{"id":7325,"date":"2011-03-02T01:50:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=7325"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:30:39","slug":"texas-cryptozoologist-talks-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2011\/03\/texas-cryptozoologist-talks-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"TEXAS CRYPTOZOOLOGIST TALKS MONSTERS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/unclassified\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/unclassified.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" title=\"unclassified\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1691\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kens5.com\/entertainment\/SA-manMonsters-in-Texas.html\" target=\"_\">KENS 5<\/a> has reported that cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard held a lecture in North Austin to discuss the existence of such creatures as Chupacabras, Big Foot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness Monster!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Author and monster researcher, Ken  Gerhard, held a  lecture Friday night in North Austin to a group of people who  wanted to hear more about the unexplained beasts like <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/hairy-hominids\/\" target=\"_\">HAIRY HOMINIDS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/lake-monsters\/\" target=\"_\">LAKE MONSTERS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cI  think that people like to imagine that there is still a bit of mystery  in our world, that maybe we aren&#8217;t omnipotent at this point and that  maybe we don&#8217;t know or understand everything about our surroundings and  there&#8217;s certainly quite a psychological and sociological attachment to  monsters.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_gerhard1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_gerhard1-300x234.jpg?resize=300%2C234\" alt=\"\" title=\"ken_gerhard\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_gerhard1.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_gerhard1.jpg?resize=1024%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_gerhard1.jpg?resize=696%2C544&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_gerhard1.jpg?resize=1068%2C834&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_gerhard1.jpg?resize=538%2C420&amp;ssl=1 538w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken_gerhard1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The  San Antonio resident wrote a book called \u201cMonsters in Texas\u201d and  appeared on several cable shows including \u201cMonster Quest\u201d and \u201cThe Real  Wolfman.&#8221; Gerhard explained that is fascination for this subject does not stem from a personal experience, but rather it&#8217;s the product of years of dedicated research:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cI&#8217;ve  never had a sighting.\u00a0I&#8217;ve experienced some things that I can&#8217;t quite  explain and of course I&#8217;ve interviewed many, many witnesses people from  all walks of life who seem like very credible people who&#8217;ve had these  extraordinary experiences that they can&#8217;t explain.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENS 5 has reported that cryptozoologist Ken  Gerhard held a lecture in North Austin to discuss the existence of such creatures as Chupacabras, Big Foot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness Monster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,622,83,1121,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-7325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bigfoot","9":"tag-ken-gerhard","10":"tag-lake-monster","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-werewolf"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/abs11.jpg?fit=376%2C353&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325","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=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10137,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions\/10137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}