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Post by politicidal on Mar 1, 2017 23:56:32 GMT
I don't put stock in most of the creatures' existence like I did in my younger years but always found it a fun topic of discussion. My personal favorite was Mokele-Mbembe.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Mar 2, 2017 22:32:11 GMT
I'm still waiting for someone to drain Loch Ness.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 10:10:14 GMT
Yeah, sure, why not.
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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Mar 3, 2017 14:57:41 GMT
Yes, I love reading about cryptids and watching documentaries about these legendary creatures.  Does anyone remember Monsterquest? It was a TV show that aired for a few years on the History channel. I like how it approached the subject - seriously but skeptically. I've never seen one of these creatures myself but I'm open to the possibility of their existence. I'd like to think that there are still some mysteries left in this world. BTW, your thread inspired me to do a cryptid poll. Please vote! |
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Post by socalboy83 on Mar 6, 2017 20:50:10 GMT
Yes! I would love to see Nessie.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Mar 6, 2017 20:56:40 GMT
Mokele Mbembe was a tantalizing one. Seems unlikely that any species of dinosaur that somehow survived 100+ mya could have done so without at least leaving a fossil trail, however.
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Post by maya55555 on Mar 7, 2017 0:56:41 GMT
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Post by Dontrocktheboat on Mar 7, 2017 1:33:19 GMT
I got caught up in the Bigfoot phenomenon of the 90s.
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Post by darkknightofgotham on Mar 11, 2017 16:00:02 GMT
Yep. I don't know if they exist, but I enjoy watching shows about Bigfoot.
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Post by samwise1965 on Apr 19, 2017 14:21:44 GMT
Love all the cryptid stuff, especially Bigfoot and we tune in to every show that comes along (good or bad).
Bigfoot used to freak me out when I was a kid. I remember when Mysterious Monsters came out and the commercial where he reaches through the window was terrifying!
And don't forget Boggy Creek!
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Post by telegonus on Apr 22, 2017 8:29:12 GMT
I don't put stock in most of the creatures' existence like I did in my younger years but always found it a fun topic of discussion. My personal favorite was Mokele-Mbembe. I like mokele-mbembe, too, or rather the idea. For many years I was a member of cryptozoology. com (I think that's the name of the site), and I found it fascinating. It was run by real scientists looking for real, as in genuine, new species. No little green men, please; and no UFO stuff. For a while it worked, but bit by bit the bigfoot people began to take over. Bigfoot can go by many names, so it's not just the alleged creature called by that name that became the talk of the town, but every conceivable variation of it, from all over the country. It was a damn shame. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 0:09:30 GMT
Lately I am watching a lot of Mountain Monsters, which I consider to be hilarious.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Apr 23, 2017 0:18:54 GMT
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Post by rudeboy on May 4, 2017 1:56:23 GMT
Yes, I have always been a bit of a buff. As I grow older I am skeptical - and outright dismissive of most of the high profile cryptids. There are no dinosaurs in the Congo, no apes in North America.
I do, however, admit there is a chance - albeit probably quite a slim one - that something is out there. The yeti or orang pendek, for example, are not out of the question.
Personal favourite is the thylacine, if it even counts as a cryptid. I have always been obsessed with that animal and while I sadly admit that they are almost certainly long-gone, I would love to be wrong about that.
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Post by telegonus on Sept 26, 2018 8:46:57 GMT
Unlikely, I agree, rudeboy, however it's estimated that literally thousands of species have yet to be discovered on our planet. Most are small, easy to miss, resemble something else or simply get "lost" in the shuffle: flying things, crawling things, swamp things, aquatic species, nocturnal ones.
These aren't the kinds of things one is likely to discover in one's back yard or on a nature walk. It take specialized training in, especially, life science, to even beginning to start hunting for cryptids. They are as difficult to find and classify as they are abundant.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 26, 2018 13:47:32 GMT
Hey, you learn something new every day: Jimmy Stewart apparently smuggled a “yeti finger” from a monastery in Nepal!  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangboche_HandTwo BBC pieces on it here and here. In the first one, the lead researcher says, “We have got a very, very strong match to a number of existing reference sequences on human DNA databases… Human was what we were expecting and human is what we got.” I’m probably going to sound like a terrible conspiracy nut, but wouldn’t a real-life yeti have a number of DNA similarities to humans? I mean, the yeti would be a great ape, and we and the chimpanzee share, what, 96% DNA? |
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