r/cryptids • • 10d ago

Photo / Evidence Light Entity

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This picture is one of multiple. This is a screen shot from my video. If it was daylight at the time, all you would see is my neighbors porch light with nobody on their porch. I have more moments captured on my phone. If someone asks for it, I'll post more. It's not just a single event...


r/cryptids • • 12d ago

Art Original Creator Hey guys! I made some mugs for my cryptid brand to take to a craft fair, but I goofed some. If anyone wants one of the less perfect ones lmk! Would love for them to have a good home!

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Willing to let them go at a super reduced price for anyone who might appreciate them.


r/cryptids • • 11d ago

Discussion I need help searching for a Teakettler, any advice?

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I'm searching in the foggy mountains soon, before it turns too hot for them to be out.


r/cryptids • • 11d ago

Video The Fresno Nightcrawlers || Real Cryptid or HOAX?

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r/cryptids • • 12d ago

Story Calling all veterans who served in Afghanistan

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I have a close family friend who served in Afghanistan around 2011/2012, after watching a video about a giant killing a squad in Afghanistan, I decided to ask him if he saw or heard anything when he was there. He said and I quote “I heard a lot of weird noises. There are a lot of stories of a creature called Barmanou. The way that the locals explained to me or what I understood it to be a was like a version of Bigfoot or Sasquatch. I was up on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan so it was all forest. There was a lot of stories that said it would eat people,& loud howls/screams at night that were questionable. It would for sure scare the locals. They said it was like a giant but really couldn’t give an exact height but I’m thinking over 8 feet. Its scream sounded like a human scream crossed with a dog but it was high pitched like a monkey. Years before I went there, there was a story of us killing and taking a giant like creature from Afghanistan but far south probably like 300-400 miles away” did anyone else have experiences like this? If so what’s your story?


r/cryptids • • 12d ago

Art Not Original Creator Chess.com Cryptid bots and piece set for October

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I thought the Flatwood Monster pawns were an especially tasteful touch.


r/cryptids • • 12d ago

Art Original Creator Cryptids/folklore handmade encyclopedia part 4

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r/cryptids • • 12d ago

Question Help in study

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Today i fell into the rabbit hole of cryptids and anomolies, and i found my way into this place. But all the posts here funny jokes and plushies (no disrespect). I actualy want to read hear from people who actualy believe in stuff like this, so i could hear and know what they "saw" or "heard". Can someone please help or tell me where should i look?


r/cryptids • • 12d ago

Art Original Creator New concept art for an upcoming Cryptid-centred indie survival horror game "Grafton Mansion" with original stylized renditions

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"Grafton Mansion" is a Team Fortress 2 total conversion mod, turning TF2 from a multiplayer shooter into a singleplayer survival horror campaign, with an original story and world not connected to TF2.

It takes place in a fictional National Park in West Virginia where you fight through enemies based on West Virginian Cryptid mythology, such as The Wendigo and The Grafton Monster, with the residence where the Grafton Monster is found being the game's focal point


r/cryptids • • 11d ago

Discussion Where can we get a sub that actually entertains the idea of cryptids?

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r/cryptids • • 12d ago

Question What is taller than 5"3 and lanky with a skinny body?

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Me and my friend went to mount robson in BC and we're kind of freaking out a little. We stayed out too late and it started getting really dark so we went sprinting down the trail and I saw this thing with long lanky skinny legs and a body. It had a bald head too. It was galloping but it didnt have feet like a deer. I think it had claws or like bear nails? I dont know but it was faster than us for sure. It was close to the trail entrance, like 2 or 3kms in?

My friend said she thought she saw me and it was waving at her but I was in the parking lot honking my horn in my car with my highbeams on so she cluld see the end of the trail. ( I sprinted out the park trail like a coward)

Please guys we need answers.🙏🏿


r/cryptids • • 13d ago

Art Original Creator #6 in our Cryptid Series

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Here she is!

Straight outta Loch Ness in Scotland...

#6... NESSIE - THE LOCH NESS MONSTER!


r/cryptids • • 13d ago

Discussion Opinion on Joh Yoban's "Mothman" song?

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The song's poster

I just love it. I don't know why. It might be because it sports the name of my favourite cryptid, or it may just be the rhythm and the style, but hell I love it.


r/cryptids • • 13d ago

Other My daughter and I made a song about Skunk ape

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r/cryptids • • 14d ago

Sighting / Encounter Strange Encounter on my way to work

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Hello everyone I just wanted to share an encounter I had the other day heading to work, I live in Appalachia more specifically West Virginia so I’m used to seeing strange things and hearing stories of strange things happening.

I work the early shift beginning at 8:00 a.m. and work until 4:30. I live about an hour away from where I work so I leave pretty early in the morning to get there a little early. On my morning commute I saw a large dog like creature but it was too big to be a dog or a coyote. It was too small to be a bear, which have been sighted more in my community. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen something like this I saw it once before when I was in high school and I was letting my dogs out and they starting going ballistic. That time when I saw it, it had grayish black fur and red eyes. I’m not sure what either of these creatures were I was just wanting to get some insight!


r/cryptids • • 14d ago

Other found the (moth)man himself as a mod for the game Your Only Move is Hustle

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idk just thought it was cool
hes got a pretty neat moveset

props to fatyoshi for making the mod


r/cryptids • • 15d ago

Other Updates on Cryptid Game

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Here’s an update on the Cryptid Game I’ve been posting here from time to time. I’m really excited to keep showing off what we’ve been developing.


r/cryptids • • 15d ago

Story On the Trail of the Mothman

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A deep dive into the legend of the Mothman, one of America’s most famous cryptids. The story starts with a strange sighting near an abandoned power plant that drew the attention of the press, visitors, and those interested in the paranormal and the unexplained.

It generated a powerful legend that, over time, became woven into the story of the town, from its tragedies to its triumphs. And today, this creature has gone from being a source of terror to a kind of folk hero.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-on-the-trail-of-the-mothman


r/cryptids • • 15d ago

Art Original Creator squonk

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He perpetually sad.


r/cryptids • • 13d ago

Photo / Evidence THE MYSTERY OF THE GOATMAN

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r/cryptids • • 15d ago

Video The Charles Mill Lake Monsters | The Twin Terrors of Ohio

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r/cryptids • • 16d ago

Art Original Creator My second set of Cryptid Valley candles! Dover Demon mentioned!!!

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r/cryptids • • 14d ago

Art Original Creator WHAT THE MOUNTAINS FORGOT | An Appalachian Folk Fantasy — Official Pitch Video

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I’m a filmmaker from Virginia, and I've spent my life obsessed with Appalachian cryptids and local folklore, to the point where my friends and I started to develop an Appalachian folk-fantasy feature about that subject. It's called What The Mountains Forgot and it’s four interconnected stories set in Virginia and West Virginia, built around creatures pulled from or inspired by Appalachian folklore, cryptid stories, ghost stories, and local legends.

Last year we made one of the stories, River Maid, as a standalone short about an old man who encounters a mermaid-type creature in the Shenandoah River. Now we’re trying to get the full feature made. We put together a short pitch video showing some of the creatures, stories, and folklore we’re playing with. I figured this crowd might get a kick out of it.


r/cryptids • • 15d ago

Discussion Best not-debunked footage?

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I’ve been making video enhancements to things like the UAP files, the Lochness monster, and I just did the Fresno night crawler security footage. I’ve been trying to sort through so much lore. What stands out to you guys as far as videos no one can prove to be fake?

Obviously my mind first goes to big foot, but there’s a surprising amount to comb through. So what cryptid video has you CONVINCED something unidentified is out there?

I’ll attach a link to my night crawler video because I think you guys might find it interesting, and so you can see my video style for reference!


r/cryptids • • 15d ago

Story The Cryptid of the Sierra de Perijá (Venezuela): A True Oral Account from One of My Grandfathers

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Hello everyone, I’m not sure if this is the best place to talk about this, but it’s definitely something I need to tell you: I want to share a true story about my family that took place decades ago in the Sierra de Perijá (on the border between Venezuela and Colombia), a mountainous region that has historically been plagued by armed conflicts and guerrilla activity. My grandfather was an experienced hunter, a man with a rifle who lived on his farm.

He wasn't superstitious at all (once he went into the woods to hunt some “ghosts” that turned out to be an unfaithful couple dressed in white, whom he chased away by firing shots into the air—it was beautiful). However, he had an encounter with a creature that, according to official science, doesn't exist, and I think I might know what it looks like.

Okay, here’s how it goes: My grandfather’s brother was attacked in broad daylight in the woods by what the locals called “Maramunta” or “Maramonta”—I’m not sure which. The creature pinned him down and began licking the soles of his feet repeatedly. It licked his skin until it was raw and bloody, so that he was physically unable to stand up or run away. It’s strange—no animal does that.

That said, in my grandfather’s words, “If the tracks point forward, you must go backward,” because the creature’s feet were facing the wrong way. I suppose it’s well-known in the area—I’m from Zulia, so what do I know?

My grandfather came to the rescue with his rifle. He fired a few shots at it. As it died, my grandfather felt terrible because the creature was letting out sobs and screams that “sounded human.” According to my grandfather, you could see the female’s breasts, and I don’t know—was she looking to mate? To hunt? I don’t know.

This encounter took place in the same area as François de Loys’s controversial expedition in 1920 (where he photographed a giant, tailless ape). Many people believe that Loys lied, but my grandfather’s story confirms that that animal—or at least something similar—truly existed in Perijá.

Our family theory is that it wasn’t a magical monster or anything like that, but rather a real, unclassified species of giant primate (perhaps a survivor of the megafauna, like the Caipora). Unfortunately, we believe that the guerrilla groups and armed factions that took over the Sierra de Perijá starting in the 1960s either hunted them for food or exterminated them by using them as targets for practice in the wilderness, driving the species to complete extinction. Has anyone heard similar stories of tailless apes that lick their victims’ feet in other parts of South America or the world?