I had read up on the life of Alexandra David-Néel: her travels, her avid interest in “psychic forces”. And her bond with the then Prince of Sikkim, described as an enduring friendship by some, a love affair b
And in Australia—where people and oversized animals may have coexisted thousands of years ago—some scholars have speculated that references to enormous animal-like creatures in Australia's Aboriginal "Dreamtime" mythology may have drawn from ancient encounters with real megafauna or their remains, kn...