https://cryptidmap.com/ Cryptids near you and around the world: sightings, history, hotspots, videos and the latest news. en Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:27:49 GMT https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/murphysboro-mud-monster/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/murphysboro-mud-monster/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:37:58 GMT A 7-foot, mud-caked, whitish creature reported along the Big Muddy River in Murphysboro, Illinois, in 1973 – a case local police say is still open. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/gloucester-sea-serpent/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/gloucester-sea-serpent/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:37:58 GMT A huge, humped serpent that hundreds said swam in Gloucester Harbor in August 1817 – so convincing that a scientific society named it a new species. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/enfield-horror/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/enfield-horror/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:37:58 GMT A gray, three-legged creature with pink eyes reported in Enfield, Illinois, in 1973 – later a sociology case study in how monster panics spread. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/colossal-claude/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/colossal-claude/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:37:58 GMT A long-necked sea serpent reported by lightship and fishing crews at the mouth of the Columbia River between 1934 and 1939, nicknamed Colossal Claude. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/deer-woman/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/deer-woman/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:37:58 GMT A spirit being of many Native nations who appears as a beautiful woman with deer’s feet, and who punishes men who harm women and children. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/huggin-molly/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/huggin-molly/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:37:58 GMT A 7-foot phantom woman in black who chases children out after dark in Abbeville, Alabama, hugs them tight and screams in their ears. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/pend-oreille-paddler/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/pend-oreille-paddler/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:29:49 GMT A dark, wake-making shape in Idaho’s deepest lake – a monster often blamed on giant fish, hoaxers, and the Navy’s secret submarine tests. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/pedro-mountain-mummy/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/pedro-mountain-mummy/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:29:49 GMT A tiny seated mummy found by Wyoming gold prospectors in the 1930s and promoted as proof of a race of little people – later identified as an infant. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/oklahoma-octopus/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/oklahoma-octopus/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:29:49 GMT A horse-sized freshwater octopus said to drag swimmers to their deaths in Oklahoma’s reservoirs – a legend largely built by books and a 2009 TV show. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/jackalope/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/jackalope/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:29:49 GMT A jackrabbit with antelope antlers, born of a Douglas, Wyoming, taxidermy joke in the 1930s and now the West’s favorite tall-tale animal. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/beast-of-bladenboro/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/beast-of-bladenboro/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A cat-like killer blamed for a string of dog deaths around Bladenboro, North Carolina, in winter 1953–54, which drew armed crowds of up to 1,000 hunters. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/sharlie/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/sharlie/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT The humped “Twilight Dragon” of Payette Lake in McCall, Idaho – reported since 1920 and named Sharlie in a 1954 newspaper contest. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/bell-witch/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/bell-witch/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT An invisible, talking spirit said to have tormented the Bell family on their Tennessee farm from 1817 to 1821 – America’s most famous haunting legend. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/tommyknockers/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/tommyknockers/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT Little mine spirits brought from Cornwall to the American West, said to knock in Colorado’s gold and silver mines – warning, teasing or guiding the miners. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/devils-lake-serpent/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/devils-lake-serpent/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A horned, alligator-jawed serpent said to rise from Devils Lake, North Dakota, rooted in Dakota tradition and promoted by 1890s–1910s newspapers. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/afanc/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/afanc/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT Wales’s legendary lake monster, a flood-causing beast dragged out of a River Conwy pool by oxen and exiled to a lake high on Snowdon. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/lake-norman-monster/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/lake-norman-monster/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT “Normie,” a whiskered, finned serpent-fish said to swim in Lake Norman, the huge reservoir north of Charlotte created by Cowans Ford Dam in 1963. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/zwaanendael-merman/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/zwaanendael-merman/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A shriveled, foot-long “merman” brought to Lewes by a sea captain – a 19th-century Asian sideshow curiosity the town loved too much to let go. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/wolpertinger/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/wolpertinger/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT Bavaria’s tongue-in-cheek forest chimera – a horned hare with wings and duck’s feet – made by taxidermists, hunted by the gullible, loved by tourists. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/seneca-lake-serpent/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/seneca-lake-serpent/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A toothy serpent said to have been rammed and killed by a Finger Lakes steamboat in July 1899, only for its body to slip away into 600 feet of water. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/pigman/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/pigman/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A white-haired, pig-snouted figure that frightened teens at a 1971 high-school dance in Northfield, Vermont, said to lurk in the Devil’s Washbowl. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/tree-octopus/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/tree-octopus/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A tree-climbing octopus said to live in the Olympic Peninsula rainforest – a famous 1998 internet hoax used to teach students to check sources. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/woodbooger/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/woodbooger/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT Southwest Virginia’s hairy, Bigfoot-like ‘Woodbooger’ – the Appalachian bogeyman that Norton turned into a trademarked mascot with a sanctuary and statue. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/brosno-dragon/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/brosno-dragon/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT The “Russian Loch Ness Monster,” a dragon said to haunt deep Lake Brosno in Tver Oblast, where legend says it once scared off Batu Khan’s army. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/teggie/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/teggie/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT The crocodile-like monster of Bala Lake, Wales’s largest natural lake – a modern legend that once drew a Japanese film crew with a mini-submarine. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/bennington-monster/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/bennington-monster/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A huge, hairy creature said to have overturned a stagecoach on a mountain road near Bennington, Vermont, and still blamed for the woods’ eerie reputation. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/slide-rock-bolter/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/slide-rock-bolter/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A giant, whale-like beast that hooks its tail over Colorado ridges and toboggans down to swallow tourists – a tall tale from the 1910 Fearsome Creatures. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/silver-lake-serpent/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/silver-lake-serpent/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A “horrid” serpent reported by fishermen on Silver Lake, New York, in July 1855 – famously blamed on a hotel owner’s canvas-and-bellows hoax. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/miniwashitu/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/miniwashitu/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT A one-eyed, red-haired river being said to break the Missouri River’s ice each spring, recorded in North Dakota by ethnobotanist Melvin Gilmore in 1921. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/lough-ree-monster/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/lough-ree-monster/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:55 GMT Ireland’s best-known lake monster, seen by three fishing priests on Lough Ree in May 1960 – a sighting the BBC carried to the world. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/elephant-butte-catfish/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/elephant-butte-catfish/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:11 GMT Catfish “as big as a Volkswagen” said to lurk at the foot of Elephant Butte Dam – New Mexico’s take on a classic American divers’ legend. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/jersey-devil/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/jersey-devil/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A winged, hoofed devil said to have been born to “Mother Leeds” in the Pine Barrens, and the star of a week of panic across South Jersey in January 1909. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/champ/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/champ/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A long-necked monster said to live in Lake Champlain, made famous by Sandra Mansi’s 1977 photo and protected by local and state resolutions in the 1980s. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/thunderbird/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/thunderbird/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A giant bird with a wingspan said to rival a small plane, reported over Pennsylvania’s Black Forest and blamed for lifting an Illinois boy in 1977. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/beast-of-bray-road/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/beast-of-bray-road/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A wolf-headed creature that walks on two legs, reported along a farm road outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin, and made famous by reporter Linda Godfrey in 1991. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/lizard-man/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/lizard-man/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A seven-foot, green-scaled, red-eyed creature that a teenager said attacked his car beside a South Carolina swamp in 1988, sparking a summer-long craze. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/grassman/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/grassman/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT Ohio’s own Bigfoot, a tall hairy biped said to build grass nests, linked to the 1978 Minerva scare and the Bigfoot conference at Salt Fork State Park. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/loveland-frog/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/loveland-frog/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A four-foot frog-faced humanoid said to haunt the Little Miami River at Loveland, Ohio, reported in 1955 and by two police officers in 1972. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/dover-demon/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/dover-demon/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A small, hairless figure with a melon-shaped head and glowing eyes that three teenagers reported in Dover, Massachusetts, over two nights in April 1977. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/bear-lake-monster/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/bear-lake-monster/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A serpent-like monster said to swim Bear Lake on the Utah–Idaho line, born of an 1868 newspaper story its own author later called a lie. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/hodag/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/hodag/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A horned, spiny, grinning beast of Wisconsin logging-camp lore that prankster Eugene Shepard ‘captured’ in 1893 – now Rhinelander’s beloved mascot. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/piasa-bird/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/piasa-bird/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A winged, horned, man-faced monster painted on the Mississippi bluffs at Alton – first seen by Marquette in 1673 and reinvented by a storyteller in 1836. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/melon-heads/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/melon-heads/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT Small, big-headed figures said to lurk along wooded back roads in Connecticut, Ohio and Michigan – a teen legend with no real asylum behind it. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/ropen/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/ropen/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A glowing, long-tailed night flyer of Umboi that creationist explorers hoped was a living pterosaur – and scientists blame on bats, birds and planes. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/taniwha/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/taniwha/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT Powerful water beings of Māori tradition – guardians to some iwi, man-eaters in other tales – said to dwell in deep pools, caves and harbour mouths. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/queensland-tiger/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/queensland-tiger/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A striped, tree-climbing “marsupial cat” of north Queensland’s rainforests, reported since 1871 and linked by some to the extinct marsupial lion. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/white-river-monster/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/white-river-monster/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT “Whitey,” a gray, elephant-skinned giant of the White River near Newport, Arkansas – so famous that the state legislature gave it a legal refuge in 1973. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/gippsland-phantom-cat/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/gippsland-phantom-cat/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT Puma- or panther-sized cats reported across Gippsland since the 1930s, blamed on wartime mascots – yet every one examined so far has been a feral moggy. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/moehau/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/moehau/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT A hairy, man-sized wild being said to roam the Coromandel’s Moehau Range – New Zealand’s answer to Bigfoot, declared “dead” by a newspaper in 1970. https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/pukwudgie/ https://cryptidmap.com/cryptids/pukwudgie/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:06 GMT Small, gray-skinned forest people of Algonquian tradition – foes of the Wampanoag giant Maushop – said to linger in southeastern Massachusetts woods.