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Cryptid

Unidentified creatures reported by witnesses but unrecognized by mainstream zoology — bigfoot, lake monsters, and their kin.

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Haute-Loire, France
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Beast of Gévaudan
Between 1764 and 1767, a wolf-like animal killed close to a hundred people across the rural Margeride mountains, provoked a royal hunting campaign under Louis XV, and left behind a small pilgrim town so thoroughly built around the legend that you can walk the actual attack territory on marked trails today.
California, United States
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Bigfoot / Sasquatch
North America's most famous cryptid, a large, hair-covered bipedal creature reported across the Pacific Northwest for over a century, anchored by the 1958 footprint discovery that gave it its name and the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film that remains its most-debated piece of evidence.
Vermont, United States
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Champ
A lake monster said to inhabit Lake Champlain on the Vermont and New York border, with reported sightings dating to the 19th century and a famous 1977 photograph that remains the most-cited piece of purported evidence.
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Loch Ness
Scotland's deepest loch, home to over a century of modern sightings of "Nessie," a creature whose legend stretches back to a sixth-century account by St. Columba.
Ohio, United States
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Loveland Frogman
A businessman's report of three frog-faced humanoids beside an Ohio road in 1955 became a local legend that resurfaced in 1972 when two Loveland police officers, on separate nights, each reported their own encounter along the same river.
Quebec, Canada
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Memphre
A Magog diver spent 28 years collecting sightings on Lake Memphremagog and would only enter one in his file if the witness signed a declaration or recorded it on tape. He logged over 4,900 dives in the same water and never saw the animal himself.
West Virginia, United States
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Mothman Museum & Research Center
A storefront museum in downtown Point Pleasant dedicated to the red-eyed, winged figure first reported by five witnesses in November 1966, sightings that preceded the collapse of the Silver Bridge thirteen months later.
British Columbia, Canada
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Ogopogo
The Syilx called it N'ha-a-itk and left an animal in the water as payment before crossing. The English name comes from a music hall song performed in Vernon in 1924. In 2021 the City of Vernon, which had held the trademark for decades, voted to hand it to the Okanagan Nation Alliance for one dollar.
Florida, United States
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Skunk Ape Research HQ
A real, still-operating roadside research station deep in the Everglades is dedicated to tracking Florida's own Bigfoot. It's run by a man who says he's seen the creature four times since childhood.

Results · 14 mysteries

Beast of Gévaudan

Bigfoot / Sasquatch

Champ

Loch Ness

Loveland Frogman

Memphre

Mothman Museum & Research Center

Ogopogo

Skunk Ape Research HQ