Иван Мекерл

Иван Мекерл
Рожденный	( 1942-03-12 ) 12 марта 1942 г. Plzeň , протекторат богемии и Моравии
Умер	3 января 2013 г. (2013-01-03) (в возрасте 70 лет) Прага , Чешская Республика
Годы активны	40
Супруг	Ивона Паличкова
Дети	Дэнни Маккерл
Родительский	Отец: Юлиус Макерл

Иван Макерл (12 марта 1942–3 января 2013 г.) был чешским криптозологом , автором, инженером и исследователем. Он организовал экспедиции для поиска -Монстра Шотландии Австралии , тасманского тигра в Лох -Несс и птицы слона на Мадагаскаре . Он был наиболее примечателен своим поиском монгольского червя смерти , и он провел три поездки в Монголию в 1990, 1992 и 2004 годах. Он является автором многочисленных книг и публикаций, а с 1998 по 2002 год он был главным редактором чешского паранормального журнала Fantastická Fakta («Фантастические факты»).

Ранний период жизни

Mackerle родился 12 марта 1943 года в Plzeň в протекторате Богемии и Моравии , сына автомобильного конструктора. Когда ему было три года, семья переехала в Копеснис . Он провел свое детство в плзе. У него было увлечение легендарными существами с юного возраста, особенно червя смерти Allghoi Khorkhoi книги приключений Ярослава Фоглара и детских журналов в ( монгольского ), и широко читал . то время Другими авторами, которые повлияли на него, были российский палеонтолог и автор научной фантастики Иван Йефремов , а также Чарльз Форт , американский следователь «необъяснимых», которого прозвали «покровителем святого мусора».

Mackerle переехал в Прагу в возрасте 16 лет, где он учился в Чешском техническом университете в Праге , изучая машиностроение, уже многое узнав о зоологии и электронике. После окончания университета Mackerle работал дизайнером и был директором автомобильной фирмы, прежде чем он решил более серьезно относиться к криптозоологии .

Карьера

With former colleague Michal Brumlik he began investigating allegedly haunted castles throughout Czechoslovakia. For his expeditions, he purchased a German amphibious jeep (the Volkswagen 166 Schwimmwagen) dating from World War II and refitted it to suit his work. He used this vehicle for his explorations in Transylvania, in search of Count Dracula's castle. At 27, he made special efforts to get permission from the government of Czechoslovakia, at the time behind the Iron Curtain, to go Scotland to investigate the Loch Ness Monster. In his brief visit, he met another Loch Ness investigator, Robert H. Rines, and was impressed by his use of underwater photography and ultrasound. In the 1980s, he developed a reputation in Czechoslovakia for his lectures and audiovisual performances; of particular note was his Beautiful Mysteries of Our Planet. Sale of his popular book the Cesty za příšerami a dobrodružstvím ("Quests for Monsters and Adventure"), in addition to his lectures and columns in newspapers and journals, helped him to raise funds.

An interpretation of the Mongolian Death Worm

In 1989, Mackerle stood on Wenceslas Square with his friend Jiří Skupien, attending a big demonstration during the Velvet Revolution, and spoke of their desire to go to Mongolia; he made his first trip to Mongolia the following year in 1990. His team began an eight-week search for a large, lethal dark-red worm-like creature believed to inhabit the Gobi desert, the Mongolian death worm. Mackerle believed that it resembled the amphisbaenian of South America. He described the animal from second-hand reports as a

"sausage-like worm over half a metre (20 inches) long, and thick as a man's arm, resembling the intestine of cattle. Its tail is short, as [if] it were cut off, but not tapered. It is difficult to tell its head from its tail because it has no visible eyes, nostrils or mouth. Its colour is dark red, like blood or salami..."

He surmised that the worm extracted its venom from the goyo plant and was capable of delivering lethal electric shocks to its victims. In 1992, Mackerle made a second eight-week trip to Mongolia, during which he was warned at a Buddhist monastery that the worm was a creature of "supernatural evil" and that he was endangering his life searching for the creature. Mackerle recalls having a vivid dream about the worm, and states that he woke up with unexplained blood-filled boils on his back. He collected enough photographs, footage and data to make a documentary on his trips to Mongolia, broadcast on Czech television in 1993 as The Sand Monster Mystery.

Mackerle's expeditions also included a futile search for man-eating death blossoms in Madagascar and a scuba diving exploration off a Micronesian island in search of a mausoleum of platinum coffins. From 1998 to 2002 he was chief editor of the Czech magazine Fantastická fakta (Fantastic Facts), writing about strange phenomena and the paranormal. He was also a consultant for the TV series production titled Záhady a mystéria (Enigmas and mysteries), between 1998 and 2000.

In the early 2000s, he suffered from heart problems but recovered by 2004 and launched his third expedition to Mongolia in the late summer of that year. He scoured the desert with ultralight pilot Jiří Zítka, a video camera attached to the aircraft, but to no avail. He concluded that the creature was likely mythical, the figment of imagination or a "psychological problem" as he put it, brought about by the extreme heat of the desert.

Personal life

He authored several books and was a long-term contributor to numerous magazines including the Fortean Times. In his spare time he was also interested in historical military vehicles.

At 20 he married Ivona Paličková, and they had a son, Danny. Dan had also joined his father in many expeditions in the amphibious Schwimmwagen.

Death

Mackerle died on 3 January 2013, after a long illness. He was survived by his wife Ivona and son Dan.

Bibliography

Films

Mackerle has directed the following movies for TV:

• Ivan Mackerle (1992). Záhada písečného netvora [The sand monster mystery] (in Czech). Czechoslovakia.
• Ivan Mackerle (2000). Tajemná Austrálie [Mysterious Australia] (in Czech). Czech Republic.
• Ivan Mackerle (2001). Mongolské záhady [Mongolian mystery] (in Czech). Czech Republic.
• Ivan Mackerle (2002). Ztracené město v Pacifiku [Lost City in the Pacific] (in Czech). Czech Republic.
• Ivan Mackerle (2006). Plavba do Údolí smrti [Voyage to the Valley of Death] (in Czech). Czech Republic.
• Ivan Mackerle (2007). Tajemná světla z Kumaonu [Mysterious lights of Kumaon] (in Czech). Czech Republic.
• Ivan Mackerle (2007). Skrytá tvář Srí Lanky [Hidden Face of Sri Lanka] (in Czech). Czech Republic.
• Ivan Mackerle (2009). Mato Grosso - brána do neznáma [Mato Grosso - Gateway to the Unknown] (in Czech). Czech Republic.

Articles

• — (December 2007). "Valley of Death". The Fortean Times. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
• — (April 2008). "Hunting for the Elephant Bird". Fate. Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2013.

Books

• — (1992). Tajemství pražského Golema [Secrets of the Golem of Prague] (in Czech). Magnet Press. ISBN 9788085434163.
• — (2001). Mongolské záhady [Mongolian mystery] (in Czech) (1st ed.). Praha: Ivo Železný. ISBN 9788024021676.
• — (2005). Cesty za příšerami a dobrodružstvím [Quests for Monsters and Adventure] (in Czech). Motto. ISBN 9788072462865.
• — (2011). Návrat nejistý - Po stopách největších záhad [Return uncertain - In the footsteps of the great mysteries] (in Czech). ISBN 978-80-7388-480-2.

Дальнейшее чтение

• Дэвис, Адам (апрель 2004 г.). "Смертельный червь!" Полем Fortean Times . Архивировано с оригинала 26 ноября 2012 года . Получено 14 мая 2013 года .
• Стамбуш, Конни (9 февраля 1994 г.). «Гигантские червя приманки (-ы)» . Пражский пост . Архивировано из оригинала 30 июня 2013 года . Получено 13 мая 2013 года .
• Зивнусткова, Алена (22 декабря 1993 г.). «Охота с привидениями: преследование чешских призраков» . Пражский пост . Архивировано из оригинала 30 июня 2013 года . Получено 13 мая 2013 года .

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