Let us address this issue of the
lack of actual hard evidence for what is now developing into a menagerie of large
cryptids. First off, reaching into the
nether world for a phantom expression of human imagination and desire is a cop
out that attempts t explain one apparent implausibility with an outright
impossibility and besides it is totally unnecessary.
Every cryptoid I have so far
evaluated fits naturally into a definable ecological niche. In fact the niche is often huge and the open
question is to ask why there are not more of them in evidence. Even that is easily answered by observing the
clear nocturnal nature of all of them.
What is noticeable is that they are becoming somewhat more relaxed in
our presence. We have stopped shooting
first and asking questions later as was the case up to perhaps fifty years ago.
The issue of why we have not run
a few down is answered by observing that tens of thousands of cougars exist and
we never run them down. In fact, was it
not for the fact that dogs are able to run them down and tree them, they would
be as elusive as the Bigfoot. Small
animals are vulnerable to been run down, but large animals retaining good
situational awareness have no risk, unlike a few stupid humans staggering down
the road after a night at the pub.
The other obvious cryptids are
typically aerial and nocturnal and the problem is worsened by an order of
magnitude.
Even more important, most of
these creatures represent fairly circumscribed populations. While we have thousands of sturgeon and from
that hundreds of full sized specimens, we still are lucky to spot a real corpse
every few years. Draw then from a
population a tenth of that and we are waiting a century or so.
If the population of Bigfoot is
as low as some think, then the body recovered back in the late nineteenth
century in BC is as good as it gets.
Regardless, Bigfoot has been spotted thousands of times, usually in
close proximity to roads and quite adept at not getting run over. More recently though, a tuff of fur was snagged
on a fence in circumstances confirming provenance and initial DNA work is conforming
to expectations. It too is waiting
serious funding.
If we are never going to get the body
to be displayed as a stuffed critter, than the genome may do the trick.
The hard evidence to date for
most of this is in the form of long look sees at the creatures who then
struggle to describe what they see. As
few as three or four such events is often enough to winnow out a clear
picture. The Chupacabra has so far
yielded about three excellent eye ball reports, enough to recognize a pterodactyl
descended vampire reptile we could never have imagined possible but is clearly
possible.
Monsters and Proof
Elusive Evidence
By Nick Redfern June 04, 2011
People often ask me: When will we finally have proof for the existence
of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the
Chupacabra and the absolute menagerie of additional strange beasts alleged to
lurk in the darker and wilder parts of our world? But when people ask that
question, what many of them they really want to know is this: When will we have
proof that Bigfoot is a giant ape, and the creatures of Loch Ness
represent a surviving, relic population of plesiosaurs?
And that’s the problem we have when it comes to securing proof: If
Bigfoot is just a large, unclassified ape then we would surely have secured the
evidence in support of such a scenario by now. It’s the same with Nessie: where
are the bodies?
If there’s one thing that all of the many and varied creatures that
fall under the banner of Cryptozoology have in common – whether it’s Sasquatch,
lake-monsters, the aforementioned Chupacabra, werewolves, sea-serpents,
Mothman, the Yeti, the Jersey Devil and countless more – it’s their
overwhelming, eerie elusiveness.
Bigfoot never, ever gets hit by a car and expires on the road, smashed
to a bloody pulp. There are countless reports on record where people claim to
have shot at Bigfoot, only for the bullets to have no effect whatsoever.
Footprints vanish in the snow, as if the creature itself has vanished too – and
I do mean literally vanished.
As for the beasts of Scotland’s most famous loch: a number of
significant reports exist where people have tried to photograph the beasts,
only for their cameras to malfunction or for the photographs to come out
fogged.
It is issues like this that, probably 15 or more years ago now, made me
utterly give up on the idea that the monsters of our world are simply animals
that science has yet to identify, classify, and confirm in terms of their
existence. The stark reality of the situation is that there is something very
strange about all the sundry strange beasts out there. Their elusiveness is
taken to ridiculous levels. No other animal on the planet has the ability to remain
hidden from society – and never captured or identified – in the way that
Bigfoot does.
In other words, no matter whether the location is the huge forests of
the Pacific Northwest, the wild waters of Scotland, the Himalayas, the El
Yunque rain-forest of Puerto Rico, or the depths of the oceans, history has
demonstrated that each and every single attempt to secure physical evidence of
the monsters in question has ended in nothing but complete failure. Or, if some
form of evidence is found, it’s never, ever proven to be 100 percent
conclusive. It always languishes in a drawer marked “Maybe.”
Of course, the skeptic might state that the reason why we have
demonstrably failed to find even one Bigfoot corpse, a bit of Nessie DNA, or
the claw of a Chupacabra is because these entities and the rest of their motley
ilk are merely borne out of folklore, mythology, camp-fire tales, hoaxing and
misidentification.
I most certainly don’t dispute the fact that there are cases out there
that do indeed fall into the very categories I describe directly above. But,
there is also a solid body of very strong and highly credible eyewitness
testimony relative to encounters with unknown animals – from just about every
part of our planet.
But, I have come to believe that none of these “things” are what they
appear to be. They look real. They appear flesh-and-blood-like. Yet, everything
about them practically screams out: “Apparition! Phantom! Ghostly!”
One theory that I have a great deal of time for is that which suggests
the majority of crypto-creatures are Tulpas. In essence, Tulpas – for those
like me who believe in them, of course – are entities borne out of the depths
of the human imagination. Their creation goes something like this: Tonight,
when the skies are dark and the wind howls, lie down, and focus your mind on
the image of a monstrous, glowing-eyed wolf. Nurture that image in your mind
for days, for weeks even. Imagine the animal surfacing from the heart of your
mind, and then striding right out into the real world.
The something extraordinary happens. A few weeks later, your local
newspaper reports an astonishing story: In the nearby woods, someone has seen a
huge wolf-like animal with blazing red eyes. The beast – the Tulpa – that you
have worked so hard to create in your mind now has a semblance of
quasi-reality. You have given birth to a mind-monster. And it’s on the loose,
very happy that it now has a foothold – albeit a somewhat precarious and
ethereal one – in our world.
And how do Tulpas sustain their existence? They feed on high-states of
human emotion. Perhaps that’s why people see Bigfoot. If Bigfoot doesn’t ensure
people see it – and those people are not rendered into a high state of shock,
fear, anxiety or excitement – then it has nothing to mentally feed upon. The
result: Its strange existence begins to unravel and it becomes less and less
physical, more and more phantom-like, until it finally winks out into
nothingness.
Until, that is, the unconscious, ancient affinity that we all have –
and that we have all had since the first ancient humanoid called a cave his
home – with spooky woods, sinister and dark lakes and lochs, mysterious
jungles, and the monsters we like to think lurk within, causes us to provoke
the creation of yet more such monsters. Thus, the cycle continues and a new
Bigfoot, Yeti, or Chupacabra, appears.
So, back to the first paragraph of this article: How do we secure proof
that crypto-creatures do exist? The stark reality of the situation is that
proof may be impossible to obtain – because there may be nothing tangible to
find. That doesn’t mean people aren’t seeing anything. They most assuredly are.
But, I will leave you with this question: How do we secure evidence for the
existence of something that may, essentially, be an externalized, ethereal
life-form created by one of the strangest mysteries of all time, the human
brain?
Nick Redfern is the author of many books on unsolved mysteries,
including the newly-published, The Real Men in Black.
2 comments:
This article reminds me of the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet.
Skeptics always try to attack people that tries to study the unknown. We all know that many cryptids are still unknown but that is the reason why it is studied well to understand if they do exist or not.
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