my first response to stories like that is " why did the witness just stand there ? "

some attempt to kill / capture it would have been a good idea - IMHO

If it were me and the creature is as small as she says, I would have snatched it up. If it were Bigfoot I would understand...Maybe

Sounded like an egg for the first 3/4 of it, until she said it had eyes that opened up . I'd have to agree though. 2 inches across... just pick the thing up. Or at least poke it with a stick and see what happens, to make sure it doesn't have something crazy to attack with. Otherwise, she was officially just seeing stuff in my opinion.

Seems from the poll on that site that most people would be equally dumb though:

What would you do if you encountered an unknown creature?

Run away as fast as I could. (174)
13%

Try to study it. (415)
31%

Try to communicate with it. (174)
13%

Try to capture it. (214)
16%

Try to kill it. (129)
9%

I don't know. (193)
14%

No way we can really verify this. It's just word-of-mouth from some crazy lady. Could have at least marked the spot and ran back for a camera, captured it in something laying around, anything!

One of Paula's hobbies was prowling through old junk yards and dump sites for vintage old bottles and glass.

'Nuff said!

[edit on 29-10-2005 by Yarcofin]

This seems to be a very interesting story. Good find! I would not be so quick to dismiss her (the lady from the story) just because she has a hobby that may seem a bit odd to you. We all have our own little quirks dont we. Anyway, I will be following this story through the website provided because it has grabbed my attention.

12 12 2012 :

now you have drawn my attention to the nature of her hobby - i am more amazed that she did not capture it

the lady digs in trash dumps - thats a potentially hazardous endeavour , so i would assume that she cariies such equipment to safely handle the stuff she dids up - that will likley be contaminated with various biological and chemical hazrds and keep them contained till she could get home to clean / steraliise the finds

I just thought of this...Why didn't she just grab some old tupperware or something, plastic bag, anything. I think she is just insane but I posted this story because it is interesting and I wanted to hear some other opinions on this. So keep em comin.

I think you mean "Ingot" and the only definition of this word I can come up with has to do with metal working. No information on any search engines that I checked has to do with any type of animal.

I think it was a battery powered toy.

Originally posted by alienartifact
Has anyone heard of an Ignot?

From original story link

An unidentified Southeastern Asian creature known as an ingot [possibly lingot]. Check with Agence France-Press for stories about ingots during the final years of French involvement in Indochina. They were seen burrowing everywhere, and the descriptions of the bodies and eyes match those of Paula's story. Old Indochina veterans in the French army could never explain them or where they came from, and there is no record of American sightings during this country's involvement later. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, supreme commander of French forces in Indochina, was so unnerved by sighting of burrowing ingots and the lack of information about them that he brought in a special team of researchers, who apparently found nothing. The ingot is like no other creature reported on earth, and it contributed to the general weirdness of the French experience in Indochina. Ingots were reported in large numbers in 1953 around the North Vietnamese site where an entire French regiment vanished without a trace. This disappearance may have had nothing to do with ingots, but there are still old veterans in the cafes of Paris, Bordeaux and Marseilles who swear there was a connection.

It was right in the link to the original story posted. I hope people took the the time to actually read the story because they already propsed this creature as the dump bound animal.

[edit on 31-10-2005 by 12 12 2012]

none of which explains what an " ingot " or " lingot " ACTUALLY IS in biological terms - does it ??????

the " french regiment dissaperaring sans trace " tripped my BS meter though

The fact that I can't find ANYTHING else on the web besides other people on other forums talking about that article makes me think that the writer made it up or knows something nobody else does.
(I'm back by the way. I can see nobody missed me. That's understandable.)

Sounds like a description of a new born snake. They can look very strange when they just exit the egg.

I too would like to know what this Ingot is can anyone find a decent link about it?

hey guys so i read that thing long ago.

but now, years later i am an exchange student in japan, i saw a short clip of the exact same creature in everyway, on a very grainy possible cellphone camera video.

made me remember, then i also remembered the pokemon digglett. maybe asian cultures know, or used to know somehting we dont.