Favorite Cryptozoology Creature/Urban Legend Monster

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

I love stuff like this and while watching Mysteries and Monsters in America it got me thinking about which ones are my favorite. So FAN if you will indulge me for a few moments and give me your top 5
1. Hell Hounds
2. Skin Walkers
3. Bigfoot
4. The Beast of Bray Road
5. The Jersey Devil

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Always been partial to the Loch Ness Monster myself.

[Kevin Hamilton]

Loch Ness and Bigfoot were the ones I loved as a kid, and the ones that were the hardest to let go of when I realized there was virtually no reason to believe either exist.

[Mozenrath]

My favorite, and the one that had some of the weakest counter-arguments, was the Hopskinville Goblin incident. Not saying "this one hundred percent totally happened as the witnesses said", far from it, but it is a much more interesting case than most of them, which are way easier to explain away.

[Red Impact]

Easily the chupacabra. I always think it's a shame when someone says they found one or have a picture and it always turns otu to be a raccoon with mange.

[Toxik916]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe_Tessie

Tahoe Tessie

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

Jan 12, 2014 22:03:36 GMT -5 Red Impact said:

Easily the chupacabra. I always think it's a shame when someone says they found one or have a picture and it always turns otu to be a raccoon with mange.

I have heard coyote is a popular one, and for some reason more stories having been popping up in Texas and the border towns

[BlackoutCreature]

I've always been partial to the Dover Demon myself.

[Arrow]

I've always been partial to sea monsters, sea serpents in particular. It's pretty cool to imagine what the oceans could be hiding, just beneath the surface...

Also, another Loch Ness Monster fan here. I know it can't possibly exist, but the idea of a lake monster is a fun one anyway.

[Sephiroth]

I have a long time interest in the Mothman sightings. There are some crypto cases you read about and can just tell its bull-and at first Mothman sounds like that. But I actually find the case has some strong plausibility because the sightings happened during a short period of time, lasting only about two years, and also in a very enclosed area-and all the witnesses generally agreed about the description of what they saw. Not a lot of other cryptids cases can claim that.

I'm also really interested in the flying humanoid reports from Mexico. The fact that so much of the footage really doesn't have an easy explanation just makes it that much cooler.

[Kevin Hamilton]

Jan 12, 2014 22:04:18 GMT -5 Toxik916 said:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe_Tessie

Tahoe Tessie

Sounds more like a GLOW wrestler

[sabretooth]

Loveland Frog
Bogey Creek Monster
Dover Demon
Chupacabra
Thunderbird

[Juice]

IM huge into this topic. Not becuase I believe in anything, but because I like myths and such...anyway if I were to pick only one. It would be the Black Eyed Children.

[Lupin the Third]

Slender Man

[Juice]

Jan 12, 2014 23:58:29 GMT -5 Lupin the Third said:

Slender Man

Correct me if IM wrong here but wasn't he created by 4chan or other internet hoaxers as a way to see if they could get people to believe it? Which don't get me wron that's pretty cool, but I don't consider it to be the same thing at all.

[H-Virus]

Jackalopes, because I swear I saw one when I was eleven.

[Capt Lunatic]

The Jersey Devil

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[Deleted]

How about the Enfield Horror?

Big pink glowing eyes, got shot by one guy, attacked a child across town, got spotted by a handful of investigators, and was never seen again.

Jan 12, 2014 22:31:56 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

I have a long time interest in the Mothman sightings. There are some crypto cases you read about and can just tell its bull-and at first Mothman sounds like that. But I actually find the case has some strong plausibility because the sightings happened during a short period of time, lasting only about two years, and also in a very enclosed area-and all the witnesses generally agreed about the description of what they saw. Not a lot of other cryptids cases can claim that.

I'm also really interested in the flying humanoid reports from Mexico. The fact that so much of the footage really doesn't have an easy explanation just makes it that much cooler.

Yeah, I think the Mothman is particularly fascinating. The Jersey Devil is easy to explain away because it sounds extremely similar to a dramatized Hammer-headed bat. Nessie and most other sea monsters are easily confused with large fish and the like. Bigfoot skeptics generally dismiss it as mass-hoaxing. But how do you hoax something like the Mothman?

The most popular explanation is a sandhill crane, but I don't know how you can confuse a crane for a near-eight-foot-tall, broad-shouldered monstrosity. Even with its wings spread, a crane is still way too short to match the description.

[Lupin the Third]

Jan 13, 2014 0:03:32 GMT -5 Juice said:

Jan 12, 2014 23:58:29 GMT -5 Lupin the Third said:

Slender Man

Correct me if IM wrong here but wasn't he created by 4chan or other internet hoaxers as a way to see if they could get people to believe it? Which don't get me wron that's pretty cool, but I don't consider it to be the same thing at all.

You say that now, but don't come crying to me when you're walking through a dark forest at night, and you find a piece of paper that looks like THIS:



Actually, by that point, you'll probably be dead.

[Mozenrath]

Jan 13, 2014 0:06:50 GMT -5 Lupin the Third said:

Jan 13, 2014 0:03:32 GMT -5 Juice said:

Correct me if IM wrong here but wasn't he created by 4chan or other internet hoaxers as a way to see if they could get people to believe it? Which don't get me wron that's pretty cool, but I don't consider it to be the same thing at all.

You say that now, but don't come crying to me when you're walking through a dark forest at night, and you find a piece of paper that looks like THIS:



Actually, by that point, you'll probably be dead.

Wasn't the point that Slender Man only targeted children? Then wouldn't you probably be fine?