Your mystery photograph to solve has two different series of questions to think about today.

1) What is the general story behind “it”? What is “it” said to be in terms of cryptozoology and the place the image holds in hominology?

2) More importantly, what do you think “it” really represents? What do you see in the photograph that may have never been noticed before? What is “it”?

Here “it” is.

What could this thing be?

Meanwhile, on television tonight, it is “repeats” on MonsterQuest, and a treat about circus trains.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009: History cable channel, check local listings.

08:00 PM Eastern (also later, check local listings)
MonsterQuest: Killer Crocs
Using the latest high-tech equipment, MonsterQuest takes a scientific look at legendary creatures around the world, creatures eyewitnesses claim to see to this day. Each episode will examine all the evidence available, from pictures and video to hair and bones, as well as the eyewitness accounts themselves. Believers, skeptics and scientists will weigh in, but what will the evidence reveal?

09:00 PM Eastern (also later, check local listings)
MonsterQuest: Lions in the Backyard
Mountain lions do occasionally attack humans, and when they do it makes headlines across the country. However, it has been reported that people are seeing something else–attacks by large black cats. Pictures and law enforcement encounters prove a big black cat is out there, while it resembles a mountain lion, there is no such thing as a black mountain lion. From Texas to Minnesota to West Virginia, follow the eyewitness accounts and physical evidence of these demon cats. Bones from a carcass that eyewitnesses claim was a huge black cat will be put to the DNA test. One-part history, one-part science and one part monsters discover the truth behind legendary monsters.

Please note, this other interesting program, also to be broadcast on Wednesday night on History, fits well with those doing additional research on all those “circus train wreck” escapees.

11:00 PM Eastern
Extreme Trains: Circus Train
Hop aboard the longest privately owned train in the world, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey’s circus train. PT Barnum’s circus train started in the 1870s; and the US military used circus loading techniques in World War I. Host Matt Bown and the circus must race against the clock to dismantle tons of equipment and get it on the rails. As they travel from Baltimore to the Washington, DC corridor in the dead of night, Matt discovers the less glamorous side to the greatest show on earth.

For those without cable, you can presently view the full episode of MonsterQuest’s “Mega-Jaws,” without embedded ads during the program, here.