Cryptids

>>17335731
In cryptozoology and sometimes in cryptobotany, both pseudoscience, a cryptid (from the Greek kρύπτω, krypto, meaning "hide") is an animal or plant whose existence has been suggested but has not been discovered or documented by the scientific community.
>>has not been discovered or documented

>>17335727
Now has anyone ever actually claimed to have encountered an Adlet or are they just a mythological story?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlet

>>17335731
You take your RPing seriously dont you anon?

>>17335727
Explain the oklahoma octopus

>>17335731
Ok is this
>reeee get out not paranormal
Some joke meme or some shit?

>>17335727
Not sure why do people consider their local cryptid hominid deserves a unique designation. I always thought bigfoot is a worldwide phenomena and local iterations are likely to be related.

>>17335929
that's those mandela thread assholes trying to get back at everyone.

>>17335727
WA fag here... The fuck is a Batsquatch? You just made that shit up nigga, get outta here with your bullshit

bump for wendigo/skinwalker stories. Preferably greentext

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>>17335931
Man, what about their local lake dinosaur? Boy there are a lot of those!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dwL8ESU97s

in Wisconsin we have a horrible little critter called Hodag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodag

can someone tell me any stories of lake worth monster?

>>17335727
That image completely ignores the saskquatch in Saskatchewan and alberta.

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>>17336332
>/x/ has been visited by witches, psychics and even demons, those threads are worth it, they actually answer important questions that help us understand reality better.

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>>17335782
>All of these lakes all with a monster of the same basic description

What could be the explanation for it? Could there be a simple phenomenon that makes people look at a lake see a plesiosaur? Could a creature like it actually exist, dating from a time where the lakes were formed?

>>17335954
that picture looks real to you?

Frogman made me kek

>>17336994
Anything is real if you believe hard enough.

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>>17337027

>>17336951
...or, y'know, they all look the same because it's all the same phenomena, which is often seen in lakes, like wakes and freak waves.

>>17337081
>Could there be a simple phenomenon that makes people look at a lake see a plesiosaur?
he said that was possible already

>>17337084
boring thread
maybe for the next thread

dats a big ass spider:
http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aBY2RDN_460sv.mp4

>>17336332
>believes witches, psychics and demons have visited /x/
>doesn't believe that there are large, rare species of organism that have not been discovered yet
Please tell me you are trolling. Please. I don't want to think someone this stupid posts on this board.

>>17337334
What is that? Is that a cryptid too.

>>17335938
Same i live right in that county u have the batsquatch at and i aint never seen any muhfuckin batsquatches of any kind

I actually live about an hour from Point Pleasant, WV (used to work there), where all the Mothman stories come from. I always assumed it was either A) people getting drunk and misinterpreting bats and shit that flew too close, or B) people getting drunk and misinterpreting aliens. Or maybe it's demons. I just don't believe in something the size of a full grown man traveling on moth-style wings. Either way, shit's spooky.

>>17335931
9 times out of 10, it's just the local word that got made up before they knew about other sightings. Native Americans didn't know what the fuck a Yeti is, so they just made up their own word: Sasquatch. It's not that they think they're special, they just didn't know there was already a word.

>>17335727

Saved this from thread made by another poster. All efforts are down to them, but they didn't mention who they were.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/298703208/Creature-Features

>>17335727
>swamp ape
Its Skunk Ape motherfucker
And not because he looks like a skunk so don't try your frogman shit down here. Its because his fur is matted and smells like death

>>17335727
>>17335727
BATSQUATCH!?!?!?

HOW IS THIS NOT EVERY CRYPTID!?

>>17337509
Batsquatch actually sounds really metal.

>>17337486
It's been called both.

Wendigo is way too far into Quebec, should be more west.

Anyways I wouldn' really call it a cryptid as much as a demon is a cryptid. But the murder/cannibalism of a guy on a grayhound bus a few years back might of been a possesion.

mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/02/the-terror-of-the-wendigo/

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>>17337042

>>17337582
I find that offensive, sir. It marginalizes the Margarine Movement.

>>17337534
Yes. In this thread. One guy called it skunk ape and a retard called it swamp ape

>>17337751

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_ape

>The skunk ape, also known as the swamp cabbage man, swamp ape, stink ape, Florida Bigfoot, myakka ape, swampsquatch, and myakka skunk ape, is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit the U.S. states of Florida,[1] North Carolina, and Arkansas, although reports from Florida are more common.

There, now unpick your nits.

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>>17337338
it's a tailless whip scorpion

dont know if posted already, but in Mexico we also have nahuales

>>17335727
can someone make a European map of this

>>17337334
What the fuck, what kind of spider is that?

>>17337804
I might be interested in doing this.
Suggestions are welcome.

>>17337804
List cryptids

>>17338065
>>17338068
http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Category:European_cryptids

>>17338111
Damn that's quite a few. Whoever is making the map, I can't wait to see it.

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>>17337556
The Wendigo legend comes from the tribes that are covered on this map.

>>17335855
Well you see its an octopus that is in Oklahoma.

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I saw a fucking samsquanch one time.

okiefag here. oklahoma octopus is supposed to be a giant octopus living in several of the lakes around here. problem is most of the lakes in oklahoma are man made and less than 75 years old. most assume the legend is based on an actual species of tiny little fresh water jellyfish that were put here, and okies are generally idiots. far more likely to come across a skinwalker or bigfoot or something around here. but as i live near a lake, ill keep my eyes peeled for tentacles.

>>17339785
First time you looked in the mirror?

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>>17339889
>as i live near a lake, ill keep my eyes peeled for tentacles

This is good advice, no matter what state you live in.

>>17335855
This is my first time hearing of it as well and I've been going to lake Tenkiller my whole life.

What does /x/ think of the Loveland Frog?

>>17335727
No Michigan Dogman this map sucks ass.

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Post other maps?

>>17341808
is there a european one

>>17337509
Its real, they live in Australia. They call them flying fox

Are there any notable cryptids in central NY?

>>17335727
>9-10 y/o
>live in kentucky
>dad moves us to farm
>Second day there I'm playing in the back yard
>look up
>see a big and long bird like creature
>Has a fairly big wing span and a long tail that's an arrow shape

I was so obsessed with Pokemon i thought it was a real life aerodactyle and tried to take a pic, but my disposable camera had ran out of film. What the fuck did I see though?

>>17337804
Europe is too densely populated to have cryptid... Maybe on the east in European Russia...

>>17342505
>thinking europe has no cryptid
>2016
>laughingskellies.webm

>>17342510
Would you suggest me some Alpes cryptid?

>>17335949
>be me
>camping out at a park with a few friends
>buddy starts talking about wendingos
>smother him in his sleep
>saved us all the embarrassment
>the end

>>17337358
Owls and delusional attention seekers

>>17335929
Kinda off topic (/x/ - Paranormal), but I think those things are more /x/-ey than real animals.
Bigfoot/sasquatch might be both, a real primate and a supernatural monster being united into one category. Is there a difference betweem these two words?

>>17336951
Some perception bias that leads the brain to see something like a plesiosaur in certain lake features.
Are there older reports of these "plesiosaurs", say, before 1800, when the first more or less complete fossils were found?

>>17337358
That doesn't explain everything else that happened around the time, like the men in black figures that would go around and ask people questions. And if you want to say they were just seeking attention why wouldn't they just make up another story about the Mothman

>>17343316
There have been reports of Nessie going back centuries and American indians have legends of lake creatures from before Europeans arrived there

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Might be a little off topic for the thread, but anyone ever gone on a camping trip with friend for the explicit purpose of looking for or interacting with cryptids? I've been wanting to do something like this for a while, but I recently moved and the only person who would come with me is my cousin and my dad.
So has anyone seen anything weird while camping? Had any experiences with cryptids? Anyone gone anywhere looking for cryptids? Any results?

>>17344222
There have been /x/ meetup threads, which I always thought was a crazy idea because I wouldn't trust any of you crazies as far as I can throw you, but then I feel that about most people in general. I'm sure there are a few legit stories from /x/philes who have met up and done shit, I just don't have any examples right now.

>>17344222
Some guy sells cryptid killing ammo on /k/. I have seen him post on /x/ before.

If he is selling it, people are buying it so if people are buying it, people are going innawoods for the purpose of encountering them.

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>>17344243
Time to post this again. Fake af, obv, but still entertaining.

>>17344242
Yeah, I'm a little too suspicious for something like this unless the meetup was like 10+ people. If it was I think it could be fun, something like /k/'s nuggetfest.
>>17344243
I suppose so, but I doubt any of them are here right now. Still would be interesting to hear what they experienced. If they got to use their ammo and such.

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>>17344249
>>YOU'RE FUCKIN DEAD KIDDO serenades the trees

>>17344273
That was my favorite part too. The writing style is really what makes a story "so stupid it's funny" as opposed to just plain stupid.

>>17335727
Doesn't have the Moon-eyed People of the Blue Ridge Mountains (Appalachian, that's latch-en, not lay-shun).

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>>17342505
>>17344306
http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Category:European_cryptids

there a lot desu

>>17344344
Plesiosaurs were actually only as long as a human lying down. They are in fact pretty small.

>>17344349
He's just an American shitposting. Ignore the faggot.

>>17344393
I didn't make the chart, I'm just posting what I've got. If you can correct it, please do.

>>17342120
Aerodactyle, apparently

>>17344402
oooooh look at the eurofag all butthurt over his faggy cryptids. this is our fucking board. get the fuck out of here.

>>17344487
hey you know the word vampire
comes from serbia

Any Cryptids in Africa?

>inb4 piss off nigger

>>17344528
theres like some sort of a tiger/bear thing idk

>>17344528
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptids

>>17344544
thanks and nice repeating digits

>>17342120
Rok, thunderbird, etc.

>>17342530
We had Yeti sightings there.

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Guys, quit swallowing the obvious bait from desperate, attention whoring shitposters. Ignore them.

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I completely forgot about this fucker

>>17337358
Apparently he would appear before a devastation that would happen where he would appear

>>17337804
Bump

>>17335855
I'm from Oklahoma, there's one problem with this

>all the lakes are man made

>>17345100
That doesn't mean one couldn't get in there, like, say, someone dumping an exotic pet they no longer want.

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>>17344249

my sides

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>>17339893

>>17335727
>mfw the "skinwalker" icon is from that fucking Xtro movie.

>>17345296
Probably because so many people use it as the op image for their skingoat threads.

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>>17339893

>>17336951
>Could there be a simple phenomenon that makes people look at a lake see a plesiosaur?
the tourism industry in Loch Ness

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Frequent innawoods of central Utah. Seen weird structures from fallen trees and lots of cryptic messages in the abandoned mine shafts but nothing 2spoopy4me. Pic related, found innawoods at an abandoned campsite. Probably cursed but fuck it.

Been to Flathead Lake but never seen the monster.

>>17344393
they could be from 5 feet to 50

>>17335727
Interested in the Oklahoma Octopus.

>>17346214
Honestly thought that pic was some moldy ass steak

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>>17337556
Finally another nigga like myself who listens to MU.

>>17341808
>melon heads

aren't those retards?

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>>17342120
>>17344559
>Rok

You should have let it taken you to its nest.

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>>17344528
One of my favorites, Mokele Mbembe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe

>>17337806
i think that's a false scorpion or something

>>17346589
Urban legend about ugly dumb kids taken in by a dr. Crow

Kills him and run into the forest to live out their days

They fuck and have inbred babies

Cycle of inbred fucking continues

We get melon heads

So yes

>>17344344
>Coelacanth
>cryptid
No

>>17347176
That's a good story did you read it in a book or did someone tell it to you?

Anyonw remember the alien cave base task force?

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enjoy

>>17346214
>Pic related, found innawoods at an abandoned campsite. Probably cursed but fuck it.
That's a topaz. How big is the gem?

>>17344487
Fuck off back to /b/.

>>17344528
I know that there is supposedly a dinosaur called something like mkembe that lives behind a waterfall. I know that there is a giant tarantula too.

>>17346214
Whereabouts are you in UT? I live in Urah and I've roamed around a bit. Been near a few abandoned mines and stuff but nothing really creepy. I'm in the Orem/Provo area btw.

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>>17337757
>mfw when I'm from Sarasota and have camped in myakka smelling sulfur and just dismissed it as my own farts.

I have an Aus story for any interested?
>be teen, about 16 with uncle and cousins camping along the river out in the bush
>fishing and talking while i try not to stare at qt.314 blonde DD cousin (not really my cousin, uncles second wife's daughter)
>boners.jpg
> read copious amount of filthy green text so i decide to make a move
>d-do you want to go for a walk with me
>to much of a pussy to ask outright so say we should walk the dog
cont?

>>17348468
too scary for me

>>17348504
I'm sorry anon, didn't mean to give you incest flashbacks
>walking for about 15 minutes when we see a large tree stump that looks to be carved abou
>ohshitniggawhatisthat.gif
>upon investigation its surrounded by small bones
>"anon im scared we should head back"
>trying to impress her i tease her and act tough
>dog starts shitting itself barking and growling at something back at the river
>hear a high pitch scream of something between the reee frogs and a cat hissing

>>17348550
about 15 meters from the bank*

>>17348550
>at the same time dogs barking and then suddenly yelping
>turn around and run just in time to see
>this small fat green thing has my dog
>looks like a cross between a dwarf a frog and a lizard
>thing fucking smiles at me while it has my dog in a sleeper hold
>im shitting myself at this stage, dogs a large blue healer, should not have been overpowered
>"SNAP"
>thing grimaces even harder as it lets the dog slide out of its hands
>slowly wades backwards into the water while maintaining eye contact
>leg it back to uncle half crying half in shock
>uncle doesn't believe us and mumbles some shit about crocodiles
in hindsight i blame myself for everything, if i wasn't a disgusting pervert my dog would still be alive

>>17348559
Should have punched the lizard and sold its body to researchers

>>17347193
It's just on the internet


Doubt melon heads are real

>>17347181
It was a cryptid until it was officially documented faggot. It held the status and thats all that matters. They could discover bigfoot tommorow and your ass would be on here going
>bigfoot
>cryptid
No.

Texfag here, never heard of the Lake Worth monster. Anyone have info on it, or a link to info?

>>17348852
Also, anyone know where I'd look in Texas for some kind of cryptid or "monster", anything generally spooky? I know there's a lot of, and I use this term as loosely as possible because all descriptions are different, "goatmen" in Texas. There's lots of sightings east, and further south. I know there's some kind of goatman ghost or apparition somewhere near Denton on an old bridge

>>17343355
You mean the ones who didn't blink and sounded like robots?

>>17348661
Every new species is a cryptid until you perform the proper rigor, then it's no longer a cryptid.

However "cryptid" is a pretty loaded term, and often gets attached to things with no real chance if existing. Things like plesiosaurs or 800 lb ape-men who seemingly leave no ecological footprint and don't exist outside of some blurry photographs.

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>>17344344
>>17347181
>>17348661
They should have used a better example, like a Gorilla or an Okapi.

To me a Coelacanth is more living fossil than cryptid since it was known to exist through the fossils records. Unlike a Gorilla or Okapi.

>>17337358
there is some weird stuff here even bigfeet sightings

Yeah, Wisconsin gets to have a cryptid!

...oh, it's just a werewolf...

>>17349360
werewolves are pretty cool anon.

Anyone got European Cryptids except Nessy?
I'm from France, the beast of Gevaudan is a bit known but the old guys in the south, but that's all.

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>>17342869
i snorted.

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>>17348941
>plesiosaurs

you mean nessie and peise, and similar things?

it's a classic example of the water dragon, nothing cryptozoologist about it if you want to believe at that as a real animal

previously I thought it might be a classical example of sea serpent known to nords, but nah, when I studied that thing it's deeply rooted in paranormal. they know when you're doing photo of them and then hiding, if you bought camera it appears broken, if you do a photo somehow it appears as a gleam of right on photographic film

there are sightings of many kind of such dragons, starting since at least mediaeval times

about the apemen it's not very cryptid either, you're right. it was known as wild man or wooldwose and even appeared in Tolkien under that name, before we got the term Bigfoot

likewise chivalric knights were jousting with it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Fight_in_the_Forest_%28Hans_Burgkmair_d._%C3%84.%29.jpg

both are faerie rather than real creatures

>>17346600
yeah sure, birds bigger than airplanes

i'd first believe in a fuckin hamster sized elephant

>artist depiction of a hamster sized elephant

>>17337804
depends on what you call a cryptid or monster

I can give you some exaples of purely european things
Tarrasque of France, Sea Bishop of Poland

I think the legends of dragons and gargolyes itself started in France too

There was a load of weird shit believe in, like Cynocephali

>>17348550
>hear something between the reee frogs

you wanna explain yourself?
cus im not a memeworthy faggot like yourself

na bruh thanks for sharing ur story.

you cocksucker.

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>>17349445
More about

With "Nessie" are also seen sightings of Kelpie or even Aquatic Apemen

Apemen is even linked to... UFO. There is even winged version of it called Batsquatch on OP's pic

Man realising most "cryptids" are just modern iterations of ancient bestiaries is biggest redpill ever. Same for "UFOlogy", there is no ET life.

>>17342068
The honest Jew

>>17337556
The guy who decapitated the other guy on the Grayhound bus had a history of schizophrenia and he said god told him to do it. That nigga was just loco.

>>17344344
There is so much wrong with that picture it's ridiculous

>>17346569
It's the steak from Poltergeist.

>>17347838
Biggest rock in the room

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>>17347903
In the valley, all around.

>>17342120
It was a pterodactyl or something. They still exist. Look up young dinosaur theory. There is a lot of individual made documentaries on it with lots of proof.

>>17349445
>they know when you're doing photo of them and then hiding, if you bought camera it appears broken, if you do a photo somehow it appears as a gleam of right on photographic film

gosh, how convenient

don't you love when conspiracies are utterly unfalsifiable?

>>17350478
Anywhere with in 30 minutes of the Orem/Provo area that you've experienced some sp00ky shit at. I'd like to go out and find something interesting around here.

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>>17344344
Isn't the Kraken literally just the giant squid, though?

I can completely believe that huge-ass giant squid have existed, back when the world was a little younger and more wild. I'll bet anything that Vikings and the Chinese and old sailing ships saw 50+ foot squid. I bet they were real. They might still be.

>>17351282
Yes, pretty sure Kraken legends are just based off giant squid. And like you said, it might be possible larger ones existed, but who knows how much was true and how much was just fishermens' tall tales.

>>17335727
Just wanted to point out that the swamp ape (aka skunk ape) is commonly spotted in Georgia and Alabama as well. In recent years, it's been seen as far north as East TN, where a friend and I saw it back in fall. After relating the sighting to my grandmother, she said her sister, who lives only a few miles away, had seen something similar walk through her yard the previous spring as well (she had woods on 2 sides of her property, it cut across her yard from one patch to the other).

>>17351680
>she had woods on 2 sides of her property

I want woods on two sides of my property

>>17347801
>Wampus Cat, East TN
Same anon from >>17351680
Never heard it referred to as a wampus cat, everyone just calls it as they see it; a black panther. Can confirm, especially in the area of Maynardville, just north of Knoxville. Those things are sighted almost on a daily basis. I never got why they are considered cryptids, everyone around here assumes that someone had a couple of them as pets at one point and they either escaped or were set loose. No one claims it's any type of unidentified species, but I guess it's considered a cryptid since it's not native to the area. If that's the case, though, why aren't boas in Florida not considered a cryptid?

>>17350913
Too far for me but I've found some neat places around Utah Lake and out way of Five Mile Pass, there's Mercer cemetery up on a hill. Creepy campfire remains and weird things on the graves. No headstones, just open or poorly fenced plots.

>>17351729
Probably because there's no proof of the black panthers, but people have caught boas?

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whats this from my captcha?

>>17350784
The only theorys i can find are from christ fags

>>17352784
Yea cuz its so easy to go catch a wild cat.
In some southern states there are laws protecting these panthers. So if anyone did ever catch or kill one thier life would be fucked as they know it.
Trust me, there is a small population of large black wild cats in a handful of the southern states.

>>17352935
When did I say "catch"? I mean decent photo or video, pawprints, something.

>Trust me

Nah. I'm not dismissing it outright, but I don't buy these stories without more actual evidence.

>>17335954
>>17335727
Ogopogo holds some basis as a mutated creature as the Okanogan lake has a vast network of unexplained/unexplored underwater tunnels/caverns.
Some are so long they are said to/at one point(if not still) connect to the ocean.

Source: local knowledge, lived there for 21 years and have explored some of the tunnels myself.

>>17352892
top center

>>17335727
Alberta Btfo

Any Hawaii cryptids you guys know about? Other than homeless people

>>17352572
Thanks man, I'll be sure to check those out.

>>17335727
>Every US state has a monster
>Mexico has states
>Just chuck a big fuckin' chupa on that bitch
lol

>>17355455
So make one with a map of Mexico, churrobro.

>>17336233
not real silly goose

>>17353644
Guy in a ghillie suit.

>>17347801
>Live in state surrounded by states full of cryptids.
>None in my state.
Dang ut

When I was a kid (6 or 7) on a field trip to The Great Salt Lake I saw a fin in the water. I don't have any proof. The thing is I know I saw it, it wasn't a side glance or anything, it was about 30 to 50 yards away..

This sounds stupid but I just read this after doing a quick google search which gives me an eerie feeling.
http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2010/06/great-salt-lake-monster.html

>>17352948
anon from East TN again. No one around here bothers with it because there's presence doesn't seem unusual. Most people here don't even know that it's considered a cryptid by people from other areas. One or two will even get shot once a year when farmers catch them eating their livestock. It's not like it's some sort of unknown, unheard of creature, it's just another one of many things in the woods like coyotes, bears, or mountain lions (the latter of which has always been here in small, isolated groups. It was only last year someone bothered coming forward with a trail cam photo of one).

This article gave people I know a good laugh a little while back http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2015/12/09/tn-officials-confirm-first-sighting-mountain-lion-100-years/
It was funny because they've always been around in the more remote parts, and those who live in the areas they frequent don't bother "reporting" their sightings because it's not considered worth reporting.

Anyone encounter the Mooncricket of Southfield?

>>17337363

Or maybe they invented the word first because, you know, they were there first ?

>>17337556


If you'd read any first nation litt you'd know that the wendigos are indeed into far north quebec.

>>17351282

Man, those taste great!

>>17335954
>Plesiosaurs
>Dinosaurs
bro

>>17349467
Even for /x/, this is far out

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>>17339889
>peeled for tentacles.

Sneaky desu

>>17351729
These "panthers" are also in SC and Ga

>>17337486
I grew up in Florida and the skunk ape is bullshit. I had a family member that got paid to dress up as it in a costume and run around the swamps. He got paid to do it by the same guy that perpetuates that bullshit myth all the time.

>>17349449
>yeah sure, birds bigger than airplanes
>i'd first believe in a fuckin hamster sized elephant


Eh m8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast's_eagle
Giant eagles are a legitimate thing and only went extinct because the Maoris hunted their food source to extinction, which itself was a giant 140KG Emu.

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>>17349450
>Sea Bishop of Poland
Now this one has always interested me. Was it a squid of some sort as would be the most likely option?

The gesturing that it wishes freedom to the bishops could easily just be a dying animal flailing, as could it making the sign of the cross after they granted its freedom.

The question arises though, how long can a squid survive on the surface? Can it even move its own arms in such a manner when having to support its own weight outside of the water?

I would have thought that the pressure differences alone would have killed it very quickly.

>>17349463
What about that one painting from the Middle ages that shows entire fleets of objects in the sky throwing lightning at each other causing explosions and destroying other objects over that city in Germany?

The objects even looked like star destroyers.

>>17359056
This?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg

Still freaks me out and I've read about this a dozen times.

>>17351282
It's called the colossal squid and we still don't know just how big they can get as we have only studied dead infants.

The current theory is that they can grow as big as two buses, one in front of the other.

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>>17359071
Yes. There is no phenomena that can explain that. Maybe at a push a meteor shower, but those would be common enough for a city not to shit itself over and most of the objects don't even resemble that.

Never mind the fact that meteors don't shoot at each other or deploy hundreds of smaller craft which flew around before eventually docking back in the mothership.

Like I said, that one on the bottom looks like a damn Super Star Destroyer.

>>17345108
Weird shit does happen all the fucking time at oolagah lake. I've been there a lot, and used to trip acid there. I've seen one crazy fucking fish underwater, shit was amazon size.

But a cryptid wouldn't be the same as a pet octopus

>>17355524
Thanks probably so