cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-29 days agoDo we essentially know what every cryptid actually is irl or at least what they appear to be combined from, conceptually-speaking?message-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up112arrow-down1message-squareDo we essentially know what every cryptid actually is irl or at least what they appear to be combined from, conceptually-speaking?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-29 days agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFrenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-29 days agoCryptozoology is a pseudoscience but like with a broken clock it’s right twice a day. Flatwoods Monster - was a distressed barn owl iirc sea serpents - oarfish Kraken - giant squid Mongolian death worm - some sand python I forgot the name of lol Mermaids - dugongs I have no idea how drunk a sailor would have to be to see a pretty mermaid in a dugong but there you go lol Flatwoods Monster was a distressed barn owl iirc
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days ago Sasquatch - a senior developer, broken by society, wandering naked through the forest to feel true freedom just once before he dies of exposure
minus-squareEtterra@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoThere’s a bunch that turn out to be idiots just regurgitating the description of a creature they recently saw in a movie.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agomermaids, probably based upon the stellar sea cow, the closet now extinct relative of the dugongs.
minus-squarecheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 days agoI thought mermaids were manatees? Its in the name lol
minus-squareFrenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoI got mixed up lol yes it was supposed to be manatees 😂 also the Flatwoods Monster was a distressed barn owl iirc
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience but like with a broken clock it’s right twice a day.
I have no idea how drunk a sailor would have to be to see a pretty mermaid in a dugong but there you go lol
There’s a bunch that turn out to be idiots just regurgitating the description of a creature they recently saw in a movie.
mermaids, probably based upon the stellar sea cow, the closet now extinct relative of the dugongs.
I thought mermaids were manatees? Its in the name lol
I got mixed up lol yes it was supposed to be manatees 😂 also the Flatwoods Monster was a distressed barn owl iirc