I had to put this creature in Vintage mode to even see it on the screen. Center of the picture is the Harpy Eagle from Panama. If the Miami Zoo had been larger and had more donations I would of figured the mythical looking creature was actually a Disney animatronic sort of creature like the moving President Lincoln back in the 70's that had an A Ticket show (yes, children long before you visited the Magical Kingdom they used to sell our parents giant ticket books with A-E on each piece of Disney treasure. The boring safe stuff was A ticket and the rocket and elaborate scary stuff were E Tickets).
The Zoo also mixed into walking paths Dinosaurs in plastic and looked pretty cool - the latest from the Zoo is they are doing a Dino themed zoo for a few months. The mixture of fantastical with live animals. Funny and slightly disturbing.
I started writing scary go-bump-in-the-night stuff nearly 20 years ago. Now it is utterly mainstream and movies, TV shows, books and anything that goes viral has the possibility of being along the lines of what I've been writing about for years. I started writing the book 'When Fairy Tales Come Alive" over five years ago. Scattered thoughts and ideas written in pen. Fox and other stations have entire nights devoted to such things. I grew up on Grimm's Fairy Tales - the hard core ones with bad endings. I wonder how so many people are now enthralled by such tales when years ago it was all Blue Smurfs and Rainbow Ponies?
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