Let's design our own fictional cryptids

[natashanightmare]

We all know cryptids like bigfoot and loch ness monster and what not. They fascinate us and scare us. The definition of a cryptid is: 

cryptid

/ˈkrɪptɪd/

noun

an animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated, such as the yeti.

But what if we let our imagination and creativity flow free for a second and came up with our own fictional cryptids? Let's do that in this thread :) 

I'll start. 1: simple but terrifying, a rare breed of venomous horses that roam the woods, they look like average horses but with sharper teeth.

2: A bit more complicated, a creature with 100 eyes but it is completely blind, it is unknown why it needs 100 eyes if it can't see anyway, people theorize that the eyes are for ''seeing'' otherworldy things. the creature is gray/white with a round head ( the head is covered with the 100 eyes) and has asymetrical skin, the eyes are white/gray. The creature is found deep under water or in deep damp cave systems. 

Edited February 10 by natashanightmare

[OniriA]

4 hours ago, natashanightmare said:

an animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated

 

[Naarok0fkor]

https://www.deviantart.com/naarok0fkor/art/Late-autumn-cryptidian-encounter-986246480

[OliveTree]

im pretty sure the creature with 100 eyes thing is a misconception that hollywood created. from what i understand, that cryptid is 100 eyes, like, just 100 eyes glinting in the darkness. people in places like arizona and new mexico supposedly see them near the horizon when walking at night, but they never actually get nearer to them. But yeah, the idea is supposed to be that they cant actually "see" anything.

[DoomGuy999]

Ok then.

GEN ALPHA 

nope just joking

smallhand is a cryptid that is known for his small hands seen everywhere. He can pick locks with his bare hands and is in your walls.

 

(Jumpscare)

 

Smallhand is ugly and resembles me. In fact, he is me, just an exaggeration about the lock picks.

RUN.

[⇛Marnetmar⇛]

Pen Man

 

He is said to appear as a well-dressed middle aged man, of average stature usually wearing a full suit. He appears to hikers in locations where he logically should not be (for instance, in a swamp, thin ledges on the side of a cliff, the crest of a waterfall, etc) and offers them a pen, typically accompanied with the phrase "here, have a pen." He does this with such confidence that hikers always take the pen without question and don't realize something strange just happened until moments after, by which point he has already disappeared. It currently remains unknown what percentage of pens in pen collectors' collections can be attributed to Pen Man, but it is definitely thought to be a non-zero amount.

Edited March 19 by ⇛Marnetmar⇛

[Fonze]

On 3/17/2024 at 6:58 PM, DoomGuy999 said:

He can pick locks with his bare hands and is in your walls.

This reminds me of one.

Much as with your example, he picks locks with his bare hands and may well live in your walls, or at least you tend to hear clicking noises and his ultra-calm voice late at night on the other side of your bedroom door saying, "click out of one, nothing on two, click on three and we've dropped into a false set. Little counter rotation and we have this open."

[Bucket]

isn't reality horrifying enough for you people?

[natashanightmare]

I had a sleep paralysis once where i realized what was happening so i thought to my self ''please be nothing scary'' several times. It became a moose in a maid costume XD Maybe that could be a type of cryptid XD

[EraserheadBaby]

Mudguzzler of the Ohio River Valley. 

 

Mudguzzler is a sentient catfish who sinks barges and swallows any who fall into murky shallows of the Ohio River.  Mudguzzler is rumored to be a large as a school bus.  He wears a monocle and a top hat he recovered from a man who fell off a gamblin' boat back in 1997.  Mudguzzler speaks fluent Creole, by all accounts.  Ya see, he's a business fish.  Mudguzzler has unionized his brethren in order to maintain what is left is left of his habitat and get some chicken livers on the side.  In a deal mudguzzler worked out after the riverboat disaster of '97, all barges are to dump upwards of 5 tons of chicken livers into the water as they pass through the kink at tip of Ohio.  If they fail to do so, Mudguzzler rallies his fishy fraternity and they form a massive lump of catfish on the floor of the river, only 15 feet below.  The catfish undulate as a single, giant muscle, rocking the barge until it tips.  All who fall into the mud are forfeit, swallowed by Mudguzzler or stabbed to death with filthy fins. 

 

The barge companies refuse to acknowledge any of this, but there have been many non-moonshine related sightings.  However, hard photographic evidence is hard to come by due to the dirty water and the fact that Mudguzzler only hunts at night. 

[LoatharMDPhD]

1 hour ago, EraserheadBaby said:

Mudguzzler of the Ohio River Valley. 

Spoiler

Mudguzzler is a sentient catfish who sinks barges and swallows any who fall into murky shallows of the Ohio River.  Mudguzzler is rumored to be a large as a school bus.  He wears a monocle and a top hat he recovered from a man who fell off a gamblin' boat back in 1997.  Mudguzzler speaks fluent Creole, by all accounts.  Ya see, he's a business fish.  Mudguzzler has unionized his brethren in order to maintain what is left is left of his habitat and get some chicken livers on the side.  In a deal mudguzzler worked out after the riverboat disaster of '97, all barges are to dump upwards of 5 tons of chicken livers into the water as they pass through the kink at tip of Ohio.  If they fail to do so, Mudguzzler rallies his fishy fraternity and they form a massive lump of catfish on the floor of the river, only 15 feet below.  The catfish undulate as a single, giant muscle, rocking the barge until it tips.  All who fall into the mud are forfeit, swallowed by Mudguzzler or stabbed to death with filthy fins. 

 

The barge companies refuse to acknowledge any of this, but there have been many non-moonshine related sightings.  However, hard photographic evidence is hard to come by due to the dirty water and the fact that Mudguzzler only hunts at night. 

// I swear this is a Les Claypool Song...