UM-Bot Posted January 15 #1 Share Posted January 15 Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster need no introduction, but have you ever heard of the Loveland frog ? https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/383836/3-obscure-cryptozoological-creatures-you-may-have-never-heard-of 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ell Posted January 15 #2 Share Posted January 15 Quote Mokele-Mbembe - a massive, semi-aquatic beast ... having a long neck and small head. My guess is that the okapi meets that description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trelane Posted January 15 #3 Share Posted January 15 Nothing tops that rubbish about a "rugman". 😄 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portre Posted January 15 #4 Share Posted January 15 24 minutes ago, Trelane said: Nothing tops that rubbish about a "rugman". 😄 The creature with the monstrous toupee? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resume Posted January 15 #5 Share Posted January 15 4 hours ago, Trelane said: Nothing tops that rubbish about a "rugman". 😄 Yeah, but this stupid frog nonsense comes close. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver Posted January 16 #6 Share Posted January 16 Lizard man is pretty far out there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.UFO Posted January 16 #7 Share Posted January 16 (edited) I read about the Loveland frog (of suburban Cincinnati) before. The 1972 sighting is the most well known. One theory is that it's just an escaped iguana. But four feet tall/long would be quite a large iguana. This short article is obviously for the cryptozoology layperson. The Mokele-Mbembe and the thunderbird are pretty key players (the Loveland frog, not so much). Edited January 16 by Mr.UFO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amorlind Posted January 16 #8 Share Posted January 16 (edited) Never heard about the Loveland frog. Mokele M'bembe and Thunderbird are quite known in the Cryptozoologists community. A good book "Les derniers dragons d'Afrique" in french containing numerous details on the Mokele M'bembe cryptid was written by the late B. Heuvelmans who was a well known figure in Cryptozoology. I remember that all his researches were given to a museum in Lausanne Edited January 16 by Amorlind 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissJatti Posted January 16 #9 Share Posted January 16 (edited) Huge eagle type bird 'Thunderbird' could have existed a very long time ago. Edited January 16 by MissJatti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaldon Posted January 17 #10 Share Posted January 17 Heh, you want something really obscure? Here is some info on "доотам" or "доотам бам" (pronounced "doho-tahm bahm"), the mythical creature of the Ket folklore. Sure there are many folklore creatures in the world if not for this curious short note in the book on Ket folklore from my collection: Translation: Dohotam (dotodahm, dohotadahm, dohotem) - a malevolent female creature living in the taiga woods and mountains scaring people with its shriek. Dohotam can destroy a man, but she can be overcome if he would be brave enough and overpower her with his wit and courage. In 1987 the inhabitants of the Vereschagino village pointed to a pit on the helicopter landing pad where they said lived a dohotam; she had left her dwelling after she was scared away by the caterpillar vehicles of the geological crews and other machinery. Younger storytellers familiar with the Russian folklore call her "baba yaga" but the name Dohotam sometimes is still used as a substitute for the tabooed name Khosedam (the head of the malevolent pantheon, ex-wife of the benevolent god Yess' [Есь]). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted January 17 #11 Share Posted January 17 (edited) On 1/15/2025 at 8:47 AM, UM-Bot said: Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster need no introduction, but have you ever heard of the Loveland frog ? https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/383836/3-obscure-cryptozoological-creatures-you-may-have-never-heard-of Three out of three. 20 years on UM is good for something. 🙃 One of my daughters teachers from her Christian school in Oregon actually went looking for the Mokele Membe on his summer breaks. Thunderbird is famous for all the staged pictures, and myths of people shooting it down in the 1800s. Edited January 17 by DieChecker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ell Posted January 17 #12 Share Posted January 17 3 hours ago, DieChecker said: myths of people shooting it down in the 1800s. Do you have links to such tales? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.UFO Posted January 18 #13 Share Posted January 18 12 hours ago, Chaldon said: Heh, you want something really obscure? Here is some info on "доотам" or "доотам бам" (pronounced "doho-tahm bahm"), the mythical creature of the Ket folklore. Sure there are many folklore creatures in the world if not for this curious short note in the book on Ket folklore from my collection: Translation: Dohotam (dotodahm, dohotadahm, dohotem) - a malevolent female creature living in the taiga woods and mountains scaring people with its shriek. Dohotam can destroy a man, but she can be overcome if he would be brave enough and overpower her with his wit and courage. In 1987 the inhabitants of the Vereschagino village pointed to a pit on the helicopter landing pad where they said lived a dohotam; she had left her dwelling after she was scared away by the caterpillar vehicles of the geological crews and other machinery. Younger storytellers familiar with the Russian folklore call her "baba yaga" but the name Dohotam sometimes is still used as a substitute for the tabooed name Khosedam (the head of the malevolent pantheon, ex-wife of the benevolent god Yess' [Есь]). Any stories of a creature that is supposed to be of only one gender are quite dubious. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted January 19 #14 Share Posted January 19 (edited) On 1/17/2025 at 4:55 PM, Ell said: Do you have links to such tales? There were lots of pictures created of the supposed creature, that supposedly were published in many Old West newspapers. All probably contrived, which is why I said "myths" of people shooting them down. A better word might have been "legends". Let me look around... https://thunderbirdphoto.com/f/the-ivan-t-sanderson-files-origin-of-the-thunderbird-photo Quote “In the year 1886, the Tombstone, Arizona, Epitaph, which helped make Wyatt Earp famous, published a photograph of a huge bird nailed to a wall. The newspaper said it had been shot by two prospectors and hauled into town by wagon. https://www.kgun9.com/entertainment/legend-or-lie/legend-or-lie-tombstone-thunderbird-sighting Quote April 26,1890 the Tombstone Epitaph published an incredible article of six gunslingers shooting the Tombstone Thunderbird right out of the sky. I think there were a few others, though more obscure. Edited January 19 by DieChecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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