Cases of Myth
Legendary creatures that might be real, or once were. Every video follows the evidence from the oldest story to the verdict. This site keeps the case files: every source, and how solid it is.
- CONFIRMED Backed by a primary source or a scientific paper
- REPORTED A real historical account that can't be checked
- DISPUTED Sources disagree
- RECREATION Our own illustration of a real event, not real footage
Case files
- Case 03The UnicornKings paid fortunes for unicorn horns. They were whale teeth.
- Case 02The CyclopsEveryone says the Cyclops was an elephant skull. The best-known evidence for that was invented in 1914.
- Case 01The KrakenFor almost two thousand years, sailors swore this thing existed. Scientists mostly laughed.
Open cases
- The GriffinBeaked dinosaur skulls in the gold fields of Central Asia, and the paleontologists who disagree
- The RocMadagascar's elephant birds and their enormous eggs
- The CoelacanthKnown only from fossils and assumed extinct for tens of millions of years, until one turned up in 1938
- The ThylacineThe last known one died in 1936. The sightings haven't stopped
- Dragons"Dragon bones" ground into medicine: some turned out to be dinosaurs and ancient mammals