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esquid;116224 said:And if we act jerky towards him or accuse him of hallucinating, hoaxing etc. what is the chance other people will speak up when they see things out of the ordinary. I was called stupid by my brother for years for being open minded about giant squid reports, guess who was right in the long run. (he claims not to remember this)
I would point this out as an example of the sort of discussion I like to see with respect to reports of weird sea creatures:
Unknown Phylum. Any suggestions?
although in that case there was photographic evidence to go along with it.
At the other extreme is this thread:
Please help identify this possible fossil. . .
where the proposal is pretty clearly kooky. Ideally, I'm hoping this thread can be more like the former than the latter, although I'm afraid the mundane rather than romantically-cryptozoological explanations will continue to make the most sense to me...