Absolutely enamoured by the idea of a real life person seeing like, a hunting dog or a pack mule, or a farm animal or something, and referring to it as “mysterious creature.”
[walking Route 12, sees a swarm of Magikarp, begins shaking] oh god, oh fuck, what....what ARE you...
Well there’s only, like, 6 people studying pokémon in a given region.
there’s about two people in my area studying animal biology but that doesn’t make me think birds are some kind of anomaly
to be fair, ive seen people refer to cats as mysteries