Cryptic Cryptids

[xiphoniii]

This is a club for all the Cryptid fans and enthusiasts out there. Whether you go out looking for them, watch the papers for suspicious sightings, or just like the idea of things like lake monsters, this is for you.

Um...conversation starter...favorite Cryptids I guess?

I've personally always thought Thunderbirds were pretty cool.

[Enn]

Mothman! Mothman Mothman Mothman. Those giant red eyes. The kinda-alright Richard Gere movie. The freaky stories around it. It's fascinating. I don't believe in it but it makes for really great fiction, and for creeping myself out at night.

SPOILER: Click to show

I literally have a bookmarks folder just called 'Weird Stuff' filled with things like cryptids, strange urban legends, all sorts of weird stuff. Find it oddly inspiring towards writing. <3

[xiphoniii]

Heh, that's a mighty fine folder then. Mothman's pretty great I'll admit.

[Komori]

Ohmigoodness, speaking of cryptids, there's this company called Third Half Studios that have the most adorable cryptid buttons and magnets: thirdhalfstudios.com/shop.php

I'm buying one of their purses with a jackalope on it. <3


And of the Cryptids, I think I'm most fond of Nessie. :3

[xiphoniii]

Oh man so CUTE!!!!

Also: Nessie's cool. I like Champ a little better, but that's just cause his name is Champ. He's basically the Nessie of Lake Champlain. I mean come on, a lake monster named Champ? How is he not cool.

[Killix]

Cryptids <3

Tsuchinoko comes to mind.

[Fang of the Dead]

My favorite cryptids are usually the really freaking terrifying ones like the chupacabra, Jersey Devil, or Mothman. I do have a soft spot for the sasquatches and their ilk around the globe, as well as "living dinosaurs" like the Mokele-Mbembe and the Kongamoto. Kasai Rex, however, is complete bunk, but there is the possibility of a creature called the burronjor in the most remote areas of Australia. I'm guessing it's not really a T-rex, but a species of crocodilian that evolved into a T-rex like form through convergent evolution.

After all, Australia isn't deadly enough already without a wannabe t-rex land croc.

[Draco]

Folklore has always been a favorite hobby of mine, and personally it's the cryptids and creatures and stuff that have always been the favorite.

Personal favorite is possibly the Kappa in Japan.

I own a Chupacabra...

Mothman isn't really that terrifying, well not himself that is. I don't really recall a case where he actually did anything XD But bad things do tend to happen when he's around.

I love the shows that talk about all this stuff, but I'm sort of getting sick of watching them because of so many of them being just episodes of some form of Bigfoot around the world or some sort of Nessie or ghosts... There are tons of those 3 things all over the place, and it gets a bit boring. I love the ones that are more unique XD

[Kepiloth]

How about the Dover Demon who appeared, scared some folks for a few days, and then vanished without a trace?

[Deleted]

I felt so sorry for that thing. As freaky as it was, it's honestly kind of adorable.

[Tudor Rose]

I've had an interest in Bigfoot ever since I was a little kid. I actually used to desperately wish I'd have a sighting, and I'd try to make any little unusual thing I found outside into "evidence"! The scariest photos of Bigfoot I've ever seen are the ones that I think are referred to as the Wild Creek Bigfoot photos. It's in all likelihood a prop from the looks of it, but it's so abnormally built and freakishly realistic that it spooks me. Oh, there's also the Florida Skunk Ape photos. They're absolutely terrifying, and it's kind of hard to rule them out as being fake.

I also find the legend of the Wampus Cat to be intriguing, mostly for its backstory. The story (well, one of them anyway) goes that a young Native American woman was transformed into a half-human, half-mountain lion creature by a medicine man as punishment for sneaking along to a meeting to hear him speak to the men of the tribe. That poor woman. Now she supposedly wanders the mountains of the southern United States. People believe that they've heard her shrieking in the night and of course some claim they've even seen her.

[Draco]

Yeah the Wampus Cat is pretty interesting. And it's getting a bit of extra popularity because of the whole Pottermore stuff.

Like I said earlier, not a big fan of Bigfoot, but that's mostly because of all the shows that tend to focus on it, and it's always the same evidence or none XD It gets a bit old XD But the idea of it is pretty neat. I mean there are different versions all over the place, from across the Americas to other countries. It's one of those creatures that is worldwide in some shape or form, so there has to be something going on.

In general I just like the unknown. It both creeps me out and makes me really interested. And if there's a good story behind it, that just makes it better.

[Tudor Rose]

There is a lot of compelling evidence out there about Bigfoot, and I can't imagine that everything has been faked. There does have to be something to it. It is true, however, that Bigfoot is getting overrated. I have to admit that now I've become more interested in the obscurer cryptids. There are a bunch of them mentioned throughout the Weird US series of books by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman (which are great; I'd highly recommend those). Some of the ones I can name off the top of my head are the Goatman, the Bunny Man, the Pig Lady, and the Beast of Bray Road, among lots of others.

There are also one-off sightings, which can be some of the strangest. In Weird New England, there was a story about a man in the 19th century encountering a creature that was about a foot tall and covered with hair. He supposedly caught it and took it home as a bizarre pet in spite of its loud screams of protest. Eventually it broke free or he let it loose or something like that, and no one ever knew what it was. 

[Deleted]

I have a few Weird US books, actually. Also, the Florida skunk ape photos you probably saw were probably just edited photographs of an orangutan. Then again, the different types of sasquatch are theorized to be surviving Gigantopithecus, which is a close relative of the orangutan. If you saw the the live action Jungle Book movie released this year, you'd just have to look at King Louie, who was changed from an orangutan, which never lived in India, into a Gigantopithecus, which did live in prehistoric India

[Draco]

Sept 2, 2016 14:05:35 GMT -5 @fangofthedead said:

I have a few Weird US books, actually. Also, the Florida skunk ape photos you probably saw were probably just edited photographs of an orangutan. Then again, the different types of sasquatch are theorized to be surviving Gigantopithecus, which is a close relative of the orangutan. If you saw the the live action Jungle Book movie released this year, you'd just have to look at King Louie, who was changed from an orangutan, which never lived in India, into a Gigantopithecus, which did live in prehistoric India

Oh, I didn't know they did that with the movie. That's cool. I still haven't gotten around to seeing it, but I did notice that he seemed larger then he probably should have XD That explains it.