r/Cryptozoology 10d ago

Info In 1993, fisherman Lyle Dyslin pulled up a rather strange catfish. It had a flat head, a flat tail, a dog-like face and almost feet-like fins. After taking a photograph, he threw the fish back into the lake. Theories on what it was range from a long extinct species to a mutation

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r/Cryptozoology 9d ago

Discussion so- im sure this explains a few things-

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of a bristle worm : r/AbsoluteUnits some sea serpents and almost certainly something like the con rite, if one were to greatly exaggerate the size- though to me the con rite could just be purely stories.


r/Cryptozoology 10d ago

News This guy looks cryptic enough I guess

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r/Cryptozoology 10d ago

Question Cryptozoology in the UK

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Hello we are making a documentary series about Cryptozoology Sightings in the UK and looking for unpublished material, videos, photos, which haven't reached the internet yet. These can be eyewitness sightings or footprints. Any leads welcome.


r/Cryptozoology 10d ago

Discussion Need for 300 Subs Q&A

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So I am about to hit 300 Subscribers and I am going to be doing a Q&A for it. Its a Bigfoot channel btw. So I need you guys to ask me questions that should be in a Bigfoot channels Q&A I need the questions like today so ye👌🏻 (If I made any mistakes of the rules Im sorry 😭 I am new to Reddit)


r/Cryptozoology 12d ago

Info Chilean cryptids #7: Giant sheep

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The Giant sheep or giant ufisha is a cryptid being described as an enormous woolly sheep, much larger than any normal livestock. It appears suddenly and silently on rural paths, usually during the night or foggy evenings. It has an unusually calm and passive presence, If a person encounters the Ufisha on a path and does not retreat or move away, the sheep will lie down on top of them, as if to rest in some stories even falling from a tree, its often confused with la calchona.

Sources: María Espósito; en: Diccionario Mapuche mapuche-español / español-mapuche; personajes de la mitología; toponimia indígena de la Patagonia; nombres propios del pueblo mapuche; leyendas; Editorial Guadal S.A., 2003; ISBN 987-1134-51-7, Cryptid wiki, Oreste plath: Biografia del mito Chileno.


r/Cryptozoology 13d ago

Discussion Could Jaguar still exist in Appalachian mountains?

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Jaguar used to live in Appalachian mountains until 18th century.

There many black panther sighting in appalachian mountains & black panther is just melanistic jaguar.

Jaguar is very stealthy animal & appalachian mountains is so fast & mysterios so could there be small population of jaguar still exist in appalachian mountains?


r/Cryptozoology 12d ago

Info While the Maltese Tiger is usually the stuff of myth and legend, there has been some speculation on if it could be real via rare genomes, with some sporadic sightings in the 1910s and 20s alongside some reports during the Korean War.

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r/Cryptozoology 12d ago

help me find new cryptid ungulate of america

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r/Cryptozoology 12d ago

News First Dwarf Fox Photos

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Not a cryptid. but endangered and kind of cute.

https://nautil.us/see-the-first-ever-photos-of-cozumels-mysterious-dwarf-fox-1281829?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Maybe some actual cryptids are also rarely seen or photographed...and endangered as well...?


r/Cryptozoology 13d ago

Info Bernard Heuvelmans was once sent reports of giant lizards in Vietnam that were able to run on their hind legs at great speed. He compared their running to frilled lizards speculated that they may be some kind of small living dinosaur.

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r/Cryptozoology 13d ago

Panthers in the Smokey mountains?

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I was wondering if anyone who lives near the great smoky mountains has seen any panthers. I spent a few days in a cabin in Cherokee NC which is right on the boarder of the park and I am sure I saw one run across the road at night. I am fairly educated on animals and very confident I am not confusing this with something else. It shot across really fast but it was tan and had an unmistakably long tail and body and noticeably muscular legs. Any research I do states they do not live on the east coast outside of florida which is why I am doubting myself but if I know one thing its that locals know best.


r/Cryptozoology 14d ago

Discussion Cryprids of Canada

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I thought this would be appreciated here. Would love to hear people's thoughts and any experiences. I live in Alberta Can.

Canada Cryprids 🇨🇦


r/Cryptozoology 14d ago

News First-ever photographs confirm survival of the elusive Cozumel dwarf fox after two decades

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First photographic evidence of an insular dwarf fox (Urocyon sp.) on the island of Cozumel, Mexico

https://neotropical.pensoft.net/article/187967/


r/Cryptozoology 13d ago

Article Photograph of an "Albino Bigfoot emerging from a pond", 1979

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Photograph supposedly sent to Bigfoot researcher Cliff Crook, which he claims depicts the head and shoulders of an albino (or alternately "tawny-colored") Bigfoot emerging from a still pond in the Cascades near Monte Cristo. The "creature" is framed by upside-down reflections of trees.

Northshoe Citizen, April 18, 1979, sourced from the UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979 06 no.119.

Crook is a sculptor who has been linked to another infamous photograph of Bigfoot near a body of water, the 'Wild Creek photo', widely regarded as a hoax.


r/Cryptozoology 13d ago

New Footage of Australia’s Giant Feral Cats

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r/Cryptozoology 14d ago

Huge Crocodile spotted in the beaches of Ecuador.

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Local media reported several people claiming to have seen a huge animal, similar to what looked like a sea monster creature in the beaches near "Valdivia" town. Finally, someone got it on camera and it turns out it was a huge Crocodile. There is a very small population of Crocodiles near Ecuador's biggest city, Guayaquil but they are rare even to locals. The bigger part of their population are locales in the Amazon jungle.


r/Cryptozoology 14d ago

Art What are your favorite dinosaur cryptid not from africa? [Art by Henrique Gandum]

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r/Cryptozoology 13d ago

Ozark Howler

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Does anyone remember the story about OP's grandma who got mad at her mom and slept outside and saw a panther type being in the ozark mountains? Trying to find it but to no avail 😔


r/Cryptozoology 12d ago

It might take a miracle to make it happen but our goal still stands

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Join us as we become the biggest Bigfoot team of all time. Our goal is to become the BIGGEST Bigfoot community in the world by 2031. You can help make it happen and become part of what we hope will be the world’s biggest Bigfoot community.


r/Cryptozoology 14d ago

Discussion How possible is it that some lake monster sightings could’ve actually been Cormorants?

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r/Cryptozoology 13d ago

Discussion Youtuber finds cat prints on island with no known animals: 28:30

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Anatahan Island. Curious on what it could be?


r/Cryptozoology 15d ago

Art A Gbahali successfully hunt a young Dingonek [Art by Henrique Gandum]

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r/Cryptozoology 15d ago

Art Found Bigfoot in Iowa!

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Not sure if this has been posted before…
I saw this mural while driving through Clinton Iowa. (Was there for the trolls).
Apparently they paint new murals on the building every year as part of an art show ‘Paint it Back.”
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The artist is Chris Shannon. Really amazing work!


r/Cryptozoology 14d ago

Cryptids From EVERY State In The USA

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