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September 3, 2019

“Am I Crazy” on Youtube

Jonathan Whitcomb sitting on his living-room couch

By the cryptozoologist Jonathan D. Whitcomb

For five months, I’ve been regularly uploading videos to my new Youtube channel Protect Animal Life. Yesterday I uploaded “Am I Crazy? Living Pterosaurs.” That deserves an explanation.

Three years ago an anonymous Youtuber uploaded a long video that attacked what that man portrayed as my beliefs and my positions on extant pterosaurs. He had no problem using my real name in that video.

By August of 2019, that sarcastic and inaccurate and misleading video had accumulated over half a million views on Youtube. I felt that it was time to make a short video for my own Youtube channel (Protect Animal Life), a video in which I suggest that I am not crazy and the concept of living pterosaurs is not a crazy idea. Here’s the video, which has a bit of humor:

Mini-documentary video uploaded to Youtube on Sep 2, 2019

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Living Pterosaurs – in newspapers

On occasion over the past 16 years, a critic might say something like, “If pterosaur are still living, why do we not see newspaper articles on them?” Such a skeptic may assume that he or she would have heard or read about such a newspaper article if it existed. In reality, no critic of living-pterosaur investigations reads every headline of every newspaper, not even just the ones printed in the United States.

Do crazy people see pterodactyls?

. . . those eyewitnesses, more numerous than most Americans would guess, need no longer be afraid that everyone will think them crazy, and no longer need they feel alone.

Living pterosaur video on Youtube

This mini-documentary gives you several eyewitness reports of apparent non-extinct “pterodactyls” observed in Hawaii.

A playlist on Youtube: “From me to you”

As of September 3, 2019, these are the videos on this playlist:

Am I Crazy? living pterosaurs
A Confession About a Pterodactyl
Living Pterosaurs – in newspapers

New Youtube video on pterosaurs

Jonathan Whitcomb is on camera in “A Confession About a Pterodactyl”

Youtube video on “pterodactyls” in California

The video is titled “A confession about a pterodactyl” and gives my account of an ironic twist in my life: from a severe skeptic to a firm believer in modern pterosaurs.

Flying dinosaur in Africa

Another video on living pterosaurs

Video about pterosaurs in newspaper articles

I uploaded a video to Youtube: “Living Pterosaurs – in newspapers,” an introduction to some newspaper articles published over the years, one of them being back in the late 1800’s. Part of this mini-documentary explains part of why such news coverage is rare in the United States: Average readers assume that all “pterodactyls” became extinct long ago, and any reported sighting of a living one should be a mistake.

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019

Ropen Hair

flying ropen, or long-tailed pterosaur - sketch by Eskin Kuhn

By the investigative journalist and ropen expert Jonathan Whitcomb

Over the years, I’ve rarely mentioned much on this blog about the possibility that ropens in general are covered with some amount of fine hair. Only a small fraction of the total eyewitnesses have been close enough to see such a detail, even if they had a mind to take notice of hair, or lack thereof, at the time of their sightings. Let’s now look into this.

Why talk about hair on modern pterosaurs, or apparent living pterosaurs, now? I recently saw part of a video on Youtube, a highly critical attack against the possibility that such flying creatures exist. My video is a response to the idea that the ropen is not a real animal because it is reported to have no hair. Watch the video to get an introduction to my response:

A new mini-documentary about the ropen

In reality, most eyewitnesses of the ropen are too far away to see whether or not the apparent pterosaur (or ‘pterodactyl’) had any hair or similar skin covering, except that those persons say that it does not have feathers.

The critics fail to realize a number of things, being ignorant of key principles and details that make all the difference.

This video shows how difficult it is to see human hair on human arms at beach scenes, even though we know that people naturally have hair on their arms. Being unable to see hair or lack of hair on human arms at a distance is in no way evidence that humans, as a species, do not have arm hair.

Now apply that to ropens who are seen by people. Even if the eyewitnesses were looking for an appearance of hair or lack thereof, they were usually too far away to see that.

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Featherless flying animal in Texas

He estimated the wingspan at 4 1/2 to 5 feet with a long tail that had a “diamond type shape” at the end [Update: See other posts on the ropen]. The creature had leathery skin rather than any hair or feathers [according to the eyewitness; keep in mind that some leather products still have some hair, and it is possible that a small amount of fine hair may have been present on the flying creature that was seen in Marion County, Texas, in 1995].

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The ropen and a diamond-shaped end of tail

The great majority of persons who have contacted me give details that have some correlation with many previous reports that I have received over the years. In fact, certain details are very common, especially a lack of feathers on the flying creature and a long tail that ends in a structure that is diamond-shaped or like a spade (or triangular).

The ropen of Papua New Guinea

This video is a short introduction to this apparent modern Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur that lives in Papua New Guinea.

Critic of living pterosaurs

How large is [this critic’s] “Living Pterosaurs” online page? It has tens of thousands of words. In fact, it mentions me by name 463 times, yes four hundred sixty three times (“26 Nov. 2017” version). Many web pages, on whatever subject, do not even have a total word count over 400. It brings to my mind a phrase in Hamlet: “the lady doth protest too much.”

What is a ropen?

Those cryptozoologists who have explored tropical islands in Papua New Guinea, in search of living pterosaurs, believe the ropen is a large long-tailed flying creature having no feathers. It’s not yet officially classified in Western science.

June 14, 2010December 8, 2011

Objective investigations

Critics have sometimes questioned the objectiveness of investigators of eyewitness accounts of living pterosaurs. It seems that those critics have been hasty. Consider details, then judge for yourself.

Woetzel-Guessman expedition of 2004

When the American cryptozoologists David Woetzel and Garth Guessman explored Umboi Island late in 2004, they used a sketches in some of their interviews. Dozens of silhouettes were available for native eyewitnesses to compare: birds, bats, and pterosaurs. Detailed interview forms were used. To be more objective than previous explorers, they used those sketches and forms to interview native eyewitnesses.

When Woetzel had his sighting one night, he described the strange flying light that he had observed. He did not imagine any shape to the light, no form that would suggest a modern pterosaur. He only reported what he had seen. (Contrary to some of the vague ridicule from critics, we can really be quite objective.)

Nation-Kepas expedition of 2006

When Jacob Kepas climbed up a mountain ridge with a local guide, their first viewing location was insufficient for Kepas to be sure that what he was observing was a large winged-creature. Only after the guide had climbed up to a higher viewing location was it ascertained to be what they had suspected.

On that expedition, when Paul Nation videotaped the two strange lights on the ridge, he did not say that he had observed the shapes of two pterosaurs. He described the lights that he had seen; he admitted that no shape was observed.

Nation expedition of early 2007

Paul Nation returned to the Tawa Village area of Papua New Guinea only weeks after his first expedition there. He scrutinized the various lights that he had observed in late 2006 and determined that the bright white lights far to the east were from automobile headlights. After he had returned to the United States, he reported his findings to me and admitted his previous mistake, notwithstanding the other lights were genuine indava lights. This may have been somewhat embarrasing, at first, but it verifies the objective purity of the investigations. It shoots down the ridicule that we are grossly biased and therefore incapable of conducting objective investigations.

More about the Living-Pterosaur Cryptozoologist Jacob Kepas

Science and Clear Thinking (from The Bible and Modern Pterosaurs)

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Why so few eyewitnesses?

Occasionally I encounter an objection like “if pterosaurs were still living, we would see them flying around.” Several answers pop up, suggesting the critics who ask that kind of question have failed to think deeply about it. The main problem is circular reasoning, for the objection is an attempted refutation of eyewitness sightings: “They could not have seen a living pterosaur because they are no longer living <–> Pterosaurs are no longer living because nobody has seen one.”

Over many years, I have flown from and to airports in many cities. I love to gaze out the window soon after taking off and soon before landing. During all those observations, however, I don’t recall observing any human, not even one, although I look for people. It’s not that humans are extinct; they just have a shape that makes them difficult to see from above (most of them), and few humans spend much time walking near airports.

I’ve lived more than half a century in Southern California, but I have never seen a mountain lion in the wild. It’s not that I’ve never walked through a wilderness area; mountain lions keep hidden, most of the time. But a few Southern Californians do see them.

At the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, in Southern California, near Irvine, in the summer of 2007, a man was driving north from the university, with the ponds on his right. From the marshy area on his left a very strange flying creature flew across the road, right in front of him, flying into the sanctuary. Much has been written about this sighting of an apparent modern pterosaur, but let’s now consider the eyewitness. How difficult it must have been for him to find somebody to talk with about his experience! It was almost a year before he contacted me, and it’s my work (or my pastime, depending on who you ask) to interview eyewitnesses of apparent pterosaurs.

The point? It’s not that eyewitnesses of apparent modern living pterosaurs are extremely rare; the creatures may be somewhat rare and nocturnal, but eyewitnesses in Western countries may be ridiculed for reporting something we’ve been taught should not exist. Therefore most eyewitnesses keep quiet, as if hiding what they’ve seen by trying to make themselves invisible.

I am grateful for those special persons who have reported their experiences to me, for they have thereby contributed to sharing this wonderful news to the Western world: Pterosaurs live!

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For many weeks, this has been the best-selling nonfiction book (Amazon.com) about living pterosaurs. It is in pure cryptozoology genre, unlike some books about modern living pterosaurs and dinosaurs, with exciting observations by shocked eyewitnesses. Find out for yourself why many Americans are awakening to the knowledge that these creatures still fly, not just in remote jungles but right here in the United States.

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