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I think one of my favorite cryptids is the Jackalope because of the pure simplicity of it. It's just a bunny with antlers. It's an obvious fake and it's equally obvious as to how it was faked (take a dead rabbit and a dead deer and use the magic of taxidermy to combine the two), but who care? It's a fun idea and a cute design, so sit back and enjoy the idea of a little rabbit with big ol' antlers.
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Another Cryptid I like that's super simple, but also super cute in the same style as the Jackalope is the Tsuchinoko. Tsuchinokos are a Japanese cryptids and instead of being long and thin like most snakes they're short and fat. They're the pugs of the snake world. They show up a lot in Japanese pop culture, they were the inspiration for the Pokemon Dunsparce:  They're featured on a ridiculously adorable Yugioh card:  And you can get a special achievement in Metal Gear Solid 3 if you manage to catch one and then go the whole game without eating its tasty flesh: https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Tsuchinoko https://twitter.com/tsuchinokoradio/status/1174486943276634112?s=20 Tsuchinokos are one of those cryptids that, in addition to being precious, seems plausible because it's somehow less ridiculous than a bunch of real life animals. I mean, you know what really lives in Japan? Giant salamanders:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vAxdmb-Qkc I feel like seeing a salamander the size of a dog would make the idea of a chubby little snake seem way more believable via comparison.
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Casu Marzu posted:Oh hey, there's a semi-local cryptid in WI that I absolutely love. Oh my God, I just met Hodag and I already love him. I feel like cryptology is more of a study of history than of science. Where did these creatures come from? What's the mythology behind them? What might the rational explanation for them be? Do they enjoy golf? These are the big questions. I think the closest thing I've ever had to a personal IRL life cryptid sighting is the time I was out biking and came across a really big pig. I wasn't near a farm or anything, and I had never seen pigs in that area before and never have again. It was a hella huge pig too, maybe it was a former pet that someone released into the wild because it got too big?
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Phy posted:I doubt it was ever a concept intended to be taken seriously, unlike Sasquatch (or Bigfoot) or the Jersey Devil, but I always liked the Hidebehind, whose traits were essentially "being fast, quiet, and real fuckin' creepy". A big ol' thing that preyed upon lumberjacks, the Hidebehind could, well, hide behind things as quick as you could turn your head, so you never got to actually see it. If it couldn't hide behind a tree or a rock or a hillside, it'd dance around behind you. It apparently didn't like the smell of liquor, so, getting riotously drunk was your best defense. One presumes the Hidebehind was trotted out as an excuse to naive young crew hands who asked why you were breaking out the whiskey while on the job. Oh Hey! Gravity Falls did a short on that guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJJgybKQyT8
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Alhazred posted:People was just in general freaked out about penguins. For a long time they were considered primitive birds, more reptile than bird. I mean...  I kind of get it.
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Hollismason posted:I'mma have to search out Wellington Paranormal. I didn't even know that was a show. Oh it's great, If you like it I strongly recommend also watching What We do In the Shadows (both the movie and the tv show)
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Through the power of google I found a bit more information on Strong Toad: http://studyofmonsters.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-strong-toad-chiles-invulnerable-toad.html The Strong Toad is a very unique species of magical amphibians that are only native to Chile. In appearance, the creature looks like a normal horned toad except for a turtle-like shell on its back. The Strong Toad has the power of invulnerability, which allows the creature to withstand most harm and can actually glow-in-the-dark thanks to its unnatural skin. Strangely, one may think that the invulnerability is the creature's main defense mechanism. In reality, the Strong Toad's eyes actually have the ability to hypnotize any other life form away or toward the creature. Humans and predators are usually repelled but, insects or small mammals like mice are attracted toward the animal. Staring down either a predator or prey allows the Strong Toad to wisely choose which animal can get close enough to it, and if all else fails; the invulnerability protects the animal from any potential harm. Strong Toads are known to be great pets (only by choosing their owners) and are known to be great "guard dogs" due to their abilities. Though if a person ever wanted to kill a Strong Toad, fire is the most effective away due to the creature's amphibious nature but, just remember to burn it thoroughly until its reduced to cinders. Strong Toads are generally harmless but, are very picky on what or who they want to meet.
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feedmyleg posted:In reality, the Strong Toad's eyes actually have the ability to hypnotize  It's all coming together.
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david_a posted:Is that dude not familiar with the concept of aging Most conspiracy theories are reliant on forgetting basic facts about how things function. "This popsicle was cold, then I threw it in a bonfire and it suddenly melted! There's only one explanation for this sudden change in temperature: Aliens."
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Mar 19, 2021 17:23
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The gently caress? He didn't even try! That first photo is just some lady it doesn't look alien at all. He could have at least drawn a third eye on her or something. edit: Seriously, the first picture is just some blonde lady and the real version is some blonde lady in a different light. This is the laziest fake alien scam I've ever seen. It's actually making me a little pissed off he thought anyone would be dumb enough to fall for that. He just slightly darken a regular picture of a completely normal person! Space Cadet Omoly has a new favorite as of 03:03 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Treguna Mekoides posted:
Etsy has some great cryptid stuff  https://www.etsy.com/listing/967172...h_click=1&cns=1
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    This store has a good selection of cryptid scented candles, they're very affordable and having bought a few I can confirm they smell great: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SnowsCutSoaps?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=790372733
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Mar 26, 2021 04:49
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 https://www.etsy.com/listing/938624..._search_click=1 Well, this went in a weird direction. Anyway, these pins reminded me of a shirt Branson Reese made for a podcast:  https://shop.boontavista.com/product/boonta-vista-bigfoot-is-real-t-shirt I'll be honest, if this shirt wasn't 46$ I might have bought it. Edit: Former DILF posted:haha wow these are some great finds, i personally love the mothman I'd be up for that. Space Cadet Omoly has a new favorite as of 05:03 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:Similar to Slenderman, there was a guy on Reddit a few years back (around the time Firewatch was released) who posted a bunch of tales from his time as a Search/Rescue Officer for the Forest Service in the US. They didn't go quite as viral, but loads of kook sites picked up on his tales about mysterious staircases deep in the forest and started reporting it as if this had been around for a long time, instead of some poo poo one guy made up. Here's a channel with a guy reading all of those stories out loud if you prefer your media in audio form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YskG1zqMfxo&list=PL3vq3HFjqkVlEK-6-kZ_6MKM2RquxHfCu&index=1
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Len posted:I keep meaning to check out the stand alone podcast for Borrasca, but that writer sure fuckin' loves to write about child rape and or murder and it rubs me the wrong way Thank you for warning me about this. I looked up what you were talking about and yeah I do not want to listen to any of that. My least favorite horror trope is "Surprise! It's rape! Lots and lots of rape!" I'm here for monsters and ghosts and other weird spooky stuff, not brutal sexual assault.
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The Cryptids of Fallout 76 Fallout 76 is a game that disappointed a lot of people for a lot of reasons that we don't need to get into right now. But one area in which it didn't disappoint is creature design. A group of artists at Bethesda managed to create some fine looking monsters based on the mythic monsters of West Virginia that are nice enough looking that I really wish they got to be in a better game, let's take a gander shall we? Grafton Monster   Ah, the Grafton Monster. The linebacker of the cryptid world. No head, no problem, just a big hunk of muscle that wants to hit you till you're a fine red paste. They kept it simple with this one, and that was the right move. Mothman   The Fallout 76 take on Mothman is more moth than man and as such is adorable because moths are cuties and anyone who disagrees with that is wrong. The fact that they game doesn't let you have one of these as a pet is one of it's biggest failings. Snallygaster   Look at this thing! Those teeth! Those little grabby little hands! Those eyes on its shoulder! It's such a mess, I love it. Flatwoods monster   I gotta be honest, this one's probably my least favorite of the bunch. It's not bad exactly, but it's a little too generically "alien" and doesn't really incorporate enough of the distinct look of the original Flatwoods monster design of which I am personally very fond of. This dude's not even wearing a skirt! Wendigo   Another good one, just one look tells you "this is a thing that wants to eat me". The distended belly is what ties the whole design together. Easily my second favorite wendigo design in pop culture (or at the very least in the top 5).
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I love the way crop circles look: here's a video of two dudes making one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYqOV5abAfA Space Cadet Omoly has a new favorite as of 13:45 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:That's cool, I never knew about any of that. Really good art too, it fooled me into thinking they found an obscure old book series to base them on (and I'm a little disappointed that I can't read them now). Good news! They actually made little recorded short stories to go along with each of the book covers: Flatwoods Monster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVZ_u_LtgY Mothman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE61dsL-7Uw Wendigo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCGixTX1EAA Grafton Monster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnKyDnaWOOg Snallygaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKva32t0kAM And here's the full set all together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJluhDdl0DA
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, sea monsters are 100% the most likely cryptids. I was very disappointed to find out that the bloop was just the sound of ice scraping against the sea floor and the only reason it sounded like something living because everyone just played the sped up version without mentioning it. I mean the ocean does have things like this guy in it: https://youtu.be/IPRPnQ-dUSo I feel like this guy should count as a cryptid.
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If Platypuses weren't real they would absolutely be cryptids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNoQvjlmGdk "Okay, so it's kind of like an otter, but it has a duck bill and webbed feet. Also they're venomous and they lay eggs." They sound so implausible, yet here they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmvc0DZJM-I
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Here's a lesser known cryptid: The silky anteater As you can see someone clearly just stuck a stuffed animal in a tree and tried to convince the internet it's a living creature.  Believe it or not some people actually bought it, as if anything that cute could really exist.  It's so obviously just a muppet, I mean how gullible would you have to be? April Fools! Silky Anteaters are real! They were real all along! Punked!
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Here's a lesser known cryptid: The silky anteater I'm too vain to let this post get buried at the bottom of the last page.  Also, I posted it too early last night because I wasn't paying attention to the time. So I'm reposting it on April fools for real this time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7QXdlSBGGY Edit: And also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLTcp6C__vM Sea monsters are real. One more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5cpDVsP2Sw Space Cadet Omoly has a new favorite as of 14:33 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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M_Sinistrari posted:It makes me think Fallout New Vegas. 
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Since we're on the topic of pyramids I might as well point out one of my favorite bits of pyramid triva: Nicolas cage has had one premade for himself for when he dies. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nicolas-cage-s-pyramid-tomb Anyway, "this ancient civilization was actually built by aliens" conspiracies never sat right with me even as a little kid. As a child I already knew that humans had made airplanes, televisions, and skyscrapers. Making a pyramid didn't seem much harder than making those things. Humans were good at making stuff and figuring out how to make other stuff, they didn't need aliens for that. That was my reasoning as a wee babe, and I gotta say present me agrees with past me on this one. Past me also thought mummies and the mummification process was hella cool, past me was right about that too.
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veni veni veni posted:I don't think a single person here believes the pyramids were built by aliens so I doubt you'll get many arguments on that one. We are just discussing whether or not the people who believe that are racist and dumb or just normal dumb. Yeah, I know. I wasn't trying to argue with anyone, just reminiscing on my childhood thought patterns.
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The_Doctor posted:The Nazis did legit go on expeditions searching for religious and occult artifacts, but mostly for really racist reasons. Yeah, Hitler really wanted to be able to do magic. He was not a smart man, his one skill was being able to say racist things loudly. Unfortunately being dumb and able to say racist things loudly is a very dangerous combination that appeals to a disturbingly large group of people.
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Koalas make sounds that do not sound like something that looks like a Koala should make. It's like if a teddy bear was the lead singer in a death metal band.
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Not a movie, but in the podcast Rude Tales one of the main characters is a sasquatch named Cordelia. She's by far the best bigfoot character in the entirety of western culture. https://twitter.com/baph0meat/status/1190712599635210240?s=20 Really the entire cast could qualify as cryptid monsters.
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Otteration posted:Curious: do posters ITT wanna believe, but can't get past the obvious lack of data? I mean I never get upset about specific cryptids not existing because there are so many animals that are proven to exist who are just a strange or even stranger. Bigfoots might not be real, but we absolutely have gorillas and a bunch of other really cool apes. We also have bats, and sloths, and cuttlefish, and platypuses, and giant squids, and luna moths, and possums, and a while bunch of other beautiful weirdos. Oh, and cats and dogs! They live in your house and want to be your friend, how cool is that!? There could be one sitting on you right now! For me personally I like cryptids for the same reason I like Pokemon, animals are cool and fun to think about and made up animals are also cool and fun to think about. Cool monsters are cool regardless of whether or not they actually exist. And in regards to hauntings: No. Absolutely not. gently caress that poo poo. Listen, you sound like you're interested in having a very sweet and wholesome haunting involving a visit from a loved one and I respect that, but knowing my luck whatever ghost came to visit me would be the rear end in a top hat kind. The kind that breaks poo poo and tries to push you down a flight of stairs. Keep that supernatural bullshit far away from me forever please. Also, I don't want to be involved in any fake hauntings either. No weird wind sounds, no gas leaks causing me to hallucinate, no weird poo poo involving electricity, no assholes pulling a prank on me with hidden audio equipment, I want none of it ever. I have enough nonsense to deal with in my life without having to worry about either real or fake ghosts.
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God I love it when bears stand on their hind legs, they look so goofy  They're killing machines, but by God are they adorable killing machines.
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Knormal posted:A very coincidentally-timed episode of Monstrum just went up. Well, this is certainly the stuff of nightmares. This is the kind of thing that would terrify me as a kid, and even as an adult I'm still like "gently caress that poo poo"
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Thank you so much for posting this, reading this was truly an emotional roller coaster. I guess the moral here is "Don't lie about magic pigs" which is a moral that might not apply to very many situations but it's an important lesson none the less.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Friendly reminder to not sign Death oaths when you get a job, it's never worth it I dunno, I signed a Death Oath when I worked at Cracker Barrell and it really wasn't that big of a deal. Now the blood rituals on the other hand, those were a pain in the rear end because you have to do them every week.
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If anyone in this thread wants an adorable Mothman bag now's your chance to back the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studioeggface/mothman-crossbody-mini-backpack-ita-bag
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It counts and it rules. Would love a cryptid like that in my neighborhood.
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Oh I know just the place on my wall where I'm going to put that
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The_Doctor posted:I’ve just found out about Not Deer and I’m enthralled. I love reading about peoples encounters with something, not even recorded before or some sort of local legend, but they have no clue what it is they’re seeing. I also love this, even though it seems like a pretty straight forward case of "People who don't see deer all the time are not prepared for how weird they behave and how creepy they look in low light". I have absolutely seen my share of "Not Deer" and "Not Racoons" and a whole host of other "Not" animals late at night. The rational part of my brain knows it's just some critter that looks a bit spookier at dusk, but some small irrational part of my brain is like "Welp, I'm about to be eaten by a demon, this is how I'm going to die." Heck, I've gotten this feeling from my own cat in the dark when the light hits his eyes just right and they glow super bright (I have a black cat, so in the dark sometimes all you can see of him are glowing eyes) and I get hit with a feeling of seeing a "Not Cat" because my brain was just not prepared for how surreal cats look sometimes. Seriously, this is such a great concept and I hope it catches on and becomes more widespread. Just a general feeling of "wrongness" when looking at an animal that you can't quite put into words.
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Schwarzwald posted:I would not be surprised to learn that most Not Deer were carriers of chronic wasting disease, a prion disease in deer and elk with a lot of neurological and behavioral effects. Also known as (and I am not making this up) "zombie deer disease". It's similar to Mad Cow disease, but replace "cow" with "deer".
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M_Sinistrari posted:That can apply to any wild animal. I remember a picture that was making the rounds on the Internet some years back that people didn't know what it was. Turned out it was a bear with mange, and without its fur it looked very different.  Yup, that does indeed look like a cryptid. If I saw this guy in the dark and I would probably think he was a werewolf. Edit: Another one:  First pic is him without hair, and the second is him after he regrew it. Space Cadet Omoly has a new favorite as of 07:12 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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