Goblin Universe
Cryptozoologists commonly refer to creatures that have never been proven to exist in the real world as being part of the “goblin universe.” This phrase was first used in the 1960s and later popularized through two books, anthropologist John Napier’s Bigfoot (1972) and lake monster researcher F.W. Holiday’s The Goblin Universe (1986). In these and other early mentions of the goblin universe, the phrase was simply meant to distinguish unidentified creatures from identified creatures. Today, however, goblin universe is sometimes intended to suggest an otherworldly origin for mysterious creatures.
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The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Paranormal Phenomena – written by Patricia D. Netzley © 2006 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning