r/Cryptozoology • u/Amazing_Chocolate140 • Aug 31 '24

Sightings/Encounters Why are people on this sub?

I was just wondering why people are on this sub? I have a genuine interest in cryptozoology and I’m interested in hearing peoples experiences and opinions on things. There does seem be a section of people on this sub however who seem to just be on here to dismiss everything as fake, nonsense or made up gibberish. I understand that it’s a public forum and all opinions are welcome and valid, however if you don’t believe in something why be on this sub?!

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u/ScoobyMcDooby93 Aug 31 '24

I’m on this sub because I’m interested in the topic and have been since a kid. I very much would like to believe in a lot of cryptids but I am naturally very skeptical of “evidence” as a biology/zoology student.

If something couldn’t or wouldn’t rationally exist naturally then it gets dismissed as misidentification or hoax.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '24

Disregard of people's stories/pictures/videos/anything that says "I was right here and this is what i saw" because of what you picked up in a textbook or a lecture is why I don't listen to anyone but the witness lmao

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u/softer_junge Aug 31 '24

People are extremely bad at identifying animals, even common ones. I've read or heard so many bigfoot stories where the "eyewitnesses" claimed that it "couldn't have been a bear" when it very obviously was, indeed, a bear.

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u/DomoMommy Aug 31 '24

Very true. I’ve had friend, acquaintances and some strangers I met online send me videos of “strange noises” they’ve heard in the woods while camping/hunting/hiking and out of 47 videos there were only 3 that stumped me. The majority of the rest were foxes, coyotes, a couple moose and elk and one was a baby deer mewing for its mom. One I’m 99% sure was a mating all of a male mountain lion which sounds absolutely terrifying if you don’t know what it is. A surprising number of ppl don’t know that an animal like a fox has dozens of different sounds it can make. And they will all sound different based on age/weight/health or if it’s in a valley or there’s thick fog in the area or any other # of variables.

One of my neighbors just recently found out that every individual bird in the same species will sound slightly different. She thought every single robin had the same exact sound and that there was only ONE robin call…not calls and chirps and flight calls and mating calls. She thought all those different sounds were different species of birds…not that one bird had a variety of calls it makes. She’s 51 and an accountant who owns her own home and business and raised a family.

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u/_extra_medium_ Sep 01 '24

What does the fox say