Things I Want to be Real #1 · 5:38am Aug 12th, 2015
Cryptozology.
There is just something about the idea of weird creatures existing in the remote places of the world that gets my inner ten year old charged as hell. The various sea serpents, bigfoots and yetis, are just the tip of the iceberg. It's the really esoteric ones that I love to plunder for creature ideas in RPGs and fanfiction. Look up the Mongolian Death Worm sometimes. That thing is wild!
I think that the Mothman would make very rich grounds for a Friendship is Magic villain. A creature of the night that flits from village to village with it's massive glowing red eyes, looking for ponies to scare.
So, yeah, while my rational mind knows that there is no singular sea serpent in Loch Ness and that there is no alien reptile chucacabra stalking the deserts of the southwest. But, the emotional side of me will always kind of hope that we'll find a plesiosaur in a lake someday.
Cryptozoology is real, its just a classification where egg heads like to throw the weird or out of place animals that don't make sense. Take the Giant Squid, the Jackalope (or horned rabbit), and Mermaids (aquapes).
*smiles*
An easy and somewhat more logical way to believe in Cryptids is to focus on the ones that DID exist. We, can't be sure that a Sauropod isn't living in the jungles of the Congo, or that a shark the size of a whale isn't lurking in the oceans depths. We don't know whether there really is a 30 foot/long monitor lizard living in remote parts of Australia, or that a Marsupial Wolf isn't hiding in the Tasmanian brush.
Never stop believing my friend, for if we give up hope, only then are the glorious creatures, of myth and legend, the wondrous animals of yesteryear, truly lost.
Imagining Spring Heeled Jack as a MLP baddie...