Cryptid


A cryptid is an an animal (cryptozoology) or plant (cryptobotany) appear in mythology and folklore, but has not been discovered or documented. The status of cryptids are as follows: Unconfirmed, disputed, proposed, extinct, confirmed, and hoax.


Adjule | Kelb-el-khela
A rare population of African wild dogs in the western part of the Sahara.


Agogwe | Agogure, Agogue, Kakundakari, Kikomba, Sehite
A small human-shaped bipedal in East Africa which is unconfirmed. It has long arms and long woolly hair which is rust-coloured. In 1900 William Hichens, a captain, saw this small figure (about 1-1,5 meters tall) when he was on a lion-hunt in the Ussure and Simibit forests. In the December edition of Discovery Magazine in 1937 he tells his story:

... while waiting in a forest glade for a man-eater, I saw two small, brown, furry creatures come from dense forest on one side of the glade and disappear into the thickets on the other. They were like little men, about 4 feet high, walking upright, but clad in russet hair. The native hunter with me gazed in mingled fear and amazement. They were, he said, agogwe, the little furry men whom one does not see once in a lifetime.

Cuthbert Burgoyne wrote a letter to the magazine the year after and told them of his own experience in 1927. He were in Portuguese East Africa, on a boat close to the beach. He was watching baboons feeding when he saw

two little brown men walked together out of the bush and down amongst the baboons. They were certainly not any known monkey and yet they must have been akin or they would have disturbed the baboons.

A professional animal collector, Charles Cordier, were in Zaire in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where he followed the tracks of an agogwe, The little creature had become entangled in one of his bird snares. "It fell on its face, turned over, sat up, took the noose off its feet and walked away before the nearby African could do anything."

Regional names
Zimbabwe and Congo: Kakundakari or Kilomba
Ivory Coast: Sehite
Tanzania and northern Mozambique: Agogure, Agogue


Ahool
A flying cryptid. [More]


Akkorokamui
An Asian sea monster. [More]


Almas | Abnauayu, Albasty, Alma, Almasty, Bekkbok, Biabin-guli, Golub-yavan, Gul-biavan, Auli-avan, Kaptar, Kra-dhun, Ksy-giik, Ksy-gyik, Mirygdy, Mulen, Ochokochi, Voita, Wind-man, Zana
Ape or homonoid in Asia/the Caucasus. The name Almas is Mongolian for 'wild man'.


Altamaha-ha | Altie
A thirty feet long creature which swims like a seal. It has green skin and is difficult to see in the surrounding area of the Altamaha River in Georgia, United States. It has its roots in Native American tradition.


Amomongo | Negros ape
A hairy, ape-like creature with long nails in Philippine mythology. Residents in Negros Occidental says these animals lives in caves near the foot of Mount Kanlaon. It kills goats and chickens, eating their intrails and it has attacked two residents of the settlement of La Castellana.


Andean wolf | Hagenbeck's wolf
A wolf-like canid from the Andes. Lorenz Hagenbeck bought one of three wild dog pelts in Buenos Aires. In 1940, Dr. Ingo Krumbiegel, studied the skin in Germany and said it came from a new and unknown species. In 1947 he connected the pelt with a 31 cm long skull, belonging to an omnivorous canid. When he published his paper he gave a scientific name for it: Dasycyon hagenbecki. In the 1960s scientists discovered the pelt belonged to a domestic dog.


Ayia Napa sea monster | To Filiko Teras
A cryptid inhabiting the coast of Ayia Napa, Cyprus, mostly around Cape Greco, described to be a crocodile or serpent. The local fishermen calls it 'To Filiko Teras' ('The Friendly Monster'), the local newspaper refer to it as the 'Cyprus Loch Ness'. No reports is found of any humans being harmed.


De Loys' Ape
A large primate found in South America by the Swiss geological explorer François de Loys. He led an expidition 1917-1920 and encountered the ape near the Tarra River in Colombia. A photograph was taken but it is thought to be a spider monkey or a hoax.



List of cryptids on Wikipedia
Barbanou | Baddmanus, Barmanu
Batutut | Ujit
Beaman
Bear Lake Monster
Beast of Bladenboro
Beast of Bodmin
Beast of Bray Road
Beast of Busco
Beast of Dartmoor
Beast of Dean
Beast of Exmoor
Beast of Gévaudan
Bergman's bear
Bessie
Bigfoot
Black Shuck
Bownessie
British big cats
Brosno dragon
Bukit Timah Monkey Man
Bunyip
Burmese gray wild dog
Buru
Cadborosaurus willsi
Canvey Island Monster
Cardiff Giant
Champ
Cherufe
Chessie
Chickcharney
Chuchunya
Chupacabra
Con Rit
Devil Bird
Dingonek
Dobhar-chú
Dover Demon
Eastern Cougar
Ebu Gogo
Elasmotherium
Elmendorf Beast
Elwedritsche
Emela-ntouka
Enfield Monster
Ennedi tiger
Fear liath
Fiskerton Phantom
Flatwoods monster
Flying rod
Fouke Monster
Fur-bearing trout
Garou
Gazeka
Gambo
Ghost deer
Giant anaconda
Giglioli's Whale
Globster
Gloucester Sea serpent
Gnome of Gerona
Goatman
Grassman
Gunni
Grootslang
Hakawai
Hellhound
Hibagon
High-finned sperm whale
Hodag
Hokkaidö Wolf
Homo gardarensis
Honey Island Swamp monster
Honshü wolf
Hoop snake
Huay Chivo
Hyote
Igopogo
Iliamna Lake Monster
Inkanyamba
Isshii
Ivory-billed woodpecker
J'ba fofi
Jackalope
Jersey Devil
Kaijin
Kappa
Kawekaweau
Kelpie
Kikiyaon
Kingstie
Kongamato
Koolakamba
Kraken
Kting Voar
Kumi Lizard
Kusshii
Lagarfljót Worm
Lake Tianchi monster
Lake Van monster
Lake Worth monster
Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
Loch Ness monster
Loveland Frog
Lusca
MacFarlane's Bear
Maero
Mahamba
Maltese Tiger
Mamlambo
Manananggal
Manatee of Helena
Mande Barung
Man-eating tree
Manipogo
Mapinguari
Maricoxi
Marozi
Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu
Megalania prisca
Megalodon
Melon heads
Memphre
Menehune
Mermaid
Merman
Michigan dogman
Minhocão
Minnesota Iceman
Mitla
Mngwa
Moa
Moehau
Mogollon Monster
Mokele-Mbembe
Momo the Monster
Mongolian Death Worm
Monkey-man of Delhi
Mono Grande
Montauk Monster
Morag
Mothman
Mountain Fennec
Muckie
Muc-sheilch
Muhuru
Mussie
Monster of Monterey
Nahuelito
Nandi Bear
Ndendeki
Ngoimad
Ngoubou
Nguma-monene
Ogopogo
Old Yellow Top
Olitiau
Onza
Orang-Bati
Orang Mawas
Orang Pendek
Owlman
Ozark Howler
Panthera tigris sudanensis
Peluda
Phantom cat
Phantom kangaroo
Phaya Naga
Pogeyan
Popobawa
Pope Lick Monster
Poukai
Pukwudgie
Pygmy Gorilla
Pygmy Elephant
Qilin
Queensland Tiger
Rake
Reptilians
Ropen
Row
Salawa
Sea monk
Sea monsters
Sea serpent
Selma
Sewer alligator
Sharlie
Shöjö
Shug Monkey
Shunka Warakin
Sigbin
Sirrush
Skunk Ape
Spring-heeled Jack
Steller's Sea Ape
Storsjöodjuret
Stronsay Beast
Sucuriju Gigante
Tahoe Tessie
Takitaro
Tapire-iauara
Tatzelwurm
Thetis Lake monster
Thunderbird
Thylacine
Tikbalang
Trinity Alps giant salamander
Trunko
Tsuchinoko
Tsul 'Kalu
Turtle Lake monster
Umdhlebi
Urayuli
Veo
Waheela
Waitoreke
Wampus Cat
Wendigo
Wild Man of the Navidad
Wog
Wolpertinger
Wucharia
Ya-te-veo
Yeren
Yeti
Yowie
Zanzibar Leopard
Zuiyö-maru creature