Which cryptid is most likely to actually exist?

>>17989664
I think most likely something in the deep sea, since we can never truly explore every inch of the ocean. I think we'd be able to find what the Bloop was, or if the giant squid was really the Kraken

>>17989711

the bloop was a massive glacier calving

>>17989712
I never heard that before, thanks i'll look into that

>>17989712
Huh, I didn't know the bloop occurred not that far away from the where the fictional Sunken city where Cthulhu was imprisoned

>>17989745
That's just a regular ape.

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Loch ness monster. I met it once
>be irish
>go to scotland for vacation
>go to loch ness
>sittin on boat, water starts getting really chppy
> big monster shoots out of water and says
>The first scottish was ruled by kings who was irish. Tarquinius superbus the last irish king of scotland was overthrown by the scottish who ruled scotland for a couple of centuries. Until sulla the great irish general overthrew the scottish and exterminated them in the social war. Now irish was running scotland again and a scot wasnt seen in the region again until it was sacked by alaric and the scottish eventually killed or sent the black irish to ireland. Julius caesar was irish
>the monster then told me to tell all irish to never set foot in scotland again.
Pretty scary desu senpai

>>17989664
Sea creatures that are mythical are more likely because of how unexplored the sea is.

The problem with most cryptids though is that they're biologically impossible, like the Jersey Devil in your pic related. The only one that I can think of at the moment that is realistic enough to be real is Bigfoot and that's because animals very similar to Bigfoot once legitimately walked the Earth, so it's not impossible that some might still.

Skinwalkers exist

>>17989935
>WE WUZ KINGS
fuck off back to kerry

Fuckers in /x/ telling me, always in the woods Skinwalkers ain’t bout this, Skinwalkers ain’t bout that My boys SB on fucking forests and them He, he they say that monster don’t be putting in no work SHUT THE FUCK UP! Y'all niggas ain’t know shit All y'all operators talk about Skinwalkers ain’t no hittas Skinwalkers ain’t this Skinwalkers fake SHUT THE FUCK UP Y'all don’t live with them niggas Y'all know them Skinwalkers got caught stalking campers and skinning animals alive since fuckin, I don’t know when! Motherfuckers stop fuckin' playin' tem like that Them operators and conspiracy theorists savages out there If I catch another nigga talking sweet about Skinwalkers I’m fucking beating they ass! I’m not fucking playing no more You know those niggas role with Mothman, Wendigos and them.

>>17989935
Didn't know you were the Romanians of the west with that much of your history being made up.

>>17990081
good post

Deep sea animals.

I also think animals that are considered extinct but still inspire some sightings might have a pretty good chance of still being out there, the Tasmanian tiger being an example. I have to think other animals considered extinct may still be hiding out somewhere too, especially fish and the like.

Also (though not quite cryptids), freakish variants of normal animals like "blue" tigers or gigantic man eating catfish are likely possible.

Land: Yeti or sasquatch. Every now and then we still find new large species. Why not a hominid?

Sea: Anything. The ocean is so deep. Also, I don't know many aquatic cryptic outside myths and lake monsters. Kraken and Leviathan seem plausible, lake monsters unlikely, and mermaids, selkies, and sirens very implausible.

>>17990081
I somewhat agree but what if some of the cryptids are mid-evolution animals. Look at sheep for example, they seem like normal animals but the path to become what they are now would have had some interesting and terrible mistakes/evolutionary branch splits along the way.

>>17989664
Sasquatch - but there is some pretty good evidence for the Jersey Devil as well.

>>17990091
skinwalkers are bigfoots being misidentified by memelords + stories of suburbanites scaring themselves in the woods.

>>17990118
this is why black people should leave computers to the whites and chinese.

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>>17990118
Das it mayne

>>17989664
This drawing of the Jersey Devil has always freaked me out. Thanks, I guess I didn't need to sleep tonight.

And I believe most certainly that Bigfoot and Nessie are very much real or at least were real at one point in our history.

>>17990319
/pol/ pls leave

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>>17989935
You must've summoned it with tree fiddy

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>>17990695
Hello fellow /pol/ack

>>17989847
Kek

Thunderbirds, mainly massive birds that defy conventional understanding of known species.

If I had to guess, a majority sightings are overestimates or bullshit but atavism is a real thing so I presume that, given enough time, we eventually get something that defies belief.

>>17989745
Chilluns

Most likely:
>Bigfoot

Second most likely:
>dogman (formally the beast of bray road)

The problem with dogman is that there isn't any *known* evidence of upright walking canines. However, what makes it more plausible then other cryptids is the shear amount of eye witness accounts of these creatures. And if they do exist, there seems to be a modern population of them. Creatures like the jersey devil, although might have existed at one time, is harder to prove because there doesn't seem to be any new accounts of the creature.

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>>17989664
Sasquatch or something similar that looks like it

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>>17993089
>what makes it more plausible then other cryptids is the shear amount of eye witness accounts of these creatures

>>17993120
Always thought that pic looked cool and kind of retarded at the same time. Why is it so slanted and why is one arm longer than the other?

Mothman/Owlman exists

>>17993137
I always figured it looked hunched over and slogging through the muck

>>17989712
This. It was pretty well proven that it wasn't anything cool, unfortunately...

>>17989664
Crystal sentient beings aka crystal gems

>>17989664
Due to the vastness of it, ocean cryptids are the most likely to exist.

But stuff like the leviathan is unlikely due to insuficient food sources. The kraken is without a doubt based on an encounter with a colossal squid, that's the one bigger than the giant squid, the one we don't actually know just how large they can grow.

>>17992974
But they really existed in New Zealand. The Maori hunted their prey into extinction.

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>>17989935
Rambling nonsense. No tree fiddy.

>>17990171
When was the last time we found a new large land animal? Subspecies don't count.

>>17989712
>calving
Didn't know glaciers give live birth.

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>>17995545
Millennials, 4th grade level vocabulary all day long.

Whatever happened to the real fairy video? What was it?

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>>17995390
pic related in 2007 I think

something more intelligent I think would be more aware and hide itself.

>>17990319
Do you realize how common internet ebonics are among awkward white redditors?

>>17989935
Different say anything about tree-fiddy.
Fake as fuck.

The gorilla that escaped from the zoo and gave Bobby booshay a black eye.

The search continues

>>17990315
Yeah I could buy that.

I feel like aquatic cryptids are a lot more likely to exist.
That said, I do believe in Bigfoot, the Goatman, and Mothman.

Lake monsters or plesiosaur cryptids living within cave systems.

I firmly believe most lake monsters are oversized fish, however.

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>>17989664
Sasquatch aka Bigfoot, after that I would say Lake Monsters like Champ (pic related). I would say Sea Monsters as well but Champ is a Lake Monster and has the best photographic evidence so far (has never been debunked).

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>>17989664
If anybody mentions the Ropen as a species that could actually exist, you're gay

>>17990118
bix nood to you too my meleninious friend

>>17990118
Wat?

>>17993207
Glacial calving is pretty fucking amazing broski

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>>17990118
I get this reference

Tasmanian tiger and Australian big cats.
I want there to be sea monsters but I'm losing faith.

>>17992974

Haast's eagle died out relatively recently due to human activity. I find it hard to believe anything like Argentavis could still exist and not have been documented, shit's in the sky man. Not exactly hard to spot and they'd need to be in an area with a sufficient food source which again wouldn't go unnoticed.

>>18003959

Thunderbirds are probably just various condors that have been passed down through legend and exaggerated.

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I want to believe Mothman truly exists just because of how cool he looks

>>18001815

I so fucking want thylacines to still exist. Every time I see the video of the "last" one in the zoo I just wanna cry like a little bitch.

Yetis seem most likely to me. Sasquatch can maybe be bundled up with it, but there's several problems there that I'll get to. Gigantopithecus roamed areas of Asia as recently as one hundred thousand years ago, and it is conceivable that small populations of the great ape survived, but massive shifts in the climate around this time make this somewhat unlikely. Still, stranger things eh?

Now, a lot of bigfoot enthusiasts have theorized that our furry Asian friend crossed the Bering land bridge to north America and continued to live there. One of the problems with this is that gigantopithecus only lived in bamboo forests, and adapting to conditions in north America would have been amazingly difficult. The other problem with assuming that these extinct apes are what we call sasquatch is that, in all likelihood, they were fist walkers, like orangutans, or knuckle walkers, like chimps. Granted, they could have evolved to become bipedal since arriving in north America.

However, I will say that this is all mere speculation as, to my knowledge at least, we only have a handful of teeth and lower jaw bones to even indicate that gigantopithecus actually existed, and without a more complete skeleton we can't know whether they were bipedal or anything else about them.


Next most likely candidates are the great sea monsters and serpents. Many serpent sightings can likely be explained as colossal squid sightings or sightings of the somewhat elusive oarfish, but our oceans are a mysterious place! There's still a tremendous wealth of discoveries to be made, and I'd bet my bottom dollar that we'll be seeing more myths made into fact in the coming years, with submersible drones and the like becoming more sophisticated. It's super exciting!

>>17989664
Giant spiders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vASTdKwB5QA

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>>17999457
a man still dream

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>>17989732
> Not far

You could fit at least half of Australia in there

>>17993137
The slouching is just his gait and the arm looks shorter due to an art technique called foreshortening, its used to make limbs look farther away. But since its a silhouette, its harder to tell.

>>17990118
Is this a passage from the Voynich Manuscript?

>>18004638
I mean, on a global scale, that really isn't too far off.

My salary.

>>17995390
Yo momma

>>17990556
Why anon? I'm curious.

>>18006059
Looks like a screencap from a videogame

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>>17989711
100% agree about deep sea being the best place of interest. I'm pretty sure the bloop and other sounds from that time were almost all attributed to ice/plates shifting. no?

One thing I'm fucking sure of is there are no goddam bigfoots at this point of time in life.
At one point? Sure. Now? Nope.

Pic related -- I want to find this cryptid

>>17990118
Topkek
I almost choked to death laughing

>>18006197
>not believing in bigfoot

How are people on /x/ so ignroant

>>17995545
>>17995570
anons pls

>>17989664
In many Native American legends Bigfoot/Sasquatch is a shapeshifter spirit. He's like a bad omen, a warning of something worse to come. If true this would explain why no one can find him

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>>18006242
>Believing giant monkey creatures exist in throes but leave virtually no trace, ever

How are people on /x/ so fucking retarded sometimes?

>>17998406
Bouche

>>18006261
Let me guess, you're an urban kid that hasn't spent much time in the wilderness.

Spend a month or two in a remote forest and see what happens, pussy.

>>17990695
Faggot pls leave

>>17989664
the scarlet cockmongler

>>18003986
Isn't this just Ivan Ooze?

>>18006320
I live deep in the forest in Washington state, and at this point I'd even have trouble believing in Bigfoot. He'd probably have to live up in the mountains of BC or something to have never been found, but something that big would have to have a lot of room to hold a sustainable population. Just don't think it's very likely.

>>17989664
Most Likely
>Sea Creatures
Less Likely but still possible
>Bigfoot and similar creatures from around the world
>lizardman
>dogman/beast of bray road
Probably just BS tier
>jersey devil
>wendigo
>skinwalkers
>mothman
>mongolian deathworm

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Deep dark scary deep.

>>18006320
>Let me guess, you're an urban kid that hasn't spent much time in the wilderness.
>Spend a month or two in a remote forest and see what happens, pussy.
Nothing would happen or there would be daily reports of bigfoots in the forest you gullible retard.

ITT: people who have never seen Willow Creek

Bigfoot just want u to be his wife

>>18006882
>I live deep in the forest in Washington state, and at this point I'd even have trouble believing in Bigfoot.
Good thing nobody cares what you believe.

>>17989935
Somebody can explain this meme?

>>17995390

Walters duiker in 2010

Red bearded Titi in 2008


Lesula in 2007

Those are just mammals ranging between 16in and 4ft

Africa has a bunch of animals of every type we discover every year.

>>18006320
The thing is, there's enough forest out there to hide just about anything. The remote areas that hardly anyone frequents are becoming fewer and far between, but those places will always be there. The nature of the woods is that it has a lot of cover. If your form is that of something else, it's all the camouflage you need.

>>17990118
That's that cryptid I don't like

>>18005833
kek

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>>18007500
This little fagtron would look pretty spooky in dim light.

>>18005833
midkek

>>17995748
And what is this pic rel supposed to be?