Cryptids are the imaginary friends of the adult world — creatures that allegedly exist but somehow manage to avoid every camera, drone, microscope, satellite, and scientific investigation ever launched. Bigfoot. The Chupacabra. Mothman. The Jersey Devil. You name it. If it sounds like something that would’ve been cut from an early draft of Pokémon, there’s … Read more
There are cryptids you can almost respect. Bigfoot, for example — majestic, mysterious, blurry in every photo like he’s permanently on the run from copyright infringement. The Yeti, Bigfoot’s more sophisticated older brother. Even the Chupacabra, Mexico’s favorite demonic desert creature. But then there’s the Jersey Devil, whose mythology pales in comparison to its cryptid … Read more
Bigfoot is the participation trophy of the paranormal world. You can’t prove he’s there, you can’t prove he’s not, and somehow that’s enough for a certain breed of sweaty enthusiast to slap a sticker on their pickup truck and call it a lifestyle. Every few months some blurry photo crawls out of the forest like … Read more
Few cryptids have captured the popular imagination — or lowered the bar for eyewitness credibility — quite like the Chupacabra, the legendary “goat sucker” of Latin American folklore. Decades after is should have slunk off into obscurity, the Chupacabra somehow manages to keep sucking in the gullible. For those of you who have mercifully escaped … Read more
Every state seems to have its cryptid. The Pacific Northwest has Bigfoot. Scotland has the Loch Ness Monster. And Florida — bless its humid little heart — has the Skunk Ape. Imagine Bigfoot, but smaller, smellier, and more confused. That’s the Skunk Ape. A creature said to lurk in the swamps and Everglades, staggering through … Read more
If you ever needed proof that humanity would rather blame a flying demon moth for its problems than admit to bad infrastructure, look no further than Mothman — the winged harbinger of doom who uset to flap into porch lights. Now he predicts bridge collapses in the greater West Virginia area. The legend began in … Read more
If you could bottle vague hope, blurry photos, and economic desperation, you’d have Nessie: the most famous aquatic nonentity in modern history. The legend is simple: somewhere in the dark, cold depths of a Scottish lake, an ancient dinosaur-thing lurks — cleverly avoiding all sonar, underwater cameras, and credible witnesses for the better part of … Read more