Humanoid Cryptids

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

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

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

A gaunt, insatiable spirit of the frozen north that was once human.

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

An upright canine terror first reported in 1887, stalking Michigan's north woods ever since.

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

A cloaked figure with clawed hands and blazing eyes leapt over walls and breathed blue flame across Victorian England.

A pair of impossibly long legs walking through the night, captured on security cameras.

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

Japan's mischievous water imp with a bowl of power on its head.

The original Romanian undead predates Dracula by centuries and is still feared enough that corpses are occasionally exhumed and staked in rural villages.

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

A watermelon-headed creature spotted three times in two nights, then never again.

A short, bipedal ape covered in golden-brown fur walks the jungles of Sumatra, and credible scientists have spent decades trying to prove it exists.

A towering skeleton formed from the bones of the unburied dead, rattling through the night to bite off heads.

A skinless horse-rider hybrid rises from the ocean around Orkney, and its breath alone can wilt crops and sicken entire islands.

A vampire that tears its own torso free and flies through the night on bat-like wings, trailing its entrails below.

A small, troll-like trickster from Wampanoag legend that lures victims off cliffs.

Two fishermen claim robotic, claw-handed beings floated them aboard a craft in 1973.

Climbers on Scotland's second-highest peak report a towering grey figure following them through the mist, accompanied by crunching footsteps and overwhelming dread.

Australia's own Bigfoot has been reported for centuries, from Aboriginal Dreamtime stories to modern highway encounters.

China's Bigfoot roams the thick forests of Hubei Province, backed by thousands of reported sightings.

A towering, ace-of-spades-headed figure that appeared after a UFO streaked overhead.

A shaggy, upright canine prowling a rural Wisconsin road since the 1980s.

A half-man, half-goat said to roam the back roads of Maryland with an axe.

A ghostly white humanoid shape rising from Antarctic waters, seen by Japanese fishermen.

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

Nomadic herders across Mongolia and Central Asia have described encounters with a stocky, hairy humanoid that walks upright and avoids civilization.

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

The people of Flores Island describe small, hairy cave-dwellers who stole food and children, and the story gained credibility when Homo floresiensis fossils were found.

Small silver beings that besieged a Kentucky farmhouse for hours in 1955.

A 7-foot reptilian biped that attacked a teen's car in a South Carolina swamp.

A towering horse-headed giant that leads travelers in circles through the Philippine wilderness.

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.

A bipedal frog-like humanoid spotted by police on an Ohio road at night.

A scaly, goat-like creature that charged a crowd of onlookers at a Texas lake in 1969.

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

Millions of South Africans still raise their beds on bricks to stay out of reach of this invisible dwarf.

A serpent with a woman's head that haunts riverbanks, cradling a phantom baby to paralyze its prey.

A bloated, frog-faced old man lurks at the bottom of Slavic rivers, drowning the careless and keeping their souls in teapots.

A foul-smelling ape-man stalking the misty slopes of Mount Hiba in rural Japan.

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

A half-man, half-goat lurking beneath a railway trestle in Louisville.

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

A headless, pale giant spotted lumbering through a West Virginia town in 1964.

A foul-smelling ape-man reportedly abducts women and kills livestock in the remote mountain passes of northern Pakistan.

A flame-haired forest guardian with backward feet, who drives hunters insane by making them walk in circles.

A three-legged, gray-skinned creature that terrorized an Illinois town for three nights.

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

A Bigfoot-like creature with a distinctive blonde mane has been spotted near mining towns in northern Ontario since the 1900s.

A slippery, oil-coated humanoid that terrorizes Malaysian towns at night, impossible to catch or hold.

Brazilian hunters know this forest spirit punishes anyone who takes more than they need.

A bipedal ape spotted by both Vietnamese villagers and American soldiers during the war.

A tiny red tree creature that swallows you whole, then spits you out slightly shorter.

A tiny, wizened mummy-like figure found across Indonesia, said to be alive and fed with human blood.

A colossal water creature in Australia's Murray River that punishes anyone who disturbs its territory with a wasting sickness.

Across East Africa, multiple credible witnesses have reported small, rust-colored ape-men walking upright.

Deep in Vietnam's jungles, soldiers and scientists have reported a powerfully built ape that walks like a man.

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

A hairy, rock-throwing giant reported in New Zealand's Coromandel Range long before the Bigfoot craze.

In the forests of Honduras, a backward-footed ape-man kidnaps anyone who makes eye contact.

A marine humanoid reported by fishermen in New Ireland, with a woman's upper body and a fish-like lower half.

In the Australian outback, a malevolent spirit stalks those who practice sorcery and kills them in their sleep.