Uninteresting in the context that nothing of that sort exists and everything can just be explained with a scientific explanation. Does it take away all interest/mystery from it all for anyone else? I wish all that shit did exist because it’d make things a whole lot more interesting.
There is a monster in the mountains near my home. It’s known to have killed many people across history.
There are instances where these things are known to have hunted humans. They’re incredibly strong, weigh as much as a car and can take your head off in a single swipe.
Few people who encounter an angry one survive.
They call this beast… A grizzly bear.
There is a lot of Internet lore about the “fact” that the word westerners use for bear comes from “brown one” (bruin is one version) because their (my) ancestors were so terrified of bears that they wouldn’t utter their actual name for bears, and it’s since been lost. This is similar to plenty of modern religious beliefs about only using euphemisms when referring to Satan.
That true or not, our ancestors have left cave paintings suggesting that they were terrified of, you know, lions and tigers and bears, but also wolves and aurochs (the ancestors of cows).
If I remember correctly, there is some truth to that - fear of naming the things due to the belief they it might summon it. However, I think that the word is known.