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Youtube Videos on the Ropen

sketch of ropen on the official banner for the Youtube channel "Protect Animal Life"

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

The following is to the best of my knowledge, as of early September 27, 2019, regarding Youtube channels that have videos about eyewitness reports of apparent modern living pterosaurs, including the ropen.

Only two Youtube channels have many videos about these featherless flying creatures:

  1. “Jonathan Whitcomb” (obviously my channel)
  2. “Protect Animal Life” (also one of my channels)

The first is much older and has many views on most of its 9 active videos about living pterosaurs. The most popular is “Ropen-Pterodactyl – American eyewitness” (with over a third of a million views).

The second channel has fewer views but has been much more active in the last six months: It now has 27 active videos about these amazing flying creatures of the night.

Here’s the most recently uploaded video on the first channel:

The above video answers a question that few persons have ever wondered about, although it is relevant to living-pterosaur investigations: Why did the gigantic ropen of Umboi Island fly over the crater lake Pung, just a few minutes after the seven island boys had arrived at that lake? That was in the middle of the day, and the ropen is generally a nocturnal flying creature. This video gives a simple explanation.

Active Videos on the Channel “Jonathan Whitcomb”

  • Ropen Sighting at Lake Pung – Why?
  • Dragons and Pterosaurs Trailer 1
  • Grantsville Flying-Creature Sighting in Utah
  • Brief introduction to living-pterosaur investigations
  • Ropen expedition by Whitcomb (2004)
  • Ropen-Pterodactyl – American eyewitness
  • Abram sees the ropen (maybe fishing)
  • Grave robbery by the ropen pterosaur
  • Spiders of Umboi Island
  • Three Eyewitnesses of the Ropen

Both Youtube channels have videos about sightings in Papua New Guinea and in North America.

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Free online videos about modern pterosaurs

As we approach the 15-year anniversary of my ropen expedition on Umboi Island, I’ll share my views on some Youtube videos and playlists: about these amazing flying creatures. You choose which ones to watch.

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Videos on living pterosaurs

The most active Youtube channel on ropens (and other living pterosaurs), as of mid-2019

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Hair or fur on the ropen

Over the years, I’ve rarely mentioned much on this blog about the possibility that ropens in general are covered with some amount of fine hair. Only a small fraction of the total eyewitnesses have been close enough to see such a detail, even if they had a mind to take notice of hair, or lack thereof, at the time of their sightings.

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Ropen videos

The oldest and most popular Youtube channel having many videos about living pterosaurs

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“Flying Dinosaur in Africa” — a paranormal Youtube video

thumbnail for a paranormal video on living pterosaurs

By the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb

If I do say so myself, this paranormal music video is an entertaining way of informing viewers of a sighting of an apparent living pterosaur in Sudan, Africa, and comparing it to an encounter in Cuba: “Flying Dinosaur in Africa.” I uploaded it to Youtube yesterday (my channel is Protect Animal Life).

As of May 11, 2019, this is the shortest video on my new channel, at just over three minutes long; it has only one sighting report, although it does compare it to another sighting, that one in Cuba.

Here’s a bit more about the sighting in Sudan (including some details not in the video), taken from the fourth edition of my nonfiction book Searching for Ropens and Finding God:

In Sudan the classic house is one level made of mud bricks and walls . . . each room being a separate unit, but connected by a roofless hallway that leads to the patios.

One evening in July of 1988, we had some guest over the house. . . . The guest were in the living room which was at one end of the house, and my aunt was in the kitchen . . .

She asked me to bring the tray of tea, cookies, sugar & spoons to the guest. . . . I took the tray walked through the open hallway . . .

When I got to the patio, I noticed something on the roof . . . it was night time but the patio has one of those long cylinder like light bulbs that light up the whole patio . . . I was standing by the bathroom, about 10 feet away from [the thing]

It was perched about 5 feet from the light bulb. I seen it very clearly and got a good look at it. It was very large, about 4 or 5 feet in height. It was an olive brown color, no feathers. It was leathery looking. It had a large long, wide beak and the classic appendage (the long bone looking thing sticking out the back of its head). It had really large black claws and its tail looked like a lion’s tail . . . very long and had a bushy or hairy tip.

The above is part of what’s in the book, which has more information than the video has.

Why don’t you watch the video yourself?

mud huts in Sudan, Africa, from a paranormal video

From the paranormal music video “Flying Dinosaur in Africa”

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Music video “Pterosaurs in California”

Seven sightings of huge flying creatures in California

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Shooting down a flying-fish conjecture regarding living pterosaurs

Although some modern pterosaurs appear to live close to water . . . the sighting reports themselves, when details are noted, eliminate any reasonable possibility that what was seen was a stingray.

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The kongamato of Africa

Deep in the bush of east central Africa, lives a beaked, flying creature called the Kongamato. This fascinating animal first received widespread attention when explorer Frank Welland described it in his 1932 book In Witchbound Africa.

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I saw a flying dinosaur

This post begins with a sighting report in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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The Girl who saw a Pterodactyl

Sketches by Eskin Kuhn and Patty Carson

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

I’m writing a nonfiction book for children, which should be in print in November of 2018: The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur. [Addendum: This cryptozoology book was published on Nov 8th] It covers far more than just the true story of Patty Carson. It compares her sighting to the one by the US Marine Eskin Kuhn, who encountered two “pterodactyls” at that same area in Cuba but six years later.

Two Important Sightings at Guantanamo Bay

One critic might dismiss the report by Patty Carson, saying it was just the imagination of a small girl. But why would that US Marine see two flying creatures that were so similar to the one seen by that child? Keep in mind that both reports come from Guantanamo Bay, and the sightings were only six years apart.

A critic might dismiss the sketch by Patty Carson, saying it was drawn decades after the event. But look at the sketch by Eskin Kuhn: It was drawn within minutes of his sighting of two large pterosaurs that he originally called “pterodactyls.” Compare those two drawing and notice important similarities:

Sketches by Eskin Kuhn and Patty Carson

Drawn by Eskin Kuhn (left) and by Patty Carson (right)

A critic might dismiss Kuhn’s sighting as just a misidentification of two birds flying together. But be aware that Patty saw many small teeth in the beak of the flying creature she saw. Birds do not have teeth.

A critic might dismiss the US Marines sighting, for those two things were flying by him, leaving him limited opportunity to look closely. But Patty Carson was staring at that flying creature for some time, as it stood there for some time. She had ample opportunity to examine details in its appearance.

Why did Kuhn not report seeing any teeth in the two “pterodactyls” he saw? They were flying with their mouths shut. Why did Carson not report any hair on the tail flange of the flying creature she saw? Kuhn noticed that hair. The girl probably paid less attention to the end of the tail, or perhaps the tail was moving a bit too much to notice that detail. She did see the tail clearly enough to see that the tail end had a flange that she described as “diamond” shaped.

Why do not more people report seeing these living pterosaurs, if they exist? I, Jonathan Whitcomb, have received hundreds of eyewitness reports, over the past 15 years, reports from five continents. From examining those accounts and comparing them to each other, I have concluded the following: The total number of persons now living, worldwide, who have had some kind of encounter with a living pterosaur—those persons number at least in the range of between 7 million and 128 million, although we need to keep in mind that this estimate includes encounters that were brief and many were at night, when few, if any, details could have been seen.

Check out the book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur, available soon on Amazon and other online retail book sellers. Give a copy as a gift to a child.

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The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur

What a wonderful world we live in, a world filled with an astonishing variety of life! If all those varied forms known to Western science are not enough, we now have worldwide confirmations, from many eyewitnesses, that a long-tailed pterosaur species is still living among us . . .

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Pterodactyl Sighting

How big are modern pterosaurs? Choose almost any wingspan; we’ve got it. Here are the eyewitness estimates for wingspan, in feet, from smallest to largest . . .

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I saw a Flying Dinosaur

Although it’s more common, in the United States, for an eyewitness of an apparent living pterosaur to use the word pterodactyl, I sometimes come across the phrase “flying dinosaur.”

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The girl who saw a modern pterosaur

[what a girl saw in Texas] . . .  I was about 11-12 yrs old I went outside around late morning . . . In the open backyard next door was what looked like a 9 or 10 ft tall man . . . then the man turned and I realized that this man didn’t have a face like a man . . .

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“Dinosaur birds” are still flying

We have been taught that giant flying creatures soared overhead long ago. We could call them “dinosaur birds,” but that would be technically incorrect: They were pterosaurs . . .

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The true story of Patty Carson and others

Patty Carson, of Southern California, said, “It did have a tail and it had a diamond shaped tip . . . The skin was a leathery, brownish reddish color. It had little teeth, a LOT of them.

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They are not extinct – “dinosaur birds”

Who could organize any expedition to search for living pterosaurs? Only an official discovery could awaken Western scientists so they could search for extant pterosaurs, but discovery normally comes after searching, not before. Looking back at this problem, from the time of Darwin until 1990 it appears to have been an almost hopeless atmosphere for a discovery. But a solution eventually appeared . . . from an unexpected source.