Friday, April 1, 2016

ROCK ART PROOF THAT THE CREATURES IN THE TREMORS MOVIES WERE REAL?




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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