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Right I'm completely obssessed with finding more information. I would like peoples thoughts and therois on the following: Bigfoot,lockness monster,unicorns,mermaids or any other strange creature. Did they exist,do they still or are some real and some not or are they all myths?. Or does anyone know of any good sites regarding this sort of thing I have googled a few but can't seem to find much.

You can find "proof" and documentation on just about everything... I wish I still had a copy of it but there is a fantastic book on Unicorns that involve a bunch of Monks who protected their secret and other such... there was a contest associated with it in which the horn of such a beast was hidden somewhere here on the North American Continent... it's worth tracking down...

What must be remembered is that all legend and lore stems from some kernel of truth; especially when you recognize the art of parable and metaphor that's sewn into so much of it.

It was either the History or Science channel that just ran a wonderful program on Dragons, their evolution, etc. and why the Chinese Dragon looks so different from the European dragons, etc. It was hosted by Patrick Stewart and had some awesome special effects as well as phenomenal science backing it up

When it comes to "the little people" I'm a firm believer that something must substantiate this idea in that you find legends surrounding them the world over and in cultures that are entirely removed from one another. Now whether the Fey are in fact those souls that didn't make it back to heaven when God closed the doors and condemned Lucifer & Co. to exist outside of the heavens... well, that's a matter of Catholic lore to say the least but I tend to believe that those Moors about the Emerald Isle have a lot of interesting things about them... especially given how drunk the Irish are known to stay...

I believe in everything. I find it makes the world a more magical place. It must be awful to not believe in anything.

Lindz - check out www.mysterymag.com

Cheers Craig for your reply and thanks magic wand for the link I'm just going to check it out.

When it comes to little green men read The Brief history of time, though its does not say they isn’t they show how mathematically impossible it would be.

themagicwand wrote:Lindz - check out www.mysterymag.com

I must say that site is very intresting indeed.

When it comes to little green men read The Brief history of time, though its does not say they isn’t they show how mathematically impossible it would be.

Its been years since I read it (and to be honest, mot went over my head), but didnt it say that it is unlikely that we will meet them, due tto the amount of light years they would need to travel, and time it would take. I'm sure that the probability of them existing, whether we ever know of them or not, is a bit higher than mathamatically impossible. Maybe wrong though, I'm a BA, not a Bsc, so what do I know!

Don't believe in any of it and immediately look down at anyone who does.

Yeah, you say that now, but wait until I bring in my professor who is a centaur and he'll kick your butt.

Humans have existed for 200,000 years and we still have know way of knowing that our experience of an external world resembles the way it really is, or that it even exists at all - so why should I believe experience which says that such beings DEFINITELY don't exist?

As with any subject it is absolutely impossible to prove that something does NOT exist; Bertrand Russells teacup orbiting the earth for example.

However, using our common sense we can weigh up evidence and come to a likely/unlikely sliding scale.

The Loch ness monster for example under any scrutiny can be pretty much be put down as extremely unlikely after many sonar scans of the whole loch finding nothing, the chances of a large species of which there must be many to reproduce, the lack of any dead specimen and the fact that the first photo of the monster was revealed to be a fake by experts and the bloke who took it.
This kind thought needs to be applied by all who want to believe in the supernatural. Use the rational mind that you were born with.

Well I KNOW that faeries exist, I've got one sitting on my shoulder right now

As for the others, my belief is that these things were stroies told by cultures thousands of years aog, when their known world was much much smaller that ours and nobody knew what strange beasts lay out there. Imagine if you'd never seen an elephant or rhino before, you'd think they were monsters.

I think these people were doing then, exactly what we do now with aliens now.

Thanks for your responses everyone. These things have just got me intrigued, I don't care whether they exist or not it's just nice to know they might, I just can't weigh up the evidance on each subject it's to confusing but each and everything that can't be explained has some sort of mystique about it maybe that's why I'm so curious and a lot of others aswell.

I'd like to think all magical things exist. It would make the world a lot more interesting.
A lot of things tho do have some basis in reality. I do not see why we can't have a Lock Ness Monster, surely it would just be a large reptile. And why cant horses have horns? Ok they might not be mystical, but why not?
Ofcourse aliens exist, they have to. We can't possibly be the only planet in infinity to support life??!!! I'm not saying that they come here and abduct us for experiments, but you would have to be damn fool hardy to assume that we are the be all and end all.
I mean, take a look at the variety of life on this planet alone. With the variations in infinity, there has to be something else out there somewhere!!