THE BEING IN THE GRAVEYARD

Linda Godfrey, in her excellent book Monsters of Wisconsin, records the experience of a startled woman who was mowing grass in a graveyard in Hawkins, near Eau Claire.  She saw another figure in the graveyard.  A tall figure with a large white head was staring at her.  Apart from the head, the rest of the body was black.  After about ten seconds it seemed to vanish.  She was to see this creature again.  From her driveway, looking through a window in her house, she saw the creature or a similar one inside.  It was sitting in a chair.  It stood up, but vanished after it had taken a few steps.

Many cryptozoologists are chary of such reports.  There is too much of the paranormal involved, they will say.  They want cryptozoology to be a "proper" science untainted by the paranormal.

However, they should remember that the paranormal is only the normal that hasn't been discovered.

It is my humble opinion that cryptozoology will never be recognized as a "proper" science, for, the moment a cryptid is discovered, it enters the mainstream science of zoology and is a cryptid no longer.  Who would consider the okapi a cryptid today, yet its discovery has not validated cryptozoology as a science, though a cryptid it once was.

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