Avian Cryptids

A winged humanoid with blazing red eyes, haunting Point Pleasant before disaster struck.

A bat-winged, hoofed terror born from a colonial curse in the Pine Barrens.

A colossal bird from indigenous legend with a wingspan that blots out the sun.

A red-eyed winged humanoid haunting the skies above Chicago since 2011.

An eagle the size of a cargo plane, strong enough to carry elephants, described by sailors who crossed the Indian Ocean.

A half-bird, half-reptile terror from Maryland with a taste for livestock and legend.

Zambian fishermen describe a flying reptile with leathery wings and teeth that capsizes their boats.

A 12-foot flightless bird, officially extinct for 600 years, with enough backcountry sighting reports to keep the search alive.

A dragon-bird painted on Mississippi River bluffs by the Illini, feared as a man-eater.

Islanders in Papua New Guinea describe a glowing, long-tailed flying creature that matches no known bird or bat.

A winged, light-emitting creature that besieged a small Iowa town for three nights in 1903.

A purple-skinned, bat-winged ape seen near Mount St. Helens after the eruption.

Zanzibar's most feared entity attacks at night and demands that victims tell others, or it returns.

A towering owl-humanoid haunting the woods around a Cornish church.

A giant bat with a 10-foot wingspan, screaming through the jungles of Java.

A shapeshifting flying serpent from Chilean forests that drains the blood of livestock from the air.

In the forests of Ghana, something with iron teeth and bat wings sits in the treetops, legs dangling like bait.