
Hunting Monsters
Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths
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Narrated by:
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Eric Meyers
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By:
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Darren Naish
The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and the yeti have long held a fascination for people the world over. Debates about their actual existence or what they might really be have continued for decades, if not centuries. Known also as cryptids, they have spawned a body of research known as cryptozoology. This entertaining book looks at the evidence of these mysterious monsters and others and explores what they might really be (if they exist at all), why they have been represented as they have, and the development of cryptozoology and how it has collected data to discover more about these unknown creatures.
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Some people tend to be blind believers in such subjects while others are more productive, and as someone with an interest in crypzoo, but disauded by the abundance of bad faith actors in the community, this book gives me hope one day a new movement more centered on scientific standards and anthropological value can come from this whole weird world of monster hunting.
We should take back Cryptozoology
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A must read
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Delightfully no-nonsense take on cryptozoology
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A monster book for the skeptical monster lover.
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All-in-all a short and educationally rich listen.
A skeptical and cultural look at some favorite monsters
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Further, as a social scientist (trained in developmental psychology) who has begun developing scholarship in parapsychology and cryptozoology, I find the disparagement of first-person memory and the paranormal as not being scientifically valid or reliable to be lacking in nuance at best and misleading/disingenuous at worst.
Moreover, the poor treatment of evidence in favor of the Patterson-Gimlin film, the Bossburg tracks, the Skokie casting, and some of the other audiovisual and trace evidence in support of relict hominoids felt like the very kind of cherry-picking of data that the author laments in cryptid believers and enthusiasts. The lack of robust support for Naish’s claims that hominoids such as Sasquatch are likely hoaxes or misidentifications led me to reconsider everything else that he said in the text. In other words, because of the lack of fair and rigorous discussion of the merits of the available evidence of these “cryptohominids” led me to take everything else that was stated in the text, both before and after this section, with a very large grain of salt.
If one were to take the book content at face value, one may come to believe that the only reason that cryptids exist is because of some cultural inclination to imagine them, some psychological compunction to misremember or misidentify real animals, or some combination thereof. But given the great wealth of data that exists on cryptids (which actually includes compelling, consistent narratives from Indigenous and other sources the world over), the exact opposite seems to be true, at least in the case of relict hominoids: while misidentifications and hoaxes surely exist, there is enough data to strongly suggest the existence of such beings. And despite what Naish May have the reader believe, there is actually very little to suggest that the Patterson-Gimlin film is a hoax. In fact, it is most likely still, over fifty years after it was taken, one of the best pieces of modern evidence available that suggests the existence of large, hairy hominoids unrecognized by contemporary Western science.
Underwhelming and Disappointing
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