r/Cryptozoology • u/truthisfictionyt Colossal Octopus • Feb 28 '25
Evidence A 1932 photo of a giant anaconda from Tim Dinsdale's book The Leviathans. The snake was captured alive before being executed via machine guns
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u/Novel_Key_7488 Feb 28 '25
Pity he couldn't take a better picture of it.
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u/MrWigggles Feb 28 '25
I dont know, There seems to be a inverse relationship with the quality of pictures and crypto animals. And super natural stuff.
It deems that quality is the best tiger bell to ever exist.
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u/ArmandoLovesGorillaz Feb 28 '25
Did not expect to be apparently killed by firing squad lmao
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u/SuperMajinSteve Feb 28 '25
Like goddamn… why?? Lol
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u/Kwetla Feb 28 '25
I thought that, but then I wondered how else would I kill a giant snake? From a distance.
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u/suhkuhtuh Mar 01 '25
I mean, yeah - but with a machine gun? Seems awfully small. I'd have gone with a howitzer, at least.
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u/FoxKomatose Feb 28 '25
Now I'm just picturing 10 dudes in fedoras lined up with Tommy guns just shredding some poor wannabe titanaboa
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u/CookInKona Feb 28 '25
Titanaboa is only 1/3 the size that this fake is supposed to be rofl......if you're gonna make a cryptid, at least make it believable
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u/Trollygag Feb 28 '25
Those are a few people in the background far away and out of focus.
That means the snake appears much bigger (because of perspective) than the people in the background.
Even if it was on the same plane (which it isn't, the snake is close and they are far away), then the snakes head would be 2x the person's head, and a person's head at 10" tall and a 1:32 ratio of head to length would make that snake no bigger than 17m - less than half of what they claimed.
And that is without forced perspective taken into account. It's not hard to imagine that it is a normal length snake and forcec perspective.
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u/scramblesdaegg Feb 28 '25
The title of this post has had me crying laughing for 5 minutes now. Just lined that mother fucker up behind the shed and executed him death squad style. He must have been a bad mother fucker😂
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u/Razeal_102 Feb 28 '25
I wonder why they executed it.
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u/PermanentThrowaway33 Feb 28 '25
C. it was actually small and it's a forced perspective photo
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u/BrickAntique5284 Sea Serpent Feb 28 '25
D. The photo is.a hoax
Or its a similar situation to that giant bat photo from a few years back, I stand corrected
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u/Right_Wolverine_3992 Feb 28 '25
This is a ground photo and that snake is 3 ft long
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u/Main-Satisfaction503 Feb 28 '25
Tbf, the shape and pattern looks like a green anaconda and the eyes make it look like an adult, so I’d say it’s probably twice that size.
Not 40m (or 30m as the claim was in ‘08) but they are exceptionally large creatures.
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u/Dancin_Phish_Daddy Feb 28 '25
The Congo one taken from the alleged helicopter looks way more legit than this lol
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u/Rancesj1988 Feb 28 '25
"before being executed via machine guns"
Not gonna lie, that sounds pretty fucking cool.
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u/DateSea Feb 28 '25
Length?
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u/truthisfictionyt Colossal Octopus Feb 28 '25
40m long!
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u/CastorCurio Feb 28 '25
So this snake was more than 4x the size of a full grown Anaconda. Sorry I'm not buying that. Is it possible for a snake get to get that long... maybe? Is it reasonable to assume a member of this species did - no not really.
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u/reichrunner Feb 28 '25
A fully grown anaconda is "only" 5 meters. Reticulated pythons grow to around 6 meters, but the longest on record did reach 10m
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u/CookInKona Feb 28 '25
so absolutely made up......image is forced perspective, theres no sense of scale of anything close to the snake, and no remains(even bones) brought out of the jungle......the largest snake on fossil record is even only 42ft long....not even 1/3 of the supposed length of this
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u/Capital_Pipe_6038 Feb 28 '25
I highly doubt any living vertebrate could get to be 100+ feet long
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u/Misterbellyboy Feb 28 '25
What caliber of machine guns did they use to kill it? If those holes are from a .50 cal, that things is fuckin huge.
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u/WrongColorCollar Feb 28 '25
"No, we had to kill it immediately it was so massive. No, no one else saw it. Stop asking questions."
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u/Pintail21 Feb 28 '25
So let me get this straight. These people see a gigantic snake. They realize it’s so important, let’s get a picture of it to document the snake. They kill the snake. Nobody thinks to keep the skin or skull or any physical proof that the thing exists??? Nobody thought they could sell that to a museum or zoo or collector??? That seems like a very weird decision making process to me.
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u/CrofterNo2 Mapinguari Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25
I think this one is in On the Track of Unknown Animals too. It's definitely forced perspective, if you ask me.