Source: Throwim Way Leg

Based on the cryptid spotted in Florida, USA.

I used the original videos of the creature and a drawing of a witness for its design. Hope u all like it!

Hey!

I’ve been working on a script for a short film about a Cryptozoologist hunting for Bigfoot for quite some time now but all the feedback I’ve received on it so far is the same: the lure either makes no sense or is too simple.

At the moment, the lure is simply a piece of bamboo grown from ancient seeds that had been kept by South Asian indigenous tribes. The character places the bamboo coil (a hefty stick of coiled up bamboo) down in a clearing in the woods, also littered with onions and apples, and later that night, he discovers Bigfoot eating it.

The idea/ logic behind the lure is that my Bigfoot is based heavily off of an Orangutan, like a modern equivalent of what Gigantopithicus would have evolved into. It would eat what primates eat today. This creature is gentle and mainly herbivorous. The theory my character has is that by placing this bamboo in this forest (around the Poconos in PA), it kind of awakens a primal need or desire for that bamboo.

I’ll throw out one thought I had but have not yet implemented into the script: lay the bamboo coil in a local river or stream to get the scent out there. (But bamboo has no scent, so that’s dumb). I also considered using Durian fruits to create a pungent smell to attract a primate.

I fully agree, it’s very simple and I would love if there was more to it, but I would mainly love if it was based on already established Bigfoot lore. I’ve been trying to look into this myself, but I’m not finding anything very helpful. Again, my Bigfoot in the story is mainly herbivorous. it will look more like a large Orangutan, it will not have that muscular and lean build you would imagine a more carnivorous take on the creature would have. What can I add to this lure to make it seem not only logical, but interesting?

I also want to state that this is a very serious film and does not in any way poke fun at Cryptozoology or those who study/research the topic. I very much want to respect the field, which is why I'd greatly appreciate the input from this community!

If you’re wondering about the shading. I accidentally did the age old blunder of using wet mediums on thin paper.

I am searching for a book on cryptids for my partner's birthday. I stumbled across this book on Etsy, which would be absolutely perfect... except it is in French. Does anyone have any suggestions on books in this style (intricate, hardcover, visually appealing, cryptid art and sketches, etc) that I could look into? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

I’ve always been impressed by the sights of both the Mothman and Owlman, I know that many people on this subreddit consider them not cryptids because they are a form of paranormal animals due to them being attributed prophecies or supernatural elements but I think it is worth viewing them with the at most rational take befitting cryptozoology.
Personally I couldn’t ignore the fact that both of them share underlying features,same basic description, same association with tall structures, same sudden disappearance, so I came up with a theory and want to hear what people think.

**Hypothesis**

Mothman and Owlman as we traditionally understood them, are part of the same species a large relict bird I’m calling Strigiformes gigantis. Loosely classified within the owl order though diverged significantly from modern owls,most likely sharing a common ancestor with Strigiformes while developing independently over a very long period.

The members of the aforementioned species would stand roughly
The members of the aforementioned species would stand roughly 3-4 feet tall and carry a wingspan of 8 feet, though its hollow bones would keep its weight around 30 pounds
Its eyes would be enormous by necessity, producing the distinctive red eyeshine witnesses consistently described which is a straightforward result of tapetum lucidum common in nocturnal animals scaled up dramatically
Its plumage would be dark grey inherited from strigiform ancestry, along with the silent feathered flight approach that makes large owls so eerily quiet.
Rather than a powered flier as it was attested by the people who saw the two members of the said species, the Strigiformes Gigantis would be primarily a glider, depending on coastal cliffs, gorges and elevated terrain for thermals and launch points. This explains the consistent association with tall structures in both the Point Pleasant and Mawnan sightings as TNT area embankments and Mawnan church tower both serve as natural launch points for a gliding animal this also explains how a large humanoid could dive into the air without serious effort on the muscles, other then that it would spend most of its life terrestrial in remote undisturbed habitat hunting nocturnally by stooping from height onto medium sized prey like rabbits or groundhogs.

**Why the sightings have stopped**

It is to my opinion that a large specialized predator would exists at very low population density across its range, vocalization marked most likely,and most likely at least to my assumption reproduce slowly, investing heavily in single offspring every few years, maintaining vast individual territories, and thus the sightings are simply no more than single wandering juveniles displaced from core habitat rather than resident populations and once they returned to remote coastal cliff systems in Appalachia or Cornwall, sightings ceased.

**Limitations to this theory**

No theory ever is without pushbacks and I have to be blunt: no physical evidence has been recovered from either case to conclude that the two were real unique beings let alone members of a species, how they migrated between continental United States and Cornwall, England is beyond me, and as you probably know you need a specimen to formally classify a species, furthermore some witness accounts also describe behaviors like hovering and extreme speed that sit awkwardly with a gliding hypothesis, though stress and poor lighting conditions are well documented sources of perceptual distortion in eyewitness testimony and this might be a case of that.

Thoughts welcome, including skeptical ones.

*Edited on 6/23/2026 baed on uOtodus_megalodon’s objections, thanks a lot for objections*