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Photos Spark Fear of 'Borneo Monster'

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(Feb. 19) - Villagers in Borneo who have long believed that a legendary 100-foot-long snake called the Nabau trolls the Baleh River say recent photographs show that the beast has returned, The Daily Mail reports.
One of the photos showing a serpent-like figure was taken from a helicopter by a member of a disaster team monitoring flood regions, while a second was taken from a remote village. Critics, however, have called both photographs into question, Livescience.com reports.
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Some have said the images appear to be altered with photo-editing software while others have suggested that the snake-like image is really a log or a wake left behind by a speedboat.
People who have studied the aerial photograph dismiss the latter allegations, saying that a log could not take that clear winding shape and that boats do not leave a twisting wake.
Villagers believe the legendary beast, the Nabau, had a dragon’s head, seven nostrils and could change its shape.
A 100-foot-long serpent may sound unbelievable, but just last month fossils found in Colombia revealed an ancient giant snake that stretched about 45 feet long and weighed more than 2,500 pounds.
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DrugThuggs

05:09 AMFeb 20 2009

IT'S OBAMAS PENIS !!

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HunterofthePack

05:06 AMFeb 20 2009

nice photo-shop skills.

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Mitch Indy

05:02 AMFeb 20 2009

Do you think the person writing the poll questions is a complete moron??? YES NO

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Tobybug3

05:01 AMFeb 20 2009

The remains of probably the biggest snake ever was found in South America, A prehistoric snake 45 feet long was so big that it would barely squeeze through a doorway.

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AutumnManor

05:00 AMFeb 20 2009

I hate to disappoint the monster fans among us but I remember seeingthis "doctored" photo once before when the pranksters were trying ahoax about a giant Anaconda is South America's Amazon river...

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Guyfox2000

05:00 AMFeb 20 2009

Everyone fear the giant snake!

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Susanstike

04:57 AMFeb 20 2009

VIVA LA OKAPI

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JBaukert708

04:57 AMFeb 20 2009

I''ve been around snakes and studied the various species all my life. This does not look like a real snake. The head is not pronounced enough. The body is too thick in the middle/gets thicker further back and does not taper off like any snake or photo I've seen. Also, the photo from depth perception appears to be a close up photo superimposed over a distant shot (thereby making it look bigger) like a fisherman holds his arm with fish outstretched to the camera to make the fish look bigger in proportion to the fisherman's body in the photo.

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OU SENG SAECHAO

04:56 AMFeb 20 2009

there are more demonic on earth than human are and more angels than you can count and the dragons are real and they are in two difference form according to history an eye witness : one with the rooster peak is a smaller body and is good dragon and appear to human more, more seen in the body of water and if in the land some time are as messenger. the bigger body one is with the horn and is more aggressive or evil. they are supper natural, they can appear to human eye in difference form. in my dad's generation in laos, the villager's pig was missing and they went to the wood to search for the pig and they found one big snake with puffy belly so they ask the snake if the snake had eaten their pig so the snake open up his mount for them so they though that snake gesture that the pig is in there, so they kill they snake and cut the snake open and found a fully grow deer inside the snake ( muse deer) and later that year two of they people die. because they wrongly kill the snake

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Susanstike

04:46 AMFeb 20 2009

whether the Nabau is true or not (or ANY legendary animal) what REALLY irks me is all the eyewitness accounts would be enough to get someone convicted in a court of law. why can't defence lawyers say "oh, the witnesses were mistaken, it was actually a (fill in the blank)" that's what scientists always say. i mean, as many witnesses as that claim to have seen someone kill someone else, that killer would be on death row! VIVA LA CEOLOCANTH!!!!

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