Topic
Cryptids
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Mothman
Mothman is a winged creature with red eyes, sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, from November 1966. The sightings ended shortly before the Silver…
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Chupacabra
The chupacabra, or “goat sucker,” appeared in Puerto Rico in 1995, when farmers found drained animals with puncture wounds in the neck. The fear…
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Loch Ness Monster
Nessie is the world’s best-known lake monster. The modern legend began in Scotland in 1933, and its most famous photo was a hoax, yet…
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Beast of Gévaudan
Between 1764 and 1767, an unknown animal killed about a hundred people in the Gévaudan region of southern France. Hunting it down became a…
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Tsuchinoko
The tsuchinoko is a fat, stubby snake from the mountains of Japan. It is said to jump, talk and love alcohol, and some towns…
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Dogman
Dogmen are upright, doglike creatures reported mainly in North America. They resemble werewolves but are not supposed to be humans who have changed shape.
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The Van Meter Visitor: Monster, visitor, first Mothman, alien? An in-depth analysis.
Imagine you are living in 1903 in a small mining town in Iowa. It is the middle of the night when suddenly a bright…