what are the chances that mysterious creatures like nessie and bigfoot exist?

Question

perhaps it's only alcohol and drug hallucinations, mind tricks, etc., but what else could these be? undiscovered species? species thought to be extinct, but not?

Answer 1

Actually, pretty good.
In 1938, a fish caught in Indonesia turned out to be a coelacanth, a species previously found only in fossil records.
Over the years many species of reclusive animals and plants that were thought extinct have been discovered. Nessie and other lake monsters from around the world are usually described as inhabitants in freshwater lakes known to be very deep and murky.
Description of Sasquatch and similar creatures from around the world and from different cultures are consistant enough to suggest that something may exist or has existed into modern times.
Of course certain aspects might be exaggerated. The dragons of Japan turned out to be a large and rare species of lizard.

Answer 2

i think theres always a chance, if only a remote one. i think nessie may indeed exist, its probably just not a dinosaur. bigfoot would most likely be a bear standing up, i would imagine. then again, pehaps they are indeed undiscovered species or thought-to-be extinct species that somehow survived. The thing that makes me wonder, is that if bigfoot, nessie, dragons, etc never existed. how would anyone know what they looked like in the first place to even try to fake their existence? If you had never seen a horse before, and i told you to draw one, could you do it? probably not. In closing, the truth is probably somewhere in between fact and fiction.

Answer 3

I believe they are real, but I have yet to meet most (lol). Vampires are real. Look around you. Mosquitoes, ticks, vampire bats, and more animals drink blood, so why can't humanoid Vamps be real? I believe werewolves and were-animals are real. I believe that almost all mystical things are real, even faeries. They have caught a chupacabra. It looks like a blue dog and it does attack goats and chickens. Some New Jersey residents have seen some creature that they say to be the jersey devil, but they still don't know if it is evil or good. As for ghosts, our house has some and there are very weird occurrences. My dad has seen a black cat streak through the living room and disappear and we do not own a black cat nor does anyone around us (we live in the country). There is also a ghost or poltergeist that lives in my room. I know b/c in the summer, when all the other rooms were blazing hot, my room was a comfortable temp. I defiantly believe in the supernatural.

Answer 4

New species are being discovered all the time - some of them rather large, but it is unusual in modern times to discover new species as large as this. Satellites, of course, would likely be of no help at all since they aren't tasked to look at wildlife in general and particularly for unknown and possibly non-existent wildlife.

But it is certainly not as impossible as many answers would lead you to believe. Look at the huge herds of migrating animals - including everything from elephants on down - that were just discovered this past month in Ethiopia. Millions of large animals of which scientists were completely unaware. Surely, a small group of large primates in all of North America could remain undetected, particularly if they live in the more inaccessible and inhospitable areas of the continent.

As for the Loch Ness Monster, the history of this legend suggests that it is a hoax, and the much smaller range is also suggests that, if it existed, it would have been discovered by now. Likewise for "Champy".

You can read more about this type of thing here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 5

I don't know about Bigfoot. If something that big existed, wouldn't it have been discovered by now? With all those satelite images too?

As for the Loch Ness monster, I saw a documentary that explained that the lake was very murky. While that means that it's very hard to search, it also means that not much sunlight filters down. That means there is very little plant life. With very little plant life, there are vey few animals that need to feed on them. Therefore, there is simply not enough food to support a colony of animals the size of the Loch Ness monster.

Therefore, my estimated chances are 1% Bigfoot, 0.1% Loch Ness monster.

Answer 6

Well there is no doubt that big foot exist for I and 30 other people 3 to 5 feet away ran into one on two different occasions and big foot was very,very real period... As for Nessy my vote has yet to be counted... But if big foot can exist why not Nessy... Also there is no chance that the big foot was a man in a suit for on my second encounter two men tried to grab a hold of big foot and when I say that they flew Thur the air they were thrown for a loop and bounced rather hard and they did not get up for they have to be awaken with smelling salt capsules.. But you can believe what ever you wish to for I will never forget what I saw that day......................................

Answer 7

can't give you any figures, but i suppose there is a remote possibility. Nessie has never been caught -- except on tape -- and the all the tapes are very grainy -- strange considering that many times she/he/it was photographed in daylight.

As far as bigfoot, again anecdotal evidence, and fuzzy, grainy pictures -- no sharp or clear pictures -- I wonder if this is a hoax perpetuated over and over again by dimwitted people.

Answer 8

I've heard that some cultures use to believe that the earth sat on the back of a giant turtle that swam thru space. Do you believe that this is also possible?

Never accept anything without proof. Humans make up stuff all the time.

Answer 9

Well you can discount nessie as you cant believe a single word the bloody jocks say... oops not PC...scots

Answer 10

There were four people in my family to see bigfoot...so I think it's likely. I never did; but the never saw dead people either...so I guess we're even.

Nessie? Not sure.