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Bringing Up Cryptids — <i>Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend</i>

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William Katt and Sean Young with a dinosaur puppet in Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
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Bringing Up Cryptids — Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

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An outdated model of a sauropod as shown in MonsterQuest; illustration by paleo-artist Neave Parker
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MonsterQuest Hunts the Mokele-Mbembe

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Illustration depicting a brontosaurus as an aquatic creature
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A Creature From the Jungles of Africa: Tales of the Mokele-Mbembe

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Phascolarctos cinereus -ZooParc de Beauval, France. Author frank wouters (CC-BY), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31676385
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A Brief Interlude Down Under: Cryptids, Australian Style

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Illustration from Jenny Wagner’s The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek; art by Ron Brooks
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Cryptids for Kids: The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek and Hector’s Bunyip

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Illustration of a "bunyip" from Childhood in Bud and Blossom; art by C.D. Richardson, 1900
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A Beast of Myriad Forms: Researching the Bunyip

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Black and white illustration of a "bunyip", a creature described in Australian folklore
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Australia’s Ancestral Cryptid: The Bunyip

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Illustration depicting Hera, Athena and Iris in the Trojan War
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mythology

Five Books About Very Real Gods Causing Very Real Trouble

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Illustration of Santa Claus from Japanese children's magazine Kodomo no tomo (1914)
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The Real Magic of Santa Claus

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Detail from the poster for Magic in the Water (1995) depicting a girl and the head of a lake monster in silhouette
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A Lake Monster With Corporate Sponsorship

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Viral photo taken in 2022 supposedly showing the head of Ogopogo, a cryptid found in Canada's Lake Okanagan
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Spirit of the Waters: Investigating the Creature of Lake Okanagan

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Painting of a person writing in a large book with a quill.
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The Comfort (and Discomfort) of Retellings

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“We are all stardust and stories.”

Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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