Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

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Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

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Has anyone ever read this or anything by the author? I picked it up on sale for $2.99. I want to try to start reading more things around cryptozology, and this seemed pretty interesting.

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I've never heard of him or the book. Let me know how you like it
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Will do. I need to clear off my review obligations first, but this looks to be next up.
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I didn't look through it all the way but I'm wondering if it's just some kind of lame ass skeptic. I don't care if someone's a skeptic but honestly writing a book trying to prove they don't exist or can't exist is like writing a book trying to convert people to atheism. And now that I wrote that I'm guessing there are probably lots of books trying to convert people to atheism because skeptics do stupid shit like that
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I didn't post a duplicate post :mad: :(
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Looking deeper, it appears it is a skeptic's look at it. I'll still give it a shot. I'm okay with a skeptic's point of view if they lay out a good case without being a condescending asshole.
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Alien Redrum wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:39 pm I want to try to start reading more things around cryptozology, and this seemed pretty interesting.
So not a book, but you should check out Micah Hanks' podcast Sasquatch Tracks https://sasquatchtracks.com/ as someone who wasn't all the into sasquatch this has been pretty interesting. Not sure why they haven't posted a new one in the last month, hopefully they will continue it.
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Oh, thanks!!! I love listening to stuff about Bigfoot, and Micah is pretty good.
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Does anyone know where Micah Hanks lives?
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Neon Maniac wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 8:39 am Does anyone know where Micah Hanks lives?
One of the Carolinas.
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Thanks, I was curious as to what relationship his local culture would have with sasquatch.
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Isn't the Wood Booger in the Carolinas? Some sort of offshoot of Bigfoot?
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They have stories about them with a few different names. Sasquatch is a word in the Salish language, which is what the NW first nations spoke. So it wouldn't have been called that over there, not originally anyway.
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shiki-jitsu wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:53 pm
Alien Redrum wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:39 pm I want to try to start reading more things around cryptozology, and this seemed pretty interesting.
So not a book, but you should check out Micah Hanks' podcast Sasquatch Tracks https://sasquatchtracks.com/ as someone who wasn't all the into sasquatch this has been pretty interesting. Not sure why they haven't posted a new one in the last month, hopefully they will continue it.
Your discovery+ post jogged my memory on this. I just listened to the first episode of this, and I liked it a lot. I like how he asked the guy two questions, what makes him think bigfoot exist and what is the argument against it.

Also, I like how the guy said a group of scientists went looking for a Canadian grizzly that migrated to the Northwest area for 5 years and never saw one, just evidence of them. Shows how easy it is to not be seen by people.
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