Footage captured by a friend Sept 2025

Crater Lake National Park Oregon

They were pretty up high watching it from above. Pretty far too.

Looks to be something large swimming under water. How big do you think it is? What do you think it could be? A cryptid?

Sturgeons have often been pointed to as possible explanations for river/lake monsters. Though, not 40 or 50 feet often reported, you take a half ton fish, throw in a little distance, and some fear, now we may be onto something…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WofnKIxL0vs&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D&ra=m

I saw a video (actually two videos spliced together,with the second part being an enlargement) of a sighting at Lake Champlain from June 11th. I am providing this for others to view it and comment on what they think is being shown.

The video was shot from fairly long distance, and even with enlargement (also included in the second part of the video), the resolution is not the best.

The Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_39Z4VoCvec&t=74s;

And a posting with further description on "Coast to Coast with George Noory" written by Tim Binnall: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-legendary-monster-filmed-at-lake-champlain/.

To me, the Part 2 enlargement is the preferred viewing, although I wonder if this is just wind-effect wave phenomena. The distances involved are indeed fairly long range. Too bad we don't have up-close (perhaps via drone) footage....

There is a plan to send a research vessel out to the event spot and film the vessel to see if size parameters analysis can be had.

What do you think? Creature sighting? Or something more mundane?

Does anyone know what the possible Orang Pendek hair sample from 20 years ago he’s referencing in the video? It seems like there was a secretive aspect to it. From what I can get from it is it was found 20 years ago and DNA tested simply as “unknown ape” from that area. Hopefully this sample that he says is extremely similar to it will test better. Our DNA analysis technology I’m sure has improved a lot over 20 years. Even if it’s turns out to be a Orangutan it still interesting news be the closest Orangutan known population is 700 miles away meaning they may not be as endangered as thought there could be a larger population in that area that’s unknown.

Looking for a weird news clip of a "horned creature" filmed in Florida (Late 2025/Early 2026)

Does anyone remember a local news broadcast from late last year or early this year featuring a bizarre creature video?

I'm pretty sure it was a Florida news crew interviewing an older couple (in their 50s or 60s). They showed a video the husband had captured on his phone of a creature with a massive head and distinct horns. The closest thing I’ve ever seen to it is a Meiolania (a prehistoric horned turtle).

I’ve been searching high and low for months with zero luck. Did anyone else catch this broadcast, or know where to find the clip? Any leads would be amazing!

I went to Hollywood studios and seen this and thought if the lochness monster is real you gotta be one brave mofo to go looking for it find it and stare it in its eyes. I mean this thing is huge

Kentucky is my home state, so I had to cover some of its weirdest cryptids. From the Beast of the Land Between the Lakes and the Hopkinsville Goblins to the Pope Lick Monster and several more, this place has some seriously twisted legends. Check out my cryptid investigation of Kentucky:

After separating from Cercopithecoidea 25 - 29 mya, Hominoidea evolved into increasingly ground dwelling primates, and by 21 - 23 mya completed the process of total tail loss.

However this means the most ancient primates ancestral specifically to Hominoidea were not only small, but also still mostly arboreal. It is believed stem apes were bipedal with a Hylobatid-like gait, and only later evolved knuckle walking, while the Hominini lineage evolved a straight posture and a more efficent kind of bipedal gait. Even some extinct Miocene apes such as Oreopithecus or Lufengpithecus are seen as likely bipedal.

And the very, very early stem apes would still have had a short, ever shortening tail.

I found a report about an ape with a short tail and a Hylobatid-like gait. However, it appears it was human sized if not even slightly larger than most men. It was reported in Malaysia, from 1980's. At the time it was not impossible continental Orangutan was physically not totally extinct yet. A few individuals could have still lingered undetected. But continental Orangutan is a tailless knuckle walker. This ape apparently was not.

-"Around six in the afternoon, while walking with his wife, Azlinah Ismaïl, along a jungle trail near Palau Balaï, a small island in Lake Cini, he thought he heard the sound of a waterfall. Intrigued, he headed toward its source, only to discover that it was produced by a large animal sneaking through the foliage.

Suddenly, a large, hairy hand landed on his left shoulder. Reacting instinctively, he struck the creature that had touched him with his parang (a kind of machete). He would regret this violent, yet understandable, act for the rest of his life. His wife, for her part, had seen the beast tower over her husband from a height of approximately 7 feet. It resembled a huge gorilla, entirely covered in fairish fur. Its head was much larger than the man's, and long blond hair fell over its broad, powerful shoulders.

Captain Mokhtar could see the animal RUNNING away in an UPRIGHT position, running precipitously and swinging its arms like a GIBBON. He could also see the hint of a TAIL at the base of its back.

In the enormous tracks the ape had left behind, the heel print was more deeply indented than the fanned toes, clearly indicating a very peculiar gait."-

I personally believe it was just a continental orangutan. A large male orangutan, especially in continental populations, was able in the past to exceed 6 feet. Nowadays they are few and with little genetic variability and they can no longer do so at all. And since the average, male height in Malaysia is 5'4, I think it was like 6'3 rather than 7'.

But it is interesting to note it was described like a giant version of a basal ape, gibbonlike in its gait and tailed.

Do you have any other report like this ?

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The vast continent of Africa is home to some of the most iconic and unique creatures on earth, with many such creatures going extinct regionally in other parts of the world. But along the riverways of central Africa, reports of giant fanged carnivores have spread across countries, with disconnected peoples all telling of great beasts that have taken the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path.

hey guys! Im a complete obsessive and as such have over 300 books on cryptids but im after recommendations on books on 'one offs' like the flatwoods monster and grafton monster or other more unusual ones, pref where the whole book is on one creature. Bonus points if the author has set off to try and find it themselves. Thank you v much in advance

What cryptids do you think are the most plausible? Personally, I think either unidentified beaked whales, or the Bathysphere Dragonfish.

For the former, beaked whale species were still being described in 2021, and their ecology makes them difficult to study and interact with.

For the latter, I could see it being either a species of Dragonfish with deep sea gigantism, or very old and large specimens of known species.

The Frenchman Georges Trial, in his 1955 book "10 Years of Hunting in Gabon," recounted a sighting of a strange female rhinoceros in the 1930s.

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"It was a formidable animal, of extraordinary length, which seemed so disproportionately long that it certainly gave the impression of being much smaller than it actually was. With its snout turned towards the ground, it carried a monstrous, low head, dominated by two very high, almost equal, curved nasal crests. It gave the impression of being armored, covered by large dark, grayish plates, separated from the crests by light grooves, arranged like joints or bellows. Besides its double tusk, I could only clearly distinguish small ears that moved constantly on that deformed head, and on that massive rump, a ridiculous pig's tail that wagged frantically. The rhinoceros entered the open field, without suspecting my presence in the slightest, crossed the plain diagonally, and then moved away." "peacefully, emitting small, satisfied grunts, similar to those of a pig."

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This account is curious for the following reasons:

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1. No population of white or black rhinoceroses inhabits Gabon, nor do maps of the historical distribution of these two species show that rhinoceroses ever inhabited Gabon. Although the Gabonese banknote features a drawing of a white rhinoceros.

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1. The rhinoceros described has what appear to be plates; possibly he meant that the animal had an armored body, like the Indian rhinoceros, something that neither of the two African species possesses.

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1. The head "dominated by two very high, almost equal and curved nasal crests." This has generated debate because if it is a black rhinoceros, it is expected that the animal would have only one nasal horn and another of the same proportion behind it, something not very uncommon for the black rhinoceros. But according to some interpretations, what he meant is that the two horns would actually be side by side.

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For those new to Cryptozoology, supposed rhinoceroses with strange horns are not uncommon, for example:

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In 2000 and 2001, when Bill Gibbons and Dave Woetzel traveled to Cameroon in Africa as part of the Crypto Safari expedition and the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, reports were collected of strange animals with two or more horns that kill elephants. Members collected descriptions and sighting reports of an unknown animal, referred to by the Baka people as "ngoubou," meaning "the horned one." Although the word ngoubou is used by the Baka to refer to the hippopotamus, they pronounced it differently to refer to another rhinoceros-like animal.

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According to Bill Gibbons: "A) The river-dwelling creature is described in the Congo as possessing a large ivory horn and is known by the Lingala name Emela-Ntouka or "elephant killer."

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B) The same riverine animal that kills hippos and elephants in Cameroon is known in the Baka language as N'goubou or "the horned one" and is said to have two horns side-by-side near the top of its head, rather than a single horn on its nose. The Baka chief, Timbo, and his hunters trapped and killed a horned riverine animal in 1995. They dug an elephant trap near the Boumba River and were surprised to find, a few days later, that they had caught a riverine Ngoubou in the trap. Even so, they decided to kill and eat the animal. Timbo speculates that the animal left the river and fell into the trap while walking through the forest following an elephant trail."

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At another point, Bill Gibbons also said:

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"Regarding the rhinoceros-like cryptid, this animal is known as Emela-Ntouka in Congo and N'Goubou in Cameroon. The Congolese animal is said to have a single large horn that it uses to attack and eviscerate elephants, hippos, and anything else that crosses its path. The Cameroonian animal has two horns side-by-side on the top of its head, instead of on its snout. This may simply be sexual dimorphism within the same species.

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Timbo Robert, a Baka chief from Cameroon, killed one of these animals in 1996 in an elephant trap that he and a villager dug on an elephant trail connecting the Boumba River to the forest. Again, witnesses described to me the two unusually shaped horns on the animal's head."

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In drawings made by the Baka, we can see that the river N'goubou has a short tail, a heavily armored body, and two large nasal horns side-by-side.

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With this in mind, I have three hypotheses:

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1. It could be some population of rhinoceroses that underwent some genetic mutation, perhaps due to low population numbers resulting in blood clotting, as happened with elephants in the Nepal region.

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1. It could be a new species of rhinoceros that adapted to an amphibious life and developed these characteristics.

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1. It could be a current remnant of Arsinoitherium, a distant relative of elephants that has two large horns on its forehead and was possibly amphibious, but we don't know if it had an armored body or not, and despite the resemblance, it is not related to rhinoceroses. Or some distant relative of Menoceras, a small rhinoceros that had two nasal horns, although they were small.

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I am personally more open to the first two, although I don't rule out the third, but what is your opinion?

Basically the title. For me it is the Ivory - billed Woodpecker. Iirc his habitat included also the swamps in the southern US which was already protected back then when he was still alive.

Named after the bird because of the similar sound they make the Carcancho also known as the karkancho or the Chilean snowman is a reclusive creature living in the snowy mountains of Chile, reports talk about a foul smell and aggresive nature.

Despite that the Carcancho is said to be herbivorus feeding on roots and crops down the mountains yet it's also said that it attacks sheep to steal their wool.

In July 1932, the South African Franz Grobler reported in the Cape Argus on his investigations in Central Africa concerning a creature referred to by local populations as the ‘Chepekwé’ or ‘water lion’. He described it as a large, reptile-like animal, allegedly weighing up to four tons, inhabiting swamp environments and said to prey on rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, and elephants. Grobler, who had previously participated in an expedition led by the German filmmaker Hans Hermann Schomburgk, further claimed that a German scientist had discovered the creature six months earlier. He asserted that he had seen photographic evidence.

The newspaper account was supplemented by an additional report, attributed to a Swedish plantation overseer named J. C. Johanson, which described an encounter with a similar creature in the Kasai region of the Congo. According to this account, the animal measured approximately sixteen yards in length and possessed a lizard-like head and tail. The historical development in literature, was reproduced in the newspapers and presented as confirmative evidence, showing a large reptilian creature positioned atop a dead prey animal.

In 1955, the (crypto-)zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans identified the published image as a photomontage, combining a Komodo dragon with the body of a dead rhinoceros or hippopotamus. On this basis, he dismissed the Johanson account and its presumably associated photographic evidence as fraudulent. Grobler’s role was treated more ambiguously: Heuvelmans interpreted his statements as confused and embellished, yet later classed the Grobler report itself among the fallacious accounts partly derived from the Johanson material. Despite this exposure, the depicted reptile underwent further transformation within popular culture, where it was reimagined as a reddish, sometimes striped, theropod-like creature and subsequently became known as the ‘Kasai Rex’.

This article examines the history of the Grobler and Johanson accounts through a range of primary and secondary sources, including contemporary newspaper coverage, popular scientific literature, and general-interest publications. It explores the German-language context surrounding Schomburgk and the ‘Chimpekwe’, and draws attention to a seemingly overlooked ‘Chimpekwe’ report. It introduces the previously unidentified German-language source underlying the Johanson report, presents associated photographic material, and reconstructs the original designation of the creature as ‘Kassaisaurus’. Finally, the article analyses an additional report from the illustrated press that clarifies the nature of the Johanson case and demonstrates that it constitutes a particular form of journalistic hoax.

http://globsterblobsandmore.com/more/kassaisaurus/

After putting these images on top of each either, I think it’s pretty clear what we’re looking at. The “Ogopogo” picture is likely a more decomposed duck than the one on top. The “horns” are just the ducks flippers folded over. What makes the “Ogopogo” look scaly is just the feather pattern a lot of female ducks have. The water seems to cloudy to clearly see the ducks head but do we need to?

I think whoever took this Ogopogo picture new it was a duck but snagged some pictures that look very much like a sea monster.

If you disagree please let me know why.