Lol, this article tells funny stories and shows that those who pretend that ships sunk because of the kraken loose their career and die starving. But it doesn't show any real proof for the Kraken. You know what your kraken is? This is most probably the legendary kraken. I could even imagine that banks of long algae on a dark stormy night on the sea improved the sailor's imagination.
Yes, I saw that article, though there is an even bigger squid. Though even if you saw that giant squid. How would you explain it?
Example: *You are very shocked and stuff* "I swear, I saw this freaking huge octopus trying too attack my boat! You have too believe me! It was at least 20 meters long!"
Something like that, and by time, people tell the tale different and with a even bigger octopus.
Yes, I saw that article, though there is an even bigger squid.
You mean the colossal squid? Yeah, it's bigger, but actual records only show it living in the very southern waters, so it can't be the one that inspired the Norse.
And I didn't really get what you're trying to say with your example. I know that people tend to exagerate over time and tale, but I don't know of any recorded successful attack of a squid on a big ship, so up to now all pictures of huge krakens enlacing entire ships and sinking them are just fiction, which kinda was my point to begin with.
Or the duck-billed platypus. And that one globby purple toad.
Don't think I have heard of this purple toad before. But yes the platypus is another example. So is the Silver back Gorilla and Giant Panda.
The Tasmanian Tiger is a rather interesting one since it was regarded as a mythical creature, then discovered to really exist, went extinct and is not a cryptid again with supposed sightings of this animal cropping up.
Well, Nessie for example turned out to be tree logs rising from the sediments through gases accumulated in them by decomposition, floating until the gases are gone, and sinking again. People just made up the rest with their imagination, consciously or unconsciously. I don't think cryptids like those in stories and legends really exist as such, but I think there are lots of weird animals undiscovered by now, or phenomenons, who make our imagination go wild.
Actually there are other things that get mistaken for a monster in the lock such as unusual wave patterns in the water. These patterns can create the illusion of a creature swimming around in the middle of the water. There have been people who know how these waves form and even watched them form and said if they didn't know better they would swear it was something alive out there.
