Cryptids

EricChristianOlsenFanatic · Feb 06, 2010 5:02 AM

Hey everyone,
Has anyone on here heard of cryptids or cryptozoology? Basically this field studies creatures that science proves to be a hoax, yet others believe these creatures exist. Such creatures include Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, The Jersey Devil, aliens, and even the Chupacabra.

What do you guys and girls think of all this? Do you believe in it or not? Just wondering what everyone's opinions are. Share if you'd like. smile

Personally I study cryptozoology so I'm trying to find real evidence and proof of all these bizarre creatures....lol, especially the Jersey Devil.

Naegling · Feb 07, 2010 2:22 PM

excluding aliens (there out there somewhere) I don't think any of those things are real, and until they find some hard evidence im not believing it.

MrXLink · Feb 07, 2010 4:10 PM

Sounds like a really fun study imo. Woo! Another grain circle! MUST....BE....ALIENS! o.O

Anyway, do they do research for the existence of Dragons?

muttly · Feb 07, 2010 4:11 PM

cool sounds fun but i have not heard of them...

Naegling · Feb 08, 2010 1:22 AM

Think about the discovery channel show "Monster Quest". Thats Cryptozoology.

dragon protector x · Feb 08, 2010 9:41 PM

Justin Long fanatic... Just reading that makes me thing i will have to hook you up with a friend on the forums here that doesnt post, but knows what your talking about. He is into... Thylacyns or some spelling like so...

But yea i like those things as well. Some of the mystars im going to go out and search my self one day.

DarkFury · Feb 08, 2010 9:55 PM

I think there are many reasons to accept the existence of things that we don't know much about.

Anyone here seen the show Destination Truth? Monster Hunter too.
Both of those get great stuff and sometimes viable proof on cryptids.

Dragon Wannabe · Feb 12, 2010 5:54 AM

hey someone else knows bout cryptozoology, of course i havent signed in for awhile but anyway my personal favorite cryptid is the thylacine and i don't think those shows prove anything or provide good evidence but that's my opinion. CRYPTIDS RULE!!!

Mr. John · Feb 12, 2010 8:55 PM

I watch them they are really helpful good shows.

Nightfall · Feb 12, 2010 8:59 PM

I'd like to believe that the Loch Ness Monster exists, and I do believe that aliens are out there somewhere. We need more magic in this world.

Mr. John · Feb 12, 2010 10:06 PM

So true sadly magic fades from some people's hearts as time goes on. But I do belive in aliens and Bigfoot things like that.

Dragon Wannabe · Feb 13, 2010 5:36 AM

i believe nessi is swimming in loch ness and i personally don't like bigfoot i much rather go searching for the monster of monterey or champ in lake champlain. Magic will never disappear

Neotyguy40 · Feb 13, 2010 2:34 PM

It sounds like a useless study... I don't know why someone would want to go into a profession where they just prove what can be proven obviously by just about anyone.

bmah · Feb 13, 2010 11:43 PM

Neotyguy40 wrote:

It sounds like a useless study... I don't know why someone would want to go into a profession where they just prove what can be proven obviously by just about anyone.

It's only useful for entertainment and perhaps, if celebrities pick up on it, making them even more bizarre and frighteningly "unique" but stupid. No different than scientology.

Dragon Wannabe · Feb 14, 2010 6:06 AM

its way different then that scientology junk because its not a "religion" and it can't be proven by anyone or else cryptozoology wouldn't exist and it mostly explores the mysterious creatures on this planet such as the jersey devil or champ or megalodon. Shun the non believers!!!

Mr. John · Feb 15, 2010 3:52 PM

Sounds interesting maybe I should look into it. Sounds like my kind of thing.

Dragon Wannabe · Feb 17, 2010 12:25 AM

Woot someone else is interested in looking for the mysterious creatures on this planet. Tassie tigers rule!!!!

SpyroDarkdude01 · Feb 18, 2010 8:13 AM

I am a Cryptozoologist myself. Been doing it for a while! I certinaly think aliens exsists and that Bigfoot and various other apes are around the world. Chimpanzees share 99% of thier DNA sequence with humans. So somewhere, out there, I know for sure (This is my opinion here) that creatures like this, exsist. And for a bit of intresting stuff, alot of eyewitness accounts of the Skunk-Ape of the everglades, say it moves like a monkey in a chip like manner, unlike Bigfoot and Yeti accounts that are describing it sway and stride like a human. So, if any of the cryptids in this world exsist, I would say Skunk-Ape would be the most likely as the Skunk Ape has som much area to hide in no wonder has found a live specimen (or a dead one). But that could also account for other Crypto-Apes, Bigfoot and Yeti in particular! So when you look at it, really, in a proffresional opinion, most of these Cryptids exsist (but not all). So yeah, thats me on the subject. ( I do this for a profression so try not to offend us, please.)

bmah · Feb 18, 2010 9:47 AM

Dragon Wannabe wrote:

it can't be proven by anyone

There's your similarity (this should've been obvious, c'mon). Hence it's not a science per se but more of a cultural study of how people fathomed various mythical creatures. So it's more anthropology/sociology than anything else.

SpyroDarkdude01 wrote:

( I do this for a profression so try not to offend us, please.)

I can't possibly take you seriously, sorry. Professional? More like a hobby or deep interest. It's especially hard to draw a line of professionalism when it comes to these kind of subjects. Still, it's nice that your interest is quite satisfying I'm sure.

Dragon Wannabe · Feb 19, 2010 5:56 PM

Ok you know what you'll never understand cryptozoology so im not going to trying to explain why we like cryptozoology to you and im sure its an awsome profression (since im still in school) if you know what ur doing. But i do thank you for expressing your opinion to us so now we know what some are thinking bout cryptozoology. We all believe in things others think are stupid or stange.

Nydie · Feb 19, 2010 6:53 PM

Yea Cryptids are kinda on the line of hard to beleive for me. But I do beleive them to be possible. It would be too arrogant for humanity to think just because there are not thousands of them means they do not exist. It could be possible the Cryptids have a intelligence above Humanity. ^^

Blade · Feb 19, 2010 7:09 PM

Reading this and looking it up makes me think it seems to be a strange but kinda cool profession. It's sad school doesn't teach this. If it did I would like to try it. but for now, i'll have to do it in my room. But apart from that, these Cryptids seem to be intelligent people. dismaying other views and proving (or trying to prove) what they think.

bmah · Feb 20, 2010 7:26 AM

Well as soon as there are signs that the academic community studies the subject more seriously, I'll retract my current opinion on it. But for now, good luck trying to find proper funding for cryptozoology lol.

You can however, look at it more seriously on a historical perspective (i.e. through studying folklore and stuff). I think you can make scientific comparisons with animals that people of the past probably derived their creatures from, but that's as far as it probably would go. Don't get me wrong though; I'd be stoked if dragons really did exist in the past, but I guess the fascination is what gets some people into it.

SpyroDarkdude01 · Feb 24, 2010 4:03 AM

I can't possibly take you seriously, sorry. Professional? More like a hobby or deep interest.

I am actually a proffesional, I have been doing this for two years, so your telling me, this is a hobby not a profression, I do not want to start a flame war here but, really, it is my job, I have people that fund me so don't tell me that it is a hobby.

On another scale, over the two years I have been around doing this, you would be suprised over how many people are telling the truth and did see something unexplained and how may are just desperate attention seekers and *bleep* tellers. Sometimes it's rather disappointing that, you sink a large amount of money of your won into travelling halfway around the world to find someone is not telling the truth, and sometimes you can really tell that there lying just by starting a sentence about the encounter.

Ok you know what you'll never understand cryptozoology so im not going to trying to explain why we like cryptozoology to you and im sure its an awsome profression (since im still in school) if you know what ur doing. But i do thank you for expressing your opinion to us so now we know what some are thinking bout cryptozoology. We all believe in things others think are stupid or stange.

You really don't know how much I love this job, but it can be hard! I am funded by people but when you decide you have concluded on one Cryptid and if it is relevant to the said Cryptid I will study one of the same sort of creature. (e.g Is searching for Champ in Lake Champlain and decides researching Nessie in the Loch Ness may benefit searching for Champ.) People don't believe the next creature does not exisit full stop and therefore don't bother funding you, so if your happy to put a huge amount of time and work (and money) into it then go ahead!

bmah · Feb 24, 2010 5:14 AM

Funded? Oh wow. Would you mind showing some credentials? Shouldn't be too hard. (citation of something you've published is good enough)

edit: I'm still skeptical because
1) you don't sound professional just from your posts
2) I think that if you "sank a large amount of money...into travelling halfway around the world to find someone is not telling the truth" you probably should do some more research with the area and locals before you use up all your funding. I mean, it just sounds like you go based on the words of only a few people, almost on impulse.
3) You probably shouldn't be disappointed, but rather be ok with disproving any rumors. At least people don't have to wonder about it anymore. Research isn't always about finding what you want or hope to find - it almost never works that way. Sometimes, there is the satisfaction of falsifying what might've been a widespread theory/hypothesis. The fact that you expected something out of this is very questionable.

edit: I'm not trying to stomp out on you for fun, I'm being pretty serious here - just want some honest words from ya.

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