Nick Redfern On Cryptozoology's Refusal On The Paranormal Bigfoot

Nick Redfern on the road in ‘Monster Diary’

Nick, in your book “Monster Diary On the Road in Search of Strange and Sinister Creatures,” in your introduction you get into the Cryptozoologist’s stubborn view of all creatures being flesh and blood and renouncing the paranormal. Sasquatch comes to mind. I agree whole heartily! Could you get into this with us?

NR: Yeah, sure. Basically, there are many creatures within Cryptozoology that appear to be something less – or more – than mere flesh and blood, at least as we understand it. Granted, it’s an aspect of the subject that many researchers ignore or dismiss. And even though these cases – rogue cases might be a good term to use – are certainly not in the majority, when you have reports, even if it’s only in the several dozens or thereabouts, of Bigfoot seen at the same time and place as strange lights in the sky, or when the creature vanishes in a flash of light, or monster hunters begin to have weird synchronicities when they look for these things, I think we have to start looking into other realms. Most of these things are so elusive it almost defies belief for them to be regular animals. But, there’s no doubt these things exist. It’s just the nature of that existence I question, not whether they are real or not. Only a nut, an oaf – I like that word – or a weak and unsure mind in total denial would deny the tremendous body of data in support of their existence. I know most people in Cryptozoology disagree with me in terms of what that existence might be. And I’m fine with that, as I have absolute unshakable confidence I’m on the right path. If I’m pretty much alone and out on a limb, I’m OK with that. i don’t care at all. I’m not looking to say the right thing to the right people and at the right places, nor will I ever stoop to such a level. People who suck up and say the right thing to elevate their position to get on in Forteana make me want to break their jaws. I hate all that phony crap. People can like what I say or not, and they can agree or not. I couldn’t give a flying you know what if people think I’m wrong. I’ll keep pursuing what I think is the right path – a path that is far weirder than just the domain of regular animals that science has yet to classify or acknowledge.

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