By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb
[Report a modern-pterosaur sighting]
About a tragic flying-cryptid encounter
On August 1, 2020, I uploaded to Youtube a video memorial for a native fisherman of the southwest Pacific who was attacked by an apparent living pterosaur. The man died three days later, yet he was able to kill the “kor” before it killed him. At least no other fisherman needs to worry about being attacked by that particular flying creature around the islands of northern Papua New Guinea at night.
Watch this video and see if it’s worth sharing with friends and family.
That attack against this fisherman could have been quite a few decades ago, perhaps in the middle of the 20th century. However that may be, it does seem to relate to other reports that large flying creatures sometimes attack people in other areas of Papua New Guinea.
Here is a still image from this mini-documentary:
The two pilots of this plane later told Whitcomb about the near collision
The following is taken from the description section of this video:
This second-or-third-hand account is not at all typical for videos on this channel, however. The vast majority of accounts of modern living pterosaurs, on “Protect Animal Life”, are first-hand accounts, when anyone is quoted regarding sightings. That’s part of why this encounter was included in this video number 77 rather than in one of the first videos created for this channel. Second-hand accounts are more likely to have become less accurate, in general, compared with first-hand ones.
That does not mean, however, that critically important points must be inaccurate in a second-hand account. Beware of assuming that the old Western dogma of universal extinctions of ALL species of pterosaurs can be adequately propped up by using old string and glue, so to speak: Systematically dismissing all accounts that are not first-hand and then rejecting first-hand accounts through a hodgepodge of unrelated excuses—That is hardly a scientific approach.
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Pterosaurs dangerous to fisherman
The native who reported this to Jonathan Whitcomb is the same man who reported the death of the fisherman from an attack by a “kor” flying creature in northern Papua New Guinea.
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Videos on Pterosaur Sightings (post on the blog PEGS)
Eyewitness accounts in the comments sections of videos on the Youtube channel “Protect Animal Life” (which channel has many videos on these astonishing flying creatures that have been seen worldwide)
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flying cryptid encounter [blog post about a nonfiction book]
The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur introduces young readers (about 8-14 years old) to an exciting new branch of cryptozoology: eyewitness reports of apparent living pterosaurs, and most of these flying creatures appear to be ropens.
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This is the ultimate single-web-page on this astonishing featherless flying creature: the ropen. (by Jonathan D. Whitcomb)
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Modern Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur
I gave a definition of ropen in the fourth edition of my nonfiction book Searching for Ropens and Finding God:
A modern pterosaur with Rhamphorhynchoid characteristics
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Now take a whirlwind tour of many years of investigations in cryptozoology, and prepare for a shock: At least two species of pterosaurs have survived, uncommon, not so much rare as widely, thinly distributed. Nocturnal pterosaurs have always lived among us . . .
Years ago, some skeptics speculated that reports of the ropen of Papua New Guinea came from people misidentifying the common fruit bats found there. Those critics, however, appear to have failed to take into account exactly what people report observing: something much larger and looking much different.
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