Do you believe in creatures in Earth's wilds who are intelligent enough to keep us from perceiving them?

Question

I'm thinking along the lines of the yeti or even something resembling an elf or some such, but really, any such creature would be an interesting speculation. Do you think there might be creatures among us that are hidden from our sight by their own choice and through their own ingenuity at camoflauge? I don't mean things like spirits or demons, I mean creatures with bodies every bit as physical as our own.

I also don't just mean creatures who _try_ to hide, like most any non-human creature does when a human approaches, but creatures who try to do so and who, in spite of our every effort to observe them, succeed in remaining unknown to us on any large scale.

Answer 1

yes l do

Answer 2

Romantic but impossible.

Think about this seriously for a moment.

There are no "wilds" on Earth. The planet has been mapped, surveyed, and carved up for ownership.

Take the United States, every square inch is owned by someone, (even if that someone is often the Federal Government or the National Park Service). It has been, and constantly is, surveyed and re-surveyed for minerals, for oil, for natural gas deposits. Timber is harvested. Rail road lines and highways have been scouted out and explored. Hunters, campers, prospectors, tree huggers, and National Geographic photographers regularly track through the back country trails. Spy sats, (American and otherwise) have been photographing the Earth for almost 1/2 a century now.

Overhead photograps, be it from plane, helocopter, or space craft, have mapped our entire planet. How do you think mining companies FIND the Oil, Gas, and other minerals they pull out of the ground? They go out into the woods and look. How do you think they find the Marble to be quarried and turned into coutnertops, or the sandstone to be quarried and turned into bank lobbies? Again, geologists have been there, done that, over pretty much the whole planet.

So sorry to be such a downer... but if there are any large, non-human creatures that are hiding out in the jungle or the woods, there aren't very many of them and they aren't using fire or making buildings. If they were, they would have been spotted by now.

Answer 3

It wasn't long ago that a large squid got washed up to shore and it was the first verification that they existed. If you think about it, 3/4 of the earth is under water.... you really think we've seen everything?? Our technology can take us to limited depths.
As for the yeti and other creatures, I believe they do exist. The US may be 'accounted' for in terms of land... but just north, here in Canada, we have a larger land mass which has a population of 10% that of the US. A lot of land to hide!

Answer 4

Of course. They have known that there were wolves in Yosemite only because they heard them, they have still never been seen.

The great apes were a myth until someone actually brought back a carcass; less than 150 years ago. The giant squid, another myth, that today, most scientists agree, exists.

Man is so very arrogant as to believe that everything that can be known, is known. It is consummate stupidity, in my opinion and most indigenous people would never make such a fatal mistake.

Answer 5

I remembered an article in the newspaper on this one:

About.com/Paranormal Phenomena
On the Trail of the Chupacabras

It attacks in the night, sucking the blood from its helpless victims. Let's follow the bloody trail of the elusive "goat sucker" over the years.
Their first known attacks were in March of 1995 in Puerto Rico. Eight sheep were discovered dead, each completely drained of blood. Investigators found three strange puncture wounds in the chests of the animals. Despite the odd circumstances, authorities could only attribute the killings to a known predator - a fox, perhaps. Others, however, recognized the similarities in these deaths to the enigmatic cattle mutilations which had been taking place in the American southwest with increasing regularity. Was there a connection?

Five months later, however, the attacks intensified and became more bizarre than any cattle mutilation. In August, 1995, as many as 150 farm animals and pets were killed by a mysterious predator in and around the Puerto Rican town of Canóvanas. In most cases, like the sheep, the animals were drained of blood through small holes. A definite pattern of unexplained killing had developed. Several of the animal victims were goats, which inspired the locals to christen the killer, el chupacabras - the "goat sucker." To this day, its rampage of gruesome slayings has continued and spread to many parts of the world, including the United States, Mexico, even as far away as Australia.

Yet after three years and hundreds of killings, chupacabras has eluded capture. Several sightings have been claimed, and its description fits no biological classification - and its killing methods puzzle forensic experts. If eyewitnesses can be believed, and until the experts can deliver a plausible explanation for the bizarre deaths, chupacabras remains a real modern mystery.

The Description

In Canóvanas, about 30 citizens claimed to have seen the chupacabras, swearing that it had swooped down from the sky and leapt over treetops. It wasn't until November, 19, 1995 that a detailed description of chupacabras came from an eyewitness. On that autumn night in Puerto Rico, the creature struck again. Farmers awoke to a horrifying scene: dozens of turkeys, rabbits, goats, cats, dogs, horses and cows... dead, with no explainable cause. Just the mysterious markings left by the blood-drinking chupacabras. But in the north-central city of Caguas, a startled homeowner caught the world's first fleeting glimpse of the goat sucker. Described as having huge red eyes and hairy arms, the creature allegedly broke into the bedroom of the house through a window, tore apart a child's stuffed Teddy bear, and left a puddle of slime and a single piece of rancid meat on the windowsill before disappearing.

Through the end of 1995, chupacabras had been blamed for more than 1,000 mysterious animals deaths - all resulting from blood loss through one or more puncture wounds. In that time, several more eyewitnesses came forward, consistently describing the the creature as being monkey-like, but having no tail. They characterized it has having large oval red eyes that sometimes glowed, gray skin, a long snake-like tongue, fangs, and long spinal quills that may double as wings. Those who saw it say chupacabras stands between four and five feet tall, hops like a kangaroo, and leaves a foul, sulfur-like stench. At the site of some deaths, unidentified three-toed tracks were found. Zoologists could think of no known animal that adequately fits this strange portrait.

Answer 6

You know, I actually do. The world id such a big place, and thousands of new species are discovered in the rain forest, there as got to be unknown out there. Plus how do we explain all the sightings and all??

Answer 7

Think about this....and we seldom do. There are billions of larva and Earth worms beneath our feet every day and we seldom perceive their presence. Their are Mammals that seldom rise above the surface of the Earth, such as moles and shrews. There are Fish, larger than we are, and smaller, we never perceive and seldom think of, in the deeps of our seas and oceans. We pay little attention to the actualities in nature that surround us as we go along in our urban workdays with no thought of any other life but Us.

Answer 8

I believe they do exist and I pray they stay smart and never let us know for sure that they exist. Or else, you know what will happen to them. If I ever saw anything, I'd go to my grave not telling a soul.

Answer 9

It's a lot like lovecrafts stories... Aliens are among us.
It is a possibility. Maybe we don't realize they are intelligent ccrature.

Answer 10

yes... elfs.... no one have ever seen an elf... but onli a few hear them marching through a forest(not sure which) i hear once or twice myself..... i was camping in a forest... theni heard foot steps.... then i heard a chanting like ....."li me notarase__molake,vinetolamenak_trollde... vimenotesuranimetova.... i___minoteraseneveratosuna,ic levato milenaraco....." some think like that...

Answer 11

Absolutely. Humans are not always as clever as they think they are.