Cryptids

[Statler Waldorf]

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I'm with vorlon on this - nil to everything except ETs that have NOT visited Earth.

Why am I so certain? Several reasons:

1. No hard evidence for any of them.

2. Most of the creatures (as commonly described) could not survive in the environs postulated for them.

3. If these things were as common as the cryptonuts typically claim, we be shooing Bigfeet away from our dustbins and tripping over chupacabras.

Sorry, but cryptozoology is just one of the many, many things dreamed up by sad, disaffected people who want the universe to be more marvelous than it already is.

Boru

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Yes I largely agree, however with a few of these cryptids the explanation for their existence seems far more reasonable than the explanation for their nonexistence. That is why I am so torn on the existence of Bigfoot/Yeti. Sometimes I think it just seems more likely that they really do exist rather than it being the case that thousands of people spread out over two continents have all claimed to see the exact same non-existent creature for the last 150 years, and hundreds of people are running around in the woods and snow with large foot forms strapped to their feet. The other part of me knows that I have spent a great deal of time in the very forests supposedly inhabited by Bigfoot, and I have seen evidence supporting the existence of every other animal that lives in those woods but never a shred of evidence that suggests bigfoot lives in them.

Thoughts?