Cryptozoology

Cryptids, deriving from the Greek word “krypto” meaning hidden, is a term for creatures that are only rumored to exist and have not been proven to be real. The concept of cryptids has existed for a very long time, with almost every culture across the world throughout the ages having stories of beasts that nobody knows about for sure. and those ideas persist today, with many people sharing stories about modern rumored cryptids such as bigfoot, moth man, or the loch ness monster, with people even spending their lives hunting these cryptids and trying to prove their existence.

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