This post is the first of a three-part series written in a celebration of the incredible place-based and culturally responsive educational programming co-developed by NOAA Fisheries scientists and partner organizations during the short 2022 summer season. With the majority of students having been back in school for more than a month, I find myself asking, “What happened to summer?” Then I’m reminded of all the summer programming, camps, and internships that helped it fly by! Recently I was thinking about a weird news story from about a year ago.The days in Southeast Alaska are getting noticeably shorter, the leaves of the cottonwood trees are turning, and there is a chill in the air, even when the sun is shining. The thing had huge, gnarly fangs and looked like something from another planet.Ī New Jersey woman found a bizarre looking skull near a fox den on her farm.
Here is a photo off the Web which is supposedly of wolf eel teeth and jaws: Here’s a photo of the skull the woman found on her property: Some official person came along and supposedly identified it as a “wolf eel.” Here’s a photo of a wolf eel at the left. Newspapers at the time provided quotes from various “officials” about how, while seeing a wolf eel 50 miles inland is uncommon, it is not unheard of.īut interestingly enough, other fish and game experts do not share their consensus view of reality. They are found in the northern Pacific Ocean, ranging from the Sea of Japan and the Aleutian Islands to northern California. No mention of New Jersey – or the Atlantic Ocean, for that matter. The friendly, but fierce looking wolf-eel is a favorite of Pacific Northwest divers.Wolf-eels range from southeastern Alaska to southern California typically living in rocky reef-type habitats from the intertidal zone down to about 740 feet. Their diet consists of sea urchins, crabs, scallops - assorted crustaceans and mollusks.įull article to be found here: Wolf-eels. It doesn’t seem like other marine researchers have noted bumping into wolf eels on the East Coast before, and certainly not in New Jersey. Yet this plucky and determined “wolf eel” found its way there, anyway. And suddenly New Jersey newspapers were filled with “experts” coming out of the woodwork claiming that wolf eels frequently turn up there. My friend who lives in the state forwarded me some of the newspaper clippings at the time but I don’t feel like digging them out and scanning them today, lazy slob that I am. But there was more than one report claiming that wolf eels were perfectly normal, common, and regular New Jersey visitors. Remember how Hitler said that telling big lies is a great strategy for manipulating what the public believes? I’m always interested in how the media and the gatekeepers of “science” are always conspiring to control the flow of information to the masses. “The masses indulge in petty falsehoods every day, but it would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths and they are not able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery. The bigger the lie, therefore, the more likely it is to be believed.”Īfter all, if a big, official “scientist” comes along and says something is true, then it must be true.Įven though the “wolf eel” skull looks exactly like a damned water dragon or sea serpent.Ī classic characteristic of Custodial behavior is control and manipulation of perception. After all, if humans could really see what was going on around them with 20/20 vision, they might just get into the mood to stage one of their annoying little rebellions. And this time, we might go after the real controllers. The modern scientific cabal is one such group that uses Custodial tactics. There’s no longer a genuine spirit of inquiry at the heart of scientific discovery. In fact, the whole idea of discovery has pretty much been tossed out the window. Instead, scientists are like public relations hacks sent out to deny, deny, deny and repress, repress, repress. I love it when stories like the wolf eel skull make it into the mainstream press, because it’s one of those things that evokes curiosity and has inspired a lot of people to question the “status quo” responses of the “officials.” Especially if they discover something juicy and significant.
I mean, it was just this week that a group of 125,000 “lost” gorillas were found living in Central Africa.
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