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so frustrating to be a skeptic with a sense of whimsy because like. I want there to be cryptids. I want there to be magic. I want there to be evidence of something we don't fully understand and can't explain. but then 99% of the "proof" out there for that stuff is like. the most obvious scam you've ever seen in your life.

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The Lake Herrington Monster is said to have the snout and sometimes the whole head of a pig atop a body 12 to 15 feet long, sometimes it is said to be up to 50 feet long. It resides in Lake Herrington, Kentucky’s largest man-made lake. It is said that this animal is quite shy, as it stays away from boats and people when it is seen. Locals believe it to most likely be an alligator gar; however there are many theories out there: alligator, eel, catfish, and of course, a hoax.

In August of 1972, Dr. Lawrence S. Thompson claimed to have seen something on the lake. The English classics professor had a second house on the lake at the time. He was defiant on the fact that it was not debris floating in the water. Thompson claimed, “The thing I saw made very definite movements, the water made ripples around its snout and tail”.

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The U-28 Creature is named after the SM U-28, a German U boat that was used in World War I. The creature itself was spotted by crew aboard the boat on July 30th, 1915. The SM U-28 sent a torpedo hurtling underwater toward a British cargo ship called the SS Iberian. The Iberian was hit and sunk. Commander von Forstner of the U-28 claimed that the wreckage of the Iberian stayed visable for about half a minute before an explosion sent it rocketing into the sky. Among the flying debris, was an enormous animal that “resembled an aquatic crocodile, which was about sixty feet long, with four limbs resembling large webbed feet, a long, pointed tail and a head which also tapered to a point.”

The mysterious animal quickly dove under the water and was never seen again.

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The kelpie is a Scottish legend of a graceful, beautiful, white horse that appears on the water’s edge. This horse has a secret plan to get its meal. It lures humans to climb on its back, perhaps trying to convince the human to take it home. Once the human has come in contact with the kelpie, they will be unable to pull away. The kelpie then runs back into its watery home with the human on its back. The kelpie easily drowns its victim in this manner and feasts on the body.

There are sometimes different versions of a Kelpie, depending on the story being told. Kelpies can vary in physical description, from a powerful black stallion to a horse with a mane of serpents, and even to a human being with cloven hooves. Kelpies have the power to transform themselves into non-equine forms. However, even though a Kelpie can take the form of a human, they could be able to be spotted as they have kelp in their hair.

There is even said to be a kelpie residing in Loch Ness. As the local legends go, the horse residing in Loch Ness had its own saddle and bridle and if a person were foolish enough to attempt to ride the horse, it would leap into the water to devour its newly captured prey. The Kelpie’s bridle is said to hold a magical healing power. But that only matters if a person can get it off the beast and get away alive.

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The Singular Fortean Society received the following report of anomalous orange orbs in Arizona from a witness via email on June 5th, 2024.

More anomalous glowing orb sightings out of Arizona.

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mushroominawaterbottle

Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real

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Cryptid of the Day: Sykesville Monster

Description: Stories of ape-like creatures around Sykesville, Maryland are nothing new. In the 19th century, it was called the Apple Creature, by author Jesse Glass Jr. But in the 1970s, one man claimed his sighting was nearly covered up. When he was out fishing his dog was attacked by the beast. When he called the police, they told him to leave

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The "Chimporilla" has been called a devil, a gorilla, a chimpanzee, and a new animal. Others think it holds to key to protecting a wildernes

Chimporilla in the Congo

This is not Bigfoot. However, an undiscovered primate obviously has implications for cryptozoology if an unknow primate is documented in the 21st century.

From the article:

Because the Chimporilla was shot hundreds of kilometres away from known gorilla ranges, Hicks is certain he knows what species it is.

“I have a pretty strong opinion on what I think it is. And it’s a bit of a controversial one. But I need to point out I’m not certain, this is just what I think” he said.

“I would love it to be a gorilla. But if it was, it would be mind-blowing. It would rewrite the history or biology books on the distribution of the gorilla. Because it would put them hundreds of kilometres away from the closest ones we know of.”

Hicks had heard rumours of the Chimporilla for years and was delighted when he was shown its taxidermied body when visiting Kisangani.

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thegorgonist

~who is she~ I love the flatwoods monster, such a cute and fashionable cryptid/alien visitor! Also supposedly flanked by some smelly vapors, hm.... My shop

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The funniest thing about all the speculation regarding the origins of the Bigfoot myth is that we know where it came from. It was a prank carried out by a guy named Ray Wallace who vandalised a couple of logging camps in California in 1958 while wearing fake feet to conceal his identity. They literally found his collection of giant wooden feet in his basement after he died in 2002, his involvement has been corroborated by multiple accomplices, and the timing of the incidents precisely lines up with when interest in Bigfoot exploded in American popular culture. We've known all this for twenty years, and everybody just quietly ignores it because it's no fun, I guess.