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Hello and welcome to my collections of mythical, cryptid, ghostly, and other such things stories that are all backed by research. Feel free to stick around and enjoy some spooky myths I’ve collected... And if creepy myths aren’t enough check out @what-lurks-in-the-dark my secondary blog with my spooky short stories that come from my imagination.
If you need me, I'll be sat by the seashore, trying to lure out a kelpie
On This Day in Cryptid History
July 30th: In 1915, the Iberian was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine the SM U-28. A massive explosion shot out of the water a presumed corpse of a crocodile like animal. It shot out 80 ft into the air, and according to six other men who saw the event, described the monster as being around 60ft in length, had webbed feet and a long, pointed tail.
pardon. dost thou know moon's child?
Moon's child? As in daughter of the night, bringer of light? Medium between sleep and wake. Or perhaps her kin, son of the sky who greets mother moon at the days end. I am rather familiar with both, they are different but the same. For they are Dawn and Dusk.
We are fed on the rot of seasons past and the light of the morning sun. There is new earth beneath our roots. We are grown from the cracks of the past– and now we are broken free.
Hawaiian Footsteps: The Night Marchers
The telling of ghost stories has been an important part of Hawaiian culture since ancient times. One of the most popular tales are the Night Marchers. The Night Marchers are an apparition of people marching to the beat of a drum often recognized my drum beat, chanting, and bright torches. What the Night Marchers exactly are is debated. Some stories say they’re a band, others armed spirit warriors, or the ali’i spirits spirits going to greet new warriors. It’s also said that they’re restless spirits looking to reclaim territory, replay a battle, or maybe avenge their deaths. Legend says Night Marchers usually march through specific places. A few notable places happen to be, Nu'uanu Pali Lookout, Ka'a'awa Valley, Kalihi Valley, Oahu's Pali Highway, Kamehameha Schools campus in Kapalama on Oahu, Kualoa Ranch on Oahu's windward coast, La'ie on Oahu, La Perouse Bay in South Maui, and the town of Kaunakakai on Molokai. There are also two nights in particular which the Night Marches tend to appear most frequently. These nights are Po Kane and Po Akua. Po Kane and Po Akua are both nights of the new moon just at different times in the moon cycle. When the night marchers come about, a few characteristics of their arrival are, heavy wind, rows of spirits carrying torches, alternating male and female rows, lightning and thunder, heavy rain or high surf, chanting and drumbeating, bright torches and mist or fog. When coming in contact with the Night Marchers it is important to not disturb them. Do not get in their way. Don’t even look at them. It is best to crouch low to the floor and avert your eyes. It is vital that their procession is not interrupted. I hope you enjoyed this spooky bit of Hawaiian folklore!
spirit wolves of omer plains
omer plains is just a few prairies in the pine woods and maple ridges along the rifle river in northern michigan, u.s.a.
i bet you never heard of it, but it's real.
shadowy wolves call the Plains home, great growling warriors from ancient age, guarding the ridges and stalking those who tresspass in the forest and meadows. they travel thru dimensions, sometimes appearing as a shadowy pack crossing the road ahead, other times totally invisible yet you can feel and hear them beside you.
locals call them witchy wolves, teens dare each other to hike across the plains or even just to park out there. for hundred of years people have spoke of this, its all true.
dont fear the witchy wolves. they are guardians of the deep forest andof the original peoples old village sites along rifle river, these spirits have amazing powers but never use powers unjustly
Chupacabras: The Blood-Sucking Creature from Hell THE FULL MOON rose above the mountain in the cloudless night, shining like a pale yellow lantern into the farmer’s bedroom. But that is not what awoke him. It was the chickens. Their panicked cries had awoken him before, and it meant they were under attack. Wild dogs had gotten into the coop, the farmer thought, or perhaps a wolf. He leapt from bed, grabbed his shotgun from the bedroom corner and hurried outside. He checked the gun for cartridges as he jogged barefoot past the long, soft shadows cast by the moonlight toward the chicken coop. The predator will die tonight, he thought, as he pushed open the small door to the coop. He burst in and took aim. But he did not shoot. Instead, he froze, his senses overwhelmed by the sight before him. Several chickens lay dead in the dirt around the clawed feet of a creature the farmer had never seen before. This was no dog, no wolf. It stood on two feet at about the height of a small child. It had dark, scaly skin and a ridge of porcupine-like spines running across its head and down its back. In its short arms ending in sharp claw-like hands, the creature held a chicken to its mouth. It was not eating its prey, but seemed to be sucking the life from it. It turned to face the farmer, its red eyes blazing, and dropped the chicken to the ground. It hissed, baring its large blood-stained fangs. Then it screeched - an unearthly, terrifying noise that drove the farmer backward into the doorway. The creature, with its front claws dangling, hopped like some mutant kangaroo toward the farmer. Dumbstruck, he stumbled backward out of the coop as the creature hopped past him with another deafening shriek. The farmer was knocked to the ground, and he could feel rough, scaly skin of the creature as it passed, and felt the warm, sickening smell of its putrid breath on his face. The creature sprung onto the roof of the coop, spread short, dark, bat-like wings, and with two bounding hops flew away into the darkness. It was only then that the farmer remembered he had his shotgun. He brought it to bear, but it was too late. The creature from hell had disappeared with one last shriek that echoed off the distant mountains. Although this might sound like some horror story fantasy, it is actually based on the eyewitness accounts and experiences of those who have encountered the enigmatic creature known as el chupacabras - “the goatsucker.”
The description, however, also seems to fit a number of other strange creatures that have been seen over the decades - creatures people have identified as gargoyles, the Jersey Devil and the Monkey Man. It’s worth examining the similarities and considering whether these all might be sightings of the same mysterious creature.
CHUPACABRAS
The now-famous chupacabras first came on the scene, as far as we know, in the summer of 1975 when several farm animals in Puerto Rico were found dead. The bodies had strange puncture-like marks on their necks. The sightings intensified in the 1990s as the chupacabras’ appetite seemed to grow. In some cases, farmers reported that literally hundreds of their animals were inexplicably slaughtered. Invariably, the animals were not eaten by any predator, but were horribly mutilated or drained of blood - hence the name, “goatsucker.” In 1991, a male dog was found dead, with nothing inside. “It was as if all had been sucked out through the eyes,” the report said. “It had empty eye sockets and all the internal organs had disappeared.”
For a while, the carnage seemed to be confined to the island of Puerto Rico, but toward the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, sightings began to be reported on other Caribbean islands, in Mexico, Central America, Chile and even the southern U.S. in Florida, Arizona and Texas. In April-June in Chile of 2002, in fact, it was reported that authorities had even captured the chupacabras, which may have been taken away by people representing the U.S. government.
The descriptions of the creature over this time has remained fairly consistent:
three to five feet tall
dark gray facial skin
coarse hair on the body, and several reports said it has a chameleon-like appearance, with the ability to change from purple to brown to yellow
black eyes, or glowing orange or red eyes
a wolf-like or canine nose
sharp fangs
short forearms with three-fingered claw-like “hands”
a row of fins, spikes or quills running down the length of its back
stands on two powerful-looking hind legs and clawed feet
often hops on the ground, like a kangaroo, rather than walks (at least one witness claimed it could leap as far as 20 feet in one bound)
some reported bat-like wings that enable the chupacabras to fly
it makes a hissing noise that often makes witnesses nauseous
The chupacabras phenomenon continues up to this day, with the recent reports of attacks continuing to come out of South American countries, including Chile and Argentina. In many of these cases, chupacabras - although not seen - was blamed for the deaths of chickens and other farm animals that were mutilated and drained of blood.
Appalachian Terror: Tailypo
Once there was an old man living out in a cabin in the woods with his three hunting dogs. He lived off the land getting water from rivers and streams and hunting for food. On one dark and cold night, he came home with his dogs empty handed with nothing to eat that night. So the man simply got ready for bed, until he heard a peculiar scratching sound, a scraping sound... like claws on wood. So the man began to search about his cabin until he ran into something, a big thick furry something. He got a closer look to see the thing was dangling from the ceiling, and upon even closer inspection that it was a long furry tail through the hole of his roof. Some sort of creature was attempting to get in through the roof. The man reacted quickly grabbing his hunting knife and swiftly severing the tail of the creature. Then a horrifying loud screech arose from the creature loud enough to shake the entire cabin. From there he could hear the sounds of the creature hurrying off the roof and scurry off into the distance. The dogs then started barking yet the man paid them no mind. He picked up the tail inspecting the thickness and the length of it. He then pondered, he pondered what animal the tail had come from and he then pondered his empty stomach as he laid the tail onto his table using a chair as a stool as he covered the hole in the roof with a plank of wood. After that was done he set up a fire in the fire place as he started to place the tail over a spit on the fire place and began to cook the tail which was to be his next meal. Once it had finished cooking he ate the meat from the spit itself giving a few scraps to his dogs until he was fat and happy. The he’d put his dogs out and head bed. As he laid there in bed suddenly he could hear a tapping. He’d open his eyes then look about unable to see anything. But there the tapping was again, it ran continuously along the side of the cabin. Then the man could hear a sound, but it wasn’t just the sound it was the deep distorted voice that spoke, “Tailypo... give me back my tailypo...” The man got a chill down his spine as he listened to the tapping until the voice spoke again, “Tailypo... give me back my tailypo...” The man then jumped out of bed and ran to the front door and shouted to his three dogs, “Dogs! Get that damned thing!” Then there was a series of barks and the sound of scratching until the creature ran off. The old man closed the door once the dogs were back inside. But only two of his dogs came back. Frankly there was nothing the man could do about the lost dog so he went back to his bed and closed his eyes to sleep again. But the tapping came back. The man looked out the window only to hear the same deep distorted voice saying “Tailypo... tailypo... give me back my tailypo...” The man then bolted up and ran to the front door and told his dogs the same thing as before “Dogs! Get that damned thing!” They went and chased the thing back into the woods again with the sound of yelping and scratching until one dog returned. Then the man went back to bed. But there the scratching was again, this time it came from the front door. The voice called out once again “Tailypo... give me back my tailypo...” The old man jumped up from his bed as the voice continued “Tailypo... tailypo... give me back my tailypo...” He threw open the front door and told his last dog the same thing, “Dog! Get that damned thing!” And then there was silence. The Tailypo had eaten his last dog. The man then went back to his bed and laid his head down in attempt to sleep only to be interrupt by tapping once more. The voice then rang out again “Tailypo... give me back my tailypo...” as there was the crash at front door as the latch swung off the door. The man could hear something dragging its way in closer and closer to his bedroom. “Tailypo... tailypo.. give me back my tailypo...” it said again the voice growing louder. “Go away!” The man hollered at the creature. But the voice continued “Tailypo... tailypo... give me back my tailypo...” creeping ever so closer. Right up until the creature was in the man’s room and it pounced on him with a ferocious growl. The creature tore at the man, ripping him to shreds in his very own bed, his blood soaking the sheets. It had gotten it’s revenge for it’s missing tail. Some say the Tailypo is still out there, in the Appalachians searching, searching for it’s lost tail.
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Well- This was unexpected.
Nine Tails: Pokémon or Myth?
When hearing of a fox creature with nine tails many of my fellow nerds and geeks will think of the Pokémon known as nine tails. But this isn’t a Pokémon blog is it? This creature I speak of is known as the Kitsune a Japanese creature of folktale. Now the word “kitsune” translates to fox in Japanese but in this case we’re referring to the magical ones with many tails. When Kitsune’s are in their young days they look like your average fox, orange and a single bushy tail. Yet as they age they become more mythical looking, every 100 years they grow a new tail as well as their pelt begins to change color from orange to golden to white. By the time a kitsune reaches it’s hundredth birthday it gains the ability to shapeshift. A kitsune will often shift into a wise old man or an elegant young lady. While these cute mystical beings seem pure and cute some are malevolent beings who enjoy trickery mayhem yet there are plenty who are benevolent and enjoy existing as ethereal ancient fox beings. What a life to be an ancient magical fox~
The Hoia Baciu Forest - The World’s Most Haunted Forest In Romania lies what many people refer to as the world’s most haunted forest, the Hoia Baciu forest. The forest didn’t just come across this title, it earned it. Numerous ghost sightings, disappearances, UFO sightings, and paranormal attacks have taken place over the years. At the center of it all lies the Dead Zone, a near perfect circle where plant life refuses to grow and paranormal activity seems to be the most prevalent. Over the years many people have gone missing in the forest. The earliest known disappearance was known to be a shepherd and his 200 sheep who never returned after entering the forest. Those who searched for him found no trace of him or his sheep. Another story if of a little 5 year old girl who went missing in the forest only to return 5 years later wearing the same clothes and with no recollection of where she had been. There are no explanations for the disappearances of these people, they just vanish. These disappearances have given the forest the nickname of “The Bermuda Triangle of Romania.” Although unexplained disappearances are strange, the forest is also infamous for its paranormal activity. Many people have been able to capture strange photos of ghostly figures and orbs. Many others report seeing shadowy figures, being scratched or pushed by unknown assailants, and even see UFOs. Many people will hear screams, growls, giggles and voices when they’re in the forest with nobody in sight. On top of people have reported numerous UFO sightings over the Dead Zone, light anomalies, and experience malfunctioning electronic equipment or find their batteries drained. On top of all that, some of the forest’s trees grow abnormally into strange, twisted shapes with no reason as to why. There have even been fluctuations in the magnetic field recorded around the Dead Zone. It’s no wonder many people simply refuse to enter the forest. Because of all the strange and unexplained phenomenon in the forest it’s no wonder its earned its name as the world’s most haunted forest. Many believe that the Dead Zone is a portal to another dimension. Some believe the missing people have actually been abducted by UFOs. Others simply think its cursed. The answers lie inside the forest and its infamous Dead Zone. Are you brave enough to find out for yourself?
A Strange Mirror with a Different Reflection
Reddit user u/Danat_Shepard posted to r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix about an unexplainable event he witnessed at 3am while staying at his sister’s house. All the lights were off in the room, but when he looked into the mirror in the room a lamp sitting on a desk was turned on. The lamp was surely turned off but the reflection clearly showed the lightbulb glowing. He quickly thought to take a video before leaving.
But that’s not all. Many Reddit users responded to his post claiming that wasn’t all that was seen in the mirror. Below the desk can be seen the face of a ghostly figure staring at him through the mirror’s reflection. The lamp’s reflection is sure to make you scratch your head’s, but the figure’s face is enough to send chills down your spine. What exactly is happening here? Something paranormal? A clever hoax? Or a real glitch in the matrix? What do you think?
16th August 1817, Beginning on this day, the coastal towns of the North Shore of Massachusetts were the scene of near continuous sightings of a strange sea serpent. First appearing in Gloucester harbor the creature was seen near the harbor every day for a month. Witnesses claimed it was between 60 and 100 feet long, with a chocolate coloured body, and a large snakelike head the size of a horse’s head. All eye witnesses claimed that it moved through the water with the vertical movement of a caterpillar. Responding to the sightings the ‘New England Linnaean Society’, which had been formed in 1814, formed a committee to “collect evidence with regard to the existence and appearance of any such animal”. Zoologically naming the creature ‘Scoliophis Atlanticus’, (Atlantic humped snake) the committee became the first cryptozoological investigative organization. The creature was seen every year in the North Shore for the next 100 years.
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African Folklore Two-Faced Beast: The Kishi
This is a tale from Angora, where there is folklore of a viscous creature known as the Kishi that uses trickery to capture it's prey. The Kishi appears to be a handsome man at first yet hides the face of a jackal on the back of it's head. The creature will often cover the jackal side with a turban(yes like Voldemort), a headdress, or by simply wearing their hair long. The Kishi will enter a village and charm the most attractive woman he can and marry her. The Kishi will then lure her away from the safety of the village get her pregnant, and wait until she gives birth to a new Kishi monster before revealing his true face and torment her before eating her and teaching the young one to do the same. This creature is a powerful fighter if one was to take it on, it has powerful jaws that lock in place so the first bite will be fatal. Now the Kishi can be injured by regular weapons but is far too strong to be taken on by a single warrior. The best to ward them away is by fire and magic.
