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Originally Posted by newb
New species are being discovered all the time.But as much as I hate to admit it...I really don't think they will ever find a "Bigfoot" or "Loch Ness" type "monster". What with the equipment they have today They should have discovered one of them by now.
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I have to reluctantly agree with the latter half of that... I grew up LOVING cryptozoology (Bigfoot, Nessie, Champ, etc.) but as I get older I realize the unlikelihood of these creatures existing...
BUT
As Mulder says,
I want to believe. SO badly (and, yes, I realize that identifying with an X-FILES character is even MORE geeky).
Not gonna lie - When they
"discovered" bigfoot's body last year in Georgia, there was a true part of me that tingled with anticipation and crossed my fingers hoping that it wasn't just a bunch of redneck attention seekers... But then I saw the photographic evidence...
Aquatic Monsters I want to believe in even more - The ocean is a massive, unexplored space. I LOVE the concept of Pleasiosaur-like creatures existing in big bodies of water - Loch Ness, Lake Champlain in NY (pretty much every country has 'em).
Giant squids and octopi DO exist - their existence isn't really that that much a stretch and the actual evidence (sucker marks on whales, pieces of tentacles) is more hard-coded than a lot of other cryptids.
There's "
Bloop," the supposed sound proving the existence of a beast even larger than a Blue Whale - That's a cryptid that I'd like to see have more traction.
And, of course, there's rogue taxidermy, like P.T. Barnum - Fake mermaids and that sort of thing which I find macabre and fascinating.
At any rate - I absolutely WANT monsters to exist. I know that undiscovered species DO exist... But the big cryptids... Unfortunately not very likely.
Shows like Monsterquest are actual disappointments to me. I WANT them to be better, but I think that they don't focus on interesting "monsters" - They waste their time on GIANT PIGS and URBAN WILDCATS (both of which DO exist - no mystery there... and they're not really "
monsters") when I think they could and should be focusing both famous and obscure cryptids (they've done Nessie and Champ, and of course Bigfoot, but I'd love to see something on
Mokele-mbembe - "Baby Brontosaurus," or the
Mongolian Death Worm).