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Sri Lanka Skunk ape [58] Stink Ape, Myakka Ape, Myakka Skunk Ape Primate: Florida, United States Yeren [59] [58] Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman Primate (possible hominin) China Yeti [60] Abominable Snowman Large and hairy human-like entity, various other descriptions Himalayas (Asia) Yowie [57] Large and hairy human-like entity, various other ...
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
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
A large Mothman sculpture stands along Main Street Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 in Point Pleasant, W.Va. More than 40 years after the first reported sighting of the mysterious creature later dubbed ...
Another theory is that the nittaewo could have been a Sri Lankan population of Negritos, a race native to the Philippines who are about 2 in (51 mm) shorter on average than the Veddahs, who he suggests may have inhabited Sri Lanka before the arrival of the Veddahs. South and Southeast Asia were subject to a great number of racial migrations ...
Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death; Gagana – a miraculous bird with an iron beak and copper claws; Gandabherunda – two-headed magical bird; Garuda – known as the primordial bird and the progenitor of all birds; vehicle of Lord Vishnu; Hakawai – bird that was sometimes heard but not usually seen
Oblivious to the traffic passing overhead, a large creature lurked under a bridge in Ecuador. The “cryptic”-looking creature hunted for food, sought out mates and generally went misidentified.
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, [1] particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe.