McFarland Posted February 7, 2017 #1 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Hello there, Unexplained Mysteries community! I am a member that just learned of this website, even after I have been aspiring to be a cryptozoologist since I was 3 (I am 16 now), and I was wondering what your favorite cryptid is? I personally favor the Thunderbird of North America or the Mapinguari of the Amazon. I thought this post would be a great conversation starter among the community, and I hope you guys enjoy! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted February 7, 2017 #2 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Hi McFarland, good to meet you. I am from NZ and my favourite cryptid is the Taniwha. Do you have a least favourite cryptid? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Narcisse Posted February 7, 2017 #3 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Altamaha-Ha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted February 7, 2017 #4 Share Posted February 7, 2017 (edited) When I say this I mean in terms of appeal, I don't believe in a single cryptid. I think you'd have to go a long way to beat the mapinguari. But the mngwa is there, so's Gambo, and the Nandi bear. Favourite though is the Queensland tiger. I forgot to mention giant arthropods. Least favourite, and it really winds me up, is when people try to make the thylacine into a cryptid. And I can't stand bigfoot. Edited February 7, 2017 by oldrover 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted February 7, 2017 #5 Share Posted February 7, 2017 (edited) If I had to choose a favorite, it would probably be the Enfield Monster since it is so bizarre and improbable, yet still intriguing. My least favorite is the mokele mbembe, mostly because it is absolutely nothing like a real sauropod. I hate any "living dinosaur" type really. Edited February 7, 2017 by Carnoferox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmer77 Posted February 7, 2017 #6 Share Posted February 7, 2017 For me its always been Bigfoot. As of late though ive really become intrigued by the dogman phenomenon 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinCthulhu Posted February 7, 2017 #7 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Call me simple but for me it's the Thylacine, not exactly a cryptid I suppose, but given that it has supposedly been extinct since 1936 then I guess it is one now! I also really find the Waheella fascinating. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four Winds Posted February 7, 2017 #8 Share Posted February 7, 2017 (edited) I have to go with Nessie. That and bigfoot were the two you really heard a lot about when I was growing up. It was not until the internet that I learned about others, let alone the word Cryptid. Edited February 7, 2017 by Four Winds 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted February 7, 2017 #9 Share Posted February 7, 2017 23 minutes ago, KevinCthulhu said: Call me simple but for me it's the Thylacine, not exactly a cryptid I suppose, but given that it has supposedly been extinct since 1936 then I guess it is one now! I also really find the Waheella fascinating. I like the waheella too. But the thylacine is just extinct, I suppose it could be considered a cryptid though because of the supposed sightings. There's a new film coming out, hopefully in the next few weeks, and this time it's from Tasmania, so we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted February 7, 2017 #10 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Just to add, the cryptid thylacine and the real thylacine are two different animals. They're a different size, different colour, different behaviours. The real thylacine succumbed to a cocktail of pressures sometime probably around the 1950's. The cryptid lives on though. And because of that, and as annoying and inaccurate as most (not all though*) of the cryptid stuff is, many, many more people have heard of it today than ever before. And, perhaps of every thousand people who start off with the cryptid version, maybe a handful will go on to learn about the real animal. And that's one of the really great things about cryptozoology. *There are serious people who still believe there's a possibility worth investigating. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aardvark-DK Posted February 8, 2017 #11 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Mkele Mbembe for me... (spelling ?) Hate Bigfoot and Nessie... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted February 8, 2017 #12 Share Posted February 8, 2017 9 minutes ago, Aardvark-DK said: Mkele Mbembe for me... (spelling ?) Mokele mbembe. 10 minutes ago, Aardvark-DK said: Hate Bigfoot and Nessie... Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aardvark-DK Posted February 8, 2017 #13 Share Posted February 8, 2017 15 minutes ago, oldrover said: Mokele mbembe. Yep. Thx m8 ! I am a bit rusty towards some, if not all, african languages.... I would so hope for it to be true, that a living dinosaur lives....if yet at faint hope...hehe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrisonerX Posted February 8, 2017 #14 Share Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) 19 hours ago, Farmer77 said: For me its always been Bigfoot. As of late though ive really become intrigued by the dogman phenomenon Same here. The Dogman thing I find very interesting. If they indeed exist, them and Sasquatch must cross paths from time to time. I wonder what their relationship is (conflict, mutual avoidance, etc). Dogman seems to be a straight up carnivore/predator, while Sasquatch more closely resembles man - omnivore/hunter-gatherer. Edited February 8, 2017 by PrisonerX 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted February 8, 2017 #15 Share Posted February 8, 2017 1 hour ago, Aardvark-DK said: I am a bit rusty towards some, if not all, african languages.... One of the few things I do know, is that mokele mbembe is a Bantu word, whereas the people who're supposed to be the ones using it to describe a creature in their own back garden are the Aka people. So, if the stories truly started with the Aka, why are they the, forest people, using a Bantu, an agrarian/coastal people's, word for a forest monster rather than the other way round? Smells a bit fishy to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horta Posted February 9, 2017 #16 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Bigfoot. Because it's non existence by now is basically a certainty (well, as certain as fairies and the like), and it's fun to watch grown adults pretending. Though the claimed "science" put forward for bigfoot seems less fun. It's a lot like the other belief based pseudosciences (creationism and so forth) in that it seems designed to get people in by dumbing them down and making them stupid. Have always wondered why bigfooters don't tell their celebrity pseudoscientists they are being silly, or ask them to back their claims. Not that this happens to all bigfoot fans, quite a large proportion though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCE Posted February 12, 2017 #17 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I was always a Bigfoot fan, however Dogman has recently taken over the top position on my cryptid list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlayWithTheTruth Posted February 25, 2017 #18 Share Posted February 25, 2017 On 2/7/2017 at 2:09 AM, McFarland said: Hello there, Unexplained Mysteries community! I am a member that just learned of this website, even after I have been aspiring to be a cryptozoologist since I was 3 (I am 16 now), and I was wondering what your favorite cryptid is? I personally favor the Thunderbird of North America or the Mapinguari of the Amazon. I thought this post would be a great conversation starter among the community, and I hope you guys enjoy! I was once reading something in wikipedia about a killer tree that was said to use its branches to grab unsuspecting people, throw them up in the air, and would eat them. It's called a "Man-Eating Tree" and it's still on wikipedia. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quasar_kid Posted February 26, 2017 #19 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Ningen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Timelord Posted February 26, 2017 #20 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Has to be the Lusca for me personally, I reckon it has a good chance of existing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactic Goatman Posted February 27, 2017 #21 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Favorites: Bigfoot, Mothman, Fresno Nightcrawler, ABC (Alien Big Cats), Michigan Dogman, Grassman (A sort of Ohio Bigfoot), and Bunyip/Yowee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissJatti Posted February 27, 2017 #22 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Mine is Monkey Man of Delhi and Flatwood Monster 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNate Posted February 27, 2017 #23 Share Posted February 27, 2017 On 2/25/2017 at 6:23 PM, SlayWithTheTruth said: I was once reading something in wikipedia about a killer tree that was said to use its branches to grab unsuspecting people, throw them up in the air, and would eat them. It's called a "Man-Eating Tree" and it's still on wikipedia. Ha! I have an original print framed in my home office of the Man-Eating Tree - you should have seen the book it came out of!! (This is the pic from Wikipedia, the one I have isn't where I'm at right now and is framed) As for my favorite, I'd have to go with any kind of sea monster, as it's really one of the few places left that mysterious creatures are still found. Pictures and videos of the big squids were awesome to see as an adult, as they were straight out of the monster books I looked at as a kid, where they were dismissed simply as legends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crypticc Posted February 28, 2017 #24 Share Posted February 28, 2017 The Flatwoods Monster is probably my favorite cryptid. It's so bizarre looking, I've never really heard of another creature quite like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totah Dine Posted March 4, 2017 #25 Share Posted March 4, 2017 I heard a story from an old Hataałii who was doing a ceremony for us about a cryptid I had never heard of before. His home is situated between Farmington and Shiprock on the south side of the Rio de San Juan in Northwest New Mexico. We both reside in and are members of the Navajo Nation. His family home is about 5 miles to the west of ours. Our clan was hosting a Kinaaldá for several girls in the family. It's a four day ceremony and it's a lot of work. I spent a lot of time with the Hataałii getting things ready and we hit it off. He found out I was into cryptids and unexplained phenomena and (since we're from related clans) felt comfortable enough to tell me about an incident during his younger days. His uncle was a Holy Man as well and they were from the same clan so he taught him the ceremonies that he knew. His grandmother was a survivor of the Long Walk and he told me some of the horror stories passed down to him about the forced march and death of so many innocents. His grandmother told him a story that made the hair stand on the back of my neck. A short time before the walk his grandmother and her family were hiding from soldiers in the cattail "forests" that line the river. Their orchards and farms had been chopped down and burned, livestock were slaughtered, any food source or storage was systematically destroyed. Parts of the cattails are edible and they were gathering some when the soldiers showed up so they waded into the reeds to hide. It succeeded. The weren't discovered and the soldiers moved on. Here is where it gets creepy. While they were hiding they kept feeling something large and very long moving in and around the reeds. Then one of the younger siblings of the grandmother was yanked under water. That's when they saw what it was. It was a giant snake. The Hataałii's grandmother said (in her estimate) it was 8 - 10 feet long. It had latched on to her sister's leg with its mouth and coiled around her legs while it was fastened on. From what he was told they had a hell of a time getting it off of her. When they did it submerged and they left the river as quickly as possible. They never saw it again or anything close to that size. Since then I have heard stories of large snakes coming out of holes and Hataałii's were sent to "sing" them back into ground. From what I've been told these large snakes only show up when the world is in terrible turmoil. I asked him to describe the snake if he knew and he said his grandmother gave a great description. She said it was a mottled brown and green with a type of pattern to the colors. She said the head was large and flat with two tiny eyes that kind of protruded out of the head like rat or mouse eyes and the eyes were a milky color. I know the Hopi have their own stories about large snakes and one is even featured in their creation story as well as the Zuni and other Pueblo tribes. Snakes have always been a cautionary tale in our oral traditions. They are associated with lightning and it's taboo to harm one or walk over a snake trail. This has always been a favorite topic of mine. I can't imagine a snake that large being able to survive in this environment but I know that man's grandmother encountered something. Navajos normally don't talk about this stuff and it can bring you under suspicion if you do. You especially don't discuss it with strangers or people you're not well acquainted with. The only reason he told me was because we were clan related and he knew I loved unusual stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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