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Freakylinks “Civil War” Pterodactyl Photo and Ptp

six men and a large pterodactyl in an old photo

By Jonathan Whitcomb

In recent years, a few skeptics have suggested that the Ptp image originated with the TV show FreakyLinks with “Coelacanth This”, which was the fourth episode of the first season (year 2000). Unfortunately for the skeptical side, they have not provided any direct evidence but rely on second-hand or third-hand accounts and the skeptics’ unverified imagination.

Those critics do not mention any person who worked on any supposed computer model (or physical model) or who worked with supposed actors in the supposed creation of Ptp. In fact, as best as I can tell at present, they have not mentioned even one person who witnessed anyone working on such a supposed digital  or physical model, since they seem to imply that there was either a 3D computer model or a physical model.

By the way, the FreakyLinks TV episodes were scary science-fiction supernatural-themed stories on the Fox network, broadcast from October of 2000 until June of 2001. You might call it a series of hoax shows, except that most viewers are aware, or should be, that they are watching fiction.

The complete image that is now called “Ptp”

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“Coelacanth This!” FreakyLinks Episode

The story does not begin with a pterodactyl; that comes later. A group of young investigators dive into a mysterious death from something that could have been a monster of some kind. The drama then evolves into a pterodactyl-like flying creature that keeps coming back every few decades, seemingly because of long periods of hibernation.

car crash on the sci-fi TV episode "Coelacanth This!"Near beginning of this TV episode on the Fox Network

A key point in this fictional story is the discovery of an old photo of six “Civil War” soldiers posing beside the body of a huge Pteranodon-like animal. This is not just implied to be a photograph from the American Civil War: That point is clearly made in the communications between investigators.

The image shown several times in that episode appears to be identical to Ptp. With a deeper examination, however, it is clear that the bottom part of the picture is missing in that episode. Yet the complete image can now be found on a number of web sites, apparently none of which are directly related to any of the production companies involved, twenty-two years ago, in the creation of the TV episode in question.

FreakyLinks TV episode with photo of a pterodactylMost of the Ptp image is seen in this TV episode of FreakyLinks

In other words, where did the complete image of Ptp come from? There seems to be no evidence it came from any production company associated with the episode “Coelacanth This!”. It definitely did not come from anyone capturing the image from any portion of the episode itself. Most likely the producers realized that it was in the public domain, because of its age. They then used it in the production, even though they had used a fake photo in the pre-production web page that promoted the episode.

Let’s now get back to the “Civil War” aspect of the case. This must have been written in the script. So why do the men in Ptp have only a superficial resemblance to Civil War soldiers?

More to the point, why do we see an extraordinary apparent pterosaur, with details that include muscle structure in the neck? If this was a physical model or a computer model or a drawing, created by FreakyLinks, why do the soldiers have uniforms and equipment that are so UNLIKE what non-officer Union Civil War soldiers had? Why should the creature be so accurately portrayed while the men look so much like they lived AFTER the Civil War?

And why do five of the six men have right-handed pistol holsters while one has a left-handed holster? That detail is exactly what we could expect if these men were NOT Civil War reenactors or any other kind of actors. Very likely is this: They were photographed between about 1867 and 1880.

six soldiers are right-handed; one is left-handedProper ratio of right-handed to left-handed men

And why were those men standing like that, with one of them having a boot resting of some kind of object? Try this answer: Those men were standing around the large flying creature that we see in Ptp. Apparently this is not a hoax-pterodactyl but a genuine recently-deceased flying creature.

By the way, many persons have reported that they saw Ptp in an old book or magazine decades before the end of the 20th century. Of course, memory can play tricks on us, yet those declarations fit perfectly well with the concept that those six men appear very much like they lived before the beginning of the 20th century. And it’s not just their uniforms and equipment:  Each has a beard or mustache style that fits that time period and those men have similar body builds, like they had been eating together for a long time or at least under similar conditions. What are the chances that six actors from the year 2000, chosen randomly, would fit together so well?

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Addendum

There’s more to the mystery. What about the fake photo used in the pre-production web page? It was very likely intended, before filming, to be the image used in the episode itself. Here is a likely explanation, one that harmonizes with the details seen in the six men of Ptp and the detailed image of an apparent modern pterosaur in Ptp. It’s not the only possibility, just the most likely.

comparing two photos of possible modern pterodactylsThe pre-production image (“AP”) is on the left; Ptp, on the right

As of mid-November, 2022, I (Jonathan Whitcomb) believe that AP was staged by Haxan Films, and the arrangement of the actors and fake “pterodactyl” was an imitation of what is now called Ptp.

In other words, it is no coincidence that both images have the soldier in front with one boot on the beak or head of an apparent creature. I believe that Ptp existed first and AP was created to imitate it.

Keep in mind that the special effects company that worked with Haxan Films at that time was E=MC2 Digital. It is possible that the original image that was transformed into Ptp was obtained by E=MC2 Digital and assumed, at first, to be under copyright protection.

In other words, as of mid-November, 2022, I do not know if Ptp, with its discoloration and white blotches and scratch mark, is what E=MC2 Digital obtained from some old publication or if that original image was altered by E=MC2 Digital to make it appear older before giving it to Haxan Films for that episode of FreakLinks.

Regardless of whether E=MC2 Digital altered the original (that became Ptp) or not, I believe that Ptp (or the original of it) became the model for the creation of the AP photo: Ptp existed first. Nobody that I know of has any doubt about AP: It was a hoax created by using actors and a crude model that was supposed to look like a dead pterodactyl. If fact, that crude fake pterodactyl has been owned by a well-known cryptozoologist for some time, kept as part of his collection.

I believe that two things happened before filming began on the episode “Coelacanth This!”:

  1. The AP photo was found to be poor in quality
  2. Ptp (or the original version of it) no longer had a copyright issue

The main problem with #1 was the “pterodactyl”, which looked not only unconvincing as such an animal but was ludicrously so: If nobody told you that it was supposed to be a pterosaur, you might not guess what it represented.

The main solution with #2 may have been this: The production team or teams came to realize that there was no actual copyright issue, at least if they handled it carefully. They could have come to realize that it was now in public domain, because of its age, or they could have managed to alter it and present it in such a way that it would not have any reasonable way allowing anyone to make a copyright claim on it. Yet there is another explanation.

I believe that the most likely possibility is this: The production teams came to realize that the men who were photographed would no longer be living, so release forms would not be needed from them. In addition, there would not be any issue with copyright, for Haxan would make limited use of the Ptp image, and E=MC2 Digital could have further manipulated it. This would allow Haxan to invoke “fair use” with Ptp.

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Apparently a real photo of a pterodactyl

If evidence shows that it was a physical object [pterodactyl or hoax], rather than only a digitally created non-real object, then we can look deeper into what that strange-looking thing might have been.

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YouTube video on pterosaur eyewitnesses and Ptp

See how eyewitness testimony relates to video footage regarding modern living pterosaurs, a.k.a. “pterodactyls”. Also see the Ptp image whose origin comes not from modern actors or Civil War reenactors but from a photograph AFTER that war but before the beginning of the 20th century.

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Missing Persons in USA – Attack from a Ropen?

 I was 4 years old . . . I was heading to the house from the chicken house [at] about 8 a.m. when a large flying creature tried to grab me . . . The body (about the size of a Volkswagen bug) was covered in hair. . . . It had a beak with teeth . . .

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Cognitive biases and modern pterosaurs

Dr. Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist and professor of psychology at Yale, has commented on the bias called loss aversion: “We don’t like losing stuff . . .”

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The Ptp “Civil War” photograph in context

In 2007, a businessman encountered a gigantic pterosaur as it flew in front of his car in Irvine, California, near the university . . .

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Pterodactyl photo Ptp

. . . the image we have: apparent American soldiers, dressed like men of the Union army of the Civil War, at least with uniforms that suggest such to the casual observer of the apparently old photo.

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The old flying dinosaur photo

I processed the Ptp image and cropped it to help people avoid distractions. Why did I alter the “Civil War flying-dinosaur photo”? I wanted to present it in a form that would most likely be closer to the original image than what we see in Ptp.

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Apparent modern pterosaur in Mexico

I’ve been talking to my mother about the pterodactyl like creature she saw about 15 years ago. . . . in Lázaro Cardenas, Michoacán (Mexico) . . . Small pterodactyl like animal. Leathered. . . . Wingspan, as they weren’t completely open, could be a meter (bit more or less) . . .

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Marfa Lights and flying predators

What kind of flying creature is the ropen? When eyewitnesses describe the features of this creature, it becomes obvious: The ropen is a large long-tailed pterosaur, AKA “pterodactyl.

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The flying creature “ropen”

What do we know about the ropen? It is not confined to Papua New Guinea, which makes sense when we consider that the largest ones have wingspans greater than twenty feet. Flying creatures similar to the ropen of the southwest Pacific have been reported in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America.

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The Ptp “Pterodactyl” Photo in Context

six men and a large pterodactyl in an old photo

By Jonathan Whitcomb

We’ll get into the “Civil War pterodactyl” photo later, after taking that image in context with two sightings of apparent modern pterosaurs: one in the 20th century and the other in the 21st century. But even before getting into those two encounters with very large flying creatures, I submit the following:

Introduction

Over the last 19 years, I’ve spent well over 14,000 hours in my investigation of eyewitness reports of apparent living pterosaurs, including many aspects of how and where these flying creatures may live on this wonderful planet of life. During those two decades, I’ve encountered many skeptical remarks, and it seems that most of the critics appear to have given little thought to the possibility that not all species of “pterodactyls” are extinct.

Sketches by Eskin Kuhn and Patty Carson - long-tailed modern pterosaursTwo sightings in eastern Cuba: by Eskin Kuhn and Patty Carson

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The complete image of Ptp, an apparent 19th-century pterodactyl

[We’ll get into the 19th century photo later in this post.]

I’ve discovered for myself, through eyewitness testimonies, that a number of species of these creatures live in many areas, probably on all continents except Antarctica. Unfortunately, many Westerners have not been informed of the many reports; others react by ridiculing the idea that “flying dinosaurs” might still fly.

I admit I’m human and have the same potential pitfalls that we all may fall into. Just like other people, I may be susceptible to confirmation bias: seriously considering only potential evidence that fits into one’s previous opinions. That is part of why I often use the phrase “apparent pterosaur” when referring to a particular sighting report from an eyewitness: I seriously want to be objective each time I examine an eyewitness testimony.

Yet it seems that some critics dismiss a sighting report after giving it six minutes of consideration at most. One critic might have some advantage over me: more education or native intelligence or perceptiveness, maybe. But take it in context: In relation to one such critic (spending six minutes on this topic), I have over 8 million times as much experience on the subject of the possibility that not all species of pterosaurs are extinct.

In mentioning all that, I do not mean to brag about myself or to imply that all of my work over the past two decades has been without mistakes or faults: I emphasize that some of my associates and I have spend a great deal of time in this narrow branch of cryptozoology, and the subject deserves public attention.

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Area near where an apparent ropen flew into the sanctuary

Sighting location of an apparent long-tailed pterodactyl in Irvine, CA

In 2007, a businessman encountered a gigantic pterosaur as it flew in front of his car in Irvine, California, near the university, according to what he reported to me. The tail alone was about 15 feet long, and the flying creature was flying not far above the road where the man was driving. Much of this area is part of a wildlife refuge.

After he contacted me, I drove to that location in Orange County and measured the width of the road, for he said that the total length of the creature was equal to that road width. I paced it off: 30 feet.

foothills near Altadena, California, where a gigantic pterodactyl was seen

Near a sighting location in Altadena, California, mid-20th century

The second sighting covered here was between about the years 1968 and 1971, near the intersection of Altadena Drive and Allen Avenue in Altadena, California. I spoke with the eyewitness by phone about her encounter when she was a high school student (a good friend of my sister’s at that time).

The flying creature, which she called a “pterodactyl”, was as large as a bus, and at that time there were no mini-buses for either the cities or the schools: Any flying creature the size of a bus in the mid-20th century in Southern California would have been enormous.

I mention those two sightings, out of the hundreds of reports I’ve received, to illustrate a consistency: Apparent gigantic pterosaurs have been reported to fly in North America in both the 20th and 21st centuries, so why should they not have lived in the 19th century?

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What six soldiers tell us about a large flying creature

six men and a large pterodactyl in an old photoThe most relevant part of the Ptp image (click to enlarge it)

First, look at the general appearance of those six men. Of course they have individual differences, but look at the similarities.

  1. They are not, on average, especially thin
  2. Not one is very heavyset
  3. Not one is clean-shaven
  4. Not one appears to be a corporal or sergeant or officer
  5. Not one has an oval belt buckle
  6. All six have a pistol holster

Set aside point #1 and see that these are not a group of Civil-War reenactors from the 20th century or 21st century: The combination of point #2 through point #6 proves that.

Was each image of a soldier cut from other photos and then pasted together to make an apparently consistent group of soldiers? Try to find even just two old photos that have soldiers that look like these men. Good luck: They are not from the American Civil War.

NOT from the Civil War

I’ve written much about this in other blog posts, so we’ll only touch on it briefly here. Several factors suggest that these men were photographed together. In fact, they appear to have lived together: perhaps camping, traveling, and eating together for quite some time.

For example (point #1), most common Union soldiers during the Civil War had well-enough food to survive, but they were often thinner than the average of the men in Ptp. It’s not obvious at first glance, but there is a difference.

Two details alone indicate that these men very likely were photographed AFTER the end of the Civil War: rectangular belt buckles and pistol holsters. It’s likely that the photo was recorded during the Reconstruction period, many years before the beginning of the 20th century.

The apparent stay-still prop under the beak of the creature suggests this photo was taken before about 1880. Some photographers at that time used such props to help people remain still during the seconds needed for an exposure.

The apparent flying creature was a physical object

Whether that thing was a flying creature or a prop made to look like one, consider this: Apparently it was dragged into this clearing and then perhaps repositioned. The drag mark could have been made by the beak before the made the final adjustment in pulling out the wings. That could be why the end of the drag mark is not exactly at the point where we now see the end of the beak.

The apparent Pteranodon was dragged across the ground in this apparent photograph - Ptp

Apparent drag mark in the soil: This was a physical object

Why emphasize the point that it was a real object that the men were standing around. Some skeptics suggest that the apparent “pterodactyl” was just a drawing or a 3D computer animation model. Several factors discredit that hypothesis or theory. (See other blog posts and Youtube videos by Jonathan Whitcomb to get more details.)

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Missing Persons in USA – Attack from a Ropen?

The following Youtube video covers three possible “pterodactyl” attacks against children, during the past 80 years . . . The states involved were Arizona, Oklahoma, and Texas [although an attack against men fishing on the Delaware River at night—that is included as well].

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Pterodactyl photo from the 19th century

Let’s now turn to answers to a few skeptical criticisms of the apparently old photo that I have labeled “Ptp”, what some call the “Civil War pterodactyl photo”.

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American soldiers and a pterodactyl in a photo

Rectangular belt buckles were not, apparently, worn by common Union soldiers during the American Civil War . . . [Men seen in the Ptp “pterodactyl photo” have rectangular belt buckles: ALL SIX men]

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Pterodactyl Sighting in Delavan, Illinois

It scared the living daylights out of me because it was the size of our house . . .

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A modern pterosaur kills chickens and house cats in Nevada

While . . . in the garage, I heard something very heavy land on the tin roof . . . It landed softly, and after the roof rafters creaked, then I heard claws scratch the roof . . .

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Pterodactyl sighting in Arizona

. . . she was driving her daughter and her friend to a local market when they spotted the unusual creature on August 16 at around 7.30 p.m. . . . “I said ‘look at that bird! What kind of bird is that?’ My daughter said ‘it’s a bat’. I said ‘no, it’s too big to be a bat and it has a tail… it looks like a pterodactyl.’ . . . The woman described the animal as featherless and having a tail “with something on the end of it”.

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Sightings of pterosaurs . . . 2016

[In] St. Louis Mo. . . . I was ten years old at a family BBQ with my dad…it was before dusk and still enough light in the sky that it was still blue . . . we heard this horrific screech from right above the trees in the surrounding yard. I looked up and saw something AMAZING ! It was a real live Pterosaur!

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Report your pterodactyl sighting

I encourage people around the world to report their sightings of apparent living pterosaurs to me or to one of my associates. Why tell someone about your sighting? It helps bring the world closer to officially discovering these amazing flying creatures.

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Recent pterosaur sightings

Most paleontologists will tell you that the Pterosaur (including the Pterodactylus and pteranodon.), a flying reptile of the Mesozoic era, has been extinct for over 60 million years; however, several recent sightings may suggest these large “flying” reptiles are still alive.

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Pterosaurs in the USA

How did these creatures avoid media attention? Get the answers from years of work by American cryptozoologists. The old “fruit bat” explanation for reports of pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea–that bat idea has now been shot down . . .

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California Pterosaur in Irvine

The total length of the creature was about 30 feet and about half of that being tail length.

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A Challenge for the Ptp “Civil War” Pterodactyl Photo and an Answer

pterodactyl wings inverted in an old photo

By Jonathan Whitcomb

In September of 2022, I started taking another look into Ptp, an image that appears to show six 19th-century American soldiers posed around a large dead pterosaur. This apparent “Civil War” photograph has had a number of critics over a period of many years, but one particular challenge appears, at least on the surface, to have destroyed all confidence in the idea that an actual modern pterosaur was involved. Nevertheless, Ptp is not, as of September 26th, completely clear regarding its origin.

An online article dated January 9, 2018, appears to prove positively that Ptp was created through two things: 1) modern actors dressed in 19th-century-style uniforms, making them appear to be common Union soldiers during the American Civil War [and] 2) computer digital processing done by the firm E=MC2 Digital, which is declared to have created the “pterodactyl”. I’ll call that article “CWP”, but I won’t link to it, for it has problems that are too off-topic to examine now: We have enough to cover here. Researchers who seriously want to read that article should be able to find it online (the author’s initials are B.D.)

apparently very old photograph of soldiers with a recently deceased pterosaur -The scientist Clifford Paiva has pointed out that the wings are folded, AKA inverted, consistent with pterosaur wings

(The point of the folded-wings concept comes up later)

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Quoting the CWP online article:

“For it turns out — drum roll please — that the mystery of the PTP photo is one that has a verified solution, one which so many of these people struggling to prove it or disprove it overlooked. . . .”

“very few [people] seem to have gone to the trouble to actually watch the episode in question, episode 4, called “Coelacanth This . . .”

After going over key areas of that article, on September, 26, 2022, and examining the episode itself, I made a discovery: Assuming I have not made a serious error, the author of the CWP article himself has not watched that episode with an eye to an important point that he seems to have tried to make in CWP: He assumes that what he saw in that episode was Ptp, but in one critical perspective PTP IS NOT THERE, even though hardly anyone would notice the difference between the image in that TV episode and Ptp.

Please keep in mind that I am not criticizing B.D. for being careless, not at all. It is an extremely easy mistake to make: I myself made that same mistake, and very few persons in the world have spent more time examining Ptp than I have, possibly only one person.

I am not even declaring that Ptp cannot have been created digitally, with no modern pterosaur even having been involved. In other words, at the moment (3:16 p.m., Mountain Time, Sep 26, 2022), I am not completely convinced the original image of Ptp had a real “pterodactyl”, and I can see the possibility that the apparent flying creature was constructed digitally with no original animal image ever having existed. Maybe the foundational idea of the CWP article is correct in that regard; maybe Ptp is 100% hoax.

Yet in the many hours since I made the above statement, I have made a discovery which may be extremely important. Here’s the point now:

The complete image of Ptp, an apparent 19th-century pterodactyl

The complete image Ptp, from top to bottom and left to right: all of it

It may seem trivial at first: The above is ALL of the image Ptp. I gave it this title a few years ago, and this is all of it that I have, at least at present.

Before getting to the point, please understand this: I have been assuming, for quite some time, that my critics and I have together believed that Ptp appears in the Freakylinks episode Coelacanth This! and the other “Civil War pterodactyl photo” appears only in the Freakylinks promotional web site. I also assumed that Ptp does not appear in that production firm’s web site. (I have never seen Ptp on their online page and have heard nothing to the contrary.)

From now on, I’ll refer to the other photo as AP, named by Karl Shuker (AP stands for Advance Publicity, meaning it was used before the episode was broadcast over the air).

comparing two photos of possible modern pterodactylsAP on the left is fake, without any doubt; but Ptp on the right has been on trial for many years, and it has been extremely controversial

So why do I declare that Ptp is NOT in Coelacanth This!? I have carefully examined the four places where Ptp seems to be shown in that episode, but in EVERY CASE not all of the bottom of Ptp is shown. People could say, “Who cares?” or “What difference does it make?”: After all, the important parts of Ptp are shown in that episode. When we look at what is implied in the CWP article, however, it makes a big difference.

By the way, in CWP itself the complete image of Ptp is not shown: only a cropped version of it. But that may have little relevance except to emphasize the point that B.D. is unaware of the important difference between all of Ptp and part of it.

WHERE DID PTP COME FROM?

For almost any person who reads the CWP online page, it would seem obvious: Ptp came from that episode of Feakylinks in the year 2000. Does B.D. (author of CWP) think that the apparent “Civil War pterodactyl” image in that episode is important in establishing where Ptp came from? Apparently that is the point of his words “drum roll please.”

Yet here is the real point: NOBODY can get the entire image of Ptp from the episode Coelacanth This!, yet on the internet you can find complete images of Ptp, although the smaller cropped images are much more common.

Early on the morning of September 27, 2022, I did a series of Google image searches using an Incognito window to avoid any influence from my previous searches on this topic. Here is the result:

NOT ONE of the complete images of Ptp were from any site or page of Haxan Films or Freakylinks. In addition, if I missed nothing important, NOT ONE of the pages with the complete Ptp image had any link showing that either Haxan Films or Freakylinks ever publicized  or published it.

In other words, the apparent proof (for the origin of Ptp) in CWP has now been shot down, and this complete image now requires a deeper examination.

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One of many evidences for Ptp authenticity

Notice the strange wing structure below:

apparently very old photograph of soldiers with a recently deceased pterosaur -The scientist Clifford Paiva has pointed out that the wings are folded, AKA inverted, consistent with pterosaur wings

At some time between when this animal ended it final flight and the time the photo was recorded, the outer part of both wings became inverted. The apparent top of the outer wing section would actually be the bottom side of the wings during flight. This is hardly the kind of obscure detail that a digital effects company would have thought of and created for a common TV show episode.

In other words, possibly not even one person who viewed that episode of Freakylinks would have noticed this biological detail, so why would any digital effects firm create this and present it to the Freakylinks producers? It would have appeared to them to be too weird in an inappropriate distracting way. Special effects for TV and film are made for the general public, not for a one-in-a-million paleontologist who would have noticed such a detail.

The original Ptp may have had many digital processes done to it, to emphasize the idea that it is an old photo, but the animal shown was NOT created by the digital effects firm that was hired by Haxan Films or Freakylinks.

Indeed, to the best of my knowledge at present, it is possible that those effects that were added to the original image of Ptp were done decades before Freakylinks existed, and their digital effects team imitated those aging effects in AP.

I understand that there may be other factors and that it is still possible that no modern pterosaur was ever photographed with 19th-century American soldiers standing around it, but here it is: The CWP online article has serious problems, only some of which are mentioned here, and there still appears (as of early September 27, 2022) to be a real case that the origin of Ptp may be in a genuine 19th century photograph of a real object, whether it was a recently deceased pterosaur or not.

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Pterodactyl Caught on Camera

Has a pterodactyl, whether or not a ropen or kongamato, or even called a “flying dinosaur”, ever been photographed or videotaped? Yes indeed. This is an overview of the “Ptp” photo that has been associated with the American Civil War . . .

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Pterosaur sightings in the United States

“My father and I saw a Huge, featherless bird in Arkansas, between Van Buran and Cedarville when I was 16. I’ve been telling people my story since. We were sitting on big rocks at a cliff about 300 foot above the river when it flew out just under us . . . “

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Pterodactyl caught on camera

The biologist Peter Beach, of Portland, Oregon, videotaped a modern pterosaur on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, on March 25, 2015, in the presence of Milt Marcy, a businessman . . .

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Americans see living pterodactyls

“. . . the number of Americans who have seen an obvious [non-extinct] pterosaur could not be less than 10,000 . . . “

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Press releases about pterodactyl sightings

“That encounter in Raleigh early in 2018 was not the first time someone in Cynthia’s family had seen an apparent pterosaur. She told Whitcomb about a sighting many years earlier: “My mother and uncle saw one too while they were playing outside of my grandma’s house when they were really little.”

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Sightings of flying dinosaurs

I am a scientist, and I have discovered that the great majority of eyewitness sighting reports of extant pterosaurs are neither misidentifications nor hoaxes . . .

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Pterodactyl sightings in the southern American states

I believe I saw a pterosaur last night in Edmond, Oklahoma, just north of OKC. . . . Today I was trying to look up other recent sightings and was shocked to see that two other people have seen something similar in my state.

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Pterosaur sightings worldwide

Most of the following are from direct eyewitness testimony sent by email to the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb, who now lives in Murray, Utah. Some of the reports, however, involve more direct communication with the persons encountering the flying creatures: face-to-face interviews and phone conversations.

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Pterodactyl Sighting in Mexico

sketch of a modern pterosaur - by Eskin Kuhn

By cryptozoologist Jonathan D. Whitcomb

Here’s part of an email I received recently [corrected for English]:

I’ve been talking to my mother about the pterodactyl like creature she saw about 15 years ago. . . . in Lázaro Cardenas, Michoacán (Mexico) . . . There were cats, iguanas, bats, raccoons (at night) and even once a baby crocodile pass through . . .

. . . in 2007 . . . One morning, around 7:00 am, my mother left the house . . . about 80 meters far from the house she noticed what she described . . . a small pterodactyl like creature climbing up . . . the tennis court fence (she was about 15-20 meters far from the creature . . .)

. . . she ran back to the house very scared, and told my father, who was having his breakfast. He went out to take a look, but the creature was not there anymore.

Physical characteristics described by my mother:

1) Small pterodactyl like animal. Leathered. . . . Wingspan, as they weren’t completely open, could be a meter (bit more or less)

2) No feathers.

3) No hair.

4) Color: Medium dark brown, similar to boxes.

5) Sharp peak, as in pterosaurs, but not huge, about two feet long (no teeth observed)

6) Claws on its two paws, it was using them to climb the tennis court fence.

7) Two wings were moving gently as it was climbing, but weren’t wide open; she noticed also [these] kind of bone rods on them.

I already have shown her different types of big fruit bats found on the internet and even this hammerhead bat, thinking that maybe it was a bat, but she would not recognize them as the creature she saw. . . .

Additional sighting report details (or lack)

Because the animal was climbing a fence and because the lady did not observe it for long, certain details could not be observed: She did not know whether or not it had a head crest or a long tail.

The lady’s son also told me, “between 2007 and 2008 most of the wild “home cats” living there disappeared. We never saw dead cat bodies; at the time we thought maybe the new administration eradicated them.

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Pterodactyl “Civil War” Photo

. . . take a closer look, in particular at the belt buckle of one man

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More Pterosaur Sightings in Mexico

. . . los hechos ocurrieron hace aproximadamente 10 años, en una presa cerca de mi ciudad, la cual se encuentra en el estado de chihuahua en Mexico . . . It happened about 10 years old at a dam near my city, which is in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico . . .

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Pterodactyl Sightings in North America

It begins with a sighting report from a small village south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and the flying creature was enormous.

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New Music for Church Choirs

Written in 2022, the S.A.T.B. choir piece “Come to Christ” has text adapted from the scriptures of both the Book of Mormon and the Bible.

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Pterodactyl Sightings Reported on Videos

For three+ years, I have produced and uploaded to Youtube videos about modern pterosaurs, a.k.a. “pterodactyls”. As of mid-2022, this channel (Protect Animal Life) has well over 200 active videos on these amazing featherless flying creatures . . .

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Potential Pterodactyl Attacks Against People

I saw two of them when I was seven with my two younger sisters on a beach in Florida at night. They hovered right over us in one spot silently looking at us like we were dinner.

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Pterodactyl sightings in the United States

When he spent a night watching the sky . . . he saw something like a Pteranodon, with bat-like wings but a wingspan of about 8-10 feet and a head that he estimated was four feet long.

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Pterosaur Sightings Worldwide

From Jonathan Whitcomb: After my expedition on Umboi Island in the southwest Pacific in 2004, I returned home to California, anxious to publicize what I had learned from native eyewitnesses of the ropen. Within a few years, I learned another shocking truth about these flying creatures: They live in many areas of the planet . . .

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Live Pterodactyl – 200+ videos by early 2022

This has three video trailers from the 200+ videos available for you to watch on the Youtube channel “Protect Animal Life”.

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Pterosaur sightings in North Carolina

I have been able to estimate a minimum number of Americans who have had a clear sighting of one of these flying creatures at some time in their human lifetimes. It is at least in the hundreds of thousands of Americans.

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Sightings of Living Pterosaurs in New Mexico

I used to tell people that I had seen a dragon twice in the wild but never a mountain lion.

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Pterodactyl sighting in Texas

Alex Salinas was looking out across a field in Weslaco, Texas, in around the year 1998, when he saw something flying towards him. At first, he assumed it was a crane, but it was flying alone at night, which was not what cranes did in that area of southeast Texas. . . . it was not only not a crane but unlike any kind of bird. With a leathery appearance, it had a long tail and a bone-like head crest.

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Pterosaur sightings in California

. . . when reports of big featherless flying creatures in California are taken in context with similar reports from many other areas, the shock is not quite as great, although it still is a shock to learn about those animals.

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Pterodactyl sightings in Georgia

If we combine recent reports with those of Sandra Paradise, it may eventually make enough material for somebody to write a book about this subject: modern pterosaurs in Georgia [USA].

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