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People are interested in Reptilians, Reptoids, and Reptiloids, no matter what you call them. Last weekend, I posted a thoughtful essay looking at the use of hypnosis in eyewitness investigations, entitled " Are Bigfoot Witnesses Really Seeing Reptoids? " Almost 10,000 people read it in the first 8 hours. Amazing reaction. So why are people so fascinated by the notion of Lizard People among us? Surely, folks can't consider there is any reality to this? Skepticism and critical thinking can't be dead, can it? I see that Nicholas Pell recently thought about this business in his posting, " The Odd Reptilian Theory and The People That Believe It ." Pell records an intriguing exchange with a friend of his. He was explaining the Reptilian hypothesis to a friend of his...then he was asked: “Who’s David Icke?” “Some weird British writer who thinks that Al Gore is a shape-shifting, blood-sucking reptile.” “How is he not?” I was stumped there. I suppose we'd find th...

Loren Coleman ©2012 This is not going where you think it is. I have not joined the Icke fringe, seriously. Back in 2006, I discussed " The Evolution of Cryptozoology Drawings ." I found that initial eyewitnesses’ attempts to capture what they saw did change through the artwork created by later illustrators, some with their own agendas, and sometimes through the retellings of the witnesses. I spoke on this issue at the original Texas Bigfoot group’s early 2005 conference and at the Bates College’s cryptozoology symposium held in October 2005 in Lewiston, Maine. It may be appropriate now to look at another issue in a related realm. First, two questions: What if eyewitnesses who are describing Bigfoot are not actually seeing what they think they are? Do we know what happens in a Sasquatch encounter is correctly be referenced for us via the human eyewitnesses?     The example of the Pascagoula Critters , which, by definition, are part of ufology might not seem like a go...