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September 23 2022 - The Batsquatch!

Today's Cryptid (and the first featured on this blog!) holds a special place in my heart, as it's from my home state of Washington!

First reported in the 1980's in the Saint Helens region of Washington, the batsquatch is reported as a flying, werewolf-like creature. It's reported as being roughly the size of a large man, with huge, sprawling bat-like wings that can span up to 50 feet!

One report from a man in 2011 goes as follows:

"I saw something flying in the sky. It had bat wings, blue fur and had a face similar to eyes glowing red. It was about 9 feet tall at the least, after I watched it just flew away."

-- 'Pheonix Tieraz'

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The batsquatch is also the Mascot of the Batsquatch Pale Ale from the Pacific Northwest!

There are only a handful of sightings of the Batsquatch, leading to many questioning the validity of the Batsquatch's existence.

The Batsquatch is one of only four cryptids in Washington!

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Fresno Nightcrawler

The Fresno Nightcrawlers (also known as 'The Fresno Alien') are cryptids that have been found in Fresno, California, and Yosemite National Park, California. With a Polish man claiming he's also seen the creature. There has only been two credible sightings of these creatures, both captured in video.

These cryptids appear to be a creature with an anatomy of mostly legs, estimated to stand at a height of 1.5 meters. Fresno Nightcrawlers do appear to have an upper body, however the quality of the videos make details hard to decipher, with the upper body being significantly smaller that the rest of it's body. The creature is a humanoid being, being completley white with a thin stature.

The very first sighting of the Fresno Nightcrawler was captured on a surveillance camera in Fresno, California by a man named Jose. The creatures were spotted on Jose's front lawn, his dog barking at the otherworldly being.

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Phantom Cats

Phantom Cats also known as Alien Big Cats, or ABCs, are in fact not extra-terrestrial cats, but are just normal big cats. The sightings include; black panthers, leopards, African lions, or cougars. The strange thing about these big cats are the fact they have been reported in places such as; Canada, Britain, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, United States, Hawaii, Italy, and Luxembourg. The cats are named 'Alien Cats' as they are sighted in areas outside of their native range. Most reports are sighted in the most undisturbed places, such as swamps.

The widely accepted explanation to these sightings is that the big cats are simply escaped exotic pets. Multiple carcasses of smaller varieties of the Phantom Cats have been found to be hybrids between domestic housecats and Scottish wildcats.

Despite this, people believe that these areas have secretly supported small populations of big cats, with reports of these big cats dating back into prehistory.

Here are some Phantom Cat sightings:

Australian Phantom Cats

Great Britain Phantom Cats

Chinese Phantom Cats

Denmark Phantom Cats 

Finnish Phantom Cats

Netherlands Phantom Cats

New Zealand Phantom Cats

United States Phantom Cats

Luxembourg Phantom Cats

Indian Phantom Cats

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Hook Island Sea Monster

The Hook Island Sea Monster, also known as the Tadpole Creature, is considered one of the mot credible cryptid sightings in history. The creature is described as resembling a giant black sperm or tadpole, the creature spans an overwhelming 90 feet. The Hook Island Sea Monster has small eyes on the top of it’s large head that hosts a gaping mouth with small teeth.

The Hook Island Sea Monster is considered one of the most credible cryptid sightings as the evidence of it being fake, and it being real are equal. While some state that it was obviously photoshopped, others say that such tools weren’t available when the photo was taken. Some even suggest that the creature is nothing but a large sheet of plastic weighed down by sand. However the monster has some evidence of it’s existence too, such a the fact that the monster is very lifelike in appearance, with some close-ups showing that the eyes were too detailed to be made out of artificial material. 

The first sighting of the Hook Island Sea Monster was in 1964. The sighting was reported by a man named Robert Le Serrec and his family. It was spotted when it approached his ship, the monster's ocean mouth as if being hostile. However Serrec realised that the creature had an injured tail, presumably by a larger creature or by the ship's propeller.

Serrec stated that; "It was only when we got to within 20 feet of the serpent that we could see its head clearly. The head was large, about 4 feet from top to bottom, with jaws about 4 feet wide. The lower jaw was flat like that of a sandfish. The skin was smooth but rather dull, brownish-black in color, the eyes seemed pale green, almost white. The skin looked more like that of a shark than an eel. There were no apparent scales. Nor did we see any parasites around. We supposed the flexible tail would have shaken any off. There were no fins or spines, nor were there any apparent breathing openings, although there must have been some. Perhaps we didn't see them because our attention was focused mainly on the creature's menacing mouth, the inside of which was whitish. The teeth appeared to be small. A fragment of some dark substance hung from the upper row of teeth, possibly a fish. As the monster was lying on the sandy bottom, we could not see the color of its belly. The creature was about 90 feet long. Behind the head the body was about 2 feet 4 inches thick and remained that way for about 25 feet, then it gradually tapered into a whip-like tail. The general color of the body was black with 1 foot-wide brownish rings every 5 feet, the first starting just behind the head. The skin was smooth but dull."

Just as the monster appeared to move to the swallow the ship, it swam away. 

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Finnish Phantom Cats

On June-August in 1992 there were sightings of a lion in Ruokolahti near the Finnish-Russian border was filed, with multiple sightings. Government biologists were able to identify tracks being from a big cat not native to Finland. The biologists were given the clear to capture or shoot the lion by the Ministry of the Interior, with border guards participating in the hunt.

The last reported sightings were in Russia and there were reports that the lion was seen by Finnish border guards. The lion's tracks were also reported to be found in te raked sand field used by the Russian border guards to detect crossings. Despite all the efforts the lion was never captured, leaving the events to remain unexplained. However one theory is an incident where a few circus animals escaped from a railroad accident containing a circus train in Russia.

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Great Britain Phantom Cats

As early as the 1960s many sightings of big cats have been talked about across Great Britain. A 2003-2004 survey was conducted by the British Big Cats Society gave the following results, based on 2,052 sightings; South West has 21% of the sightings, with South East having 16%, East Anglia 12%, Scotland 11%, and West Midlands 9%.

Many big cats have been captured or killed since 1903, all of which are believed to have escaped captivity.  

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Kelpie

The Kelpie is a horse like creature described as a dark horse, with cloudy eyes, and seaweed in it’s mane. Sometimes Kelpies take the form of beautiful women, with seaweed in their hair, and horse hooves. Some saying the Kelpie takes the form of a beautiful horse, convincing those around it that it’s an innocent lost horse. These types of Kelpie are only identifiable by their constantly dripping mane, frilled ears, forward facing slightly red eyes, and webbing between their hooves. They are described to have skin like that of a seal, smooth, yet cold as ice when touched. 

The Kelpie waits at bodies of water for a person to come by, when they do the Kelpie tries their best to persuade the person to climb onto their back or to touch them. Once they do, the Kelpie drags the human under the water and devours them. Only leaving the heart or liver. 

A famous story that involves the Kelpie goes as following; One day nine children were lured onto a kelpie's back, while a tenth kept his distance. The kelpie chased the tenth child, but he escaped. Another more gruesome and macabre variation on this tale is that the tenth child simply stroked the kelpie's nose but, when his hand stuck to it, he took a knife from his pocket and cut his own hand off, cauterizing it with wood from a nearby fire.

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Pogeyan

The Pogeyan is a large grey feline known to local people living in the Western Ghats, India. Its name is derived from the local dialect, and means "The cat that comes and goes like the mist."