The Mothman Waffle Fry
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 1st, 2008
Correspondent Scott Foy sends along the above photograph for sharing at Cryptomundo, and the following detailed enjoyable document about his found mysterious object:
I don’t know if you guys could care one way or another but I figured if nothing else this might give everyone a good laugh. It’s not everyday one has an edible encounter with a cryptid.
Last week I was running late to work and decided to pop into Chick-Fil-A to grab a quick meal to bring with me. I get to work and start munching away on my chicken strips and fries combo when I came down to the very last fry in the box. When I looked at what I was holding in my hand I couldn’t help but notice a familiar resemblance. And that’s when it hit me: Mothman!
I know this sounds incredibly goofy and the mere fact that I took a look at this thing and almost instantly spotted a creature of cryptozoology probably says more about me than anything else, but, hey, if images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary can appear on tortillas and grilled cheese sandwiches then why can’t the Mothman reappear in the form of a waffle fry?
I dare not eat the Mothman Waffle Fry. The Silver Bridge collapsed after people saw the Mothman, lord knows what my befall someone who were to eat it. I don’t even want to know what the Mothman could possibly due to my bowels. Heck, I’m already risking my bowels as it is just by eating at Chick-Fil-A.
For the record, the Chick-Fil-A Bowl took place on December 31st without incident. No one died and nothing collapsed except for Clemson’s defense.
The Mothman Waffle Fry currently resides in my freezer where I have chosen to store it while I try and decide what, if anything to do with it. Do I toss it in the trash and chalk it up to a curious yet ludicrous anomaly or do I sell it on ebay? Some loon actually paid $28,000 for a grilled cheese sandwich believed to have the image of the Virgin Mary burnt into it so perhaps some other loon out there would be willing to pay a few bucks for a fast food cryptid? I don’t know.
Whatever comes of it, I found this whole deal amusing and thought you might too.
Happy New Year! ~ by Scott Foy, January 1, 2008.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Hmmmmm. Is this the way we start off our New Year? Hopefully, our efforts will extend into the reality of meaningful research! Oh, well, as he said, it was good for a laugh.
Actually, no, this is not the way that today started.
For those in Asia and Australia, who were already in 2008, they were able to see the Top Cryptozoology Books list first.
For North America, the first Cryptomundo story of the year was a serious consideration of a mystery cat sighting in Australia.
Then came the above humor break. 🙂
Quick! Get that thing on Ebay! Well wishes to everyone for a great year in 2008!
This is probably a warning the mall is going to collapse. The real Mothman is busy so the potato helper was sent instead. Very much like Santa has elves.
Speaking of elves has anyone researched the evolution of the elves that work at the north pole in relation to Tolkein’s elves and what about the Keebler Elves?!!!
On a more serious note everyone has at least a passing knowlege of what elves are reported to be yet to my knowlege they are not reported as being spotted on a regular basis as opposed to cryptids such as bigfoot.My point being if it is the mind playing tricks on the observer of sightings then why aren’t all well known critters such as fairies,elves,mythical dwarves,dragons,centaurs and such reported with equal regularity? Centaurs should be being reported on a regular basis considering how many horses there are that they could easily be confused with.
Off-topic sidetrips for this blog entry will be extremely tolerated, of course, for New Year’s Day. But my hope is most people will end up taking a minute to go back and read
The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2007
that will have a longer-term impact on the future of cryptozoology than this waffle fry.
Cheers and Happy New Year.
Scott, wait until you have a walnut bar in the shape of Col. Korff (or maybe just his shaved head), then sell the pair on ebay and give the results to the BFRO.
Happy New Year, everyone.
hey loren wow thats a great mothman waffle indeed. happy new year. bill green 🙂
Scott, I have a suggestion that may be of interest to you. I’ll get to that in a second.
First of all, I would not want to eat it either. And who knows what may befall you if you hold on to it.
Why not just put that item for sale on Ebay? I’m sure a couple of sites would be willing to promote the Ebay link. And then whatever the winning bid may be, donate that money to Loren to help out or to Cryptomundo for maintaining the site.
This accomplishes a couple of positive things. It ensures the potentially “bad omen fry” is out of your hands and you start your New Year off with a bit of good luck. And it will benefit either Loren or the Cryptomundo site with an unexpected “gift”. And we would all have a bit of fun watching the bids on Ebay.
Anyway, just my two cents, which hopefully, would not be the winning bid price on Ebay.
Haha, this is definitely a very entertaining and humorous way to start a new year! Mothman is easily my favorite cryptid. 🙂
I’m sure the fellow who ended up with his unique little morsel of fried food could easily get at least $20 USD for his lucky(?) find on eBay. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he ended up with $200 or more, though. People will buy some weird things.
im with photoexpert on this
or maybe donate it to Lorens crypto museum to take pride of place along side the Coelacanth and Bronse large footed one
Long-time reader, first time poster.
I hate to see something so rare languish in the Frigidaire… why not send it to KY?
With a little Aunt Jemima drizzled over top who knows what might come along. And for a mere 50K I’ll be happy to video the outcome.
Hey people…It’s not mothman,…it’s a fry with mange!!! Happy New Year to all!!
Crypto-delicious! 🙂
Lol, I’d like to see how this would end out if it was an omen of some sort!
And if Scott DOES put it on eBay, I wanna see who would buy it and how much money XD!!
HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT YEAR! And I hope this Mothman Waffle Fry doesn’t cause all the potatoes in the world to disappear if someone eats it XD.