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The United States of Cryptids: An Interview with J.W. Ocker

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The Evolution of Creatures

I would say it's mostly Hollywood. There actually is a lot of theories of different kinds of creatures that came out that look remarkably like a movie creature that came out a year before. The wolf woman of Alabama came out right when the commercials for Mephisto Waltz came out, which is this trippy 70s movie and one scene the trailer had this dog with a human head on it walking around. But so I think the variety just comes from, that's a good question. Like how do we get such variety encrypted? And then like, what do we do about the really crazy ones? "We're all going virtual reality, right?" he says.

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