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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the desk-adjacent book piles of today...

Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In 1802, cryptid researcher Pierre Montfort mentioned reports of giant crocodiles 60 ft (18m) long in Madagascar. Later reports would identify this as the railalomena or father of crocodiles, and also say it had a horn. It's thought to be a living voay robustus- or a dinosaur

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What kinds of strange creatures did our ancient ancestors see? Across various pieces of art thousands of years old are weird unidentified and terrifying animals. These are the hidden cryptids in ancient artwork. youtu.be/0vjlYPCVWz0

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

NEW VIDEO North Korea is a land shrouded in mystery, but we have a surprising number of cryptid reports from the country. From a man eating blue tiger to a mysterious dinosaur-like animal that dwells in a volcanic lake, these are the forbidden cryptids of North Korea. youtu.be/hayflt5fGP8

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New pterosaur manuscript ACCEPTED. Congrats to my fantastic co-authors :) News coming soon.

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Does anyone have a contact with ornithology researcher John William Duckworth? Have a question for him

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

From a large red ape to a giant shark seen at the bottom of the sea, there are a number of unusual pieces of evidence for strange animals. They've remained mostly obscure-until now. These are the backstories behind the rarest pieces of cryptid evidence. youtu.be/0jnwFEkNAIw

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 10/08/2026

Checking out books on Cryptozoology this week over on the site, including this amazing book by Willy Ley, a portion of which inspired the coining of the term "Cryptozoology." www.vintagerpg.com/2026/08/will...

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Willy Ley’s Exotic Zoology (1959) - Vintage RPG

Willy Ley's infectious scientific curiosity seems long lost these days.

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Africa is home to a number of fascinating yet obscure reports of dangerous bigfoot-like cryptids. From giant stone throwing apes in Morocco, to mysterious nocturnal creatures in South Africa, these are the bigfoot of Africa. youtu.be/Rf-HI2dsld4

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The DEADLY Bigfoot of Africa

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Scooby Doo's famous "create a monster to scare people off property" plots were often loosely based on real stories. Take this 1926 story of a woman who was harassed by a shaggy furred apeman. She believed it was a person in a costume trying to scare her to lower her home value

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In 1978, a report on the laughing owl of New Zealand was published. In it an alleged photo of the animal, extinct since 1914, was mentioned. However, its now lost media. The wildlife director mentioned in the article, Ralph Adams, also recently passed away. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/p...

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Across North America come reports of massive creatures that resemble the believed extinct ground sloth. Could they have survived in the Northern hemisphere longer than fossil evidence shows? youtu.be/X9b0lHN6usc

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

NEW VIDEO Americans have a longstanding tradition of hunting cryptids. From bigfoot, to river monsters, to giant polar bears, to a strange green furred creature, these are real stories of Americans taking on mysterious creatures. youtu.be/bgLMiZ7xLWQ

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Across the world come reports of bizarre, sometimes dangerous, frogs. From screaming "golf ball" frogs, to ones with fangs, to frogs the size of bears, these are the cryptid frogs of the world. Happy Frogthers Day! youtu.be/D4lIrbGweZU

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

In North America there is a reoccurring terrifying story in multiple lakes. Underwater divers will come face to face with giant monsters in the deep. They've even been connected with disappearances. Could there really be massive fish in the water? youtu.be/_QTSreHmc0Y

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In 1993, fisherman Lyle Dyslin pulled up a rather strange catfish. It had a flat head, a flat tail, a dog-like face and almost feet-like fins. After taking a photograph, he threw the fish back into the lake. Theories on what it was range from a long extinct species to a mutation

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Bernard Heuvelmans was once sent reports of giant lizards in Vietnam that were able to run on their hind legs at great speed. He compared their running to frilled lizards speculated that they may be some kind of small living dinosaur.

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

In 1960s Lebanon a young man reportedly encountered a giant snake near Castle Byblos. He estimated the snake's size was about 45 feet or 14 meters in length. This was the last time he decided to explore the castle's ruins

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Chad Lewis @chadlewis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Sundays Should be Weird! Join me in Oak Creek, WI for some of the weirdest stories from our past. Bizarre deaths, peculiar people, mysterious creatures, psychic phenomena and it's FREE!

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The Twelve Types of Cryptids I've Encountered

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Mystery Animals of Suffolk @mysteryanimals.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The recently published “Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives” has 2 pages on “Cryptozoology” which it describes as “a relatively recent pseudoscientific discipline”, then lists 16 accounts of “modern mammoth” sightings from 579AD in China, to a 2012 video from Siberia. @bestcryptids.bsky.social

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Biologist Roy Mackal once came up with an interesting theory about the possible survival of the dodo. Mauritius, where it once called home, has a handful of small surrounding islands. He believed the dodo could live there, though post-extinction sightings happened on the mainland

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In China and Chile there are scarily similar reports of a cryptid that preys on people. They are massive creatures that ambush people and drink their their blood. There have been sightings of them for centuries, but is there any truth to these reports? youtu.be/hvtJ7SCi5_Y

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The Bloodsucking Cryptids That Hunt Humans

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

In honor of the late Mark Hall I remade his "Guide to North American Monsters" map from his Wonders newsletter.

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Three separate people have reported a strange "variant" of the Loch Ness Monster. It is capable of going on land, and has the shape of a camel with a long neck and shaggy fur. It was famously seen by Lieutenant McP Fordyce, though a William MacGruber and his sister also saw it

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I talk a lot about the father of cryptozoology, but I'd like to shoutout the mother of cryptozoology too. Monique Watteau was married to Bernard Heuvelmans and, despite their divorce, she collaborated with him and drew a lot of fantastic artwork of cryptids for him

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

NEW VIDEO Lake monsters are frequently reported around the world, but sometimes people also see these creatures moving from the water onto land. Here are the stories of these rare and scary encounters with bizarre cryptids. youtu.be/L34iJKeN7XQ

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When Lake Monsters Go on Land

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In honor of May the 4th, here's the infamous "Chewbacca Saquatch" photo taken on Mt. Rainier. You can see what may be the wookie's iconic bandolier in the photo, leading to it being hotly debated.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

"For the first time in more than 100 years, evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota was documented in video captured by the University of MN's Voyageurs Wolf Project (youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU). The videos, shared with the MN DNR by the project researchers, show a female cougar with 3 large kittens"

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First footage ever of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

William Beebe and Otis Barton encounter a giant fish in the Bathysphere- 1934.

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

NEW VIDEO The UK and Ireland have centuries of cryptid history, but today only a couple are well known. I uncovered dozens of obscure reports of strange cryptids on the isles, from graveyard dwelling mammals, to blue horses, to mysterious bloodsucking serpents. youtu.be/Gi3OwjiyObY

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Get your tickets for Strange Central 2026 on 18 April 2026 @conwayhall.bsky.social Our day of ghosts, monsters, UFOs, and more. 12 am: @tetzoo.bsky.social speaking on Sea Monsters Past and Present Tickets and details: forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/02/stra... 4/8

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A new government leak just uncovered what is THE BEST bigfoot video to date, showing what seems to be a bigfoot family somewhere in Washington State. This has been kept classified and hidden from us for over 50 years until this recent leak

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

British citizen Sally Dyke displays wound she received from a big cat. Her and her husband had been looking for one after reports spread through England in the 1990s. They ended up finding one in a cemetery, and the startled feline knocked over her husband and slashed at her

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

NEW VIDEO After almost 60 years, the Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film has been exposed as a hoax. The son of the man who took the footage has come forward after a new video showing a "test run" of the suit has been found. youtu.be/bOmQbkTid14?...

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The Patterson Gimlin Film Was Exposed as a Hoax

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A lone almasty cries in despair as an airplane flies overhead. Unknown artist ~2006

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

An alleged photograph of the "Fiordland moose". Not native to New Zealand, moose were released there over a century ago for hunters. While reports of them gradually tapered off, occasional sightings have led people to believe that moose may have established a colony there

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

There are dozens of cases of cryptid lost media, photos, videos and audio recordings of animals that may or may not exist. I investigated over forty of these cases to analyze if this evidence might be found one day, or if the whole thing was a hoax. youtu.be/GLKXmVjZ9O8

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

In 1887, an Iowan man named Lee Corder was accosted by a giant serpentine flying creature. The animal's scales were said to glisten in the sunlight. It landed with a thud nearby, but Corder was too scared to follow it. A local newspaper said that he was a man who could be trusted

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

From The Cryptid Archive Duboisia santeng is a rare example of a prehistoric animal which was both named after a cryptid, AND was earnestly connected with that cryptid by its discoverer. Eugene Dubois named it after the santeng, an alleged tiny buffalo with chilli-shaped horns.

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A friend of diver Jacques Cousteau once reported seeing a fish with a red and white checkerboard pattern while on a dive. Cousteau thought he didn't get enough oxygen- until he saw the same fish on another dive weeks later. 🎨by Tim Morris

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

You may have seen this photo of the Myakka skunk ape before. But you may not know of the mysterious backstory it has, and the letter that came with it. From a scientist who may not exist to a disease carrying ape, I analyzed the strange story of the skunk ape photos. youtu.be/LTtWmyJoD1E

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A hunter encounters a living ground sloth in South America. One government administrator, Ramón Lista, claimed to have encountered one that shrugged off several bullets. He compared it to a giant pangolin with hair instead of scales

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

It'd be cool if the history channel covered the death of Kenyan leader Koitalel. During a negotiation with the British leader Richard Meinertzhagen, he was betrayed and killed in an ambush. According to local historians, Koitalel's head was eaten by a nandi bear

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The dodo, passenger pigeon, and great auk are well known symbols of extinction. But are they really extinct? There have been dozens of mysterious sightings of these birds well after they're thought to have disappeared, and even some alleged photo evidence. youtu.be/MEQHKAMPrXg

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

From the State of Washington to the remote parts of Venezuela, there are reports of giant upright terror birds attacking people. Could these massive birds still be hiding out in remote areas? youtu.be/EVq4ub8J7xc

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The Cryptids That Hunt People: Terror Birds

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A trailer for a fifth season of Monsterquest has dropped, 15 years after the show went off the air. Unfortunately I was not a fan of what we've seen so far, and this video explains why. youtu.be/_OPWfYdzYqs

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The New Monsterquest Looks BAD

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Legendary Cryptids @bestcryptids.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Across the world come reports of massive bear cryptids. From mysterious giants in the far north, to a "hedgehog bear" in the United States, to unconfirmed bear attacks in Africa, there are many strange reports of new species of bear. youtu.be/g81c9IWkoUw

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The DEADLY and Bizarre Bear Cryptids

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