Favorite cryptids? I'm pretty fond of this guy
>>5070300>it's real
Since I gotta have some buckeye pride, the Loveland Frogman's gotta be my pick. I just find the idea that there's a big bipedal frog dude chilling somewhere in Southwestern Ohio hilarious.
>>5070300
>https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Deepstar_4000_fish
>>5070683That's clearly a guy
interdimensional bigfoot
El chupacabra
For me its ennedi tiger
>>5070300>The Indigenous people of the area, the Butchulla, called this creature the Moha Moha and according to their stories it was very dangerous and would sometimes attack people at the water's edge, biting their legs off.Does this count as footfaggotry?
>>5070936>leftBear>bottomBear? Dog?>rightRaccoon or dog
>>5070967THIS.Based Tailypo fren
The Slide-Rock Bolter is the best cryptid on account of how unbelievably stupid it is. Its basically just a giant mouth that hangs out on top of mountains and waits for someone to walk by, then it slides down the maintain and eats them, destroying everything in its path. It uses its momentum(???) to reach the top of the next hill where it repeats the process.
>>5071281Is it normal to see a huge black dick in this image anons ?
>>5070300I believe in the Mongolian death worm. They said it was 2 feet long which is completely reasonable for a worm and i can believe a burrowing worm stays hidden in the gobi desert. The part i don't believe is the effectiveness of the acid it supposedly spits but that could easily be the guys who saw it making shit up to make a pretty mundane animal seem more dangerous than it is
Fresno Nightcrawlers
>>5071487sussy
>>5070827I always loved the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUSL1njm84
Anyone ever heard of the Black Stick Men?Honorable mention to Atmospheric Jellyfish
>>5071484Wasn't it confirmed by locals to just be a sand boa?
>>5071487gondola(e) in their natural environment
>>5071573That is one of the hypothesis for what it was but not confirmed
>>5070936Wasn't the original chupacabra some sort of fucked up spiked alien-looking creature?
>>5070827That's just a janny
>>5071609Yeah, it was the OG Chupacabra before it became shorthand for "OMG MANGY 'YOTE!!11!11"
Minhocao from Brazil is a crazy shit
>>5072213Is that like a giant caecilian?
>>5072253either that or giant lungfishmost likely extinct due to habitat destruction as there were no sightings after earliest 20th century
>>5072261Just like werewolves!
For me it's the Mongolian death worm
>>5072213>zoo tycoon 2lol
>>5070300>Favorite cryptids?Really fond of the Partridge Creek Monster. I'm already a big fan of dinosaur cryptids, but the comparatively "modern" description of the creature gives the story an auspicious authenticity to it. The Partridge Creek Monster is described as having bristly boar-like fur covering it's body, being an active and energetic predator even in the cold, and having a more bird-like posture despite the time periods insistence on dinosaurs having lizard-like qualities and posture.
>>5070855Allegedly, the crew's reaction to seeing the giant fish were caught on camera, but not the fish itself.
>>5072605>caught on cameraaudiotape, not camera. hence why the fish isn't on it
>>5071609That’s the puerto rican chupi
>>5071634this, gringos ruin everything, they started killing Xoloitzcuintle dogs and calling them chupcacabras, now the claim the chupacabras legend originated in texas because some made up injun story
>>5070300My favourite cryptid is satan
>>5070855>HMMM YES WELL THIS FISH YOU *ALLEGEDLY* SAW IN AN UTTERLY ALIEN ENVIRONMENT WAS DEFINITELY THIS OTHER RANDOM FISH THAT DOESN'T MATCH YOUR DESCRIPTION AT ALLWhy are they like this? Skepticism is important but just say there isn't enough information to go on and leave it at that. Someone could go into space and see a xenomorph and some bearded eurofag would say it was obviously a woodlouse.
>>5072890So how did they react to seeing a 30 foot coelacanth?
>>>/x/
>>5071281I love all the fearsome critters equally
>>5072213that's just a tsuchinoko that Japanese immigrants brought to Brazil in the early 1900s, they went feral and naturalized during the unrest in the 30s
>>5073229cryptids are more /an/ than /x/
Tsuchinoko was real and went extinct in ww2
>>5073266Elaborate
>>5073269It was a skink with even more reduced legs. Their population was pretty small (a recent and very inbred import) and WW2 destroyed what little habitat they had.
>>5073258This. Cryptids range from /x/-tier "nigga please, there's no way that's real" on the one end, to "so it turns out the mountain gorilla is real, guys" on the other.
>>5073229Have you been to /x/ anytime in the last five years? They don't talk about cryptids anymore dude. It's just mental illness.
>>5070683>>5070827>>5070967>>5071281>>5071487>>5071565>>5071634>>5072445Not real cryptids
>>5073396I hate it so much. /x/ was my first main board after /b/ from like 2006-2010. Even then it was getting bad, now it's unbelievable how bad it is.
>>5071281kekstill you have to wonder what that tall-tale was on about back in the day.
>>5073529Rockslides probably
>>5070300kinda plebeian but i like the wendigos that mimic people's voices to lure them into the woods
>>5073396>It's just mental illnessIn fairness, that's every 4chan board at this point.
>>5073548Wendigos are not cryptids
for me it's beebe's abyssal fish, which are probably some of the genuinely extant but undiscovered cryptids.>>5073548wendigos and skinwalkers as people talk about them these days are just greentext urban legends for zoomers. in reality wendigos are a cultural way to explain human cannibalism in the remote wilderness and skinwalkers are a secret society of navajo human witches
>>5073784Yeah nothing about these guys seems out of the ordinary for abyssal fish (well, whatever the fuck "ordinary" means in that hellhole)
>>5073784A giant dragonfish would be badass
Cryptids are the ghosts of extinct animals
>>5070300Skinny American Nonfat Americanlololololol
>>5073183Don't gloss over thw fact that the witnesses are experts and know how to differentiate their shit
>>5070300There's a Florida urban myth about a carnivorous pink fog near Daytona that dissolved people's flesh in seconds
>>5075267That happened to me once
>>5073468What is up eith your pic?
That dinosaur in the congo river
>>5075267no there isn't
>>5073455Most of what people think are cryptids outside of Bigfoot and it's variations are usually things like Mothman, Indrid Cold, Jersey Devil and the Fresno NightcrawlerThe term is muddied now because people kept conflating the definition of Cryptids with "Spooky Magical Monsters that people claimed they saw" but I've seen people who genuinely care about the topic try to combat and correct the people who get Skinwalkers and Wendigo's mixed up and think Not Deer are a real thing [spoiler] Wendigoons cryptid iceberg fucking sucked [/spoiler]
>>5070855> :0Even submarine-chan was surprised
>>5071609>>5071634Yes, the dogs with mange are unironic coverups. Every single hispanic kid I knew in the LA county school system knew the thing as a weird bipedal demon-thing. >uhhh it's a hairless dog guyz we totally solved it nothing to see heresick and tired of fedops
>>5070304the jaws on that skull look like crocodile jaws or a heron bill, so it makes me think of a predator that quickly darts its head forwardthis means the snout/trunk would get in the way of hunting so I don’t think it’s plausible
>>5078036It's an inaccurate rendering from 1915, but the creature is real, it's a spinosaurus
>>5070304>>5078041this is actually a real image from 1915? I always thought this was a joke
>>5078237I thought so, but now you've got me wondering. It feels like I've seen it in a book, but I could be misremembering
>>5078041>>5078237>>5078311It IS a joke. This is the oldest instance of it being a thinghttps://www.deviantart.com/yoult/art/Spinofaarus-vegatiacus-363958667
>>5078343I find it funny that it was made to poke fun at the people who post it constantly now
>>5072894Ancient lore
>>5073784Someone should get this info to Gaben. He can sail his new yatch out to Bermuda and find these fish for real. We got drones now, would be so easy to just go out and confirm them.
>>5070855Spooky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magosphaera_planula>the ameba bomb
Bigfoot was real and i'm tired of pretending that he wasn't
>>5079611Microscopic cryptids at least have an excuse to be missing because who the fuck is gonna scan every corner of dirt to find an ameoba bomb or a completely new phylum of animal (pic related)?
>>5070683Guy Wearing Two Headlamps by Claude Monet circa 1916
>>5079626I think Bigfoot is an interdimensional teleporter, which is why I don't believe the stuff about juvenile bigfoots and bigfoot families kidnapping people. I think of them like that one pasta about the guy who slipped on a rock and narrowly avoided being yanked into an invisible portal by a bigfoot that spoke English.
>>5071281Based Tribes inspired cryptid Shazbot
>>5070300I've always liked the Loch Ness monster, specially after Pokémon, what with Lapras and all
>>5079756Retard Bob Gymlan always fails to talk about this one.
>>5079756Bigfoot is an interdimensional teleporting humanoid capable of speech, fluent in and habitual speaker of English, who abducts fit and intelligent German-speaking men of college age through portals, and also often harasses campers at night by throwing rocks and doing an impression of an angry Chinese man. I want to try to assume that one of these things is a hobby and the other is a job or some sort of purpose, but does that mean the Chinese harassment is the purpose, and the operation paperclip thing is the hobby? Or the other way around.
>>5079830Amazing idea for a movie with James Franco and Seth Rogen. James shows up to Seth, his old college roommate's place after years, telling him he sent him an email about getting back in touch and joining him for a hiking trip. Seth tries to make him leave but is exhausted by his life of adult problems and decides to take him up on it. James seems crazy, but is actually a fairly experienced outdoorsman, and they plan an ambitious trip. They end up getting nabbed by bigfoot and find out that if you get abducted by him, you get to/have to BE BIGFOOT. James finds this amazing they teleport around, moving unseen through the world, they fart in the president's face and go to Area 51. Seth is convinced that he should have been living free like James, and vows never to go back, but eventually realizes that James doesn't have all the things that he himself has been taking for granted. In the end, he parts ways with James and goes back to his girlfriend, telling her he was abducted by bigfoot. Later on, Seth is hiking for his bachelor party with his boring friends, and gets abducted by JAMES! They run riot one more time. In the final scene, Seth is in the great outdoors with his son, telling him about the enigmatic Sasquatch when a rock lands at their feet.
>>5079832The main goof with the bigfoots is that when they're not invisible, the abducted people look like bigfoot from the perspective of anyone else. There's a scene where James gets it on with an abducted hot chick hiker, and an old man sees two bigfoots doin it crazy style across some rapids. They find out that different people were recording them during different scenes, and when Seth goes home, he finds out. There's a scene where Seth is watching it on the news with his girlfriend, who thinks he was abducted and is taking it very seriously, and Seth has to try not to laugh as they show the bigfoot footage, which is him and James doing wacky stuff not knowing they're being recorded.
I remember reading about accounts of 6 foot tall orangutans on some island in SEA. I think this could easily be a now extinct species of the pongo genus that was larger than the bornean orangutan
>>5073455Fearsome Critters are cryptids.
>>5070683I appreciate the post, the folklore is ridiculous and it would be great to meet an IRL Slippy from Starfox.
British big cats are my favorite. Some wild animals that no one's really been able to conclusively prove or disprove is much more interesting a phenomenon to me than people arguing about supernatural shit that might as well be pokemon at this point.
>>5080053Moose in Fiordland in New Zealand are also interesting stuff. They got brought for hunting and allegedly all shot but people had numerous observations and tracks of them some of them very recent
>>5070300Orang Pentek and Mapinguari
>>5079611When i heard the name "amoeba bomb" i imagined some kind of microscopic organism that could actually explode like a grenade when coming into contact with some kind of material that could trigger a chemical reaction in its bodyKinda disappointed that's not the case
