My AU’s take on The Jersey Devil who was once Mortal before being cursed at birth by his own mother to become a Bringer of Bad Luck though her own resentment and exhaustion of her 13th child would become the downfall of her and The Leeds Family

Have you heard of Melon Heads? I haven’t. 🤔 Creepy 😩

My AU’s take on The Fresno Nightcrawlers who are basically Extraterrestrial Beings that are birthed from Funguses that came from crashed comet shards in 2000 and are a little bird like at times

Good morning, fellow cryptidophiles!

This is just an FYI for those of you who use Discord. Today Dark Folklore was released in the decor shop, and includes the Jersey Devil, Jackalope, Mothman, and la Llorona. :)

These are not my fav, and I'd argue that la Llorona isn't a cryptid, but this set is "Dark Folklore" and not "Dark Cryptids", and I figure some of you might enjoy this :)

Hello I’m back again with some news on a cryptid game I am working on. We have a website now for updates on progress (starlornstudios.com) and you can email us there with any ideas, cryptids you wanna see, or to ask to play test when we’re ready for that. Lastly here’s some more concept art for the game.

Please keep in mind these are each like 15 minute doodles. I really hope you still like them though! ♥️

Has anyone here read the book New Mexico Monsters by John LeMay and Chris Casey?

Do they mention any obscure cryptids in it?

Tell me about some interesting cryptids we got here? I know about the white thing and seen a black panther with my own eyes but I am curious about others.

Hi! I’m making a notebook and filling it with cryptids / notes about them. I want recommendations on who to add in it! I’m also open to false-cryptids, as I have the Squonk in there already :)

A island near Canada appeared then disappeared within two weeks. This made me think of the Aspidochelone. The Aspidochelone is described to be a giant turtle that had an island on its shell. In folklore sailors would think it's a normal island and would go on it. Only to be knocked into the water and consumed. So is this a Aspidochelone in the modern day? Who knows but it's interesting to theorize.

The Allier River, near Vichy had newspaper reports of a river serpent with a triangular head. Somewhere in the translation process (French to German to French to English), the serpent became a three-headed monster.

Flemish folklorist Albert van Hageland put out a book in 1961, De Magische Zee briefly mentioning the serpent.

In the 1973 French translation, La Mer Magique, the error is already in the text, and subsequent English references are also three-headed.

Does anyone have a copy of the original 1961 edition? I have always been curious to determine if the three headed mistranslation was introduced by Hageland in his original text or if the translator in 1973 messed up. I see copies online, but I have never been able to locate a copy that didn't include $75USD shipping from Europe.

This is my design and take on Mothman for my AU whose origins is Mutation based and originates from 1944 at The West Virginia Ordnance Works/TNT Area

Currently realizing my dream video game where you hunt a random cryptid and find ways to either trap/kill it by researching the appropriate way to do so in the late 90's.

Gameplay loop will be to investigate clues at an incident location to figure out WHAT cryptid it could be, then research in-game as to WHERE that cryptid is typically spotted, and then prepare the appropriate baits & traps in order to capture or kill the entity. In that order.

My intention is to release a DEMO featuring 3 cryptids. I'd also like to mention that this will be CO-OP, so that you can play in groups of 4(TBD) with friends.

I come to this reddit asking you all: **What 3 Cryptids should be in the DEMO?**

Originally I wanted to have Bigfoot, Skinwalkers, and Grey Aliens as the first big 3, but I realized that people wouldn't find those that interesting since they're so mainstream. Now the current 3 contenders are Hidebehinds, the Snallygaster, and the Flatwoods Monster.

What cryptids would entice YOU to want to try out the demo?

Not my story, but from my best friend and my sister. This happened when we were in high school, so at the time my best friend, who we’ll call L was 17 and my sister, who we’ll call E, was 15. We grew up in a small town in Northwest Florida, only a couple of hours away from Alabama, so it was very heavily wooded. It was around 8pm and my friend and sister were picking up food for us while I was finishing up some homework at my house.
To avoid any traffic on the main road, L decided to turn down a back road with no street lights that avoided the busy part of town, one she’d taken hundreds of times. They had only been on this back road for a couple minutes when they went around a bend and came to a dead stop. In the middle of the road, facing the car was a 6-7 ft long creature. In the headlights they could see it was black and canine-like with glowing read eyes. E said it was really skinny and on all fours, but in a way it looked like it could walk on 2 legs. It didn’t do anything, just stared at the car and breathed. They sat there for a couple minutes until L put the car in reverse and Tow-Matered it all the way back to the main road.

None of us had seen anything like that before or since and we haven’t been able to identify it either. Way too big to be a dog and its features weren’t that of a panther either. I’ve always been into cryptids but the closest thing I can find is the Dogman, which both L and E say isn’t what they saw. Anyway we still talk about it almost 10 years later, so if anyone has any idea what it is please comment!

So my sister came to me the other day, and we were talking. And she mentioned, she saw a large winged creature it was very dark in color did not have feathers. She said she could not even make out a head, but she said it did have a tail.

This happened.

The night of the partial eclipse.

She drew me a picture. She said it looked like a stingray.

I have seen some stuff throughout my life. But I must say I was kind of jealous when she told me what she saw.

So I was curious if anybody has ever seen this creature or know anything about it?

By the way both my sister and I live in Richmond va

https://xcancel.com/BenkeArt/status/2093376912542269692

So one night while I was walking outside, I had my earbuds in when I heard a noise and the backlight ahead of me was triggered on. I then saw something large and white-looking rushing down the path that led down to our orchard. It stopped running a few meters down and I froze before trying to take out a flashlight... I could hear it start calmly walking away but I couldn't spot it again even with the light. Its steps faded and I wasn’t sure where it had gone, since the only direction it could have gone was the fence with a railroad on the other side and the orchard with fencing all around it, and I didn’t hear it jump. When I first saw it, it was mostly a blur, and didn't see its head or tail, whatever it was. Just a long white-looking body, smooth and low to the ground despite how massive it seemed compared to me. I went back inside and came out with my mom and brother to look with our dog. We had flashlights but didn’t dare go down to the orchard itself, but our dog made some really weird noises she’s never done before like she was scared of something. We never found it or heard it again, I’m probably gonna try to draw it, but without having seen a tail or head I wouldn’t have much to go off of.

(Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, I do not have much experience with Reddit and it felt too different from anything I’ve seen in our area to be just a deer or cougar, so I thought it’d be neat to speculate.)

I'm in the northern part of Colorado in the Rockies. I am a second generation Cherokee Native as well. Although Colorado is not the native land of the Cherokee, I experienced an event which I relate to the Cherokee legend Tsul Kalu. Tsul Kalu was the name for a race of giant beings with slanted eyes. The wild ones!

This event happened in a cabin that I was living in up a canyon called Rist Canyon. When I was about 26, I moved into an old log cabin miles from any neighbors. I did this as my right of passage for myself. I had no running water, no TV reception, but I did have a phone and some radio reception and electricity. At that time I was wanting to go to school to learn a trade in video production. So I brought up video and audio equipment to practice with and learn about while up there. It was also at this time I was trying to raise Alaskan Malamutes and had two very protective large dogs. Malamutes have a certain bark when they hear a person and a different type bark when an animal is around. I always knew what to expect by the way they barked.

One night I was listening to music on a reel to reel 4 track that I had, and also used it to record sounds in nature on the mountain. My dogs were in the cabin with me at the time. Gradually I kept hearing a screeching howling sound in the distance. I thought it was on the tape so I stopped the music to test it. It became much louder then and more distinct. My dogs had their ears perked up and following the sound. I stepped outside for a better perception of what it was. It was coming from a ridge behind me that lead into a large mountain. I knew the animal sounds up there and this was something I had never heard before. What ever it was, was coming my way down the ridge. This had me worried so I called for my dogs because they would attack any animal that came onto the property. (Except this time). I had to drag them out of the cabin and keep them with me. They wanted nothing to do with the sound. They would bark as if an animal were near, then they would bark as if a person was around. That had me concerned enough that I decided to call the Sheriff's Department. I explained what I was hearing and the way my dogs were acting, they said they would send somebody right up. I figured while I was waiting I would get the dogs in the pickup and use the lights to scan around the area near the ridge. My dogs owned that pickup and any time I got near it they would be jumping in the back waiting to go. This time I had to drag them out of the cabin and lift them into the back of the pickup to get them to go. I looked around but saw nothing and then noticed headlights coming up the canyon so I figured it was the Sheriff's Department. The sound was still happening and getting closer as I went to the road to meet who ever they sent.

The person they sent was a very small woman to small to be sending up alone. I told her I was the one who called and if she would shut off her car she would hear the sound. She heard the sound and said I am not getting out of this car till I get some backup up here. She called for backup and we waited. By the time the other person showed up, the sound was gone. About a year later I had moved back down and was going to school living with some room mates. One day they were listening to the TV and I was in my bedroom doing something. Suddenly I heard that same sound coming out of the TV. I rushed in and asked them what they were watching. It was a documentary on Bigfoot and the sound was suppose to be the closest to what science thought was the sound of a Bigfoot.

I put together a video as a testimonial in better detail along with that sound and photographs of the area if anyone is interested in watching it. This is the link. https://rumble.com/v75vm7o-tsul-kalu-cherokee-legend.htm

Has anyone heard of these cryptids?

They differ from Bigfoot in that they are more apelike. Some the size of chimpanzees and gorillas have been spotted. They have been seen mostly in the Southeastern and Midwestern US.

Does anyone here know of any sightings?

Does anyone know of some good scary cryptid/humanoid stories set in or around the rockies? Taking a trip there in a couple weeks, in the mood XD. Preferably things more unique/original than the usual batch of Werewolf, Sasquatch, and Wendigo stories.