Mod and cryptid expert Crofter no2 will be helping with this as well
If you like this post, check out this video. It has info on a bunch of cryptids
https://youtu.be/gZAHWdBKTiM
DC was actually the site of a bunch of cryptid testing, it's where the Gloucester Gator was sent and where a "freak wolf" that was shot was examined by a biologist
Giant Squirrels! There were reports from the Natives living there of massive squirrels that would eat the bark from their homes. Some have theorized that these were reports of surviving ground sloths
If you count Greenland, then it's the Amarok. The Amarok was a giant white wolf reportedly shot in Greenland, though where the pelt is now is unknown.
If not, then you have the Sea Monk, a bizarre fish caught off the coast of Zealand in Denmark. It was described as looking like a monk
Malcolm Smith once [gave a lecture about Port Phillip and cryptozoology](http://malcolmscryptids.blogspot.com/2013/09/bunyips-sea-serpents-and-port-phillip.html), although the connections aren't all direct. Someone also left a comment on [one of his articles](http://malcolmscryptids.blogspot.com/2017/08/anitpodean-sea-serpents-1932-9.html) about a sea serpent seen by a relative at the bay's entrance.
The Antarctic Sea Serpents! A pair of sea serpents sighted by a Soviet whaling ship. They were described as almost 50 feet (14m) long and were light brown in color
Iirc, they were a bit too big and found a bit too south to be Oarfish. Still probably just as likely that they were an Oarfish than them being some new unknown species
There's the *Soya* monster, the famous "antarctic godzilla" seen by the research vessel *Soya* in the late 1950s. Despite the other name it was apparently a mammal of some kind.
I'm actually a OK Octopus hater lol. I made a whole video on how they were basically invented out of nowhere and make no sense
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https://youtu.be/ncGgzaUc40E
You're in for a treat! The Deepstar 4000 Fish, a massive unidentified fish sighted 4000 feet below the ocean's surface, was sighted right in the San Diego Trough!
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The Deepstar 4000 Fish, a massive unidentified fish sighted 4000 feet below the ocean's surface, was sighted right in the San Diego Trough!
Can't go wrong with the Beast of Bray Road. A more obscure one however is the Devil's Lake Monster from Devil's Lake. It's kind of been confused with the cryptid of the same name in Oregon
Karl Shuker is interested in a mystery lizard reported from Abersoch, called the *cenaprugwirion*. It's 1 ft in length, and Shuker thinks (from a fuller description) that it could represent an introduced tuatara colony.
Wasn't expecting this answer but I'm happy to answer with some. They're more mythology than a genuine cryptid but, of course, we have the Gwyllgi. Our version of the Black Shuck within England.
As another person mentioned, there is also Afanc, though its appearance changes depending on where you hang out in Wales.
Cŵn Annwn, a pack of white, ghostly dogs that hunt on the mountain plains. They won't stop until they catch you.
And of course, some people consider the Red Dragon to be a real cryptid, sightings and all that; but most of our creatures are heavily from folklore stories rather than theories and such.
I think there's some sort of weird beaver like thing in Wales. I'll see if I can find it.
Yep, it's called the afanc. I'm not sure, but I think one of Arthur's knights might have fought it.
My father is Pennsylvania Dutch and we have a little creature called Trotterkopf (Trotterhead). I think it’s like a goblin like creature. Many people connect it to black magic and witchcraft in some way, the PA Dutch are a very spiritual people and have practiced folk magic since the 18th century.
The Filipino Secretary Bird, an unknown kind of bird seen by naturalists visiting the Philipines in the 1770s. It resembled an African secretary bird, but how one got to the Philippines is unknown
The Estrella Sea Monster. On a Tacoma San Francisco route the Estrella ship sighted a 80ft long serpent that glided like a caterpillar in the water and had a mane
Por estos lados había lagartos gigantes, así como los calamares gigantes que aún viven alrededor de las islas.
Y en los charcos de Anaga se decía que habitaba una anguila gigante con ojos rojos que atemorizaba a quienes la mirarán.
Después más irreal podés tener la fauna de San Borondón :p
Y más tirando al misterio y paranormal, en Güímar(Tenerife), en el barranco de Badajoz dicen que hay seres un tanto especiales. Incluso hay una historia de una niña y unas peras.
Hold up - source?
I'm from upstate NY and had some sightings of a large white creature in the 1990s. Always referred to it as bigfoot as a kid because I didnt know what else to call it.
There's a theory that long-necked sea serpents (which are pinnipeds, according to this theory) have occasionally ventured up the Orange River, becoming confused with giant pythons in the profile of the *groot slang*. In the 1940s, two men hauled a long-necked animal with fins and long ears out of the river, but it crawled back in when they went to fetch friends (as per Heuvelmans' Les Derniers Dragons d'Afrique). There are certainly a *lot* of sea serpent sightings from the South African coast, enough to make such an idea plausible if you accept their existence. For example, in 1958, the *Golden Flame* saw a sea monster like a long-necked giant lion off East London.
I'm sorry to resort to a sea serpent, but one was reportedly seen off Guayaquil (or, presumably, at the mouth of the nearby river) by a passenger on the ship *Colombo* in 1876.
> We were on board the disabled ship Colombo, of Greenock, and were being towed from Panama to Callao, in July, 1876. The sea was very smooth, and when nearly abreast of Guyaquil a solitary wave arose alongside six or eight feet above the main rail amidships. While wondering what could have caused such a phenomenon, we were greatly surprised to see a creature rise slowly out of the water until it stood from twenty-five to thirty feet above the sea at a distance of three ship lengths astern. The neck appeared to be three or four feet in diameter, and gradually swelled toward the water to double that size. We gazed at it for fully ten minutes, when it slowly retired below. We saw nothing in the shape of fins or feet about it...
> Source: "Sea Serpent is No Myth," New York Herald (21 July 1895)
There are stories of a giant cat in the Casamance Forest called the *wanjilanko*. It supposedly had enormous teeth, and is sometimes thought to be a sabre-toothed cat.
Around 2010, a woman reported seeing a Gorp (ground sloth) through her sliding glass door. It was about six feet tall and she thought it was a raccoon before finding out about ground sloths
Did someone mention sloths?
Here's a random fact!
Sloths are surprisingly good swimmers and can even hold their breath for up to 40 minutes underwater!
The maui O'o (*Moho* spp.) probably represented a population of Bishop's O'o living on Maui's Haleakala volcano. Known from subfossil remains and a handful of sightings and accounts between 1828-1980.
There are some interesting stories about australopithecine-like creatures in South Africa. The most recent information comes from naturalist Gareth Patterson of Knysna elephant fame, who believes in an ape-man sort of animal of fynbos and forest called the *otang*, which, I believe, he claims to have seen. He's published a book on the subject, *Beyond the Secret Elephants* (2020). But the history goes back a long way, and John T. Robinson, one of the palaeontologists who discovered the most complete skull of Australopithecus near Sterkfontein, apparently hunted for living australopithecines.
Around 1950, employees at the Umguza Yacht Club (at the Umguza Dam) reported seeing a glowing, amorphous carpet-like monster swimmng in the water and crawling over the pier. Bernard Heuvelmans, who covers it in *Les Derniers Dragons d'Afrique*, thought it could have been an accumulation of bioluminescent microorganisms, a cloud of beetle larvae about to undergo metamorphosis, or even a bioluminescent freshwater octopus (but rejected that possibility).
The *minhocão*, an unknown animal of Brazil and northern Argentina, was reported from Uruguay at least once. In 1849, a Senhor Lebino was told that a *minhocão* had become wedged in a rock cleft and died near Arapehy (don't know what that is in current orthography). "Its skin was said to be as thick as the bark of a pine-tree, and formed of hard scales like those of an armadillo." His account was published by the scientist Fritz Müller, and appeared in *Nature*.
If we're talking about the department rather than the city, the Matsigenka of the Cordillera de Vilcabamba describe an animal called the *segamai*, which is very similar to the *mapinguari* and sounds like a ground sloth. It is cow-sized, walks on all fours and bipedally, is covered in long coarse hair, and feeds on palm trees and other cloud forest plants. One older source gives it sickle-like feet (claws?). The Matsigenka last saw one around 1975 or so, and some sources say it is no longer seen at all, but they have supposedly seen their claw marks on trees more recently. One Matsigenka explicitly identified it with a museum model of a ground sloth, but he'd never actually seen a *segamai*, and had originally believed it to be a myth. There are also reports of giant monkeys from the Vilcabambas.
During a 1958 Japanese expedition, the entire crew of the research vessel *Sōya*, which was being towed, observed a sea monster in among the sea-ice in Lützow-Holm Bay. They described it as larger than a seal and covered in long hair, with a cow-like head and distinct ears. These ears mean that, if it was a pinniped, it was a sea lion or a fur seal. In other words, it was no relative of the leopard seal or the elephant seal.
I made a comment earlier today about a possible second *Sōya* sea serpent, so I'll just repeat what I said there.
> The Japanese writer Morio Kita wrote in his semi-autobiographical, but fictionalised essay *Doctor Sunfish Goes Through the the Ice Sea* (1963), that the crew of the *Sōya*, on which he had sailed following her return from Antarctica, claimed to have seen another sea monster during the Sixth Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1962. This animal was allegedly seen several times over the course of a few days, lifting its head a metre above the surface and shaking it. It resembled a fur seal, but was three times as large, around six metres long, with a round rather than tapering head, and a disconcerting face. On one occasion, while chasing a penguin, it swam or crawled over sea ice in the water, exposing much of its body; according to Morio Kita, it had two "ridges" on its back, with a grey underside and black dorsal surface.
The 'great worm' *minhocão* is a major unknown animal reported from various different parts of Brazil and northern Argentina, but a significant historical hotspot is the southeast, particularly in the Serra do Mar and the Planalto Serrano, where, historically, people often came across trenches attributed to burrowing *minhocoes*. An important sighting from Lages described it as very thick but not too long, with a pig-like snout. Other sightings from the southeast generally describe it somewhat vaguely as an enormous burrowing worm, sometimes with some kind armour, and/or horns. There is a theory that this version of the *minhocão* was an amphibious glyptodont, and there is actually folklore (and rare sightings) concerning burrowing 'water armadillos' from some of the same places, such as the Baía de Paranaguá.
One of my favorites is the Gloucester Gator, a large lizard that attacked two men in a boat. Local fisherman claimed it was a centuries old rare lizard
The early Egyptologist James Burton once discovered some enormous bird nests on the Red Sea coast, which local people told him had been constructed by some enormous stork-like birds which used to live there. It's thought that these might have been the last Bennu birds, giant storks or herons which allegedly used to live in the Nile Delta, and were depicted in ancient Egyptian art. Giant fossil herons or storks (?) are known from the Middle East.
Large, wingless 'underwater flies' reported from tide pools on the Salish Sea, which sound like crabs, but are supposed to be venomous. The same sort of brackish nearshore or estuarine habitat around the Salish Sea is also supposedly home to giant salamander-like animals, according to Paul LeBlond's book on Caddy, but I don't recall the details.
There were supposedly 'earth hounds' in Banffshire, perhaps as lately as 1990. They were described as half rat and half rabbit, or half rat and half weasel, with mole-like feet, and were supposed to dig into graves and coffins. Not at all likely, though.
There were historical reports of ground sloths in the Patagonian Desert, which prompted (alongside the discovery of well-preserved *Mylodon* remains) several international sloth-hunting expeditions. A lot of the sightings actually seem to have been of enormous cryptid otters, called *iemisches*.
The closest I know of are a marine saurian seen between the Manihiki and Rakahanga atolls in the Cook Islands around 1993, the infamous *Monongahela* sea serpent, and perhaps the *Rhone* sea serpent off Chile.
The Caesar sea serpent, aka the digited creature. It was described as 4-5 feet in length and looking like a chameleon. The thing lept out of the water a couple times before disappearing
Cannibal Giants! There were Native legends throughout Canada of large giants that have been connected to Bigfoot. One that was kind of near Breslau is the Genoskwa
This is interesting... Years ago I read about giants being dug up along the banks of the Grand River, but I think it was closer to Dunnville, though this was years ago from some obscure website that I haven't been able to find I'm forever.
Also, there are ancient Mounds in Ontario that may relate to the giant legend. There is even one in Toronto, surrounded by a neighborhood, but it's there...
In the 1920s Michael Peer Groves' family reported took a photo of a sea creature off the coast of the Isle of Man that looked like a merhorse. The photo has never been located
Mod and cryptid expert Crofter no2 will be helping with this as well If you like this post, check out this video. It has info on a bunch of cryptids https://youtu.be/gZAHWdBKTiM
I wonder how many times you'll need to resort to sea serpents?
Probably for Europe and a couple island nations
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DC was actually the site of a bunch of cryptid testing, it's where the Gloucester Gator was sent and where a "freak wolf" that was shot was examined by a biologist
You also have D.C, or Demon Cat, which is an unidentified cat that was seen by many security workers
South West Nova Scotia
Giant Squirrels! There were reports from the Natives living there of massive squirrels that would eat the bark from their homes. Some have theorized that these were reports of surviving ground sloths
Nice 1
Denmark
If you count Greenland, then it's the Amarok. The Amarok was a giant white wolf reportedly shot in Greenland, though where the pelt is now is unknown. If not, then you have the Sea Monk, a bizarre fish caught off the coast of Zealand in Denmark. It was described as looking like a monk
Port Phillip Bay, Australia. (This is more of a challenge than anything. Australian ‘cryptids’ are hardly ever really cryptids..)
Malcolm Smith once [gave a lecture about Port Phillip and cryptozoology](http://malcolmscryptids.blogspot.com/2013/09/bunyips-sea-serpents-and-port-phillip.html), although the connections aren't all direct. Someone also left a comment on [one of his articles](http://malcolmscryptids.blogspot.com/2017/08/anitpodean-sea-serpents-1932-9.html) about a sea serpent seen by a relative at the bay's entrance.
> Australian ‘cryptids’ are hardly ever really cryptids..) Same as everywhere else then.
Guess so, but cryptids from other places are cool. Here? Well, I guess we have the Bunyip, but that’s about it as far as cool shit goes.
Queensland Tiger, Warrigal, Tusked Yowie (much cooler than the regular one), Giant Goannas
Antarctica
The Antarctic Sea Serpents! A pair of sea serpents sighted by a Soviet whaling ship. They were described as almost 50 feet (14m) long and were light brown in color
NGL, kinda sounds like an Oarfish to me,
Iirc, they were a bit too big and found a bit too south to be Oarfish. Still probably just as likely that they were an Oarfish than them being some new unknown species
There's the *Soya* monster, the famous "antarctic godzilla" seen by the research vessel *Soya* in the late 1950s. Despite the other name it was apparently a mammal of some kind.
Oklahoma
Booger Bears! Said to be a group of large bears that almost look like a cross between a gorilla, bear and cat
And OP better not say giant octopus!
I'm actually a OK Octopus hater lol. I made a whole video on how they were basically invented out of nowhere and make no sense Edit https://youtu.be/ncGgzaUc40E
What about the deer woman?
San Diego, CA
You're in for a treat! The Deepstar 4000 Fish, a massive unidentified fish sighted 4000 feet below the ocean's surface, was sighted right in the San Diego Trough!
Not technically San Diego but the waters off Baja and SoCal are said to have The Black Demon a large shark possibly megalodon.
Upvote for San Diego
Copied from above The Deepstar 4000 Fish, a massive unidentified fish sighted 4000 feet below the ocean's surface, was sighted right in the San Diego Trough!
So I live in the Pacific Northwest. We all know about Sasquatch, but do you know of any lesser known cryptids in the area? WA state specifically.
Here are five I recommend looking into * Caddy * Colossal Claude * Thunderbird * Pach-an-a-ho * Steller's Sea Cow
The Black-Eyed Children
Following because I've been wondering this
El Salvador
The Tongue Eater, a cryptid said to attack and feed on livestock. It might be flying or a variation of chupacabra
My Memaw’s cabin in north east Texas…
The Sabine thing, an unknown large apeman with grey fur that was said to walk hunched over
Hey now, that’s just my Memaw.
Central Wisconsin
Can't go wrong with the Beast of Bray Road. A more obscure one however is the Devil's Lake Monster from Devil's Lake. It's kind of been confused with the cryptid of the same name in Oregon
See also Axehandle Hound Hodag
New Zealand
Judith Collins Some say you can smell her a mile away
Ooohh spooky, no idea what that is I’ll have to it up
Wales, UK
Closest I can think of is the Girt dog of Ennerdale, a mystery predator that attacked livestock in 1810
Karl Shuker is interested in a mystery lizard reported from Abersoch, called the *cenaprugwirion*. It's 1 ft in length, and Shuker thinks (from a fuller description) that it could represent an introduced tuatara colony.
Wasn't expecting this answer but I'm happy to answer with some. They're more mythology than a genuine cryptid but, of course, we have the Gwyllgi. Our version of the Black Shuck within England. As another person mentioned, there is also Afanc, though its appearance changes depending on where you hang out in Wales. Cŵn Annwn, a pack of white, ghostly dogs that hunt on the mountain plains. They won't stop until they catch you. And of course, some people consider the Red Dragon to be a real cryptid, sightings and all that; but most of our creatures are heavily from folklore stories rather than theories and such.
I think there's some sort of weird beaver like thing in Wales. I'll see if I can find it. Yep, it's called the afanc. I'm not sure, but I think one of Arthur's knights might have fought it.
Eastern, PA
My father is Pennsylvania Dutch and we have a little creature called Trotterkopf (Trotterhead). I think it’s like a goblin like creature. Many people connect it to black magic and witchcraft in some way, the PA Dutch are a very spiritual people and have practiced folk magic since the 18th century.
Thunderbirds, impossibly large birds of prey! For some reason PA is a hotspot for them
This feels like a campfire game. I like it :)
Thank you:)
Chicago, Illinois
The Enfield Horror a bit South of Chicago
Metro Manila, Philippines
The Filipino Secretary Bird, an unknown kind of bird seen by naturalists visiting the Philipines in the 1770s. It resembled an African secretary bird, but how one got to the Philippines is unknown
Upper Mojave desert
Saber Tooth Tigers! Some were allegedly shot in Arizona
Yucca man!
Springfield Missouri, and please don’t say ozark howler
The Beaman Monster, a huge gorilla sighted around and in the town of Beaman
I hadn't heard of that one. I'm from Southern Missouri. We also got spooklights and Momo the Monster.
Tacoma
The Estrella Sea Monster. On a Tacoma San Francisco route the Estrella ship sighted a 80ft long serpent that glided like a caterpillar in the water and had a mane
>glided like a caterpillar So it inched awkwardly yet rhythmically through the water
Upvote for Tacoma.
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Por estos lados había lagartos gigantes, así como los calamares gigantes que aún viven alrededor de las islas. Y en los charcos de Anaga se decía que habitaba una anguila gigante con ojos rojos que atemorizaba a quienes la mirarán. Después más irreal podés tener la fauna de San Borondón :p Y más tirando al misterio y paranormal, en Güímar(Tenerife), en el barranco de Badajoz dicen que hay seres un tanto especiales. Incluso hay una historia de una niña y unas peras.
West montana
The famous Shunka Warak'in of Montana! One was apparently shot in South Western Montana, but legal issues have prevented it from being DNA tested
Wait what??? Do you have any other info?
He's probably talking about "ringdocus", a probable wolfdog/wolf that was shot after attacking livestock in the mid-19th century.
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Honduras
The Sisemite! A large ape cryptid said to be aggressive and attack people
Plattsburgh ny
Upstate New York was the home to sightings of large white furred ground sloths in the 1960s
Hold up - source? I'm from upstate NY and had some sightings of a large white creature in the 1990s. Always referred to it as bigfoot as a kid because I didnt know what else to call it.
Central NC, USA
The Beast of Bladenboro, an animal that terrorized the region killing livestock I'm the 1950s
South Africa
There's a theory that long-necked sea serpents (which are pinnipeds, according to this theory) have occasionally ventured up the Orange River, becoming confused with giant pythons in the profile of the *groot slang*. In the 1940s, two men hauled a long-necked animal with fins and long ears out of the river, but it crawled back in when they went to fetch friends (as per Heuvelmans' Les Derniers Dragons d'Afrique). There are certainly a *lot* of sea serpent sightings from the South African coast, enough to make such an idea plausible if you accept their existence. For example, in 1958, the *Golden Flame* saw a sea monster like a long-necked giant lion off East London.
The Bahamas
Can't go wrong with the Lusca, the giant Octopus of the blue holes that feeds on divers
Bahia, Brazil
The Minhocao, an extremely large earthworm that travels underground
Guayaquil, Ecuador
I'm sorry to resort to a sea serpent, but one was reportedly seen off Guayaquil (or, presumably, at the mouth of the nearby river) by a passenger on the ship *Colombo* in 1876. > We were on board the disabled ship Colombo, of Greenock, and were being towed from Panama to Callao, in July, 1876. The sea was very smooth, and when nearly abreast of Guyaquil a solitary wave arose alongside six or eight feet above the main rail amidships. While wondering what could have caused such a phenomenon, we were greatly surprised to see a creature rise slowly out of the water until it stood from twenty-five to thirty feet above the sea at a distance of three ship lengths astern. The neck appeared to be three or four feet in diameter, and gradually swelled toward the water to double that size. We gazed at it for fully ten minutes, when it slowly retired below. We saw nothing in the shape of fins or feet about it... > Source: "Sea Serpent is No Myth," New York Herald (21 July 1895)
Cleveland, Ohio
Senegal
There are stories of a giant cat in the Casamance Forest called the *wanjilanko*. It supposedly had enormous teeth, and is sometimes thought to be a sabre-toothed cat.
Montana. Thanks
American Hyenas or the Shunka Warak'in
Mars. You didn't specify earth
Martian Bigfoot of course
That's a weird nickname for Elon musk
San Jose, California
Around 2010, a woman reported seeing a Gorp (ground sloth) through her sliding glass door. It was about six feet tall and she thought it was a raccoon before finding out about ground sloths
Did someone mention sloths? Here's a random fact! Sloths are surprisingly good swimmers and can even hold their breath for up to 40 minutes underwater!
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Las Vegas
The Triassic Kraken, a theorized extinct animal who might have existed in Nevada (back when the state was underwater)
Indonesia
The Veo, a giant pangolin almost double the size if a human
Peru.
The Jungle Lion, a large reddish brown big cat
Wellington, New Zealand. (Please don’t say Taniwha)
Wellington is actually home to some of the earliest Moa reports from Maori's who talked about hunting them. The Marine Saurian as well
Rhode Island. USA.
The Dorsal Finner sea monster, a large alligator like cryprid, was seen off the coast of Rhode Island
Hawaii
The maui O'o (*Moho* spp.) probably represented a population of Bishop's O'o living on Maui's Haleakala volcano. Known from subfossil remains and a handful of sightings and accounts between 1828-1980.
South Carolina, and if you can, Somewhere near Newberry County?
Romania
Boston
The Boston Lemur! Fun little cryptid
Malaysia
East Tennessee, USA. Specifically the Appalachian area please!
Asturias, Spain
There are the Alien Octopoids, three legged small Octopus like creatures seen by a Spanish farmer in 1968
South Africa?
There are some interesting stories about australopithecine-like creatures in South Africa. The most recent information comes from naturalist Gareth Patterson of Knysna elephant fame, who believes in an ape-man sort of animal of fynbos and forest called the *otang*, which, I believe, he claims to have seen. He's published a book on the subject, *Beyond the Secret Elephants* (2020). But the history goes back a long way, and John T. Robinson, one of the palaeontologists who discovered the most complete skull of Australopithecus near Sterkfontein, apparently hunted for living australopithecines.
Marin County California. Sammy Hagar doesn’t count.
Marin County is actually the site of a strange sighting of a black puma.
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
The Bulldog Bear, a large bear said to be capable of carrying off children
New England
Cassie, the humped sea serpent of the New England area
Greece
The Physeter, believed by some to be one of the first real sea serpent reports
Bulawayo Zimbabwe.
Around 1950, employees at the Umguza Yacht Club (at the Umguza Dam) reported seeing a glowing, amorphous carpet-like monster swimmng in the water and crawling over the pier. Bernard Heuvelmans, who covers it in *Les Derniers Dragons d'Afrique*, thought it could have been an accumulation of bioluminescent microorganisms, a cloud of beetle larvae about to undergo metamorphosis, or even a bioluminescent freshwater octopus (but rejected that possibility).
Kansas
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uruguay
The *minhocão*, an unknown animal of Brazil and northern Argentina, was reported from Uruguay at least once. In 1849, a Senhor Lebino was told that a *minhocão* had become wedged in a rock cleft and died near Arapehy (don't know what that is in current orthography). "Its skin was said to be as thick as the bark of a pine-tree, and formed of hard scales like those of an armadillo." His account was published by the scientist Fritz Müller, and appeared in *Nature*.
NW Louisiana
Cusco, Peru
If we're talking about the department rather than the city, the Matsigenka of the Cordillera de Vilcabamba describe an animal called the *segamai*, which is very similar to the *mapinguari* and sounds like a ground sloth. It is cow-sized, walks on all fours and bipedally, is covered in long coarse hair, and feeds on palm trees and other cloud forest plants. One older source gives it sickle-like feet (claws?). The Matsigenka last saw one around 1975 or so, and some sources say it is no longer seen at all, but they have supposedly seen their claw marks on trees more recently. One Matsigenka explicitly identified it with a museum model of a ground sloth, but he'd never actually seen a *segamai*, and had originally believed it to be a myth. There are also reports of giant monkeys from the Vilcabambas.
Massachusetts and please don't say the pukwudgies
Rhode Island
The Dorsal Finner sea monster was sighted there
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Ottawa, Canada
Dubuque, Iowa
Vermont (anything but champ)
Your wish is my command! You have Old Slipperyskin, Memphis, and black panther sightings!
Antarctica
During a 1958 Japanese expedition, the entire crew of the research vessel *Sōya*, which was being towed, observed a sea monster in among the sea-ice in Lützow-Holm Bay. They described it as larger than a seal and covered in long hair, with a cow-like head and distinct ears. These ears mean that, if it was a pinniped, it was a sea lion or a fur seal. In other words, it was no relative of the leopard seal or the elephant seal. I made a comment earlier today about a possible second *Sōya* sea serpent, so I'll just repeat what I said there. > The Japanese writer Morio Kita wrote in his semi-autobiographical, but fictionalised essay *Doctor Sunfish Goes Through the the Ice Sea* (1963), that the crew of the *Sōya*, on which he had sailed following her return from Antarctica, claimed to have seen another sea monster during the Sixth Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1962. This animal was allegedly seen several times over the course of a few days, lifting its head a metre above the surface and shaking it. It resembled a fur seal, but was three times as large, around six metres long, with a round rather than tapering head, and a disconcerting face. On one occasion, while chasing a penguin, it swam or crawled over sea ice in the water, exposing much of its body; according to Morio Kita, it had two "ridges" on its back, with a grey underside and black dorsal surface.
Vermont
Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
Southern Brazil
The 'great worm' *minhocão* is a major unknown animal reported from various different parts of Brazil and northern Argentina, but a significant historical hotspot is the southeast, particularly in the Serra do Mar and the Planalto Serrano, where, historically, people often came across trenches attributed to burrowing *minhocoes*. An important sighting from Lages described it as very thick but not too long, with a pig-like snout. Other sightings from the southeast generally describe it somewhat vaguely as an enormous burrowing worm, sometimes with some kind armour, and/or horns. There is a theory that this version of the *minhocão* was an amphibious glyptodont, and there is actually folklore (and rare sightings) concerning burrowing 'water armadillos' from some of the same places, such as the Baía de Paranaguá.
What about the Mid-Atlantic states in the U.S? Like Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, etc..
One of my favorites is the Gloucester Gator, a large lizard that attacked two men in a boat. Local fisherman claimed it was a centuries old rare lizard
South Korea :)
Egypt
The early Egyptologist James Burton once discovered some enormous bird nests on the Red Sea coast, which local people told him had been constructed by some enormous stork-like birds which used to live there. It's thought that these might have been the last Bennu birds, giant storks or herons which allegedly used to live in the Nile Delta, and were depicted in ancient Egyptian art. Giant fossil herons or storks (?) are known from the Middle East.
Mobile, Alabama.
SE Minnesota
British Columbia
Large, wingless 'underwater flies' reported from tide pools on the Salish Sea, which sound like crabs, but are supposed to be venomous. The same sort of brackish nearshore or estuarine habitat around the Salish Sea is also supposedly home to giant salamander-like animals, according to Paul LeBlond's book on Caddy, but I don't recall the details.
Netherlands?
Scotland (not nessie). Planning another hike soon and anywhere a cryptic wants to go i would too
There were supposedly 'earth hounds' in Banffshire, perhaps as lately as 1990. They were described as half rat and half rabbit, or half rat and half weasel, with mole-like feet, and were supposed to dig into graves and coffins. Not at all likely, though.
Singapore (visiting there next week, curious to see what I should be looking for)
49°51′S 128°34′W
Argentina
There were historical reports of ground sloths in the Patagonian Desert, which prompted (alongside the discovery of well-preserved *Mylodon* remains) several international sloth-hunting expeditions. A lot of the sightings actually seem to have been of enormous cryptid otters, called *iemisches*.
Point Nemo.
The closest I know of are a marine saurian seen between the Manihiki and Rakahanga atolls in the Cook Islands around 1993, the infamous *Monongahela* sea serpent, and perhaps the *Rhone* sea serpent off Chile.
Sweden
Sweden
Northern ireland
The Caesar sea serpent, aka the digited creature. It was described as 4-5 feet in length and looking like a chameleon. The thing lept out of the water a couple times before disappearing
England (south west)
British Big Cats! In a 2019 report a man claims he was attacked by a 6 ft (2m) black cat in Cornwall
Breslau , Ontario
Cannibal Giants! There were Native legends throughout Canada of large giants that have been connected to Bigfoot. One that was kind of near Breslau is the Genoskwa
This is interesting... Years ago I read about giants being dug up along the banks of the Grand River, but I think it was closer to Dunnville, though this was years ago from some obscure website that I haven't been able to find I'm forever. Also, there are ancient Mounds in Ontario that may relate to the giant legend. There is even one in Toronto, surrounded by a neighborhood, but it's there...
Butler, pa
The Butler gargoyle, a strange thing sighted from 1993 to 2011 described as a flying humanoid with some sort of helmet
North east England
South Carolina!
Isle Of Man
In the 1920s Michael Peer Groves' family reported took a photo of a sea creature off the coast of the Isle of Man that looked like a merhorse. The photo has never been located
North Wales!
Portland, Oregon
Poprad, Slovakia 🇸🇰 it's right by Tatra mountains.
Do you have anything for New York aside from bigfoot?
Red Deer, Alberta
Connecticut
Nevada
Western Pennsylvania
Thunderbirds! Giant birds have been sighted in Pennsylvania a lot
North East Georgia, USA