If only Herge had actually spoken to Lovecraft as he lay dying and come up with this.
The Inferno
It is a fallacy to state that something exists just because it can't be proven that it doesn't
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Aug
Cryptozoo-what? Yes, the “science” of studying such fictional, mythical beasts such as the Loch Ness monster, the Yeti etc…has a real name. I’ve been fascinated by such stuff ever since reading Tintin in Tibet as a kid. In any case, two stories about the Yeti of late have garnered a lot of interest and media [...]
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