10 Monsters People Claim Are Real (That Totally Don’t Exist)

In our earlier article on the subject of cryptozoology (that’s the search for hidden animals – for those that weren’t here last time around), we discussed ten of the most oft-reported ‘cryptids’ and offered a few theories on how they might actually exist somewhere out there in the great unknown.

We also suggested that, statistically speaking at least; some of those creatures probably do exist. With so many unknown animals currently being searched out by cryptozoologists, at least a couple of them have got to be out there. It would be foolish to suggest that Western science has named and catalogued every animal on earth, so why can’t some of these strange animals reported by eyewitnesses, or spoken of in folk tales actually be living, breathing creatures?

Having said that, the requisite open mindedness needed for an interest in cryptozoology sometimes allows for creatures that, put simply, do not exist. Occasionally, minds that are perhaps a little bit ‘too open’ need to be filled in, just a little, with some cold, hard, factual science.

In this list, we’ll look at ten creatures that have been reported at some point or another in time, but that absolutely, categorically, do not exist. Some have been revealed to be hoaxes; others were just too stupid to be believable in the first place and some, although they had existed in the distant past, are now very, very extinct. Hold onto your scepticism, readers, we’re about to embark on a safari of the absurdREAD MORE