Okay, so it’s not an actual real-life bird and therefore not a true “cryptid” per se, but the Saqqara Bird is nonetheless an interesting and mysterious artifact from the ancient past with many possible and opposing explanations.
Splice, a movie centered around the subject of a half-human, half-animal hybrid creature, hits theaters this Friday and looks like it has the potential to be uncomfortably terrifying. Let’s ease into things with a look at some famous human-animal hybrids from the ancient past, shall we?
A possible run-in with flying monkeys presents one of the greatest fears for just about anyone who’s lost outside a mysterious castle. No good comes from flying monkeys and, unlike most other animals, they don’t appear to be more afraid of you than you are of them. But you don’t have to be near a [...]
The year was 1997. Yours truly was graduating from high school, no doubt wearing a braided belt and some sort of Phish tee shirt while hard-working scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were trying to figure out what in the hell they had just recorded from deep, deep in the Pacific Ocean. [...]
Bad news, you guys. It seems that the mysterious colossal squid isn’t as aggressive as we’d all hoped. It’s huge, yes, measuring up to 40+ feet long and living in the deep, deep ocean, but recent evidence has suggested that instead of being an unstoppable, pirate-ship-sinking monster, “It’s more just like a big blob,” according [...]
Project Serpo details what apparently happened after the famous Roswell crash in 1947. Ever see Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Apparently that’s similar to what happened in the Serpo case, which details a story of an exchange program set up to send 12 of our people to the home planet of the aliens who [...]
There was some scuttlebutt—not quite a brouhaha—this weekend when Stephen Hawking said the following during his new Into the Universe series on the Discovery Channel:
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All hail the Mothman, one of the most hauntingly provocative cryptids in the history of cryptozoology. Let’s start with some quick stats:
This is the Oriental Yeti? This? That’s supposed to be a Yeti. That thing in the above photo. Are we just not trying anymore?
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