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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.
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
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 ...
Ivan T. Sanderson (1911–1973), paranormal writer and cryptozoologist [1] [46] [14] Esteban Sarmiento, primatologist and Bigfoot skeptic [40] Peter Scott (1909–1989), co-founder of the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau [48] Daniel O. Schmitt, American anthropologist who has performed research on Bigfoot video evidence [5]
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.
The gallinipper is a cryptid in the African-American folk tradition. [1] These creatures were said to be a species of giant mosquitoes so big that their bones could fence a 140-acre field. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] A popular telling of the legends has the creature get its bill out of a tree trunk, with the animal being large enough to clear 140 acres of land ...
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