Do you believe in the supernatural?

[Gorse]

The issue is that witnesses weren't even sure what they saw.

Yes, but – playing Devil's advocate here – couldn't you say the same thing about, say, jaguars?

Look at that creature! If you were, say, a Mayan or Aztec soldier doing his patrol at night, and you saw one of those things prowling around in the woods, and you'd never seen anything larger than a standard cat before, you might think "YIKES, THAT'S A MONSTER!!!", as their cultures did. It, of course, wasn't really a monster – it was just an animal that they didn't have the ability to capture, identify, and catalogue, yet. But, in the future, we now do, and can explain the jaguar logically.

Theoretically speaking, is there any reason something like Bigfoot couldn't be the same? There have been multiple, independent accounts of large, gorilla-like creatures in the woods and mountains spanning throughout the upper half of North America. A lot of that area, even with today's technology, is still uncharted. Isn't it conceivable that, maybe one day, we'll know that "Bigfoot" was just a member of the N. American Forest Gorilla genus?

Probably not, it's all a load of nonsense. But it's fun to imagine!

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Cyclops exists, tho.

Okay, kinda ew but malformations and medical conditions are often named after the mythological one, not the other way around.


Also I'm speaking of the mythological creature coming from bones of mammoths.

In the same way banshees are potentially coming from screeching barn owls.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Okay, kinda ew but malformations and medical conditions are often named after the mythological one, not the other way around.

That's just your opinion. It seems to me cyclopism has existed since long before even antique Greece.

It's only recently that scientists decided to make Sonic the Hedgehog responsible for it.

 

[Gorse]

barn owls.

These little fuckers confirm to me the existence of demons in our world.

 

[RuckusMcGuckus]

I don't believe in ghosts and majority of supernatural things, but contrarily I believe people when they say they've had a supernatural experience.
I have sleep paralysis sometimes, and sometimes those entities are there. Like I have actually seen the Old Hag, never the Hat Man though. I saw, I experienced, and now I fully believe in these entities. Whether they're real or not, to me, the truth is that people across the world have these shared hallucination/visions. Why? I don't know but its a thing, and that part is real. I don't expect a single person to take my word for it and that's why I hear people out at the very least. Prior to that I wouldn't believe a single thing you told me.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I don't believe in ghosts and majority of supernatural things, but contrarily I believe people when they say they've had a supernatural experience.
I have sleep paralysis sometimes, and sometimes those entities are there. Like I have actually seen the Old Hag, never the Hat Man though. I saw, I experienced, and now I fully believe in these entities. Whether they're real or not, to me, the truth is that people across the world have these shared hallucination/visions. Why? I don't know but its a thing, and that part is real. I don't expect a single person to take my word for it and that's why I hear people out at the very least. Prior to that I wouldn't believe a single thing you told me.

I want neuroscience to evolve further to finally explain these.

 

[YuriSukiSan]

I used to take an interest in cryptids, mysterious monsters, things of that nature for my creative writing back in the day. I think iirc the british government hired someone to check in to abductions, strange sightings, etc, just to see whether or not there was someone being naughty, or doing something they shouldn't have been on british turf. And it turned out, some of them weren't crazy, weren't lying, weren't on drugs and they genuinely believed their experience happened.

I don't wholly believe in the supernatural but I do think there are things beyond the comprehension of our current science, like for example sleep paralysis 'demons'. I've had that experience myself, so I can attest to that being a thing. For me it was a dark figure of an old man watching me. There's obviously a scientific answer we just don't have yet but I guess my point is, there are questionable things that happen, that really do happen, as ridiculous as they might sound. It wasn't so long ago that giant squids were kind of a meme to the scientific community. And there was that fish in the 19.. I want to say 50s? That turned out not to be extinct.

tl;dr Not really but if bigfoot was found tommorow it wouldn't shock me.

 

[NeonKnights]

No. I believe the supernatural and UMA's are a conspiracy created by the Flatwoods Monster.

 

[Nidstang]

I dont believe in it, but I find it fun to watch/read stuff about ghosts and aliens and cryptids and stuff

 

[Raziya The Seeker]

I didn't know this would turn so heated.

Despite the upload title, this is indeed in English >_>

 

[Scum Of Orion]

The only things that remain supernatural is what we can't investigate to the point its simply natural, and the only thing that can't be studied is what can't be found or isn't real.

 

[ClarityZero]

That's just your opinion. It seems to me cyclopism has existed since long before even antique Greece.

It's only recently that scientists decided to make Sonic the Hedgehog responsible for it.

Okay, I'm just gonna say it. At some point, we, as a species, are going to HAVE to take a stand against this. We need to wake up before it's too late.

STOP LETTING SCIENTISTS NAME THINGS ALREADY!!!

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I used to take an interest in cryptids, mysterious monsters, things of that nature for my creative writing back in the day. I think iirc the british government hired someone to check in to abductions, strange sightings, etc, just to see whether or not there was someone being naughty, or doing something they shouldn't have been on british turf. And it turned out, some of them weren't crazy, weren't lying, weren't on drugs and they genuinely believed their experience happened.

I don't wholly believe in the supernatural but I do think there are things beyond the comprehension of our current science, like for example sleep paralysis 'demons'. I've had that experience myself, so I can attest to that being a thing. For me it was a dark figure of an old man watching me. There's obviously a scientific answer we just don't have yet but I guess my point is, there are questionable things that happen, that really do happen, as ridiculous as they might sound. It wasn't so long ago that giant squids were kind of a meme to the scientific community. And there was that fish in the 19.. I want to say 50s? That turned out not to be extinct.

tl;dr Not really but if bigfoot was found tommorow it wouldn't shock me.

30 years ago, if you had said that snails that made their shells out of metal and live off of volcanic fumes that would be fatally toxic to 99.999999% of known species existed outside of fiction, most people would have dismissed the notion as lunacy of some sort.

Then, in 2001, the scaly-foot gastropod was discovered.

 

[Deleted member 231262]

nop, ghosts are not real. : )

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I'm a pretty huge sceptic when it comes to most things supernatural, although I am open to the idea of phenomena that we lack the current means or technology to observe or explain properly, as there's still a massive number of things we don't know.

I do believe the majority of popular cryptids like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster are nonsense and are perpetuated almost purely due to how profitable the myths have become.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I dont believe in it, but I find it fun to watch/read stuff about ghosts and aliens and cryptids and stuff

Yes, I also enjoy stuff but will never take it seriously because I'm trying to be as rational as possible.

The only things that remain supernatural is what we can't investigate to the point its simply natural, and the only thing that can't be studied is what can't be found or isn't real.

I totally second this. Science and rationality haven't evolved just so we end up believing more in urban legends than real scientific advancements and discoveries.

STOP LETTING SCIENTISTS NAME THINGS ALREADY!!!

scholarly names in latin are still the best way to name things in my opinion.

30 years ago, if you had said that snails that made their shells out of metal and live off of volcanic fumes that would be fatally toxic to 99.999999% of known species existed outside of fiction, most people would have dismissed the notion as lunacy of some sort.

Then, in 2001, the scaly-foot gastropod was discovered.

I believe more in platypuses and coelacanths than Dragons and fairies personally.

So a hard shelled snail is less of a surprise than a beaver-duck fusion.

I'm a pretty huge sceptic when it comes to most things supernatural, although I am open to the idea of phenomena that we lack the current means or technology to observe or explain properly, as there's still a massive number of things we don't know.

I do believe the majority of popular cryptids like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster are nonsense and are perpetuated almost purely due to how profitable the myths have become.

Scepticism is good.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Yup, since i grew with my mother's side of stories about witches, ghosts and a cute story about my greatgrandma handing me and my two brothers a box with out inner talents, sadly since i never experienced them, compared to my sister that dealt with ghosts and my card reading brother, i am starting to believe i am my brotherhood's local normie (At least i had some lucid dreams)

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

I believe anything considered "super natural" that is real is just something not fully understood by science.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Apparently in my country we have this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwetritsch if that counts,and to the question if i believe in the Supernatural who knows i can neither prove nor completely disprove it maybe there more than the human mind can see but who knows.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Yes I do. And by supernatural I mean being able to see into the future and read vibes and wavelengths. I also believe that deja vu is a type of time travel. Buttttt, my beliefs can be kinda really far out there.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I think ummm supernatural means ghosts? Hmmm idk if it fits in the category but I'm a muslim and in the quran "jin" are mentioned but details about them are vague and we hardly know a thing about them ancient Arabs did belive in stuff like this and we have a myth especially in the gulf region or deserts where a phenomenon that is a light that directs travelers across desert or so it should it leads travelers astray there has been some footage of it.

There is also a banned book about this stuff in arabic it's called "شمس المعارف" written long ago it's said this book can make you contact demons n shit but who knows being banned is indeed a big question mark.

It IS worth noting however that many myths are built off using Islamic basis so not everything is true especially when it comes to this stuff as we know so little about it.