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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 ...
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
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.
Get familiar with Kentucky’s cast of cryptids. ... West Virginia beginning in 1966 and had a spate of somewhat consistent sightings in the area until 1967. The creature has been described as a ...
Bigfoot (American Folklore) – Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid. Binbōgami – Spirit of poverty; Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) – Fish-like humanoid; Biwa-bokuboku – Animated biwa; Black Annis – Blue-faced hag; Black Dog – Canine death spirit; Black Shuck – Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
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
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Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842–1927), French zoologist and early proponent of a cryptid in Lake Chad [1] Marcello Truzzi (1935–2003), skeptic [ 21 ] and founder of several research groups including the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)