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That step between what you know and “well, you never know” is where cryptozoology is trapped. It is the study of, and attempt to prove the existence of, cryptids and creatures from folklore and myth. It’s caught between our measured and material world and the realm of the imagined and the imagination.
This week it’s a full moon! We talk to a werewolf hunter, learn the history of mooning and find out whether your gran was right about there being more crime during a full moon.
Some cryptids have seared into our minds and become pop culture icons. Bigfoot, the American super celebrity of the ape-man family, was made famous by the Patterson-Gimlin footage — the grainy, minute-long film of Bigfoot walking through a clearing while rolling her shoulder to look at her audience.
Nessie, the elusive serpent of Loch Ness, has existed for centuries in the form of the kelpie — a Scottish water horse myth — but became more fully realised in our collective consciousness.
Unlike homeopathy or ghosts, there are examples of cryptids that have been proven to exist
