Lisburn men find giant snake in the Amazon
Father and Son team captured video and images of a Anaconda, to which some reports estimate it at 40 meters in length and 2 meters wide
Amazing picture of this giant snake. If the reports and evidence that will be released in the following weeks is true, then this could be one of the largest snakes known to science.
This could be a great stride for Cryptozoology and it’s lack of funding.
IT SOUNDS like an Indiana Jones adventure. After 23 years of research including the detailed study of ancient art, cultures spanning 3000 years and three continents to the latest in satellite imaging technology, a father and son make an extraordinary trip deep into the heart of the Peruvian Amazon to confirm their theories that this is where a giant anaconda with a difference lives.
But that’s precisely what Lisburn man Mike Warner (73) and his son Greg (44) have done, seeking evidence that this was the home of the Yacumama and actually capturing a picture of the creature. A leviathan of the jungle, which reports say reaches 40 metres in length and two metres in diameter, it dwarfs any snake known to science.This anaconda is not green but dark brown and is known by the locals as the ‘black boa’ or ‘Yacumama’.
“Yacumama is translated as Mother of the Water and reports of this giant snake abound throughout the Amazon basin and history.”
Mike, who is partially sighted, has spent 23 years researching the beast but it was only six months ago when his son discovered his research documents and they decided to take part in the incredble journey.Cryptozooologist Mike of Hillhall spent his life savings setting up the expedition with Greg to find out more about the snake, which reports say can engorge water then shoot a monkey out of a tree like a water canon.
The team spent 12 days in March using the latest satellite equipment to take images of the huge reptile and were able to officially announce the discovery on May 2.
The explorers were dogged by hazardous weather conditions in the middle of the rainy season but eventually managed to take off by hydroplane from the Amazon River on day five of the expedition.
“Despite being buffeted by a freak storm we managed several flyovers at an average altitude of 400 feet recording video footage from two cameras at either side to the rear of the aircraft and Greg, located in the front with the pilot, taking around 300 still photographs” said Mike who had his 73rd birthday while in Peru.
After an exhausting 12 days in the jungle and a 30 hour trip back home the father and son team were finally able to examine their photo evidence in more detail, over 700 photos and five hours of video
“The data is immense and will take months to fully appreciate but already it supports our theories of ‘channels’ created by these giants as they make their way through the dense jungle knocking down trees 90 feet tall, but more importantly we managed to catch one of these reclusive giants on camera as it made its way through one of its watery channels.”
It was Colonel Percy Fawcett, who was commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society of London in 1906 to map an area of the Peruvian Amazon in a dispute over rubber production who, after an encounter with a giant anaconda, first documented large ‘trails 6 feet wide’ or what are now called ‘channels’.
And according to Greg it was the link made between his account and the evidence of large irregular ‘channels’ at the site they visited that led to the discovery.
They have now shared their findings with the Peruvian government, the National Geographic Society in Washington and Queens University in Belfast.
The team will now spend months analyzing the footage and plan to return to same location in October to get thermal imagery which will help find the numbers of anacondas. This time they hope to bring with them a television crew.
Greg concluded: “The real hero is my father. It must be incredible to have spent 23 years researching this and then to succeed in an expedition where others had failed.”
There was an amazing postscript to their trip when an anaconda, believed to be the one they located in March, is thought to have been responsbile for smashing the house of an elderly couple in a small village in Peru earlier this week.
Full source: Lisburn Today
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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Wow. The picture is crisp and clean, and if this is factual, I would say this opens the door on cryptozoology a lot. Of course I would like to see more data before I make a decision, but this is the best data yet. Great article Javier!
This is remarkable.
Yikes, looks like it can easily accomodate several people into its belly fairly well, wonder what else is there in the peruvian amazon?
Mind boggling even in the third millenium.
Yuck. I mean, it’s cool and all that (if true) new species are being discovered, but it doesn’t mean I ever want to run into it. That picture certainly looks like it could be legit.
If true, this will be a historical hallmark in cryptology. I did a double take when it read “40 meters”, not feet, which I thought was longest measurement known to science. However, the provided photo of the snake doesn’t _seem_ to be near six feet wide as purported in the article. Btw, is “snanke” a subspecies of “snake”? Lol…just kidding. Thanks for posting.
Kevin,
Yea, I caught that typo as well. I gotta stop posting on the fly.
cfz got permission to release the pics. there is no giant snake- at least based on their pics. the whole thing looks ridiculous. they’re sincere, but it seems obvious they are misinterpreting what they are looking at. as far as the pic with this article- it is not the snake in question.
BC,
Got a link for us?
Here you go Javier. The whole thing is pretty laughable. Well, I feel bad for the father/son. They seem sincere but deluded:
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2009/06/peruvian-giant-snake-pictures-released.html
BC,
Please tell me you are kidding….
oh wait…you’re not.
THAT’S THE PROOF ?!?!?
I may be mistaken but I believe I remember reading somewhere that main pictures “the real proof” has been sent to National Geographic Society and won’t be released until they make a decision or something.
I’ll try to find the article i read this in.
I think it also addressed those photos as being blown out of proportion, that they only depist the channel and not the snake.
of course the article could have been bunk ?
I’ll go look for it now.
Javier, where did the photo at the top come from ?
I think it also addressed those photos as being blown out of proportion, that they only >depict< the channel and not the snake.
sorry
I know i read it but I can’t find the article anywhere *~* sorry about that guys !
I may have been mistaken but I hope not and I don’t think I was.
Jo Javier, check out this link. This looks pretty legit to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R9v51KxdYc&feature=email
The above should say “Yo Javier”. I don’t know any Jo Javier.
BC,
Really cool. I’ve seen a picture of this before, but never an interview.
Is there a follow up to this story?
-Javier
Hi Javier. I would think others must have looked into it since this interview was done but I haven’t bothered to check.
BC, I saw that when it was on TV, Arthur C Clarke i think. It’s very interesting and looks reall to me.
There’s another one some where, I’m not sure it’s the same man but it was taken in the same time period from a small plane. The snake appeared white in that one and also looked real to me. These were taken and aired way before photoshop or the like.
Hi Javier,
I stumbled across your site today and I have to say I love it! Most of the sites dealing with these topics have throw all common sense out the window, from what I have read so far you seem to be pretty down to earth and that is refreshing.
On topic: I really really want to know what this story turns out to be. I’d love for a giant new species to be discovered but I think chances that this turns out to be legit are slim.
Keep up the good work!
Peter
Peter,
Thanks for the kind words.
This whole “Giant snake” turned out to be misinformation and just a hoax in general.
The website that initially reported this posted the wrong picture on their page, stating that it was the “giant snake”. The picture that is on top of our article.
Later one, one of our readers, BC, was able to find the original picture that the father/son team claimed was the snake:
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2009/06/peruvian-giant-snake-pictures-released.html
-Javier