Thoughts about The Murders in the Rue Morgue (a story)
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:02 am
Sorry for posting again so soon, but I just remembered this and thought i'd share with everyone.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe: about an Orangutan who goes about killing two people. Now, this may not seem like something to post on this forum, but let me share some interesting similarities between the book and people's experiences with actual hominids.
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The orangutan in the story..
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Turns out the orangutan escaped from his "home" (a sailor kept him in a cage, took from Borneo) and the orangutan was just trying to imitate the sailors daily shaving routine, but got a little bit excited and ended up cutting 2 throats.. after strangulation.
On human interaction and such regarding this, our Russian hominid cousin the Almas!:
Yeah he's a horror writer & all and had an active imagination.. but it still made me think. Might even make you think too.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe: about an Orangutan who goes about killing two people. Now, this may not seem like something to post on this forum, but let me share some interesting similarities between the book and people's experiences with actual hominids.
Yes, we know our friends don't use straight razors not actively go out on killing sprees. But, the Myakka Skunk Ape looks awfully like an orangutan.In the book, the Orangutan killed 2 people by strangling them then cutting their throats with a straight razor.
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The detective of the story...Great apes are endowed with a semi-precision grip, and certainly have been able to use both simple tools and even weapons, by improvising a club from a convenient fallen branch.
Plenty of hair has been found as evidendce pointing at hominids being not human, but not ape. If I remember correctly, on an episode of Monster Quest, after doing an DNA analysis of hair found, it the only difference between human DNA and the creature, was only 8 base pairs, the chimpanzee has 32 (i don't quite remember those specific numbers, but if anyone can correct them for me, please do.He finds a hair at the scene of the murder that is quite unusual; "this is no human hair"
The orangutan in the story..
I've heard a sound file of a supposed Bigfoot speaking in an north american Indian dialect not heard in hundreds of years.Neighbors who hear the murder give contradictory accounts, claiming they hear the murderer speaking a different language. The speech is unclear, they say, and they admit to not knowing the language they are claiming to have heard
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Turns out the orangutan escaped from his "home" (a sailor kept him in a cage, took from Borneo) and the orangutan was just trying to imitate the sailors daily shaving routine, but got a little bit excited and ended up cutting 2 throats.. after strangulation.
On human interaction and such regarding this, our Russian hominid cousin the Almas!:
All in all I just thought i'd post this and my opinions & thoughts on the matter. I Know E.A Poe was a bit of a horror writer but to write about something like this.. maybe got inspiration from somewhere/something he saw. He was born in the states, Boston to be correct - not sure about how many sightings around the area (if any). The story was written in 1841. The first recorded sighting of a Bigfoot in the states was around 1811 I think.Another case is said to have happened around 1941, shortly after the German invasion of the USSR. An Almas was captured in the Caucasus by a detachment of the Red Army. He appeared human, but was covered in fine, dark hair. Interrogation revealed his apparent inability or unwillingness to speak. He was shot as a German spy.
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Yeah he's a horror writer & all and had an active imagination.. but it still made me think. Might even make you think too.