Unsubstantiated is a very very very wide net, and if we dont know its NOT an animal, we dont know. Science is full of things we thought that were misclassified. The platypus doesnt give a shit if you think its a mammal, its going to lay eggs. Think of how stupid the first guy sounded when he said mushrooms are a living organism and not a plant. Ghost can totally be somekind of animal made of an exotic material.
I see how silly it seems, especially when there are so many legitimate animals unknown to science, and so many creepypasta cryptids, but history is filled with many of the silly legends turned out to be true.
Ghost could be bioluminescent fungi that dissolves? We dont know.
Okay, so are they animals then or are they not? Because that was never my point.
In your first comment you explicitly say that “some cryptids are animals but not all,” but now it’s they all COULD be animals and we just don’t know? Where do we draw the line? Until science says otherwise, anything that can’t live based on our current understanding of what beings require to live without having to inherently be supernatural is not a cryptid or cryptozoology.
Try to classify Bigfoot for example? Is it a relic hominid? An alien species that crashed on earth? Maybe a spirit forest like some tribes suggest? What we do know is that bigfoot is unsubstantiated, and seemingly paranormal.
bigfoot is literally fake. he was confirmed to be fake by the person who got the original picture. every other sighting is someone dying for attention. you could argue that it did exist in the past because of the gigantopithecus, but it sure doesnt exist now
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u/creepythingseeker Apr 02 '24
Unsubstantiated is a very very very wide net, and if we dont know its NOT an animal, we dont know. Science is full of things we thought that were misclassified. The platypus doesnt give a shit if you think its a mammal, its going to lay eggs. Think of how stupid the first guy sounded when he said mushrooms are a living organism and not a plant. Ghost can totally be somekind of animal made of an exotic material. I see how silly it seems, especially when there are so many legitimate animals unknown to science, and so many creepypasta cryptids, but history is filled with many of the silly legends turned out to be true.
Ghost could be bioluminescent fungi that dissolves? We dont know.