Friday, October 10, 2008

Life is stranger than X-files

We've all seen it or imagined it in some shape or form. Legs kicking below the surface of the water while the jaws music plays and a shape moves through the water. Then we are grabbed and dragged away by a CATFISH????
Strange but true a huge type of catfish, called a goonch, may have developed a taste for flesh in an Indian river where bodies are dumped after funerals.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/weird/article1784470.ece

Locals have believed for years that a mysterious monster lurks in the water. But they think it has moved on from scavenging to snatching unwary bathers who venture into the Great Kali, which flows along the India-Nepal border.

Reports were emerging about people being grabbed by an 'elongated pig'. Wow considering that the normal diet of cat fish is excrement that's a crappy way to die.

2 comments:

Leah said...

"Wow considering that the normal diet of cat fish is excrement that's a crappy way to die."

haha..ha...ha :P

donski said...

i'd believe it... One year when we were camping at Tinaroo, there was a fish that kept biting us - even drawing blood.

So the kids set to fishing for the thing, and eventually they did catch it - and it had massive TEETH in it!!!