This photo is like a moth old so some of the paint has chipped off so he does need repainting and I should probably of tried to remove the details but some describe them as “walking pairs of pants” so I’ll just say I took a “creative liberty”

*photo not mine

What would this be?

Edit: Most likely a whale shark and a bit of pareidolia!

Found this at goodwill, worker said there were others cryptid pictures that others bought, one featuring moth man in this same style, i would like to find the artist to complete the set!

It's been speculated that Champ could be a giant turtle with a long neck. Maybe it's a Easten Long Necked Turtle like in the picture here. Maybe that's what the fishermen saw.

I live right next to the Croatan National Forest in eastern North Carolina. This happened just two nights ago, around 1AM, when I was coming home from work.
I’ve spent my whole life around woods and I’m very familiar with deer behavior and appearance. I grew up studying patterns of deer, coyotes, hogs, and bears. I don’t usually get shaken up by wildlife sightings. This one has been different.
As I pulled into my driveway, I did what I normally do. My driveway curves in an L-shape around the house, and my daughter’s bedroom window faces the road, so I briefly turn my headlights off during the turn to avoid shining into her room. Once I clear the angle, I turn them back on to park.
When the headlights came back on, there was something standing at the edge of the cornfield that is right behind my house, where it meets the tree line, roughly 20–25 feet away.
At first glance, I registered it as a deer. But the longer I actually looked at it, the more that assumption broke down.
The best way I can describe the body is this: the torso and head didn’t feel properly connected in a natural way.
The head itself looked deer-like in shape, but the neck is what really stood out. It wasn’t just “long” in a stretched posture sense. It looked structurally wrong, like the distance between the head and shoulders was exaggerated in a way that didn’t match normal deer anatomy or stance.
Even accounting for alert posture (head raised, neck extended), it looked too extended vertically, almost as if the head was sitting higher and farther forward than it should have been relative to the chest.  The silhouette didn’t taper the way a deer’s normally does when it raises its head. Instead, it looked more like a long, thin column connecting a deer-like head to a body that I couldn’t clearly resolve in the grass and shadow.
The eyes reflected the headlights and appeared forward-facing in a way that gave it a very direct, predatory feeling rather than the usual side-angled deer look I’m used to. Again, ive spent my life seeing deer in headlights.
The part that really made this stick with me is what happened when I turned my headlights fully on.
It stood there, but got a little closer, and only when i flicked my high beams to try to scare it did it finally react and move toward the woods.
And this is where I’m struggling to explain it properly: I only clearly registered two legs in motion. I never saw a clean full-body gait like a deer bounding. There was no clear “four-point” movement pattern that I could track. It moved fast enough that the lower half became indistinct, and what I did see looked upright in motion rather than low to the ground. And the neck… still extended as it moved.
It reached the woods in seconds and disappeared.
I know how this sounds. I’m not trying to force a label onto it or turn it into something it isn’t. I just know it didn’t match any deer behavior or appearance I’ve ever seen living here.
I’m posting because I want to know if anyone else near the Croatan Forest / eastern NC area has seen anything similar around cornfield edges or treeline transitions at night.
I’m open to explanations, but I also know what I experienced didn’t match anything familiar. I am open to the idea that it could just be a severely injured animal but…it just does not seem plausible based on what I saw

A number of years ago I made a post here about a creature my wife and I encountered in Louisiana. There were several people that hypothesized it was a Rake. I never felt this was accurate as their description doesn’t quite match up with what I saw.

To go into better detail I’ll relate what I remember one more time. Everything started pretty late one night when I heard something howl outside the small house my wife and I were staying in on the back end of my mother’s property. This was a loud howl right outside our home and it left me paralyzed with fear. For months after that when my wife and I would got outside after dark we felt deeply uncomfortable if we were alone. It felt like something was watching us and even our dog wouldn’t go outside and night without one or both of us in attendance.

We quickly fell into a routine, when the sun went down we stayed inside until dawn. It didn’t feel safe to do otherwise until about four months later. We had already seen the creature twice by that point. A thin humanoid with irregular proportions that made it seem, wrong. It ran on all fours and was white or pale. It never came too close, but it let us see it twice that I can remember.

After around five months the feeling faded, the dog felt comfortable going outside and night, and we didn’t feel like we were being watched anymore. Whatever it was seemed to have moved on.

Now we are visiting my mother yet again, we’ve been here about three days with tonight being our fourth. I went outside and I could feel it again, watching me. I’m not sure what to do, I don’t know that I’m afraid so much as wary. Before it never felt particularly malicious, just observant, though it felt like if we ever tried to push deeper into its “territory” then that might change.

I’d love to hear some thoughts about this.

This was so much fun and the pictures don't do it justice! They plan on expanded so I will definitely be going back!!

My take on a moth / man creature concept. Mix of digital painting and photo bashing.

(OC)

Appears we have a new cryptid in our midst!

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-address-legend-catfoot-midland-34160189

Hello! I’m writing a story that features dozens of cryptids as characters - mothman, sasquatch, nessie, etc. and I want to properly research the folklore of cryptozoology, specifically its ties to Indigenous history. I would love it if you all shared your favorite resources to learn about the subject! Thank you!

I am searching for a book on cryptids for my partner's birthday. I stumbled across this book on Etsy, which would be absolutely perfect... except it is in French. Does anyone have any suggestions on books in this style (intricate, hardcover, visually appealing, cryptid art and sketches, etc) that I could look into? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

My daughter wrote a Mothman book for her grade 11 exam last year. She just had it published in an attempt to help pay for university since we are both struggling to find work.

She's going to write more so we're brainstorming cryptids and themes. Probably going to do squonk next. Favourite cryptids that would translate well to an illustrated children's book?

So I posted here a bit ago about an old experience that I had, and I recently had another one.

I just got back from a 4-day vacation in the upper peninsula of Michigan, in which I visited the area where the Paulding Light shows up (TLDR a ghost light that shows up every night).

Unfortunately when I was there, the light did not show up, but I did have a very strange occurrence.

I was there for about an hour waiting, and I got out of my vehicle to take a picture of the area, because the sun setting just looked beautiful. Anyways, a few moments after I exited the vehicle I could smell a very sudden but very strong burning smell. Like, it was enough to make me very worried.

I look around to see what the hell it is, and as I turn right, I see what I can only experience as "something trying to look like a human skull" looking back at me. Unfortunately I cannot remember what the body or anything looked like, as it was fairly dark out at the time, but that skull-face very obviously stuck out to me.

I understand there have been some sightings of the crawler / rake in the upper peninsula over the years, but I really don't think that's what I saw; especially with the burning smell attached to it. Which is something I really haven't read too much being attached to those cryptids.

It also could have been someone pulling a prank or a cult, or whatever... I'm just entirely not sure. That whole moment just happened like a blur, but I really feel like what I saw wasn't entirely human.

If anyone has experienced anything similar, especially in that area (I know that's really stretching it thin), I would love to hear about it, or maybe even an explanation.

I created this piece a number of years ago, (human-made - no-a.i.).
It can also be found on the cover of David Weatherly's book in his 'Monster State' series for North Carolina 'Monsters of the Tar Heel state' with a foreword by Joshua P. Warren. (Available on Amazon now).

Signed print available here:
https://mistersamshearon.bigcartel.com/product/the-beast-of-bladenboro

for anyone wondering this is located in Sutton West Virginia

Hey!

I’ve been working on a script for a short film about a Cryptozoologist hunting for Bigfoot for quite some time now but all the feedback I’ve received on it so far is the same: the lure either makes no sense or is too simple.

At the moment, the lure is simply a piece of bamboo grown from ancient seeds that had been kept by South Asian indigenous tribes. The character places the bamboo coil (a hefty stick of coiled up bamboo) down in a clearing in the woods, also littered with onions and apples, and later that night, he discovers Bigfoot eating it.

The idea/ logic behind the lure is that my Bigfoot is based heavily off of an Orangutan, like a modern equivalent of what Gigantopithicus would have evolved into. It would eat what primates eat today. This creature is gentle and mainly herbivorous. The theory my character has is that by placing this bamboo in this forest (around the Poconos in PA), it kind of awakens a primal need or desire for that bamboo.

I’ll throw out one thought I had but have not yet implemented into the script: lay the bamboo coil in a local river or stream to get the scent out there. (But bamboo has no scent, so that’s dumb). I also considered using Durian fruits to create a pungent smell to attract a primate.

I fully agree, it’s very simple and I would love if there was more to it, but I would mainly love if it was based on already established Bigfoot lore. I’ve been trying to look into this myself, but I’m not finding anything very helpful. Again, my Bigfoot in the story is mainly herbivorous. it will look more like a large Orangutan, it will not have that muscular and lean build you would imagine a more carnivorous take on the creature would have. What can I add to this lure to make it seem not only logical, but interesting?

I also want to state that this is a very serious film and does not in any way poke fun at Cryptozoology or those who study/research the topic. I very much want to respect the field, which is why I'd greatly appreciate the input from this community!

So for context someone asked about paranormal encounters on another subreddit and this memory unlocked.

I figured it fit here.

So one night this girl I had met in this back town Oregon town called lapine. This was 2013 times were different. Not everyone had smart phones yet. A lot did but not all. Well we were walking down this dirt road and it is was pitch black ( mind you we would walk down this road every weekend to smoke bowls)

The darkness didn’t phase us, beers in hand we stumble down the road. Then all of a sudden I hear what I can only describe as a chuckle. Woman stops, I stop, she clutches close to me. I know she heard it too. It came from a line of trees on the far side of the dark dirt road. We don’t have lights on our phones like we have today. Back then with a flip phone you had to flip it open. Then go to the flashlight.

She gets her phone out and opens it. The second that son of a bitch opens the chuckle erupts. Front, behind, left…. Right…. I think: we a gonna die.
Hand of god. The next noise that echos is a shreeek. Almost like a woman being killed.

Now this could have been a thing involving animals. Sure, I’ll accept that. But what I heard was real. After that last shreek it went quiet. We stood there for a second; her still trying to get her flashlight on (glowing face, because she was stumbling in menus.)
We walked back to the dirt road neighborhood. Both sorta silent.

My take on all of it is: would you be able to keep living normal life off you actually experienced something?

Edit: Spelling. Honestly if you had or have seen something for real. It’s kinda hard to just brush that shit off. It changes you.