Myths and Legends thru the ages

For centuries people have loved to tell stories, most of these stories evolved into what they are today, and that's how we got most of our myths and urban legends. Some of these are as simple as a ghost supposedly haunting a house, but others have millions of people who claim to have been witness to them. Most of us brush them off as just stupid stories, but what if they aren't just stories? One of the most famous of all myths is that of Bigfoot, an ape-like man ranging anywhere from six to ten feet tall who roams the forests of North America. We've seen pretty much every form of proof that he exists except for seeing him ourselves. Several people have told us stories of their encounters, shown us pictures, or even molds of his footprints, but still we refuse to believe. There's a plainly clear picture of him taken by two men in 1967 in the woods of Northern California, but most critics claim it's just a man in an ape suit or some other kind of trick. But those who do believe have spawned numerous theories to explain his identity, like maybe he's an animal we've never discovered before or maybe he's a prehistoric animal we all thought was extinct. Is he a figment of too many over-active imaginations or simply another species of ape? Perhaps we'll figure it out one day. Another famous creature is the Loch Ness Monster. Thousands of people claim to have spotted a dragon-like creature between the shores of the Loch Ness in Scotland, and several have captured the Nessie in a photograph or even on film. Sightings of the monster date all the way back to October 1871, and still continue today, but how many of these people have some sort of mental disease or are just looking for a quick bit of fame? It's impossible to know. Now, with the discovery of several deep caverns under the Loch Ness, many believe its completely possible that the monster hides in these caves, and maybe it's a prehistoric dinosaur that got frozen in the lake and later thawed out fully healthy. There's another creature very similar to Nessie that hides in the waters of Lake Champlain. A French explorer by the name of Samuel De Champlain has been claimed to be the first person to ever encounter the creature now known as Champ back in 1609, though the first sighting may not have been until 1819 in Port Henry, New York. The descriptions of Champ are very similar to those of Nessie, so is it possible they are the same species? And if they are, how is it possible that they've both lived hundreds of years? Perhaps, there's more than one of these creatures and they keep reproducing, but if that's the case, and there's a whole herd of these creatures in Lake Champlain and in Loch Ness, how come we haven't been able to prove they exist yet? There are several other accounts of various lake monster and sea serpent sightings; maybe the ocean is just too vast of a place to search completely. In all reality, there could be hundreds of species of marine life we have yet to discover. In the 1960s, West Virginia was haunted by sightings of a winged, man-like creature that became so cleverly known as the Mothman. Most witnesses described him as being around seven feet tall with wings and glowing red eyes. The first sighting of the Mothman was in 1960 by a young women and her father driving home, although the majority of the sightings were in 1966. In November and December of '66, several claimed to have seen the winged being, but then the sightings just stopped. Maybe people just got bored with the stories or maybe the Mothman moved on. Who knows? There have been several other creatures that people have claimed to see throughout the years, like the Jersey Devil, Chupacabras, Champ and several different forms of Lizard Men. Some of them come and go with time, like Mothman or the Jersey Devil, but others, like Bigfoot and Nessie, only get more famous as time passes. Will we ever know the truth behind these legends? Probably not, but the believers won't stop trying to prove it and the critics won't stop reputing all their evidence.