Swamp Cryptids

Australia's lurking water spirit, feared by indigenous peoples for thousands of years.

A giant aquatic lizard once said to inhabit remote Himalayan valleys before being deliberately exterminated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Entire sections of Brazilian forest have collapsed into tunnels dug by something impossibly large.

Deep in the Congo Basin, local tribes describe a living dinosaur with total consistency across generations.

West African elders say that anyone who sees this swamp dragon dies shortly after.

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

Louisiana's Cajun werewolf stalks the bayou, cursing the sinful and haunting those who break Lent.

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

Deep in the Amazon, locals say a snake longer than a river is wide guards the waterways.