Cryptozoological thread

[Miss Chicken]

What 'hidden' animals are reputed to exists in your part of the world.

Here in Australia we have

The Bunyip

The closely related Yowie

And the Dropbear (which the government denies exist but most Australians will tell you it does)

In Tasmania we also have the Thylacine which must be the most active extinct animal in the world. Not only has it been spotted often in Tasmania but also on the Australian Mainland, New Guinea and Indonesia.

Have you, or have you meet anyone who has, seen any cryptid that lives in your region of the world?

I have met people who claim that they have seen the thylacine.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

I used to 'study' cryptozoology. It's a tough field and I enjoy it.

 

[Trekker4747]

Cryptozoology?

Bullshit!

 

[btflash]

What 'hidden' animals are reputed to exists in your part of the world.

Here in Australia we have

The Bunyip

The closely related Yowie

And the Dropbear (which the government denies exist but most Australians will tell you it does)

In Tasmania we also have the Thylacine which must be the most active extinct animal in the world. Not only has it been spotted often in Tasmania but also on the Australian Mainland, New Guinea and Indonesia.

Have you, or have you meet anyone who has, seen any cryptid that lives in your region of the world?

I have met people who claim that they have seen the thylacine.

i live in new jersey and here we have the "jersey devil".http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ages?q=jersey+devil&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&sa=G

 

[Vanyel]

The Chupacabra has been reportedly spotted around here. As has Bigfoot. There are also reports of Thunderbirds.

 

[Trekker4747]

I thought the "Jersey Devil" was, well, pretty much any and all politicians ever elected to an office there.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Upon reading Weird New England, I was surprised to discover that there have been sightings of giant birds and hell hounds fairly near where I live (down in Bridgewater, specifically, near my Uncle Mike's house). I've lived on the South Shore for 38 years and I've never heard anybody mention them once.

 

[btflash]

I thought the "Jersey Devil" was, well, pretty much any and all politicians ever elected to an office there.

really! sooooooooooooooo true.

 

[Unicron]

Cryptozoology?

Bullshit!

I wouldn't necessarily say that, since we're discovering new species all the time. However, I am more skeptical of many of the more famous cryptids, simply because I think the lack of evidence is leaning more and more towards the possibility that critters like Bigfoot and Nessie don't actually exist.

 

[Rÿcher]

Cryptozoology?

Bullshit!

I agree. If these things exist - which I seriously doubt - we'd have seen some, any evidence of them by now what with all the deforestation and human encroachment on habitats and everything. Other things that we knew exist like the architeuthis(sp?) is reasonable because they've washed ashore and we've seen whales have massive scars on them indicative of tentacles of a creature that immense.

As far as el chupacabra, nessie, bigfoot, yetti, forget about it. Might as well believe in the jackalope when you see one mounted in a gun shop.

 

[Trekker4747]

Cryptozoology?

Bullshit!

I wouldn't necessarily say that, since we're discovering new species all the time. However, I am more skeptical of many of the more famous cryptids, simply because I think the lack of evidence is leaning more and more towards the possibility that critters like Bigfoot and Nessie don't actually exist.

Finding new species is not the same as cryptozoology.

For example, I don't doubt that there's 10,000 or so other varities of different kind of insects and arachnids we've yet to discover burined in the rainforrest. Finding those is science, research, and real.

Bigfoot? Nessie? Yetis? Things of that nature?

Bullshit.

 

[Miss Chicken]

^^^ What about something like the thylacine which once existed? Or large cats reported in Great Britain?

They are generally are listed as cryptids.

 

[Trekker4747]

That's just it.

Thyliacines once EXSISTED.

No hard, conclusive, proof has ever been presented that a big-foot or "Nessie" has ever exsisted.

 

[Unicron]

Finding new species is not the same as cryptozoology.

For example, I don't doubt that there's 10,000 or so other varities of different kind of insects and arachnids we've yet to discover burined in the rainforrest. Finding those is science, research, and real.

It could fall under the same category, though, since the term simply refers to organisms which haven't been discovered, or about which we have very little knowledge. But I definetly agree about the legendary cryptids, personally. I can see where maybe something could hide deep in Loch Ness and be difficult to find, but I find it hard for a Bigfoot to hide when we can scan precise locations on the planet's surface from space.

 

[Trekker4747]

The Loch Ness monster is supposed to be huge, there's not enough food supply in the loch to sustain a creature of Nessie's size, not to mention that the men, or his family, that made the hoax have admitted to it and the lake has been SONARed and RADARed countless times looking for such a creature.

There's nothing approaching a giant sea-serpent living in Loch Ness.

 

[Cutter John]

Well, I believe in just about all of these. So .

(Cutter John, master of the intellectual discussion)

 

[Hermiod]

Britain's got the Beast of Bodmin and, of course, Nessie.

 

[M'Sharak]

Locally, we have Elsie in Lake Elsinore, with reported sightings at least as far back as 1884. Unfortunately, detailed descriptions and other evidence are scarce and the fact that the lake is quite shallow and has gone completely dry more than once within the last century does little to help Elsie's case.

http://www.unknown-creatures.com/lake-elsinore-serpent.html
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/elsie/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Elsinore#History

 

[RevdKathy]

I was going to cite the beast of Bodmin.

In terms of Britain's big cats, I have myself seen the Big cat of Wenlock edge, many years ago.

 

[Miss Chicken]

As an eyewitness - what sort of cat do you think it is and where do you think it came from?