Alligators and Crocodiles, like the Turtles talked about last week, are ancient. These reptiles survived from 300 million years ago with the dinosaurs.
They survived the KT extinction.
They survived the ice age.
Now people are going to tell us that there is no way they could survive in a sewer?
That the environent isn't conducive to their survival there? Yet a frozen wasteland and asteroid destruction is?
You know what that sounds like right?
Either stupidity or. . conspiracy.
As the fearless, world's greatest spy Archer eloquently put it:
The New York Times reported that "a sewer alligator is an urban legend and myth centered around alligators which lives in sewers, in areas which an alligator would not typically be found in, such as New York City or Paris. These accounts are mostly fictional and are rare to encounter."
Their reasoning?
"Longer-term survival is not possible due to the low temperatures and the bacteria in human feces".
Yet they survived an ice age.
Plus there have been reported sightings since the 1920's.
One 1927 account In Thomas White's "The Forgotten Tales of Pennsylvania" describes an experience of a Pittsburgh Bureau of Highways and Sewers employee who was assigned the task of clearing out a section of sewer pipe on Royal Street in the Northside Section of the city. The account reads, "[He] removed the manhole cover and began to clear an obstruction when he realized that a set of 'evil looking eyes' was staring at him." He then removed a 3-foot (0.91 m) alligator and took it home with him.
Ripley's Believe It Or Not also reported that it is impossible for alligators to live in the sewers. Even quoted an article of New York Sewer Commissioner Teddy May going down into the sewers to prove or deny the claim. Ripley's stated: "No sightings of alligators in the sewers were filed during the campaign. However, in 1937, May declared the cities’ sewers were safe for rodents and waste products once again."
The Journal of American Folklore also reported differently about the SAME event:
"According to May, sewer inspectors first reported seeing alligators in 1935, but neither May nor anyone else believed them. "Instead, he set men to watch the sewer walkers to find out how they were obtaining whisky down in the pipes." Persistent reports, however, perhaps including the newspaper item discovered by Coleman, caused May to go down to find out for himself. He found that the reports were true. "The beam of his own flashlight had spotlighted alligators whose length, on the average, was about two feet."
So, which is it May?? Why is one account of the same event different than the other??
The most common story is that the alligators survive and reside within the sewer and reproduce, feeding on rats and garbage, growing to huge sizes and striking fear into sewer workers. In Robert Daley's book The World Beneath the City (1959) he comments that one night a sewer worker in New York City was shocked to find a large albino alligator swimming toward him. Weeks of hunting followed.
In February 2023 New York captured one in Prospect Park Lake:
What about the recent video account in May 2023 in Florida? A robot with a camera recorded footage of one in the storm sewer:
That sure is a lot of accounts now being captured on video when it was said to be impossible.
We didn't have drones in the 1920's to prove any of the accounts true or false. But now it looks like it was true all along.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, "Alligators are opportunistic feeders. Their diets include prey species that are abundant and easily accessible. Juvenile alligators eat primarily insects, amphibians, small fish, and other invertebrates. Adult alligators eat rough fish, snakes, turtles, small mammals, and birds."
And people if you mess with them.
There have been many accounts of alligators eating humans.
New York and Florida have some of the highest missing persons cases to date, according to worldpopulationreview.com.
Would be pretty easy to just toss them to an alligator in the sewers where nobody cares to venture into. Where the government swears they don't and can't exist.
Convenient.
So are there ninja alligators living in the sewers? Probably not. Though I wish it were true. Then they could make a collab with the ninja turtles.
But the age old conspiracy of alligators not being able to live in the sewer environment is completely false and still being pushed by major organizations to this day. Is it just to keep people from being scared? Is there something more sinister going on here?
Sounds like the 1980's Alligator film wasn't that far off.
Keep seeking the truth dear readers.
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Until next week,
I am Snickers. I am truth.
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