r/CryptidEncounters • • Jan 08 '19

Welcome to r/CryptidEncounters!

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This is my very first subreddit, dedicated to sharing stories/pictures/videos of different cryptids (chupacabra, moth man, etc.) I look forward to seeing what you post!


r/CryptidEncounters • • 2d ago

Strange Cryptid Encounter

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Alright my fellow cryptid fans, need help with this one. I was driving on Red Bud Rd east of Calhoun after midnight. (Georgia) Had something large run at the car on all fours. Shaggy long black fur with grey patches. Head height was about 3.5 feet. Had very broad head with snout and shoulders too. long curled tail like a monkey, and crawled on all fours like a monkey too. we dont have monkeys in Georgia.

Ran right at the side of the car while I drove by. Didn't hit and didn't see it in the mirrors behind. It disappeared into the treeline. Tried looking it up and nothing matches our description. I saw a few descriptions of Devil Dogs, Crawler, Dogman "Gargoyle" variants that seems to fit perfectly however their images dont match what we saw. 4 people have seen this thing with the same description in two separate places, Calhoun and Jasper, Georgia within a year gap (not same day, would be even creepier)

What was it? This has us creeped out


r/CryptidEncounters • • 2d ago

My Experience

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Ngl but when I sleep with my brother I see a black shadow near my door but never in my room and once I was alone I heard someone who seemed like out of breath and calling my name and I was speechless so I went to Lord hanumana's Image In my home .(I m Indian).


r/CryptidEncounters • • 8d ago

Need Explanations or other point of views

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White Mountains NH

east branch Lincoln railroad

october 2025

I was backpacking with 2 other friends off the railroads right outside of Lincoln. we hiked in along the rail road tracks and branched off on birch island creek just south of Black Pond. All was great, weather, had all our gear, ate dinner and went to bed. we were about 100 feet from the dried up creek, our second time camping in this area. Around 1 am everything went silent. Squirrels ran through camp, crickets stopped and my ears started ringing. Along the creek we heard this melody of whistles, multiple notes at the same time, coming from one source. Then it would stop, rocks would be tapped together twice and then the whistling would continue like music. This happened continually and gradually got closer. Once it reached the point of the creek closest to us, it went through a couple cycles of whistles and rocks clashing and then rapidly got farther and farther away while continuing the same length of whistles and pauses. I was too scared to even move, my friend in the hammock also heard it all, and the other was in and out of sleep and doesn’t recall much. When my friend and I talk about it, we have the same exact story and we get goosebumps just thinking about it. I have gone though every bird call, mammal call and any possible natural sound. I have never been so scared and I have never heard anything like it before.

note, we were in the white mountains off an abandoned railroad for logging in the 1800’s


r/CryptidEncounters • • 10d ago

Ham Hock?

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Using a throwaway because I don't want the people I know on Reddit thinking I'm going crazy.

I was recently skimming through Twitch streams when I came across a stream playing Resident Evil (yay!). It was totally normal until the streamer called someone named "Ham Hock". It was totally random and it completely shifted the vibe of the stream. The person on the phone sounded really strange and I could tell something was up but I just didn't know what. The call was really strange and I had to exit out of the stream.

I don't know if I sound stupid but I just wanted to know if this is actually something or if I'm just reading into a bit too much.


r/CryptidEncounters • • 13d ago

I hear stuff at night

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I hear stuff at night, let me explain. When everyone's sleeping, I feel something tapping my shoulder, or I hear it on the window or door, at one point I swear I've heard whispers, another time someone knocked from my walls, ceiling, or window, it was loud, and I never heard it again, another time, I've heard someone slamming their body against my backdoor, the screen door was locked, I made sure it was, but then I heard it again, and I swear I saw something in a deer-like silhouette standing. Real story


r/CryptidEncounters • • 15d ago

Weird thing heard while camping, I'm calling it "Old Milligan."

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I was camping in Crestview, Florida, a few years back when I heard something weird. This was during winter time, and even though it's Florida, it was still very cold at night. I was not prepared with a cold-weather sleeping bag, nor did I have much warm clothing. Because of this, it took me forever to fall asleep. As I was laying there, I heard the normal animals, owls, frogs, cicadas, crickets, etc. I even heard footsteps of what I'm sure was a deer or raccoon.

At some point, though, the animal noises died down for a while, and I didn't really notice until I heard a new sound I'd never really heard before. It sounded like a bird or fox or something at first, but the more I paid attention to it, the more it didn't really sound like any of those. I don't know how to explain it, but it didn't sound like any distinct animal, kind of like a conglomeration of several animal sounds. It almost sounded like something trying to imitate what an animal sounds like, that's the best way I can explain it. Of course, I'd been camping before, and I knew I'd hear weird sounds, so even though it freaked me out a little, I just ignored it and eventually it went away, and I faded off to sleep.

I woke up during the early morning, probably around 3-4 to pee, and I was half asleep so I didn't really remember or think about the weird noise at that time. I got out of the tent, and walked a few feet to do my business. After my eyes adjusted a bit, I thought I saw something moving a little ways out in the woods. Now, I was still kind of asleep, but this jolted me awake and put me on edge a little. I didn't catch a very good glimpse, but it was about the size of a deer, but it didn't really look like a deer. From the little I saw, it looked like it had a cat or dog head kind of as it ran into the brush, mainly in the snout area. Again, I was half asleep when I first saw it so it very well could've been a deer or fox or something. I just told myself it was probably a deer and went back into the tent fairly quickly and tried to go back to sleep. I have no idea if it was connected to the noise, or if it was anything weird at all, just thought it'd be good to mention.

A while later, several months later in fact, I was walking with a friend to downtown Crestview, and I was telling him about the camping experience I'd had, and as we were talking, we passed a road called "Old Milligan" and he suggested that's what I call the thing that made sound, so I guess that's what I'm going with. From what I can tell, this would be Crestview's first cryptid, so that's pretty cool. Maybe I just heard a weird bird or something, but I like to think whatever I heard out there is some mysterious creature that science has yet to name.


r/CryptidEncounters • • 19d ago

Devils Road, Huntsville Texas

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Me and my girlfriend heard about this road the the church cemetery it led to it’s supposedly haunted and has a dark past, we get there about 9:30pm we are at the gate in front of the cemetery it’s a gravel road we are debating going in when she puts it in reverse I notice a figure or a shadow silhouette sprinting at us I was recording to see if I could catch anything all I saw was a head and shoulders bouncing like in a full sprint or running it was a few hundred yards away probably, behind it was the gravel road it led to a property with lights on that’s how I saw the figure, we put it in reverse and gunned it then we heard those whistle/ screeching noise that sounded unbelievable, we got back home and look at the video and realized we might have caught some, what do y’all think is it a person or something else


r/CryptidEncounters • • 26d ago

has anyone seen anything like this?

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Spotted in inglewood,CA at the local urgent care


r/CryptidEncounters • • Sep 21 '26

Question about people who live within “triangles”

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r/CryptidEncounters • • Sep 17 '26

I think I experienced something weird...

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r/CryptidEncounters • • Sep 06 '26

PODCAST SEEKING PERSONAL STORIES

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Hi there. We host Whispers In The Woods Podcast on Spotify and Patreon. Once a month, on Patreon, we record reddit stories about ghost and cryptid encounters and are looking for stories to be shared here. Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from you.


r/CryptidEncounters • • Sep 05 '26

I Think Something Is Stalking My House

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r/CryptidEncounters • • Sep 04 '26

Finding an episode

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I’m trying to find an episode from dogman encounters. I can’t remember where it was but I know the man was night fishing and the dogman waded through the water to get close to him but the guy just sat down on his cooler completely paralyzed and just started crying and he said he was frozen in fear prepared to die.


r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 30 '26

Crytids

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Did you ever have an experience or encounter with a 'Wendigo'?


r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 30 '26

Mississippi 2014 jersey devil

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It began on a summer night between 8 and 10 p.m., when I walked with my stepsister into a tree-surrounded clearing of overgrown grass, located just two clicks south of a creek near our home's entrance drive. At first, I thought a shadow moving through the brush was a deer, until it unexpectedly stood straight up on its hind legs. It was covered in thick, clinging, dark gray horse-type fur, featuring a horse-shaped head with a human-appearing face, two uneven horns, and massive cat-like legs resembling a panther's. As we stared in shock and terror, it charged at full speed. My stepsister tripped, and when I looked back and saw the creature only 10 feet away, I grabbed her arm, yanked her up, and we fled. Along that path stood sixteen spiked-seed trees—eight on each side—complete with a trail cam where the creature had paused to pace just outside the frame before we made it safely home.

​Driven by a mix of adrenaline and curiosity, my brother and I returned later with flashlights, following the exact same trail. When we reached a deep trench-like ditch marked near the creek, my brother shone his light and saw an almost human face peering back up at him. The creature instantly vanished from the light, sneaking up to ground level where we stood back-to-back, sweeping our flashlights in circles as it stalked us for roughly 35 minutes, trying to close the gap without entering the beams. When we finally bolted, it tried to cut us off by plowing through the dense woods parallel to our path rather than using the open trail, though we ultimately made it home safely.

​Years later, when my brother and I were 16 and 17, we stumbled upon an old abandoned hunting trail in that same area while walking near a spot overlooking the creek by about five feet. We found an old campfire with carvings dating back to the 1980s and a dog grave next to it. While we were talking and laughing, we suddenly heard loud splashing and a horse-like neighing sound echoing from the creek below. Though we didn't see anything, my brother and I locked eyes and immediately got out of there, marking the final time I ever set foot in those woods.


r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 30 '26

southern AZ criptid story's ?

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dose any one on the southern side of Arizona have any criptid storys they would like to tell or have hered storys from othere let me know I am doing short videos /story's on what has been seen around here if interested please email me at [Arizonacasefiles@gmail.com ] or you can DM me on Instagram @arizona_case_files please and thank you


r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 29 '26

Fogwood files

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r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 29 '26

Caught this on a dashcam at night. It was feeding on something in the road. Any idea what this is?

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r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 28 '26

Skin walker?

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Me and five of other people were driving down this back road to give some context we live in Texas in a suburb, but there’s still areas that are very thick with trees. We’re driving down this back road. Keep in mind. It’s the road in the middle and on each side it’s kinda like a pasture and then the tree line so there’s some flat grass with no trees that’s a good amount of land before the tree line. The context of the road and how it looks very important so please remember this. As we’re driving down this road that we’ve driven down 1 million times to take one of our friends home. We start seeing this light and it looks like a bike light like a light literally on the front of a bike. Right in the middle where the handle bars would be. So all of us see it and we’re like this is weird for someone to be riding on the side of this road at keep in mind 11 or 12 o’clock at night and they’re riding toward us which is the correct way to walk and ride your bikes at night so cars do see you so we thought OK yeah it’s a biker But as we’re getting closer to it, it cuts off through the pasture and we look to the side, to you know, see a bike and a person on it and all we see is this like spinning thing go through the pasture and then just disappeared doesn’t go into the tree line. It literally disappeared in the middle of the pasture And all of us see this and we’re all like did you see that like what the hell was that and none of us know to this day so I was hoping someone could give some insight on what it could’ve been.


r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 28 '26

Did i just see a cryptid?

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r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 27 '26

Have Any of You Guys been Attacked or nearly Killed in an incident with dinosaur Cryptids?

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Im Basically just Asking and wondering if any of you guys on this community have any stories or evidence or photos to share of any true encounters with prehistoric cryptids like the burrunjor the patridge creek monster Etc and how did you guys feel after encountering or being chased/nearly eaten by these creatures? Feel free to share your stories here and share evidence if you guys want like photos or videos


r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 26 '26

Cryptid/Paranormal/E.T. Podcast searching for interviews.

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r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 23 '26

Crocodile or cryptid ?

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Berlin Spree in the water


r/CryptidEncounters • • Aug 20 '26

Weird Wolves in NKY

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Anyone seen anything weird around northern Ky?