• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 years ago

    The ocean ones. There’s unknown big critters down there, it’s basically a statistical certainty.

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard a believable one on land. People’s UFO and ghost stories can actually be hard to explain sometimes. All the cryptid stories are either very made-up sounding or some variant of “I looked and found nothing/got a super blurry photograph”.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Basically every sea monster cryptid. There’s so much shit down there we don’t know about. Guarantee many many many of them are over exaggerated yes but there has been more than one case of a sea monster cryptid turning out to actually just be a real creature. Fucks me up

      • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        You are correct about oarfish and technically giant squid. Though the giant squid was heavily exaggerated in its cryptid form

          • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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            3 years ago

            Well the current collosal squids we see aren’t exactly boat crushers. They are big but not THAT big yk? Still definitely the inspiration for the legend but not as true to form as the oarfish was

            I just noticed I used giant squid instead of collosal squid that’s on me

  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 years ago

    I once saw a flying creature that appeared to be a pterodactyl pterosaur (except for the size), ever since since i’ve been on the lookout for any kind of “bird” with a diamond/kite shape at the end of it’s tail, as that is what i remember most distinctly.

    • CulturedLout@lemmy.ca
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      3 years ago

      Could it have been a heron or a crane? When they fly their legs trail out behind them and their feet make them look a bit like a clubbed tail.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Bigfoot.

    Like, there’s probably not any alive today. Probably not any in the last thousands years even.

    But at some point in human history, that shit existed. Might even just be stories about gorillas that ancient hominids took out of Africa and kept telling afterwards.

    For a stone age human, a silverback might as well been a mythical animal. And they’re deceptively quiet. Imagine just walking thru the forest and seeing a fucking Silverback standing 10 feet away staring at you.

    That story would keep getting retold long after people forgot what a gorilla was.