Legendary Cryptids
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Legendary Cryptids
@bestcryptids.bsky.social
I post Cryptids and Cryptid stories. Also a Cryptid youtuber! Occasionally will talk about animals, lost media and paleontology

https://www.youtube.com/c/Truthisscarierthanfiction
After becoming famous following the discovery of living coelacanths, scientist JLB Smith began hearing reports of them in strange areas. One soldier claimed he saw them at a Korean market, while another woman claimed a fisherman tried to give her one in Bermuda
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Frank Melland, the man who first collected kongamato reports, was actually a skeptic of living dinosaur sightings in Zimbabwe. He knew the locals and area, and figured a large dinosaur couldn't hide out there without them knowing. He was more open to the kongamato existing
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This is a cat we named bigfoot
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
There are hundreds of pieces of bigfoot evidence, and sometimes they get a little creepy. For Halloween I put together a video on the eeriest bigfoot evidence, Happy Halloween!

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The Eeriest Bigfoot Evidence
YouTube video by Truth is Scarier than Fiction
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October 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Cryptoctober Day 31: Giant Jellyfish

In the 1950s, an unnamed diver encountered a massive animal rising up from the depths. It was the size of an acre in circumference and a dark brown color. It paralyzed a shark before absorbing it and returning to the deep.

🎨Robert Woodard
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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inktober · day thirty · ‘vacant’
#inktober #inktober2025 #vacant #cave #home #longwalk #bigfoot #cryptid #cryptozoology #humansofbluesky #eastcoastkin #sketch #art
The Sasquatch Finds a New Home
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Curious what to expect from CRYPTID SEA MONSTERS? Here's a sample spread. It'll make a GREAT holiday gift for your cryptozoology loving friends of all ages.
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Cryptoctober Day 30: Underwater Abominable Snowman

During a dive near the Bahamas, diver Bruce Mounier encountered a bizarre creature with a long neck and a monkey-like face. It rotated its head around like a snake to watch the man before speeding off

🎨NemoralisArt
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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New at Tet Zoo... The Amazing Giant Black Fossa tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10... #animals #cryptozoology #mammals #Madagascar
The Amazing Giant Black Fossa — Tetrapod Zoology
Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?
tetzoo.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Cryptoctober Day 29: Tratratratra

Upon arriving in Madagascar, governor Étienne de Flacourt described reports he heard of a strange animal. It had a round, human like face, feet like a monkey, and a size around a small cow. It's speculated that these were surviving giant lemurs
October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Cryptoctober Day 28: Xwoxwá:ya

During an interview in the 1960s, a Skwah man named Albert Louie told an anthropologist about the existence of a strange and dangerous venomous animal larger than his hand. They were crab-like and larger than a man's hand.

🎨Tim Morris
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Cryptoctober Day 27: Feihu

In Southern China come legends of a creature known as the feihu or flying tiger. It's described as a massive gliding animal with wings like a bat. It hides in bushes before jumping out to attack people, often drinking their blood
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Cryptoctober Day 27: Feihu

In Southern China come legends of a creature known as the feihu or flying tiger. It's described as a massive gliding animal with wings like a bat. It hides in bushes before jumping out to attack people, often drinking their blood,
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Cryptoctober Day 26: Lough Dubh Monster

A strange animal found in Ireland, this cryptid was fished up by an unfortunate man one day. He said it was very large like a cow, had a white horn on its nose, and was covered in hair.

🎨Robert Woodard
October 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
NEW VIDEO

There are a surprisingly high number of stories about u-boats coming into contact with, and even fighting, giant cryptids during the world wars. These are the harrowing stories of U-boats vs Cryptids

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U-Boats vs Cryptids
YouTube video by Truth is Scarier than Fiction
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October 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Cryptoctober Day 23: Pinchaque

Gompotheres were a large species of elephant that went extinct an estimated 12000 years ago. But in Colombia there were reports of massive four legged animals with a large trunk as late as the 19th century. Large dung balls were also reported
October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The new ish of Bigfoot Times has arrived, and it's fully devoted to the premature death of Dr Don Jeffrey Meldrum, the primary academic advocate of bigfoot's existence... and, right now, the last. Meldrum has multiple obits in the press now. RIP, a sad loss.
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Cryptoctober Day 21: Flying Crustacean

In 1912, a zoologist in the Philipines noticed strange crawfish like animals "flying" out of the water. They were about half a foot or 20 cm in length. The crustaceans would glide above the water like flying fish

🎨IllustratedMenagerie
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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@bestcryptids.bsky.social This one is real, right?
October 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Cryptoctober Day 20: Sun Dog

In the early 1900s Hyatt Verill was gifted a strange animal connected with the ancient legends of the "sun dog". It had strange facial markings, a long tongue, and a lower jaw that jutted out past its upper one.
October 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
2005 Ginger Bigfoot In California
October 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Cryptoctober Day 19: Ndendecki

A lesser known cryptid heard about during expeditions to find the mokele mbembe, the ndendecki is described as a massive turtle. It's maximum shell size was estimated at 15 feet or 4.5 meters around.
October 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
NEW VIDEO

From Alaska to Australia, there have been reports of massive living t-rexes terrorizing people and animals in remote areas. Could these dinosaurs, or an animal like them, still be hidden somewhere?

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Terrifying Encounters with T-Rex Cryptids
YouTube video by Truth is Scarier than Fiction
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October 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In Costa Rica, Christopher Columbus encountered a bizarre animal called the begare. His crossbowman shot a strange animal Columbus likened to an ape, but larger and with a more human face. The animal also seemed to use its tail as a weapon,

cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Begare
October 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM