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   9/05/07

   urikalish

   no

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   9/05/07

   Kiwipulse

   Maybe in the deep see..

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   9/05/07

   ThriftShopRomantic

   The stories are a LOT of fun. But I'd say there's likely a really good logical explanation for these things.
   
   I saw a great special on the Discovery Channel that basically demonstrated the reasons why the Loch Ness Monster couldn't be in Loch Ness. Much of it had to do with the material the Loch is made of, and that it wasn't porous, so there would be no caves and niches for such a large beast as Nessie supposedly is to hide from sonar.
   
   On the news today I read they DID, however, find something that they believe is the basis for Mexico's Chupacabra-- this was on Yahoo today: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_fe_st/mythical_chupacabra

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      9/05/07

      zawadi

      Gross, thanks for that link... it looks like a Rat-Dog lol
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   9/05/07

   zawadi

   Animals that have never been seen by humans do exist in the Deep Sea Right.
   www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/t/tsunamifish.htm
   
   There was a Mythical Deer in Vietnam i think it was, and back in the 90's it was finally "found"

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   9/05/07

   Norski

   I've been told that I resemble a sort of mangy bear, but that's not what you're talking about.
   
   "Believe in" is a phrase which is something of an issue with me.
   
   I don't "believe in," say, flying saucers and space aliens. However, I don' "not believe in" such things, either.
   
   That is to say, my system of beliefs, the philosophy by which I order my life, would not change significantly if little green men (or big purple women, or whatever) from Skriblfritz landed on Easter Island today, and asked why they hadn't gotten the last ten thousand years' worth of rent payments.
   
   I don't "believe in" bigfoot, but I don't "not believe in" bigfoot, either. It is remotely possible that a large, shy, species of mammal, with a habitat that keeps them far from population centers in the American west, could exist.
   
   I don't think that there is a high probability, but I don't think it is impossible either.
   
   I don't know if that's the sort of response you were looking for.
   
   The thunderbirds: a somewhat plausible explanation for these would be cultural memories - folk wisdom and folk tales - passed down from a period when outsized birds actually did live in the Americas.
   
   Such condor-like birds might reasonably use the outdrafts from thunderstorms to avoid the storms, thus associating themselves with the storms.

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      9/05/07

      zawadi

      "Among the most controversial reports is a July 25, 1977 account from Lawndale, Illinois. About 9 p.m. a group of three boys were at play in a residential back yard. Two large birds approached, and chased the boys. Two escaped unharmed, but the third boy, ten-year-old Marlon Lowe, did not. One of the birds reportedly clamped his shoulder with its claws, then lifted Lowe about two feet off the ground, carrying him some distance. Lowe fought against the bird, which released him.[1]"
      
      This is the boy I mentioned earlier, who spoke about it on TV
      what kind of Bird would pick up a kid,.. and most Huge birds like Condors or vultures don't eat live prey do they? anyway it would be a good movie lol.
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      9/05/07

      MadameX

      I remember that. I was in middle school in Illinois at the time and it was all over the news.
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   9/05/07

   Norski

   One more thing:
   
   Some people, for whatever reason, choose to 'not believe' anything that doesn't fit into a particular philosophy or set of assumptions.
   
   One of my favored quotes on the subject is that it is a "mistake is to think that the little regularities we have observed on one planet for a few hundred years are the real unbreakable laws of nature."
   
   It's from "That Hideous Strength"

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      9/05/07

      zawadi

      Norski, you are making me think to hard.. always :-)
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      9/05/07

      Norski

      That's what I'm here for.
      
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   9/05/07

   MadameX

   I believe that we don't know. That's as far as I can go one way or the other.

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   9/05/07

   markstoneman

   Monsters? Sure. But they usually belong to the human race.

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      9/05/07

      caseyc

      Yep. That's for sure.
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   9/05/07

   ender

   i do tend to believe there are some of those critters out there ... or that there were at one time. i've seen some of the better documentaries (re: the ones which attempted to be very objective, methodical and scientific) about loch ness for example, and i still like to believe nessie is out there. maybe not as big as the myth, but that there is an odd critter out there.
   
   same with bigfoot.
   
   however, i also like to believe that edward de vere wrote the shakespearean canon and that poor charlton ogburn will one day be vindicated.
   
   but like to believe and believe it as fact are two different things to me. i'm not sure there will ever be concrete, credible evidence of any of those things. (and, of course, it's difficult to prove a negative)
   
   for me, it's about keeping a sense of wonder and possibility open, while still trying to stay grounded in fact ... not a particularly easy balance.

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    9/05/07

    EndohT

    I do hold a certain beliefs that they do exist and are shunning mankind. Science is needed to certify the existence of a certain creature through profiling, but Science cannot proof they don't exist.
    
    There are already new things in this world which Science wasn't able to discover but truthfully they are now. It's just like a little game, waiting for the right technology to come up and prove the critics wrong.

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    9/06/07

    gerryPlanetEarth

    I wonder if satellite technology could be used to systematically look for evidence of the bigfoot or find one or some of them if indeed they live in the uninhabited, unexplored mountainous areas of this planet...

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    5/24/08

    SkyeWolf

    I don't think there is any reason why "unknown" creatures wouldn't exist. There are so many strange things among us, that there are many things we just don't know about. There has been a lot of investigation about these different creatures. So, yes, I do believe they exist. There have been many sightings of what we call "Bigfoot", I don't believe all the pictures or videos are fake, sure some of them are, but not all. I am one that believes in the Paranormal.

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