A different kind of thinking

I just watched a video on locusts and it was amazing. I had no idea why locusts swarmed. I just knew that they did.
Turns out a locust is just a grasshopper that has been chemically changed. Due to proximity to other hoppers, plants, weather.

Check this out.
www.ted.com...-326745

Why am I in the cryptozoology forum? Because this got me thinking. What if the animals we think are unique. The ones in this crypto category. Are in fact animals that we know of and see all the time but went through some rare change due to environment and chemicals? Just like the locust.

As you can see from the video the locust appearance has a drastic change. Perhaps bigfoot is a bear that ate some normal berry , but a berry that went through a super rare change. This change in turn changed the bear. Just for an example.

Discuss.

a reply to: scraedtosleep

Locusts are insects I doubt a chemical could make a werewolf.

Then again what would?

Ah Huh see what I did there?

a reply to: Randyvine2

Locusts are insects I doubt a chemical could make a werewolf. Then again what would?

A gypsy's curse, or getting bitten by a werewolf.

a reply to: ColeYounger

A gypsy's curse, or getting bitten by a werewolf.

That is so Lon Chaney you don't believe that?

Do you ?

a reply to: scraedtosleep

Ever see the smallest woman in the world vs the tallest.
They look like two different species of human.

I think the same of people that live in polar opposite climates.

originally posted by: Randyvine2
a reply to: ColeYounger

A gypsy's curse, or getting bitten by a werewolf.

That is so Lon Chaney you don't believe that?

Do you ?

I forgot...another method is to drink rainwater from a paw print left by a werewolf. This method is pretty obscure. I don't remember which lore it comes from. Russian?

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: scraedtosleep

Ever see the smallest woman in the world vs the tallest.
They look like two different species of human.

I think the same of people that live in polar opposite climates.

Two different species. that is closer to the truth than you know.

a reply to: ColeYounger

Look at the big brain on Cole!

I forgot...another method is to drink rainwater from a paw print left by a werewolf. This method is pretty obscure. I don't remember which lore it comes from.

Never heard that one before.

I know that the First Nations people believe if you sacrifice
a loved one and wore the wolfs skin. You can shapeshift into
skinwalker werewolf. What's weird is the number of reports of
people seeing "Dog men".

a reply to: Randyvine2

One of the most fascinating subjects in the "Skinwalker Ranch" story is the dogmen. I posted this thread a few years back. It's beyond bizarre!

a reply to: ColeYounger

I was thinking you read that book. I hunted that one down in 98 99
some where in that time frame. I went right thru it which is rare for me.

a reply to: scraedtosleep

I believe grasshoppers molt and shed a shell as they transform into locusts so this form of transformation might require something like this.

I think the thing that makes this transformation so shocking is the speed. When you think about it humans and plenty of animals go through pretty drastic physical changes when exposed to the right conditions, we just don't consider them to be a different thing after it happens.

After decades of bad posture and diet the difference between a healthy and unhealthy person is probably as drastic as grasshopper to locust, even if you were comparing the same baseline person under different conditions (like if you had twins that were raised in very different places or something).

a reply to: scraedtosleep

Absolutely correct. Like how bigfoot or yeti are seen everywhere with varying color fur, but they always match the color and size of bears of the area and bears can walk upright.

If there were an evolutionary metamorphosis from bears to Sasquatch, there ought to be one or more intermediate species between them, sort of like how there were between monkeys and homo sapiens. Is there any evidence of these intermediate species between bear and Sasquatch? No there is not.

FWIW the DNA evidence that has been accumulated from Sasquatch (hair follicles, etc) points to more genetic commonality between Sasquatch and human beings, rather than bears & Sasquatch or even apes and Sasquatch.

The lack of physical evidence (bones, carcasses, orphaned children wandering around) for Sasquatch is an inconvenient fact that erodes the notion of an evolutionary link between Sasquatch and other species on Earth.

Locusts have been documented for thousands of years and I don't believe they are 'transformed' grasshoppers. So I looked it up.

Locusts and grasshoppers may share similar physical characteristics, but they are similar in so many ways. A locust is a grasshopper that has superior social characteristics. Therefore, a grasshopper only needs the right environmental conditions to transform into a locust. To differentiate between the two insects, you should keep these key points in mind:

A locust is a short-horned type of grasshopper. However, a grasshopper isn’t a type of locust.
Both insects are members of the order Orthoptera. However, grasshoppers belong to the Caelifera suborder while locusts belong to the Acrididae suborder.

Locusts can exist in two behavioral states, which are gregarious and migratory, whereas grasshoppers do not.

Grasshoppers belong to 28 distinct families, while locusts only belong to 1 family.

Locusts and grasshoppers cause significant damage to vegetation.

www.safehavenpest.com...

So apparently the perception is correct scientifically so there's no room for argument. But why haven't all the grasshoppers transitioned to locusts? And can a locust turn back into a grasshopper?

interesting. like Bruce Banner and the hulk?

a reply to: scraedtosleepThis is just what I was looking for. Bigfoot is a lot like that, at least in concept.

The September 6, 2011 issue of Atlantic Monthly contained an article which cited some research that found the modern, living human genome contains some remnants of Homo habilis, Homo erectus,, and other extinct hominids which have not yet been archaeologically discovered. www.theatlantic.com...

There is a chance that when two human individuals with high prehistoric hominid remnant DNA get together, they have a bigfoot! Maybe it only happens once a generation, or maybe neonatal specialists know what families have traces, and they terminate the pregnancy.


My theory would explain how there can be bigfoots here and there, but no one has ever found a population of bigfoots which is capable of passing on their genes without inbreeding and defects.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

The locust don't have a middle stage. They just go from grasshopper to locust.

a reply to: Solvedit

Interesting. But.

This would mean that their are tons of parents that toss their bigfoot baby into the wild.

originally posted by: sarahvital
interesting. like Bruce Banner and the hulk?

or like Bruce Jenner!
it could have been something in the water that changed him.

Domestic pigs grow tusks and thick fur like a wild hog after living in the wild.

a reply to: scraedtosleep