[He could but maybe being called 'smart' has him preening a bit.]

Aha, well, there existed a sort of layer of reality that I and some others had access to called the Metaverse. Monsters called Shadows existed there and took the forms of beings in human mythology, such as Gods and demons and supernatural beings. [And also fucking Mothman.] These were also beings we could call forth from ourselves. But again, it's all rooted in human cognition, so it has more of a science bend, I suppose.