Winged Cryptids

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

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

When devastating storms hit KwaZulu-Natal, the Zulu say a giant winged serpent is rising from the falls.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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