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
Iirc oar fish and giant squids were cryptids
You are correct about oarfish and technically giant squid. Though the giant squid was heavily exaggerated in its cryptid form
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.
Eh, it’s possible, but I find it more likely that they’re wild hermits, wrapped in crude bear-fur clothes. A large primate population sparse enough to be elusive but dense enough to reproduce is a dicey proposition. People occasionally fucking off to the woods to live in solitude is pretty reasonable, I’ve considered it myself.
I always wondered if there were small groups of isolated Neanderthals that persisted past the assimilation of the majority of the Neanderthals by homosapiens. They could have been responsible for all sorts of tales of Bigfoot, dwarves, elves, etc.
It primarily lived in subtropical to tropical forest, and went extinct about 300,000 years ago likely because of the retreat of preferred habitat due to climate change, and potentially archaic human activity. Gigantopithecus has become popular in cryptozoology circles as the identity of the Tibetan yeti or the American bigfoot, apelike creatures in local folklore.
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My mom claims that I’m the result of a tryst with a sasquatch.
I believe
Lol I knew she would fall for that mask
My mom may be a whore, but at least she isn’t all that bright.
Bigfoot
It’s such a boring cryptid, I would believe it exists.
It’s just a hairy homeless nudist. The story was propagated by homophobic campers with unfaithful wives. Big foot is actually just a big gay “bear”.
The rake, actually. It took me a while to realize it came from the internet and that it was made up.
