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Hibagon's cadaver

There are reports that the cadaver of the hibagon, a Japanese ape-like cryptid, has been discovered. However, it exhibits various unnatural characteristics, such as the zygomatic arch being detached from the skull and pointing downward, a misaligned bite, eye shapes and sizes that do not resemble those of primates, and the absence of visible nostrils. A primatologist who analyzed this photograph noted that it is highly likely to be a composite image.

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Giant snake of Midori−yama

On July 14, 1972, a 4-meter (13-foot) black giant snake was sighted swimming in a river in the Midori−yama area of Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The largest known snakes in Japan only reach up to 2 meters (6.6 feet).

I visited the site where this sighting occurred back in November this year!

My field survey records can be read via the link below.

緑山の大蛇の現地調査｜UMA研究家・佐藤

筆者は2025年11月8日に「緑山の大蛇」の現地調査に赴いた。その内容をここに掲載する。 緑山の大蛇とは何か 緑山の大蛇は筆者の蒐集した話などではなく、新聞でも報じられたUMAであるのだが、それほど有名とは言い難く知らない人も多いだろう。 これはその名の通り、岡山県津山市綾

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Hibagon returns!

hibagon new sighting! In 2024, multiple sightings of a mysterious creature that looks like a hibagon occurred!

庄原で「大型の獣」目撃情報相次ぐ、正体の特定へカメラ設置 | 中国新聞デジタル

謎の類人猿「ヒバゴン」の再来かー。こんなうわさが庄原市西城町で広がっています。昨夏から「大型の獣を見た」などの情報が町観光協会に寄せられているといいます。

ヒバゴン令和に復活？−令和ヒバゴン : 未知の世界から

−令和ヒバゴン−ヒバゴンの出現した西城町では、現在も謎の巨大な猿のような生物が目撃されているといいます。この件に関して、オカルトライターのおかゆうさんと共に筆者も現地調査と目撃者への取材を行いました。今回はそんなUMA、令和ヒバゴン（Reiwa Hibagon）です。平

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I came to the place where the Kofu Alien Encounter incident took place in 1975!

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The japanese cryptid Issie is believed to be present in Lake Ikeda, Kagoshima. It is believed to be a 20- to 30-meter-long creature with a hump-like projection on its back and a body shape similar to that of an eel or snake. Yet, the Issie statue is made with a plesiosaur-like body shape.

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One of Japan's strangest cryptids is a talking stegosaurus that was spotted in Atami, Shizuoka, on the morning of October 24, 2022.

It came from the mountains, said "Ohayo" (which means good morning in English) in Japanese to the witness, and walked away. Cryptid researcher Takeshi Nakazawa thought that a staff member carrying a stuffed monster greeted the witness, witness mistaking it for a talking dinosaur, because there had been a monster movie event in the area the day before.

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Perhaps the most bizarre behavior of Tsuchinoko, a Japanese cryptid, is the vertical rotation it performs with its body in a straight line. This seems very odd to.

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(Image shows jaw bone of Celebes crested macaque, not the bone found by Morse)

In 1879, zoologist Edward Sylvester Morse, while in Japan, reported the excavation of the right mandible of a "large baboon-like ape" from the Omori shell mound, a site dating back about 3000 years. He mentioned that this was similar to Celebes crested macaque and also thought it might be related to a large monkey monster from old Japanese folklore.

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A man named Takano, who ran a blog in Japan, mentioned in his blog about a strange phenomenon he experienced and the cryptid that appeared at that time. One day when he was in junior high school, he saw what looked like a black plastic bag running up and over the flagpole, and when it reached the top, he observed with his eyes that it was actually a humanoid with black wings and a monkey-like face. During this experience, the students around him stopped moving and he did not hear any sound. He testified that this resembled a creature from Jeepers Creepers and referred to it on his blog as The creeper.

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Ittanmomen is an atmospheric beast reported from Japan and described as looking like a giant band of cloth flying through the sky. According to folklore, it prefers to stick to human necks and faces to suffocate them, but no case of attack by Ittanmomen as cryptid seems to exist.

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During the 1970s and 1980s, rumors of Mossie, a giant fish cryptid believed to be in Lake Motosu, Yamanashi Prefecture, became popular in Japan. This one is between 3 and 35 meters long, with testimonies that it resembles a carp and has a back like a crocodile.

Although this rumor is less prevalent these days, it does not mean that sightings have ended, and as recently as 2011, a diver reported seeing a large fish similar to Arapaima.

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In May 1976, a series of strange creatures were reported in the moat of the ruins of Sasayama Castle in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Its body is blue-black and has a shark-like texture. Its back is said to be two meters long, with a one-meter long jagged fin growing out of it. Its tail is said to be a bifurcated tail that looks like a crocodile's tail split in two, its limbs are said to be fin-like, and it has a short but plesiosaur-like neck.

The true identity of this "Sasayama Castle Monster" was not revealed until the very end. What do you think the true identity of this creature is?

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According to a radio program about the occult in Okinawa, Japan, a cryptid named Okinawa Mothman was sighted about forty years ago (probably in the 1980s). When high school students stayed at school for a club camp, three of them decided to test their courage in the middle of the night in the bathroom. When the first person to try opened the second private room, there was something with big glowing eyes. The creature ran vigorously out of the private room and ran away, which was witnessed by the other two who were waiting their turn to challenge.

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In 2022, occult researcher Yuki Yoshida asked on Twitter if anyone knew anything about a strange creature known among children in Saitama Prefecture as the Hanbo. According to a post he wrote summarizing the children's rumors, the creature is as big as a person's arm and is said to release venom that will kill anyone who touches it. He also explained that it is a carnivore and eats crows.

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In the early 1970s, a "Nessie-like fish" was spotted in Lake Amehata, Japan.

Lake Amehata is a dammed lake, and the period of time between the completion of the dam and the cryptid report was less than five years.

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Sometime between 1744 and 1748, a man named Kyuroku was out picking up firewood and was attacked by a strange humanoid. The green scaled, woman-like monster jumped at Kyuroku, but he fought it off by throwing the woman monster.

The monster was named Yajo, which means "wild woman" in Japanese.

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A Japanese on a trip to Guam reported seeing a four-limbed giant salamander-like creature while snorkeling in the ocean and observing sea cucumbers. Could the Guam marine salamander be a misidentification of a type of shark or a crocodile that came with the ocean currents?