Ghosts or Bigfoot?

[Paintman]

Not to sound wishy-washy, both.
National Geographic magazine is great for showing fabulous photographs of new found creatures especially beneath the sea.
Remember when that Malaysian aircraft crashed in the Indian Ocean? Those deep sea submarines may not have found the aircraft but they photographed some terrifying sea creatures.
Here is a real life man sized bat that lives in the Philippines.

I'll try to find a picture of a newly discovered sea-thing that looks like a stick figure drawing of an alien. It was photographed in the Gulf of Mexico by a submarine inspecting an oil rig.

 

[Lynne]

Not to sound wishy-washy, both.
National Geographic magazine is great for showing fabulous photographs of new found creatures especially beneath the sea.
Remember when that Malaysian aircraft crashed in the Indian Ocean? Those deep sea submarines may not have found the aircraft but they photographed some terrifying sea creatures.
Here is a real life man sized bat that lives in the Philippines.
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I'll try to find a picture of a newly discovered sea-thing that looks like a stick figure drawing of an alien. It was photographed in the Gulf of Mexico by a submarine inspecting an oil rig.
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Omg!! WTH is that !!

 

[Lynne]

I'm honestly torn trying to answer this question.

Cryptids are interesting because, if true they are something which can be discovered and studied scientifically. The legends of giant sea creatures with long tentacles, great muscular "wild men" covered in hair living in the jungles or the impossibility of the duckmole; all turned out to be real animals that the scientific world recognizes today. Could the same one day be true for something like Bigfoot?
The story of the coelacanth raises the possibility of other "extinct" animals still being around, it's still a bit of a leap to go from coelacanth to mokele-mbembe but the idea is more feasible.

The supernatural, by contrast, is not something that can be captured and studied. The science is unlike anything we currently understand and this makes it difficult to really analyze phenomena. I think studying and learning about the supernatural will have a greater impact on humanity than the study of cryptids. However we are in the infancy of understanding any of it at the scientific level and may not see all the answers within our current life times. It's exciting to be looking at the opening cusp of a completely unexplored frontier.

Steve, you can only pick one !

 

[Donna K.]

You better be kidding with that bat thing Paintman.

 

[Paintman]

That is a bat. Darcy, sorry if you can't get that image out of your head.
If you can't sleep after seeing that, I will buy you some chamomile tea and some Propofol.

 

[Paulm]

I'll try to find a picture of a newly discovered sea-thing that looks like a stick figure drawing of an alien. It was photographed in the Gulf of Mexico by a submarine inspecting an oil rig.
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Wasn't that the alien in "independence day".....lol

 

[TexDanm]

They call those bats, flying foxes. They are harmless fruit bats. They are not quite as big as that picture makes them look. They aren't as big as a man, even Phillipino man. They are more the size of a small German Shephard dog but only weight a couple of pounds or so. All that said I DO NOT want to see a bat with a 5-foot wingspan flying towards me!!!

 

[garnetsilver]

Wasn't that the alien in "independence day".....lol

That gave me the heebie-jeebies!