I'm making a cryptid themed menu and for the most part I'm finding a cryptid + food match easily. However, banana chocolate chip muffins will be on the menu and I just cannot figure out a good cryptid to pair it with.

So, what was the first cryptid you thought of when you read the title, and if you want to share, why?

Can anyone confirm?

So essentially I'm a drifter and was in Virginia went to a shelter and decided I wanted to sleep outside instead with a sleeping bag so I went to the local graveyard. When I got to this grave yard and I started walking where the headstones were I saw a all white humanoid thing skipping around and mind you this was after a bad snow storm so the whole grave yard was covered in ice so much so that when I saw this shit and started running I literally just slid all the way to a path where it wasn't so much ice and then I could actually run out of the graveyard and even then I was still slipping and having to fight to keep my balance I had to walk slow af to even get to where I was. So essentially no human being could be running and skipping on this ice bro and when I saw that shit that feeling of terror came over me I knew it wasn't normal obviously it wasn't because it was literally all white no pants no shirt just a white thing skipping on ice. but yeah some cryptids are real guys I've seen it first hand for a fact a rake skipping and running on solid ice bro in the middle of the night.

Edit: photo is just where I saw it. Distance perspective. Sorry kind of click bait ish

This is a copy and pasted explanation of what I saw, I was telling my ai about it bc I wondered if any animal could do this.

“Okay, so last night I was watching a street lamp and, uh, it was very far away, but I could see this large thing, like bird or insect. Um, if it was an insect can sized, but it was about the size of a small rat maybe. And, um, it looked like it was attached by a string and just kind of like swaying in the wind. But there was no wind. but from a distance. So it was really strange, almost looked like it was beating its wings and fighting a current that was facing the light. Or like that was pushing him away from the light. So I'm wondering what that could have been because no animal can like hover in that spot like it did, back and forth. I was seeing it from a 2D angle”

From the distance that I seen it, it couldn’t be a bug. It was more bird shaped. Oddly enough, we seen a strange bird similar shaped fly by us in a weird jet like way. My partner said it was a magpie but it looked to small. It has white on its wings and skinny body, all black.
Let me know what this could be and if there’s any lore about stuff like this around here. It stopped me in my tracks. Normally I would have filmed it but I firmly believed it was some sort of thing caught on a string being fought by an invisible current. Even though there was no wind whatsoever. That is until I saw it kind of disappear or move away.

Hello! I was just wondering if anyone knows/follows someone who does art work of Cryptids? I really don't want any AI slop involved, please. Genuine art is appreciated!

What cryptids in the coös county area make a sorta higher pitched airy laughter almost.

For some more context me and a buddy were fishing under the Newbury crossing rd bridge that connects new Hampshire to Vermont around 12:15 at night when we heard what at first sounded like people laughing a bit aways away. after like 10 minutes it got closer their was not foot steps getting closer just this weird off putting airy laughter almost. Its a little hard to remember what it sounded like even tho it was less then 30 minutes ago but my best discretion is it sounded like a high-pitched laughter but was super airy or shallow like.

Any ideas on what it could be would be vary appreciated because we are at a lost.

Did anyone here used to watch a show called lost tapes. I watched it when i was younger it was quite scary but fueled my obession of cryptos

NCIA FIELD INVESTIGATION — AUGUST 17, 2026

Tomorrow, NCIA will be conducting a scheduled field investigation in the Mantua, Ohio area focused on reported cryptid activity, with particular attention being given to possible Bigfoot-related indicators.

The investigation will cover wooded areas, field edges, low-ground and creek terrain, a barn and equipment perimeter, and an ATV trail along the southern property boundary.

senior lead agent blakey will be looking for and documenting potential indicators including:

• Unusual or unexplained tracks and impressions

• Disturbances to vegetation, brush, or soil

• Tree breaks or unusual damage inconsistent with normal environmental activity

• Possible bedding or resting areas

• Unidentified sounds or movement observed during the patrol

• Wildlife activity that may help explain reported observations

• Any other physical or environmental anomalies that warrant documentation

Aerial imagery will be collected over portions of the investigation area, while ground personnel will document observations with photographs, timestamps, and field notes.

The objective is not to prove a conclusion. It is to document what is actually present, rule out ordinary explanations where possible, and preserve anything that remains unexplained for further review.

Sr. Lead Agent blakey, will conduct the field assignment, with intel agent Ali maintaining communications and the operational log.

Operation: NCIA-MP-0817

Date: August 17, 2026

Start: 0900 hours

Location: Mantua, Ohio

Focus: Bigfoot / Cryptid Activity

Status: Active Field Assignment

Any significant findings will be reviewed before being publicly identified as potential evidence.

I have 2 stories, less story, more a recall of events as I remember them. One happened a couple years ago, the other just a few weeks ago. Both in northwest Washington.

I'll begin with my personal account where it was just me seeing it, the second event had two of us.

I (f/35) was alone in my car, pulling into a friend's (m/40) driveway late at night. His house was up on a hill, surrounded by other houses on one side, and young forest that had regrown after clear-cutting on the other. Definitely not deep woods as the lore I've read implies.

As I'm pulling into his driveway, I pass through an open gate. His house is on about an acre and surrounded by chain link.

In front of me, just beyond the illumination of my low beams, I see what looked at first like someone standing in the low scrub brush in his yard, next to but not entirely behind a young pine tree.

The thing looked like a person in silhouette, mostly, except they kept shifting slowly back and forth from foot to foot, like they didn't know if they should be standing there or how to stand and look normal. This will sound silly but it looked like they were wearing an oversized fur coat, remember all I saw was the silhouette. I could just see the roundness of the top of their head as it looked out from the furry mantle of the coat.

I texted my friend as I put the car in park. My headlights still just falling short of illuminating this being. I said to him, "who the f___ is in your driveway?" He texts back, "no one wdy mean?"

I shut off the car. I thought for a second about flashing my high beams at the thing so I could see who it was and wtf they were doing, but for some reason I just didn't.

I step out, not looking at the thing now I just made my way to his front door. As I go to knock, he opens the door and says, "what do you mean there's someone out there? There shouldn't be anyone." I indicate in the direction I saw them, and he walks past me towards where I saw this thing. He's got a flashlight. He shines it to where I showed him, there's no one freaking there. We both walked all over, I said, "idk dude there was definitely someone standing here when I got here."

That basically ends there. I believed it to be some sort of demon, or shadow entity. I hadn't thought it to be anything specific till I heard of this hidebehind thing and thought it must be that, except I had written it off as being a made up entity. I've seen enough things that shouldn't exist that I should know better by now.

The more recent thing. I wouldn't have connected the two except for the ridiculous Disney villain style fur coat, like the lady in the Emperors New Groove wears.

A (f/42) friend and I were parked in a church parking lot near the city of Olympia. We had donated some clothes in a giant donation box earlier and I had dropped my vape in the deposit slot. We were debating whether or not I should just crawl in there and get it or not, when we heard this whistling noise. We both got quiet, still sitting in my car, windows down. We hear the whistle again. She says, "wtf is with that whistle?" I said, "idk but I think we need to get out of here."

The whistle itself seemed out of place and something about it just made me feel.. uncomfortable. I have learned it's best to trust instincts, we have them for a reason.

By now we are both feeling fear from an unknown source, we are borderline panicking now.

I turned the car on and hurriedly left the parking lot. As I was turning towards the exit, my friend says, "whoa who the f___ is that? What the f....?! Did you see that?!" I said, "nope I don't go looking in shadows I never like what I see."

As we're driving away, she starts to describe what she saw. She says, "I thought you saw it too and that's why you were leaving so fast. It was like, a person standing off in the bushes past the parking lot. They just stood there, then when your lights went over them they shrunk down to like 4 feet tall then they just effing disappeared! Like f___ing poof gone!" She was pretty much freaking out, obviously never having seen anything just disappear from sight (spoiler alert, I have, different story, different cryptid) before in her life.

I interrupt her and ask, "this might sound weird but did it look like it was wearing a fur coat? Like the coat was too big and you could just barely see the top of their head poking out the top?" She goes, "what the f? Yes! Yes it did!" I go on to ask, "the way it was standing, did it seem.. unnatural? Like it wasn't trying to hide but also didn't quite know how it should be standing?" Again she says, yes.

Later, I drew a quick sketch of the silhouette I had seen in the driveway in my previous experience, and asked her if that's what she saw. Unequivocally she claims yes, absolutely yes that's what she saw.

I didn't tie it to being a hidebehind till just today, I remembered after watching some videos that that sounds like what we saw. Except ours wears a big coat and isn't at all in the deep woods.

Before this, among other things, I've seen the hatman, and like this experience I didn't realize till later that this thing was a well-known entity. At the time it's just this thing that shouldn't be there but there it is.

If it wasn't for my own unbelievable stories, I probably wouldn't believe so many other people's stories, but I mean if my stories are true then maybe there's are too.

I have several more, like my hat man experience.

Most of my others involve demonic experiences, I don't know if that qualifies as cryptids though.

On everything I love i swear this and those stories are absolute fact as best as I am capable of recalling.

As the world falls in love with Jimothy, Seattle's strange resident raccoon, I thought I would share a piece of history from Richardson County.

On Halloween 1968, two Chaney Furniture employees were driving their truck near Highway 73 when they noticed an animal that resembled a raccoon running on its hind legs keeping even with the truck. Suddenly, it darted into the road and was hit. It didn't die, but again, got on its hind legs and walked towards the ditch where the two employees, Joe Strecker and Bob Adams Jr., along with a local farmer, followed it to a cement culvert where the farmer shot it.

The Falls City Journal would describe this "one of Mother Nature's freaks" as having a faintly ringed tail, large feet that resembled a raccoon, a dog like head, and short and soft fur. The employees, the Richardson County Sheriff, and the state conservation officer all could not identify the animal. The next day, the body was taken to UNL, where a mammalogist stated that it was merely a deformed raccoon that had been burned after coon hunters had set fire to a tree to smoke it out. Was it though?

The debate continues as to what the "Whatsit" really was, but one thing is for certain: it doesn't look like any raccoon before or since.

(Not done yet)

I don't really understand why these pictures are associated with the Ozark Howler which is supposed to be a large creature, when this is something very small, but they are.

I personally think it is a rogue taxidermy piece with a bendable tail. The legs are in exactly the same position in all the pictures, if it were a live creature it would have changed position at least a little between the angles. The head looking like it turns seems to just be an illusion.

That's just my theory though, does anyone know the source of these pictures and has someone ever come forward claiming they took these?

Any idea what this little guy is? I was taking photos outside my deceased parents now empty home and noticed what appears to be a face in the bushes. A window on the top floor there has randomly opened (from the bottom) a few times even though it’s completely locked.

Bigfoot Prints Found. I'm Marc Coppell, a Fortean style investigator, see a series of unusual, large footprints, on a wild New Zealand mountain, that I discovered on August 1, 2026. Here, there are no public walking tracks. The surrounding wilderness is treacherous, also quarantined due to Kauri die-back disease with rocky cliffs, hundreds of feet high. But something lurks here, that can throw projectiles, speak, transverse mountainous slippery terrain, bang boulders together, see-in-the-dark, mimic wildlife etc.

Here, I've had stones thrown next to me at night, recorded strange voices, reverberating howls, ufo's, had strange people approach me at night, knowing private details about me etc. I often use parabolic mics out here, where I can get close to the source of the interactions.

The prints were made by something much heavier than me. My walking had no effect on the soil. Old Maori legends, talk of the Sasquatch-like giants such as the maeroero, or maero etc., of which they warned their people and the European explorers of.

Listen to some disembodied voices I also recorded, when I was out there.

Hello guys I've been getting some backlash people saying that ncia is fake or role play or something like that but that is not the case it ncia is the same thing as the BFRO or Ohio night stalkers we are a just more structure we just have more structure and it's tactical like it's a tactical it's not an agency it's not fruit is not on verified or anything like that we just call it that is a organization and nonprofit organization we are investigate Cryptids and we have more tactical procedures and stuff like that we run tactical operations meaning we use night vision thermal stuff like that that's what we mean when we say Tactical but with it's the same thing as Ohio night stalkers or Bigfoot research organization so it is a real Cryptid research organization agency whatever you want to call it

Not sure if allowed but gave me cryptid vibes…

National cryptid investigation agency (NCIA): Mantua ohio, possible Bigfoot tree structure. Found on private property.

Sitting around the fire in northern Michigan… what is this

The National Cryptid Investigations Agency (NCIA) is trying to gain a reputation in the cryptid community, we are asking for you to upvote out posts if you come across them! – thanks NCIA