The Thermal Cat of the Notzinger Moos
A hunter's thermal camera near Munich Airport caught a large, long-tailed cat licking its paws.
Tag: Cryptids
28 case files, newest first.
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'Catfoot' of Binley Woods: A Big Cat in the Police Newsletter
On Coventry's edge, residents kept telling patrolling officers about a large dark cat seen at dusk.
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The Chupacabra: Puerto Rico, 1995
In 1995 Puerto Rican farmers found livestock dead with puncture wounds, and a witness described a spiny, big-eyed creature.
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Mapinguari: The Amazon Giant and the Ground-Sloth Idea
In the Brazilian Amazon, rubber tappers and riverside communities tell of the mapinguari, a huge, foul-smelling, shaggy creature.
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The Nessie Camera Trap That Waited 55 Years
In 1970 a Chicago biologist sank baited cameras into Loch Ness to photograph the monster.
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The Patterson–Gimlin Film, 1967, and the Reel From the Safe
A 2026 documentary shows a 16 mm reel it says was a rehearsal for the most argued-over minute of Bigfoot film.
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The Pangboche Hand: A "Yeti" Relic Tested
A mummified hand kept at a Buddhist monastery in Nepal's Khumbu region was long shown to visitors as a yeti's.
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Manipogo of Lake Manitoba
Named in 1960 to rhyme with Ogopogo, Manipogo is the lake monster of Lake Manitoba.
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The White River Monster: Newport, Arkansas, 1937
In July 1937 something huge kept surfacing in an eddy of the White River below Newport.
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After 1936: The Thylacine's Paper Trail
The last known thylacine died in a Hobart zoo on 7 September 1936.
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Cadborosaurus: The Sea Serpent of Victoria
Since the 1930s, people around Victoria, British Columbia, have reported a long, horse-headed sea serpent called 'Caddy'.
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Sasquatch: How a British Columbia Word Became Bigfoot
'Sasquatch' comes from a Halq'eméylem word for a hairy wild being, popularized by a schoolteacher in Harrison Hot Springs in the 1920s.
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Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake
British Columbia's Okanagan Lake has a resident monster with a music-hall name.
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The Jersey Devil of the Pine Barrens
A colonial-era birth legend, a 1909 newspaper panic, and a cryptid that thrives on retelling across the pines.
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Mokele-mbembe: The Swamp "Dinosaur" of the Congo Basin
For a century, missionaries and adventurers have looked in the swamps of the northern Republic of the Congo for an animal described as a living sauropod.
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The Grand Canyon Wild Man of 1903
Arizona's Bigfoot lore is often traced to a 1903 Williams News front page.
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The Tantanoola Tiger, 1895: Shot, Stuffed and Still Argued Over
For a couple of years, a 'tiger' was blamed for killing sheep in South Australia's southeast.
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The Seven-Headed Serpent of the Santa Cruz, Tucson 1891
Weeks after the Salton serpent, a Tucson paper had a seven-headed monster rise from the flooded Santa Cruz to preach.
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The Salton Lake Sea Serpent, 1891
In the summer of 1891 the Colorado River spilled into the dry Salton Sink and made a real new lake.
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Tombstone's Winged Monster and the Thunderbird Photo That Never Was
In April 1890 the Tombstone Epitaph reported that two ranchers had shot a 160-foot winged creature in the desert.
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The Mogollon Monster in Print: A Short Explainer
Arizona's Rim country has its own hairy giant. We trace how far back it appears in print, and it isn't far.
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The Live Moa Reports: a Waiau Shepherd (1873) and the Browning Pass 'Capture' (1874)
In 1873 a Dunedin paper announced that a live moa had been seen “alive and in the flesh” in Southland.
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The Wild Man of the Woods: Arkansas, 1851, and How the Story Reached New Zealand
In May 1851 a Memphis paper reported a giant, hair-covered “wild man” chasing cattle in Greene County, Arkansas.
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The Yowie: Australia's Hairy Man
Since the 19th century, settlers have reported a tall, hairy ape-like figure in the Australian bush, later called the yowie.
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The Bunyip Skull: Sydney, 1847, and the Freak Foal That Fooled a Colony
A skull found on the Lower Murrumbidgee in 1846 was hailed in the Sydney Morning Herald as proof of an unknown animal.
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Champ: The Monster of Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain, between New York, Vermont and Quebec, has its own lake monster, 'Champ', with sightings back to the 1800s and a famous 1977 photo.
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The Beast of Gévaudan, 1764–1767
For three years something killed and partly ate people, mostly women and children, across a remote corner of south-central France.
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Cryptids That Turned Out Real
Some animals science dismissed as stories later swam, or walked, into view. Here is what proof looked like.
