La Cieneguilla, Southwest of airport,
Santa Fe, NM. Photograph Patricia
Price, December 1991.
La Cieneguilla, Southwest of airport,
Santa Fe, NM. Photograph Patricia
Price, December 1991.
The series of Tremors movies was memorable for a number of
reasons; fun and frightening, with parodies of so many types of people that we
all know. I was, however, quite surprised to find that the creatures upon which
the movie were based are apparently real rare, but real. I am referring, of
course, to the Graboids, the ravening, monstrous, carnivorous worms, and their
other incarnations, the Shriekers, and the Ass Blasters.
Shrieker from the Internet,
by teratophoneus-d7rlcz5,
http://deviantart.net
Now I am not suggesting that I know where we can run off to
and observe the real thing. There is, however, a petroglyph panel at La
Cieneguilla, south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, that convincingly portrays
Shriekers. The movie Tremors, was supposedly filmed in California, and was
fictional from beginning to end. These petroglyphs add an interesting
possibility. Conspiracy theorists should be able to see how the selling of this
movie as fiction is a very clever government plot to convince people that the
real creatures actually do exist (or do not exist, it depends upon your conspiracy). The
Ancestral Puebloan people of the area obviously knew of them, and knew them
well enough to leave pictures on the rocks. This brings up the obvious question
then; is it possible that we can hope someday to find evidence of the Graboids
as well? Well, quite possibly on next April Fool's Day.
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