cryptozoology

Cryptids: The Saqqara Bird

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.

The Saqqara Bird is a small wooden figurine that was excavated in 1898 from a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. …

Cryptids: Orang-Bati/Batsquatch

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 big, dark castle to have a run-in …

Cryptids: Will The Colossal Squid Be Your Next Housepet?

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,”

Cryptids: Project Serpo

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 crashed in the New Mexico …

Cryptids: The Starchild Skull

The Story

In the 1930s, a girl exploring the Copper Canyon region of Mexico stumbled upon an adult-sized skeleton in an abandoned mine. Next to the skeleton was a mound of dirt under which was buried a child-size skeleton.

Once unearthed, the skull of the smaller skeleton proved to be unusual in that “the volume of the interior …

Cryptids: New Nessie

The Story

In 1977, a Japanese fishing boat named the Zuiyo Maru hauled in a creature measuring around 33 feet long and weighing about 4,000 pounds off the coast of New Zealand. The creature had gotten caught in the boat’s fishing net about 1,000 feet underwater.

Crewmembers initially thought the creature to be either a rotten …

Cryptids: The Elusive Bigfoot

Why is it so hard to find Bigfoot? We could say, “Because there’s no such thing as Bigfoot!” and call it a day but that’s not fair to Bigfoot. Give Bigfoot some credit. He’s lasted centuries without getting caught, killed, or filmed with a high definition camera on a tripod. So without getting into the real/not real debate, …

Cryptids: Leprechauns

Today is St. Patrick’s Day. What better strange and mysterious creature to examine from a cryptozoological standpoint than the leprechaun?

Modern-day depictions of the leprechaun—little bearded men with pots of gold filled by paychecks from television appearances hocking sugary children’s cereal—can be seen as “little more …