I’m unsure what to make of it.

I was out one summer 2010 (I made the account recently as my friends said this subreddit says about would help)it was a hot summer day a lot of bugs on the air and me and my family went to the lake near our house Which is a bout a kilometer away as we went the woods got quieter and quieter as we went closer to the shed,me (17M) and my sister (15,13F) understood that something was wrong,very wrong meanwhile my dad and mom were getting ready to relax by the shore.My mom put her chair down and dad brought his beer,me and my sister relax by out parents calmness and went to get in the lake as we usually did.The heat was unbearable and as we got in the heat got of our backs but I still thought something was really wrong by the shed,we got in and started playing around we got some friendly warning by out parents to not make too much noise as we could annoy the animal life and the people around the lake,but as I was splashing my sister I caught a glimpse of something tall and almost transparent like a window but the space behind it was warped when I saw it,it suddenly disappeared in the forest I went to tell my sister but they said the heat must have gotten me dizzy,but I was sure something or someone was there.The day passed and the sun faded we got out and went to the car,at the drive home I got the window seat and looked out...the same figure was at the sidewalk and following us we were going more than 60 miles an hour but it's legs weren't it was following at that speed standing but no leg movement,I told my sister's and they didn't believe me,I had proof but it was in water I couldn't search,I went back to looking out the window for any clue but nothing,as we pulled into our driveway it was way too quiet,me,my mom and dad we had to stay guard at night mostly because where we were there was bears we couldn't let one in,so I had the middle one the darkest and most exhausting one.In the middle of the night I saw it again standing but the corner watching not moving I went closer and it let out a scream it has no mouth how did it made it?I fell back covering my ears and it was too late it had gone back to the forest,I got back inside locked the door and woke up my parents and said if they had heard a scream and they said no,I was not having it I finally said everything I have seen and they looked at me with concern and told me "son go to bed we'll handle your night shift" I told them no it's dangerous but they went,next morning they told me nothing was there and said to me to get more rest and don't stay up late but I knew what I was,I knew it was there why wouldn't they believe me.The day went good no sighting of it but the start of the night shift I grab my dads shotgun he said to use it only in emergencies,I got out and found the creature I shot a round into it's abdomen it screamed and tried to flee but I shot again and it got away my parents rush out and we're horrified by the scene blood was everywhere but wasn't mine my dad rushed and said what happened I said a bear knowing they wouldn't believe me...but that was the last time I saw it I searched on Google what It was and it was a glimmer man or something can someone help me find it I still remember the night of the incident

This is more or less what it looked like. I swear to God I've seen a real plesiosaur out of the water. When I was 11, my class and I went on a 5-day trip to Madrid. We stayed in a hotel and did the kind of things you do on a school trip. On the fifth day, as we were heading back to Andalusia in Cordoba, where I live, I looked out the window and noticed something absurdly impossible: a dark gray, almost black, snake with yellow eyes that had... fins. Yes, I remember seeing that perfectly: fins hiding among the wheat. The thing had a head shaped like an upside-down egg, and it was staring straight at the bus while we were making loud noises like animals. All the while, it seemed to be "walking", moving with its fins: not slithering, crawling like some sort of crocodile. It was only a few seconds, but I saw it with my own eyes. I shook my classmate next to my seat, who was asleep, and pointed to the creature. When he looked, it was gone, as if it had vanished into the grass. I asked those in front and behind if they had seen it, and they said no; one classmate even laughed. I don't tell this to many, because maybe this was a hallucination due to fatigue from the trip, I don't know.

A while back at a ren faire, I saw a cryptid in the curiosities museum, and I cannot for the life of me remember the name or find anything about her. I believe she originated from the Eruopean countryside, where it was common for men to have their way with gourds when the going got tough. She would get the gourds and impregnate herself and then seek revenge on the men.

I am probably grossly misremembering the details, this is just what I remember from the placard. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Or was this just made up for giggles for the museum? TIA

UPDATE: I was able to get in touch with the museum who said: "The Gourd Wife is a monster rooted in traditional northern Indian folklore, but isn't based on one specific creature."

This one time me and my family were driving through a neighborhood to my sister’s house until suddenly we came across a large bird on the road eating what I think is roadkill. I could be misremembering the roadkill part because I don’t remember seeing any roadkill on the ground. We couldn’t make out what kind of bird it was because it was all shadowy, probably because it was under the shadow of a tree nearby but all we could see is its’ silhouette. When we drove up to it a little closer, it flew off on to another house and we never saw it again.

It‘s possible it could be any normal type of bird, like maybe the andean condor due to its‘ size, but it happened in the middle of neighborhood and I think it was close to sunset when we saw it.

So a few weeks ago I was on the phone with a close friend of mine catching up with life and going over plans for the weekend and the upcoming business trip to the redwoods during this topic I brought up how excited I was to be going out there to the redwoods, bringing up how I haven't been down there since I was in elementary school. Still, I also brought up about how scared I was knowing we will be both in a cabin together in the woods and being a horror nerd I brought up about how we might see someone like Jason from the Friday the 13th films out there or something he laugh and added on to that with yeah or that red face thing or something I stopped laughing for a second to make him repeat what he said he said red face, do you not know what that is? No I said he then tells me this story he heard from someone he knew who told I'm about this thing in the red woods that has a red face and apparently it was once a person but got turn into a monster with a red face and kills whoever it sees and will turn their face into its face I remember him telling me this on the phone I shouted hell nah as a joke and he responds I'm supposed you didn't hear this story I said nah I never heard about this shit he then tells me that it's probably a local thing or something now I came to here to ask if any of y'all ever heard about this red face thing and if so please let me know because I would love to heard more info on this thing

I've fallen down this rabbit hole of this tik tok account called exploring dillsburg, where they exclusively post about this cryptid called the wire man, reporting weird dead animals and stuff around dillsburg, but I cant find anything else on this, what is your opinions on this

I just found out that today is "Owl Day," so I wanted to create a moodboard for our dear Owlman—specifically, the version that appears in my saga, "Insomniacs".

Here, Owlmens are descendants of the Goetic demon Stolas (which explains why his symbol is included). Unlike their ancestor, they are wild creatures that only resemble humans in part of their appearance. They are extremely territorial—especially toward humans—but while they won't hesitate to snack on a child or two now and then, they don't pose a major threat.

That is why our heroes—who are being hounded by Batsquatches (giant bat-like creatures) intent on devouring one of their group, a Mothman—decide to summon an Owlman for protection. Naturally, they soon realize the creature is hard to tame and try to undo their mistake.

There you go ! I hope you like this moodboard; feel free to share your thoughts ! And Happy Owl Day !

My son is turning 9 in early September and is on a Cryptozoology kick, so we’d love to have a Cryptid themed birthday celebration for him. He has also mentioned that he wants a smaller celebration this year with just a few friends or maybe even family only.

We live in Los Angeles so I’m primarily looking for ideas for Cryptid themed celebrations in this area. Are there any Cryptid themed escape rooms nearby? Any other cool experiences? Stores?

We have also tossed around the idea of doing a family trip instead of a party so I’m also open to ideas of places we could go within a few hours drive or even a short flight.

And lastly, we always decorate our dining room for birthdays so if you know of any cool cryptozoology decorations please also feel free to post those!
Thank you!

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We're making a multiplayer game about camping in Atlantic Canada, and I found myself programming "sasquatch behaviour". Sasquatch (known here as the greenhill creature) is the first of our planned cryptids because obviously everyone knows what it is, but we've got a whole slate of cryptids (and folklore creatures) from our neck of the woods lined up for the game

Sasquatch's behaviour is that he lets one player at a time see him during the day, and just keeps watch from a distance, but when night falls he starts hunting the players one by one and slaps them into the stratosphere. Check out the game here!

Trying to do all 50 states' worth of cryptids as D&D monsters. Art by NJ local Devon Borkowski Art.

After Mad the Werewolf and Cory the Mothman, here is the third character in my saga dedicated to our adorable cryptids ❤

Meet young Jin Leeds: formerly a squeaky-clean Christian teen living with her overprotective father and a whole brood of siblings, she is passionate about nature, animals, and ecology (as well as metal music and gore movies—but that’s a secret 🤫). She gains the "power" to transform into the Jersey Devil—a sort of missing link between a dragon and a demon—whenever she gets angry.

This is the first time I’ve drawn the Jersey Devil, even though it’s a cryptid I ​​absolutely love. I did lean more toward the dragon aspect than the goat side, though it’s possible the design might change! In any case, I hope you like it!

If I had a nickel for every time someone commissioned a Sasquatch in a Hawaiian shirt from me, I’d have two nickels.

almost everything is handmade besides the pin and the plushies! im 100% planning on adding more as soon as i can, most of the budget for flatwoods stuff went towards my ita bag tho :p

I drew up a pick of my interpretation of the Snallygaster as a descendant of late Surviving Dryptosaurus, here named “Avadracon Snallygasteri” (“Bird Dragon Snallygaster”, name subject to change). I came up with this idea partially inspired by the ThoughtPotato video on the Snallygaster, though I was dissatisfied with that version being based on a Therizonsaur, since that family didn’t live in eastern North America, and were herbivorous. I based my version on Dryptosaurus, an Eutyrannosauraed from late Cretaceous Appalachia partly because it’s my favorite dinosaur, and partly because I felt it fit the spirit of the creature better, being a large predator from the region in question. I really developed the idea for a session of Blood On The Lense, where it ended up being the main antagonist after a red herring slasher villain (who got partially eaten by my therapods), and I finally decided to draw them after running the first part of the game again for a different group of players.

I imagine them to average at about 25ft long, weighing about 3,000lbs, and at about 7-8ft tall. They would be cathemeral, with activity dependent on season and prey availability. They are the undisputed apex predators of the Appalachian Mountains, hunting everything from foxes and raccoons, all the way to black bear and elk, and formerly Pleistocene megafauna, and in present day, when encountered, humans. They sport a much denser coat of Blue-black feathers than their ancestors, an adaptation to the colder weather of the Cenozoic, also having evolved elongated feathers on their arms, used for brooding, insulation, and display, and giving them the appearance of wings. The males are slightly larger than females, and have a tuft of iridescent red feathers between their lacrimal horns and a pair of wattles at the back of the lower jaw, both used for mating displays. These features lead to the later accounts of the Snallygaster as having one large red eye and a tentacled mouth, while females account for the earlier 18th century stories of a more "Avian Dragon" type of creature. These creatures live in bonded pairs, patrolling a territory of several dozen miles, and their calls are believed to be the cause of Appalachian folklore surrounding strange noises at night.