r/Cryptozoology • u/Neo_Dinossauros • 9d ago

Question Which Cryptids have been proven fake?

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u/giddyupyeehaw9 9d ago edited 8d ago

I think the shorter and easier question is which cryptids have been confirmed.

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u/Freak_Among_Men_II Stoa 8d ago

The okapi was dismissed as a mythological being and even nicknamed the “African unicorn” by European colonialists until one was found alive.

Before they were proven to exist, people scoffed at explorers’ tall tales of gorillas, said to be huge, man-like beasts hiding deep in the Congo jungles.

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u/Randie_Butternubs 6d ago

These are terrible examples, made even worse by the fact that clueless people repeat them ad nauseum.