I just watched the movie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairyTale:_A_True_Story, about the http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg. It got me thinking.

If you were out in the wilderness and saw something out of myths or legends, would you share your discovery? Maybe you saw Big Foot, or Nessy, or a tiny pixie. Would you share your experience with anyone?

I sure would want to share. But then, I'd probably be locked away in an asylum. Also, the reaction of the public could go very badly for whatever it was I discovered. Someone would want capture one and "study" it. I would not want to facilitate that at all.

What would you do?

Would probably share it with the very few people that I trust and beyond that no. 90% of the population wouldn't believe you and the other 10 % would hunt down and persecute the thing you saw to extinction anyway.

I would probably share with people I know, or if it ever came up somewhere else I might share it then.

You won't have to worry about being locked up. Just google some weird things with 'real' behind it and read all the wacky and crazy stories from dozens of people on the Internet.

No. I see no reason why I would share a hallucination.

I know where them Chupacabra live. Mole People told me so. Seriously to answer your question though. I probably wouldn't. Not out of respect or fear of being crazy, it's just the world needs some things unexplained to keep things interesting. That and it whatever I saw was a humanoid female. I'd wanna win points with it. Hehe.

Unbeliever!

This is the main reason I'd say nothing.

unless I have proof that what I saw was indeed real, no I wouldn't.

That's not proof to prove to others, but proof to prove to myself I saw something real. I'd be my own biggest skeptic.

Implying the Jersey Devil is JUST a mere legend. Tisk tisk.

I once saw an argument between to people resolved peacfully in YouTube comments.

I would take a blurry picture on my crappy cell phone and show it to people I trust. There's no reason to share a blurry picture with strangers or the news though.

Now that I do find hard to believe.

Well, I can't imagine anyone is ever really going to make a sighting of those things - however, if I did, I would likely report it to the relevant authorities as something a little more plausible, perhaps an escaped zoo-animal or criminal activity. Then, if they investigated and turned something up, it would be more believable. I don't really think the cofnrimation of existence of any of those things would matter all that much, though. It would just be a curiosity.

Sharing is for Facebook and Twitter,

Not that rare. I've seen several and done several. It's getting increasingly common from what I can tell. Times are changing.

If I saw something out of a legend, I would probably keep it to myself. That is my moment, my luck to see it. Unless it was something clearly harmful. Then I would kill it. No one would believe me anyways so I gotta do it myself. Not likely to find it again, so I'd have to kill it there. Then take its corpse back and profit.

Of course not. That'd be number one on the list of things to never share with anyone else- if I saw something like that (assuming I'm certain it's real) then nobody else really deserves to know about it. It's my amazing secret after all, why give it up for fifteen seconds of fame/people calling me an idiot?

I would probably think what I saw was not real and disregard it, never hallucinated but I'm prone to jump to conclusions like thinking a dog (I happen to be a bit cynophobic) is paddling behind me if there are leaves blowing in the wind, dragging across the ground making these "tic-tic-tic" sounds you sometimes hear as dogs walk with their claws hitting the ground.

I'd think I was letting my imagination run me wild like that and not report what I saw to anyone.

I'd only share with people who I know wouldn't call me crazy or report the thing to higher authorities. If higher authorities got wind of it, they'd probably want to run tests on it and I see that as cruel.

If it's something like Bigfoot, hoards would be out hunting it to either see what it tastes like, or to have another trophy on their wall. Even if it was put under protection by the government, poaching would still be an issue.

If it was a dragon, now that may be a different issue as they could be dangerous. Then again, if they've gone this long as a legend, they probably wouldn't harm people anyway.