Mythical beast found in construction pool, villagers insist: Korat

[lemonjelly]

Maybe giving everybody the right to vote and influence the direction of an entire nation is a bit premature in certain countries...... ahem..

[catweazle]

The color of my pee turned green this morning - perhaps I should buy a lottery ticket...

[Mudcrab]

That's It for me today, Im going to watch some re runs of MASH

No fantasy in MASH!!

[Beetlejuice]

Please visit my brother in law`s Kentucky Fried Naga (KFN) takeaway in Chiang Mai.

Delicious with french fries and spicy sauce.

[joshstiles]

...smoking a new strain of weed also found on the land......let's go......get some

[Thaiready]

More lies from red shirts

Totally uncalled for......maybe you should speak when spoken too....till then zip it

[attrayant]

To paraphrase Carl Sagan: What's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, swimming dragon and no dragon at all?

[Mitker]

I know a water bottling business that will be a hit when completed.

I want to hire this guy as my marketing manager!

[empireboy]

Too much Thai whiskey... what is it with the superstitions of these people?

[bigbamboo]

Nessie was deliberately faked as an act of retribution.

Retribution for?

Essentially, the author said, it was a toy submarine bought from F.W. Woolworths with a head and neck made of plastic wood, built by Christian Spurling, the son-in-law of Marmaduke Wetherell, a big game hunter who had been publicly ridiculed in the Daily Mail, the newspaper that employed him. Spurling claimed that to get revenge, Marmaduke Wetherell committed the hoax, with the help of Chris Spurling, his son Ian Marmaduke, who bought the material for the fake, and Maurice Chambers, who asked surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson to offer the pictures to the Daily Mail.

Source: http://www.mysteriesaroundus.com/nessie-is-she-real/

Yep. Of all the 'myths and legends' Nessie is surely the easiest to discount as it's origin was fake. I also remember reading about Peter Scott, the famed English naturalist and his brilliant hoax years ago when he published a supposed photograph of the monster and named it 'Nessiteras Rhombopteryx.........which just happened to be an anagram of Monster Hoax by Sir Peter S.

It would be nice to see one of these tales prove to be true but I doubt it. UFOs don't make ant scientific sense, crop circles are probably the work of Jethro Tull fans and Big Foot could be any number of American backward backwoodsmen. The best bet is vampires...... I think I may even have unknowingly met one or two in the LOS.

[rotary]

I am not drinking the Koolaid, I cannot see it

[Nemesis7]

Seriously Amazing Thailand......

[allan michaud]

Outstanding, only in Amazing Thailand.

and the real money spinner is of course those mythical lottery numbers

"The villagers also told our correspondent that some believers asked the Naga for luck and subsequently won the lottery, while those who drank water from the construction pool quickly recovered from illnesses."

[FangFerang]

This pic has done the rounds but to my knowledge has never been satisfactorily explained. This is what the Naga is supposed to look like.

The picture is a snapshot of an oarfish, a rare deep sea creature. The picture is installed in a Bangkok bar as "shot in Thailand", but the picture was taken on the California coast during WWII.

There are pictures of Thais holding oarfish caught in freshwater in circulation.

I sighted one on the River Kwai and reported it to the research department at Florida State University. They confirmed that the creature has not been documented in fresh water, and there may be a subspecies native to Thai rivers that, like salmon, breeds in freshwater and lives most of their life cycle out at sea. The curiously square head is distinctive.

The one I sighted was swimming upstream, more than 100 km. from the ocean.

It frankly frightened me, since I thought it was a snake. The beastie was about three meters long.

[Cloggie]

I have one in my pool as well.....

[noitom]

They have a big Naga ceremony up around Nong Khai I think.

[ggold]

"There's a naga in the pool."

Thank goodness Jeremy Clarkson isn't still here.

[lungmi]

I worry about this country sometimes.

Me not, I love Loch Ness, the Aliens in the South of US, the Irish Saints, the Trolls in Norway and Iceland etc ......

[love1012]

Haha!!! found you Thida!!!±

[Benmart]

It's nice that people have the freedom to believe in what they choose. None of my business.

I believe in certain things that others do not. Live and Let Live.

[kimamey]

Does no one there own a mobile phone that can take pictures.

Nope, didn't think so.

I bet someone took a picture but all you'll see is their face or all their friends.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

[culicine]

There's no hope for scientific research in this country....everything is explained via mythology.

[sumtingwong]

I'm always cured after drinking expensive single malt scotch.

Edited June 6, 2014 by sumtingwong

[atsiii]

"Everyone at the ceremony was so excited," she said, adding that the villagers were sure that the Naga will bring great fortune to their community."

--sure it will, just like Loch Ness!! Start printing the tourist advertisement flyers!

[sumtingwong]

And there are some people that believe in an all powerful god that created everything, but cannot write his own book. This all powerful god apparently needs mere mortal man to write it for him.

[BeforeTigers]

I suppose it would be culturally insensitive to call this retarded.

I mean, in the abstract, I still want to believe that it is beautiful that people of different cultures have their own mythology and belief to the point of mass religious hysteria. And on the other hand, I hate a fkng liar.
Maybe it's just me.

[Beetlejuice]

"Everyone at the ceremony was so excited," she said, adding that the villagers were sure that the Naga will bring great fortune to their community."

--sure it will, just like Loch Ness!! Start printing the tourist advertisement flyers!

I brought great fortune to my community when I first moved there, mostly by being changed double for everything that the locals pay, but no one has built a shrine for me.

[F4UCorsair]

I worry about this country sometimes.

Maybe too much Mekong whiskey??

[CharlesHH]

best laff of the week... tops... and true.

Must be the ghost of Pheu Thai.

[Luger2]

Must be the ghost of Pheu Thai.

Their mouthpiece sharing Thainess news to the world.

Khaosod English 2014-06-06