Kristen Vice CRYPTIDS

Cryptids 1. Ahool6. Buru11. Honey Island Swamp Monster 16Mokele- Mbembe 21. Thunderbird 2. Arabhar7. Champ12. Jersey Devil17. Mongolian Death Worm 22. Ucu 3. Beast of Bray Road 8. Chupacabras13. Kongamato18. Mothman23. Yeren 4. Beast of Gevaudan 9. Ebu Gogo14. Loch Ness Monster 19. Ogopogo24. Yeti 5. Bili Ape10. Giant Sloth15. Mngwa20. Skunk Ape25. Sasquatch

Ahool  The Island of Java, formed mostly as the result of volcanic activity, is the worlds 13th largest island, and the 5th largest island of Indonesia.  Java is one of the most densely populated regions on earth and with a population of roughly 124 million is also the most populated island in the world.  The Ahool, named after its call, a long ahOOOooool, is said to be a bat like creature, and is described as the size of a one year old child with a gigantic wing span of roughly 12 feet.  It is reported to be covered in short, dark grey fur, have large, black eyes, flattened forearms supporting its leathery wings and a monkey like head, with a flattish, man like face. It has been seen squatting on the forest floor, at which times its wings are closed, pressed against the Ahool’s body, its feet appearing to point backwards.

Arabhar  "arab snake" is a type of snake thought to live near the Arabian Sea.  fairly recent cryptid

Beast of Bray Road  The Beast of Bray Road is a cryptid, or cryptozoological, creature first reported in 1936 on a rural road outside of Elkhorn, Wisconsin.  Bray Road itself is a quiet country road near the community of Elkhorn.  The rash of claimed sightings in the late 1980s and early 1990s prompted a local newspaper, the Walworth County Week, to assign reporter Linda Godfrey to cover the story.

Beast of Gevaudan  The Beast of Gévaudan is the historical name associated with the man-eating wolf, dog or wolf-dog hybrid which terrorised the former province of Gévaudan in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France between 1764 and  The attacks, which covered an area stretching 90 by 80 kilometres, were said to have been committed by a beast or beasts that had formidable teeth and immense tails according to contemporary eyewitnesses.  The number of victims differs according to sources. In 1987, one study estimated there had been 210 attacks; resulting in 113 deaths and 49 injuries; 98 of the victims killed were partly eaten.

Bili Ape  In local parlance, the great apes of the Bili Forest fall into two distinct groups. There are the "tree beaters", which disperse high into the trees to stay safe, and easily succumb to the poison arrows used by local hunters.  When Karl Ammann, a Swiss photographer and anti-bushmeat campaigner, first visited the region in 1996, he was looking for gorillas, but instead discovered a skull that had dimensions like that of a chimpanzee, but with a prominent crest like that of a gorilla.  Ammann purchased a photograph, taken by a motion-detecting camera, from poachers that captured an image of what looked like immense chimpanzees.

Buru  The Buru was an aquatic reptile said to have lived in Ziro valley, a small town in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India, at some undefined time in the past.  In 1947, Professor Christopher von Furer-Haimendorf was the first westerner to be told about the Buru.  According to the Apatani elders, when their forefathers migrated to Ziro valley, the valley was primarily a marsh which was populated by Burus.  Most of the Burus died because of the drainage, and many supposedly went underground into the springs.  The last Buru was said to be reported by a young woman, who sighted it in a spring one night while she was drawing water. The startled lady told her father about the incident.

Champ  Champ or Champy is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U.S.-Canada  partially situated across the Vermont-New York border. While there is no scientific evidence for the cryptid's existence, there have been over 300 reported sightings. The legend of the monster is considered a draw for tourism in the Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York areas.

Chupacabras  The chupacabra is a legendary cryptid rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas, with the first sightings reported in Puerto Rico.  name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats.  It is purportedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the tail.  Eyewitness sightings have been claimed as early as 1995 in Puerto Rico, and have since been reported as far north as Maine, and as far south as Chile, and even being spotted outside the Americas in countries like Russia and The Philippines.  Sightings in northern Mexico and the southern United States have been verified as canids afflicted by mange.

Ebu Gogo  The legends relating to the Ebu Gogo were traditionally, according to the journal Nature, attributed to monkeys.  The Nage people believe that the Ebu Gogo were alive at the time of the arrival of Portuguese trading ships in the 17th century, and some hold that they survived as recently as the 20th century, but are now no longer seen.  The Ebu Gogo are believed to have been hunted to extinction by the human inhabitants of Flores.  The story goes that all the occupants were killed, except perhaps for one pair, who fled into the deepest forest, and whose descendants may be living there still.  There are also legends about the Ebu Gogo kidnapping human children, hoping to learn from them how to cook.

Giant Sloth  Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. The term "ground sloth" is used as a reference for all extinct sloths because of the large size of the earliest forms discovered, as opposed to the extant "tree sloths”. Ground sloths had been extinct on the mainland of North and South America for 10,000 years or more.  At their earliest appearance in the fossil record, the ground sloths were already distinct at the family level. Sloths, and xenarthrans as a whole, represent one of the more successful South American groups during the Great American Biotic Interchange.

Honey Island Swamp Monster  The first claimed sighting was in 1963 by Harlan Ford, a retired air traffic controller who had taken up wildlife photography.  A legend tells of a train wreck in the area in the early 20th century. A travelling circus was on the train, and from it a group of chimpanzees escaped and interbred with the local alligator population.  The creature is described as bipedal, 7 feet tall, with gray hair and yellow or red eyes, and accompanied by a disgusting smell.  Footprints supposedly left by the creature have four webbed toes.

Jersey Devil  The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States.  The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many different variations.  The common description is that of a kangaroo-like creature with the head of a goat, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked tail.

Kongamato  The kongamato is a reported pterosaur-like creature said to have been seen by the people of and explorers in the Mwinilunga district's Jiundu swamps of Western Zambia, Angola and Congo.  Suggested identities include a modern-day Rhamphorhynchus, a misidentified bird or a giant bat.  No film has ever been taken, nor have any bodies been examined, leaving all of the stories to rely on large wounds and eyewitness accounts.

Loch Ness Monster  The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid who reputedly inhabits Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.  Popular interest and belief in the animal's existence has varied since it was first brought to the world's attention in  The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs.  The creature has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie since the 1940s.

Mngwa  Mngwa or Nunda is a gigantic, ferocious, dark gray or black nocturnal feline, said to stalk the East African country of Tanzania.  Described as, "the size of a donkey," English contact with this animal first began in the 1900s. In 1938, an open-minded discussion of this animal appeared in the then-world-famous British scientific journal Discovery.  In Frank W. Lane's 1954 issue of Nature Parade, Patrick Bowen, a hunter who tracked the Mngwa at one time, remarked that the animal's tracks were like those of the leopard but much larger.

Mokele-Mbembe  Mokele mbembe, meaning "one who stops the flow of rivers" in the Lingala language.  It is claimed to be a sauropod by some cryptozoologists.  Expeditions mounted in the hope of finding evidence of the Mokele mbembe have failed, and the subject has been covered in a number of books and by a number of television documentaries.  According to skeptic Robert T. Carroll, "Reports of the Mokele mbembe have been circulating for the past two hundred years, yet no one has photographed the creature or produced any physical evidence of its existence.”

Mongolian Death Worm  The Mongolian death worm is an alleged creature reported to exist in the Gobi Desert.  It is generally considered a cryptid, an animal whose sightings and reports are disputed or unconfirmed.  It is described as a bright red worm with a wide body that is 2 to 5 feet long.  The worm is the subject of a number of claims by Mongolian locals, such as the ability of the worm to spew forth an acid; that, on contact, will turn anything it touches yellow and corroded and the ability to kill at a distance by means of electric discharge.

Mothman  Mothman is a moth-like creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from 15 November 1966 to 15 December  Mothman was introduced to a wider audience by Gray Barker in 1970, later popularized by John Keel in his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, claiming that Mothman was related to a wide array of supernatural events in the area and the collapse of the Silver Bridge.  The 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere, was based on Keel's book.

Ogopogo  Ogopogo or Naitaka is the name given to a cryptid lake monster reported to live in Okanagan Lake, in British Columbia, Canada.  Ogopogo has been allegedly seen by First Nations people since the 19th century.  The most common description of Ogopogo is a 40 to 50-foot-long sea serpent.  British cryptozoologist Karl Shuker has categorized the Ogopogo as a 'many hump' variety of lake monster, and suggested it may be a kind of primitive serpentine whale such as Basilosaurus.

Skunk Ape  The skunk ape, also known as the swamp ape, stink ape, Florida Bigfoot, myakka ape, and myakka skunk ape, is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit the U.S. states of Florida, North Carolina, and Arkansas, although reports from Florida are more common.  It is named for its appearance and for the unpleasant odor that is said to accompany it.  In 1974, sightings of a large, foul-smelling, hairy, ape-like creature, which ran upright on two legs were reported in suburban neighborhoods of Dade County, Florida.  Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell has written that some of the reports may represent sightings of the black bear and it is likely that other sightings are hoaxes or misidentification of wildlife.

Thunderbird  The thunderbird is a legendary creature in certain North American indigenous peoples' history and culture.  It is considered a supernatural bird of power and strength.  It is especially important, and frequently depicted, in the art, songs and oral histories of many Pacific Northwest Coast cultures, and is found in various forms among the peoples of the American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains.

Ucu  Also known as ucumar or ukumar-zupia, the ucu is South America's equivelant of the sasquatch.  Many sightings have ocurred since the mid-20th century, and the locals have long spoke of "ape-men" in the area.  It is said to be fond of the Payo plant, the inside of which is like cabbage. The ucu is most likely the same thing as the sasquatch, only a southern race.

Yeren  The Yeren variously referred to as the Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman, or Man-Monkey, is a legendary creature said to be an as yet undiscovered hominid residing in the remote mountainous forested regions of western Hubei.

Yeti  'The Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an ape-like cryptid taller than an average human that is said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet.  The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology.  Stories of the Yeti first emerged as a facet of Western popular culture in the 19th century.  The scientific community generally regards the Yeti as a legend, given the lack of conclusive evidence, but it remains one of the most famous creatures of cryptozoology.

Sasquatch  Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape or hominid-like creature that is said to inhabit forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.  Usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid.  Some scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax, rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population.

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