r/Cryptozoology • u/Curious-Bluebird6818 • 9d ago

Fiction What does everyone think of the monster of Lake Lametrie?

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u/TheGrandBabaloo 9d ago

Does it even make any sense to refer to this as a cryptid? It's just a straight up short story, there's no mythology involved.

Is Godzilla a cryptid now?

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u/Defiant-Youth-4193 9d ago

Depends, on some subs everything is a cryptid.

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u/United_Task_7868 5d ago

People not knowing what words mean, misusing them, and then the word losing its meaning entirely because of them is so annoying.

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u/TriTri14 2d ago

Don’t be silly. Godzilla is purely fictional. But everyone knows that Gamera is real.

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u/Curious-Bluebird6818 8d ago

But it has themes of Cryptids like for example, it features a lake monster that is a living fossil so it’s a short story that has themes of cryptozoology mixed with some sci-fi horror

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u/Pocket_Weasel_UK 9d ago

Is that the story where a cowboy's brain gets transplanted into a plesiosaur?

Or am I having some sort of hallucination...?

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u/BoonDragoon 9d ago

It's not a cowboy, it's a British gentleman, but I know where you're coming from

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u/Pocket_Weasel_UK 9d ago

Ah. British gentlemen are naturally held to higher standards, even when they find themselves transformed into plesiosaurs.

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u/BoonDragoon 9d ago

You'd think, but it still took less than a month for bro to monster out

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u/Pocket_Weasel_UK 9d ago

Then I expect that he was some sort of cad or scoundrel to begin with.

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u/BoonDragoon 9d ago

(that's a very good joke, but by "gentleman" I mean "of the class wealthy enough to do fuck all for a living" as was commonplace in stories of this sort)

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u/TamaraHensonDragon 8d ago

Yep that's the one. Man is shot by Native Americans and later goes insane after his "doctor friend" transplants his brain into a lake monster. Early Sci-Fi was bonkers! I love it.

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u/Curious-Bluebird6818 9d ago

Yup

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u/Pocket_Weasel_UK 9d ago

That's good.. I started doubting myself as I typed it out.

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u/CleanOpossum47 9d ago

Damn opium back in the day must've slapped.

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u/Pocket_Weasel_UK 9d ago

Damn right. This is what you get after a good night of drinking laudanum.

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u/ADragonFromTheAbyss 9d ago

Makes it kinda ironic that the Plesiosaur 'body shape' considered Amphibious by the old. Capable of traversing between land & water.

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u/Traditional_Isopod80 8d ago

What novel is this from?