#slide rock bolter

[cinemamind]

Cryptid In July 2022 [part 3]

Based on @marisashorror's awesome prompt list

#cinemamind #horror #body horror #tsuchinoko #pope lick monster #black eyed kids #lizard man #merman #fresno nightcrawler #slide rock bolter #bermuda beast #doppelganger #cryptids #teeth #artists on tumblr

[darealeliyellowbear]

#25 | Slide Rock Bolter

Evo Phases: 1

Earth | Bloodlust

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#artfart #traditional art #pen and ink #commissions open #ko fi #ko fi shop #ko fi donations #slide rock bolter #cryptid #cryptid in july #cryptid in july 2022 #trading cards

[jazzgaycryptid]

Slide rock bolter

#slide rock bolter #cryptids

[forgleto-o]

I love cryptids because it ranges from:

Big land whale thing that slides down mountains and face eating stinky dog croc

To

Big salamander and large slug/maybe a caecilian

#slide rock bolter #crocodingo #Trinity alps salamander #mulilo slug #cryptid #salamander

[prof-marvolius]

Críptido del día: Slide-Rock Bolter (Empernador deslizante de Rocas)

Descripción: se trata de una criatura extraña y temible parecida a una ballena de tierra descrita por los leñadores de América del Norte durante el siglo XIX y principios del XX . Se cree que vive en las montañas de Colorado, pero sólo en montañas donde la pendiente forma un ángulo superior a 45 grados. Tiene una cabeza inmensa, ojos pequeños y una boca grande similar a una escultura. Su cola termina en una aleta como la de un delfín, con enormes ganchos de agarre. Quienes afirmaron haber visto a esta bestia comer todo lo que encontraba a su paso. Con sus dientes afilados y su capacidad para deslizarse rápidamente por la ladera de la montaña, se cree que el asesino Bolter está detrás de los excursionistas y turistas desaparecidos (aunque nunca se ha demostrado).

#criptido del día #criptidos #criptozoologia #Slide Rock Bolter #colorado #estados unidos #united states

[wickedsrest-rp]

NAME: Goggie

ALSO KNOWN AS: Awd Goggie

RARITY: ★★★★★

THREAT LEVEL: ★★★★★ | Massive and dangerous, often requiring the teamwork of several experts to defeat. Other variants are more common.

HABITAT: Thick forested land, deep in the woods. Some places are known for having more goggies than others – specifically forests with large amounts of decomposing foliage, such as the Wormwoods.

DESCRIPTION: Goggies are a species of caterpillar-like creature that can grow to be as tall as a giraffe and as long as a blue whale (though, don’t worry; some are only as large as a car). They’re found in heavily wooded areas across most of the world, but due to their massive size and large territories, they’re sparsely distributed and not common to run into. However, those who pick or eat fruit, berries, or flowers found in the forest while one is nearby will draw the goggie out. They’re fiercely territorial of all food in their forests, and will devour anyone who dares to steal from them. However, their favorite food is just leaves, especially when they’re changing color during autumn. 

Their size means that they can’t hide away, so they sleep out in the open, which is probably the best time to attempt an ambush. When a goggie is known to be in the area, it captures the attention of hunters and they typically band together to dispatch the creature. Most would shudder to consider what a goggie would be like if they metamorphosed into some kind of monster butterfly.

ABILITIES: Some goggies are covered with dense fur (called urticating hairs), which irritate human skin and can even cause bleeding pustules to form when touched. Others may be covered in hard spines. A few may not have any obvious defense covering their long, fleshy bodies, but can secrete toxins. Goggies are giant and long enough to wrap around their victims and crush them to death with their mass. Others might cut to the chase and simply try to gulp victims down into their large maws. While they don’t have teeth, they do have two powerful crushing “plates” in their mouth. Despite their size, they can actually move rather quickly and are undeterred by copses of trees, simply knocking them down in pursuit of their prey. Goggies are also quite resilient, able to take some injury and heal quickly.

WEAKNESS: Goggies aren’t particularly susceptible to anything. However, as large supernatural caterpillars, they are not hard-bodied creatures. If one can get through their defenses (hairs, spines, toxins), they’ll find that they can slice through the goggie’s skin with relative ease. It’ll require more than a few slices with a weapon to take one down, but cutting off the head or through most of the goggie’s body will kill one.

OTHER VARIANTS:

Bristlecat Seeder: Growing to roughly the size of a minivan and covered in a thick shag of stinging bristles, these relatives of the goggie are imposing in their own right even if they’re not half as large. Bristlecat seeders are rarely seen as adults, and are instead known more often for their brood parasite behavior. Mother seeders lay their eggs around supernatural areas, and the eggs give off a strong, musty pheromone that attracts the attention of anyone nearby in a short window of time. When a victim becomes enthralled, they 1) become very stinky and 2) will take care of the egg to their own detriment, and even provide for the young bristlecat seeder when it hatches into a miniature version of the species. Young seeders have voracious appetites and will eat people as they rapidly grow, and may even target those who take the host’s attention away from them, but will not bite the hand that feeds. Eventually, when the seeder reaches a certain size, they simply wiggle away to live a life of their own, leaving behind a bereft and confused victim.

HHG: Most HHGs never reach a formidable enough size to become an issue, making them more common than regular goggies. But rather than growing by eating a steady diet of leaf litter, HHGs increase in size the more they’re talked about by the local community. The more whisperings and rumors about “the monster in the woods,” the larger the HHG will grow, facilitating even more talk about it. When HHGs reach a large enough size to start devouring humans, their growth really takes off as these monsters become impossible to ignore. There’s no known limit to their size, but fortunately bands of hunters eventually take them out. It remains to be seen if that will continue to be the case and just how massive one could grow.

Nozuchi: These smaller, fatter variants of the goggie can still become as large as sleeping bags, capable of swallowing humans whole and trapping them within. Their only facial feature is a gaping, toothless mouth that sits on the top of their head. Nozuchi live in meadows or on mountains rather than thick forests, and will make their home on a tree atop a hill or another elevated area. They feed by rolling themselves down the hill with great force, plummeting toward their victim and swallowing them whole. Though they don’t have any teeth, they can still close their soft mouths with great force. Those who approach them while they’re sleeping in their tree are likely to wake them and receive bites, which are prone to infection. Nozuchi may be avoided by sticking to higher grounds so they can’t gain enough momentum to eat.

Slide-rock bolter: Found up in the mountains, bolters can be thought of as the XXL version of nozuchi. They rest on steep slopes, waiting to detect movement toward the bottom, and can remain motionless like this for many days. When they feel someone come near, they open their enormous mouths and push themselves forward with their hooked flipper-feet. Bolters quickly pick up momentum and hurtle down the slope like a giant, wormy sled, crashing into as many people as possible as it speeds down. Unaware parties of mountain travelers can all fall victim to a slide-rock bolter in one gulp. Some have even been big enough to destroy parts of mountain towns.​​‌‌‌‌ They’re attracted to the presence of their own kind for breeding purposes, and as such, explosive bolter decoys can be used to kill them.

Ōmukade: These goggie cousins are plated in hard chitinous armor and have jointed legs much like giant centipedes. They’re longer and skinnier than goggies, lacking their impressive mass but making up for it in ferocity. Ōmukade have a nasty pair of fangs which can deliver a deadly venom. While they don’t typically eat humans, they’re very aggressive and territorial, and will emerge from the ground with snapping mandibles when they sense movement nearby. Feeling the earth shaking and moving underneath you is a sign that you’re in ōmukade territory and should leave before it’s too late. Their armor is impenetrable to most weapons, but ōmukade are allergic to human saliva, and a sharp blade or spear coated in it can pierce them straight through, killing them.

#monsters #invertebrate #woods #hhg #nozuchi #slide rock bolter #omukade #goggie #bristlecat seeder

[mojomann67]

Cryptober 28 Slide Rock Bolter #inktober #inktober2022 #cryptober #cryptid #sliderockbolter

#inktober #cryptid #inktober2022 #cryptober #slide Rock Bolter

[valdevia]

In the 1950s, the US National Park Service acquired M27 recoilless rifles from the military.

Their stated use was to trigger controlled avalanches, but a recent analysis of ammunition purchases shows they used many times more rounds than necessary.

The NPS was hunting something.

#unreality #horror art #photoshop #this is also kind of a cryptid inspired one! specifically -> #slide-rock bolter

[heyclickadee]

So you know which cryptid is at the top of my personal list for “most delightfully ridiculous cryptid?” The Slide-rock Bolter. It’s a lesser known cryptid that seems to have originated from miner/trapper folklore in 19th century Colorado, and…it’s a land whale.

It hooks onto the peak of a mountain with its tail and when it sees something it wants to eat, it lets go and zooms down the slope, swallowing everything in its path whole.

It is not clear how it gets back up a mountain once it’s done this, but I suspect it can manage.

EDIT: Thankfully, someone in the notes found the source of the image—it should be in Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods here: https://href.li/?http://www.lib.lumberwoods.org/

#slide-rock bolter #cryptids #listen this one is so silly I wish it were real #Bigfoot is boring give me the drop whales

[shortterm-emory]

Daily Inktober Cryptid #16: Slide-Rock Bolter

#art #my art #inktober #cryptid #slide-rock bolter

[sixteen-strings]

#fearsome critters #fearsome critters of the lumberwoods #cryptids #folklore #monsters #urban legends #polls #jackalope #squonk #fur-bearing trout #hodag #teakettler #sidehill gouger #hoop snake #slide-rock bolter #axehandle hound #axhandle hound #hidebehind

[suspiciouslyglowingmoss]

Y’know, I think more people need to know about obsucre cryptids. Take the Slide-Rock Bolter for instance. Basically, a land-whale that hooks onto the tops of 45-degree-or-more slopes in Colorado with its tail, and waits for hikers to pass. WHen they do, it lets go, spitting out a ‘grease’ to increase its sped, and swollows them, going up the next slope from its momentum. 

One of my favorites, actually. Imagine seeing that while trying to enjoy a nice wildlife hike. I’d be estatic. And dead. 

#cryptids #slide-rock bolter #cryptidcore #cryptic #obscure cryptids

[nat-20s]

Uh oh I just got another submission idea

#bet they dont have any submission from the slide rock bolter...

[iamthekaijuking]

Skulls of some critters from @bogbiter’s Awakened: Bleeding Realm

To quote him

“Top right is a thundered, aka Okpesaurus. Massive hadrosaurs that migrated down into South America, where they adapted to mountainous grasslands. They would travel back up into the americas around the 1200s, seemingly with little competition from mastodons and ground sloths.”

“The second is the Slide-Rock Bolter, a massive amphibian that resembles a frog, though studded with osteoderms and being larger than a rhino. They hunt the mountains and will use their armored body to slide down slopes to get from point a to b, or to crash into rivals or herds down beloe.”

“Third is the Southern Stormwing, the largest flying wyvern in the world. Though in decline due to overfishing, they also make do by the hunting of marine mammals, birds, fish, squid, and small mosasaurs. Their impressive crest in life is covered in semi-fleshy "spines", that help communicate health to other individuals.”

#skulls #speculative ecology #speculative biology #speculative evolution #speculative zoology #speculative anatomy #sketches #bogbiter #awakened: bleeding realm

[monstrousproductions]

I'm not caught up with the podcast yet, but after seeing enough comments about your American accent, I decided to listen to the newest episode, and as An American(tm) I am joining the masses and saying that you did a good job!!! I've met people with similar intonations, and the gruffness adds to the character :) Obviously the listener isn't human, but I know in my soul that there's a pack of 60-something guys hanging out in a bar up in the Colorado Rockies, complaining about how everything's getting so developed (not that I disagree with them) that sound just about the same.

Aww thank you! I love that image, I think grizzled old men and put-upon creatures would find a lot in common they could grumble about over a beer. And that kind of solidarity is exactly how things get done! I'd think twice about screwing over the locals if they had a slide rock bolter on their side 😅

#monstrous askbox

[ottothecryptid]

One of the best parts about being interested in cryptids is how absolutely unhinged some of these things are. Like yes, there are the usual bigfoot, mothman, loch Ness monster, etc. BUT there are also some weird ones like the slide-rock bolter who's whole thing is sliding down mountains eating people, there is also the big muddy buddy monster who is just a big mud creature who walks around in the swamp. There are also AT LEAST a dozen different bigfoot versions and even more loch Ness versions. Some of them are just copy paste but some are fucking insane.

#cryptid #bigfoot #cryptids #paranormal #sasquatch #monster #shadow people #frogman #cryptozoology