Giant mammal Cryptids

The towering ape-man of the Pacific Northwest, glimpsed in fog and legend for centuries.

The ape-man of the Himalayas, tracked through snow but never confirmed.

Florida's foul-smelling answer to Bigfoot, lurking in the Everglades heat.

The antlered rabbit of the American West, born from taxidermy humor and frontier tall tales.

The hairy hominid of Boggy Creek, Arkansas, that inspired one of horror's first docudramas.

A web-footed, amber-eyed beast haunting one of America's most pristine swamps.

A blood-stained, three-toed giant that terrorized a small Missouri town in the summer of 1972.

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

A woolly, horned quadruped lurking in the hills of West Virginia since the 1990s.

Hunted to extinction just 27 years after Western science discovered it, some believe pockets of this gentle giant survive in remote Arctic waters.

South African legend says the gods made a creature so powerful they had to split it into elephants and snakes.

A massive, foul-smelling humanoid stalking the Mojave near Joshua Tree, where the desert watches back.

A stinking, one-eyed ground sloth still roaming the Amazon, if the locals are right.

Something in the Congo swamps kills elephants with a single horn and has no interest in eating them.

This mountain goat with legs shorter on one side than the other can only walk in circles around Alpine peaks.

Kenyan tribes fear a nocturnal beast that kills for one thing only: the brain.

Inside Chilean volcanoes lives a molten humanoid that demands human sacrifice to stay dormant.

In Zambian lakes, a massive horned beast surfaces with enough force to capsize fishing boats.

An enormous, tapir-like beast reported by a colonial officer in the unexplored highlands of Papua New Guinea.

A cow-headed amphibian haunts Chilean marshes, and seeing one means birth defects for the unborn.