I love them all and have since my youth. But I still harbor hopes that they may find a Bigfoot.
The Goatman.
We are the only house near the end of a very dark dead end road way up in the mountains.
Sasquatch, you bet your boots.
I’m fond of the Big Cats of the British Isles. And the Other Lake Monsters.
There are supposedly Big Feet (Bigfoots?) in Texas!
Moth Man scares me but I liked the book. An influence on X-Files?
Note: Chucabras is singular, from the Spanish verb chupa (sucks) & the noun cabras (goats). For comparison, see Matamoros (Moor Killer) & chupabrandies (seen in an ad for a Border dive).
Interesting. What’s the plural, and is el chupacabras correct?
El chupacabras is correct, unless you know that particular little beastie is a female; in which case she would be La chupacabras.
The plural form stays the same but is preceded by the plural article: Los chupacabras. Or Las chupacabras, for a bunch of female goat suckers!
The story about Comte Arnau is another variation of the Wild Hunt myth.
My choices:the Jackalopeand its Continental cousin, the Dahu.
The Dahu sounds like it’s more closely related to the Sidehill Gouger (or Sidehill Dodger) than the Jackalope.
Of North American legendary critters, my favorite is the Squonk, closely followed by the Gumberoo.
You’re correct. There is a closer connection between the Sidehill Dodger and the Dahu. In any case, I only related the Jackalope with the Dahu because they both have horns and are fairly recent tongue-in-cheek mythological creations often used by locals to dupe gullible tourists.
The Southeast AK native tradition of the Kushtaka, an otter person who is also a shape shifter. The Kushtaka will lure you to the water by shape shifting and calling out as a loved one drowning. As you try and save the person they will take you away and change you into a Kushtaka, or kill you.
(My apologies to any Alaskan Natives for simplifying/butchering your individual oral histories)
You two sound like potential furr-bearing trout fans.
These are great! I hadn’t heard of a few of these.
You need to watch more of the Bad Science Channel (or as they call themselves, The History Channel.) They often have an entire day devoted to Cryptid shows. Lord knows how it relates to History. (Still, I confess that I watch them.)
I love that they end each show with: While science has not been able to prove the existence of <insert Cryptid>, there are still many unexplained facts and we have not disproven them as yet either.
I’m a Nessie and Sasquatch fan myself. Sasquatch has gone so far as to be an Olympic Mascot, so you’ve got to admire his tenacity and drive, unusual in a retiring cryptid.
I would also recommend *The Fortean Times*if you are a fan of this sort of thing. If nothing else the strange deaths column keeps me coming back.
the kappa from Japanese folklore.
I love the Fortean TImes, I actually have a subscription to the magazine =)
[is it really legal in Britain to buy marijuana seeds and magic mushroom spores?!]
I actually read it once a week, Saturday morning. That way I can get the whole week over breakfast =)
I am torn as to which cryptid/monster is my favorite. Monster-wise, I am fond of vampires. I find it interesting that almost every culture has some sort of vampire, whether it sucks out blood or some concept of life essence.
Are Fae considered cryptids? I am fascinated by the whole ‘fairy mound, tiny people that are hidden and hard to find’ and correlate them to the interesting mound homes found in the islands way up north of Scotland, that may possibly exist in the areas of the now underwater areas formed between Britain and the mainland. If you consider the population were probably much smaller [evidenced by the size of the living quarters] more hunter/gathered/fishermen than farmers, and probably lurked in the perimeters and hid from the larger Celtic and Pictish immigrants it would fit the description of fairies. I would love to get some sort of DNA work done, because you find little dark peoples and larger lighter [blonds and gingers] both in areas where there are a lot of fairies in the folklore [Basque region and British Isles both] It would be interesting to see how the DNA shakes out.
I like the Grool. And the Lanx is not bad either. If you like potatoes with vampire teeth.
Are you asking about general mythology, or just monster-hoax type thingies?
Anything goes.
If you’re talking critters from classical bestiaries, my favorite is the Manticore. It has the body of a lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth, and an envenomed tail.
