Zoological Creatures
Curated Creatures
Myserious animals are found worldwide.
List of Cryptozoological Creatures
Napa Valley Rebobs and Other California Cryptozoological Creatures
| Name | Other names | Description | Purported location | Depiction | |
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| Adjule | Kelb-el-khelawes | Western Sahara | North Africa | ||
| Agogwe | Agogure, Kakundakari, Kikomba, Sehite | bipedal small human | East Africa | ||
| Ahool | Flying huge bat | Indonesia | |||
| Akkorokamui | Cephalopod | Japan and Thailand | |||
| Almas | Abnauayu, almasty, albasty, bekk-bok, biabin-guli, golub-yavan, gul-biavan, auli-avan, kaptar, kra-dhun, ksy-giik, ksy-gyik, ochokochi, mirygdy, mulen, voita, wind-man, Zana | Non-human ape or hominid | Asia/Caucasus | ||
| Altamaha-ha | Altie | Sturgeon or plesiosaur-like river animal | Georgia, United States | ||
| Amomongo | Negros Ape | Primate | Negros Island, Philippines | ||
| Andean wolf | Hagenbeck wolf, Andean mountain wolf, Dasycyon hagenbecki | Canine | High Andes, South America | ||
| Appalachian black panther | A large, black felid. A melanistic cougar | West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, Alabama, Ohio, New England, North Carolina, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia, United States | |||
| Aswang | Tik-tik | A vampiric werebeast or cannibalistic human-like shape-shifter | Philippines | ||
| Ayia Napa sea monster | To filiko teras (The Friendly Monster), Nappis | Speculated to be something like a crocodile or sea serpent | Cyprus | ||
| Barmanou | Barmanu, Big Hairy One | Ape or hominid | Middle East/Asia | ||
| Batutut | Ujit, Người rừng | Hominid | Vietnam, Laos, and Borneo | ||
| Beaman | Ape or hominid | Missouri, United States | |||
| Bear Lake Monster | Lake monster | Idaho/Utah, United States | |||
| Beast of Bladenboro | Vampire Beast | Blood-sucking feline-like predator | North Carolina, United States | ||
| Beast of Bodmin | Large felid | Cornwall, England | |||
| Beast of Bray Road | Wisconsin Werewolf, Wolfman | Carnivorous mammal | Wisconsin, United States | ||
| Beast of Busco | Churubusco turtle; Oscar | Reptile/dinosaur | Churubusco, Indiana, United States | ||
| Beast of Dartmoor | Lion-pig | Boar-like mammal | Dartmoor National Park, England | ||
| Beast of Dean | Moose-pig | Boar-like mammal | England | ||
| Beast of Exmoor | Big cat | England | |||
| Beast of Gévaudan | Bête du Gévaudan, Arenotelicon | Canid | Gévaudan (Lozère), France | ||
| Bergman’s bear | God bear, irkuiem, Ursus arctos piscator | Bear, proposed Arctodus simus | Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia | ||
| Bessie | Lake Erie Monster | Lake monster | Lake Erie, North America | ||
| Bigfoot | Sasquatch | Hominid or other primate | United States and Canada | ||
| Black Shuck | Old Shuck | Carnivorous mammal | Coast of East Anglia, England | ||
| Bownessie | Lake Windermere Monster | Lake monster | Windermere, England, UK | ||
| British big cats | Alien big cats (ABCs), phantom cats, mystery cats, English lions, Beast of Bodmin, Beast of Exmoor | Carnivorous mammal | Great Britain | ||
| Brosno Dragon | Brosnya | Lake monster | Lake Brosno, Russia | ||
| Bukit Timah Monkey Man | BTM, BTMM | Forest-dwelling hominid or other primate | Singapore | ||
| Bunyip | Lake and cave animal | Australia | |||
| Burmese gray wild dog | Gray dhole | Canine | Burma | ||
| Buru | Reptile or giant lungfish | Arunachal Pradesh, India | |||
| Cadborosaurus[7] | Caddy | Sea animal | Pacific Coast of North America | ||
| Canvey Island Monster | Fish, originally described as bipedal | England | |||
| Champ | Champtanystropheus americanus, Champy | Lake monster | Lake Champlain, North America | ||
| Cherufe | Magma monster or draconic hominid | Chile | |||
| Chessie | Sea animal | Atlantic Coast of the United States, especially Chesapeake Bay | |||
| Chickcharney | Flightless bird | Andros Island in The Bahamas | |||
| Chuchunya | Large hominid | Russia | |||
| Chupacabra | Chupacabras (Brazilian Portuguese for goat-sucker) | Puerto Rico (originally), South and Central America, Southern North America | |||
| Dingonek | Jungle walrus | A walrus or otherwise tusked water-animal that reportedly lives in the heart of Africa | Western Africa | ||
| De Loys’ Ape | Ameranthropoides loysi | Primate | Near the Tarra River, Colombia | ||
| Dewey Lake Monster | “Michigan Bigfoot,” “Sisters Lakes Bigfoot” | primate | Sister LakesDowagiac, Michigan, USA | ||
| Devil Bird | Ulama | Bird | Sri Lanka | ||
| Devil Monkey | Nalusa falaya | Around 5 ft (~1.5 m) tall with long, pointed ears. Reportedly grey, with large, dark eyes, long arms, a short tail, and hair all over its body. The hair was stated to be about 1.5 in (~4 cm) long. It is reportedly aggressive. | North America | ||
| Dobhar-chú | Water Hound | Extra-large otter-like carnivorous aquatic mammal | Ireland | ||
| Dover Demon | Bipedal, alleged extraterrestrial | Dover, Massachusetts, United States | |||
| Eastern cougar | Puma concolor couguar | Felid predator | Eastern United States | ||
| Ebu Gogo | Theorized to be related to Homo floresiensis, also called Hobbit | Small primate, possible early hominid | Flores, Indonesia | ||
| Elwedritsche | Mammal | Germany | |||
| Emela-ntouka | Chipekwe, Irizima, Aseka-moke | Reptile/dinosaur or an undiscovered aquatic rhinoceros | Republic of the Congo | ||
| Enfield Monster | Three legs, short body, two little short arms with claws, grayish epidermis and big reddish eyes | Enfield, Illinois, United States | |||
| Ennedi tiger | Hadjel, Gassingram, Vossoko, Mourou N’gou, Mamaimé, Dilali, saber-toothed cat | Carnivorous mammal | Chad | ||
| Am Fear Liath Mòr | Fear Liath, Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui, Greyman | Primate; possible humanoid | Scotland | ||
| Fiskerton Phantom | Phantom cat/bear | Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, UK | |||
| Flatwoods monster | Green Monster, Braxton County Monster | Spade-headed extraterrestrial. Possibly misidentified barn owl | West Virginia, United States | ||
| Flying rod | Skyfish, rod, sky squid | Photographic artifact | Worldwide | ||
| Fouke Monster | Jonesville Monster, Southern Sasquatch, Boggy Creek Monster | Hominid or other primate | Arkansas, United States | ||
| Garou | Loup Garou, Cajun werewolf | Wolf-like creature | Louisiana, United States | ||
| Gazeka | Mammal | Papua New Guinea | |||
| Gambo | Sea animal | Gambia | |||
| Ghoul | Humanoid | Warm climates | |||
| Ghost deer | Large deer, supposedly impervious to bullets | Northern California, United States | |||
| Giant anaconda | Megaconda | Giant snake | South America | ||
| Giglioli’s Whale | Amphiptera pacifica | Sea animal | Off Chile, Scotland, and France (in the Mediterranean Sea) | ||
| Globster | Blob | Decaying sea animal | Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean | ||
| Gloucester sea serpent | Scoliophis atlanticus | Sea serpent | Massachusetts, United States | ||
| Gnome of Gerona | Goblin | Small humanoid | Girona, Spain | ||
| Goatman | The Maryland Goatman, Chevo Man | Bipedal | Wisconsin, Maryland, and Kentucky, United States | ||
| Grassman | Kenmore Grassman, Ohio Grassman | Bigfoot-like primate | Kenmore, Akron, Ohio, and eastern Iowa, both in the United States | ||
| Gunni | Antlered, wombat-like marsupial | Marysville and surrounding area, Victoria, Australia | |||
| Grootslang | Elephant with a serpent‘s tail | Richtersveld, South Africa | |||
| Hakawai | Hokioi | Mythological bird heard but not seen | New Zealand | ||
| Hellhound | Barghest, Black Shuck, Dip, Gwyllgi, Gytrash | Large, black, spectral hound with red eyes | Worldwide | ||
| Hibagon | Hinagon | Primate | Japan | ||
| Hodag | The Dag; Nasobatilus | Carnivorous mammal/lizard | Rhinelander, Wisconsin, United States | ||
| Hokkaidō wolf | Ezo wolf, Canis lupus hattai | Wolf | Hokkaidō, Japan | ||
| Homo gardarensis | Hominid (acromegalic Homo sapiens?) | Greenland | |||
| Honey Island Swamp monster | Letiche, Tainted Keitre | Hominid or other primate | Louisiana, United States | ||
| Honshū wolf | Japanese wolf, yamainu, Canis lupus hodophilax | Wolf | Honshū, Japan | ||
| Hoop snake | Snake | United States/Australia | |||
| Huay Chivo | Huaychivo | Carnivorous mammal | Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo, Mexico | ||
| Igopogo | Kempenfelt Kelly | Lake monster | Lake Simcoe, Ontario (Canada) | ||
| Iliamna Lake Monster | Lake monster. It is most likely a giant white sturgeon, though some reports have compared it to a shark or a whale | Lake Iliamna, Alaska |
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| Inkanyamba | Lake monster | Africa | |||
| Isshii | Issie | Lake monster | Japan | ||
| Ivory-billed woodpecker | Campephilus principalis | Bird | Southeastern United States and Cuba | ||
| Jba Fofi | Great Spider | Large spider-like creature | Central Africa | ||
| Jackalope | Antelabbit, aunt benny, Wyoming thistled hare, stagbunny | Herbivorous mammal | North America | ||
| Jersey Devil | Leeds Devil | Winged bipedal horse | United States, mainly the South JerseyPine Barrens, as well as other parts of New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania | ||
| Kaijin | Sea monster | Japan | |||
| Kappa | Gatarō, Kawako | Bipedal | Japan | ||
| Kingstie | Lake George Monster | Lake monster | Lake Ontario, North America | ||
| Kongamato | Pterosaur/bird/bat | Kenya | |||
| Koolakamba | Ape hybrid, KoolooKamba | A cross between a chimpanzee and a gorilla | West Africa | ||
| Kraken | Sea animal | World’s oceans | |||
| Kting Voar | Holy Goat, Snake-eating Cow, Khting Vor, Linh Duong, Pseudonovibos spiralis | Herbivorous mammal | Vietnam and Cambodia | ||
| Kumi Lizard/Ngarara | Reptile: giant monitor lizard | New Zealand | |||
| Kusshii | Lake monster | Japan | |||
| Lagarfljót Worm | lagarfljóts ormurinn | Lake monster | Iceland | ||
| Lake Tianchi Monster | Lake Chonji Monster | Lake monster | China and North Korea | ||
| Lake Van Monster | Monster of Lake Van | Lake monster | Turkey | ||
| Lake Worth Monster | Lake Worth Goatman, Texas Bigfoot | Carnivorous mammal | Texas, United States | ||
| Lariosauro | Como Lake Monster | Water reptile | Italy | ||
| Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp | Lizard Man of Lee County | Bipedal | South Carolina, United States | ||
| Loch Ness Monster | Nessie, Nessiteras rhombopteryx | Lake monster (plesiosaur or another type of Sauropterygia?) | Loch Ness, Scotland | ||
| Loveland Frog | Loveland Lizard | Bipedal lizard or frog, allegedly first seen in Loveland, Ohio | Ohio, United States | ||
| Lukwata | Lake monster | African Great Lakes | |||
| Lusca | Gigantic octopus | Large octopus | World’s oceans | ||
| MacFarlane’s bear | Ursus inopinatus | Carnivorous mammal, possibly a grizzly-polar bear hybrid | Canada | ||
| Maero | Mohoao | Cannibalistic hominids in Māori mythology | New Zealand | ||
| Mahamba | Giant crocodile | Lake Likouala swamp region, Democratic Republic of the Congo | |||
| Maltese tiger | Blue tiger | Carnivorous mammal | China | ||
| Mamlambo | Lake monster | South Africa | |||
| Manananggal | Female humanoid that can split its body into two parts | Philippines | |||
| Manatee of Helena | Manatee | Saint Helena | |||
| Mande Barung | Mande Burung, Indian Yeti | Humanoid | North East India, Bangladesh | ||
| Man-eating tree | Ya-te-veo | Carnivorous tree | Large tree with an eye and mouth; eats humans, its name means “I see you”. Descriptions vary. | ||
| Manipogo | Winnipogo | Lake monster | Lake Manitoba, Canada | ||
| Mapinguari | Herbivorous mammal | Amazon rainforest | |||
| Maricoxi | Primate | South America | |||
| Marozi | Spotted lion, Panthera leo maculatus | Lion-like felid | Africa | ||
| Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu | Reptile/dinosaur | Republic of the Congo | |||
| Megalania priscaor Varanus priscus | Devil Dragon | Giant Australian monitor lizard[8][9] | Australia | ||
| Megalodon | Carcharodon megalodon, Carcharocles megalodon | Giant shark | World’s oceans | ||
| Melon heads | Humanoids with enlarged heads | Allegan County woods, Michigan, and parts of Ohio and Connecticut, United States | |||
| Memphre | Memphré, Lake Memphremagog Monster | Lake monster | Lake Memphremagog (United States and Canada) | ||
| Menehune | Primate | Hawaii, United States | |||
| Mermaid | Human-fish | All five oceans and several seas | |||
| Merman | Human-fish | All five oceans and several seas | |||
| Michigan Dogman | Wolfman of Wexford County | Carnivorous mammal | Michigan, United States | ||
| Minhocão | Big Earthworm | Caecilian | South America | ||
| Milton lizard | Giant monitor lizard-like lizard | Trimble County, Kentucky | |||
| Minnesota Iceman | Homo pongoides | Primate | Minnesota, United States | ||
| Mitla | Fawcett’s zorro or Fawcett’s cat | Carnivorous mammal | Bolivian rainforest | ||
| Mngwa | Nunda | Carnivorous mammal | Tanzania | ||
| Moehau | Maeroero, The Hairy Moehau, The Moehau Monster | Primate | New Zealand | ||
| Mogollon Monster | Mug-ee-yun Monster | Bipedal primate | Mogollon Rim, Arizona, United States | ||
| Mokele-Mbembe | Reptile/dinosaur | Republic of the Congo | |||
| Momo the Monster | Missouri Monster | Primate | Missouri, United States | ||
| Mongolian Death Worm | Allghoi (or orghoi) khorkhoi | Worm-like animal | Gobi Desert (Asia) | ||
| Monkey-man of Delhi | Black Monkey | Big black monkey | Old Delhi, India | ||
| Mono Grande | Hominid | South America | |||
| Montauk Monster | Mounty | Small, decomposed quadruped carcass | Montauk, Long Island, United States | ||
| Morag | Lake monster | Scotland | |||
| Morgawr | Sea Serpert | Cornwall | |||
| Mothman | Popularized by John A. Keel’s book The Mothman Prophecies | Winged bipedal | Mason County, West Virginia, United States | ||
| Mountain fennec | Fox | Southern Algeria and northern Chad, in the central Sahara mountains | |||
| Muckie | Lake monster | Lakes of Killarney, Ireland | |||
| Muc-sheilche | Lake monster | Scotland | |||
| Muhuru | Reptile/dinosaur | Kenya | |||
| Mussie | Lake monster | Ontario, Canada | |||
| Nahuelito | Nahuel Huapi Lake Monster | Lake monster | Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina | ||
| Nandi Bear | Chemosit, Chimiset, Chimisit, Duba, Engargiya, Gadett, Ikimizi, Kerit, Kikambangwe, Kikomba, Koddoelo, Ngoloko, Sabrookoo, Shivuverre | Carnivorous mammal | Africa | ||
| Ngoubou | Reptile, proposed dinosaur | Cameroon | |||
| Nguma-monene | Reptile, proposed dinosaur | Republic of the Congo | |||
| Ogopogo | N’ha•a•itk, Naitaka | Lake monster | Lake Okanagan, Canada | ||
| Old Yellow Top | Primate | Canada | |||
| Olitiau | Winged animal: bat or flying reptile | Cameroon | |||
| Onza | Big felid: possibly a new species of cougar | Latin America | |||
| Orang-bati | Bipedal | Indonesia | |||
| Orang Mawas | Mawas, Orang Dalam, Hantu Jarang Gigi | Primate | Malaysia | ||
| Orang Pendek | Primate, has been associated with Homo floresiensis | Sumatra | |||
| Owlman | Cornish Owlman, Owlman of Mawnan | Human-owl | England | ||
| Ozark Howler | Ozark Black Howler | Carnivorous mammal | Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas, United States | ||
| Panthera tigris sudanensis | Big felid: possibly a new species of tiger | Cairo, Egypt | |||
| Peluda | Shaggy Beast, La Velue | A dragon-like beast with a porcupine-like body, a snake‘s neck, head, and tail, large tortoise-like feet, and a green color | La Ferté-Bernard, France | ||
| Phantom cat | Alien Big Cats (ABCs) | Carnivorous mammal | Worldwide | ||
| Phantom kangaroo | Marsupial | Various | |||
| Phaya Naga | River monster | Laos and Thailand | |||
| Pogeyan[10][11] | Gray felid; possible color morph of the Indian leopard | Area of Anamudi, Western Ghats, India | |||
| Popobawa | East Africa | ||||
| Pope Lick Monster | Bipedal | Kentucky, United States | |||
| Poukai | Pouakai, Hakawai | Large carnivorous bird | New Zealand | ||
| Queensland tiger | Yarri, the Beast of Buderim | Carnivorous mammal | Australia | ||
| Reptilians | Lizard People, Draconian, Reptoid, Dinosauroid, Dragonoid | Bipedal | Worldwide | ||
| Sea monk | Sea animal | World’s oceans | |||
| Sea monsters | Sea animals | World’s oceans | |||
| Sea serpent | Sea animal | World’s oceans | |||
| Selma | Seljordsormen | Lake monster | Lake Seljord, Telemark, Norway | ||
| Sewer alligator | Albino alligator | Contemporary phylogenesis | Widespread urban environments | ||
| Sharlie | Slimy Slim, The twilight dragon of Payette lake | Lake monster | Lake Payette, McCall, Idaho, United States | ||
| Shōjō | Xing-xing, translates to “heavy drinker” or “orangutan” | Sea creature with red face and hair | Japan | ||
| Shug Monkey | Primate | Europe | |||
| Shunka Warakin | Carnivorous mammal; wolf-like, boar-like, hyena-like | Western United States (especially Montana) | |||
| Sigbin | Canine, cat-fox, civet | Philippines | |||
| Sirrush | Mushrushu | Reptile/dinosaur | Africa and ancient Babylon | ||
| Skookum | Cannibalistic wildmen of Mt. St. Helens, Washington | Ape-like hominid | Pacific Northwest | ||
| Skunk Ape | Stink Ape, Myakka Ape, Myakka Skunk Ape | Primate | Florida, United States | ||
| Snallygaster | Schneller Geist | “A dragon-like beast… The earliest incarnations mixed the half-bird features of a siren with the nightmarish features of demons and ghouls. The Snallygaster was described as half-reptile, half-bird with a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, occasionally with octopus-like tentacles.” | The hills surrounding Washington, D.C. and Frederick County, Maryland; West Virginia | ||
| Steller’s sea ape | Sea animal | Pacific Ocean | |||
| Storsjöodjuret | Lake monster | Sweden | |||
| Stronsay Beast | Sea animal | Orkney, Scotland | |||
| Sucuriju Gigante | Giant Bull Eater (Matatoro in Spanish); giant anaconda; megaconda | Giant boa | Amazon rainforest | ||
| Tahoe Tessie | Lake Tahoe monster | Lake monster | Lake Tahoe, in California and Nevada, United States | ||
| Tapire-iauara | Jaguar/tapir | Amazon rainforest | |||
| Tatzelwurm | Reptile/amphibian | European Alps | |||
| Thetis Lake Monster | Reptilian humanoid | Vancouver Island, Canada | |||
| Thunderbird | Giant bird | North America | |||
| Tikbalang | Humanoid | Philippines | |||
| Trinity Alps giant salamander | Salamander | California, United States | |||
| Trunko | The Margate monster | Whale carcass | South Africa | ||
| Tsuchinoko | Snake | Japan | |||
| Tsul ‘Kalu | Primate | American West | |||
| Turtle Lake Monster | Lake monster | Saskatchewan, Canada | |||
| Typhonic Beast | Set animal | Carnivorous canid | Egypt | ||
| Umdhlebi | Carnivorous tree | Zululand, South Africa | |||
| Urayuli | Arulataq, Bushman, Tent Monster, Nant’ina, Woodsman | Hominid or other primate | Southwest Alaska, near Lake Iliamna, United States | ||
| Vampire | Humanoid, usually with pale skin and fangs. An immortal undead. | Worldwide | |||
| Veo | Carnivorous mammal | Indonesia | |||
| Waheela | Carnivorous mammal | Canada | |||
| Waitoreke | Maori otter, New Zealand otter; Waitoreki, Waitorete | Carnivorous mammal | South Island, New Zealand | ||
| Wampus cat | Foot Craver, Masked Cat, Canable Cat | Legendary felid | Southern and Southwestern United States | ||
| Wendigo | Windiga, Witiko, Wihtikow, Weendigo | Legendary creature | Northern United States and Canada | ||
| Wild Man of the Navidad | Wild Woman of the Navidad, Wildman of the Navidad | Legendary creature | South Texas, United States | ||
| Wolpertinger | Crisensus bavaricus | Mammal | Germany | ||
| Wucharia | Canis aureus lupaster or Canis lupus arabs | Canine | Danakil Depression, Eritrea | ||
| Yeren | Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman | Primate (possible hominin) | China | ||
| Yeti | Abominable Snowman | Primate / Ursidae | Himalayas (Asia) | ||
| Yowie | Yahoo | Primate | Australia |
Cryptozoology Shows
- Animal X *Series 1
- Animal X *Series 2
- Animal X Natural Mystery Unit
- Myths, Magic and Monsters
Fictional shows and movies with Cryptids (Cryptozoological creatures)
- Harry and the Hendersons (Bigfoot)
- Water Horse (water monster)
