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Quantum Cryptids: Monsters are not Found. They're Formed.
In Quantum Cryptids, Sam Elliott explores a thrilling what if cryptids—those elusive beings like Mothman, Bigfoot, and the Jersey Devil—aren’t remnants of a forgotten evolutionary branch, but manifestations of mass belief? What if fear, attention, and perception don’t just distort reality… but create it?
From a chilling retelling of the 1903 Van Meter Visitor to an unpacking of the infamous double-slit experiment in quantum physics, Elliott blends true stories, scientific theory, and philosophical reflection to suggest that monsters may be real—but not in the way we expect. They are signals. Responses. Ripples in the fabric of consensus reality, shaped by trauma, attention, and belief.
This book isn’t here to prove monsters exist. It’s here to ask why the same creatures keep appearing in different places, to different people, during moments of collective stress. It’s here to interrogate the line between witness and creator, between seeing and summoning.
If you’ve ever felt watched by the woods, haunted by a shadow you can’t name, or suspicious that your reality is more fragile than it seems—this book is for you.
From a chilling retelling of the 1903 Van Meter Visitor to an unpacking of the infamous double-slit experiment in quantum physics, Elliott blends true stories, scientific theory, and philosophical reflection to suggest that monsters may be real—but not in the way we expect. They are signals. Responses. Ripples in the fabric of consensus reality, shaped by trauma, attention, and belief.
This book isn’t here to prove monsters exist. It’s here to ask why the same creatures keep appearing in different places, to different people, during moments of collective stress. It’s here to interrogate the line between witness and creator, between seeing and summoning.
If you’ve ever felt watched by the woods, haunted by a shadow you can’t name, or suspicious that your reality is more fragile than it seems—this book is for you.
91 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 15, 2025
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July 21, 2025
There are numberous cryptids throughout the world, some of the best known being Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch, various lake and ocean ones, the Loveland Frogman and many more. There are a lot of people that have seen these but, despite all the sightings, there are still no skeletons, no bodies, nothing that would prove scientifically that such things exist.
This is where this book comes in It starts with some early corruption sightings (which included firing at the cryptid with a gun). Again, though, the crytids, no matter what is done to them, seem to vanish.
Quantum mechanics, according to this book, could explain a whole lot. It talks about the double-slit experiment and its results, superposition , wave function collapse, entanglement and various other scientific terms, all explained rather well.
Another important topic covered is subtle differences from randomness. Then there's emotional manifestation, basically as far as I understand it, something is going on in a person's mind that results in them 'creating,' on some level, the very cryptid they want/expect,don't want to see. After their seeing the being it apparently ceases to exist.
In other words, what you think you can actually create, at least for a short time. This would explain why there are still no reliable skeletons, etc, of any of the cryptids despite how many hundreds or thousands of sightings of them have been made. The author even ties this all in to the concept of archetypes.
The author also points out other possibilities such as interdimensional visitors, spirit beings, unknown energies and so on.
The main value of this book, to me at least, is that it allows for the existence of cryptids, goes along with the fact that the cryptid sightings are very, very numerous but also explains why there is no solid scientific evidence for their existence.
Yes, the book is somewhat complicated to read but if you take your time and think it over it does make a lot of sense.
This is where this book comes in It starts with some early corruption sightings (which included firing at the cryptid with a gun). Again, though, the crytids, no matter what is done to them, seem to vanish.
Quantum mechanics, according to this book, could explain a whole lot. It talks about the double-slit experiment and its results, superposition , wave function collapse, entanglement and various other scientific terms, all explained rather well.
Another important topic covered is subtle differences from randomness. Then there's emotional manifestation, basically as far as I understand it, something is going on in a person's mind that results in them 'creating,' on some level, the very cryptid they want/expect,don't want to see. After their seeing the being it apparently ceases to exist.
In other words, what you think you can actually create, at least for a short time. This would explain why there are still no reliable skeletons, etc, of any of the cryptids despite how many hundreds or thousands of sightings of them have been made. The author even ties this all in to the concept of archetypes.
The author also points out other possibilities such as interdimensional visitors, spirit beings, unknown energies and so on.
The main value of this book, to me at least, is that it allows for the existence of cryptids, goes along with the fact that the cryptid sightings are very, very numerous but also explains why there is no solid scientific evidence for their existence.
Yes, the book is somewhat complicated to read but if you take your time and think it over it does make a lot of sense.
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