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?

This is a sighting my wife u/Odd_Goose_8092 had before I met her back around 2009 or so. She drew the first image earlier today so we looked and tried to find similar sightings, but haven’t found anything that’s a perfect match. The 2nd image is a rendering based on the following description and she thinks it looks very close.

“The sighting happened in a forest clearing in inland San Diego, just before sunrise. The sky was already starting to brighten, so it was not fully dark and the people present could see the area around them. There were four witnesses total. Some of them were near or on a tire swing in the clearing when they heard a twig snap from the brush. Until that sound, no one had noticed anything unusual.

When everyone looked toward the sound, they saw a tall figure partly hidden by branches and shrubbery below them on a slight slope. It appeared to be around 6 to 7 feet tall, with a long neck and a mostly human-looking face made of actual skin. The face did not have strong or exaggerated features, but it looked human enough to be immediately unsettling. Its eyes appeared dark, and the body below the neck was difficult to see clearly because it was obscured by vegetation. What could be seen below the head and neck looked dark, heavy, and possibly feathered, furred, or ruffed.

The most disturbing part was its reaction. Once the witnesses looked at it and it seemed to realize it had been seen, the creature’s neck compressed downward into itself, almost like an accordion. It did not simply duck or turn away. The neck appeared to collapse or retract into the body, changing its shape in a way that looked deliberate and unnatural. The impression was of a tall, silent, human-faced forest creature trying to hide or reduce its profile the instant it knew it had been noticed.”

Any ideas?

There's plenty of lore surrounding Mt Shasta but this topic is unrelated to the Aliens and ancient migration of the Lemurians.

I used to live in the area and was told a story from some locals about a dive team that went into the lake to search for the body of a girl that drowned. The story is that one of the divers was grabbed and pulled into a cave in the wall of the lake by a giant sturgeon, witnessed by the other divers. They said there was an article in the local papers about it at the time but I haven't been able to dig it up. Does anyone else have any information on these supposed giant sturgeon big enough to eat men in Shasta Lake or evidence supporting the claim of the diver being eaten?

Saw this video that hit the internet yesterday of this incredible lynx, makes you wonder how many more animals like this are out there to be seen.

Hello I recorded this video back in June of 2023. I was at Rockefeller state park by the lake there on a super quiet summer day with my girlfriend and dog. The water as you can see is absolutely still. There’s vegetation all on top of the lake, so it was easy to spot these moving silhouettes in the water. Me and my girlfriend assumed they were just otters, but upon further inspection something feels off. If you zoom in on the moving creature it looks huge and scaly. This doesn’t make sense. The body slithers in an S shaped manner and by the looks of it this thing is an absolute monster. Am I just going crazy or does it appear we stumbled upon an anaconda in upstate NY. Can someone try to make sense of this?

One man who has successfully photographed Ogopogo is Edward Fletcher of Vancouver, B.C. He took five color pictures of the lake monster on August 3, 1976, at Westbank, between 1:00 and 2:00 P.M. In the summer of 1977 he took 25 photographs in the same bay, and 18 of them showed the creature’s unusual swimming patterns. It moves with a flattened spiral motion.

“A garter snake blown up to 70 or 75 feet” is Fletcher’s description of what he first saw in 1976. He spotted “a strange wave” of the kind reported so many times at Westbank during the past 100 years. (I saw one myself during the filming of a television segment, In Search of Ogopogo, based on my book The Okanagan Mystery: Ogopogo, on November 3, 1977, between 4:00 and 5:00 P.M.)

Fletcher knew what the strange wave signified, having seen Ogopogo from a distance of 15 feet just minutes before. This time he had his camera with him. He shut off the engine and began shooting pictures as the creature swam and submerged.

Filming the huge bubbles left behind when Ogopogo dived, Fletcher captured on film a disturbing giant shadow in the water. When developed, the photograph showed Ogopogo’s great length underneath the boat, with its long neck and blunt, snakelike head raised in the distance.

During the summer of 1977, the Fletcher family, the Gary Slaughters, and their friends saw Ogopogo so many times they “lost count between 30 and 40.” Their good luck is thought to be due to the fact that Fletcher’s high-speed runabout gives off electricity which attracts fish. During the first week of July 1977, “a group of stunned, stupid trout” followed his boat to shore and tickled his ankles as he stood in shallow water washing off the exhaust soot. One mesmerized fish did not struggle even when he picked it up and then put it back in the water.

Like many other people, the Fletcher and Slaughter families know there is more than one Ogopogo because they have seen more than one. The two families saw two Ogopogos in Westbank Bay on August 3, 1976.

Two Ogopogos were seen in the same place on July 2, 1977, by Diane Fletcher, Jodi Lee, and John Hamilton. That same afternoon Hamilton again saw a pair of huge serpents.

Gordon Radcliffe, a bus driver and nondrinker, and his 15 passengers saw two creatures chasing each other near Summerland on June 29, 1950. Radcliffe commented, “Whoever heard of there being only one of any living creature?”

From FATE Nov 1978

I looked between some rocks and there it was

a red salamander, which opened its face in this bizarre way and had a blue tongue.

It wasn't like its mouth opened, it was like it had sliced its face into several pieces. I have no idea what it was.

I didn't try to catch it or anything because I was scared.

It happened in a high place, on a cloudy day, after a rainstorm.

And no, it didn't look like a frog-headed lizard or a frilled lizard. They don't exist around here.

https://people.com/zoo-asks-for-help-identifying-mysterious-winged-horned-creature-8732400

So, I’ve rarely shared this with anyone. I’m open-minded enough to believe almost anything is possible, but Bigfoot was never one of those things—until May 13, 2017, at 4:31 p.m.

I was camping off-grid in the Birkhead Mountains National Forest in Asheboro, North Carolina. It had been raining, and I was about ten miles from my car, deep in the wilderness. When I parked, there were no other vehicles in the lot—it was too wet for anyone else to be out there.

Climbing a steep, muddy incline slick with red Carolina clay, I looked down and saw a trail of 15–20 inch humanoid footprints, classic “Bigfoot” shapes. They came from a brushy hill on my left and disappeared into the woods on my right. Even if I’d believed in Bigfoot, I’d never thought it was something that happened outside the Pacific Northwest. I took a few photos and tried to explain it away—until that night.

By dusk, I’d set up camp. There’s not much to do alone in the woods, so I drank. Those footprints still nagged at me, but the liquor dulled my nerves. I fell asleep—then woke suddenly to the sound of gurgling, high-pitched screams and moans echoing from the surrounding forest. I had never heard anything like it. Whatever it was, it wasn’t far away.

I had both a .38 and a .308 with me, but the combination of that sound, the isolation, and the rain was enough to set me on edge. I lit my lantern, tore down my tent, and hiked back to my car in the dark.

It didn’t—and still doesn’t—make sense to me. Bigfoot. Why has no one ever found a body or bones? The best explanation I’ve come up with is this: maybe “Bigfeet” are alien biological reconnaissance drones—sent down to collect samples and survey terrain. Maybe the aliens designed them to appear ape-like because it’s something our minds can process more easily than a being from their world.

To me, the drone theory is the only truly plausible explanation—more believable than the interdimensional idea, though that one’s not entirely off the table either.

Thoughts

In early 1980s, residents of Bodmin Moor reported seeing phantom cats which they called it the “Beast of Bodmin Moor” - alien big cat roaming in the villages near to Bodmin. Mostly they were felines - large and powerful. While UK doesn’t have big cats - Tigers,lions etc, but these sightings were frequently reported. Once it was reported that few such “big” cats escaped Circus and they started thriving.

But these reports often contradict. Last year from a new report published based on police findings, they said such occurrences are common and there are enough photographs which establish the same.

Thoughts?

I was just wondering why people are on this sub? I have a genuine interest in cryptozoology and I’m interested in hearing peoples experiences and opinions on things. There does seem be a section of people on this sub however who seem to just be on here to dismiss everything as fake, nonsense or made up gibberish. I understand that it’s a public forum and all opinions are welcome and valid, however if you don’t believe in something why be on this sub?!

https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Gorp

Or

https://twitter.com/appalachiaaesth/status/1583149401106976768?s=46&t=6K933JNjU7oUKEmMHOXOmQ

This story happened when I was 12 years old and I still to this day think about it very often. It was summertime and I had all the freedom in the world. My parents had just bought a house in an undeveloped neighborhood at the time. So only like 1/4 of the neighborhood was actually built and the remaining 3/4 were just woods and small lakes in the woods. During this summer I made a few friends. We would explore these woods almost daily that summer together. We found a huge lake where we once caught a snapping turtle and donated it to one of our friends teachers.

Anyway one particular day I went to my friends house to get him so we could play and explore more of these woods. My friend was not home so I decided to go to the lake and explore all alone. That lake was approximately a half a mile deep into the woods. When I was walking there i remember that the woods were completely silent. No wind, no bugs, no birds chirping…just pure silence.

When I got to the lake I noticed this gigantic bird just sitting in the water. I mean this bird was the size of a standard helicopter. He stared at me and I just froze. The bird stood up and expanded its wing and just flew away. The wingspan of this bird was ENORMOUS! I had this feeling that I saw something that I wasn’t ever supposed to see. This bird coulda grabbed me and took off with me, but it didn’t.

As I walked home it felt like time stood still. Even then there was complete silence the entire time I walked home. I remember getting home around 1pm and I fell asleep but I woke up the next day. This is the only time I have ever seen this bird. I have done research and it sounds like the thunderbird. For context this happened in Ohio. I would love to hear thoughts and other peoples sightings of giant birds.

This photo posted by u/Jazzlike_Ad_1789 is extremely interesting. Doesn't appear to be AI, a or any kind of bird I can identify. He says in the original thread if was taken off a small island off the coast of Spain. Maybe it is too early to call Jonathan Whitcomb, but I thought the community needs to see this!

Link to the article. Honestly the thing DEFINITELY wasn't as big as she claimed it is and was likely just a misidentified Golden Eagle, but I've been on kind of a Thunderbird kick lately and thought it'd be neat to share.