As I ponder about the new year, it makes me look back at what was in the past.  The more I explore into the mystery of Bigfoot to try to make sense of this bipedal primate, the more questions I have.

The first thing I would like to point out are the stories that fishermen and sailors have told about a giant squid.  There have been illustrations about this monster that were drawn and painted by people hundreds and maybe even a thousand years ago.  This was done in different parts of the world.  The fishermen off the Baja California coast had been talking about them for hundreds of years.  The science community has always scoffed at these tales as wild stories of an ocean monster.  Well, guess what?  These so called superstitious locals were right.  There are giant squid in the ocean.  I imagine they are in other parts of the world in other oceans.  Why?  Because there are stories about them there too.

So my questions I have been pondering now for several weeks are the stories told in the medieval and the dark ages about monsters.  Two that come to mind are dragons and hairy giants.  What do I make of this in light of what I have learn over the past 3 years?  Never say never.

So my questions are:

What if the hairy monsters depicted in ancient times were hominids such as a Sasquatch-type of species?

Could they have been all over the world and not just in North America or Asia?

Could they still be in the areas where the stories and pictures have been created?

What if they are real and not just superstitious stories?

What about dragons?

Why would they have detail descriptions of dragons on several continents?

Have similar descriptions of dragons in ancient times?  Before mass communication?

I ask these questions because you should never discount local stories and their shared common knowledge that is passed down through the generations.  To have similar descriptions and stories from different continents from ancient times which correspond to similar stories and descriptions in North America and Asia.   This should make us want to delve into the mysteries more and not to discount them.  Not to laugh or dismiss it as superstition.  Never say never.

So could these fantastic stories I have learned and read may be based on a real species?

NEVER SAY NEVER because our science community and experts have been discounting locals and regular folks for over a thousand years.  They have been proven wrong again and again.  It seems to me that being a so called expert may put blinders on many.  Having an enquiring and an open mind should be a hallmark for science since this field was founded on the premise of trying to answer the mystery of our planet.  I am not saying that being educated and science-oriented is a negative.  What I am saying is that our world is full of mystery and you need to have an open mind to the possibilities that are still hidden.

Never say never...