{"id":4374,"date":"2010-08-28T01:08:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2015-02-25T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T10:13:17","slug":"allier-river-monster-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/08\/allier-river-monster-france\/","title":{"rendered":"ALLIER RIVER MONSTER: (FRANCE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/aquatic-enigmas\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-267\" title=\"aquatic-enigmas\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/aquatic-enigmas15.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>The Allier river runs through the French countryside and is the reputed home of a horrifying, three-headed, aquatic monster.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Allier River \u2013 a tributary of the river Loir, which flows near the town of Vichy in south-central France \u2013 is said to be the home of one of the most unique cryptids ever chronicled.<\/p>\n<p>While there has been only one reported sighting of this three-headed, ebony creature, the fact is that this beast is so bizarre in appearance it seems less like a terrestrial creature and more like one that should hail from <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/beyond-mythology\/\" target=\"_\">BEYOND MYTHOLOGY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cerberus.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4387\" title=\"cerberus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cerberus-300x262.jpg?resize=300%2C262\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a>The only known report of this creature hails from either 1933 or 1934. Described as monstrous, black, CERBERUS-like beast, it isn&#8217;t difficult to see why the rarely seen cryptid captures the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Although the evidence in this case is admittedly scarce, one cannot ignore the plethora of legends hailing from all over Europe concerning all manner of <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/aquatic-enigmas\/\" target=\"_\">AQUATIC ENIGMAS<\/a> including <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/2009\/12\/each-uisge-scotland\/\" target=\"_\">EACH-USIGE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/2009\/12\/cabyll-ushtey-scotland\/\" target=\"_\">CABYLL-USHTY<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/2009\/12\/kelpie-british-isles\/\" target=\"_\">KELPIE<\/a> and even the notoriously voracious Irish crocodile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/2009\/12\/dobhar-chu-ireland\/\" target=\"_\">DOBHAR-CHU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That having been said, there is no mention of whether the beast appeared to fish-like, mammalian, reptilian or amphibious in origin. Still, as intriguing as this case is, it would seem in the final analysis that the eyewitnesses may have unwittingly described not a single three-headed beast, but a trio of &#8212; perhaps equally outrageous &#8212; freshwater monsters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright Rob Morphy 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Allier river runs through the French countryside and is the reputed home of a horrifying, three-headed, aquatic monster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[963,964,955,968,342,961,315,965,962,967,966,332,57,83,252,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-4374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aquatic-enigmas","8":"category-monsters","9":"tag-allier-river","10":"tag-allier-river-monster","11":"tag-cabyll-ushtey","12":"tag-cerberus","13":"tag-dobhar-chu","14":"tag-each-usige","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-france-monster","17":"tag-freshwater-monster","18":"tag-ghidorah","19":"tag-ghidrah","20":"tag-hydra","21":"tag-kelpie","22":"tag-lake-monster","23":"tag-river-monsters","24":"tag-three-heads"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/allier_river_monster71.jpg?fit=806%2C867&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11527,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/11527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}