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Urban Cryptids

27 creatures found in urban habitats.

Mothman

Mothman

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

Eyewitness reportsNorth America
Spring-Heeled Jack

Spring-Heeled Jack

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

Eyewitness reportsEurope
Fresno Nightcrawler

Fresno Nightcrawler

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

Photo/video claimsNorth America
Mothman of Chicago

Mothman of Chicago

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

Repeated sightingsNorth America
Aswang

Aswang

The Philippines' most feared shapeshifter hides as your neighbor by day and hunts as a beast by night.

Folklore onlyAsia
Strigoi

Strigoi

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

Folklore onlyEurope
Black Shuck

Black Shuck

A ghostly black dog with blazing red eyes has haunted the roads and churchyards of East Anglia for over a thousand years.

Eyewitness reportsEurope
Dover Demon

Dover Demon

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

Eyewitness reportsNorth America
Gashadokuro

Gashadokuro

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

Folklore onlyAsia
Manananggal

Manananggal

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

Folklore onlyAsia
Pascagoula Aliens

Pascagoula Aliens

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

Eyewitness reportsNorth America
Beast of Bray Road

Beast of Bray Road

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

Repeated sightingsNorth America
Goatman

Goatman

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

Eyewitness reportsNorth America
Hopkinsville Goblin

Hopkinsville Goblin

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

Eyewitness reportsNorth America
Van Meter Visitor

Van Meter Visitor

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

Repeated sightingsNorth America
El Cadejo

El Cadejo

In Central America, a glowing-eyed dog follows you home at night, but its color decides your fate.

Folklore onlySouth America
Loveland Frog

Loveland Frog

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

Eyewitness reportsNorth America
Popobawa

Popobawa

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

Eyewitness reportsAfrica
Tokoloshe

Tokoloshe

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

Folklore onlyAfrica
Pope Lick Monster

Pope Lick Monster

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

Folklore onlyNorth America
Grafton Monster

Grafton Monster

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

Eyewitness reportsNorth America
Enfield Monster

Enfield Monster

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

Eyewitness reportsNorth America
Orang Minyak

Orang Minyak

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

Eyewitness reportsAsia
Sigbin

Sigbin

A blood-drinking creature from the Philippines that walks backward and hides in the shadows of its owner.

Folklore onlyAsia
Mngwa

Mngwa

A gray, brindled cat the size of a donkey has been mauling people in Tanzania since the 1900s.

Repeated sightingsAfrica
Adze

Adze

In Togo, a vampire disguised as a glowing firefly slips through locked doors to feed on the sleeping.

Folklore onlyAfrica
Jenglot

Jenglot

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

Physical evidence claimsAsia

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