The elusive picture

Seems like when someone wants it they can't ever find it. 
You'd think the head would fall forward.   Real or hoax?  The picture's been
around for a long time-probably b4 hoaxes were very sophisticated.

??????

What picture? Nothing there & no link to it either.

I told you, you can't find it.    LOL.

Just kidding... I can see it in the post tho, so  I'll try to figure out how you can see it too.
I'll send U the link I have and maybe you can make it post.

First I'll try 'insert image'.  And I'll pm source to you.

OK, I can see it now. I also went to the source page you PM'ed to me. Source photo linked below in case the dang thing disappears again.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/sm/custom/601b81551b.jpg

I just get a  "forbidden" notice even with the link.

OK, lets settle this thing once and for all. I saved it, renamed it, and posted it below from my own computer. Lets' see THAT ONE not show up.

That is very interesting Dove! Where did you run across that?

Wow...I echo Josephus ! Thank you Dove and Researcher .

Just looks like two dogs and a big ugly bird to me.

rawblues wrote:

Just looks like two dogs and a big ugly bird to me.

A big ugly FAKE bird (bat) if you asked me. And guns . . . look at all the guns. Photo obviously taken before guns became associated with the right wing conspiracy theory Bible thumping 2nd amendment gun-toting rights whack-o's.

< sarcasm off >

Yeah, something sorta smells here IMO.....



Before those cowboys shot that big ole bat with those pea shooters, I bet they had  been out earlier that day hunting Jackalopes.

Well, I do have an old, really old  b&w picture  showing a grasshopper holding up the front of a locomotive.I need to find that  and learn how to post it from my computer file.

Believe it~or not.  Heheheh.  Ya'll are funny!

I first saw it here on forum probably nine or so years ago.  Then it came up again, but the picture was impossible to find, so I grabbed it when I saw it yesterday.

And here is the only backstory I've ever seen about it:
http://www.prairieghosts.com/tbirdaz.html

Thanks for bringing it back Dove.  It IS a good picture.  I like stuff like that.  But after further analysis, I believe the black dog on the right is fake too!  The cowboys forgot to turn him around to face the camera.

rawblues wrote:

Rawblues said, Thanks for bringing it back Dove.  It IS a good picture.  I like stuff like that.  But after further analysis, I believe the black dog on the right is fake too!  The cowboys forgot to turn him around to face the camera.

        Oh yeah!  You're a keeper sweetheart!     

The article I will post below is written by a cryptozoologist. He tracked down the picture, and the man that created it.

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2015/11/shooting-down-pterodactylian.html

There is even a link, within the contained article, to the creator's Flickr page where the picture can be seen among some of the creator's other works.

Thanks Josephus. Mystery solved.

 And on the Arizona picture:
"One of the great mysteries of modern times has its roots in Arizona. This mystery involves a photograph of a
mysterious creature that was said to have been captured near the town of Tombstone.


September 1963 issue of Fate magazine, a writer named H.M Cranmer would state that not only was the story
true, but the photo was published and had appeared in newspapers all over America.

Eminent Fortean researcher Ivan T. Sanderson also remembered seeing the photo and in fact, even claimed
to have once had a photocopy of it that he loaned to two associates, who lost it.

The 2nd picture (civil war) came from http://www.burlingtonnews.net/thunderbird.html
a link that is 10 times scarier than any creature, so be forewarned.
I couldn't post anymore above once I cc'd from her site.

From Josephus' link  "It turns out that the photo is not a hoax but rather an affectionate homage in pastiche form to the original missing thunderbird photograph, and once you know where to look online it is openly identified as having been created by highly-acclaimed digital illustration artist Chris Smith from Croydon in London, England,

Pastiche form:
Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates. ...

sooo...are you sure it's been explained???  bwaaa-haa-haaa.
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And one more from the comments section:
"Count me in as one who has, in days past, believed to have seen the photo. Always saw it with a giant, black bird, nailed to the side of barn, outstretched, with the cowboys (handle bar mustaches and all) in front. Then I would catch myself and realize that no, I have never seen such a photo. What a phenomenon."

Now, do you think you saw a pic with it ON the barn too?  I feel like I remember seeing that!

Just one more...for Bordercollie



http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-giant-grasshopper-of-wisconsin.html

Okay, I'll stop now.

Dove . . . did you miss this one? This one is for bordercollie. 

That's why you get paid the big bucks, Researcher! 

Ha ! THANK YOU  Researcher!!! That's it !  An old postcard I believe ?    bordercollie