The Oddities Of The World

Though the arena of the paranormal and of myths and legends can be a vast as the very heavens themselves, I will do my best to break things down and look at various bits and pieces in a more intimate light.  As such, let's look at a few of the oddities of our world.

Throughout history, we humans have had a fascination with animal oddities, strange beings, and those little things that go bump in the night.  We've created some of those little beasties in our minds, while others were thought to be fictional only to be proven to be fact.  For instance, let's look at the Kraken.  Since ancient times, sailors talked of this gigantic water beast with a thousand testicles and  a voracious appetite.  Legend held that this monster would come up from the deep, attack the ships above, and drag them back to the bottom.  And though over time we came to believe these stories to be just that, it seems now that there may be some truth to them with the newly discovered reality of the Giant Squid.

Can the same be true for other mythological creatures, or as they're now called, Cryptozoological creatures?  Is there really a creature called the Bigfoot out there, or can it be the Gigantopithecus.  A great ape from roughly one million years to three-hundred thousand years ago that stood at about 9.5 feet tall and weighed in at around 1,200lbs.  What about the Loch Ness Monster or the Thunderbirds or the Bunyip?  Can these creatures be real or at least a memory of something that was at one time real?

In recent history, we've found that a few of the creatures we believed to be imaginary were, in fact, actual animals.  At the turn of the 20th century, it was found that the stories the natives of Africa had been telling hunters about large hairy men in the forests turned out to be true in the form of the Mountain Gorillas.  They also found that a beast they believed to be an ancient Egyptian mythological beast was real in the form of the Okapi.  So there is some claim that a few of these animals may actually exist.

Our ancestors witnessed things we can only dream of.  I'm sure there are creatures that once existed, but no longer roam our world.  Is this what we all seem to have a suppressed memory of in our collective minds?  Could it be that somewhere in the past, our ancestors told of horrific beasts in order to keep us safe as we continued on through our lives?  As we go on though this world, we're sure to continue to find creatures we once thought to be imagined and our imaginations will remind us of others we still see in our dreams.