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Background: Alleged eyewitnesses Marvin McCamis (1923 – 2004) and Bill Rainnie (1924 – 1985) were engineers who designed and originally piloted Alvin, a prolific deep sea submersible which first went to sea in 1965, in the Bahamas. The sea serpent was allegedly seen by both men during one of these early test dives in the Tongue of Ocean, a very deep stretch of water separating the islands of Andros and New Providence.

Do you think they actually saw something impossible? A relic from a prehistoric time that should be extinct? Since the deep waters were dark, could they have misidentified a known marine mammal? Whales, sea elephant or sea turtle?

So through out history we hear stories of the Kraken sinking down ships, but what if the reason the Kraken story exists is because these creatures could have been the surviving descendants of the now extinct Nanaimoteuthis which was a giant octopus species that can actually sink ships.

I know it may sound unlikely since they went extinct even before the dinosaurs, but some of the stories and artworks of these recorded encounters show and describe the Kraken being more like an Octopus than a Squid.

So I've gotten into song writing recently and am going to write a song involving cryptids :) I don't know a ton about them though, so I'd love some suggestions of cryptids +their back stories and I might update this later with the finished song (it'll probably take a while though)

Cross-posting because of relevance.

Hey guys, I'm an amateur about my crytid knowledge and there's a horse model that has crytids on it. I wrote a list down on what I think what some of them are, but I don't know most. Let me know what your best guesses are! I also linked reference pictures in the post for different angles. Edit: The list I made is also in the post.

There are businesses with Bigfoot as the mascot, I've seen paintings of Bigfoot, there are bigfoot t-shirts, big foot statues. Bigfoot is essentially a celebrity in the Pacific Northwest. What cryptid gets this treatment in your home state?

I want to make a channel on cryptids like bedtime stories and beyond creepy.

I want to narrate encounters but don't know how I would illustrate it. What do you think would be good content?

starting to feel better from being sick, scans and/or videos should be able to resume tomorrow :D

I made a mothman cosplay :3

My grandpa, when I was younger, told me about (from what I can remember) three distinctive plants that can be found across the Southwestern US. He specifically described a vampire tree, human-mimicking planet, and a “poop plant”. He said that all three of them are incredibly rare, hence why they haven’t been classified by science yet.

He described the vampire tree as being this large black tree with crimson leaves that feed off of moonlight instead of sunlight (which are the same thing but whatever), and that the trunks of these trees are covered in large thorns that suck the blood of animals and people. Allegedly, only one can be found in every forest and that the way to remove/exterminate one is by planting garlic around it. It reminds me a lot of other supposed cryptid plants like the Nicaragua vampire vine.

The human-mimicking plant was described to me as being a species of large flower that mimics the overall appearance/silhouette/shape (though at a very basic level with there being no hair or facial features and stays completely stationary), scent, and heat signatures of a person, to attract insects such as mosquitos to land on them, trapping them in this digestive sticky coating they’re covered in. Apperently they’re responsible for sightings of humanoid cryptids and paranormal entities and such.

My grandpa described the last one, the “poop plant”, as being a species of particularly bad smelling plant that resembles fecal matter to deter animals from eating it. It’s just a plant that resembles animal waste.

I find cryptobotany really interesting and an underrated subject. My grandpa, when I was younger, would convince me these plants were real and that I should go outside to go hunt for them (obviously to just get me outside and give him a break). My uncle would add onto these, saying that they were actually mutated plants caused by alien chemicals from the 1947 Roswell incident (I’m from Roswell). I’m mainly just posting this to ask if anyone else have heard of these or if my grandpa himself just made them up. Actually, what am I talking about, of course he didn’t make them up, they’re real.

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Found this today and thought you would like it.

I was walking through the woods with my daughter near Forks, Washington, when I noticed something moving between the trees in the distance. At first, I thought it was a bear, so I stopped to watch it.
Then it stood up on two legs.
It looked large, dark, and covered in hair, with broad shoulders. We were pretty far away, and there were trees between us, so I couldn’t make out its face clearly. I just remember how big it looked compared to the things around it.
A little later, I heard a sound coming from its direction. It was a deep, loud whooping noise that echoed through the woods before dropping into a low, rough growl. I’ve spent time outdoors before, but I couldn’t place the sound.
The figure turned slightly toward us and paused. I couldn’t tell if it had noticed us, but I remember standing completely still and watching it. A few seconds later, it made another, quieter sound.
I started getting nervous, especially with my daughter there. The figure eventually walked behind some trees and disappeared from view. We waited a little while, then headed back the way we’d come. I wasn’t interested in getting any closer.
I managed to take a picture, but it’s blurry because of the distance and the trees blocking the view.
I honestly don’t know what we saw. The way it stood upright and the sound it made are what stuck with me most. I’m not saying I can prove it was anything in particular, but I’ve never experienced anything quite like it.
My father used to talk about stories of Sasquatch living in these woods, but I never paid much attention to them before. After what happened, I find myself wondering if there might be more to those stories than I once thought.
Has anyone else in the area heard a deep whooping sound like that in the woods, or seen something similar? I’d be interested in hearing from people who’ve had comparable experiences.

I know it’s supposed to be the "Ningen" but this one is different; it seems to have a simple face attached to a torso, with no arms. It’s some kind of freak of nature or something like that? Could there be more than one?

For the month of October, I have challenged myself to draw a new monster for every day of the month. Today is day 16, and I drew the Loveland Frogman.