11 Mythical Creatures People Actually Believed Existed

Monsters and mythical creatures have always been found in folklore and tradition for some strange reason. What’s even stranger is that so many people buy into hazy evidence, shady schemes, and downright false accounts that perpetuate myths that often have just one ultimate goal: intimidating and filling the masses with fear so they can be more easily controlled and kept underfoot by the elite few in power. According to several studies, however, a vast majority of people just wants to believe what can’t be explained or understood using reason and logic alone. Brian Cronk, a professor of psychology at Missouri Western State University, says, “The human brain is always trying to determine why things happen, and when the reason is not clear, we tend to make up some pretty bizarre explanations….READ MORE

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