Faked Cryptids

[Sharon Hill]

Faked and manufactured cryptids are everywhere online thanks to the ease of digital manipulation. Banking on the fact that people love to see a mystery creature, and considering how popular the Amarillo mystery creature (thread) was, attractions create their own "cryptids" for publicity.

This week, The Bristol Zoo posted a trail cam pic of a “mystery animal” seen around the zoo. The photo is that of an edited muntjac deer with wings and a single swirled horn. Sure it's fun, but it seems cringy.

https://sharonahill.com/made-you-look-zoos-create-cryptids/

 

[Druk]

Your immediate thought when looking at the pic is muntie.

 

[Kondoru]

Havent Bristol Zoo got anything better to do?

(Like breed those stupid white tigers??)

 

[lordmongrove]

I one wrote a whole article for the now defunct Paranormal Magaznie that was about mistakes and hoaxes in cryptozoology including the imperial flea (a giant flea that turned out to be a cockroach), Borothodon pridi, a 50-odd foot venomous snake named after one fang that turned out to be a spider conch spine and a sighting of bigfoot near Plymouth that caused a car crash ( it was a drunk attendee of a Star Wars convention dressed as Chewbacca).

 

[Druk]

I know the true story behind the bigfoot sighted in Sussex,and reported in many newspapers.

 

[kamalktk]

There is a long, and some would say proud, history of hoaxing in cryptozoology.

/Long live the Fiji Mermaid?

 

[Frideswide]

There is a long, and some would say proud, history of hoaxing in cryptozoology.

/Long live the Fiji Mermaid?

Lucky you! I've only seen dead ones

 

[Xanatic*]

I was at the Body World exhibit in Berlin recently. They for some reason had a plasticated Pegasus. I am not sure why. The two-headed calf was probably real though.

 

[Frideswide]

They for some reason had a plasticated Pegasus.

If I had a Pegasus I'd probably plasticate it. If you have one going spare maybe we could do a joint project?

 

[Druk]

I was at the Body World exhibit in Berlin recently. They for some reason had a plasticated Pegasus. I am not sure why. The two-headed calf was probably real though.

I went to the one in Amsterdam and the ones in London and Newcastle, I didn't see the plastinated pegasus but I did see a two headed calf in Toronto last month in a private collection.

 

[Druk]

The two-headed calf was probably real though.

 

[Xanatic*]

That is indeed what a two-headed calf looks like.