Glossary

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astral projection - transportation from the stars.

Chan photograph - fake picture.

communist - a person living in a country where there is a Communist government.

cryptid - a creature not yet proven to be real.

cryptozoologist - a scientist who studies cryptozoology.

cryptozoology - the study of creatures not yet proven to be real. Crypt or crypto meaning hidden, and zoology, the study of animals.

description - to describe features and characteristics of something.

diameter - the length of a straight line through the middle of a circular object.

dimension - another world

herbivore - a creature that only eats plants.

hoax - to trick.

intoxicated - to be drunk or poisoned.

loch - Scottish for lake.

Loch Ness - a lake located in Scotland’s highlands, supposed residence of the Loch Ness Monster.

lethal- deadly.

mutilating - to destroy or ruin.

nocturnal - a creature that sleeps during the day and roams around at night.

poison - a deadly chemical.

primate - a creature that uses its access thumb, and make and/or use tools.

pygmy - Unusually small.

resembling - represent.

reside - to live in.

sauropod - a large dinosaur that is not completely aquatic (water-dwelling) from the Jurassic or Cretaceous times.

translate - to change one language into another so it can be understood.

transmit - to send.

tribesmen - members of a tribe.

unhurriedly - not hurried.

victims - a person or thing that has been attacked.

witch doctor - a doctor who cures sicknesses with magic.