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Posted on 07/11/2025 12:32:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Unicorns appeared in Arthurian legend and are Scotland’s national animal
A MYSTERIOUS “unicorn” skull has been unearthed near King Arthur’s castle.
Tourist John Goodwin dug it up after spotting the long horn sticking out of moss on the edge of a Cornish cliff.
When he pulled it free, he found a skull with a single tusk in the middle of its forehead — like the mythical creature.
John, a plumber from Canada was near Tintagel — the supposed site of King Arthur’s Camelot castle — with wife Val and their daughter.
He found the skull at St Nectan’s Glen, a spot considered to be sacred.
John, 46, said: “The hairs on my arm stood up when I pulled it out.
“I was in this magical place full of folklore and came across this item.
“There was moss at the edge of the cliff and something poking out of it. It looked like a horn and I kept tugging on it.
" It was grown in there, it wasn’t like someone put it there last weekend. It looked properly old.”
John, in the UK to celebrate his grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary, took the curious object to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in nearby Boscastle but they refused to take it.
He left it at The Stonehenge Inn, in Durrington, Wilts, on the way back to Heathrow.
John said: “I showed it to the barman and he offered me unlimited ales for the skull.
"Between me and my wife, we had seven or eight and then we left the skull there.”
Unicorns appeared in Arthurian legend and are Scotland’s national animal. But it is thought the skull is either a freak animal or a hoax.
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Piltdown horse?
Rhinoceros?
I suppose it’s as real as Camelot...
That doesn’t look a thousand five hundred years old..............
Jackelope
Hoax is my bet
Paging Gutfeld!
It’s a one eyed, one horned flying purple people eater if you ask me.
bttt
Pretty easy to prove/disprove.
I am suspicious about how fresh it looks.
Unicorns certainly existed. That’s why cultures with no contact depicted the same animal.
Not only do they exist, but you can see them at most major zoos. You have to keep in mind two things:
1) The same people who described them as a horse with a horn also described a hippo as a “river horse.”
2) Unicorns were said to have massive, thick legs and feet like an elephant, super-tough hides, and were extremely rugged.
3) The horn grew out of its nose, not its forehead.
Now, what creature looks no more unlike a horse than a hippo, has a massive horn on its nose, has legs and feet like an elephant, is built extremely ruggedly, and has a thick, thick hide?
The fairy-tale girly horses are the imagination of someone who read no further than “horse” and “horn.”
The horn is curved the wrong way (Subtle hoax?), and seems to be way too far up the skull (long mutant secondary horn?), plus it seems to lack the upward swinging back of the skull. I never realized how much rhinos’ skulls look sorta like primitive ceratopsians. [The most famous ceratopsian is a triceratops, but there are earlier ones with only one horn and more modest frills in the back of their skulls. But actual ceratopsians grew out the frill before growing out their nasal horns, as far as I know.]
But I’m no expert, and I dont have nice 3-D images of them to put next to each other. Definitely seems more rhino-like than horse-like, though.
That's right. The House *and* the Senate.
Obviously fake.
Sadly the unicorns went extinct because they failed to reproduce:
The Gender Unicorn
https://www.acalltomen.org/resources/the-gender-unicorn/
“Ah mama, I’m just dolphin.”
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