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If you're looking to find out about new and obscure cryptids and/or want an introduction to the world of cryptozoology, I have a video series covering hundreds of them from around the world. I've spent years making this and have found some incredible cryptids. Link below!
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Decided to update my old "What is a cryptid" chart based on the set of rules established by Bernard Heuvelmans, the man who founded cryptozoology.
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A stabilized version of the Patterson Gimlin Film from 1967. Easily the most controversial video in Cryptozoology, the film continues to cause debate and arguments.
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This animated segment from Finding Bigfoot is making me laugh uncontrollably
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I see people asking for a list of plausible cryptids, so here's a quick thread about some cryptids I think are among the most plausible!
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Imagine being being the sailors in New Zealand who spotted a 30 foot tall giant kangaroo that could leap 60 feet at a time
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The Beast of Busco is a cryptid from Churubusco Lake in Indiana. First sighted in the 1940s, though there are rumors of reports dating back to 1898. It's described as a large snapping turtle, about 6 feet by 4 feet (1.8 by 1.2m) across and being covered in moss.
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What did the crew of the Deepstar 4000 see in 1966?
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Crypto-people who may or may not have existed are interesting. There was allegedly an abolitionist named "Peg Leg Joe" who worked with the underground railroad and wrote coded messages leading people to the North. There's no evidence that he ever existed or his real identity
I think the scarier part of Blood Meridian isn't so much how evil Judge Holden is, but the fact that Cormac McCarthy actually based him off a real person who appears to be as equally vile as the fictional character.
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Four depictions of the chupacabra. Which one is your favorite?
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"Mapinguari is a ground sloth" "mapinguari has a hole in its stomach" "mapinguari is a cyclops"
Why not all three?
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No joke my grandpa went looking for this once. Didn't find it but for some reason he locks himself in his house on full moons now, weird
In the quiet rural town of Elkhorn, nestled among the rolling hills and forests of Wisconsin, lies a secret. For decades, residents whispered about a mysterious creature that roams the rural areas surrounding Bray Road.
The Beast of Bray Road – a cryptid steeped in folklore
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The bloop, a recording of a very loud sound that's believed by some to be a massive cryptid, is actually one of the few cryptids were we're basically 99.99% sure it's not real. Later analysis has shown that the sound was very likely just ice chunks breaking off of glaciers
today i learned that a new folk monster mythology has exploded on children's youtube and that both my niece and nephew believe in it
presenting: The Bloop
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This photograph taken in 1934 is the only known alleged photo of the "tatzelwurm", a large serpent from the Swiss Alps in Europe.
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Reminder than gnomes and wendigos aren't cryptids. Supernatural/mystical fairies aren't apart of cryptozoology and neither are wendigos (spirits that posess humans).
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This eerie photograph allegedly shows a yowie (Australia's version of bigfoot) staring at a man down the trail. It comes from the Australian Yowie Project
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In 2007 a hiker allegedly captured a photo of a living moa. He then put the photo up for sale at an auction and it was sold. To this day, the photograph hasn't been released.
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Deputy Dewey on reddit found out that there's a camper manufacturer located near Silverton, where this video was taken. They even have a mascot costume!
Couple in Colorado share footage they captured on the train of what they believe to be Bigfoot.
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It also doesn't even make sense. Chupacabra means "Goat sucker" because they feed on goats. It'd be like shortening Spider-man's name to just man.
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Somehow I missed a stop motion movie that featured the yeti finally releasing after 50 years? This sounds awesome
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With the Titanic in the news once again, now's a good time to revisit Tyler Greenfield's Deep Sea Mystery Chart. Conspiracies, cryptids, and bizarre theories are all on the iceberg. How many do you recognize?
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Cryptozoology is cool and shouldn't be viewed negatively
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I was recently sent this video by a viewer who wished to remain anonymous. This may be the best video cryptid evidence since the Patterson-Gimlin Film. What do you think?
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Remember kids, the giant of Kandahar story was completely made up and first appeared on a show in the 2010s. It gets several major details about the military wrong and originates from a show that tried to pass off various hoaxes as real.
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Reminder that the full original tape is in a vault somewhere and with modern tech could probably be upscale to 4K resolution
wow, the stabilized footage of the famous Bigfoot video really makes it look fake eh?
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This unknown organism was photographed off of the coast of South Africa by biologist Gwenith Penrey back in 2007. Does anyone know what it is?
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So apparently the Monsterverse (that cinematic universe with the Godzilla and King King movies) is working on a TV show under the name "Cryptozoology". What would you like to see from a show like that?
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Top 10 pieces of cryptid evidence
10. Rothchild Neuville tusk
9. 2011 Lusca pic
8. Kent audio
7. Orange Coati photo
6. 1993 cougar pic
5. Giant goblin shark photo
4. Japanese Wolfdog photos
3. Qatari Queen of Sheba gazelle photo
2. Tailed Slow Loris Photo
1. Marvin Footage
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In May 2023 DNA evidence was found of a big cat in the United Kingdom
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Remember kids, Sirenhead and Slenderman are purely fictional characters and not cryptids
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The Oklahoma Octopus is one of America's most terrifying cryptids, described as a massive freshwater man-eating octopus. But discussion of the cryptid seems to trace back to the popular TV show Lost Tapes. Was the cryptid invented for television? I investigate in this thread.
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In the 1890s an expedition into Central America encountered an unidentified creature known as the "cave cow". One member of the expedition was attacked by the animal, which severely mutilated and killed him. The animal is believed by some to be a ground sloth.
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Giant jellyfish might be the most terrifying cryptid
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A photo of an unidentified sea creature taken in 1936. This photograph was taken by plane over the Persian Gulf. The pilot described it as looking like a "boa digesting a sheep" and said the tail was almost as long as the rest of the creature
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@yesterdaysprint
@Valdevia_Art
One sea serpent sightings near the Isle of Man said that it was a friendly one that just kind of looked at them
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A sasquatch faces down a group of feral Florida chimp escapees.
Art by Trendorman
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In 1972 after Hurricane Agnes hit the East Coast, an engineer found a peculiar frog in his backyard. It had a warty texture and, instead of eyes, two "drums" in the side of it's head. The frog was fully grown, but didn't eat. Despite being blind it was sensitive to light
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The Tsavo man eaters were an infamous pair of lions that killed dozens of people near the turn of the 20th century. Due to them living in caves and lacking manes, there's a fringe theory that the lions are actually living cave lions, a species thought to be extinct since 9000 BC
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Ethnologist Petr Gorodtsov recorded stories of mammoth sightings in Siberia. The locals described them as very rare and difficult to find They were alleged to live near and in rivers and lakes, and were said to be meek and peaceful, even friendly, around people
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This photograph taken in the Rukwa Valley of Zambia shows a zebra with spots, not the trademark stripes. According to biologist Dr. Jonathan Bard, the existence of white spotted zebras proves that zebras are black animals with white stripes and not white animals with black ones
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Actor Jesus Payan Jr, best known for his role on Breaking Bad, once reported encountering a bigfoot while sleeping. This photo was one of the ones he posted of the creature, which he said was looking down on him from the opening of the tent.
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Four theories about the identity of bigfoot. Which one is your favorite? Which one is the most plausible?
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Kind of reminds me of the shadowlands bigfoot photo
This poster for upcoming found footage horror flick Frogman speaks to me
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In 1924 the infamous "Ape Canyon" incident occurred. A group of gold prospectors in Washington claimed that they had encountered several apemen. After one prospector shot and wounded an apeman, the apemen retaliated. They surrounded their cabin and threw rocks at it.
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Cryptobotany is the study of plants that science doesn't recognize due to a lack of evidence
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There we have it, a 1993 photograph of an cougar was captured in Maine, even though Eastern cougars have been believed extinct since the 1940s.
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In 2013 this photo was uploaded to animal identification site Project Noah. It had been recently caught in a river in Brunei, earning the nickname the "Beast of Brunei". Despite multiple theories on what it was, the animal's identity remains unclear
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There's only one cryptid that can save us from becoming overrun by hogzillas
We're gonna end up with giant pigs as our continent's megafauna, aren't we
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Remember kids:
Bring this up once again: the popular"Deer Wendigo," is NOT the real wendigo from Native folklore.
Real Wendigos are described as being tall, lanky, pale-white humanoids.
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Artist Jirka Houska is one of the most unique cryptid artists, often drawing animals from the paleontology record interacting with humans. Here he draws a woman seeing a diprotodon, an animal that went extinct around 40,000 BC but which is believed to be behind some cryptids
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Reddit user SlimerkH created what is probably the most complex cryptid map in existence
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Encounters between German U-boats and cryptids are surprisingly common. Here's an image with the four known alleged encounters.
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I put together a little guide with some examples of cryptozoology lost media and evidence, which I find extremely interesting.
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The sawtooth dolphin was a strange cetacean seen by fisherman Jeremy Wade in the Amazon Basin. It was described as having strangely evenly spaced spikes. Most locals didn't believe Wade's report, but one said it was called the holadeira. Some believe it was damaged by a boat
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Here's an iceberg of "Crypto-people" I made
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The Oklahoma Octopus is a freshwater cryptid said to attack swimmers. But reports of the creature only began to surface in the mid 2000's, suspiciously right around the time the show Lost Tapes aired their episode on it. So I investigated the origins of the cryptid, link below!
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There's a guy who refuses to release a video of a giant lake turtle because he wants $100,000 for it
What's the wildest lost media story you've ever heard?
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This video was captured in 2018 in Japan's Okuchichibu Mountains. At the start of the video you can hear what appears to be a wolf's howl. Wolves in Japan have been considered extinct since the early 1900s, could this audio be proof that they're still out there?
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This is cool, someone found a drawing of Marvin in a Japanese book called Giant Monsters of the World.
For those who don't know, Marvin is an unidentified animal videotaped off the coast of California in the 1960s.
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Zoologist Hyatt Verrill once claimed to own a peculiar creature called a "sun dog" he acquired in Mexico. It was 60cm (2ft) long, had an odd mask pattern on its face, an undershot lower jaw, and a long tongue. It was described as aggressive, snarling when anyone came near it.
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Give me a cryptid and I'll rate it S-F (S being the best F being the worst).
Art by Kelly Milner Halls who's coming out with a new book on axolotls soon!
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"Antarctic Godzilla" was a large cryptid seen once by the crew of a Japanese research ship near Antarctica in 1958. It was described as having a 70–80 cm (27–31 in) long cow-like head and a monkey's face with large eyes. It also had large fins running down its back
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This photograph of an unusual primate was captured in 1996. Due to the odd facial structure and eyes some believe its a koolakamba, a gorilla-chimp hybrid or possibly a new species or subspecies entirely. Despite much debate the koolakamba's existence hasn't been confirmed
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I went to a zoo which had both thylacine and dodo statues. I think every zoo should do something like that honestly, would be a cool addition.
The Roger Williams Zoo has both Cthulhu and Dover Demon animatronics on display as part of a 'Dragons and Mythology exhibit'... gone bonkers.
@CryptoLoren
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Pre-colonial images of what some believe to be a man riding a horse in Argentina. Horses in the Americas are believed to have gone extinct millennia before they were re-introduced by European contact, could they have survived and been domesticated?
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Are there any "legitimate" trex cryptids? All of them seem to be highly suspect in one way or another
-Monster of Partridge Creek was likely a fictional story
-The Kasai rex was actually just a lizard (and a hoax)
-The burrunjor was probably made up by a guy named Rex Gilroy
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The Corfu Island creature was an unidentified object photographed in the Mediterranean Sea back in 2015. Its now commonly believed to be a piece of debris that fell off of a ship
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In 1965 two engineers aboard the Alvin submersible spotted a bizarre animal 5300 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean. One of the men stated that it looked exactly like a plesiosaur and described it as over 40 feet long. It looked right at the submersible before swimming away.
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Interesting new theory I saw on Reddit
What if the five lined constellation fish, the small fish seen only once by William Beebe in the deep sea, was just a flounder larvae?
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@MarisasHorror
This guy, named because Marvin means "friend of the sea". It's an unidentified water animal videotaped off the coast of California
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This photograph of a large feline was taken in Sidney, Maine back in 2007. There was debate as to whether the photograph depicted a bobcat, a mountain lion (which are believed to be extinct in Maine), a hoax, or an unknown species all together.
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I made an introductory guide to the world of cryptozoology skepticism if you're curious about the skeptical perspective.
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Remember kids, wendigos/witikos aren't cryptids. Not only are they supernatural in nature which usually means somethings not a cryptid, but they aren't animals either. Windigos are usually possessed humans or humans turned into monsters
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The Pennsylvania White Bigfoot is a cryptid ape described as having mostly or all white fur and very dark eyes. First sighted in 1970, it gained prominence online in 2008 when a short video of it was taken
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Thomas Jefferson wrote about what he thought was an unidentified species of lion in America. In one instance a camp was besieged by a glowing eyed roaring monster (cougars are unable to roar). The dogs of the camp spent the night silent, refusing to even bark at the creature.
Alternate world where American Lions never went extinct so they become a national symbol for the USA
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In 1824 Captain Charles Stuart Cochrane reported seeing "carnivorous elephants" in the Andes mountains of Colombia. Although multiple people witnessed them, Captain Cochrane stated that nobody had been able to get close to or kill one.
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Putting together a list of cryptid artists for April! If you're a cryptid artist or know of one, send me a link to your work or that artist's work. I've also been trying to collect the names of cryptid artists from older cryptozoology books so I'd appreciate those as well.
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Another is the story of a European woman supposedly living amongst the aboriginals in 1840s Australia. When the government made plans to get her back (thinking she was a shipwrecked passenger) the aboriginals instead brought a ship's figurehead they thought was the woman
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Lost media enthusiasts I'd appreciate some help. We're looking for the source of a somewhat obscure sighting of a giant jellyfish from the 1950s. Thank you!
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This photograph of an unknown capybara-like animal was captured in 2010 in Laos. According to the story, it originally had hair but that was removed so they could cook it. Is there a large capybara species in Laos?
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The sale was conducted on the New Zealand auction website Trade Me by a user named Andrewdb. He said "I was tramping in Fiordland last Monday and as I came up over a rise, there in front of me was the largest bird I’ve ever seen". Here's a photo of the footprint the seller posted
In 2007 a hiker allegedly captured a photo of a living moa. He then put the photo up for sale at an auction and it was sold. To this day, the photograph hasn't been released.
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Discussion time:
What extinct animals do you think survived longer than previously thought, but today are extinct?
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The Lake Tanganyika Monster is an African lake monster found in the countries of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. It's thought of as a number of unknown animals, being described as tusked, saurian, serpentine and shark-like.
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@AceRumble
The only two people who were verified to be involved in the shooting of this film have stated its real to this day, you might be thinking of something else
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@fasc1nate
The Zanzibar Leopard was considered extinct but was caught on camera back in 2018!
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Alright cryptozoologists, discussion time.
Do you believe in Bigfoot, and if so/if not why?
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In the 1800s Charles Douglas, an explorer, shot two birds which are believed by some to be surviving Haast's Eagles, animals that went extinct around 1400. I realized that, despite maori saying they were colorful, Douglas never described the color of the birds which seems odd.
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Alleged footage of the thylacine from 2008 in Western Victoria from the channel Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc.
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One of the most ambitious and coolest cryptozoological projects is Tim Morris' "Demons of the Deep", a project drawing various cryptids and myths from around the world. He covers a lot of lesser known ones too. Here are the orange-breasted penguin and black carpet
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In 1948 a family walking down a highway at night spotted a large spider in Leesville Louisiana. They said it was hairy and about the size of a washtub. It crossed the road and disappeared into the brush
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A little hodag lore since Wendigoon mentioned it, the hodag actually looks similar to a folklore/semi-cryptid called the "mishipeshu" depicted in artwork North of where the hodag was hoaxed. Could this artwork have inspired the design of the hoax?
Happy New Year’s, new cryptid video is live. This is your only context, link below.
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These guys aren't chupacabras. The original chupacabra was a reptilian bloodsucker that was probably the result of someone getting too scared after watching the movie Species. These are dogs with mange that someone called a chupacabra because they don't know what mange is
Tell me about a common historical myth that makes your hackles rise. I don't mean actual disinformation like Holocaust denial; I mean stuff like "Napoleon was short!"
For me it's probably "corsets were torture devices for the rich" and "romantic love is a very modern concept."
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