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What's Your Favorite Monster?
Pickens writes "Mankind has always had a fascination with monsters, and mythologies from around the world include stories of strange and terrifying creatures. Examples include the half-bull, half-human Minotaur of Greek myths, the living clay Golem of Jewish traditions, British elves and Chinese dragons. Live Science has an interesting photo essay on their ten favorite monsters that may have a basis in real life. Their rogue's gallery includes the Ogopogo, a mysterious monster in Canada's Lake Okanagan; the Chupacabra, that Latin Americans believe is the unholy result of secret US government experiments in the jungles of Puerto Rico; and the perennial favorite Bigfoot."
Meh, that article was too consensual to be interesting; Big Foot, vampires and werewolves in the top three, no surprise there. Better browse the monster list of international monsters in Wikipedia or Live Science's own Top 10 Beasts and Dragons: How Reality Made Myth.
let the wookie win!
Monstar L
http://www.scifi.com/rockmonster/ is sure to be cool.
See also the Fantastic Four and The NeverEnding Story.
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Indeed.
Real human monster do actually exist, and they are called psychopaths, some of them are violent and usually die young or spend their life in jail, but many more are clever enough to understand that hurting others is bad for them and live a rather normal life. Except that they can't understand things like good, evil, empathy or love, only their profit and their safety.
A friend of my parents was a psychiatrist expert and he told me he preffered working on violent criminals instead of manipulative psychopaths because the former were damaged humans while the laters were not human at all.
Interesting how posting a complete lie with a link to a wikipedia article is enough to get modded up, even though the link does not back up the statement at all.
I'm from Sasktchewan, and if anything, we're called Saskatchewanians.