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valhahazred · 3 years
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Cryptid Mythos bonus! Everything that appears on this sheet is an entity reported by real people. Why no Mythos this time? Because these encounters are so strange in appearance or behavior that they could slip right into the Sothic multiverse with little to no alteration or alternative explanation. Good luck Investigators!
All Colours Sam In 1973, in the town of Sandown, 7 year old “Fay” and an unnamed friend encountered a very strange individual as they explored the fringes of a golf course. They first became aware of something weird going on when they heard a sound like an ambulance siren in the distance. Following the sound to a footbridge over a creek, the two children were confronted by a three fingered hand wearing a blue glove that beckoned them from beneath the bridge. Awaiting them was a seven foot humanoid figure wearing strange clownish clothing, seemingly reinforced with wooden slats that protruded from his sleeves and pant-legs. The figure had a book in his hands, which he immediately fumbled and dropped in the water. He splashed around cartoonishly before recovering his book, leaping out of the creek and away from the children. He moved to a small metal shed with a high-kneed hopping gait and disappeared inside. The children went to leave, only for the mysterious entity to exit again with a microphone that appeared to be the source of the wailing that drew the children in the first place. It spoke into the microphone in a friendly, non-threatening tone. “Are you still here?” The children were curious and unafraid, so they moved towards him. He held up his book and pointed at the words in order to introduce himself. “Hello and I am all colours, Sam”. They asked if he was human and he said no and when asked if he was a ghost he replied, “well, not really but I am in an odd sort of way.” The children asked what he was then and he simply said, “You know.” During their conversation with the entity they learned that although he went by Sam, he didn’t really have a name, he claimed that there were others like him and that he was afraid of humans and that he was a pacifist, refusing to harm others even if they should attack him. He invited them into his hut, where he shared some wildberries and showed them a magic trick, where he placed a berry into his ear and seemingly teleported it to his mask’s eyehole and then to his mouth with quick jerks of his head. They continued to converse for almost an hour before the children decided to leave. Was he an alien in a make-do disguise? An animated scarecrow? A figment of childish imaginations? Or just a strange homeless man dressed like a clown? Whatever the truth, All Colours Sam, also known as the Sandown Ghost Clown, was never seen again. The Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain This weird looking creature was sighted by three people in the week following a fiery object that passed over the Bald Mountain near Newaukum Lake in Washington. When the local Sheriff began an investigation into the sighting he was visited by heavily armed and uniformed men who claimed to be from the Air Force and forced him to give up the case. Old Saybrook Blockheads Mary Starr was awoken in the early morning on December 16, 1957 by a bright light shining into her bedroom. She looked out the window to witness a 30 foot cigar shaped craft hovering over her yard, less than 10 feet from her house! Inside the apparent spaceship she witnessed a pair of small creatures with fleshy skirts and clear cubic “heads” containing a floating red bulb. They raised their right arms and as a third entity appeared in the portholes the ship brightened before shooting off into the sky. Space Brains of Palos Verdes As John Hodges and Pete Rodriguez were leaving a party at two in the morning they were not expecting to meet anything from out of this world but as the car turned on its headlights illuminated two bizarre entities! The men panicked and drove away, ending the story for Rodriguez as he made it home with no complications. However, in Hodges case he next became aware of himself two and a half hours later in the driveway of his home, sitting in the car as if in a trance. Troubled by the missing time, he eventually went for hypnosis in an attempt to recover his memories of the night. While under regression he claimed that while he got his friend home safely, when he returned to his own residence the disembodied brains were waiting for him! He asked them what they wanted and suddenly he was elsewhere, in a dark room with entities that looked like the classic Greys but very tall and with webbed six fingered hands and yellow eyes. They explained that the brains were “merely translators” used in order for these beings to interface telepathically with humans. He claimed they warned him that Earth had “too much power” and showed him a map of the planet covered in lights that indicated places where humans might destroy themselves. They showed him images of dead planets and made several inaccurate prophecies before he suddenly found himself back in his car. Unlike many other abductees with similar experiences Hodges did not try to make excuses for their bunk predictions or feel like it made him important in any way. He simply assumed the aliens were untrustworthy and were playing with him. The Casa Blanca Entities This is one of the strangest and most confusing accounts of a Close Encounter of the Fifth kind, as eight children ranging from the ages of four to fifteen were terrorized by a parade of extraterrestrial monsters one summer day in 1955. It started with an array of UFOs, sun-like, disk-shaped and semi-transparent, appearing and disappearing with musical pings. Then came the entities. First was a ghostly being bearing a shiny belt buckle that was so brilliant it could blind someone looking straight at it. It was followed by disembodied arms in riveted armor that seemed to beckon to the children, small strange men that used dual ray guns to paralyze and finally a many limbed creature. All through this strange arrival something spoke to the children telepathically, offering to take them away. The kids they spoke to often seemed to be entranced, moving to the dancing UFOs mindlessly and required physical force or even being hosed down to snap them out. One child even fell off a roof in an attempt to reach a UFO, only to be protected by a red force field. The weirdest part of all is that not only did adults not see anything, they couldn’t. Despite being present for the event a mother of one of the children was unaware of the paranormal happenings. Does this mean it was all in the children’s heads, as they were overtaken by some kind of playground hysteria? Or is there some alien force that not only wants our children but can make themselves invisible to undesirable observers. The Garson Invaders In 1954 three of these insectoid entities appeared to Canadian miner Ennio La Sarza. Their appearance was already exceptional by the usual standards of reported alien contact but in a particularly striking detail their faces appeared to glow in colours La Sarza had never seen before! The beings asked La Sarza to do something for them but he refused, not only to do it but to even speak of it. It was so awful and “outright apocalyptic” that he even considered asking the RCMP to lock him up in case the creatures he’d met had some way to enforce his cooperation. The Poole Pyramid This multi-hued metallic pyramid appeared in 1965 to seven year old Terrence Druce of Poole in Dorset when he awoke to it hovering over the foot of his bed. He shrieked in terror, waking his younger brother in time for him to also witness it as it faded into thin air. That encounter might have never been recorded if the brothers hadn’t seen it again the very next day, lurking in a parking lot. They said it seemed aware of their presence and turned to watch them but it did not follow them when they decided to flee the scene. Delta Dogs An anonymous woman was driving through a snowstorm on route 07 through Syracuse in January 1958. She came across what at first seemed to be a downed plane but as she approached her engine slowly ran itself down and the car stopped itself. As she desperately tried to restart the car the snowstorm calmed and more details became apparent. Projecting out of the large object she’d thought was a plane crash was a 50 foot illuminated pole. Two strange beings rose up along the pole, floating by it as it started to retract. When the pole finished sinking into the object the creatures disappeared and the craft took off so fast she couldn’t make out where it went. The Electric Serpent of Tacoma This is easily the most unusual sighting of a sea creature that I’ve ever heard of. Seven men camping on the shore of Black Fish Bay in 1893 encountered a sea monster that appeared to be cybernetic, if not entirely biomechanical! Disturbed by a horrible noise and blinding lights the men left their camp to find a huge, hairy walrus-like animal with steaming horns, bands of coppery metal and a revolving propeller-like tail! One of the men approached it to get a better look, only to be struck by an electric blast from its copper bands and fell to the ground as if dead. When one of his friends tried to pull him to safety, he was likewise shocked by the impossible animal. The other men fled into the woods after seeing two of their number seemingly killed and the Electric Serpent seemed to lose interest and swam out into Puget Sound. Once they were sure it was gone the remaining men returned to the beach and were elated to find their friends burned and stunned but still very much alive! So what happened? Was it just one of the sadly common newspaper hoaxes of the time? Or did a bunch of 19th century fishermen find a literal fucking pokemon? You decide! Stickmen The Stickmen are an extremely recent phenomenon, with reports starting within the last 10 years or so. They are described as being stick thin and roughly humanoid, sometimes with bubble heads, glowing eyespots or even top hats. They range in size from human-like to towering in excess of 20 feet. What is most interesting about them is their apparent two dimensionality, sometimes appearing the same no matter what angle they are viewed at and sometimes being able to turn to the side and vanish as though they were never there. They are also frequently reported as being accompanied by a feeling like static electricity and of aggression or hostility. Despite those impressions the Stickmen do not appear to be hostile, instead seeming surprised and immediately retreating from a witness.
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thecreaturecodex · 5 years
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“Day 04: Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain” © Jonathan Valiente, accessed @firebluegraphics here.
[Commissioned by @wannabedemonlord. Much like the garsonite using the Dominion, I wanted to have one, but only one, creature use the radiation rules in this suite of entries. Since it glows green (and looks like a B-list kaiju), the Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain was the obvious choice.]
Tyzcar CR 17 N Aberration This horse-sized creature is a luminous pale green in color, with a beak-like mouth and four tentacles where its legs should be. A single antenna grows from its head.
The tyzcar is a starfaring creature that both consumes and emits radiation. They are typically peaceful creatures, content to slowly graze away on radioactive mineral deposits on asteroids or moons. Some tyzcar make planetfall in search of more concentrated sources of radiation, and technological civilizations find them both dangerous pests and useful resources. By eating a dose of radioactive rock or waste, it completely absorbs the radiation, leaving completely inert material in its own droppings. It can also be used to fuel a generator, assuming it is kept relatively confined and tranquil.
Tyzcars typically only fight in defense of their lives, but if two tyzcars cross paths, they will attempt to kill and consume the other. Their bodies are searing hot from the converted radiation within them, but the most deadly effect they have is their mere presence. Wherever they go, lethal radiation follows like a cloak, and a tyzcar’s path can often be followed by a trail of accidental devastation and death.
Tyzcars are asexual and reproduce through budding—a tyzcar grows a large cyst-like structure in the center of its tentacle mass as it feeds, and when it has consumed large amounts of radiation, this mass calves off and grows into a juvenile tyzcar. Such juveniles would be wise to flee quickly from their parent—those that fail to are consumed and resorbed. The antenna that grows from a tyzcar’s forehead is a sensory organ that detects the strength and direction of radiation sources—a tyzcar that cannot detect radiation will move aimlessly until it does.
Tyzcar   CR 17 XP 102,400 N Large aberration Init +6; Senses darkvision 120 ft., Perception +21, radiation sense 1 mile Aura radiation (20/40/60/80 ft, DC 30) Defense AC 32, touch 22, flat-footed 29 (-1 size, +2 Dex, +1 dodge, +10 deflection, +10 natural) hp 285 (30d8+150); regeneration 10 (cold iron) Fort +15, Ref +14, Will +20 Immune cold, fire, poison; SR 28 Defensive Abilities burning touch Offense Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (good) Melee bite +28 (2d6+7 plus 2d6 fire). 2 tentacles +26 (1d8+3 plus grab plus 2d6 fire) Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft. Special Attacks constrict (1d8+10 plus 4d6 fire) Statistics Str 25, Dex 15, Con 20, Int 3, Wis 16, Cha 8 Base Atk +22; CMB +30 (+32 bull rush, +34 grab); CMD 53 (55 vs. bull rush, 57 vs. trip) Feats Awesome Blow, Blind-fight, Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Flyby Attack, Greater Vital Strike, Hover, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Initiative, Improved Vital Strike, Lightning Reflexes, Mobility, Multiattack, Power Attack, Vital Strike Skills Fly +22, Perception +21 Languages Aklo (cannot speak) SQ luminous, no breath, starflightEcology Environment any land or underground Organization solitary or pair Treasure none Special Abilities Burning Touch (Ex) A tyzcar is extremely hot to the touch, dealing 2d6 points of fire damage to any creature hitting it with an unarmed strike, touch attack or natural weapon, and dealing 2d6 points of fire damage with all of its natural attacks. This damage is doubled to grappled opponents, or creatures grappling the tyzcar. Luminous (Ex) A tyzcar radiates bright illumination in a 20 foot radius. It cannot dismiss or suppress this glow, but it counts as mundane illumination for the purposes of interacting with spells with the darkness descriptor. Radiation Aura (Ex) A tyzcar is surrounded by severe radiation in a 20 foot radius. This radiation decreases to high between 21 and 40 feet, medium between 41 and 60 feet, and low between 61 and 80 feet. All save DCs to resist this radiation are DC 30. This is a poison effect, and the save DC is Constitution based. Radiation Sense (Ex) A tyzcar can detect the distance and direction of any radioactive creatures or objects within a 1 mile radius, as well as the strength of the radiation emitted. Starflight (Su) A tyzcar can survive in the void of outer space. It flies through space at an incredible speed. Although exact travel times vary, a trip within a single solar system should take 3d20 hours, while a trip beyond should take 3d20 days (or more, at the GM's discretion)—provided the tyzcar knows the way to its destination.
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The Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain is an alien-like creature found in Bald Mountain in Washington. The Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain is described as an alien-like creature that is said to be they size of a horse and covered in scales with glowing antennae and tentacle-like feet. The sightings of the creature began on 14th 1974 when people claimed to see a fiery object crash into Bald Mountain. The local Lewis County Sheriff who started the investigation on the creature was visited by some men who claimed that they were with the US Airforce and that they would take over the investigation from that point onward.
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labete-du-gevaudan · 7 years
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A mysterious encounter in Washington state led to the legend of the Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain. The creature was seen by Ernest Smith, a grocer, on November 17th, 1974 - just a few days after witnesses claimed to see a giant fireball crash just a couple miles from the mountain. Smith described the most bizarre being many have ever heard of:
"...it was horse-sized, covered with scales and standing on four rubbery legs with suckers like octopus tentacles. Its head was football-shaped with an antenna sticking up...The thing gave off this green, iridescent light."
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floipart · 7 years
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cryptid-quest · 3 years
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Cryptid of the Day: Crazy Critters
Description: In the evening of November 14th, 1974, on Bald Mountain, Washington, a fiery object was seen in the sky, and a week later, residents around the area reported a horse sized, green glowing creature. Supposedly the Men in Black were seen in the area as well.
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On November 14th, 1974, numerous eyewitnesses claimed to see a “fiery object” plummet to Earth approximately five miles away from Bald Mountain in Lewis County, Washington.
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Three days after this event, Seattle grocer Earnest Smith was deer hunting in the area when he spotted a strange creature that was unlike anything he had ever seen before. He described it to Jim Brandon of “Weird America” as horse-sized, covered with scales and standing on four rubbery legs with suckers like octopus’s tentacles. Its head was football-shaped with an antenna sticking up, and it gave off a green, iridescent light.
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Days later, Roger Ramsbaugh and his wife were driving along State Route 7- a nearly 60-mile stretch of road between Morton and Tacoma- on a fog shrouded evening, when they suddenly noticed a dull green glow near the side of the road. When they slowed down to investigate, they saw that very same creature standing there, and they presumably sped off out of fear.
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These reports soon reached the local paper, who dubbed it the Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain. Eventually, William H. Wiester the Lewis County sheriff began an investigation. Shortly after, he was visited by United States Air Force and NASA officials and instructed not to continue his investigations. The sheriff’s own team of county officials was replaced by heavily armed agents wearing uniforms with no insignia. As soon as they swooped in, no new information regarding the Crazy Critter was revealed, and no more sightings have been reported ever since.
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lovelypurpletyphoon · 4 years
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Lost Tapes is a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm not normally into horror, but this show has a certain charm to it and I like that it focuses on real legends from across the world. The acting and special effects can be cheesy, but that's part of the charm too.
So, I've compiled a list of cryptids and other legends that would make for good episodes if Animal Planet ever decides to reboot the series.
Here's the cryptids and stuff I picked:
Mokele-mbembe
Bunyip
Nessie (as a special, of course)
Phantom Big Cats
Ozark Howler
Ahool
Giant Catfish
Atmospheric Beasts
Burronjor
Canvey Island Monster
Montauk Monster
Passenger Pigeon/Clones (Pretty much Jurassic Park crossed with The Birds. Cloning experiments gone horribly wrong.)
Dragons
The Hidebehind (Would love to see where this creature is taken, considering that it's really good at not being seen)
Flatwoods Monster
Kongamato
Merfolk
Megalodon
Spring Heeled Jack
Murphysboro Mud Monster
Hobkinsville Goblins
Goatman
Loveland Frogmen
Van Meter Monster
U-28 creature (sea monster got hit by a U-boat)
Piasa Bird (I love this legend. There's a big mural of it somewhere near St. Louis.)
Leviathan
Lou Carcolh
Nameless Thing of Berkely Square
Devil of Son Doong Cave
Gambo the sea monster
Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain
Doppelganger
Men in Black (maybe there could be a rivalry between them and the Enigma Corp.)
Shadow People
Headless Horseman
Octosquatch (yes, this is a thing)
What creatures do you think would make interesting episodes in a reboot?
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violetmagician · 5 years
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Finished all the cards for the cryptid/supernatural tarot.   1-Unicorn 2-Fresno Nightcrawler 3-Ghost lights 4-Tsuchinoko 5-Tatzelwurm 6-Crazy critter of Bald Mountain 7-Enfield horror 8-Dover demon 9-Hodag 10-Pascagoula alien Page-Cactus cat Knight-Gef the mongoose Queen-Indrid Cold King-Black shuck 
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keevansixx · 6 years
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Life is cold, beware of shrinkage.
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Watched the movie "Downsizing". Not bad, fairly accurate description of the human condition....not so comedic as they wished to portray, but hey, they're only human...
so let's look at it a bit closer for the meta buried in this gem shall we?
 For one, there is the fantastical science of biochemical atomic restructuring, where they pump a chemical into you, and through some sort of radioactive exposure (kinda like a microwave, only the critters don't explode when you bake them for a short amount of time) the space between your atoms is reduced to 1/16th of your original atomic mass, rendering you about 3in tall with everything intact...well all the organic bits intact, all the inorganic or artificial bits of you remain the same size and must be removed surgically prior to downsizing. basically you get shrinky-dinked in a giant human microwave, and come out understanding the novel Gulliver's Travels on an entirely different level.  
For the other side of the coin, there is the economics of a thing.....since you are now only 1/16th your original size, your caloric consumption now equates to less that 1/32nd of your now Lilliputian anatomy, so basically a packet of crisps and a small thumbnail sized block of cheese could theoretically sustain you for well over a couple of months. Then there is the amenities of life....home, transportation, luxuries that no longer cost a small fortune, or your first born offspring, to acquire. Since you are now able to appreciate the irony of the ant and the giant boot, things just seem too good to be true in that new world.
Lastly, we come to the very edge of that coin....
Science, in all it's crazy mad glory, invents a way to physically reduce humanities footprint (figuratively) on the earth, and what do the rest of the primate powers do with this newfound ability? Why...they weaponized it, of course, shrinking dissidents, malcontents, and anyone whom does not agree with the "powers that be" and the status quo to 1/16th their original size, rendering them harmless to the greater powers, while the rest of the Lilliputian hordes live on in declining decadent old roman glory, living up to the oldest of vices in the newest of ways....(seriously, go watch the movie...it's like watching a microcosm of old roman history, complete with the slave quadrants and servant classes.) 
then throw into this mix the notion that the environment has already pushed passed it's tipping point, spelling out global Armageddon because all the methane trapped in the arctic is escaping it's icy bonds, and joyously rampaging back into the atmosphere like a frat party on a keg run, and the only way humanity can survive is for a small colony of tiny humans to bury themselves deep within a mountain like the dwarves of Moria, in a very high tech simulation of human existence complete with lighting, land, lakes, and tiny livestock...and seal themselves away for a few thousand years until the rest of humanity have died off, and the planet has had a chance to, once again, balance out back to factory defaults....
now here's the point where my brain takes a huge nosedive, and starts it's scathing run at the logic within the film, like a fat man chasing a bucket of chicken after a weight watchers day camp.
"Are you friggin kidding me? Science goes out of it's way to preform an impossible task, unheard of in the realms of human capabilities, and instead of taking the next step, and then the next step, and so forth and so on until you have found an amicable solution to a global problem, the ONLY solution they could come up with, in a room full of Nobel winners, top researchers, and other specialists was to say "All ya'll are fecked, we're going to dig ourselves a hole in the ground, stuff it full of food, booze, and women, then seal the doors behind us till the problem sorts itself out....so long, and thanks for all the fish!" really? seriously? {at which, in that portion of the film, I face palmed, and nearly rendered myself unconscious by accident} What about the stromatolites? Hmmmmmm? You science bastards were clever enough to figure out how to shrink a person, but you couldn't go gene splice a bunch of cyanobacteria, colonize it on huge screens, create huge towers to channel the air flow using thermodynamics, and basically scrub the methane out of the atmosphere using the very same creatures that pooped oxygen into the atmosphere in the first place millions of years ago, thereby allowing mammalian life to flourish after the first Sweet Meteor of Death took out Hobart Wash's favorite inevitable betrayal playthings? Or better still, what happened to that idea several years ago where you lot were going to send a small ring sat with a polarizing lens mounted in the ring, basically creating a big pair of sunshades that would float somewhere out beyond the lunar orbit, between the earth and the sun, and limit the amount of solar radiation the earth gets exposed to around the equator, and over the course of years, gradually cool the planet from reaching that dreaded thermal tipping point? sounds like a cheap fix to me, at least until you lot figure out how to resurrect that O2 pooping bacteria that disappeared millennia ago....geesh, keep it simple stupid!"
Has science really gotten that dumb? (at which point I realize that modern science is less and less about discovering the next frontier, and all the bounty it contains, and more about getting paid, finding tenure, and maintaining the status quo....sad. The next great big scientific discovery won't be made by a bunch of PHd's, doctorates, or tv celebrities....they are all too busy trying to get paid to care. No, the next breakthrough will happen by accident from a 12 year old, playing with stuff they really shouldn't be playing with, and interesting results will happen.....either that, or a old bald man playing in the tool shed, and accidentally dropping a jammy dodger into something else, and the eldritch horror he spawns will usher in an exciting age of rampant discovery for humanity. either way, science will get back on the ball again, and maybe I'll get to see my Jetson's sky car come to life before I die. but meh.....dream goals.) 
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firebluegraphics · 6 years
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Day 04: Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain Washington State Several motorists reported seeing this horse sized, insect-like creature during the evening of November 17, 1974 on Bald Mountain.
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cryptozoologygirls · 7 years
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Washington
Bigfoot
Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain
Snallygaster
Jake the Alligator Man
Batsquatch
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Maned American Lion
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damienthepious · 6 years
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I can't find anything bee related so how about the crazy critter of Bald Mountain? it looks cool.
I had never heard of that one before!!!! She's a weirdo I love her
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titleknown · 6 years
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What's your opinion on a being that looks like a stag at a distance but as you get closer looks more and more alien?
Sounds like either a cryptid or an alien, in particular reminding me of the Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain...
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labete-du-gevaudan · 5 years
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Got any highly obscure cryptids?
Ooooh boy. Here are some fun ones for you: Snake Headed Dog, Lou Carcolh, Peluda, Maltese Tiger,  Welfleet Hyena, Boston Lemur, Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain, Octosquatch, Burrunjor, and Emela Ntouka.
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anon with yandere!reader and jack, gabe and sombra ask forgot to put random cryptid in: Crazy Critter of Bald Mountainis a name given for an alleged insect-like creature confronted by several shocked motorists during the evening of 17 November 1974 on Bald Mountain. aslo a dog fact: Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. Humans have approximately 9,000 and cats have around 473.
Ngl I don’t see any yandere reader asks in my inbox besides one for the Shimadas. If you sent it before requests were closed, I didn’t get it, but I’m opening them again within the next couple of days, so send it then? 
Thank you for these interesting facts I love worthless knowledge. (Not sarcasm I really do love fun facts)
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