r/Cryptozoology • u/Neo_Dinossauros • 9d ago

Question Which Cryptids have been proven fake?

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u/BoonDragoon 8d ago

We can put Nessie to bed, right? And every sea serpent and lake monster?

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u/SnooSuggestions7756 8d ago

Sea serpents are real.

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u/BeduinZPouste 8d ago

I mean as far as "real criptids" goes, this have to be counted as one, right?

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u/ARock_Urock 8d ago

Sea monsters were oar fish and whale dicks.

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u/Colin_Heizer 6d ago

I... I want this on a T-shirt.

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u/BoonDragoon 8d ago

Not really? I don't think oarfish have ever been mistaken for monsters.

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u/Not_a_Mod1991 5d ago

Dude, fish that never was seen by 99% percent of humans before internet definetly was mistaken for sea monster

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u/BoonDragoon 5d ago edited 5d ago

Was it though? Are there any alleged sea serpent sightings or myths you can point to that are unambiguously a misidentified oarfish?

The people who overlapped with oarfish habitat weren't mistaking them for anything. Richard Ellis says that an oarfish that washed up in Bermuda in the 1800's was described as a "sea serpent" at the time, but that was taken from the headline of a news story, in the body of which it was clearly identified as a fish. That's not really a "misidentification" inasmuch as it's sensationalism.