Yonaguni Monument - possibly a naturally-occurring undersea rock formation that people see a pyramid in to support cockamamie claims about atlantis or early alien visitors...akin to the people who see "a face on mars" in craters and natural formations - possibly the ruins of an ancient civilization now underwater due to tectonic shift(s) or other natural phenomena
Bimini Road - "spiritualist" (professional huckster-charlatan) edgar cayce-devotees' cultist belief about atlantis
UFO sightings - people seeing aircraft and having wild imaginations (usually in conjunction with a love of science fiction) or people just seeking attention and allowing their lie to grow and grow - people, in general, are extremely unreliable witnesses
and alien abduction- greys and little green men - research proves that most people with abduction stories are borderline personalities seeking attention and that many were molested or otherwise traumatized as children
the new jersey devil - an urban legend left over from the American "spiritualism" heyday and resurrected by bored, imaginative schoolchildren and then expanded upon by their parental counterparts, perhaps to explain away mafia killings years ago in the pine barrens
el chupacabra - imaginative latino folk belief started as mental compensation due to being too helpless and/or afraid to discover the real reasons behind mutilations and murders due to skirmishes over narcotics-manufacturing and other resources - gangland warfare intimidation (sometimes revenge) disguised as cult activity with animal sacrifices to cause mental terror in their victims/enemies
big foot/yeti -
gigantopithecus may have survived for some time in the Himalayas (and possibly in the mountainous regions of N. America too) after early
homo sapiens wiped most of them out, but it's been at least thousands of years since any of them still lived
loch ness monster - clearly proven to be a hoax many times over - scottish tourist trap
ghosts - usually encountered by people as going to sleep or waking up from sleep (people in highly suggestible states), usually through auditory rather than visual hallucination; oftentimes reported after a loved one has died -
somewhat "real" in the psychic sense for a therapist to analyze, not "real" in any "rational" sense...a superstititous belief that acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terror of death
- or alternately, people playing pranks or otherwise seeking attention (see
Fox sisters (whose prank largely began the American "spiritualist" movement that persists even today in many varied forms))
hollow earth theory - anti-scientific cult comprised of dunderheads who think that since we've only drilled so many miles into the earth's crust that the rest of it must be hollow
flat earth theory - a belief held by a reprehensible anti-scientific cult whose members get off on the antisocial connotations arising from having their head so firmly planted up their own asses -
a belief usually held in conjunction with obstinately maintaining that the moon landings were faked
- in many cases, a belief held by "pagans" and "new age pagans" who love fantasy role-playing and pretending they are in the early pre-Copernican middle ages because they are such overwhelming dorks - all ironic considering that the belief originally arose from ill-informed religious fanatics