As for me, I doubt that such a monster has ever actually existed.

Even now, almost a decade into the project, we cannot say that the monster does or does not exist.

The monster did exist, and he had sworn to rid the seas of it.

"I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one."

Did their magic and their monsters exist only because they believed in them?

"I'm glad no such monster as that exists in our land!"

"Yet the child is dead and monsters do exist," said Rostnikov.

"But we told you the monster didn't exist," one of the women said.

But which of them, if any, would prove that the monster existed?

By that time, a lot of you probably didn't even believe the monsters existed in real life.