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Cryptids are animals that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science. Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience, which primarily looks at anecdotal stories, and other claims rejected by the scientific community.
Kentucky meat shower. OK, this one isn’t a cryptid, I know, but hear me out. In March 1876, meat rained down from the sky in Bath County. Two brave men, who were surely the scientists of their ...
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
Chupacabra (Latin America) – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock; Churel – Vampiric, female ghost; Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) – Malevolent seductress; Cihuateteo – Ghost of women that died in childbirth; Cikavac – Bird that serves its owner
Barnaby Jones, Cryptozoologist, author, founder of Cryptids Anomalies and the Paranormal Society, host of Monsters on the Edge podcast; John Keel (1930–2009), American ufologist and Mothman researcher; [1] author of The Mothman Prophecies
Heraldic image of a Yale.. Yacumama (South America) – Sea monster; Yacuruna (Indigenous people of the Amazon) – Mythical water people, with backwards heads and feet; Yadōkai – Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
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.
The Kalanoro is a humanoid cryptid, who are believed to live as spirits on the island of Madagascar. Tradition states that they used to live corporeally in the rainforests, but habitat destruction cause their corporeal forms to go extinct. [2] [3] Kalanoro are described as small and hairy humanoids with fangs. [2]