The Logical Reasons Cryptids May Exist
When most people hear the word “paranormal” or “supernatural” they think of something that is ambiguous at least, and outright laughable at most. However, many of you reading this post may feel that this category of phenomena is interesting and potentially believable. But what if I told you that it is something more than that? What if I said that the paranormal/supernatural was basically scientific fact? While you scoff at my audacity to even imply such a thing, let me tell you this… Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING can be described by science. That’s simply the way science, (the tool/discipline itself, not those who claim to practice it), works. It describes things. It is what we use to explain everything we experience in this existence. The fact that we don’t have enough information about something has no bearing on whether or not science can describe it. All it means is that we cannot describe it AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME. Once enough information/data is gathered about the subject, science can describe it just like everything else.
With this simple reasoning in mind, it should be a short hop for us to realize that our world just got a whole lot bigger. Ideas that we once dismissed, now seem more plausable. Thoughts that seemed trivial, now hint at unfathomable importance. The vertigo is dizzying…. Welcome! You just acquired an open mind! This state of being is possibly one of the greatest tools mankind has ever had at his desposal. The creativity and knowledge that can be tapped at this point is, quite literally, limitless…Tread carefully, because here there be monsters, and I’m not speaking figuratively.
What I am inferring is the possible existance of the creatures encompassing the field of Cryptozoology. Merriam-Webster defines cryptozoology as: “the study of and search for animals and especially legendary animals (such as Sasquatch) usually in order to evaluate the possibility of their existence.” Though more respected in the past, throughout the 20th century, it was considered fringe science or even pseudoscience. But since the advent of the internet, and the subsequent resurgence of the paranormal, cryptozoology has, not only regained the standing it once had, but surpassed it in popularity.
Dogmen
There exists, in nearly every culture on Earth, lore of large creatures that appear in the form of a hybridization between primate and canid. Some of these legends have the creature transform, at various times, back and forth between the man and wolf, as if under a magical curse. Likewise, there are those where the creature appears at all times in its wolflike form.
I believe the strongest contender for what the dogman really is, would be a remnant species of Amphicyon (bear-dog) that has evolved the ability to move bipedally at speed. With, perhaps, parallel evolution of the already, highly-developed forearms, hands, and enhanced mental capacity.
Sasquatch
The idea of a large, yet undescribed, primate stalking the forested areas of our world is not that difficult to believe. The mountain gorilla and orangutan have been considered mythical for most of written history. Yet now every child knows them on sight. They are in our zoos and on our televisions. Who knows, Sasquatch may be as much a familiar sight to your grandchildren, though hopefully not in zoos. My point is, their existance shouldn’t be a very large stretch of the imagination. This is buoyed by the discovery of a fossil jawbone of an extremely large primate in Asia known as Gigantopithecus blacki. Soon other fossils were found that allowed descriptions of other Gigantopithecus species.
Kaleidoscope of Curiosities 