Ask A Genius 1081: Cryptozoological Marvels
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/08/07
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Oh, there is another here. So, where I live, there is a Sasquatch Museum, which is two streets over. It’s a big Sasquatch community there. People write books about that mythology. It goes by different names, like Bigfoot, in some versions.
Rick Rosner: The Abominable Snowman when he’s in a snowy area.
Jacobsen: Yes, I was going to pick some other ones, but it would have pissed you off too much. These are a little more light. What are your thoughts on Sasquatch?
Ronser: Let’s talk about cryptozoology, a field because the odds for any one creature in cryptozoology, the study of fantastic creatures that are purported to exist, including yetis, Sasquatch, and the Loch Ness monster, are dozens. Most of them are going to turn out not to exist. The odds for any of these creatures are the more plausible of them, and Sasquatch is among the plausible ones because you look at the dubious ones. They’re dubious.
Some huge hominids have managed with everything to remain undetected, largely. That’s for as long as humans have been around and can record things for 10,000 years or at least 2,000 years, depending on what you believe. But the odds are less than one percent for this kind of thing.
But they do find fantastic creatures occasionally. Usually, they float up dead from the deep ocean or are dredged up in a fishing net, like a giant squid, which was probably the basis for the Kraken. You can have squid about 60 feet long, which is pretty giant.
And the coelacanth, I forget what it looks like, but it’s a giant prehistoric-looking fish that could’ve been the basis for some legends. You mostly don’t see it because it lives about three miles under the water. But for the most part, most of these things are not real.
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org
Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com
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