cryptozoology

I don't if we have cryptozoology thread so I made one. The idea of animals unknown to science is a ligament one however cryptozoology is at beast a a sudo science. So lets talk cryptids. A personal favorite of mine is the Ozark howler, even if it turned out to be a hoax by a few local farmers. The Howler was describe to be a large striped cat around the size of a mountain lion/ bear, with huge horns on its head and six legs. It gets its name form the noise it was so post to make. It was also so pot to have shaggy black fur.

I think we probably do, but until we find one, I'm cool with this. And no cryptozoology thread could be complete without...




MOTHMAN

I consider mothman more 'forteana' than 'cryptid'. Not that it's not cool. Mothman is awesome.

But to me, cryptid= biologically plausible creature and forteana= weird shit like mothman or the Jersey Devil or Hopkinsville Goblins, or the Dover Demon (animal version of slenderman?)

I had a cryptid encounter when I was a kid. I came face-to-face with this thing in the woods that looked like a huge, black dog - and by huge, I mean I was five foot three or so at the time, and it was slightly taller than me while on all fours. Even those giant Irish wolfhounds have to stand up to be that tall. It also had five toes on the forepaws, all flat on the ground, while normal dogs have four and a small dewclaw further up on the leg. It wasn't just a case of remembering something exaggerated due to fear, since I'd been attacked by a german shepherd before in the same woods, and calmly whacked it on the head with my walking stick. I'm not scared of dogs. I had also seen a bear, and it wasn't a bear (it had big, pointy upright ears, for one thing).

I've told this story lots of times over the years, people have suggested it was everything from an American version of the Black Shuck or barghest to a waheela/shunka warakin.

I'd say it sounds like a bear, but I don't want to insult your intelligence. I assume you'd recognize a bear if you saw one.

Can we have more details? A sketch perhaps? Or enough details that I can perhaps create a sketch? Did it have a tail? What color were its eyes? Did it have plantigrade back feet like a bear or human, or were the digitigrade like a dog or cat? Did it make any noises? Did you see it walk or run, and if so, what was its gait like?

were you drunk/on medication?

Are you or have you ever been a stark raving loony?

Gnark gnark

This is a cryptozoology thread. Rather than speculate on whether or not he actually saw what he claims, I'd rather get as much info about the sighting as possible.

Oh don't mind me, I'm kind of taking the piss.

For actual content, the best sighting I ever heard of was a loping, greenish dog-like creature. The artist's impression was awesome, made it look like a lurid green lanky-limbed hare.

Also why are a lot of weird animals floating around always doglike? What is it with the dogs?

because people mostly see some dog or wolf or other canid stalking the forest and their addled brains turn it into a doglike cryptid

Dogs are everywhere, and for all the dogs people see in their day to day lives, most of them wouldn't recognize a dog skeleton if they saw one.

Case in point, there was a big cryptozoology flap a while back about a dead 'wolf monster' found on the side of the road. It was just an ordinary domestic dog, partially rotted, but people were speculating that it was everything from a Shunka Warakin to a werewolf. I saw the photos, there was nothing to indicate that it was anything different from a rotten dog carcass (if you know even a bit about basic anatomy). Its paw pads had contracted from all the weather, making its paws look kinda 'handlike', and it was a very hairy breed (possibly a chow chow).

I shit you not, they had to do a fucking DNA TEST before people would finally shut up and stop saying "I don't think it really looks like a dog... its fangs are too big and its fur pattern doesn't look like a typical dog!"

And then there was the montauk monster. A bloated, rotten raccoon corpse with most of its fur rubbed off and people were speculating that it was a turtle out of its shell for christsakes (turtle shells are fused to the ribs and spinal chord.... they can only come completely out of their shells in cartoons, people.)

Still I'd like Viergacht to give me as much descriptive info as possible. What about the creature he saw made him positive it wasn't a bear?

That, a thousand times that.

Remember when the Chupacabra was this



And not this?



Fucking shit, someone finds a dead dog with mange, and think "OH GOD, IT'S SOME SORT OF HORRIBLE DIFFERENT THING! IT MUST BE A CHUPACABRA!!!"


You can't even type Chupacabra into google images without a fuckton of pictures of dead dogs with mange...

And this is a recent thing with these dogs, only in the last 5 years. I know cause I use to search Chupacabra all the time, and not one of the pictures that came up was a dead dog!

I did find some porn, though.

Redundant. If you look up anything on the internet, you will find porn.

To be fair, the Montauk monster looked fucking weird. I figured it probably wasn't anything too weird, but "raccoon" was not my first guess.

Also that thing about the Chupacabra pisses me off too. If there is a Chupacabra (and I think there is something like that out there), it's not just a dog with mange.

I feel bad for those poor mangey coyotes. Pathetic things they are, dying in skin-burning agony, starved and wasted. And then people parade them around as 'blood sucking monsters'. I guess it can't bother them too much once they're dead, but something about it still seems vaguely sickening to me.

That, and what Wizzlbang said. At the very least they could invent a new category for these things... nothing about them says 'El Chupacabras' to me.