31/08/2011 12:57 | By JD van Zyl, contributor, MSN Travel
‘Mythical’ creatures – where to find them if they really exist

Shamanu - Japan



The Chichibu mountains, legendary home of the shamanu (© Getty-Satoshi Inoue)
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It was an early autumn evening in 1996 when Hiroshi Yagi, a keen shamanu seeker, claimed to have spotted this dwarf wolf on an abandoned forest trail in the mountainous region of Chichibu. He snapped no fewer than 19 photos of the creature, long thought extinct, but nobody has seen it since.

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I know that they exist, there`s one sat at the other side of the room from me, lol, calls it`s self a woman.
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the pictures really go with the report...not!!!
01/09/2011 14:46
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Who cares about strange creatures, Human beings are strange creatures too. This world for ALL creatures.
01/09/2011 14:02
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Come on MSN who edits these submissions is it a human being or a 28 year old nurses, it is really time you stepped in and stopped this rubbish, just look at the number of complaints you have had and you still refuse to do anything about it. PLEASE GET REAL. 
01/09/2011 15:18
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I have meet quite a few strangers in my time................especialy.....on a saturday night.
01/09/2011 14:03
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Some pretty interesting stuff there.
The world isn't just weird...it's weirder than we thought

01/09/2011 14:16
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I'm sure they're just camera tricks. The people who actually believe in this stuff are themselves, thats OK, but I'm sure that the pictures are just camera tricks just so that they can write about something.
01/09/2011 17:21
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What about the fallen ones who 's seed has been passed down to be carnated in successive generations of leaders round the world?
People think because they have science and that it has opened UP a door way to a new learning and understanding of what goes on around us that,they know end all-be all.
WRONG!!!
You can't mock centuries of different civilisations claiming to know about,or have seen/experienced creatures or spirits,(however with a different name).
No one has the right to mock without first proving something doesn't exist that has been experienced,seen or felt,physically, spiritually or by the senses.
When or if you could prove people wrong then and only then could you mock.
People who mock,you usually find ,are frightened of the unknown and refuse too believe,simply because they don't want to experience something they can't comprehend.
01/09/2011 14:24
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who cares about strange creatures roaming our world,its the strange creatures from outside our world we should be worried about....what do you think obama? american presidents eh? should call their job what it really is......cover-up masters!!!
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One picture says a thousand words.

 

The Dwarf Wolf in the Shamanu photo is an astonishing creature, and I can honestly say that I have never seen anything like it. And SO MANY of them !!!.

 

Peace.

01/09/2011 20:15
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The coelaccanth,s exsistence was proven by the crew of the Kontki expeition in the late 1950,s one jumped onto the Balsa tree raft they sailed on! doubt that they still dont exist.
01/09/2011 21:29
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i can say what everything is
the first is a skull creation in ancient tribes they mended skulls
the second is just a picture of people in sunset
third is some dead fish on a beach
forth is moth man statue hes just a mryth
the turle is just an old turle turles can live for a long time if not threaten by predators or people they can grow enourmas
the giant bear thing is a giant ground sloth and its excint 
then some mountains
the giant squiad is a real creature not mrythical
the shark is animation 
someone could of easily made that footprint
the fish is a dried out coalaccanth i think
and the last is just a monkey :) come on this is all fake
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I'd like to point out (if it hasn't been already) that the Coelecanth isn't mythical, it's a prehistoric fish thought to be extinct, though there have been claims that specimens have been found in Madagascar and Indonesia. Megalodon was also a prehistoric mega shark, living some 50 million years ago. A lot of these sightings can be attributed to being the result of excessive drinking, or use of drugs. And I thought that a Chupacabra was supposed to be a giant lizard, like a Komodo Dragon or something, not some blatantly wooden humanoid statue.
01/09/2011 22:55
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HOBBITS  are out there, pantomimes are full of em.
01/09/2011 19:57
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"an unidentified and bizarre-looking creature"

 

REALLY???  the Montauk Monster was on a telly recently it was nothing but a drowned raccoon

 

MSN you should really do your homework

 

Hardly mythical either

01/09/2011 21:50
01/09/2011 19:56
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i agree with michael because its so ture what he is saying seriously who calls somthing ''goat sucker '' anyways peeps of all ages that are looking at these pictures they all could be FAKE exept from the turtle thats real enough 4 me

 

01/09/2011 23:33
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Chupacabras have been proven false, and the picture is obviously fake (the one on here). The footprint in the Himalaya's is actually a previously undiscovered species of ape living in the mountains, only recently discovered too. All the others, I think, have not got any evidence that has proved or disproved there existence yet. So...YAY!! No idea what the Dover demon is though gonna check it out.

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I wonder what genetic mutants have been created by scientists. It's not ethical to mess with stuff like this but I'm sure someone somewhere has created strange creatures. The mind boggles!!!
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