Our Plausible Cryptid Tier List - Bigfoot, Ghosts, Aliens, and More!

Hello friends! In this fun video, Malcolm and Simone go through their personal tier list for how plausible they find various cryptids and paranormal phenomena. They logically break down why they find things like Bigfoot somewhat plausible but ghosts less likely. Malcolm explains at length why he thinks UFOs could actually be time travelers from the future based on his unique metaphysical framework. The two recount spooky stories from staying in haunted houses, and debate whether emotional imprints can linger. Simone wants to hear your real-life cryptid encounters in the comments. Overall a thought-provoking look at evaluating extraordinary claims and events with nuance and evidence. Let us know which cryptid explanations you find compelling!

Malcolm: [00:00:00] The tier list goes flathead monster, moss man, almost certainly not real.

Malcolm: Loch Ness monster, almost certainly not real. Bigfoot. \ Plausible, but probably not real. UFOs, probably real, but not actually aliens. And crop circles, probably real, but maybe alien.

Simone: And girths, I don't know, but probably carbon monoxide and or weird gold. Oh, girths, yes. Yeah.

Simone: Girths.

Malcolm: Girths. Spooky. But now you'll get to see why we think all of this.

Would you like to know more?

Simone: Okay. Okay. Before we get into the main topic, this is sort of related. I was walking around our backyard this morning. Malcolm. And I heard the weirdest noise and I was so confused. And I was by the chicken coop and I hear what sounds like a goose. It was like, like that basically. [00:01:00] And I was like, is there a goose?

Simone: Like, you know, but the previous people who own this house used to have geese in the chicken coop. So I thought like, I mean, I don't like, has a goose broken in to the chicken coop? Has it like assimilated with our flop? But no, turns out. That when, when roosters, we have one male chicken, when they're going through their little puberty and they start to try to like, like, they, they like do it very awkwardly.

Simone: And it was just him completely failing to like,

Malcolm: he's trying to be tough and he's always trying to be tough to the other. Yeah, he's always like, He goes around and bosses them about and like, Yeah. And sometimes, cause we have big chickens, we put them in the big chicken coop to try to get him to handle the big hens cause they're kinda dumb and, and annoying.

Malcolm: And they'll end up just bullying him and So this is him trying to be cool. Like he's, he's like this teenage, but yeah, it's like his voice crack is about like trying to be [00:02:00] masculine and cool and just utterly failing.

Simone: Yeah. Yeah. Bullying everyone's smaller. And then as soon as he gets put with the bigger chickens, he freaks

Malcolm: out.

Malcolm: He's trying to get back to his coop. So we put him back in the, one of the birds.

Simone: Yeah. We don't want to hurt his feelings or anything, but also like you've started

Malcolm: giving him chicken trauma. Yeah.

Simone: I, you know, I'm so sorry,

Malcolm: afraid of giant women now, but,

Simone: You know, this is not, you know, there, there are many people who experience extraordinary transporting things like this, like mysterious homes.

Malcolm: So, I, some of our listeners, by the way, hello, Simone, it is wonderful to be here with you today. Hello husband. So one of our listeners was like, yeah, you've mentioned in other videos that you're like. Really into cryptid YouTube and like aliens YouTube. And not just that I've actually spoken on it on other podcasts.

Malcolm: So there's another podcast that like goes into this stuff. I don't remember the name of it, but it's by like a professor at, I want to say MIT or Yale. So like a educated [00:03:00] professor type guy, and like the way that he is being secretly under, under the system is he believes in aliens visiting us and was, was talking to me about that.

Malcolm: The question here is, as somebody who consumes a ton of content on ghosts and aliens and cryptids and all of that, do I believe any of it's real? If so, which of it do I think is most likely to be real? So I'd say the first and like the most interesting thing about asking me this question is I actually sort of don't like, I don't really think that any of the stories that I have heard have a high likelihood.

Malcolm: And yet I keep consuming them like I find them just so interesting to investigate. You can't get enough of

Simone: it and it's enough and I will have to say to the public that you will watch a [00:04:00] lot of them to the point where you will also leave your closet doors wide open at night.

Malcolm: Yeah, well, that's because of Mr.

Malcolm: Bolin and all the murderers who hide in closets and kill people. So I also really like true crime. So it might be sort of the same category. It might be two different categories, but I don't think it's impossible. So I think something that's really important, and I think a lot of people have had their eyes open to this a lot, sort of in the post COVID era, is that both the media and the government are like really comfortable lying to people.

Malcolm: And they will lie about like stupid stuff that there is obvious evidence is either true or not true. Just like going to the academic establishment within our society and using what it is saying or the media establishment. As, as true and untrue is sort of useless in terms of determining what's true.

Malcolm: It, so I can't say that because they say that aliens don't exist, they aren't true. I have to sort of logic it, right?

Simone: Right. So in other words, you're not [00:05:00] going to say just on a blanket basis that cryptids and aliens aren't real. You are going to really question it, so what's

Malcolm: it is like, easier to disprove, right?

Malcolm: Okay, all right. You know, so, the, the the flat headed monster, right?

Simone: Not familiar with a flat headed monster. I mean, Bigfoot, I know.

Malcolm: Well, so, sorry, yeah, okay, sorry, I might be going deep with Curtis here. Yeah, maybe you're a real thing.

Simone: Or just one of your weirder dreams.

Malcolm: No, I'm, what's it oh, Flatwoods Monster. Okay,

Simone: okay. Is what it's called. Still haven't heard of it.

Malcolm: Well, it's, it's similar to Mothman, Owlman, it might even be the same thing. But, but these, this category of stuff like Mothman, Owlman, you know.

Simone: We've watched a bunch of videos analyzing them, right?

Simone: And like the conclusion for a logical person is pretty much always the same, and the answer is... Owls. Owls. It's always owls. Big

Malcolm: glowing red eyes hovering above the [00:06:00] ground. What an owl would look like that. And two, like of course in the wrong context you would think that was a monster. And three, the real reason is that these monsters are typically only spotted.

Malcolm: For very short periods of time in a location. Now there's other types of cryptids that are seen like a lot longer over a period. Like something like the Loch Ness Monster. But the Loch Ness