Undiscovered Creatures Thread (Nessie, BigFoot, etc.)

[TheSilverWolf]

I define close minded as not willing to believe, or unwilling to change your mind given reasonable evidence. Of course, what I define as reasonable and what you do is probably going to be very different. And there have been supposed unicorn sightings, just as an FYI. Probably from people who've been reading a fantasy novel while taking some LSD, but just saying :p juroara, I've not really heard the more paranormal reports of Big-foot. I've only heard the ones where someone sees a large hulking figure that looks like a giant ape; stories of that nature. Though I did once hear that there is often an influx of UFO sightings in areas with Big-foot sightings. Not sure if that means anything or is just coincidence. What your friend described almost sounds like some of the sightings of Shadow People (which I think are probably ghosts or spirits if you prefer that term). A huge black creature that is basically a featureless shadow...sounds like a pretty good definition of a Shadow Person to me. Interesting it would appear to step OUT of a hole though. And it's stories like that, that I don't think we should dismiss entirely. There are sooo many like that, are we really to believe every single one is made up, imagination, hoax, mistaken identity, etc?? I'm pretty open minded. I don't just believe EVERYTHING is real, but I am willing to change my opinion if there are enough facts to warrant it. For example, if we came up with definitive proof that there was no way for an animal like Bigfoot or Nessie to exist, then I'd be okay with that and accept it. But we cannot account for all of the sightings; to believe every single Bigfoot sighting is a hoax or case of mistaken identity just seems to be a bit of a stretch. It's the same thing with alien life, in my opinion. How can one say that there isn't other life on other planets, when we live in an infinitely large universe, with trillions and trillions and trillions of planets. If even .01% of those planets were in the "goldilocks zone" for life, that is still a heck of a lot of chances for there to be life out there. So yeah, to me open mindedness is (within reason) not immediately dismissing an idea just because it at first sounds a bit out there. ~SIlverWolf~