What's Your Favorite Monster?

Pickens writes "Mankind has always had a fascination with monsters, and mythologies from around the world include stories of strange and terrifying creatures. Examples include the half-bull, half-human Minotaur of Greek myths, the living clay Golem of Jewish traditions, British elves and Chinese dragons. Live Science has an interesting photo essay on their ten favorite monsters that may have a basis in real life. Their rogue's gallery includes the Ogopogo, a mysterious monster in Canada's Lake Okanagan; the Chupacabra, that Latin Americans believe is the unholy result of secret US government experiments in the jungles of Puerto Rico; and the perennial favorite Bigfoot."

Comments

Futurama

[CrazyJim1]

Sure, everyone's for keeping Hitler's brain in a jar, but when you put it into a body of a great white shark, you've gone too far.

Manbearpig

[el_coyotexdk]

FEAR Manbearpig!! :)

Re:Manbearpig

[AgentSmith]

SPIDER PIG,
SPIDER PIG.
Does whatever a SPIDER PIG does.
Can he swing,
From a web?
No he cant.
He's a pig.

LOOK OOOUUUTTT!!!!

He is a SPIDER PIG!!

Thank you!
Thank you!
Don't forget to tip your waitress on the way out!

Man, it's a slow Monday.

P.S. Even for a free news site this new format blows goats off the mountain.

Futurama

[vertigoCiel]

"Bigfoot's territory is being threatened, if he exists, although if he doesn't, it's not."

Where's Cthulhu?

[vonFinkelstien]

What a gip of a list!

Better lists

[FornaxChemica]

Meh, that article was too consensual to be interesting; Big Foot, vampires and werewolves in the top three, no surprise there. Better browse the monster list of international monsters in Wikipedia or Live Science's own Top 10 Beasts and Dragons: How Reality Made Myth.

Cookie Monster

[rabiddeity]

I cast my vote for the Cookie Monster. They've tried to keep him down in recent years by forcing him to give speeches about vegetables and other such nonsense. But we all know underneath all that blue fur all he wants is more cookies...

Re:Cookie Monster

[bjmoneyxxx]

http://wh0rd.org/cookie-monster-abusing-cookie-dough.png

Re:Cookie Monster

[pokerdad]

I second that.

The desire to suck blood, howl at the moon, hoard treasure or lure ships onto rocks just don't hit home with me. But stuffing one's face with cookies is something that I can relate too. Plus none of those other monsters have as catchy a song as "C is For Cookie".

Re:Cookie Monster

[Fear the Clam]

Plus none of those other monsters have as catchy a song as "C is For Cookie".

Meh. The song's not that great, but it's good enough for me.

You need to

[antifoidulus]

let the wookie win!

Flying Spaghetti Monster

[mrycar]

Is there no other monster to have as a favorite?

Re:Often spotted, but never pinned down

[bjmoneyxxx]

Shut the fuck up, you don't know what your talking about!!!!!!!! This is why albino's should NOT be given access to computers, let alone the internet, idiot.

Obviously missing option

[RuBLed]

Ghosts

My favorite monster...

[PenguinBoyDave]

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think it has to be Eduardo on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. (Sorry...I have kids)

Re:Thanks coast-to-coast am

[Silver Sloth]

And what have you got against Gerry Anderson

Frankenstein's Monster

[esme]

You have to love the "monster" more human than his creator...

Re:Frankenstein's Monster

[NeverVotedBush]

The Peter Boyle version, of course!

rock monsters

[Bill Dog]

http://www.scifi.com/rockmonster/ is sure to be cool.

See also the Fantastic Four and The NeverEnding Story.

My Cat

[Trikenstein]

A stray I took in when he was more than a kitten, but no where near full grown.
I just know that one morning I'll walk outside and he'll have Gojira's carcase lying at the base of the porch steps.

Re:My favourite monster

[cytg.net]

Vista

rtfm

[desierto]

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a fine manual on this. (Read This For Monsters!)

Re:Let me just say...

[Anonymous Coward]

don't paste perl in here.

Humans

[Ekhymosis]

Like it or not, I believe "humans" are the worst of all monsters. Unlimited potential for evil, and the will to do so at any time.

Re:Humans

[elrous0]

I used to be a misanthrope myself. Then I worked briefly in college at a convenience store in a shitty part of town. Contrary to what you would expect, you know what it taught me? It taught me that people, by and large, are decent. I expected to have a shitty "Clerks" type experience, but what I got was a more positive view of humanity.

When I overpaid in change, most people would tell me. Most people would help me out when I made a mistake. When someone was looking for directions, people would help them out (even if I couldn't). Shoplifters were very rare. Most people were honest and decent--even in this shitty neighborhood.

Re:Humans

[Backward Z]

"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous is are the common men, the functionaries willing to believe and to act without asking questions."

-Primo Levy

Re:Humans

[aadvancedGIR]

Indeed.

Real human monster do actually exist, and they are called psychopaths, some of them are violent and usually die young or spend their life in jail, but many more are clever enough to understand that hurting others is bad for them and live a rather normal life. Except that they can't understand things like good, evil, empathy or love, only their profit and their safety.

A friend of my parents was a psychiatrist expert and he told me he preffered working on violent criminals instead of manipulative psychopaths because the former were damaged humans while the laters were not human at all.

My Favorite Monster

[Capt James McCarthy]

Is the one in my pants...

My credit card.

Gamblor

[HungSoLow]

To Quote Simpsons: "The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!"

Daleks

[Aussie]

Daleks of course !

Trolls

[teh kurisu]

I read somewhere about the idea that the trolls of Scandinavian folklore had their roots in human interactions with the remnants of the Neanderthals. I quite liked that idea, even if it's almost certainly not true. The troll under the bridge was one of the scariest stories I was told when I was wee. I hated crossing bridges over burns for a long time after that.

There was an interesting fictional documentary programme on a couple of years ago about an archaeologist who was uncovering evidence that dragons had lived alongside the dinosaurs, and survived up until relatively recently. I wish I could remember the name of it.

Re:Trolls

[Thanshin]

I read somewhere about the idea that the trolls of Scandinavian folklore had their roots in human interactions with the remnants of the Neanderthals.

And where would the Neanderthals find a computer? Let alone the means to connect it to the internet.

Bigfoot is pratically unknown ouside the US

[andi75]

Most Europeans have no clue who bigfoot is, yet he's #1 on that list. There was a monster movie called bigfoot a couple of years ago, but it was forgotten quickly. Actually more famous are the pair of short skis with the same name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiboarding

Also, what about the Yeti?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti

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Re:George W Bush

[NeverVotedBush]

Karl Rove?

Re:Roc

[geminidomino]

Bah. Druge Skeletons have regeneration!

Re:Article correction:

[Nos.]

Interesting how posting a complete lie with a link to a wikipedia article is enough to get modded up, even though the link does not back up the statement at all.

I'm from Sasktchewan, and if anything, we're called Saskatchewanians.