Our last three winners step into the squared circle for week three of the 2022 Miss Cryptid Contest of Champions! This week, France’s Lou Carcolh battles Boston’s Hoover the Talking Seal and Australia’s Drop Bear in a righteous slugfest! It’s a worldwide skirmish of two fantastic creatures and one very real one. And of course, you control their fate. Cast your vote on the Blurry Photos home page for a chance to win a prize pack! Prize pack winners will receive toys, collectibles, a book, shirt, candy, and their very own Golden Goatman Trophy (replica). One runner-up will win a T-shirt, and one lucky entrant will be Miss Congealniality and win some stickers and magnets. Make sure to cast your vote soon, there’s only this week and the finals left! Listen and decide, and find out who is moving on from week 2 on this episode!
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Music
Danse Macabre, Chee Zee Jungle, Come Play with Me, Echoes of Time v2, Duet Musette, March of the Spoons – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Sources
- Switek, Brian. “Giant Flesh-Eating Koala of Legend was Real.” National Geographic. Mar. 9, 2016. Web. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/09/australias-real-drop-bear/
- Middleton, Amy. “Drop Bears Target Tourists, Study Says.” Australian Geographic. Apr. 1, 2013. Web (joke). http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/04/drop-bears-target-tourists,-study-says/
- Australian Museum Entry on Drop Bears: https://australianmuseum.net.au/drop-bear
- Rose, C., 2001. Giants, monsters, and dragons: An encyclopedia of folklore, legend, and myth. WW Norton & Company.
- Bane, T., 2016. Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore. McFarland.
- Wu, Katharine J. Talking Seals mimic human speech and validate a Boston Legend. PBS website. June 6, 2019. Web. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/seals-mimic-speech/
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