r/cryptids • • 3h ago

Creative Writing Can't seem to come up with a good name for a comedy series about cryptids and conspiracies

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The series will follow Jones Perlite as he tries to track down and document different conspiracies, dodging the authorities to expose the truth behind it all.

The best name I can come up with is "Tin Foil Monsters", do you guys have anything better?


r/cryptids • • 3h ago

Story Idk if I’m seeing shit, tweaking, or just super tired

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I work closing shifts at a supermarket, so I usually get home at around 11:30 PM. Nothing abnormal has really happened and I never believed in cryptids or anything. About 15-20 minutes ago I was driving home and I drove past this small patch of woods that always gave me an uneasy feeling about it, I felt like something in there was dangerous and unnerving, but this was when I was a kid. When I drove past this patch of woods today I saw about 30 feet in front of me a white grayish figure standing on two legs with no arms and the legs got thicker the further up they got and they curved underneath its slender head. I blinked and it vanished, I only saw it for a split second and I’m just brushing it off as being tired after a 7 hour shift. I live in a suburban central Florida town and there’s a lot of scattered woods around me, the city north of me is very well known for mothman.


r/cryptids • • 7h ago

Question Rocks went missing for years are now back

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Ok, so we live next to the woods, a mountain, river and reservoir in the northeast US. I’ve collected rocks 🪨 for years from hikes in the rainforests of Central America and placed them in my backyard. Little by little they disappeared over the years, so I assumed it was the grounds maintenance people who were stealing my rocks.

Recently, we went away on a 3-week family vacation and when we returned, I went to feed the squirrels and chipmunks and was shocked to see all the rocks piled up around a tree! There are like 50 rocks of various sizes all under the tree. 🌳 the question is why? And why now??? What could this mean? Anyone else experience something this weird? Could it actually be a Bigfoot? 🫈 or something else?


r/cryptids • • 12h ago

Gear / Merch / Collectible I have no clue what these cryptids are. These are from my new cryptid earrings that I just got today.

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r/cryptids • • 17h ago

Discussion AI artifacts in Capturing Bigfoot's "Mysterious Film" footage

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Everybody is so focused on the creature but the Man on the Horse scene is more telling.

The first part is the original and the second is slowed down. The third part is the Official PGF scan of Patricia Patterson's copy by Evans, published on his official "Capturing Bigfoot" YT channel.

  1. A pretty defined object appears above the rider's leg (in the yellow circle) that doesn't appear later.

It's not a part of his rain coat so what is it and where did it go ?

2) The left hind horse's leg ends up on the right side of the horse. Later the horses hind legs are all twisted.

It's not the motion blur because it's on the frames that are more clear. Later you can see in the original PGF that even with the moving camera things don't get this blurry.

Twisted limbs and hallucinated objects are basically the landmarks of AI video screw ups.

3) Inconsistent frame rate.

Slowing down the original PGF gives an unmistakable steady pace of changing frames. The camera is never perfectly still so each frame change is clearly seen. In this film, you have a pattern of 3 short frames followed by a long frame. You can see it in the slowed down part between the parts with circled artifact because those were obviously made longer so you can see the artifacts, or you can check it for yourself. You need to slow it down to 5-10%.

I don't know how this would happen with the camera Patterson did the PGF and it doesn't happen with the PGF so this points at AI fakery.

In addition:

Why is the video of the rider so short ? A possible answer is because when you want the AI to fake it you need to keep it short to avoid AI tells.

Everybody says it's Bob Gimlin. You literally can't tell from this how blurry it is from like 10 feet distance.

Why is the camera so shaky ? The only time the PGF gets this shaky is when Patterson jumps off of the horse but here he's standing in place here so what is he doing, jumping up and down like a lunatic ? Think about it for a moment.

Shaky picture also makes it harder to see the AI fakery.

Transferring AI to a celluloid film has already been done so it's far from impossible. They claim it's filmed on Kodachrome but Kodachrome was famous for its colors, this looks nothing like the Kodachrome colors of the original PGF, just see the last part, and regardless of what's on the film, the original PGF bears no resemblance to this footage.

PGF looks very clean and this looks like AI slop it is.

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"Three labs examined the footage and they said it's legit"

What are those labs and where can I read their statements ? I only read about it on Reddit so it's a hearsay. Did at least Evans say it ?

"Bill Munns said so"

Bill Munns also said the creature in PGF is real, after much examination, but you wouldn't believe him so why would you believe him about a film he briefly saw from Evans' hands ? At this point what Munns say is far from the hard fact.


r/cryptids • • 19h ago

Question Vote For Mothman

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r/cryptids • • 21h ago

Art Not Original Creator "Crushed" The Aftermath Of Mokele Mbembe vs The Kasai Rex by Henrique Gandum

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Original Post & Description:

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"Mokele Mbembe (Brontocanthosaurus congolensis) dragged a Kasai Rex (Kasaityrannus rex) underwater to crush the theropod to death. This submerging/diving behavior of the massive sauropod is something it evolved differently from other sauropod species. Now all the fish and the giant crocodilian Mahamba (Torvosuchus magnus) have a massive meal to devour. This one and much more illustrations will be in the upcoming Congo 1880 Bestiary."


r/cryptids • • 22h ago

Art Original Creator Cryptids/folklore handmade encyclopedia part 1-8 (page 8 is a brand new one)

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Some names had to be changed due to the subreddit's rules.

PART 1

1-Alien Octopoids - mollusk-like extraterestrials

2-Bare fronted hoodwink - unknown bird

3-Dirawong - large monitor

4-Dingonek - aquatic sabertooth

5-Lautoka dearves - semi-bipedal pangolin

6-Brosno dragon - highly-evolved large salamander

7-Snallygaster - atmospheric dinocarid

8-Giglioli's whale - humback whale relative

9-Shunka warakin - Dire wolf descendant

10-Dark watchers - light phenomenon

11-Iliamna lake monster - large sturgeon

12-Bukit timah monkey man - macaque relative

13-Thetis lake monster - Amphibious mutant

14-Lake tianchi monster - freshwater longneck seal

15-Gumberoo - bear-looking badger relative

16-Bat beast of kent - large short-necked bat

17-Hotheaded naked ice borer - antarctic mole rat

18-Beast of gevaudan - large marten species

19-Flashlight frog - luminescent frog

20-Arboreal abomination - sentient mycelium

21-Skunk ape - Giagntopithecus descendant

22-Chini lake kaiju - unussualy large invasive iguana

23-Ebissie - unussualy large carp

24-Green shark - mutant blue shark

25-Dingbat - taxidermy

26-Canvey island monster - monkfish

27-Silver lake serpent - unusually large invasive longfin eel

28-Bassigator - alligator gar relative

29-Barnacle tree - driftwood infested with barnacles

30-Underwater abominable snowman - large saltwater snakeneck turtle

31-British dragon - large chameleon relative (fanmade creation)

32-Minhocao - large caecillian

33-Achlis - moose relative

PART 2

34-Yellow Belly - stingray relative

35-Air rod - Sky-adapted radiodont

36-Glacier island carcass - saurian elephant seal species

37-Fresno pants - pants

38-Woods evil - Baboon relative

39-Flying flesh carrot - atmospheric gastropod

40-Dover demon - extraterrestrial humanoid

41-Ohio grassman - Gigantopithecus descendant

42-Waheela - extant bear dog

43-Twilight dragon of payette lake - extant plesiosaurid

44-Pascagoula elephant man - extraterrestrial humanoid

45-Aberdeen carcass - toothed whale species

46-Mussie - large otter relative

47-Arzamassian monster - extant pterosaur

48- Allier river monster - large salamander species

49-Hook island sea monster - eel-like shark

50-Beast of bray road - canid humanoid

51-Rhinoceros dolphin - 2-finned dolphin species

52-Milamo - extant terror bird

53-Log gar - alligator gar relative

54-Honey island swamp monster - gigantopithecus descendant

55-Tsuchinoko - fat snake

56-Kelly-hopkinsville goblins - extraterrestrial humanoid

57-Hakawai - unknown bird

58-Tasmanian globster - large sea slug

59-Cadborosaurus - large seal relative

60-Veo - pangolin relative

61-Giant anaconda - unusually large anaconda

62-Beast of bodmin moor - Invasive black panther

PART 3

63-Bermuda blob - decomposing whale carcass

64-50-foot congo snake - unusually large african rock python

65-Pukehina predator - extant zeuglodon

66-Stoa - extant carnotaurus

67-Old yellow top - gigantopithecus descendant

68-Pacific northwest tree octopus - arboreal land cephalopod

69-Boat hound -unusually large toad

70-Swansea eel - unusually large ribbon eel

71-Andaman wood owl - unknown owl species

72-Alaskan giant polar bear - unusually large polar bear

73-Central american whintosser - porcupine-looking weasel

74-Loutoulang - Hyaenodon descendant

75-Ninki nanka - extant shringasaurus

76-Nigerian firespitter - spinosaurus descendant

77-Crawfordsville monster - atmospheric dinocarid

78-Nagadaki marine reptile - extant ichthyosaurid

79-Squonk - peccary relative

80-Grafton monster - mutant

81-Zmeu - sapient draconid

82-Flatwoods monster - metallic extraterrestrial

83-Yara ma yha who - blood specialized frog

84-Ganges blue eel - large blue worm

85-Tasmanoan mock walrus - invasive naked mole rat

86-Flathead lake monster - extant metriorhynchus

87-Whirling whimpus - Chimpanzee relative

PART 4

88-U.F.O - extraterrestrial craft

89-Murray - monitor species

90-Dahu - chamois relative

91-Cumberland dragon - large chameleon species

92-Kongamato - extant pterosaur

93-Human blue - extraterrestrial humanoid

94-Sinkhole sam - large olm relative

95-Pollo maligno - terror bird descendant

96-Bear lake monster - archaic whale

97-Pressie - long-necked seal

98-Vaal river monster - large aquatic snake

99-Pyramid lake coelacanth - unknown coelacath species

100-Black bird of chernobyl - mutated stork

101-Fear liath moor - neanderthal descendant

102-Altamaha-ha - extant plesiosaurid

103-Hoop snake - unknown snake species

104-Black shuck - black wolf with rabies

105-Bansgee - paranormal entity

106-Mogollon monster - neanderthal descendant

107-Qayila donkey - extant calicothere

108-Dobhar-chu - large otter

109-Dewey lake monster - mandrill relative

110-Lone pine mountain devil - extant microraptorid

111-Charles mill lake monster - armless toad

112-J’ba fofi - large spider

PART 5

113-Sakhalin island sea wolf - semi-terrestrial zeuglodon

114-Duck-footed dum-dum - amphibious mammal

115-Thermozodium esakii - unknown tardigrade species

116-Tuttle bottoms monster - tailess anteater relative

117-Turtle lake monster - evolved sheelless turtle

118-Griffin - azdarchid-like raptor

119-Afanc - beaver-tailed gator species

120-Steller’s sea ape - limbless pinniped species

121-Puerto rican chupacabra - reptilian extraterrestrial

122-Enfield horror - 3 legged extraterrestrial

123-Arkansas gowrow - virginia opossum relative

124-Alula whale - unknown toothed whale species

125-Kinderhook blob - cluster of microorganisms

126-Yowie - human-like diprotodontid descendant

127-Lake van monster - extant freshwater pliosaur

128-Fur-bearing trout - Hoax

129-Nahuelito - large freshwater snake species

130-Osaka castle monster - giant salamander

131-MacFarlane’s bear - pizzly/grolar bear

132-Ataka carcass - extant radiodont

133-Sandown clown - artificial extraterrestrial

134-Flying ray - atmospheric ray-like jellyfish

135-Cave cow - extant ground sloth

PART 6

136-Bothrodon pridii - large unidentified prehistoric snake

137-Aiatar - wyrm with antlers

138-Lukwata - large african softshell turtle

139-De loy’s ape - large spider monkey relative

140-Roch ness monster - pike

141-Come-at-a-body - american porcupine relative

142-Pale monster - unknown humanoid

143-Dogigator - terrestrial crocodilymorph

144-Manticore - baboon relative

145-Mud mermaid - porpoise relative

146-Sheepsqatch - humanoid ram

147-Metal man - armored extraterrestrial

148-Goblin - proboscis monkey relative

149-Amphisbaena - 2 headed snake mimic

150-Beast of brunei - trilobite beetle species

151-Carmel area creature - featherless crane

152-A-mi’-kuk - large wolf eel species

153-Yeren - gigantopithecus descendant

154-Kerguelen islands horse - misplaced horse

155-Hiuko hiuko - unknown humanoid

156-Chernobyl mammoth chicken - large mutated chicken

157-Hawkesbury river monster - extant pliosaur

PART 7

158-Waitoreke - unknown monotreme

159-Trunko - albino southern elephant seal

160-Unicorn - extant sivathere

161-Mega rod - sky-adapted radiodont

162-Wanderlight - glowing insects

163-Black trebius - large sea robin

164-Á bao a qu - terrestrial colonial organism

165-Fiskerton phantom - unknown primate

166-Great brine shrimp - extant anomalocarid

167-Toronto tunnel monster - unknown subterranean humanoid

168-Pontatof - manta ray relative

169-Grootslang - extant platybelodon relative

170-Great salt lake whales - introduced humpback whales

171-Sazae-oni - large snail

172-Deepstar 4000 fish - deep sea basking shark relative

173-Tiddalik - large frog

174-Mbielu-mbielu-mbielu - large bichir species

175-Minotaur - extant calicothere

176-Orang Pendek - evolved orangutan

177-Salinella salve - dubious microorganisms

178-Cockatrice - extant oviraptorid

179-Fairy - extant anurognathid

PART 8

180-Cyclops shark - genetic mutation

181-Crowing crested cobra - undiscovered crested snake

182-Witkes - amphibious mammal

183-Germakochi - Neanderthal descendant

184-Ankylosaurus of katsuro desert - extant ankylosaurid

185-Dolphin 1 animal - unknown colonial organism

186-Lindworm - snake-like drake

187-Devouring gourd - odd looking plant

188-Aswang - undiscovered 4 winged bat

189-Pixie - micro-anuroganthid descendant

190-Bunyip - large undiscovered amphibious marsupial

191-Black water - human-mimic fish

192-Bulgu - elephant mutant creature

193-Man-eating boulder - terrestrial ammonite

194-Voronezh alien - mechanical extraterrestrial

195-Black carpet - deep sea colonial organism

196-Ircenrraat - humans

197-Lakw worth monster - Woolly sasquatch mutation

198-Cleary’s fish - undiscovered lancetfish relative

199-Snoligoster - Metriorhynchus descendant

200-Tripodero - sandpiper relative


r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Other I found this Old map that definitely needs an update

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https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/7EjvS4REWZ

I find it interesting since we found more Subspecies of Apeman around the world and some accounts seen different Cryptids (like Wendigo and Cupacapra) as Apemen too

So while I am not going to edit it without permission I absolutely would like to recreate it someday somehow


r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Story The Story of the Schwitzwald

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My old coworker, Dan [SURNAME REDACTED], once told me a story that he claimed was the main reason he refused to celebrate Halloween. He presented it as a chilling cautionary tale. The story was so completely bizarre and its supposed moral was such a non-sequitur utterly disconnected from anything that happened in it (aside from the date the story supposedly occurred on) that I've never forgotten it.

Just to be clear, this is not a piece of creative writing or a creepypasta. Dan legitimately told me this story with conviction in his eyes. He really seemed to take it seriously. The story has only survived as oral tradition for only a decade since he first told me. But now I have resolved to commit it to writing.

He called it The Story of the Schwitzwald (ie. the Schwarzwald, or Black Forest, in Germany).

According to Dan, there was once a family traveling through Germany on a road trip to visit relatives. It was the night of October 31st, Halloween, and they were driving along a rural highway when they encountered a road closure. With no other option, they were forced to take a detour through the Schwitzwald.

The forest was enormous, and as they drove deeper into it, the road became increasingly isolated. It was very late in the evening, pitch black outside, and there wasn't another vehicle or person anywhere in sight.

Then, somewhere partway through the forest, their car suddenly broke down.

The father got out with a flashlight, opened the hood, and began inspecting the engine, trying to figure out what had gone wrong. His wife and their two children remained inside the car, waiting for him to finish.

Several minutes passed. The father was still outside, and the family sat quietly in the car, surrounded by darkness.

Then, without warning, they heard a tremendous thumping noise coming from directly above them on the roof of the car outside.

THUMP. THUMP. THUMP.

It sounded as though someone was standing on the roof of the car, repeatedly striking it with a heavy mallet.

THUMP. THUMP. THUMP.

Terrified and completely bewildered, the mother and children scrambled out of the vehicle to see what was making the noise.

And there, standing on the roof of their car, was a hideous creature, something that appeared to be half man and half ape.

It had murdered the father, torn off his head, and was now casually dribbling his severed head against the roof of the car like a basketball.

And that, according to Dan, is why you should never celebrate Halloween.


r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Sighting / Encounter Transparent dog-sized creature with striped legs

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(Western WA state) My mom and I were coming home ~9:30 pm the other night, going down the gravel driveway to the house. We live a bit out there in the woods, so there's a few other houses along this driveway; we had almost passed the neighbor's house, maybe 200 ft from our house when we saw this thing.
My mom slowed down because there was this strange obscurity in the middle of the road, lit up by the headlights. It's very hard to explain, as it made no sense visually... it was maybe ~4 ft tall or so, just this strange looking moving greyish thing in the road, heading toward the left. For a split moment it almost looked like a moving shadow, but there was no overhead light... again, it made absolutely no sense visually. It's like it was transparent, but we could see it, and it was moving in a way that didn't make sense.

Then, as it went toward the woods on the left, we could see the outline of its hind quarters; it's like it became smaller at this point, about the size of a (big) dog. It didn't necessarily look like a transparent dog, but it had similar leg shape to a dog. This is very bizarre and unbelievable, but we could see right through this thing's shape, except for these visible stripes on its back legs. We couldn't really see the rest of the body, but we could see the 'outline' of the legs, and the stripes, as it went into the woods.

As my mom described it, it looked like the Predator camouflage from the movie! It's almost as if whatever it was, was taken very off guard by us, or as if it was losing its ability to camouflage or trying to become something recognizable.

This whole ordeal happened in less than five seconds. Just enough time for the brain to rationalize, not be able to find an explanation, go 'WTF is that?' then it was gone off into the woods.

Has anyone ever seen something like this?


r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Discussion More stories from my grandpa in Roswell

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In another earlier post, I talked about a few supposedly real cryptid plants my grandpa talked about when I was younger and lived in Roswell. I’m here again to just talk about a few other stories he told me when I was younger that I believed back then, both to just inform you all of these cryptids and to see if anyone else had heard of them.

The first are the Roswell Nightcrawlers, which are exactly as they sound: Fresno Nightcrawlers, just in Roswell. According to him, they are the alien equivalent of dogs, and that they’re owned by the Greys as pets. If/when they’re spotted, it’s usually because they’re simply being taken on a walk or being let out of the ship for a restroom break.

The second story he told me is that the entire, or at least a majority, of the homeless population in Roswell are actually shapeshifting aliens biologically disguised as humans. This was his alleged reason as to why so many homeless people (at least within Roswell) are adorned with the stereotypical “the end is near” signs, due to them having some alien knowledge we don’t.

The third is that Bitter Lakes has remained virtually unchanged geologically and ecologically from the Silurian era, resulting in giant aquatic insects and invertebrates still being native to the area after so long, such as trilobites, prehistoric amphibians, or sea scorpions that have adapted to freshwater lifestyles.

The fourth story my grandpa told me isn’t really something Roswell specific, but he told me about how if I left my fingernail and toenail clippings underneath my pillow, the “nail fairy” would come and collect them, leaving me money just like the tooth fairy.

The fifth and one of the most distinct/memorable story he told me was that the pond in Cahoon Park was inhabited by this supposed Unigator, an alligator with a unicorn horn. This is one of the first stories I can remember him telling me, and was one of the first things that got me into cryptozoology. It was so influential to me actually that I took a taxidermied alligator head and put a horn on it.

While not directly from my grandpa, my grandpa told me one of his friends (John I think it was) claimed they saw a gigantic kaiju sized discarded crab claw at Bottomless Lakes, one so large that at a first glance one might just assume it’s part of the geological environment.

The seventh story I can remember is that supposedly mayor Dennis Kintigh was actually a giant praying mantis/mantis-like alien who was wearing a skin suit of sort to disguise themselves as a human, in a Men In Black Edgar style.

This last one isn’t actually from my grandpa but instead my uncle, who told me that many of the birds you see overhead in Roswell aren’t actually birds, but instead tiny/miniature alien spaceships disguised as birds being piloted by tiny aliens.

These are the most notable stories or at least ones I can remember the most that my grandpa told me about when I was younger and tried to convince me were true, obviously to just get me to leave him alone at times, but if anything it did the opposite effect, because I would constantly bug him to tell me more. Obviously none of these are real, but I’m just asking anyone if they’ve heard any of these before, since I can’t really find anything about these online (aside from general conspiracy theories and the original Nightwalker sightings).


r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Discussion To all my bigfoot believers what are your opinions on these bigfoot like creatures (brothers & cousins) for example the Fouke Monster, Borrego Sandman, The Almas,etc

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r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Discussion Mothman Student Journalism Project

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r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Discussion Do yall see it too

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r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Video Crackpot Cases - Bessie of Lake Erie

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This is a fun skit about a Pennsylvania cryptid discussion by my character, Doctor Crackpot.


r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Video The Houston Batman Incident

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r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Art Original Creator "The Crypties", Strips 02 and 03 (OC)

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r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Sighting / Encounter Unknown creature?

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r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Cryptober Art Cryptober, Day 19: Sand Dragon!

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r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Photo / Evidence What in the actual fuck

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My buddy just sent me this picture from his game cams. I’m sure it’s just a normal deer from a weird angle or something like that, but I’d be lying if I said that shit didn’t creep me tf out.. maybe I’ll skip hunting this year.. just in case.. lmao


r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Book / Literature / Article So what the hell is this?

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Photograph of 'terrifying' mystery being sparks debate over animal attacks - World News - News - Daily Express US

I saw this story on drudge and came here for thoughts but didnt see anything. This looks more substantial than the ai slop that passes for evidence these days.


r/cryptids • • 1d ago

Video What do you all think about Potentially '' Aggressive '' Cryptids ?

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r/cryptids • • 2d ago

Art Original Creator Cryptids/folklore handmade encyclopedia part 7

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r/cryptids • • 2d ago

Meme / Humor Champ!

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Long time listener, first time caller, sorry if this has been posted, but I saw Champ the other day lol I like the U-Haul fun state factoids on the side of their trailers has Champ on one of them.