Monsters, demons and gods: Why do we believe? (Part I)

Monsters today are available to everyone, the beliefs that people have for them are stronger than ever. What is more unbelievable is why so many people spend money on vague evidence, shady plots and clear false information about myths that often contain only one truth. That is, they are pulling their wallet into the pockets of informants.

Why do we believe in monsters, demons and gods?

According to some interviews with people who study the field, it is important that people want to believe, the reason is simple that they cannot not believe.

Brian Cronk, a professor of psychology at the University of Western Missouri, said: 'A lot of people simply want to believe. The human brain always tries to understand the cause of everything, when the reason is not clear, they tend to fabricate bizarre explanations'.

Phylis Canion held the head of the animal she called Chupacabra at her home in Cuero, Texas on Friday, August 31, 2007. She discovered the strange animal lying dead outside her cattle farm. thought it was the animal that killed many chickens in her farm.The ugly looking animal with big ears discovered this summer in Cuero is not a mysterious blood-sucking chupacabra, but it is just an old grassy wolf.(Photo: AP Photo / Eric Ga0y)

A related question is now born: Is belief in the occult related to religious beliefs?

The answer to the question is nuanced, but the research provides an interesting conclusion: people with beliefs do not believe in the occult, but they place loyalty on a god. ; while non-religious people have the opportunity to freely believe in Bigfoot or to find fellow, maternal grandparents.

The Baylor University sociology professor Carson Mencken said: ' Christians or denominations believe in the occult, and so on, they all have one thing in common: spiritual orientation to the world. '.

Exaggerated stories

There are three men who say they have Bigfoot traces in a chiller. Their story is put on many websites everywhere from the ultimate evidence of the creature to the persuasive case to keep the bullshit continuing to spread, the money-counting machines for the items. jewelry with Bigfoot and other travelers. All three related men make money from their belief in the existence of Bigfoot creatures. Even the mainstream media also entertained the 6th press conference with the above interesting findings.

The public's response is also diverse, ranging from skeptical curiosity to blind faith.

A reader who thought about the story in LiveScience doubted the claims that: 'I believe it exists, but I am not sure. I think we will find out if it is high up. However, I know it exists. '

A test to find out Bigfoot doesn't produce anything other than human DNA and opossum - a small creature like cats.

In Texas, the chupacabra is discovered - a monster that exists in Latin American folk tales. Although the discovery of it caused a great shock, the incident could be clarified. The name of the animal means 'goat blood sucker'.

The photo, provided by Rick Jacobs hunter on Monday, October 29, 2007, shows an autonomous camera in Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania, on September 16, 2007. The only certainty about creatures that enter the hunter's lens are some who have given the idea of ​​a giant youkai, or bigfoot.Others think it is just a bear with severe dermatitis.(Photo: AP Photo / Rick Jacobs)

Ellie Carter, a patrol trainee at the DeWitt County police office, had seen the animal, of course, widely reported.'That's it, it stares at us. I think it is chupacabra '. After watching a video about the animal done by the deputy head of the police department, biologist Scott Henke of Texas A&M University said: 'It's definitely a dog' , according to the story published on the Scientific American website. .

Meanwhile, the chief of the police department did not take any action to calm the overburdened thoughts, even revealing the joy of having a monster in his hand. Police chief Jode Zavesky said: 'I love it because of DeWitt county' , maybe he will only shudder if he releases vampires or werewolves.

With such testimony as well as the tendency of people to believe in anything, it is clear that Bigfoot and chupacabra are just two of the mystical figures as well as suspicious legends or ideas. ever disappear.

In a 2006 study, researchers discovered a surprisingly high number of college students who believed in spirituality, witchcraft, psychic abilities, and other questionable ideas. 40% of students believe that the house may also be haunted.

Why are people excited to believe in fragile evidence, fabricating about thoughts, bizarre creatures? Why is the field of anomalies, from spiritual predictions to discovery of UFOs, so attractive to so many people?

God must have gone mad

Ever since humans completed, they believed in supernatural things , from gods to demons and now any kind of monster exists between the two extremes.

Christopher Bader, a Baylor sociologist and colleague with Mencken, explains: ' While it's hard to know for sure, the trend of believing in strange things exists right from the beginning. The change is the content of strange stories. For example, very few people believe in today's fairies and dwarfs. But when faith in fairies fades, other beliefs, such as belief in UFOs, arise and occupy. '

Finding out why people are going in that direction is a difficult thing.

Cronk - professor of psychology - answered in an email interview as follows: ' This is an artifact created by our brain to find the cause and effect. The ability to predict the future is what makes us humans' quick-witted 'but it also has side effects such as superstition and belief in unusual things'.

This is a 1977 photo taken from Ivan Max's 16 mm film showing the legendary Big Foot on a hill in northern California.(Photo: AP Photo / File)

Benjamin Radford - the author of the book, the anomaly investigator and editor of the Skeptical Inquirer magazine - said: 'The first person began to believe in supernatural things because they were trying to understand what they cannot explain. It also has a similar process to mythology: When people cannot understand why the sun rises and sets every day, they think that a carriage has pulled the sun through heaven. '

According to Radford, before there are modern scientific answers to the plague of the epidemic, people cannot understand why the disease can be spread from one person to another.'They do not understand why the child died prematurely, or why the drought happened, so they believed that these phenomena had supernatural reasons'.

'All societies resort to supernatural things to explain things before they can understand and control, especially good or bad events. In many places, even today, people still believe that disaster or bad luck is caused by cursing or witchcraft. '

This raises a bigger question: even though science has answered many questions in the past few centuries, why is faith in such mysteries still so intense?