Former Cryptids
This creature is likely what ancient mariners believed to be Lusca, Scylla, or the Kraken.
Colossal or Giant Squid
This elusive monster appears as a sort of kangaroo/goat hybrid, walking on two legs with hoofed feet, though it also has the ability to fly short distances with its batlike wings. It's said to be the 13th child of a witch named Mother Leeds.
Jersey Devil
Only a few sightings support the existence of this British cryptid, a terrifying combination of a predatory bird and a human. It's partly named for the town in Cornwall, England, where it was seen.
Owlman of Mawnan
This red, meter-long worm is said to prowl the desert sands of the Gobi Desert, attacking with corrosive saliva and electric shocks
Mongolian Death Worm
Traverse City, Michigan, and the surrounding area has its own howling canine/human hybrid monster, though its name is nowhere near as exciting as the Beast of Bray Road.
Michigan Dogman
Colloquially dubbed the African unicorn, this creature, now known to be the only living relative of the giraffe, was determined real around the turn of the 20th century
Okapi
In 1969, couples in a Texas town reported that a half-goat, half-man creature with fur and scales attacked their cars when they were out parking. The beast later threw a tire and jumped on another car. The only known photograph shows a hulking biped with shaggy white fur.
Lake Worth Monster
Britain is famous for panthers stalking their prey far outside their known distribution and in numbers far too low to sustain a population. Dead sheep and panther sightings on the moor created this legendary monster.
Beast of Bodmin
People in India reported being scratched and bitten by a short, hairy creature — or sometimes a robotic version of this creature — in 2001.
Monkey-Man of Delhi
This cryptid is interesting because its description generally matches that of a huge werewolf. It's named not for the town in Wisconsin where it's supposedly found, but for the very specific road it roams.
Beast of Bray Road
Tales from the Lesser Sunda islands told of monstrous "land crocodiles", now known to be these monstrous monitor lizards.
Komodo Dragon
A mysterious corpse was found on a beach in Long Island, New York, in 2008. It resembled a hairless beast with a bizarre, toothy beak. Experts later identified it as a raccoon that had undergone decomposition and lost part of its jaw.
Montauk Monster
This creature, believed by some to be a werewolf or shapeshifting sorcerer, though potentially a hyena in reality, wrought havoc across the French countryside throughout the 1760s
Beast of Gevaudan
Mokèlé-mbèmbé, which means "the one who stops the flow of rivers" in the Lingala language, is said to resemble this type of dinosaur.
Sauropod (Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, etc.)
Residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, were terrorized by a red-eyed, winged creature in the 1960s. It supposedly caused a bridge collapse and was connected to mysterious "men in black" encounters.
Mothman
Prominent British scientists claimed fraud when presented with the pelts of this creature they thought to be sewn together bits of duck and beaver.
Platypus
This is Nessie's only real competition for most famous cryptid. Originally a resident of the vast forests of the Pacific Northwest, variations of this bipedal evolutionary mystery pop up all over the place.
Bigfoot
This Cornish cryptid, said to reside in Falmouth Bay, reportedly bears a plesiosaur-like appearance
Morgawr
In Central Africa, this giant bat or surviving Pteranodon has been sighted and even reportedly wounded a man.
Kongamato
This goat-man is probably not Catholic, despite its name. It reportedly attacks people around a particular train trestle in Kentucky.
Pope Lick Monster
Across the icy reaches of the Nepalese highlands, primordial polar bear DNA had been extracted from samples believed to belong to this legendary beast
Yeti
A primate cryptid Bigfoot variant, this one is known for two things: It mostly hangs out in Florida, and it smells really, really bad.
Skunk Ape
This was a strange entity that appeared in 18th - 19th century in 50 Berkeley Square in London.
Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square
This terrifying Filipino monster takes a human shape during the day, often living among people. At night it turns into an animal or monster and sucks people's blood. Sometimes it devours children instead.
Aswang
Residents of Loveland, Ohio, have reported seeing this unique cryptid in the 1950s, 1970s and 2016. It's a hybrid human/animal creature that walks on its hind legs.
Loveland Frogman