{"id":12757,"date":"2016-05-30T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=12757"},"modified":"2016-06-06T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T08:39:45","slug":"flipper-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2016\/05\/flipper-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"FLIPPER: (MEXICO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"unclassified\"<\/a>\"flipper_cryptopia_morphy_copyright_2016\"On a lonely stretch of Mexican road a hunter had a run-in with a large, quasi-humanoid (and apparently semi-aquatic) creature, which nearly scared the life out of him.<\/p>\n

On February 12, 1965, while slingshot hunting adjacent to the Santiago River, a 19 year-old by the name of Francisco Estrada Acosta had a face-to-face encounter with an entity that, quite frankly, should not exist\u2026 and which we, perhaps a bit irreverently, have dubbed \u201cFlipper<\/em>\u201d — due to it\u2019s unique appendages.<\/p>\n

According to Luis Ramirez Reyes, author of \u201cContacto: M\u00e9xico: Historia del Fen\u00f3meno OVNIA,\u201d and Rub\u00e9n Manrique, the ufologist who first broke the case, teenaged Acosta was hunting for small game in a mining area situated in the colony of Morales, which is located in the municipality of San Luis Potosi, when he was suddenly confronted by an apparition which seemed to be, quite literally, from OUT OF THIS WORLD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"dam_of_san_jose\"According to Reyes, Acosta had followed the Santiago River down to the San Jose Dam at which point he began searching for slingshot-sized rocks.<\/p>\n

It was then that he realized that someone was looming over him. Acosta glanced up and quickly realized that the being standing above him was anything but human. He described the beast thus:<\/p>\n

\u201c[It was] a tall figure with a large oval-shaped head, huge, reddish, phosphorescent eyes and a large toad-like mouth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"flipper2_cryptopia_morphy_copyright_2016\"The flabbergasted Acosta could only stare in what one must assume was abject terror as the bizarre being extended its \u201cflipper-like hand<\/em>\u201d towards him; touching his hand. The youthful hunter would later recall the sensation of the thing\u2019s flesh as being \u201ccold and scaly<\/em>,\u201d not unlike that of a reptile.<\/p>\n

Justifiably panic stricken, Acosta recoiled from the critter\u2019s desiccated touch and began to sprint from the alarming aberration. As he dashed away , Acosta stole a glance back and saw to his chagrin that a pair of membranous, \u201cwing-like protrusions<\/em>\u201d were extending from the beast\u2019s back. To terrified to gawk, the youth never did see if this potential AVIAN ANOMALY<\/a> was able to get airborne.<\/p>\n

Was this gargoyle-like, bat-winged, reptile-skinned, ostensibly amphibious fiend native to these Mexican badlands? An extraterrestrial visitor? Or was it a seldom seen AQUATIC ENIGMA<\/a> that emerged from the murky depths of the Santiago River like the \u201cCreature from the Black Lagoon?\u201d<\/p>\n

Until this strange creature rears its head again, we\u2019ll likely never know.<\/p>\n

\"rob_morphy\"<\/a>\u00a9 Copyright Rob Morphy 2002 — 2016<\/p>\n

Rob Morphy is an artist \/ journalist \/ filmmaker \/ designer \/ crypto chronicler \/ podcaster \/ cult movie lover and co-founder of American Monsters and Cryptopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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