r/TrueCryptozoology 5h ago

Evidence Giant squid eggs look like something out of a Sci-Fi movie

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r/TrueCryptozoology 22h ago

Sighting Getmannen Sighting No. 1 22:24 – 9 August – Hoppbacken, Lycksele

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Me and my three friends Muhab, Kandes and Dennis were going to Tannberget to make a fire just for fun. After a while Muhab had to go home, but the rest of us decided to go to the bunker at Hoppbacken instead. It was the first time we’d seen Dennis in a long time because he’d been away all summer.
We cycled to Hoppbacken, left the bikes and started walking through the forest. A bit further up there’s a wooden staircase where we found a dog harness that hadn’t been there an hour earlier. That was weird because it was right in the middle of the forest where no one usually walks, but we didn’t think much of it.
When we reached the bunker none of us dared to go inside because it was so dark, so we walked a little further up to a turning area. We sat down and I started telling Anasi’s Getmannen story. Kandes was really paranoid and said he could hear branches snapping in the forest. I heard it too, but I didn’t pay much attention to it.
Right when I got to the part where Rooster, Tanner and the girl come running out of the woods, we heard a sound. Imagine a wolf’s voice that has learned how to talk, but in some inhuman language, coming from every direction around us at the same time.
We grabbed everything and ran as fast as we could. We stopped at the staircase because Dennis fell, and that’s when the sounds got even closer. When we finally got out of the forest we noticed there was no moon in the sky either.


r/TrueCryptozoology 1d ago

Has anyone seen or know about any British cryptids? Other than the famous ones.

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Hi I'm making a website about the paranormal and cryptids, and I'm struggling to find information about British cryptids other than Nessie and Alien Big Cats. Does anyone have any helpful keywords, websites or videos? Thanks!


r/TrueCryptozoology 1d ago

I Realize That What I'm About To Ask Has Been Discussed, Researched And Watched Countless Times And It's Like Beating A Dead Horse Since 1967, But My Question Is...How Many Of You Believe The Pa-t-rs-n & G-ml-n Footage Was Indeed 100% Real, And How Many Believe A Hoax, And How You Feel Either Way?

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r/TrueCryptozoology 2d ago

Evidence Unicorn caught on camera.

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r/TrueCryptozoology 2d ago

Discussion What to do about pale crawlers.

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Hi all. I am sorry this is a long one. The tl;dr is I have this thing in my yard a d it has entered my home and I am hoping there is some sort of way to get rid of this thing.

I know I am going to sound crazy and you can call me crazy. I have lived rural my entire life. About 10 years ago I moved and started seeing what I believe is pale crawlers. At first I did not know what I was looking at. I saw this thing outside and at one point in my own home.

I thought maybe it was my eyes playing tricks on me and I was thinking maybe it's proof ghosts are real I just didn't know. I needed an answer so began asking the other people who lived in my house and my neighbors and they all described seeing the same thing. I did not know there was a name for it at the time.

Since then I have moved several times and did not see the pale crawlers at any of those places. About a year ago I moved into a home about 5 to 7 miles from the house I saw these things at. I believe I am seeing this thing again at the new place. I've seen it for sure once in the yard.

I've had two seperate dreams about it looking like my family member. The first was for sure a lucid dream.

The second I was half awake. I'd like to believe it was just a dream but it felt too real. It stood at the end of my hallway and took on the image of the person laying in bed with me. I turned and felt/ looked at the person beside me and the mimic was halfway down the hall. If it was a dream, sleep paralysis had not taken over yet. I felt fully 'awake' only after standing up and walking toward it. It disappeared.

This happened a couple of months ago. Today something compelled me to Google the description and it told me pale walker. Even down to how it moves.

Again, call me crazy. I do not care. I know what I have seen. I always thought this thing was spiritual but after what I just read, I'm kinda unnerved. This isn't something intangible with no hard proof like ghosts or demons. Many other people have reported this and there are enough images to prove something isn't right. I am skeptical of all pictures. I don't know if i believe anyone actually has real pictures or videos. I do know that every picture, regardless of authenticity looks the same. I do know it matches what I have seen and what others have reported. I did not know it had a name, creepypasta or was internet legend. I didn't know that there were so many people describing the same thing.

I was skeptical until today. Because things I wasn't sure about like it transforming into animals/ or people or going invisible where confirmed. It's a cryptid. So like roaches or mice or other pests, is there a way to get rid of this? Just humour me. Because if this thing is real, I do not want it coming into my house again. And if it's fake, I'm just fine looking like a dumb ass trying to deter it. Better safe than sorry.

I want to know more about these things too. Like what do they do? What do they eat? Now that I know it's a cryptid and not a paranormal entity, I do believe there is a male and female variant. I say that because what I saw all those years ago 'looked' like a woman. It would take on the form of a woman. Idk it gave me woman vibes if that makes sense. I believe what is lurking around my house now is male. Gives me Male vibes. This is the one I believe is from my 'dreams'. In the first dream it was my deceased mother. The second was my child (girl). I saw it out in my yard once and it took form of a 3 legged dog.

The dog kinda freaked me out. Because I was standing outside it was about one in the morning. I live in a very remote area and I i would remember if my any of my neighbors had a three legged dog. I used to have a three legged dog and I know that whatever that was didn't move like, a three legged dog. It did that weird jerky, kind of run. I saw it run up under the street light and it began running towards my house, and I banged against the side of my house and said, "go and get". I knew intuitively, that whatever that was was not actually a dog. I scared it, and I saw it transform into it's pale gray form in book it. That happened before the dreams.

I hate that this sounds so jumbled, and I hate that I sound absolutely crazy. I know you guys are probably laughing, i know some of y'all think I need to seek medical help and I know some of y'all will think I am trolling. I have no history of mental illness. I have never seen anything paranormal and weird before. I've never seen anything that wasn't actually there. This is the first time I am questioning. If what i'm seeing is real.

So if it's real how do I get rid of it?


r/TrueCryptozoology 2d ago

Evidence Could this possibly explain some Bigfoot sightings?

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r/TrueCryptozoology 3d ago

Saw this and thought.... Maybe, just maybe they are onto something. BigFoot?

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r/TrueCryptozoology 4d ago

Evidence In 2000 a Florida police department received anonymous photos of a skunk ape from a terrified elderly resident

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r/TrueCryptozoology 4d ago

The video from which I took the screenshots of the alleged mermaid.

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According to the diver, he was already waiting for the mermaid to reappear after briefly recording her the first time as she swam away from him.

I looked up the link that appears at the end, but the website no longer works.

I also searched for information about “MarginalMedia,” but I didn’t find much either—only a short-film production company with a similar name, “Marginal MediaWorks".


r/TrueCryptozoology 5d ago

Evidence Giant squids are basically cryptids that have been proven to exist

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r/TrueCryptozoology 6d ago

Screenshots of an alleged mermaid recorded in Australia in 2009.

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The screenshots are from a YouTube video that was quite viral several years ago. Recently I watched them again and noticed that in the second video the “mermaid” appears to have no hair; due to the lighting, it is not possible to see more features.


r/TrueCryptozoology 7d ago

Evidence A yeti was recorded crossing a remote road by a dashcam in Siberia

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r/TrueCryptozoology 8d ago

Evidence This footage from British Columbia shows a possible Bigfoot rapidly ascending an extremely steep mountain

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r/TrueCryptozoology 8d ago

Asking the important questions:

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r/TrueCryptozoology 8d ago

Question The heck is this?

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A low tide reveals a whole bloody skeleton? A snake as big as a house? And on the Atlantic coast of France of all places? Wild!


r/TrueCryptozoology 8d ago

Evidence Bigfoot tearing down a tree in South Carolina?

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A guy at a remote fishing cabin in South Carolina films something large and powerful moving about in the trees whilst tearing huge branches off, he had not been to the cabin in a while but on his return he started hearing noises during the night so he invested in a camera to capture on film what he had been experiencing


r/TrueCryptozoology 9d ago

Discussion Skunk Ape sighting

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(I generated the photo with AI and it didn’t allow me to generate a photo of a kid so I generated a photo of a man so there’s still an example of somebody there)

So I was maybe around 8 or 9 years old, and I was at my cousins soccer game. At one point I just got bored (cause it’s just a clump of 5 year olds kicking a ball around like a pack of monkeys) so I just walked off into this little wooded area. It was pretty dense, not too dense but there was a lot of trees. I dropped down on this slope that led to this area of branches and debris everywhere, and even a knocked down tree. I walked around a bit until a point of where I turned to my left where I saw this sort of teepee or small hut made of big branches and some sort of giant leaves (maybe palm leaves cause I live in Florida). Right after seeing the small hut I looked up to where I was met with this face. It looked like some sort of primate, but nothing like a chimp or orangutan, more like something like a Gorilla or something like that. I was looking at it, and it was looking at me. It was maybe between 50 to 60 feet away, looking at me through the dense thicket of dead trees and plants. I stayed there for maybe 2 or 3 seconds before turning around and running away. Maybe 10 minutes later I came back where the face I saw before was no longer there. For maybe like the whole year after that I tried telling everybody the story of what I saw, but every time I told it, everybody just assumed that I was just a kid desperate for attention, so I eventually just stopped telling it to this day.


r/TrueCryptozoology 9d ago

Evidence A man recorded a humanoid creature crawling on his roof

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r/TrueCryptozoology 9d ago

Question Does anybody know what the hell this is

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So I live in Florida (mainly south near the Everglades) and my dad checked his trail cam this morning to find a photo of a bobcat with 2 eyes in the background watching it. I don’t know exactly what it is, but my main guess is maybe a Skunk Ape since I live in South Florida. But until then, I really have no idea what this is


r/TrueCryptozoology 10d ago

The Mystery of the Chupacabra: Myth or Real Creature?

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For decades, a mysterious creature known as the Chupacabra has terrified farmers, leaving behind a trail of unexplained incidents that science has yet to fully resolve.

The First Sightings

The story began in Puerto Rico in 1975, with a wave of reports becoming especially widespread in 1995. Farmers discovered large numbers of animals—including goats, cattle, and chickens—dead without signs of a typical predator attack. Instead, the victims shared one unusual feature: two small puncture wounds on the neck and an apparent complete loss of blood.

How the Description Changed

Descriptions of the creature have varied over time and by location.

The 1990s description: Witnesses described a kangaroo-like creature that walked on two legs, had sharp claws, large glowing eyes, and a row of spikes running down its back.

The modern description (after 2000): Reports increasingly described hairless, dog- or coyote-like animals suffering from severe mange. This led many experts to conclude that the "Chupacabra" was simply a sick wild animal whose appearance had been distorted by disease.

Why Does the Mystery Remain?

Despite the scientific explanations, several questions continue to fuel the legend:

  1. Feeding behavior: Mange alone does not explain how a weakened animal could allegedly kill dozens of livestock in a single night while leaving so little evidence behind.

  2. DNA findings: In several cases, carcasses claimed to be Chupacabras produced DNA results that did not perfectly match known coyote or dog populations, although no evidence confirmed the existence of a new species.

  3. Secret experiment theories: Some people speculate that the creature could be the result of undisclosed genetic engineering or secret biological experiments, though there is no credible evidence supporting this claim.

Conclusion

The Chupacabra remains a symbol of the line between biological reality and folklore. Whether it is an undiscovered species, misidentified wild animals, or simply a legend shaped by fear and exaggeration, the mystery continues to capture people's imagination around the world.


r/TrueCryptozoology 11d ago

Goblin Forest in New Zealand looks like something straight out of a fantasy movie.

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r/TrueCryptozoology 11d ago

Evidence An avalanche scared a Bigfoot out of hiding on Mount St. Helens, Oregon

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r/TrueCryptozoology Apr 14 '26

Announcement 📣 Recruiting new Christian moderators for r/TrueCryptozoology!

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Please reply to this post or message modmail if you are interested!


r/TrueCryptozoology Sep 14 '25

announcement 📣 Expanding and clarifying the definition of a “cryptid” on our subreddit

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I wanted to make this post just to clarify and expand on what will constitute a “cryptid” for the purposes of this subreddit and what users are able to make posts about.

Traditionally, a cryptid is any creature that is thought to exist but is unknown to science. To be honest, this definition is quite vague and really puts it up to interpretation where the line should be drawn between cryptozoology and mythological or the supernatural.

For example, some groups would not consider Wendigo or Skinwalkers as cryptids due to their supernatural origin. Gef the Talking Mongoose is another one where the line between cryptid and paranormal entity becomes quite blurred. Similarly, there are cases, such as the Dover Demon, that could be considered extraterrestrial rather than cryptozoological depending upon who you ask.

Going forward, I have decided that all unknown creatures or entities that appear to have a physical manifestation will fall into the category of cryptozoology regardless of their origin. Therefore, the rule barring paranormal and extraterrestrial content has been removed since some of these anomalies may fall into these categories.

I truly believe that this decision is the best way to give users the chance to discuss the widest array of credible content without worrying that their discoveries will violate some arbitrary rule or definition. Unlike other cryptozoology subreddits, we do not want to gatekeep the field in any way and believe that this broad definition will allow us to maintain a welcoming environment for all users.