A couple years ago (around 2016), I started to see the term cryptid thrown around online. At first I was baffled. What the heck was a cryptid? A spider that frequents grave sites? A mummy of some sort? But I found, soon enough, that the real definition was actually more interesting: “An animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated, such as the yeti” (Oxford Dictionary, en.oxforddictionaries.com). Cryptid, as a term, also carries connotations of an association with pseudoscience, […]
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