Are any cryptids real?

[Mika-El]

What, that doesn't count?

Yeah, already covered that.

Sasquatch is in hiding in the DP home office, passing himself off as a mod.

This is why Hamish Howl is the highest rated forum member in regards to sardonic commentary. I can only defer to his presence but point out why once again he is accurate on his perceptions of existence.

Can you sport the difference between the Bigfoot and the Moderator?

 

[Napoleon]

One thing you have to understand about science is that “established” science is always wrong and the establishment is highly resistant to change. Cryptozoology is a wonderful example of that and discoveries are made in that field despite the resistance and ridicule of the scientific establishment.

One example that comes to mind is the Coelacanth. The scientific establishment insisted that these had been extinct for 66 million years and sightings were dismissed as tall tales by lying sailors. Until a live specimen was found among the catch of a South African fisherman in 1938. Far from extinct, the Coelacanth is very much alive and well in the Indian Ocean.

Others include the Platypus (which the scientific establishment insisted was fake taxidermy of various animal parts), the Giant Squid (which the scientific establishment insisted was a fiction and lie invented by sailors), the Gorilla (crazy, right?!), the Okapi, etc etc

 

[ASHES]

If it was real it wouldn't be a cryptid.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Anything large no except for perhaps some very deep sea creatures

 

[Lycanthrope]

None whatsoever.

Now if you'll excuse me, the moon needs to be howled at.

 

[Exquisitor]

Maybe not all of them but some or, even, just one?

The Spalding expedition claims to have seen Yeti and we'd hardly consider Spalding a liar.

One theory is that they have dimensional capability and can disappear and forage in their own realm.

Another is similar, that they have a valley in the Himalayas and project around the Earth in finer bodies to forage.

It is easily likely that such a group of adepts would exist, and that they would be sheltered in some valley by the Master Himalaya, the problem is you need so many of them to have a functioning gene pool, at least a thousand.

This brings me to understand the Master's explanation to Spalding. They are a group that left humanity. Possibly adepts for whom it would not be difficult to develop such bodies, or even change the DNA of hair remnants calling pig or goat? Such would be their inheritance.

I knew someone in Hawaii who could walk through the forest in a projected body.

 

[OlNate]

Maybe not all of them but some or, even, just one?

I think it's possible, given the examples provided about animals that used to be considered cryptids until they were found.

But, as time goes by, it gets less and less likely, given a couple things:

• There are less and less unexplored areas in the world.
• Unique habitats are being / have been destroyed at increasing rates for a long time.

The most likely "cryptids" are now deep sea creatures.

I should be clear, not all cryptids are created equally. Humanoid flying goat-like creatures are perhaps a little less likely than something like a giant squid, which was considered a cryptid for a long time until discovered.

 

[RF667799]

sMaybe not all of them but some or, even, just one?

When I was a youngster, I devoured cryptid materials. I checked out every book available in several libraries. I watched documentaries, at least one that made the rounds of big screen theaters.

With the results that even as I near 67 years of age, I can occasionally get the heebie-jeebies when alone in a deep dark woods of a night.

Hell...I live in area where neighbors are few and far between. There is nothing but woods for miles and miles in some directions. As recently as this summer I believe, I was sitting out on the back patio enjoying some herbal recreation, and became aware that something was in the deep woods that borders the lawn on that side, walking back and forth.

I went in the house.

 

[Deuce]

They don't exist because the gatekeepers of knowledge selectively chooses which historical record entries are legitimate and which are fictional. These are the same 'scientist' that will find a bunch of fossilized bones and make up a compelling long-winded narrative that of course requires more funding to attain a satisfactory resolution.

lol imagine being this angry at paleontologists.

It's 2024. Something like 6.5 billion people have phones capable of recording video, and these phones are on them virtually 24/7. If Bigfoot, little green men, or whatever nonsense you believe in were real, we'd have proof.

 

[joluoto]

No, they are not. The whole: there are large animals out there we don't know about, just won't work. They would have been caught on camera at least once, and we'd found fossils of dead ones and their ancestors.

Having said all that, Slenderman is still real.

 

[Rumpel]

Maybe not all of them but some or, even, just one?

what exactly is a cryptid?

 

[Rumpel]

If it was real it wouldn't be a cryptid.

exactly!

 

[RF667799]

Kentucky has a long and storied reputation as being haunted ground or something. The indigenous people apparently would cross the Ohio to hunt in Kentucky, but didn't stay and settle. There are a LOT of cryptid stories originating in Kentucky. Of course, Kentucky is the sort of long-inhabited place that is rife with folklore of all sorts, so there's that.

One night, I was fishing an isolated Kentucky lake. It was the middle of the week, and I had the entire 80 some acre lake all to myself. It was a very still night, hot and humid with hardly a breath of breeze to ripple the water. I was relaxing in my boat a few dozen feet from the bank with only my normal apprehension about dark, isolated places. That was well in the background, until a literally hair raising scream came from somewhere in the woods fairly close to my location.

So I decided to fish further out towards the middle of the lake for awhile.

No sooner than I was relocated though- and beginning to mull through the possibilities of what the **** was that- there was another "what the **** was that". Longer and possibly louder than the first scream.

So I decided that fishing was a waste of time that night anyway, and I might as well go home. I proceeded to the ramp and loaded the boat onto the trailer in something that might have approached record time, if anyone bothered with such records. Then drove home at a speed fairly respectable for someone occupied with looking behind the car a lot.

 

[Deuce]

We have a term for cryptids that are real:

Animals.