Thetis Lake and the Creature from the Black Lagoon
On 19 August 1972 two teenagers ran to the police in Victoria, British Columbia, to report that a scaled creature with a crest on its head had come out of Thetis Lake and cut one of them on the arm. The description was almost word for word the monster from Creature from the Black Lagoon. Days later a man came forward whose pet tegu lizard had escaped, and the police closed the file; shortly afterwards one of the boys admitted to the RCMP that they had made the whole thing up. The monster is still on the lists of Canadian cryptids.
Sathya Sai Baba and the Gold Chain
Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi took sacred ash, rings and chains out of the air in front of millions of followers, among them Indian ministers and judges. In 1992 the state broadcaster Doordarshan filmed a ceremony with several cameras, and one angle shows an assistant passing him a gold chain from below, out of the base of the stand, a second before it materialised in his palm. The tape went round the country. The physicist H. Narasimhaiah, vice-chancellor of Bangalore University, had offered as early as 1976 to test the phenomena under controlled conditions and was refused; he wound up his committee saying there was nothing left to test.
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