If you're looking to find out about new and obscure cryptids and/or want an introduction to the world of cryptozoology, I have a video series covering hundreds of them from around the world. I've spent years making this and have found some incredible cryptids. Link below!
I've looked into probably 100+ lake monsters before and the vast majority are either:
1. Vague "giant shapes" seen in a lake
2. Pretty clear Loch Ness Monster ripoffs
3. From lakes too small to hide in
The exception is Africa where their lake monsters are all absolutely nuts
A stabilized version of the Patterson Gimlin Film from 1967. Easily the most controversial video in Cryptozoology, the film continues to cause debate and arguments.
A youtuber made a video on one of my icebergs, got stuff clearly wrong while using AI to write the script, and then deleted a comment I made answering someone else's question in the comments
Antarctic Godzilla is a cryptid seen once off of the coast of Antarctica. A Japanese ship had been in the area when they spotted the creature, which they described as having a monkey/cow-like head and a saw-like back. The captain named it after the Godzilla movies as he was a fan
The Sicilian wolf was a subspecies of the gray wolf that went extinct around 1924. As late as the 1970s there were sightings of the wolf which zoologist Francesco Maria Angelici said "seem convincing".
Imagine you are sent to slay the last serpopard- a giant prionodontid that haunts an oasis preying on travelers. You succeed but are grievously wounded in the process. As you wait for death you can´t imagine that 3000 years later no one will even believe serpopards were real...
The Beast of Busco is a cryptid from Churubusco Lake in Indiana. First sighted in the 1940s, though there are rumors of reports dating back to 1898. It's described as a large snapping turtle, about 6 feet by 4 feet (1.8 by 1.2m) across and being covered in moss.
Crypto-people who may or may not have existed are interesting. There was allegedly an abolitionist named "Peg Leg Joe" who worked with the underground railroad and wrote coded messages leading people to the North. There's no evidence that he ever existed or his real identity
I think the scarier part of Blood Meridian isn't so much how evil Judge Holden is, but the fact that Cormac McCarthy actually based him off a real person who appears to be as equally vile as the fictional character.
Remember kids: The Kandahar Giant story was made up by filmmaker LA Marzulli in the same episode of his webseries where he discusses fake fairy remains. He even claims that it took 30 seconds of constant 50 cal fire to take the giant down, that makes no sense!
I've looked into probably 100+ lake monsters before and the vast majority are either:
1. Vague "giant shapes" seen in a lake
2. Pretty clear Loch Ness Monster ripoffs
3. From lakes too small to hide in
The exception is Africa where their lake monsters are all absolutely nuts
In the quiet rural town of Elkhorn, nestled among the rolling hills and forests of Wisconsin, lies a secret. For decades, residents whispered about a mysterious creature that roams the rural areas surrounding Bray Road.
The Beast of Bray Road – a cryptid steeped in folklore
How can you tell me that 95% of the ocean is unexplored and you know for a FACT that megalodon sharks are extinct?!?! Nope that thang is alive and well down there. I bet there’s freaking dinosaurs down there. The ocean is literally monster soup you cannot convince me otherwise
The bloop, a recording of a very loud sound that's believed by some to be a massive cryptid, is actually one of the few cryptids were we're basically 99.99% sure it's not real. Later analysis has shown that the sound was very likely just ice chunks breaking off of glaciers
today i learned that a new folk monster mythology has exploded on children's youtube and that both my niece and nephew believe in it
presenting: The Bloop
Reminder than gnomes and wendigos aren't cryptids. Supernatural/mystical fairies aren't apart of cryptozoology and neither are wendigos (spirits that posess humans).
This eerie photograph allegedly shows a yowie (Australia's version of bigfoot) staring at a man down the trail. It comes from the Australian Yowie Project
In 2007 a hiker allegedly captured a photo of a living moa. He then put the photo up for sale at an auction and it was sold. To this day, the photograph hasn't been released.
The origin of this "chupacabra" photograph has finally been found! It was from the Haunted Castle dark ride in Santa Cruz California. StateofTerror found it after searching for the image for years
The story has it all: cryptozoology, conspiracy theories, a government research facility dabbling in cross-species breeding and bizarrely placed nostalgia.
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It also doesn't even make sense. Chupacabra means "Goat sucker" because they feed on goats. It'd be like shortening Spider-man's name to just man.
Deputy Dewey on reddit found out that there's a camper manufacturer located near Silverton, where this video was taken. They even have a mascot costume!
With the Titanic in the news once again, now's a good time to revisit Tyler Greenfield's Deep Sea Mystery Chart. Conspiracies, cryptids, and bizarre theories are all on the iceberg. How many do you recognize?
This video from Indonesia is an excellent example of how the camera can make mistakes. The orangutan appears to be massive, almost as big as a house. But on closer inspection you can see he's standing on a hill and the perspective of the camera only makes it seem like he's giant
Remember kids, the giant of Kandahar story was completely made up and first appeared on a show in the 2010s. It gets several major details about the military wrong and originates from a show that tried to pass off various hoaxes as real.
I was recently sent this video by a viewer who wished to remain anonymous. This may be the best video cryptid evidence since the Patterson-Gimlin Film. What do you think?
So apparently the Monsterverse (that cinematic universe with the Godzilla and King King movies) is working on a TV show under the name "Cryptozoology". What would you like to see from a show like that?
The guy who did the most in depth analysis on the Patterson Gimlin film later began claiming that Patterson and Gimlin had actually massacred a tribe of sasquatches before taking a video of the sole survivor
I feel like there comes a time in every person's life where they analyze and scrutinize something like the Zapruder film and there's a fifty/fifty chance it turns you insane
The Oklahoma Octopus is one of America's most terrifying cryptids, described as a massive freshwater man-eating octopus. But discussion of the cryptid seems to trace back to the popular TV show Lost Tapes. Was the cryptid invented for television? I investigate in this thread.
In the 1890s an expedition into Central America encountered an unidentified creature known as the "cave cow". One member of the expedition was attacked by the animal, which severely mutilated and killed him. The animal is believed by some to be a ground sloth.
A photo of an unidentified sea creature taken in 1936. This photograph was taken by plane over the Persian Gulf. The pilot described it as looking like a "boa digesting a sheep" and said the tail was almost as long as the rest of the creature
The nature documentary Great North may have an unusual cameo in it. At four seconds into this clip a strange humanoid figure can be seen running alongside the Caribou. Due to the remote nature of the footage some have claimed that the crew accidentally captured a sasquatch.
The Tsavo man eaters were an infamous pair of lions that killed dozens of people near the turn of the 20th century. Due to them living in caves and lacking manes, there's a fringe theory that the lions are actually living cave lions, a species thought to be extinct since 9000 BC
In 1972 after Hurricane Agnes hit the East Coast, an engineer found a peculiar frog in his backyard. It had a warty texture and, instead of eyes, two "drums" in the side of it's head. The frog was fully grown, but didn't eat. Despite being blind it was sensitive to light
Ethnologist Petr Gorodtsov recorded stories of mammoth sightings in Siberia. The locals described them as very rare and difficult to find They were alleged to live near and in rivers and lakes, and were said to be meek and peaceful, even friendly, around people
This photograph taken in the Rukwa Valley of Zambia shows a zebra with spots, not the trademark stripes. According to biologist Dr. Jonathan Bard, the existence of white spotted zebras proves that zebras are black animals with white stripes and not white animals with black ones
Actor Jesus Payan Jr, best known for his role on Breaking Bad, once reported encountering a bigfoot while sleeping. This photo was one of the ones he posted of the creature, which he said was looking down on him from the opening of the tent.
This is one of my favorite bigfoot videos. It's known as the "Beast of Gum Hill" and according to the witness (dude on the ATV) it's about 7 feet or 2.13m tall.
In 1924 the infamous "Ape Canyon" incident occurred. A group of gold prospectors in Washington claimed that they had encountered several apemen. After one prospector shot and wounded an apeman, the apemen retaliated. They surrounded their cabin and threw rocks at it.
In 2013 this photo was uploaded to animal identification site Project Noah. It had been recently caught in a river in Brunei, earning the nickname the "Beast of Brunei". Despite multiple theories on what it was, the animal's identity remains unclear
Artist Jirka Houska is one of the most unique cryptid artists, often drawing animals from the paleontology record interacting with humans. Here he draws a woman seeing a diprotodon, an animal that went extinct around 40,000 BC but which is believed to be behind some cryptids
Bring this up once again: the popular"Deer Wendigo," is NOT the real wendigo from Native folklore.
Real Wendigos are described as being tall, lanky, pale-white humanoids.
The only cryptid stories and theories I actively dislike are the Kandahar giant (obviously fake) and the bigfoot coverup theory. Everything else is cool
The sawtooth dolphin was a strange cetacean seen by fisherman Jeremy Wade in the Amazon Basin. It was described as having strangely evenly spaced spikes. Most locals didn't believe Wade's report, but one said it was called the holadeira. Some believe it was damaged by a boat
The Oklahoma Octopus is a freshwater cryptid said to attack swimmers. But reports of the creature only began to surface in the mid 2000's, suspiciously right around the time the show Lost Tapes aired their episode on it. So I investigated the origins of the cryptid, link below!
This article is the product of six years of intensive research into the origin of the Missing Thunderbird Photo. What might seem like an urban legend has a 60-year history, documented in the files of Ivan T. Sanderson, a founding father of Cryptozoology.
This video was captured in 2018 in Japan's Okuchichibu Mountains. At the start of the video you can hear what appears to be a wolf's howl. Wolves in Japan have been considered extinct since the early 1900s, could this audio be proof that they're still out there?
Give me a cryptid and I'll rate it S-F (S being the best F being the worst).
Art by Kelly Milner Halls who's coming out with a new book on axolotls soon!
Zoologist Hyatt Verrill once claimed to own a peculiar creature called a "sun dog" he acquired in Mexico. It was 60cm (2ft) long, had an odd mask pattern on its face, an undershot lower jaw, and a long tongue. It was described as aggressive, snarling when anyone came near it.
This is cool, someone found a drawing of Marvin in a Japanese book called Giant Monsters of the World.
For those who don't know, Marvin is an unidentified animal videotaped off the coast of California in the 1960s.
"Antarctic Godzilla" was a large cryptid seen once by the crew of a Japanese research ship near Antarctica in 1958. It was described as having a 70–80 cm (27–31 in) long cow-like head and a monkey's face with large eyes. It also had large fins running down its back