Are you open to cryptozoology?

[JR_IsP]

For those who aren't familiar with the term: cryptozoology is the "science" which studies cryptids... creatures not totally accepted by the science, but its existance can be related to certain myths or folklore (like Sasquatch, or Big Foot... it's a cryptid).

Well, this thread is not for debating if Big Foot exists or not, it's for the idea. The idea that there could be out there some creatures not discovered by science... some crawling creatures in the night.

People often get uncomfortable with this topic, it's just to "irrational" for them. If you are going to post things like that, please don't do it. This thread is for that idea, opening your mind to new possibilities. Do I believe in Big Foot? I don't. But that won't make me stop researching.

Also, even when some cryptids (like the Chupacabra) are related to some extraterrestial origins, please don't make this thread a ufologist conspiration. Aliens may be real, but them visiting us and making cows vanish or circles in crops? It sounds like those aliens aren't that smart.

But cryptids are different, earth life is complex enough to create monsters and fantastic creatures, like dynosaurs... or even men.

So... do you think there could be something crawling in the night waiting to be discovered?

 

[Lazy Vulpes]

With the method scientists uses to define a new species these days, I'm 99.999% sure that we're gonna be having many new species ind the future. Probably mostly amazon insects and alike, but personally I'm hoping for some freakish nightmare deep water creatures.

Are scientists gonna find the loch ness monster, a dragon, or a unicorn? I seriously doubt it.

 

[TheManBeyond]

Man I tell u smth
I have seen already really weird creatures, I remember being in Lithuania leaving the disco going back home and there hidden in the woods cold red butts that screamed rituals of initiation. Not even lovecraft would have imagined them: Russians.
If u can see those why is it impossible then to believe there r some weird creatures in the jungle or the deep ocean far behind society, left behind archetypes.

 

[JR_IsP]

*Putin doesn't like this*

 

[Nebulous]

HECC Yea

I'm particularly interested in Wendigos. It's really cool to see that there are so many similar versions of the idea in different tribes and places..

In Algonquian folklore, the wendigo or windigo is a cannibal monster or evil spirit native to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of both the United States and Canada. The wendigo may appear as a monster with some characteristics of a human, or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. It is historically associated with cannibalism, murder, insatiable greed, and the cultural taboos against such behaviours. The legend lends its name to the disputed modern medical term Wendigo psychosis, which is considered by psychiatrists to be a form of culture-bound syndrome with symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and a fear of becoming a cannibal. In some Indigenous communities, environmental destruction and insatiable greed are also seen as a manifestation of Wendigo Psychosis.

-Wikipedia
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The wechuge (pronounced "way-chu-gay") is a creature appearing in the legends of the Athabaskan people. In Beaver (Dane-zaa) mythology it is said to be a person who has been possessed or overwhelmed by the power of one of the ancient giant spirit animals—not related to psychosis as with the similar wendigo but more related to becoming "too strong". These giant animals were crafty, intelligent and powerful, and somehow retained their power despite being transformed into the normal-sized animals of the present day.

Professor Robin Ridington came across stories of the wechuge while speaking with the Dane-zaa of the Peace River region in western Canada. The Dane-zaa believed that one could become wechuge by breaking a taboo and becoming "too strong". Examples of these taboos include a person having a photo taken with a flash, listening to music made with a stretched string or hide (hence guitar music), or eating meat with fly eggs in it. Like the wendigo, the wechuge seeks to eat people, attempting to lure them away from their fellows by cunning. In one folktale it is made of ice and very strong, and is only killed by being thrown on a campfire and kept there overnight until it has melted.

So interesting.


And Skinwalkers.

I can't find the website I originally read about them on.. But they were witches who would drape the pelt of an animal over themselves, and then they could shapeshift into that creature.

 

[nanook]

there are personality changing parasites. and some of them post here.

 

[AndyC]

there are personality changing parasites. and some of them post here.

Maybe my cat's will turn me into some sort of savant, or like the guy from Phenomenon.
Yeah, that'd be cool.

 

[AndyC]

Genius parasite?

 

[Pyropyro]

Yup. Even the platypus was known as a cryptid so I think we should keep our minds open on discovering new creatures.

 

[JR_IsP]

Yes. Also the okapi.

Btw, nice post about the wendigos and wechuges... but I'm american folklore I'm more interested in Nightcrawlers.

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I know these videos may be a hoax, I'm a little skeptical about if these creatures exist or not... but, suddenly indian totems like that creature were found, however, I couldn't find where these totems are (or who made them). Maybe is just a coincidence... or maybe not.

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[Artsu Tharaz]

I think there is a spirit plane overlayed with the real plane that contains all sorts of creatures, and these creatures can manifest in quite clear forms through hallucinations (note: hallucination doesn't mean that the thing isn't real outside of your mind (though what is real outside of the mind, right?) but rather that it does not have tangible reality that can be seen and touched by any given person). So yes, I believe in this plane, and I think up until modern times of science, it was quite typical to believe in such a plane, although I haven't done the research into what exactly people believe about this stuff - it is probably far more developed and in line with truth than my own introduction to it.