Hey! Well, firstly I would like to say, I do not want any kind of bigfoot stuff. There are enough bigfoot threads, forums... whatever, I could find that.

But has anyone seen, or knows anything of Washington cryptids and/or beasts of local folklore? For I saw a large leathery winged avian, It looked about 6-12 feet wingtip to wingtip, it flew over my car, before drifting out of my view, towards the treeline. I live out in Kitsap county, and I know of a couple other people who think they saw this thing.

The only other abnormal animals I know of is alot of the older locals believe they're ferrets out here. (I assume if they actually were out here they'd be sailor's pet polecats that got released) Also I know a guy who says he saw a black cougar back in the 60's. Oh, and as usual Loggers spoke of strange beasts they encountered, but that happens everywhere.

But, anyone know of criptids? Maybe? I suppose it could be a thunderbird... But I tend to dissbelieve in those stories, and I don't know of any local Indian legends about thunderbirds, however I am not well versed in the local lore.

Sounds like my old Fav Batsquatch LOL. Mt St Helens has had some sightings (That's Washington isn't it?)

Thread on him here

No.. purple skin deffinatly not.. It looked dark brown... Actually it may have had a long (ish) neck, but it may have been a tail. (I remember something being long, but which end it was escapes me, it was quite a bit of time ago)

But thats interesting... Never knew Mt. Saint Helens had anything abnormal happenings. Huh... Well, other than 'sploding and covering the state in ash! *gonna have to search for more info on this "Batsquatch"*

Bataquatch is suprisingly unheard of considering where it's supposed habitat is. Sounds like Mothy.

Your description sounds to me like a Pterosaur, have a look at this link or this one for some encounters in America, or John Whitcomb's site here , he goes on expeditions to PNG for them. Good read.

I think this guy might I have seen what your looking for. I don't know of any crypto comes close to a match in that region aside from batsquatch or thunderbird.

Its in Oregon i think.

No, Mt. St. Helens is in Washington, been there a couple of times.

But hmm... if it was a Pterosaur it must have been a small one.. Which I suppose it possible, as I am a firm believer in the possibility of living "dinosaurs" (Pterosaur is not a dinosaur, but a winged reptile)

Although I remember at the time I was very upset because it didn't look like a pterodactyl. I don't remember what made it not look like one, but I remember that fact, and I told everyone I knew that I was rather angry at it for not being my (at the time) favorite "dinosaur".

So possibly I under-estimated the size. (or the majority of others have over-estimated the size) and this beast is a 'Thunderbird' pterosaur of some sort. Or it was simply juvenile.

But that cryptid thing, wierd sounding... In Seattle??? Heh, maybe it was a ghost-fish (!!!!) Err, no but seriously wonder what it was. Although it could just be a Coyote, a coyote outside my door sounded more like half-goblin-half-demon than a normal coyote, and a coyote in Seattle is abnormal, but not improbable.

Pterosaur's come in all shapes and sizes. Even our artists renditions are only best guesses. Peraps the color may be wrong, some species may have had feathers, or body hair (like a bat). It has also been theorised that the juveniles live away from the large male (could be female I suppose, it is all theory after all). John Whitcombs site would be an interesting read for you. He would probably be interested in a quick email from you to check against his sightings database. If other sightings have been recorded there, he is a good start for records of them.

maybe its some kinda mutant

Werescrib have you looked over the stuff concerning mothman and jersey devil I'm just saying that since there aren't really much as far as recorded flying cryptos for the region you might want to look at the famous flying cryptos to see if there a similarities.

You sure it wasn't just a large brown crane and it went by so fast you saw something it wasn't? (if that makes sense). I've seem brown cranes where I live but I live in Missouri not Washington....

It would make sense, if I hadn't seen light through the wings. Yeah, but we don't get cranes here, we get Great Blue Herons, Pellicans and various eagles, didn't seem much like any of those. However there is always the possibility that it was a trick of the light, however I'm pretty sure it wasn't. Besides, if it was a heron, it was one big heron, great blue's are big, but not that big.



Yeah, I've looked into the Jersey Devil and Mothman, mothman is described as having huge glowing eyes, and deffinatly has nothing that gives the feeling of long and thin, and the Jersey devil is too small... and I think both of those would do better in Paranormal sections rather than Cryptozoology.

Definitely in Washington. I can walk out the door and see it across the river on a clear day.

This is interesting as it's the first flying cryptoid I've heard of in this area. Bigfoot is around of course, and we have several lake monsters. We have a shaggy bigfoot like alien that was around for three days in the 60's, and even a cupracabra attack. But nothing ever flying.

I'm wondering if it's a new species of something that's been forced into the area, or had it's typical home built on by humans. It might have been a vulture too now that I think of it. We have one that is brownish in color, I'll have to look up the name in a bird book when I get home.

Google Batsquatch

http://www.batsquatch.com/webimages/batsquatch01.jpg
Yeah.. Its fake allright. They claim thats a real photo.