Cryptozoology
The interview in Metro today with Richard Freeman led me to the CFZ site. Cryptozoology has fascinated me since childhood holidays to Loch Ness, and the Discovery Channel used to show programme after programme about mysterious creatures from around the world (usually at 3.30 am - insomnia is a wonderful thing). The discovery of the new species in New Guinea must surely hint that there are innumerable new species to be discovered. And although the Hydra that appears in the Cabinet of Natural Curiousities may have been more than slightly off the mark, who is to say that other mythological creatures do not have their roots in a real animal.
posted by lukeski at 9:14 pm
3 Comments:
Liukchik, you are a stealth nerd. I remember seeing a 4am After-Dark-style programme once with lots of cryptozoologists sitting around with the men comparing cock-size - figuratively speaking, of course - over who could come out with the most outrageous story, like a mammal with 700 eyes and twelve noses that spoke Welsh. That sort of thing. Honestly, throw your lot in with religion and be done with it. (That's me to them. Not to you.)
The nerd in me meant that I had to do away with documentary channels. To quote Homer Simpson, TV taught me everything I know (but in a good way with me). Channel 4 is doing a season on modern Russia - I watched an excellent documentary about the fragmentation of Aeroflot - usual panicky Westerners with horror stories, and pilots who admitted needing vodka(s) to calm their nerves before flying. And all done in a beautifully romantic/tragic Slavic manner.
I believe a lot of the creatures of Cryptozoology are real. The main reason one is never captured, killed or proven to exist by science, is because they are spiritual beings.
http://www.unknown-creatures.com
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