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Many scientists have criticized the plausibility of cryptids due to lack of physical evidence, [7] likely misidentifications [8] and misinterpretation of stories from folklore. [9] While biologists regularly identify new species following established scientific methodology, cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the folklore record and ...
Pope Lick Monster (American Folklore) Kentucky Urban Legend – Cryptid, a murderous creature that is part man, sheep, and goat; Popobawa – One-eyed creatures bat-like; Poubi Lai (Meitei mythology) – Evil dragon python from the Loktak lake; Pouākai – Giant bird; Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain) – Ghosts of especially greedy people
The term cryptid is used by proponents of cryptozoology, a pseudoscience, to refer to beings that cryptozoologists believe may in fact exist but have not yet been discovered. This category is for notable examples of entities that cryptozoologists have considered to be cryptids
Most of the information on these cryptids was compiled by Ron Coffey who wrote the book, “Kentucky Cryptids: ‘Monsters’ of the Bluegrass State.” Coffey has authored several books on ...
Darren Naish (b. 1975), British palaeontologist and cryptid skeptic; author of Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths and Cryptozoologicon [1] [9] John R. Napier (1917–1987), primatologist and Bigfoot researcher [1]
Ivan Bilibin's Alkonost The Egyptian Ammit, who eats the wicked dead in the afterlife, has the body of a lion and hippopotamus and the head of a crocodile.. Á Bao A Qu – Entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor.
Phantom P-40 Airplane/pilot in its original form the pilot is a survivor of the 1941 Battle in the Philippines who wages a one-man war against the Japanese until his heavily damaged aircraft crashes in China; [78] a modern variation is that he crashes after flying from the Philippines to Pearl Harbor.
A German woodcut of a Werewolf from 1722. Waldgeist – Forest spiritWana-games-ak – Water spirits; Wangliang – Malevolent spirit or monster; Wani – Crocodilian water monster