Field Notes From The Unknown: Hello, Casey. And I'm Mackenzie. And this is Field Notes from the Unknown, ⁓ a about your favorite local cryptid. Casey: c ⁓ can't wait. I love it. Mackenzie Hrubey: Hey. Casey: Can you take a drink? Stay hydrated. Thanks. Mackenzie Hrubey: I love your pink drink. ⁓ yeah, hydrate or dystrate. It's a it is Pride Month. Casey: True. It is. Mackenzie Hrubey: ⁓ yeah, we didn't do it gay cryptid. Casey: Aren't they all kinda a little gay? Aren't aren't they all a little Mackenzie Hrubey: Absolutely. Yeah. They're definitely not. Yeah. Heck no. Casey: of course they experimented. Mackenzie Hrubey: They've surely experimented. Happy Pride Month. Casey: Woohoo! Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay, for our listeners, what do you think is the most LGBTQ inclusive cryptid? Casey: That is a good question. Yeah. What do you think it is? Good question, huh? Mackenzie Hrubey: Who's that creature from the horror movie? You know, you know. Casey: Ike, you gotta give me a little more than that. Mackenzie Hrubey: Hang on, hang on, hang on, it's gonna come to me. ⁓ my god, what was it called? It was from Britain. Casey: The pig band? ⁓ the Babaduke. Mackenzie Hrubey: The Bobaduke. Casey: thought that was an awful movie. I did not like it. Mackenzie Hrubey: I mean it kinda was, but it it doesn't destroy the fact that it's still a gay icon. Casey: True. I think it would be Sin Cole Sam. Because Sam's a worm and I think they're non binary. Mackenzie Hrubey: I see you did there. Casey: Yep. Mm-hmm. Yes. Mackenzie Hrubey: Mm, mm-hmm. What about Mongolian deathworms? It's like single sand but cooler and more metal, you know? Casey: More toxic. They could yeah, yeah. They could they could definitely be fat. I think ⁓ the Loch Nose monster would be bisexual. Or just a lesbian. Mackenzie Hrubey: Middle. Yeah. Yeah. Casey: Yeah. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. I feel like Casey: Puck of wodies would be twinks. Well, that's not LGBTQ, but you know. They're twinks. Mackenzie Hrubey: They would be. They would be. ⁓ We can just get real about the dear woman was absolutely a dominatrix. Casey: a hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, heck yeah. Yeah. So, Casey, I want to be enamored by a cryptid tale this evening. Casey: Do you have any idea what I'm talking about tonight? Mackenzie Hrubey: No, I really don't. I'm I'm totally totally gonna be lambasted. Casey: This is going to be another short-ish episode for me. But again, all cryptids deserve their screen time. And we shall give all cryptids their deserved screen time. So we're gonna go somewhere chilly today. We're going into the Arctic waters. Mackenzie Hrubey: Absolutely. They do. Absolutely. ooh, frigid. ⁓ so cold. So icy. Casey: Very cold, very icy. We're going to meet an Inuit myth or and or cryptid, however you want to see it, called the Calapo Calapaloopa oopy. Calopaloopa oop. It's it's it's hard. Mackenzie Hrubey: Full of pebble ice. Mm, so crusty. Cala Paloo. Casey: But it's not so Co quo coawoopa loop? Mackenzie Hrubey: You should spell, I need to do this belt phonetically. ⁓ Okay. Uh-huh. Casey: Yeah, take a stab at it. And then laugh at me. Kaloopaloop. Yeah, I think it's kaloopaloop. Okay. Mackenzie Hrubey: Say Calopolote. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, pretty sure. F fairly Or apparently AKA Clup Yeah, that one. Yeah. Calopallock. Yeah, that. Sure. Casey: Yeah. I yeah, that. So we are going to be talking about that. Also known as ⁓ the Arctic's Boogeyman. Mackenzie Hrubey: Mm-hmm. Well, this is horrifying and chilling in more ways than one. Casey: Right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes, yes. So the Kaloopaloop is a greenish blue ugly scaly creature that reeks of sulfur. Mackenzie Hrubey: Stinky. Casey: Mm-hmm. They're said to be a humanoid man eater. Mackenzie Hrubey: Mm-hmm. Casey: But there are a few conflicting reports on what they look like because some people say it looks like a man and others most of what I've heard are described as a female appearance. Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay. Casey: ⁓ What do you think the Kaloopa loop does? Mackenzie Hrubey: Snatches children and drags them to a watery grave? Casey: That is true. That is a hundred percent spot on. Mackenzie Hrubey: Is it like the Inuit like La Yorona? Casey: Yes. Yes, it is. So it's believed that the Kaloopaloop will snatch up children that are misbehaving or just too close to the water or they'll also lure them in to the water. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Uh-huh. How do they lure them? Do they sing or do they like attract them with treats? Or what what's the mechanism? Casey: So it's said that some if you hear a knocking, like on ice, a humming, or a quick stir or even steam coming from the water, that the Kaloopaloop is trying to attract you and lure you into a trap. Mackenzie Hrubey: ⁓ Spooky. So why does spell like sulfur? Is is she actually like a demon from hell? Like what what's the sulfur thing about? Casey: So some people do say she is actually a demon. Mackenzie Hrubey: Interesting. Casey: But Others say she's not. We'll get into that. So the Clooploop has ⁓ long flowing black hair. We did the grayish skin, the scales. She has webbed fins, like for hands and feet. Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay, the better to go through the water, my dear. Yeah. Casey: Yes. The sp in spikes. Some say they have spikes on their back. Mackenzie Hrubey: You know who else has webbed toes and feet but not spikes on his back? Michael Phelps. Casey: Just Who? Does he? Really? Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, is Michael Phelps a kaloopaloop? Casey: Has he snatched up children? Mackenzie Hrubey: I mean we don't know that he hasn't. Casey: I don't know not looking too good. Don't come at me allegedly. So Mackenzie Hrubey: This is only conjecture. Don't come for us. Allegedly. Casey: Below the surface now we're gonna I'm gonna do a picture here, okay? You are a little kid, five. Okay? Five five is a very curious age. Not for long. Mackenzie Hrubey: I'm so little full of hopes and dreams. I'm not jaded. Casey: You see something scurrying below the ice surface. And Mackenzie being a young, curious kid, you go over to the water to try and get a closer look. And all of a sudden, you see the Kaloopaloop jump out and just snatch you. Down into the water you go, taking you back with them. Mackenzie Hrubey: ⁓ what's that? That's pretty cool. So sparkly, so shiny. What's that? What's that? ⁓ NOOOO Casey: So there are only two things that the Kaluopic loop could probably do with kids. Okay? Mackenzie Hrubey: Eat them. Casey: Yeah, yeah. They do. They either eat the children to keep themselves young and also ugly and scaly looking, but young and their hair nice and flowing. Mackenzie Hrubey: ⁓ Young and scaly, like a beautiful mermaid. Casey: Funny you say mermaid. This is literally the horror version. If Tim Burton wrote a mermaid thing, sorry, I have a visitor. This would be his mermaid. No, it's marv. It's marv. It's the one I no, it's my chunky boy. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. He's beautiful. ⁓ he loves you! ⁓ is that Lucy? That's Lucy. She loves you! that was Lucy. ⁓ only one eye. Look a beautiful boy. Casey: Stinky boy. Mackenzie Hrubey: Did he poop and he can't clean his butthole? What happens to fat boy? Casey: No, he just needs a bath. But the Kaloopaloop is said to be just a really scary mermaid. Because similar to Sirens and La Lorona, they're using something, somehow luring people into this trap. And it only seems to be kids, by the way. Only kids. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. ⁓ man. How fine. Dang. So do they have gills, like a fish? Casey: Some pictures of them ha are depicted of that they have gills, but I didn't see any like, ⁓ for sure evidence that yeah, they have gills. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Interesting. And how long are they just part ⁓ a part of Inuet folklore going back forever and ever and ever? Spooky Casey: Way back. Way back. So i a lot of the things that I saw are it was kind of just a story to tell kids to keep them away from the water's edge, especially back then, which I get. So is it a story that just collectively has grown and grown and grown? But there is a video interview Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Casey: Who she says she heard these knockings. She knows what she heard and what was going to happen if she didn't get out of there. And I believe her. Like I I don't A story can be a story, but And I get that. But I do think there's something to be said. Especially when it's a water cryptid, because the water is still so much left unknown. So unexplored. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, it's so unexplored. And I mean i it's interesting, I mean, you'd see it both ways. Like one is the Cloopaloop an extension of mermaid folklore and that people are trying to understand a space that's unknowable, but albeit harsher than like the Caribbean, so of course the image of the Clipaloop's harsher than the image of like a Caribbean mermaid or whatever, but what if it is something that people really do see and have experiences with? Casey: Mm-hmm. Yeah. It could be. So to go back to the child snatching, the best some people say that they put the child under a spell and hide them in an icy cave for all eternity. We don't know. Or or or ⁓ we go back to they eat them, so they remain immortal and nourish themselves. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. ⁓ yeah, but why? Well that's the quick move. Casey: It could be either or. Mackenzie Hrubey: Gotcha. Alright. Or a little bit of both. Maybe they fatten ⁓ up kind of like a handselum grill situation in the underground cavern. And then they eat ⁓ Yeah. Yeah. Casey: Ooh yeah, I didn't think about that. That could be. Yeah. Here's a question. Mackenzie Hrubey: Which by the way, in case you're wondering, is our what, fifth or sixth episode where we've referenced eating of people? We should make merch like this. Like field notes from the unknown, eat your neighbors, you know? Like share your fan art with us. Or Casey: ⁓ yeah. Man, we're gonna have to switch it over. Yeah, we should. Eat your neighbors. Don't actually eat your neighbors. It's sa so it said that the Kaloopaloop also is similar to La Darona, lonely, because she lost a child and now she's just hunting for children and snatching them up. Mackenzie Hrubey: That's heartbreaking. Casey: Yeah. Or that she you know, maybe she's just trying to help the kids because of the ice. What if they're falling through and then they're like, ⁓ well, this is mine now. I don't know. It's yeah. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, and then she just takes care of it and doesn't really eat them. They just become other kloopaloops. Casey: They just yeah, they turn into Kaloopa loops. So I have one story because there's not much on the Kalopa loop, but I did really like it and I wanted to share it. So here is the story. An old woman lived with her grandson in a small hut. As they had no kinsmen, they were very poor. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Yeah. Ooh All right. Casey: A few Inuits only took pity on them and brought them seal meat and blubber from their lamp for their lamp. Once upon a time there was a very hungry hungry wait once upon a time they were very hungry and the little boy cried. The grandmother told him to be quiet, but as he did not obey, she became v Mackenzie Hrubey: Mm-hmm. What a bitch. Casey: She became very angry and called upon the Kaloopaloop to come and take him away. He entered at once and the woman put the boy into the large hood that this Kaloopaloop was wearing, like a sack. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. ⁓ wow, like a kangaroo kind of thing? Casey: Kinda like also like a baby s like, you know, those little snug things. Kinda like that. Yes. Yes. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, yeah. Like the ⁓ the wraps, like where they wrap ⁓ around. Which weirdly is also a thing that people have said in like western, northern, like northwest Washington by the coast is a thing that Sasquatch do. Weird. But anyway, I know. Carry on. Yeah, so the Cloopaloop. Casey: interesting. The cloop loop came in and took him away. He entered at once, and the woman put the boy into the large hood, in which he disappeared almost immediately. Later on the Inu on the Inuit. Later on the Inuit were most successful in stealing sealing. Sealing. Sealing, like hunting for seals. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. ⁓ Casey: And they had an abundance of meat. Then the grandmother was sorry that she had she so rashly given the boy to the kloopaloop and wished to see him back again. Mackenzie Hrubey: Well stop being such a bitch, lady. Casey: She went to other Inuits and at length a man and his wife promised to help her. When the ice had consol consolidated and deep cracks were formed near the shore by the rise and fall of the tide, the boy used to rise and sit alongside the cracks playing with the whips of s with the whips of seaweed. Kaloopaloop, however, was afraid that somebody was might carry the boy away. So he's still with the Kaloopaloop. But he can yes, sh it seems to be. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, she's caring for him. Casey: afraid someone might carry the boy away, and had fastened him to a string of seaweed, which he held in his hand. The Inuit who had seen the boy wanted went towards him, but as soon as she saw him coming, he sang, Two men are coming, one with a double jacket and one with a foxkin jacket. The Kalupa loop pulled the rope pulled the rope and the boy depressed. He did not want to return to his grandmother who had abused him. Sometimes afraid the Inu sometime afterwards the Inuit saw him again sitting near the crack. They took the utmost caution that he should not hear them when approaching. Trying pieces tying pieces of deer skin under their soles of their boots. But when they had almost laid hold of the boy he sang two men are coming one with a double jacket, one with a foxkin jacket. Again the Kalopaloop pulled the seaweed rope and the boy disappeared. The man and his wife, however, did not give up trying. They resolved to wait near the crack and all Mackenzie Hrubey: Mm-hmm. Casey: and on one occasion when the boy had just come out of the water they jumped forward with a piece of ice from a piece of ice which they had been hiding before he could give the alarm and they had cut the rope and away they went with him into their huts. Mackenzie Hrubey: That's crazy. He was clearly being cared for better than they were caring for him. Yeah. Casey: Alright. yeah, I don't know. I thought this was interesting. Again, it's very brief one. But I like the myth of the snatchings. There is also a children's book out there called A Promise Is a Promise that is supposed to reference the Kaloopa loop. So I know where your first baby book's gonna be. Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. I I can't wait to read Calypalib stories to your future children. Casey: Ha ha. Yeah yeah don't go near the water Mackenzie Hrubey: Your kids are gonna love the water. What are you kidding? Mm-hmm. Pisces and Aquarius, come on now. Casey: They are. They are. I'll be like, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you to the Kaloopaloop. Mackenzie Hrubey: don't I know I want to take care of my cute little nieces and nephews. Casey: gonna be one, by the way. One. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kaloopaloop's known as the water dwelling boogeyman. And Yeah. Mackenzie Hrubey: Two. Two. We'll circle back to this. I like this story. This is interesting. It's kind of spooky. The water dwelling big Wiggyman, okay. Well, it it I will do my best to not look in the mirror and say klopa loop, klopa a loop, klopa loop three times and then turn off the light 'cause I feel like she's gonna I feel like she will. That's what Layorana did. Casey: She's not gonna pop out of your bathtub. Sh this is different. So what do you rate this myth andor cryptid? Mackenzie Hrubey: Spoopy. I'm gonna give Miss Clipa Loop a two and a half stars. ⁓ because of course, ⁓ the water breathing I think is a challenge for the validity of this cryptid. Casey: Good Lord. Mackenzie Hrubey: Stories I think are fascinating. And I think there's something to be said for ⁓ you know, cultural icons rescuing children from horrible parents. Casey: Yeah. I am also gonna have to agree with the two and a half. I think this was probably just a story that they would tell their young. and no honestly nothing wrong with that. I know I grew up with stories like that. Mackenzie Hrubey: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, spooky stories about dog met in Pennsylvania. Casey: Yeah, and like don't go out at night or this'll happen, you know. Yeah, don't whistle. It's again one of those. It's what's the term like if you get th No Like if one person believes it then several others start to believe it and then it actually just turns into a Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I think. But yeah. Mackenzie Hrubey: Don't whistle. Yeah. Like a moral tale? Tulpas. Yeah. Tulpas. Yeah. I love it. Fascinating. Well, listeners, please rate the cryptid, the Kaloopa loop for us below. Let us know what you think about her on a scale of one to five. ⁓ if you Yes or no. if you've been anywhere near the Arc Arctic Circle, have you encountered her? We would love to hear your field notes. Casey: Would you give your kids to her? Also. Mm-hmm. And again, like, share, subscribe. Find us everywhere at Field Notes from the Unknown. And we'll see you next week with another story. Mackenzie Hrubey: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Thank you so much. Casey: Alright, bye guys.