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| x Adjule | Wolf-like | Sahara | Théodore Monod | 1928 |
The Adjule, also known as Kelb-el-khela, is a purported canine cryptid, claimed to inhabit the North African region, especially the areas in and around Sahara Desert in Mauritania. Reported primarily by the nomadic Tuaregs, and Théodore Monod in...
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Ape-like | East Africa | Captain William Hitchens | Captain William Hitchens | 1900 |
The agogwe is a purported small human-like biped reported from the forests of East Africa. It is 1 to 1.7m tall with long arms and long rust-coloured woolly hair and is said to have yellowish-red skin under its coat. It has also been reported as...
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| x Ahool | Bat-like | Java |
The ahool is a flying cryptid, supposedly a giant bat, or by other accounts, a living pterosaur or flying primate. Such a creature is unknown to science and there is no objective evidence that it exists as claimed.
Like many cryptids, it is not well...
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| x Akkorokamui |
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Sea monster | Funka Bay |
Akkorokamui (アッコロカムイ) is a gigantic fish-like or octopus-like monster from Ainu folklore, which supposedly lurks in Funka Bay in Hokkaidō. It is said that its enormous red body can be seen from a great distance. It is possibly a giant squid or an...
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| x Almas |
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Ape-like | Caucasus |
The Almas, Mongolian for "wild man," is a purported hominid cryptozoological species reputed to inhabit the Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of central Asia, and the Altai Mountains of southern Mongolia. The creature is not currently recognized or...
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| x Altamaha-ha | Snake-like | Altamaha River |
The Altamaha-ha is a posited aquatic creature alleged in local mythology and folklore to inhabit the myriad network of small streams and abandoned rice fields near the mouth of the Altamaha River (after which it has been named) in southeastern...
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| x Batutut | Ape-like | Vu Quang |
The Batutut or Ujit, sometimes also known as "forest people", is a proposed hominid Cryptid, reputedly similar to the bigfoot, thought to inhabit the Vu Quang nature reserve and other wilderness areas of Vietnam, Laos and northern Borneo. The Vu...
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| x Bear Lake monster | Lake monster | Bear Lake |
The Bear Lake Monster is a mythological lake monster appearing in local folk-lore near Bear Lake, on the Utah–Idaho border.
The myth originally grew from articles written in the 19th century by Joseph C. Rich, a Mormon colonizer in the area,...
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| x Beast of Bodmin | Cat-like | Cornwall |
The Beast of Bodmin, like The Beast of Exmoor, is a phantom wild cat which is purported to range in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings with occasional reports of mutilated slain livestock: the alleged...
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| x Beast of Bray Road | Wisconsin |
The Beast of Bray Road (or the Bray Road Beast) is a cryptozoological creature first reported in the 1980s on a rural road outside of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The same label has been applied well beyond the initial location, to any unknown creature from...
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| x Beast of Busco | Lake monster | Churubusco |
The Beast of Busco is the subject of a legend in Churubusco, Indiana about an enormous snapping turtle named Oscar which terrorized the citizens in 1949. Despite a month–long hunt that briefly gained national attention, the Beast of Busco was never...
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| x Beast of Dean |
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Zoomorphic amalgam | Forest of Dean |
The Beast of Dean, also given the colloquial name 'Moose-Pig', is a cryptid, reported to live, or have once lived, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It is said to resemble a wild boar (Sus scrofa), but abnormally large in size.
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| x Big Bird | Bird-like | Rio Grande Valley |
Big Bird refers to a mysterious creature(s) that was sighted several times in the Rio Grande Valley of deep South Texas during the mid 1970s. The bird was described by witnesses as being five feet tall, having a huge wingspan of up to 12 feet and...
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| x Bloop |
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Unidentified sound | South America | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | 1997 |
The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.
The...
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| x Brosno dragon |
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Lake monster | Lake Brosno |
The Brosno Dragon, also known as Brosnya, is the name given to a lake monster which is said to be inhabit Lake Brosno, near Andreapol in West Russia. It is described as resembling a dragon or dinosaur, and is the subject of a number of regional...
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| x Bukit Timah Monkey Man | Ape-like | Singapore |
The Bukit Timah Monkey Man, commonly abbreviated as BTM, is a cryptid of Singapore said to inhabit the central forested Bukit Timah region. Its exact identity is unknown, and its existence disputed.
Alleged sightings of the animal are rare. Records...
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| x Burrunjor | Therapod-like | Outback |
The Burrunjor is a cryptid rumoured to live in the Australian desert. It is said to resemble a therapod dinosaur. It is a little known cryptid and is most thoroughly researched by Rex Gilroy and documented in his books on Australian cryptozoology.
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| x Canvey Island Monster | Sea monster | Canvey Island | Canvey Island | Nov 1954 |
The Canvey Island Monster is the name given to an unusual creature whose carcass washed up on the shores of Canvey Island, England, in November, 1954. A second, more intact, carcass was discovered in August, 1955.
The 1954 specimen was described as...
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| x Cat-fox | Cat-like | Indonesia |
The cat-fox is a new species of carnivore discovered on the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.
It was first discovered by Swiss-based environmental group WWF in 2003, using a night-time camera trap in Kayan Mentarang National Park. The mammal...
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Lake monster | Lake Champlain |
Champ, or Champy, is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U.S.-Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the...
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| x Devil Bird | Unidentified sound | Sri Lanka |
The Devil Bird, locally known as Ulama, is a cryptid of Sri Lanka said to emit bloodcurdling human sounding shrieks in the night from within the jungles. In Sri Lankan folklore, it is believed that the cry of this bird is an omen that portends death...
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| x Dover Demon |
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Dover | Dover | Apr 21, 1977 |
The Dover Demon is an alleged cryptozoological creature sighted on three separate occasions in the town of Dover, Massachusetts on April 21 and April 22, 1977. It has remained a subject of interest for cryptozoologists ever since then....
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| x Emela-ntouka |
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African Traditional Religion | Central Africa | Lucien Blancou |
The Emela-ntouka is an African legendary creature in the mythology of the Pygmy tribes, and a cryptid purported to live in Central Africa. Its name is claimed to mean "killer of the elephants" in the Lingala language. In other languages it is...
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| x Ennedi tiger | Phantom cat | Ennedi Plateau |
The Ennedi tiger is a purportedly living Sabertooth cat inhabiting the Ennedi Plateau, located in the east of Chad, in Sub-Saharan Africa.
There are reports of two different species, one that mainly inhabits the mountains (called Hadjel, Gassingram,...
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| x Fear liath | Greyman | Ben Macdhui |
Am Fear Liath Mòr (also known as The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui or simply The Greyman) is the name of a presence or creature which is said to haunt the summit and passes of Ben MacDhui, the highest peak of the Cairngorms and the second highest peak...
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| x Flatwoods monster |
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Extraterrestrial life | Flatwoods | Flatwoods | Sep 12, 1952 |
The Flatwoods Monster, also known as the Braxton County Monster or the Phantom of Flatwoods, is an alleged unidentified extraterrestrial or cryptid reported to be sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, USA on September 12...
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| x Fouke Monster |
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Ape-like | Fouke | Jim Powell |
The Fouke Monster is a legendary cryptid reported near the town of Fouke in Miller County, Arkansas (see map) during the early 1970s, where it was accused of attacking a local family. Initial sightings of the creature were concentrated in the...
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Sea monster | Bungalow Beach | Bungalow Beach | Owen Burnham | Owen Burnham | Jun 12, 1983 |
"Gambo" is the name given to a carcass of an unidentified large marine animal that was reportedly washed up on Bungalow Beach in The Gambia.
The carcass of the Gambo was reported to have been discovered by 15-year-old Owen Burnham and his family on...
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| x Ghost Deer | Mount Eddy |
The Ghost Deer is supposedly an animal, or cryptid, that lives in the canyons of Mount Eddy in northern California.
According to legend, when shot at, bullets will fly right through the deer, or miss it. The "animal" also seems to appear and...
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| x Goatman | Humanoid | Maryland |
The Goatman is a hominid cryptid associated with the state of Maryland in the USA. It is described as a hybrid creature; part man and part goat. Some claim it is a relative of Bigfoot. Its appearance is similar to the satyrs or the god Pan of Greek...
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| x Grassman | Ape-like | Kenmore | Gallia County | 1868 |
Grassman, also known as the Ohio Grassman and Kenmore Grassman, is an alleged bipedal, ape-like creature reportedly seen in the state of Ohio, primarily around Kenmore, near the Akron, Ohio area and throughout Eastern Ohio into Western Pa. and...
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| x High-finned sperm whale |
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Mutant | Shetland Islands | Shetland Islands | Robert Sibbald | Robert Sibbald |
The High-finned sperm whale is a supposed variant or relative of the known sperm whale that is said to live in the seas around the Shetland Islands in Great Britain. The major difference between this creature and other sperm whales is the presence...
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| x Hodag |
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Zoomorphic amalgam | Rhinelander |
The Hodag is a folkloric animal of the American state of Wisconsin. Its history is focused mainly around the city of Rhinelander in northern Wisconsin.
In 1893 newspapers reported the discovery of a Hodag in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. It had "the head...
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| x Hombre Gato |
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Cat-like | South America |
The Hombre Gato, or Catman, is a legendary creature that possesses both feline and human features. This South American folk tale is particularly popular in Argentina, especially in rural and less populated areas.
Much like the werewolf, the catman...
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| x Homo gardarensis | Humanoid | Igaliku |
Homo gardarensis was the name mistakenly given to partial remains found in a burial at Gardar, Greenland in a 12th-century Norse settlement. Original statements compared the remains to Homo heidelbergensis but this identification was subsequently...
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| x Hyote | Wolf-like | Maryland |
The hyote was an initially unidentified animal that was repeatedly sighted in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States during the summer of 2004. Based on eyewitness reports and a videotape of the creature captured by a camera rigged to a motion...
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| x Igopogo |
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Lake monster | Lake Simcoe |
Igopogo is a cryptozoological creature which is rumored to dwell in Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. The creature's name is ostensibly based on the Ogopogo, of Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, and also the title 1952 book I Go Pogo, a slogan often...
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| x Iliamna Lake Monster | Lake monster | Iliamna Lake |
The Iliamna Lake Monster is a cryptid that allegedly lives in Iliamna Lake in Alaska. Due to the lake's remote location and vast size, little exploration has been done to investigate the sightings. It has, however, been hypothesized to be a giant...
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| x Inkanyamba |
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Lake monster | Howick Falls |
The Inkanyamba is a legendary serpent said to be living in a waterfall lake area in the northern forests near Pietermaritzburg most commonly in the base of Howick Falls, South Africa. The Zulu tribes of the area believe it to be a large serpent with...
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| x Isshii | Lake monster | Lake Ikeda |
Isshii is the name of a lake monster said to be living in Kagoshima Prefecture's Lake Ikeda. The name is formed in analogy with 'Nessie' (the Loch Ness Monster). Ishii was featured on the TV news program, Sightings. During the report, it stated that...
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| x Jersey Devil |
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Zoomorphic amalgam | Pine Barrens |
The Jersey Devil, sometimes called the Leeds Devil, is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many variations. The Jersey...
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| x Kasai Rex | Therapod-like | Africa | Kasai valley | John Johnson | 1932 |
Kasai rex is an animal claimed to be a surviving carnivorous dinosaur in Africa. There are conflicting descriptions of it, and the only original reports are suspected by most cryptozoologists to be dubious.
In 1932 John Johnson (sometimes spelled...
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| x Kingstie | Lake monster | Lake Ontario |
Kingstie was a cryptozoological hoax invented in 1934 as an echo of the 1904 Lake George Monster hoax. It was reported as "a strange creature with the head of a dragon and eyes of fire" in Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
"As a prank,...
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| x Kongamato |
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Pterosaur-like | Republic of the Congo |
The kongamato is legendary creature of the African Congo with the features of a pterodactyl.
Links:
Sightings of Kongamato http://www.livingdinos.com/kongamato.html
Kongamato at cryptozoology.com http://www.cryptozoology.com/cryptids/kongamato.php
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| x Kusshii |
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Lake monster | Lake Kussharo |
Kusshii (クッシー) is the name of a lake monster said to be living in Hokkaidō's Lake Kussharo. The naming convention is likely to be borrowed from that of Loch Ness's Nessie. The name Kusshii may also have been taken from the popular Japanese myth of...
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| x Lagarfljóts Worm | Lake monster | Lagarfljót Lake |
The Lagarfljótsormur, Lagarfljotsormurinn, Lagarfljót worm, (or simply Iceland Worm Monster) is an Icelandic lake cryptid. The worm is purportedly located in Lagarfljót Lake, a freshwater, below-sea-level, glacial-fed body of water in Egilsstaðir....
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| x Lake Tianchi Monster | Lake monster | Tianchi |
Lake Tianchi Monster is the name given to what is said to be a lake monster that lives in Heaven Lake (known as Cheonji in Korean) located in the peak of Baekdu Mountain within the Baekdudaegan and Changbai mountain ranges encompassing Jilin...
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| x Lake Van Monster |
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Lake monster | Lake Van |
The Lake Van Monster (Turkish: Van Gölü Canavarı) was not reported until 1995 in Lake Van, a large alkaline lake in Eastern Turkey. There are now more than 1,000 people claiming to have witnessed the beast which is reported to measure around fifteen...
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| x Lake Worth monster | Lake monster | Lake Worth | 1969 |
The Lake Worth Monster is a north American Cryptid reported to live in Lake Worth (Texas).
Numerous sightings in July of 1969 led to the belief of a half-man, half-goat creature living in Lake Worth in Texas. Jim Marrs, a reporter, wrote an article...
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| x Lariosauro | Lake monster | Lake Como | 1946 |
Lariosauro is a cryptid reported to live in Lake Como in Italy, about 30 miles north of Milan. Como is one of the deepest European lakes, at about 410 meters (1200 feet) at the deepest location
In 1946, eye witnesses allegedly reported seeing a...
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| x Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp |
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Zoomorphic amalgam | Lee County | Scape Ore Swamp | Christopher Davis | Jun 29, 1988 2am |
The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (also known as The Lizard Man Of Lee County), is a humanoid cryptid which is said to inhabit areas of swampland in and around Lee County, South Carolina.
The Lizard Man is described as being 7 feet tall, bipedal,...
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| x Loch Ness Monster |
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Lake monster | Loch Ness |
The Loch Ness Monster is a debated, mythical creature, most commonly speculated to be from a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs, that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in...
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| x Loveland frog |
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Reptilian humanoid | Loveland |
The Loveland Frog (otherwise known as the Loveland Lizard) is said to be a human-like creature with the face of a frog and is described as standing roughly 4 feet (1.2 m) tall with green leathery skin. It walks upright and has webbed hands and feet,...
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| x Mahamba | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Mahamba is a cryptid rumoured to lurk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, around the Lake Likouala swamp region. It is purported to be an enormous crocodile; reaching lengths of up to 50 feet (15 m). Some have speculated that it is a freshwater...
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| x Manipogo | Lake monster | Lake Manitoba |
Manipogo is the name given to the lake monster reported to live in Lake Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. Sightings of this serpent like sea monster have been going on since roughly 1908. The creature was dubbed Manipogo in 1957, the name echoing British...
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| x Marquette Monster | Zoomorphic amalgam | Marquette |
The Marquette Monster is a legendary or mythical monster, similar to the hodag, that supposedly lives in and around Marquette, Michigan, USA. It is apparently to be distinguished from (Father) Marquette's Monster, the Piasa.
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| x Maxubi Maricoxi | Maricoxi | Percy Fawcett | Percy Fawcett | 1914 |
Percy Fawcett reported encountering a group of them in 1914. They were extremely hairy, lived in villages and used bows and arrows. They spoke in grunts and lived to the northeast of a tribe called the Maxubi.
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| x Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu | Stegosaur-like | Likouala Region | Ebolo | Roy P. Mackal |
The Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu is a cryptid reported from the Likouala Region of the Republic of the Congo. Only a few claimed sightings have been reported, at the villages of Bounila and Ebolo, which were collected by the cryptozoologist Roy Mackal. No...
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Worm-like | South America |
The Minhocão ("Big Earthworm" in Portuguese) is a large earthworm-like cryptid that allegedly exists in the forests of South America.
It reportedly resembles a giant worm, with scaly black skin and a pair of tentacle-like structures protruding from...
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| x Minnesota Iceman | Bigfoot | Minnesota |
The Minnesota Iceman is a purported man-like creature frozen in a block of ice and displayed at state fairs or carnivals in and around Rollingstone, Minnesota, and Milwaukee on and around December 17, 1968 as a "missing link". It has been described...
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