA cryptid episodes, we typically find a creature thought to be real, but then is later debunked by modern science. For this week’s Spectral Voyager, we thought it would be interesting to do the opposite: Start with a creature once believed to be a myth, until scientists were able to actually prove its existence. The Giant Squid has fascinated Jake since he was a young boy, and he, Brad, and Julian will pour through the animal’s legendary sightings dating all the way back to the fifteen hundreds. Follow us along on the nearly five hundred year journey to prove the existence of one of the greatest mysteries the ocean has to offer us. We’ll also be exploring the Mokele-Mbembe in Brad’s “Cryptid Corner” – a potentially prehistoric reptile that might very well haunt Lake Tele, deep in the jungles of Africa. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com SOURCES: The Hunt for the Giant Squid | The New Yorker First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild - PMC (nih.gov) 1882 - Report on the cephalopods of the northeastern coast of America - Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org)

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0:00.0

Tales of mysterious creatures have permeated our consciousness since the first flicker of

0:07.0

human-made fire, and the debate over their provenance has gone on just as long.

0:11.6

Are that gods, spirits, or demons, or just myths made as cautionary tales?

0:16.6

Or could some of them be zoological flesh and blood?

0:20.0

History has taught us there's no clear answer.

0:22.0

There have been a plethora of creatures once thought to be myth or fantasy, whose existence

0:25.6

was at one point laughed at, who've since been found.

0:29.7

The Komodo Dragon, 1910.

0:32.2

No one believed an animal could look like a duck, otter, beaver hybrid,

0:35.7

but yet the platypus was identified in 1800.

0:38.9

One of the scariest cryptids of all time.

0:42.5

The platypus?

0:43.9

Yes.

0:45.3

For sure.

0:46.5

In 1901, the ocopi was found, quote unquote.

0:50.1

It looks like a mix of a zebra and a donkey with a sprinkle of antelope and giraffe.

0:55.4

Ah, the safari special.

0:59.0

The existence of the gorilla wasn't accepted by the western world until 1847.

1:04.6

Is that true?

1:05.3

That feels very late for the gorilla.

1:07.4

Yeah, yeah, the mountain gorilla was discovered by the western world then.

1:12.2

I still think it's fake.

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