Legendary Cryptids

Cryptoctober Day 31: Giant Jellyfish

In the 1950s, an unnamed diver encountered a massive animal rising up from the depths. It was the size of an acre in circumference and a dark brown color. It paralyzed a shark before absorbing it and returning to the deep.

🎨Robert Woodard

A sasquatch standing near the mouth of a cave. Sketch art by Don Rice.

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The Sasquatch Finds a New Home

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Cryptoctober Day 30: Underwater Abominable Snowman

During a dive near the Bahamas, diver Bruce Mounier encountered a bizarre creature with a long neck and a monkey-like face. It rotated its head around like a snake to watch the man before speeding off

🎨NemoralisArt

The Amazing Giant Black Fossa — Tetrapod Zoology Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?

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Cryptoctober Day 29: Tratratratra

Upon arriving in Madagascar, governor Étienne de Flacourt described reports he heard of a strange animal. It had a round, human like face, feet like a monkey, and a size around a small cow. It's speculated that these were surviving giant lemurs

Cryptoctober Day 28: Xwoxwá:ya

During an interview in the 1960s, a Skwah man named Albert Louie told an anthropologist about the existence of a strange and dangerous venomous animal larger than his hand. They were crab-like and larger than a man's hand.

🎨Tim Morris

Cryptoctober Day 27: Feihu

In Southern China come legends of a creature known as the feihu or flying tiger. It's described as a massive gliding animal with wings like a bat. It hides in bushes before jumping out to attack people, often drinking their blood

Cryptoctober Day 27: Feihu

In Southern China come legends of a creature known as the feihu or flying tiger. It's described as a massive gliding animal with wings like a bat. It hides in bushes before jumping out to attack people, often drinking their blood,

Cryptoctober Day 26: Lough Dubh Monster

A strange animal found in Ireland, this cryptid was fished up by an unfortunate man one day. He said it was very large like a cow, had a white horn on its nose, and was covered in hair.

🎨Robert Woodard

YouTube video by Truth is Scarier than Fiction U-Boats vs Cryptids

NEW VIDEO

There are a surprisingly high number of stories about u-boats coming into contact with, and even fighting, giant cryptids during the world wars. These are the harrowing stories of U-boats vs Cryptids

youtu.be/kmrZijxR7rc

Cryptoctober Day 23: Pinchaque

Gompotheres were a large species of elephant that went extinct an estimated 12000 years ago. But in Colombia there were reports of massive four legged animals with a large trunk as late as the 19th century. Large dung balls were also reported

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Part of Bigfoot Times Oct 2025 ish.

Cover of Meldrum's book Sasquatch: Legendary Meets Science.

Covers of Meldrum's two pamphlets on hominid cryptids.

The new ish of Bigfoot Times has arrived, and it's fully devoted to the premature death of Dr Don Jeffrey Meldrum, the primary academic advocate of bigfoot's existence... and, right now, the last. Meldrum has multiple obits in the press now. RIP, a sad loss.

Cryptoctober Day 21: Flying Crustacean

In 1912, a zoologist in the Philipines noticed strange crawfish like animals "flying" out of the water. They were about half a foot or 20 cm in length. The crustaceans would glide above the water like flying fish

🎨IllustratedMenagerie

@bestcryptids.bsky.social This one is real, right?

Cryptoctober Day 20: Sun Dog

In the early 1900s Hyatt Verill was gifted a strange animal connected with the ancient legends of the "sun dog". It had strange facial markings, a long tongue, and a lower jaw that jutted out past its upper one.

2005 Ginger Bigfoot In California

Cryptoctober Day 19: Ndendecki

A lesser known cryptid heard about during expeditions to find the mokele mbembe, the ndendecki is described as a massive turtle. It's maximum shell size was estimated at 15 feet or 4.5 meters around.

YouTube video by Truth is Scarier than Fiction Terrifying Encounters with T-Rex Cryptids

NEW VIDEO

From Alaska to Australia, there have been reports of massive living t-rexes terrorizing people and animals in remote areas. Could these dinosaurs, or an animal like them, still be hidden somewhere?

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In Costa Rica, Christopher Columbus encountered a bizarre animal called the begare. His crossbowman shot a strange animal Columbus likened to an ape, but larger and with a more human face. The animal also seemed to use its tail as a weapon,

cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Begare

Cryptoctober Day 13: Kongamato

The kongamato is a winged African cryptid known as the "overturner of boats". Controversially speculated to be a living pterosaur, it's known for dive bombing and attacking people in the water. It's described as a lizard with bat-like wings

The guy actually got a pretty close look at it, enough to see that it was the thorax specifically glowing

Cryptoctober Day 12: Bioluminescent Spider

After becoming lost in Myanmar, a man was shocked to see a strange glowing light. After approaching it, he found it was a spider with a glowing body, something no known species of spider can do.

🎨Robert Woodard

Cryptoctober Day 9: Fisher pig

Old documents in Hungary once referred to a strange type of pig that would catch fish and crabs in the rivers instead of grazing on vegetation. The species allegedly went extinct at the end of the 19th century and no depictions are known to survive

Cryptoctober Day 8: Egyptian bear.

Although bears are believed to have only inhabited Northwestern Africa in recent times, there are occasional reports of them in Egypt. An Italian physician once reported that small, white furred bears lived and were tamed there in the 1700s

Cryptoctober Day 7: Waitoreke

Described as a beaver or otter in apperance, the waitoreke is a small but interesting New Zealand cryptid. New Zealand has no known native species of *any* land mammal, so the waitoreke is unlike anything on the islands.

🎨Tadashi Shirakawa

Cryptoctober Day 6: Hairy monitor

One of the weirdest crossover cryptids, the "hairy monitor" is a Malian cryptid witnessed by several people in the 1960s. Eyewitnesses describe it as a large monitor lizard with chocolate brown hair that lived in a cave.

Cryptoctober Day 5: Arica Monster

In the early 2000s, Chile was rocked with reports of a weird bird/dinosaur/kangaroo looking monster attacking livestock. It moved with massive leaps and had large thighs. It's estimated speed was almost 60 mph (100km)

Art: JTellezSalty

This is beautiful! Love the concept, Planet of the Apes-esque