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Ferocious monsters from the deep.

Hellish hounds that prowl the night.

And ancient dragons that rule the skies.

Since the dawn of time, there have been tales

of monsters that live among us.

Creatures of myth and legend that lurk in the shadows

and hunt us like prey.

But are these fantastic beasts

merely figments of our imagination?

Or could they actually be real?

Well, that is what we'll try and find out.

For centuries, mankind has told stories

about fearsome monsters

that inhabit our world and can strike without warning.

What is it about these strange creatures that terrifies us?

Monsters are found everywhere, in all cultures,

in all, uh, locales around the world.

If you look at monsters from an anthropological sense,

they are very often wild and dangerous and aggressive.

And very often inescapably evil.

They have humanlike motivations

and humanlike or even godlike abilities.

And this reflects a lot of real, um, issues, fears.

And as well as encounters of the most fantastical kind.

Monsters have been with us a long time.

In Australia, the ancient aboriginals would

talk about the Bunyip, which was a swamp-dwelling creature

that would rise in the moonlight to slaughter its victims.

The Native Americans talked about horned serpents

and thunder beings with wings that would roam the skies.

In Norse or Viking mythology,

there were a number of monsters as well.

You had trolls, elves, ogres.

So we have all manner of horrible,

strange monsters lurking the planet.

They are the embodiment of evil.

They represent the mystery in our world, the unknown.

What a lot of people don't realize is

that at least some of these monsters have stepped

from beyond the veil of mythology

into our reality.

Is it possible that some monsters are

not merely fictional characters

but, rather, flesh and blood creatures?

There are those who believe the answer is yes.

And as evidence, they point to a beast

that has been reported in England for centuries.

As thunder and rain pounds St. Mary's Church,

the worshippers inside gather in silent prayer.

Suddenly, a monstrous doglike creature

with glowing red eyes crashes

through the church doors and attacks the people inside.

Dozens are wounded, and two parishioners

are killed in the unexpected rampage

caused by one of England's

most feared monsters...

the hellhound.

The hellhound of Bungay is one

of the best known of the monster stories

in the U.K.

It kills two parishioners in the church

as it makes its way through.

It then goes off to the town

of Blythburgh, which is about 12 miles away.

And it kills two more parishioners

and a young boy, as well,

before scrambling to get out

of the church and leaving its claw marks in the church door,

which you can still see as black scorch marks to this day.

It's a really important story,

especially for the local area.

The black dog is seen on the weathervane in the town.

It's on the coat of arms.

Hellhounds are abnormally huge black dogs.

They are thought to be an omen of death or a harbinger

of ill fate, mishap, misfortune, and death.

Sometimes they're as large as a full grown cow,

heavily muscled,

with glowing red eyes,

as though embers of hell are emanating

from the creature.

These traditions and stories of hellhounds

date back centuries in England,

all the way back to the 12th century.

All over England, you have different regional

aspects of these black dogs that are considered

to be the manifestation of the devil himself.

They're known by a variety of different names,

the most popular being the Black Shuck and the Hairy Jack.

There are still people even to this day that report encounters

with these strange, ghostly dogs.

Whatever they represent, we can't deny

that the black dogs are here to stay.

The hellhound has clearly frightened

the people of England for centuries.

But there's another monster that's

believed to dwell in the country

that has inspired even greater fascination and fear.

It's known as the Beast of Exmoor.

While trekking through a field

in a former royal hunting preserve,

two hikers capture video footage

of something no one would ever expect

to see in the backwoods of South West England.

The video shows a large black animal

slinking through the grass.

There was a video filmed of a mysterious

catlike creature roaming the moors of Exmoor.

It's about seven feet long,

two and a half feet high at the shoulders.

Coal black in color,

green eyes.

It's very strange.

The people who took the video seem

to be low to the ground,

And it's so difficult to judge the perspective.

But the interesting thing about this video, I think,

is, this cat was seemingly

a big black panther-like animal

and it was walking through a field

and looking confident.

A black panther?

In England? According to the U.K.

government's organization for rural affairs,

there is no cat species native to England

that resembles a black panther.

But some researchers believe it's possible that

the enigmatic creature was, in fact...

the Beast of Exmoor.

The Beast of Exmoor is a supernatural

or phantom cat that lives, according to legend,

around the Exmoor area,

a national park in Devon.

The Beast of Exmoor is described as a very large,

powerfully built cat.

There have been hundreds of sightings

dating back centuries, but it didn't really

become ingrained in the local fabric of the culture

and folklore until there were

a number of mysterious livestock attacks and killings

in Southern England that hit the newspapers in 1983,

when a sheep farmer named Eric Ley

reported up to a hundred sheep

had been killed in a very violent way.

Typically the throats were ripped out,

they were eviscerated, disemboweled.

So it certainly has really become sort of

the local monster, if you will.

After the attack on Eric Ley's sheep, the British

tabloid The Daily Express picked up the story

and offered a substantial reward for anyone

who brought in the notorious beast, dead or alive.

Many reward-seeking amateur hunters staked out the hills

of Exmoor in search of the monster.

As reports of livestock deaths and sightings of the beast

reached a fever pitch, the British government decided

to send military troops to investigate the matter.

In North Devon the Royal Marines are on the trail of a mystery

black beast that's killed 60 sheep in the past month.

People just don't know what it is.

Rogue dog, wild cat, or indeed something else.

The Royal Marines are dispatched onto Exmoor

to search for this animal to avoid

any more killings taking place if possible.

Some of the Marines report possibly seeing

something through night vision equipment.

But ultimately they stood down

because there's a danger that if they do

see anything and shoot at it,

the chances are, it's going to be one of the many amateur

photographers who are also out on the moor,

trying to capture evidence of this beast.

And so that hunt really comes to nothing

at the end of the day.

The evidence is inconclusive.

It's very hard to pin down for certain

what a lot of these sightings actually are.

And therein lies the mystery behind it.

If it's true that phantom cats and hellhounds do,

in fact, exist, then it begs the question...

could there be other monsters from myth

and legend that are also real?

Well, if a recent discovery in China is to be believed,

then it could be that we share our world...

with dragons.

In a rural community 120 miles from Beijing,

residents make an extraordinary discovery

in a local field.

They find a 60-foot-long set of bones

belonging to a highly unusual animal.

The remains unearthed in Zhangjiakou had antlers.

It had prominent claws. It had a long serpentine body.

So this created a huge buzz and a lot of fascination.

A video of the strange bones went

viral on the Internet, and researchers were

baffled as they attempted to identify the bizarre creature.

But many local villagers

insisted that the bones were the remains...

of a dragon.

Dragons are a huge part of a lot of Asian culture,

particularly Chinese culture.

They are a tremendously important symbol

for many, many people

Dragons are perhaps one

of the most defining elements of Chinese cultural lore.

And they have been for thousands of years.

Dragons symbolize knowledge,

wisdom, uh...

otherworldly power even.

A lot of the early imperial families

drew their authority from associating themselves

with dragon blood or portraying themselves

as descendants of dragons.

So dragons are a very, um...

present creature in Chinese cultural imagination.

Mainstream scientists

remain skeptical as to whether or not the skeleton

that was discovered in 2017

belonged to a real dragon.

But the media frenzy sparked by its discovery

suggested that many people, not only in China

but throughout the world,

believe in the existence of dragons.

We have dragons everywhere

in time and in different cultures.

And it is fascinating, because some of these

cultures never met, they never had contact within history.

So the pervasiveness of dragon myths in cultures

across many folkloric contexts is probably no accident.

Dragons are one of the more fantastic

creatures to study in mythology and folklore and legends

because they're so widespread.

They're a big part of our Western culture.

Satan is described as a dragon in some

passages in the Bible.

They're one of the most powerful animal

gods in Aboriginal mythology.

We have dragons in Ethiopian iconography.

And one of the fascinating things is,

representations of what a dragon is supposed

to look like remains remarkably consistent over time.

What's really remarkable is that, if we consider

all of these different influences that may have

contributed to the dragon legends,

they're all typically portrayed as being reptilian

in nature, having scales and claws, often wings that are

very bat-like or membranous in nature, a long reptilian tail

with a strange structure or a spike or a stinger on the end,

very sharp teeth, the ability to breathe fire.

And so we have to consider the possibility

that at least some of these dragon legends could be based on

some type of extraordinary and perhaps unknown animal.

Is it possible that the many dragons described

in legends throughout the world weren't

just fictional but were actually real?

Perhaps the answer lies in examining some

of the historical accounts in which people have

claimed to have had encounters with actual dragons.

In bygone centuries, encounters with dragons

were not considered to be fables or tall tales.

They were written down and documented

as historical fact.

They were told as real stories of encounters

with mysterious flesh and blood animals.

In the eighth century, there's an example

recorded by, uh, St. John of Damascus...

where the Roman army is immensely surprised

when a large creature described as a dragon

rises up behind them.

They fight and ultimately slay the creature.

And they skin it and they send the skin back to Rome.

People took this extremely seriously

up to the early modern period.

A city in Germany called Worms

is famous for its dragon fighter.

In the 16th, 17th, and 18th century,

they hung up dragon bones all across the city

to prove that dragons are real.

Do the many historical reports of dragons prove

that these legendary beasts were, in fact, real?

Perhaps, but if so,

then it naturally begs the question...

could giant, winged serpents

still exist today?

According to some researchers, the answer is yes.

And as evidence, they point to numerous sightings

in the early 20th century of a flying creature

that was known as the Van Meter Visitor.

In the early 1900s, a town in Iowa,

the small town of Van Meter, Iowa,

was plagued by a giant eight-foot, bat-like creature

with huge leather bat-like wings,

and it had a horn on its head that could project light.

For five nights, it terrorized this small town.

And on the fifth night, during thunderstorms,

it appeared with a smaller version of itself,

perhaps the female gender or the offspring,

before descending back into the coal mine and disappearing,

never to be seen in Van Meter again.

What was the mysterious dragon-like creature

that terrorized the residents of Van Meter, Iowa?

Some researchers believe a clue can be found

in the fossil record.

Beginning in the Triassic period 220 million years ago,

there was an animal out there that actually

looked like a dragon.

So-called pterosaurs, which were these winged

reptiles that endured for 150 million years

and ruled the skies of our planet

and then went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous.

But isn't it interesting that we have modern accounts

and sightings of something that looks like a living dragon?

A reptilian creature with a long tail,

presumably scales, leathery wings,

sharp teeth.

As improbable as it seems, if, in fact,

pterosaurs had managed to endure

throughout history up until modern times,

their existence would most certainly explain

the dragon legends of the world.

Is it possible that the numerous accounts of dragons

throughout history were actually encounters

with dinosaurs that somehow survived extinction?

It's an incredible notion.

But no more extraordinary

than new evidence which suggests

that a fearsome monster might be lurking in the ocean.

A beast known as...

the kraken.

Deep in these cold, turbulent waters,

located south of Japan,

live some of the most mysterious marine species on Earth.

And at approximately 9:15 a.m. on September 30, 2004,

scientists monitoring a digital camera more than a half

a mile below the ocean's surface

captured images of a creature

that had never been photographed underwater before.

The giant squid.

When the picture came out, we, we as a scientific community

were very excited because we've only had

all these myths and legends and sea stories before this.

So, to get photographs was really exciting

because that was actually the first time

that we have seen images of a live giant squid

in its natural environment.

It was a big deal.

In 2019,

another team of marine biologists

recorded stunning video of a giant squid

for only the second time in history.

The footage, filmed at a depth of 2,500 feet,

shows a 12-foot long giant squid

attempting to devour a lure shaped like a jellyfish.

It was the best insight thus far into the behavior

of these elusive creatures that remain shrouded in mystery.

Because we have such little information about them,

one of the major ways they were finding

evidence of the giant squid out in the oceans is actually

from the stomach contents of whales.

Giant squid have eight arms, two tentacles,

and at the end of those tentacles, there are clubs,

and those clubs will bring in prey towards the mouth,

which is this beak-like structure

that has these little rasping little

teeth-like structures inside, called the radula, that help

break food down that the squid is bringing in to digest.

We believe they get to be about 40 to 45 feet long,

about the size of the traditional yellow school buses.

Modern scientists continue to search

for giant squid lurking in the depths,

in hopes of learning more about these massive predators.

But for centuries, sailors from around the world

told stories of a mysterious squid-like monster

that was much larger and more ferocious.

It was known as the kraken.

If you've ever seen old sailing maps, and you see the monsters,

you would see a representation of the kraken,

a giant squid-like creature that would not only capsize

and sink boats but would devour the crew

and had an insatiable hunger for human flesh.

The kraken was believed to be the most diabolical

and evil of all the sea monsters.

In 1555, the Swedish cartographer

Olaus Magnus first began to write about a multiarmed

sea monster that lived off the coast of Norway,

and would often attack boats,

pulling sailors off of ships.

And it was even described as creating

such a massive whirlpool

that it would actually suck ships deep into the ocean.

We have some accounts from whalemen

from the 1840s and 1850s reporting things

floating by that were over 100, 150 feet long.

And then, in 1861, a French Navy vessel,

the Alecton, actually spotted

a large kraken,

or what they believed to be a kraken, floating at the surface.

They didn't want to launch a small boat because

they were afraid that the tentacles

would endanger the sailors.

And so, they got as close as they could.

They started to shoot the animal.

They harpooned the animal.

They got a noose, and they tried to lift it out of the water.

But then the animal just sunk.

If we consider that these kraken accounts from

centuries past were taken as historical fact,

what could these animals represent?

And, although we've scientifically documented that

these giant squids can obtain lengths of up to 50 feet,

it is not beyond scientific possibility

that they could get much, much larger.

So, it's certainly possible that somewhere out there exists

a squid of kraken-type proportions.

Is it possible that the kraken does, in fact, exist?

And if so, could it be a bigger and more monstrous

relative of the giant squid, as some believe?

Perhaps the answer may be found by examining

a modern encounter with what may have been

a real-life kraken.

The Pacific Ocean. 1978.

The United States naval frigate the USS Stein is on patrol,

when it is suddenly attacked from beneath the waves.

In 1978, the U.S. vessel the USS Stein

was out patrolling the waters...

when some unknown creature disabled its sonar dome.

They had to go into port, and they discovered

that the heavy rubber coating

of the sonar dome was torn to shreds.

There were giant claw marks on the rubber,

the longest of which was over four feet in length.

Even more puzzling, researchers found

hooked sharp claws

embedded into the rubber coating.

We know that squids actually have these types of teeth,

or claws if you will, lining their suckers.

And so, for a squid claw of this size,

we could imagine that the squid that created

this damage on this sonar dome

must have been monstrous in proportion.

So, they took it to the naval biologist

and they tried to identify what this could be.

But this was a much larger claw and

not easily connected to a current known species.

Biologists don't know for sure, but they do believe

that it's quite possible that there are large squid species

that we have yet to identify.

Could there be giant squid that are

100, 150 feet long?

We just really don't know.

Could colossal, 150-foot-long squid

actually be lurking in the depths?

Perhaps. And it turns out there may be

an even more powerful creature

dwelling in our oceans.

A giant whale

with a taste for revenge.

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,

about 850 miles from the coast of Portugal,

lies a tiny chain of islands known as the Azores.

The Azores are famous for being one of the best places in

the world to witness the breathtaking sight

of massive sperm whales leaping out of the sea

and crashing back beneath the waves.

Sperm whales are just extraordinary animals.

They can get up to 65, 70 feet long.

They're the largest predator on Earth.

They can make the loudest sound

of any living organism on Earth,

this clang that they make

that can be heard over 12 miles away.

They can go over a thousand feet deep.

They can stay underwater more than two hours.

Most of their life is spent in the dark, underwater,

and yet they're breathing, warm-blooded mammals.

The largest sperm whales are estimated

to weigh an astonishing 80 tons.

And while these massive creatures

may seem quite passive today,

in the 19th century, sperm whales were actually

hunted all over the world,

and sailors considered them to be powerful

and deadly monsters.

The whaling industry, uh, for a while,

was the big industry in the world,

sort of like the petrochemical industry of its day,

because streetlamps ran on whale oil.

And so, the whaling industry had

a huge impact in global history.

In the mid-1800s,

there were over 650 American whaling ships sailing

all around the world in every single ocean

to hunt sperm whales and burning the blubber out

into oil to put into barrels,

and then bringing it home to light lamps,

to lubricate small machinery, to create candles.

It was a very bloody operation to be a whaler,

to be chasing these things.

And during that time period, we have various legends

throughout the world as sailors and shipmen would come across

these fantastically large creatures

that sometimes would destroy boats.

They would swallow people.

They could become wild and dangerous

and aggressive.

Perhaps the most famous story

inspired by legends of monster whales

is the classic American novel Moby-Dick.

Written by Herman Melville in 1851,

the novel told the story of Captain Ahab,

a maimed whaler obsessed with hunting down

and killing his nemesis,

a giant white sperm whale

known as Moby Dick.

Moby Dick is possessed with human intelligence and cunning.

It's vengeful.

It wants revenge at the whalers

and Captain Ahab that went out looking to hunt

and kill this monster.

In the novel, Melville makes it clear that

Moby Dick is intelligent,

he's malicious,

he's devious, he's malignant.

Moby Dick will sort of lure sailors along

and then quickly turn around and smash their boat.

As one of the great American novels, Moby-Dick,

uh, has received a lot of attention

about the great white whale.

Most people see this as an allegory,

but it demonstrates the fear that people had of whales,

and many believe it was based on actual sightings.

Is it possible that Moby Dick was based on a real whale

that would attack 19th century whaling ships

in an act of revenge?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining actual

historical accounts from the 19th century which suggest that,

during this period of time, monstrous whales

were more than just fictional characters.

In 1819, the whaleship Essex leaves

out of Nantucket Island with about 20 people on board.

One day, the first mate

sees an exceptionally large male sperm whale

actually coming towards his ship.

He estimates this whale to be over 80 feet long.

And the whale actually comes and hits

the hull of the whaleship.

It goes underneath and aims for the ship a second time

and this time rams the Essex so hard

that it actually puts a hole in the hull,

and they watch their ship go down.

At the time, there was another real story

of a whale called Mocha Dick,

that Herman Melville was certainly well acquainted with

and was the inspiration for the name Moby Dick.

Mocha Dick was another whale

that, uh, supposedly had turned on humans,

attacking them and destroying several ships.

There was a belief that this one whale

took it upon itself to attack these whaling ships.

Whalemen were recognizing that sperm whales were adjusting

their behavior based on hunting.

The whales got harpooned, they were afraid,

they were terrified, they responded, and they

smashed these whaleboats to bits.

It certainly makes sense that whales defended themselves

when they were hunted by humans trying to kill them.

But is it possible that, in the 19th century,

there was a whale that actually possessed the intelligence

to methodically stalk and attack whaling ships

in a premeditated fashion,

like in the story of Moby Dick?

There's no question that sperm whales are intelligent animals.

We've observed them teaching their young.

We've observed them learning things

over the course of their lifetime.

They can communicate with each other.

They can recognize individuals.

About a third of their body is their head.

They've got the largest brain on Earth,

17 pounds of brain.

Now, whether a sperm whale

can feel emotions like hate or vengeance,

it's certainly something that Melville explores in Moby-Dick,

and it's a question that will continue to fascinate people

as we're learning about animal behaviors.

The notion that an 80-ton whale could suddenly decide

to attack a ship is certainly terrifying,

but there is another elusive beast

who lurks beneath the water.

Not in the ocean but in a quiet lake

in the Scottish Highlands, and it's known as

the Loch Ness Monster.

On a blustery winter afternoon,

military historian Ricky Phillips

is walking his dogs along the misty shoreline of Loch Ness,

when he spots a strange disturbance

in the murky waters.

I was walking along the line of the River Oich.

The River Oich runs down into Loch Ness.

It was absolutely lovely, and I went and I stopped

and I took a photograph over it.

I was sort of one eye on the phone, one eye on the dog.

There was a strange noise, and my dogs went crazy.

As I looked down, there was something in the photograph.

The grainy image appears to show a sinuous figure

rising from the dark gray waters of the loch.

It's unclear what type of animal the photograph reveals.

But many researchers analyzing the photo believe

it could be the latest evidence that confirms

the existence of an infamous creature

from lore and legend that is known as

the Loch Ness Monster.

The Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie,

is without a doubt the most famous or iconic monster

that has been reported around the world.

Stories go back decades, there have been

thousands of eyewitness accounts.

We have compelling photographic evidence,

so it certainly has built

a strong reputation

in the world of fabulous monsters and creatures.

Through the years, there have been hundreds of sightings.

For example,

on July 15, 1965,

nine eyewitnesses observed the animal

moving around for up to an hour.

This involved a veteran Loch Ness investigator,

as well as a local police sergeant

and the local county surveyor

and six other eyewitnesses.

And what they all described was identical

from different vantage points around the loch.

Since that mass sighting in 1965,

researchers, scientists, and even ordinary people

have journeyed to Loch Ness

in search of the famed monster.

Could there really be a monster

living in the waters of Loch Ness?

Many researchers believe it's possible.

And, as evidence, they point to recent sonar scans

which reveal something enormous

moving beneath the waters of the loch.

The best evidence we've ever had from Loch Ness

was a sonar contact

taken by Ronald Mackenzie,

who operates a boat called the Spirit of Loch Ness,

and three years ago, he got a sonar contact,

crystal clear sonar contact

about 600 feet down,

and it's there. You know, it wasn't there an hour earlier

when he went past it on the boat,

it wasn't there an hour later. It was there,

then it wasn't. It's one solid object,

the size of a transit van.

Photographic experts came back and said,

that is probably an animate object.

If it's true that there's something moving deep

within the waters of Loch Ness, then what could it be?

Over the years, researchers have put forward

many theories, from shapeshifting spirits

known as kelpie found in Scottish folklore,

to a giant, mutated eel,

to a surviving prehistoric snake known as a Basilosaur.

But perhaps what's most fascinating

about the legend of the Loch Ness Monster

is that there are reports of similar creatures

all over the world.

The lake monster phenomenon is not just

relegated to Loch Ness.

There are, in fact, similar lake monsters

that have been reported around the world.

Something known as the lake monster belt,

which is lines of latitude between 40 to 60 degrees north

in the northern hemisphere.

And if you plot these across a map of the world,

you'll find famous lake monsters

all fall within these same lines of latitude.

That is very compelling evidence.

What we're finding is, these different

lakes are very similar.

Many of them are very long, relatively narrow.

You have Champ of Lake Champlain,

the Ogopogo monster of Okanagan Lake

in British Columbia,

you have the Lake Brosno creature of Russia.

So, it's led researchers to believe

that maybe there's something with that latitude

that has the perfect conditions

for such lake monsters to exist.

The idea that there are monsters living in lakes

all across the northern hemisphere is unsettling,

but what's even more chilling is that some believe

there is a monster that walks on two legs right here

in North America.

It's a terrifying creature

that is known as the Dogman.

Late one night, 16-year-old James West

heads out to the snowy woods

behind his property to hunt coyotes.

He settles in beside a mound of gravel to wait

when he sees something terrifying.

I turned the light on, and approximately ten feet away

is this thing on all fours,

sniffing the ground.

My first reaction was, "Man, that is the biggest coyote

I have ever seen in my life."

I mean, huge, massive head

and long body.

And then it looked up at me.

And it lifted itself up onto its hind quarters.

It was between seven foot, ten inches tall and eight foot.

The snout was, I would say, a good six to eight inches long.

But also massive upper arms,

huge pectorals, like a werewolf.

It took one step towards me, and I shot it in the chest.

It let out a yelping sound and took off.

And at that point I just said, "I'm out of here."

It's been approximately 20 years since I had my encounter.

I still have flashbacks, even though it's been 20 years.

It made me more aware that

there are things out there that we don't understand yet.

James West is just one of hundreds of people

who have reported seeing the monster

that has come to be known as the Dogman.

Dogman, or Dogmen,

they're a little bit different than a werewolf.

Usually, the idea of the werewolf is

that they transform, um, maybe with a full Moon,

uh, between human form and, uh, the wolf form,

at which point they become wild and dangerous and aggressive.

Well, Dogmen, they are Dogmen their entire lives,

uh, so this is just who they are.

Dogman really burst onto the scene

in the late 1980s, early 1990s,

when a creature from Wisconsin was seen feasting

on roadkill and chasing cars on a lonely country road.

Since that time, the Dogman phenomenon

has blown up around the world.

Is it really possible there's a half-man, half-dog monster

roaming the wilds of North America?

Many researchers say the answer is yes.

And as evidence, they point to the fact that similar

monsters have been reported

all over the world for centuries.

We have many reports of Dogman going back

to European folklore.

A really important thing to understand

about why people believe in monsters,

um, is that people see them.

And I have talked to many, many people who have affirmed

that they have seen the Dogman.

So far, there's been no indisputable evidence

found that proves the Dogman's existence,

which is also the case with many other monsters

of myth and legend.

But for people who claim to have witnessed

one of these creatures firsthand,

seeing is believing.

People have experiences

that can be very, very powerful

and can completely change their own belief systems.

This brings to the front

a really important fact about folklore.

Saying something is a legend does not mean it's not true.

What it means is, it hasn't been accepted

by scientific discourse.

So, saying something is a monster

doesn't mean it's not real.

Is our world full of monsters lurking

in the shadows, waiting to be discovered?

It may seem far-fetched, but consider this.

We once thought creatures like the giant squid

were mere legends, too.

So, for the moment, we have no choice but to accept

that the truth about Dogmen

and lake monsters

and dragons will remain unknown

and unexplained.

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