Video on Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

By investigative journalist Jonathan David Whitcomb

Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

I uploaded this short video to my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life on January 6, 2020, and it was doing better than average up until about August 26th of that year. From August 27-28, however, it skyrocketed: Instead of 10-18 views a day, it soared into the hundreds, sometimes at least 50 views per hour. I searched for the reason and found it in the comments.

“Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina”

“Charlamagne tha God” sees a Modern “pterodactyl” on the TV News in South Carolina

I never heard of Charlamagne tha God (CTG on this blog post) until I read the new comments under my video. At first I assumed he had mentioned my video in his own Youtube video; then I watched the podcast he had with Andrew Schulz (Aug 27, 2020): “Proof That Dinosaurs Never Existed!” I soon realized that hundreds of persons were watching my video because they had searched for information, using Google and Youtube search, after they watched that podcast of CTG and Schulz.

CTG shocked the other two person on the podcast when he said, “I saw a pterodactyl.” He later said the following:

. . . there was a time . . . between South Carolina and North Carolina, people used to see pterodactyls all the . . . time.

Charlamagne tha God “saw a pterodactyl”

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Pterodactyl Sightings in South Carolina

Bishopville, 1984: wingspan about 10-14 feet; no feathers; standing in the middle of a country road, it appeared to be at least 10 feet tall. [plus three other sightings in South Carolina]

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Flying Dinosaurs in South Carolina

Encounters with living pterosaurs Live “pterodactyls?” In the United States? Many scientists have long assumed all pterosaurs died millions of years ago. Now take a whirlwind tour of many years of investigations in cryptozoology . . . [nonfiction book by Whitcomb]

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Live pterosaurs in South Carolina

I [Jonathan Whitcomb] interviewed Susan Wooten, by email in 2007, about her sighting of an apparent pterosaur that flew over a highway that ran by a swamp in South Carolina.

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Pterodactyl sightings in North Carolina

The sighting was reported on The Gear Page, an internet forum that is popular with some musicians. Because it’s not a cryptozoology forum, we can better see how Western cultural assumptions influence how people react to a report of a “pterodactyl” flying over a highway on the outskirts of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Pterosaurs in North Carolina and in South Carolina

Susan Wooten was driving . . . to the town of Florence, on a clear mid-afternoon in the fall of about 1989 . . . [In a forested swampy area] Wooten saw something flying from her left, then passing in front of her, behind her friend’s car. “It swooped down over the highway and back up gracefully over the pines,” . . . “It looked as big as any car . . . NO feathers . . .

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People see pterodactyls in South Carolina

Some cars in the opposite lane pulled over after the pterosaur-like creature flew over the highway. Susan wanted to pull over to talk with them but she would have been separated from her friend who kept going.

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Photo attribution (Charlamagne tha God in a red shirt):

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Description: English: Photography by Dave Hubelbank
Date: 4 May 2019, 14:23:53
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Author: Montclair Film
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