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A BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS VISITED, BROUGHT IDEAS, FAVORITED AND DOWNLOADED AS WELL AS THOSE TO COME! PROJECT CRYPTID CONTINUES TO GROW
Artist's Note: I get a lot of questions about adding the Mongolian Death Worm - it is already a part of the collection and has been for a long time now, right between the words in the title. I don't know if it's because people don't see, aren't looking, or just like to mess with me, so I'm putting up this note to assure any and all that the death worm is there.
Last Update: Wednesday, July 27th, 2016 (Placeholder Yeti, fixed up the shoulders and legs a little bit; new links and sources)
Behind the Scenes: a look at the process over the years: synapticboomstick.deviantart.c…
Added: New Altamaha-ha
Scheduled Alterations: Buru
Upcoming: -PENDING- (Many informative sites have changed over the years)
Scheduled Next Submitted: Burrunjor, Nahuelito, U-28 Creature
Deviants who have contributed (that have been added so far!):
TFhybrid (Mothman, Tatzel wurm)
LapisBufonis (Marozi),
GreatSaiyaKirby (Hodag, Jackalope, Nandi Bear, Fur-bearing Trout, Flatwoods Monster)
eternalsaturn (Cadborosaurus)
fractalxavier91 (Relic Population sub-category)
HungryCowrie (Alternate Yeti colors)
Attention: :
There's big change ahead for the project, whatever it may be.
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The current layout for Project Cryptid
! I'm always working to better the look and basic design of each creature so suggestions and constructive criticism are always a help. What you see now is composed of five different generations of art style; some have been left unaltered to serve as a visual history of the constant evolution of this project since its initial start.Not everything here may be real, I won't argue the point of demon bats and such, but if it's mentioned in myth and lore or anecdotes and reports I'll probably draw it.
For more on cryptids and cryptozoology, check out some of these links:
Cryptopia (formerly American Monsters)
NewAnimal.org
Unexplained Mysteries
Cryptozoology.com (7/27/2016, site is back up)
Cryptid Wiki
Wikipedia Cryptids
The Cryptozoologist
The Project Cryptid Directory
Rare pigment mutation - so far unique to the Blue Tiger and Marozi- both felids, interestingly
Avians - Cryptids that are described as being capable of flight or are reported on the wing.
Chimera - the reported creature blends the features of many different species.
Confirmed - genuine physical proof has proven this creature to be flesh and blood.
Corpses - Unidentified corpses that, for whatever reason, were not properly examined or provided inconclusive information.
Fresh Water - Cryptids sighted witin or in proximity to bodies of fresh water such as a lake or river.
Hoaxes - Those cryptids that have been undeniabley proven to be fraudulant.
Homonids - Cryptids that are typically reported to be man-like, of immense size, and covered in hair.
Hybrid - creature is a blend of two distinct creatures.
Inverterbrates - Cryptids that fit the descriptors for unclassified inverterbrates.
Beyond Mythology - Creatures that are believed to be mythical yet have unusually consistent reports.
Outsiders - These cryptids do not fit into any one category- be they from other dimensions or outer space, these entities are enigmatic to the core.
The Oceans/Oceanic - Cryptids reported while at sea or from vantage points ashore.
Relic Population/RelicPop - Cryptids classed as extinct animals that some believe are not totally gone from the world.
Unknown Mammals - Unclassified mammals
Unknown Herptiles - Unclassified reptiles and amphibians.
Cryptids Cataloged
[updates always in progress, thank you
. Bold equals recent]1) Ahool - [Avian] - Unconfirmed flying creature, Indonesia [reported as being "monkey-like"]
2) Almasti - [Hominid] - Russian wild man [aka Alma, Almas]
3) Altamaha-ha - [Fresh Water] - River creature, Georgia, US [aka Altie]
4) Beast of Bosnia - [Corpse] – unidentified corpse, Europe
5) Beast of Gevaudan - [Unknown Mammal] – Large canid, possibly a dire wolf or mutant
6) Bessie - [Freshwater/Outsider] - Unidentified Lake Eerie creature with unusual features
7) Bigfoot - [Hominid] - North American ape-man
8) Blue tiger - [Rare Pigment Mutation/Confirmed] - Asia [aka Maltese Tiger]
9) Bunyip - [Beyond Mythology/Chimera] - Monster from the Aboriginal Dreamtime, Australia
10) Buru - [Unknown Herptile] – unidentified Tibetan crocodilian, extinct according to natives
11) Cadborosaurus – [Fresh Water] [aka Caddy]
12) Cavney Island Monsters - [Corpse]
13) Chupacabra - [Outsider/Avian/Chimera]
14) Coelacanth - [Ocean/Confirmed]
15) Colossal Squid - [Ocean/Confirmed] - the largest known living species of squid
16) Con-Rit - [Unknown Invertebrate]
17) De Loy’s Ape - [Hominid] - unknown primate/hominid identified only by a single photograph and exploration report
18) Dohber-chu - [Fresh Water]
19) Dover Demon - [Outsider]
20) El Lobizon - [Unknown Mammal/Outsider]
21) Emela Ntouka - [Beyond Mythology]
22) Enfield Horror - [Outsider]
23) Flatwoods Monster - [Outsider]
24) Fouke Monster - [Hominid]
25) Fur-bearing Trout - [Hoax] - a North American tall-tale
26) Giant Anaconda – [Unknown Herptile] - reports of enormous snakes emerge from the remote tropics
27) Giant Owl - [Avian] - surprisingly giant owls or owl-men reported in the UK
28) Gigliolis’ Whale - [Ocean/Unknown Mammal]
29) Hibagon - [Hominid]
30) Hodag - [Hoax] - an American tall-tale creature with sharp horns, spines, glowing eyes, and legs that don't bend
31) Hogzilla - [Unknown Mammal/Confirmed] - an aberrantly large wild hog shot and killed in the Southeastern US
32) Jackalope - [Hoax/Mythology/Chimera] - an American tall-tale critter, desert hare with antlers
33) Kasai Rex - [Hoax]
34) Khemr Stegosaur - [Hoax]
35) Kongamoto - [Avian]
36) Lizardmen - [Outsider]
37) Loch Ness Monster - [Fresh Water] - the famous lake monster of Scotland!
38) Loveland Frogmen - [Outsider/Fresh Water]
39) Lusca - [Ocean]
40) Mamlambo - [Fresh Water]
41) Mammoth - [RelicPop/Unknown Mammal]
42) Mapinguari - [Outsider/Unknown Mammal]
43) Marozi - [Unknown Mammal/Confirmed]
44) Megalania - [Unknown Herptile]
45) Michigan Dogman - [Outsider/Unknown Mammal]
46) Minhocao - [Unknown Invertebrate]
47) Mngwa - [Unknown Mammal]
48) Moa - [Avian]
49) Mokele-mbembe - [Beyond Mythology]
50) Morag - [Fresh Water]
51) Mothman - [Outsider/Avian]
52) Naga - [Fresh Water]
53) Nameless Horror of Berkley Square - [Outsider/Fresh Water/Unknown Invertebrate]
54) Nandi Bear - [Unknown Mammal]
55) New Jersey Devil - [Outsider/Chimera]
56) Ogopogo - [Fresh Water]
57) Popobawa - [Outsider/Avian/Hoax]
58) Quagga - [Unknown Mammal/Confirmed]
59) Rods - [Avian/Outsider]
60) Ropen - [Avian]
61) Shunka Warakin - [Unknown Mammal]
62) Tatzel Wurm - [Outsider]
63) Texas Chupacabra - [Unknown Mammal/Confirmed]
64) Thunderbird - [Avian, Beyond Mythology] – giant predatory bird, North America
65) Thylacine - [Confirmed, Relic Population, Unknown Mammal]
66) Trunko - [Corpse/Ocean]
67) Tsuchinoko - [Unknown Herptile]
68) Veo - [Unknown Mammal]
69) Vietnamese Night Fliers - [Outsider/Avian]
70) Wendigo - [Outsider]
71) Yeren - [Hominid]
72) Yeti - [Hominid]
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Yes, if it shows up on Destination Truth or Monster Quest I will add it
Coming Soon (with increased size!):
-Information Blurbs on each covered cryptids, including cryptid type and location
Cryptids
Nahuelito
Black Shuck
Ohio Grassman
British Big Cat
El Petizo
Jba Fofi
Tokelosh
Pennalgalan
*The color scheme for Fouke Monster is giving me headaches.
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Comments: 375
Might I suggest adding a "relic population" sub category? I noticed that the mammoth hasn't been placed, and a few of the others you have logged could go in there, like the Thylacine and Megalania. If you're already on that, I apologize.
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That makes a good bit of sense and it would give the mammoth something other than [?]; I still debate myself on whether or not I made the mammoth one simply because it was among the listed animals/creatures. Thanks for the suggestion
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You're welcome.
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Well, you included two of MY sadly-overlooked favorites. 
As for suggestions, I don't think anyone's mentioned the Cadborosaurus yet... it's always been one of my favorites for some reason.
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You have quite the stunning array here but I know of a few little known cryptids that you might be interested in. Also, you should check out Obi Wan's UFO-free Paranormal page (if you haven't already) for some really strange and unique cryptid stories.
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Unfortunatly, many of the cryptozoology links there appear to be broken
What might these little-known cryptids that you speak of be?
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I'll have to look it up. I'll post them soon.
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I may have discovered a new cryptid: [link]
That's a drawing of it, and the story of it is in the Artist's comments.
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sounds like an opossum to me
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Very nice, but I do believe that the coelacanth should be removed, as that has been scientifically accepted as existing.
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Well so has the colossal squid
That and the coelacanth one was an order and I'm just such an egotistical stiff
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This porject is awesome and must have taken ages to even get this far! You have included so many animals already!
But a Thylacine isn't a Cryptid, it's just an extinct animal like a Dodo. They are from Tasmania.
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Oh jeez, it's been a few years going now 
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Hm, fair enough then.
I suppose that does make them cryptids in a way.
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WOW this must have took ages! Are you still adding new creatures to it? If so you should add unicorn, werewolf and japanese kirin. I have seen some of these as icons in Cryptozoology.com. They are so cute!
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New creatures are being added all the time, I've just reached a slump with redesigning the layout
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Yeah i think that making a mythology section is a good idea since it's very different from the crytozoology. I'll keep watching for updates. Great concept!
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Much thanks 
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I can't wait to see that!
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if its any help i can give you some tips on the Yowie
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Sure, ideas and tips are always appreciated
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ok there are actually 2 kinds of Yowie
The first is the TRUE yowie, which has a lizard’s head, and ant’s body with 6 legs, a lizard or snakes tail and glowing red eyes. It emerges from underground at night to eat ANYTHING it can find including people
The second (homonid) is actually based on an aboriginal myth about a hairy, man eating giant, known as burrun burrun depending on region, and tribal group.
When settlers first arrived in Australian the natives warned them about a Yowie, most of them assumed the referred to the man eating hairy giant. This initial confusion is what lead people to believe the Yowie was a hairy hominid like big-foot.
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I'm not finding any data on that first description of Yowie, could you provide a source?
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sorry iv only seen it in a couple of books on aboriginal myths and legends, and i cant remember the names, whish i could though, sorry
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this might help though, liz/ant also known as Whowie , also called Wowie and Wahwee
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Wow, now I have to go look those up! XD
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Oh I forgot! Add THE Waitoreke, the hairy moehau, and the Trunko and Gambo too!
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? Field teams going on station.
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Thunderbird updates have been slow, you'd be surprised how hard it can actually be to locate a giant bird, especially when they don't feel like cooperating with the search team. They also bite, apparently.
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Is some one working on the thunderbird?
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Thunderbird updates have been slow, you'd be surprised how hard it can actually be to locate a giant bird, especially when they don't feel like cooperating with the search team. They also bite, apparently.
It's also pretty hard to locate the reply button
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Not to sound weird, but I found a strange photo of a "thunder bird" once, i was really young and it was a remake by some old wacko guy, but years later, I saw the same image on a show called "Wild West Tech" in a folklore edition, and it looked like a big pterodon. just wanted to say that if its any help.
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Nice. I was going to do Popobawa for cryptid files, but decided not to after reading the reports. It's more... disturbing than the average cryptid reports.
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Indeed, I had a similar experience. The Popobawa is a nightmare of a thing
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it looks like you got them all
ive never heard of the furried trout thing
very cool
and great job on this
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Hooray for the Mongolian Death Worm! I never heard of the Gigliolis' Whale before...care to shead some light on it?
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A lot of people really like the Death Worm
More on Giglioli's Whale
Reported in September of 1867 of the coast of Chile by the Italian zoologist Enrico Hillyer Giglioli while aboard the Magenta, this unidentified whale had two dorsal fins,something that no known whale displays. Further from Wikipedia:
Another report of a two finned whale of roughly the same size was recorded from the ship Lily off the coast of Scotland the following year. In 1983 between Corsica and the French mainland, French zoologist Jacques Maigret sighted a similar looking creature.
Possibly all reports of the same individual, the animal has never been properly identified as a new species or genetic defect due to a lack of further reports and the case is still open to speculation.
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Very nice, and it's good to find a plausible, giant sized unknown beast out there. Thank you very much for the feedback. And for the Death Worm, I find it interesting that it inhabits the cold deserts of Mongolia, something that goes against the idea of a large worm-based animal. I want to say misplaced alien animal, but the theories stating it to be a snake would be more realistic.
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There are worms that live in ice so you never know
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Awesome!
Rods were recently shown to be various types of objects moving at high speed(fish, insects, small birds, and debris) taken with a camera with low shutter speed. I saw a documentary on it.
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I still like to think they're from another dimension.
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I've only ever heard of a few of these. 
How long have you been working on this?
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About two years, just very slowly at the beginning and I wandered off at one point. I've been changing the similar ones, there used to be more.
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A shadow creature
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DAMN, I was gonna say bunyip but that word is already there xD! Weeell...You can look up wikipedia for fictional creatures in culture 8>, there\'s even some made up as pranks like drop-bears, wild haggis, and uuhh...Kelpies 8D! They shapeshift into sticky black horses with a silver saddle to kiiilllll people >D, hehs...Well have fun 8> - LEPRECHAUNS.
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