If you look into every sorts of tribal lore, than all people be they Japanese, Celtic, Native American, Slavs, Scandinavians, all have weird tales of odd creatures they encountered in the woods, inexplicable events, unusual meteorological occurrences, etc. It's almost like whatever else lives on the Earth retreated into the woods. Maybe they're just cryptids like the gorilla once was? Maybe some cyptids died a long time ago, and since they're extinct, we explain away those legends.

Of course, sitting around a campfire, and telling tells, which is basically what we're sharing now, is enjoyable. We almost want to be scared.

I tend to think that Jacques Vallee was right. Something else lives here, and the world is far stranger than we know. We've seen that from our studies of bacteria, or deep sea exploration, and so much of it will be explainable to future generations, if those creatures again don't go extinct.

But I think there's still some supernatural things too.

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