I Spent My Entire Childhood Studying This Psuedo-Science Because I Wanted It To Be True

As a child I absorbed books at a level unheard of amongst my peers. I read everything I could get my hands on especially books about cryptids. Scholastic also always had little paperback books about the Loc Ness Monster or Bigfoot every single month. Or monsters of mythology. Or ghost stories.

 

Cryptozoology: The Pseudo-Science of Mythical Creatures

Defined by the academic community as a pseudoscience, cryptozoology’s main purpose is to find and prove the existence of animals talked about in legends, folklore and mythology like Bigfoot, chupacabras, the Loch Ness monster, ancient sea monsters and animals thought to be extinct and ignored by most biologists and zoologists. Serious cryptozoologists, generally self-financed or funded by private donations, aim to prove these hidden animals exist by collecting and studying evidence from locations of reported sightings.

Most academics look down on the study of mythical or hidden creatures, implying that it is not a true science. Zoology for example, involves the study of animal behavior, their physical bodies, their habitats, their distribution and their taxonomy. However, the idea behind cryptozoology is the same, except it involves looking for animals long hidden from the modern world.