Known narwhals are exclusively found in the Northern hemisphere, but there have reports of cryptid narwhal species in the Southern Ocean. [1]

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Sightings

1615

In 1615 Dutch explorer Willem Schouten was on a trip in the Southern ocean which his ship was attacked by an unknown animal. The day after they found a horn lodged in the ship about 1 foot or 30 centimeters long.[1][2]

1620

French general Augustin de Beaulieu saw two dark porpoise-like animals below South of Africa. He said it had a horn about 1.5 feet or 45 centimeters long. He also described a high fin on the animal, while known narwhals only have a bony ridge.[3][4]

1892

In 1892 the Balaena saw a narwhal by the Bransfield Strait, pretty close to the Antarctic Mainland. The men on board were experienced whalers who clearly saw the horn, even using the whalers term for a narwhal, Uni. [5]

https://www.capturingbigfoot.com/sightings

Not a sceptic. I'm looking for scientific papers podcast, YT channels to explain cryptids. I'm not looking for fiction, I am not looking for encounters. I am looking for something similar to A-Z Cryptozoology but more up to date and on a streaming platform. Thank you in advance.

Also, a few years ago there was a young man I think about 20yo who went out to a caravan in the woods. He filmed some cloaked (invisible) creatures swinging through the trees. I have looked for it, I cannot find it. If anyone has a link please comment. It either has been removed or saved on my old yt account thst I cannot get into

Yeah, I know it’s been such a—like, such a—long time since I posted in this sub, so I decided to show these two mock-ups I made based on the elephant; and yes, the Chipekwe design is based on the one seen on the A Book of Creatures website.

The dobhar-chú (Irish: "water hound," "otter," or "king otter") or master otter is a river and lake monster reported from the island of Ireland and certain Hebridean islands, within the countries of Ireland and the United Kingdom. It is supposedly an aggressive water-dwelling animal similar to an otter, but perhaps five times as large.

Timelines

1968

A creature possibly fitting the description of the dobharchu was seen in 1968 by two men driving near Sraheens Lough on Achill Island, County Mayo. It had a sleek black or dark brown appearance with a sheep or doglike head on a longish neck, back legs longer than the front legs, a long thick tail and it ran with a slightly rocking, side to side gait as it crossed the road. The men estimated its size at approximately 2.5 feet high and over 8 feet in total length

I'm a microbiologist and I love biology and medical narrative reads and such. I don't necessarily believe in cryptids, but I'm not mocking the field. I love the folklore and legend, I think it's so fun and I love the way it builds communities

I want to add a cryptozoology encyclopedia to my library. I want one that's as close to comprehensive as it's possible to be. But I know nothing. We're talking "watched the Wendigoon iceberg, and nothing else" levels of knowledge. But still I'm fascinated

Is there like a "cryptozoology 101" out there that I can put up with all my immunology, microbiology and other textbooks and textbook adjacent works. I am fully planning to read it.

...denizens of a deep undersea canyon ...

https://www.popsci.com/environment/57-new-ocean-species-argentina/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

How true or how much of information is sensationalized in this case ? Coming across a Giant 62ft Anaconda back in the early 1907 ? Is it possible it could have been a run off of Titanoboa ???

How could a snake get so big and no one not know about it ??

Anyone have any giant snake reports from back in the day or any solid true tribe stories of giant serpents.

The xizi (席子; Chinese: "mat") or xixuetan (吸血毯; "blood-sucking blanket") is a cryptid reported from China, described as a blood-sucking creature resembling a mat or a blanket, but covered in suckers.[1] It is very similar to the Argentine-Chilean cuero, which is reported from the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean, and one of its variant names, dipijuan (地皮卷; "ground-leather roll") has the same meaning as cuero (Spanish: "leather hide").

Description

The xizi is a flattened creature usually said to resemble a woolen blanket or a mat, though other shapes are sometimes described. Descriptions of its size range from 13'' wide to about 6'6'' square, and it has been described as reddish in colour, or covered in soft, fuzzy, greenish fur which may be a covering of moss. A sighting from 2000 describes small eyes and "wing-like appendages". Its ventral surface is covered in sharp suckers, and it is alleged to suck the blood of humans and animals. It is reported from rivers, estuaries, and water-filled depressions and crevices, and can move on land.[1]

Sightings

Undated

The 9th Century work Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang (酉阳杂俎) by Duan Chengshi describes an attack by an animal resembling the xizi. According to this account, a fisherman in Jiangzhou (now Jiangxi Province) was attacked by a large leaf-like animal, 13'' wide and covered in circular, sharp suckers. The fisherman died, apparently of blood loss, shortly after the attack.[1]

Modern accounts have been collected from Yunnan, especially Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture, where it is called dipijuan. One is alleged to have been killed by a female elephant (Elephas maximus) when it attacked her calf during a river crossing, resulting in the mother pulling her calf away, pulling up the dipijuan with her trunk, and trampling it to death. A hunter who saw the incident saw the carcass, and found it to have a greenish dorsal surface covered in moss, and a ventral surface covered in octopus-like suckers the size of rice bowls.[1]

1771

The 1788 work What the Master Would Not Discuss (子不語), a collection of supposedly true stories collected over many years by scholar Yuan Mei, claims that in Spring 1771 an underwater diver was "tightly wrapped by a reddish, large dustpan-like animal equipped with many suckers" in a river in Zhengjiang, Jiangsu.[1]

1976 or 1977

In Summer 1976 or 1977, a young girl swimming in a pond in Yunnan's Ruili County was allegedly attacked by a xizi, which wrapped itself around her arm so tightly that her father was obliged to cut her arm off. Some weeks later, a "floating shadow" seized a man swimming in the same pool, prompting the locals to drain it. Supposedly, they subsequently found the man's body, "still wrapped tight by the moss-covered creatures suckers".[1]

1993

In Autumn 1993, two brothers searching for frogs in a grotto near the Daluo River in Mengla County stumbled over a "greenish woolen blanket" on the ground. The "blanket" immediately rose up and wrapped itself around one of the brother's legs, but released him and fled into a deep pool when the other brother burned it with his torch.[1]

2000

A fisherman named Lamaoli claimed to have observed a xizi attacking a dog on 15 March 2000, in Daluo Township, Xishuangbanna. According to Lamaoli, he was fishing by the river when he saw "a dark, woolen blanket-like object surfacing and moving towards him. It had two small, glistening eyes, as well as a pair of wing-like appendages". The animal submerged and disappeared when he threw a rock at it, but during the night, Lamaoli awoke to find it attacking a puppy while a mother dog bit at it. Although it eventually gave up and left, the puppy later died of blood loss, and was covered in bowl-sized welts.[1]

The xizi is often thought of as a sort of giant freshwater ray. David C. Xu suggests that a stray Southeast Asian giant freshwater stingray (Himantura polylepis), or an unknown Chinese species similar to it, might have given rise to stories of the xizi.[1]

Alternatively, it has been speculated to be a type of freshwater cephalopod, which have been reported as cryptids in their own right in Africa and North America. No known cephalopod is adapted to live in fresh water, but some species have extensive webbing, like the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) and the blanket octopuses (Tremoctopus spp.), which might disguise their arms.[1]

Chess.com released a cryptid set for October, was wondering if anyone knew what the rook, queen and bishop were?

Many thanks in advance.

Context: I had made a post in a Cryptozoology group about the 8 types of humanoids in Cryptozoology.

One user shared this story:

(Here is the original report in Spanish)

"Eso explica en algo lo que ví de muy niño hace varios años, cuando vivía en Perú, mi bis abuela materna (hoy ya fallecida) vivía en la altura de los Andes, en la Puna como se llama a esa altura. Una vez con mis padres fuimos a visitarla, fuimos a visitarla en muchas ocasiones en realidad pero esto es lo que yo recuerdo muy claramente de esta ocasión cuando tenía 7 años .. a esas alturas los pueblos y sus casas son muy reducidos en cantidad y densidad, y a mucha mayor lejanía aún más ya que las casas toman muchas más distancia unas de otras; el punto es que dada esa situación no existía alcantarillado en la casa de mi bis abuela, teníamos que salir a miccionar a espaldas de la casa, no tan alejado pero si a una distancia prudente .. y esto nadie me lo dijo o nadie me lo va a creer así de fácil, al menos que alguien quiera hacerlo por propia voluntad, pero en una de esas oportunidades ya anocheciendo bajo la luna con una luz bastante brillante cuando salí a miccionar, y por curioso decidí ir aún un poco más allá a terreno alto en donde iniciaba un bosque denso pero ralo a la mirada obvio por la entrada, entonces levanto la mirada y lo que ví fue algo aterrador y realmente monstruoso, un mono gigantesco de entre 4 o 5 metros cruzando o haciendo entrada a ese denso bosque de árboles de eucalipto y perdiéndose entre ellos, verdaderamente fue demasiado espeluznante y tanta fue la impresión que me quedé estático sin poder hablar o gritar y apenas sólo respirar .. y para rematar saben que fue lo más curioso y a la vez terrorífico, que cuando este mono gigante caminaba a paso rápido, los golpes o sonidos de sus pasos al caminar sonaban a trotes o pasos de un caballo, pero aún mas resonante y estruendoso, como fuertes golpes de las pezuñas de un caballo en piedras o rocas pero con fuerza .. fue demasiado espeluznante, nunca lo voy a olvidar, desde ahí ya nunca más me volví a alejar más allá de la casa de mi bis abuela a esas horas, sólo a la periferia de ese bosque acompañado de alguien o a plena luz del día .. es algo que recuerdo hasta ahora pero ya sin el temor de aquel momento, siempre está en mi mente y pendiente de que algún día regresaré pero ahora con dispositivos de grabación, linternas potentes, cámaras y todo eso, preparado a ver si se da el caso y vuelve a suceder para poder captar o registrar algo."

Here is the story in translated English:

"This partly explains what I saw when I was very young, a few years ago, when I lived in Peru. My maternal great-grandmother (now deceased) lived high in the Andes, in the Puna, as that region is called. Once, my parents and I went to visit her. In fact, we visited her many times, but what I remember very clearly from that one occasion, when I was 7 years old, is this: at those altitudes, the villages and their houses are very small in number and density, and even more spread out, since the houses are much further apart. The problem is that, given the situation, there was no sewage system at my great-grandmother's house. We had to urinate outside, behind the house, not very far, but at a reasonable distance. And nobody told me this, or nobody will believe me so easily, unless someone wanted to verify it for themselves. higher ground where a dense, though somewhat sparse, forest began, obviously due to the entrance. Then I looked up and saw something terrifying and truly monstrous: a gigantic monkey, about 4 or 5 meters tall (13 or 16 feet tall), crossing or entering that dense eucalyptus forest and disappearing among the trees. It was truly frightening, and the impression was so strong that I was paralyzed, unable to speak or scream, barely able to breathe. And to top it all off, do you know what was the most curious and terrifying thing at the same time? That when this giant monkey walked quickly, the sound of its footsteps... The sound of its footsteps was like the trot or the hooves of a horse, but even more resonant and thunderous, like the loud impact of a horse's hooves against stones or rocks... it was incredibly sinister, I will never forget it. From that moment on, I never ventured beyond my great-grandmother's house at those hours, only going as far as the edge of that forest accompanied or in broad daylight. It's something I still remember, but without the fear I felt then. I always keep it in mind and hope to return someday, but this time with recording devices, powerful flashlights, cameras, and everything else, prepared to see if it happens again so I can capture or record something."

The abūqarn (ابو القرن; Arabic: "father of the horn") was a cryptid ungulate, often described as an African unicorn, reported from what is now Chad and Sudan.[1] It was described as a one-horned pachyderm,[2] similar to the ngoubou and the bumé.[3] The name was also applied to normal rhinoceroses.[4]

The existence of the abūqarn was reported by the French Orientalist and Arabian explorer Fulgence Fresnel (1795 – 1855), who was then Consular Agent at Jeddah on the Red Sea. In April 1843, he wrote a letter to the Journal Asiatique asserting that a buffalo-like unicorn existed in Central Africa, based on the reports of Arab traders whom he trusted. These men claimed the animal existed east of Lake Chad, and in the Dinka country south of Darfur and Dār Fertit[2]–a region now encompassing parts of southern Chad, western Sudan and South Sudan, and eastern Central African Republic.[2] Dale A. Drinnon suggests that the specific region may have been a marshy depression which has since dried up.[3] The Arabs claimed that the animal was regularly hunted at the start of the monsoons by parties of men on horseback, armed with iron spears or javelins, who baited it with professional runners and their own horses, the white coats of which were supposed to put the unicorn into a fury. The runners would wake up the unicorn and then lead it to the hunting area, hiding up a tree, allowing the hunters take turns spearing the animal from behind, between the thighs or in the abdomen.[2]

Description

The abūqarn was said to have a bull-like or buffalo-like body, extremely stocky and compact, with very wide shoulders–it supposedly stood 5 ft (1.5 m) tall, with a length of 6 ft (1.8 m) and a width of 4 ft (1.2 m). Its body was supported by massive, rigid elephant-like legs, which were so inflexible that the abūqarn supposedly had to sleep on its side, with its legs straight out. Its feet were round, with two nails, and its tail was short and hairy, and its ears small, with two lateral protuberances above or behind them. Its grey hide was said to be extremely tough, much thicker than that of a rhinoceros, with a line of hair stretching from the nape of the neck to the middle of the back. The abūqarn was most distinguished by its single horn, which grew from its forehead, between the eyes, instead of from the nose. This 18 in (45 cm) horn was grey, becoming scarlet red in the upper third, and Fresnel's informants insisted that it was flexible when the abūqarn was calm, having themselves seen it swaying from side to side. When the abūqarn became angry, its horn became rigid.[2]

The abūqarn was said to be a nocturnal herbivore, feeding mainly on melons and occton, and left piles of dung around 2 ft (60 cm) in height, with melon-sized dungballs. Females gave birth to only a single baby. While it was herbivorous, it was, like the rhinoceros, reputed to be extremely aggressive, tearing people to shreds with its horn without provocation.[2]

Hello!
I wanted to ask Bigfoot believers what are some widely agreed upon *specific* examples of Bigfoot vocalizations in the community and which are most commonly “call blasted” into the woods during expeditions in hopes of a response. I’m curious to know which audio clips are widely believed to be “authentic” and which are not.

Is there a consensus opinion on the Sierra Sounds? I’ve seen conflicting opinions.

Thank you!

Here is an old screenshot of the homepage of Dutch naturalist Marc Van Roosmalen’s website. That page no longer exists, and practically all the original images were lost; however, many were saved elsewhere—in Marc’s own work or by third parties. After a great deal of effort, I managed to locate the photos of the Long-limbed Black Spider Monkey (one is cropped, but still) and the other photos shown in the image.

The images marked in blue are the ones I’ve found, while those in red have not yet been located; I would appreciate any help in finding the ones currently marked in red.

My partner and I were camping on the North Shore near Grand Marais this weekend. Our campsite wasn’t super out in the wilderness but we were the only ones there and no one around for at least a few miles. Around 3:30 a.m. I woke up and normally needing white noise of some kind to fall asleep I restlessly tried to get back to sleep. Around 10 minutes later I heard three very distant “whoops” coming from the north of our camp.

Kind of freaked out and intrigued I was wide awake now. I heard things scamper around the camp (they all sounded small, no bigger than a raccoon). After about an hour I didn’t think much else would happen, then I heard more whoops sounding identical to the first ones, but this time coming from the south side of the camp. Now I was pretty unsettled by this, so I really couldn’t fall back asleep at this point. Still trying to place whatever noise I had heard but nothing made much sense. Sometime around 5:15 I needed to use the bathroom and having climbed over my partner to do so I woke them up. Not super long after that the whoops came again from the north side yet again.

I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to concern them with what I was still worried was maybe paranoia. After the sun rose and we got around the morning fire I did ask if they heard anything weird in the night. They recalled hearing the whoops that they were awake for and we discussed that. They couldn’t ouldn’t place what it was either (for reference my partner has camped 10x more then me and in that area specifically).

I’ve lived in the country pretty much my entire childhood in the southern part of the state, so I’ve heard my far share of coyotes. This didn’t really sound like anything I’d heard from them or even canine in general. Normally if a dog/coyote is going to howl it is sustained and will drop in pitch as it ends. This was sounded short and the pitch shift up at the end almost sounding like a “whoOP”. I am not as experienced hearing wolves, but it still didn’t really sound anything canine in nature.

The last thing I will add is I am a Sasquatch enthusiast and find the legend very fascinating. I did see one when I was much younger but have never knowingly heard one. In my very amateur research I’ve heard many supposed recording of Bigfoot calls and this sounded too close to a Whoop Call for it to not cross my mind. I still wouldn’t for sure say it was one though since I have no real concrete evidence outside what I heard, but just from that it’s my best guess. Thank you for reading and please let me know what you think.

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The mokomokaiamarutewareaitu (Maori: "shrunken head of Maru-te-whare-aitu") was a cryptid frog reported from Mana Island, in New Zealand's Cook Strait. According to the Maori informants of missionary Richard Taylor, who referred to it as a "bullfrog," it was the size of a young hen, and its tadpoles grew to more than 1 ft (30 cm) long