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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 ...
Jarrell Bettis (also known as the Dog Boy, sometimes known as Gerald) was an urban legend that describes a sinister young boy in Quitman, Arkansas. [ 14 ] Bigfoot (also commonly referred to as Sasquatch ) is a folklore legend that describes an ape-like creature that is purported to inhabit the forests of North America.
Taxidermy altered to resemble a "jackalope" . Jackalope – Rabbit with antlers; Jack Frost - Personified of ice, winter and snow; Jack-In-Irons – Malevolent giant; Jack-o'-lantern (Medieval folklore) – Vegetal lantern
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 ...
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
Mapinguari, giant sloth-like cryptid of Brazil and Bolivia often described as having one eye; Odin, a Norse god (he was born with two eyes, but traded one for a drink from Mimir's well) Ojáncanu, one-eyed giant with a ten-fingered hand, a ten-toed foot, a long beard and red hair of Cantabrian mythology who embodies evil, cruelty and brutality ...
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