The Legendary Ancient Thunderbird Was Real And It May Actually Exist Even These Days..

Many have reported that they saw the Thunderbird photo in FATE, National Geographic, Grit, or some other similar publication, but entire archives of these periodicals have been searched, and no Thunderbird discovered. The experts in the cryptozoology field are no less susceptible to Thunderbird recollections than the common layman, with Ivan T. Sanderson and John A. Keel among those who claim to have once held the photo in their hands. Some accounts of seeing the photo are amazingly precise and hard to disregard.

It’s difficult to tell someone that an experience as vivid as that never really happened, but what is the alternative? What’s the word with the Thunderbird?

The best explanation for the phantom photo phenomenon is that these are memories of things that never existed. It might simply be that people have read descriptions of the cowboys and the giant bird that were so colorful and evocative that their imaginations created a near-tangible mental image of the scene. As the controversy surrounding ‘false memory syndrome’ has demonstrated, the things we think we recall can be distorted by external suggestion, mismatched fragments of things that did happen, and maybe even debris from the collective subconscious. Some might view this line of reasoning as party-pooping skepticism, but if it’s correct, what it reveals about the mysteries of the human mind is way more interesting than any big bird could ever hope to be.