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.