Tell me your favorite cryptid...

Tsuchinoko. It's a fat snake.

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Guess. This was supposed to be an ironic comment, but since the other three with mapinguari tags have different favourite cryptids, I'll have to say it outright. The mapinguari.

Deepstar 4000 fish

The shrimp in the laundry room.

The patagonian giant sloth

I'm 💯 sure this doesn't exist but Mongolian Death Worm.

Edit: I'm pretty sure that the kraken, giant octopus/squid has been found but I have a hunch I might be wrong.

Bigfoot, also one of the ones i find more plausible

MOTHMAN BECAUSE HE ATE MY ENTIRE ASSBIN A DENNYS PARKING LOT

jersey devil. but like the weird bipedal equid/ungulate-like versions and not the "literal man but with devil parts" version.

I like the Fresno Nightcrawlers, they're really silly looking
though if we're talking about more serious cryptids, I'd go with Thylacines

Ogopogo and Cadborosaurus

Mokele Mbembe.

Orang pendek!

Our underwater ally, Nessie

Do Lazarus Taxon get included in this?

I’ve always thought the concept of atmospheric beasts were super cool

Flatwoods Monster!

Thylacine

Con-rit

The Ropen.

Pterodactyl like cryptid with a glowing torso supposedly. Sightings of it are in New Guinea, usually along the coastline. Oh , let's not forget about the stories of them breaking into coffins sealed in concrete.

Chessie, the Chesapeake Bay Sea Serpent. Gotta show some Maryland pride.

Demon dog of valle crucis

Tie between Mothman and the Flatwoods Monster.

Sky serpents

jackalope

Cadborosaurus/Caddy because of the stupid and convoluted story about the supposed photos of a corpse.

The Decent Human Being

Yowie

Champ

The Loch Ness Monster

Squonk

The giant Octopus in the waters under the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. No way it's real, but it's a cool thought.

Not sure if it counts as a cryptid but if so the Moa

Jersey devil

Loveland frog

J’ba FoFi. I keep tarantulas so it’s always been a fascination.

El Cuero

The Rock

Bigfoot

The Congo Snake

Definitely Mothman. Visiting Point Pleasant West Virginia is on my bucket list.

The Veo, a large pangolin on Rinca island.

Turtle lake monster

Ocean dwelling plesiosaur

My favorite is probably Chessie.

Louisiana swamp monster

The Tsuchinoko. Any snake that gets drunk and is just a loaf is a snake I want to meet.

The Grafton Monster. Also known as the Headless Horror of Grafton.

Don't get me wrong, I love Mothman and he definitely comes in close second, but something about the Grafton story is so compelling to me.

Megatherium

Honestly, Champ seems like a chill dude.

Tie between mothman and the Fresno nightcrawlers

Call me cliché, but Bigfoot.

Altamaha-ha it is a cute murderous seal cryptid

Moa

My mum's side are Ulster-Scott, dad's are British/Scott/Norse, and I was raised on all the Celtic/Scandinavian/British Legends. Some of my favourite paranormal beings are from those stories. Cryptids and spirit-like beings.

Dullahan

Kelpie

Boggart - not the Harry Potter nonsense.

Black Shuck

Barghest

Fae Folk

Huldra

And no cryptid list isn't complete with one of the greatest cryptids, originating from Scandinavian stories, The Kraken

The Van Meter Visitor

Fresno nightcrawlers

Japanese Kappa. What other cryptid is obsessed with manners?

Gene Simmons.

I love The Ahool

Saul Goodman?

Dobhar-Chu, Ireland’s 7-foot long carnivorous predatory otter

The big reptile that attacked a U-boat

Black Shuck, as one of the oldest recorded sightings, is from my home town and is recorded in a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from 1127:

"Let no-one be surprised at the truth of what we are about to relate, for it was common knowledge throughout the whole country that immediately after [Abbot Henry of Poitou's arrival at Peterborough Abbey] - it was the Sunday when they sing Exurge Quare - many men both saw and heard a great number of huntsmen hunting. The huntsmen were black, huge and hideous, and rode on black horses and on black he-goats and the hounds were jet black with eyes like saucers and horrible. This was seen in the very deer park of the town of Peterborough and in all the woods that stretch from that same town to Stamford, and in the night the monks heard them sounding and winding their horns. Reliable witnesses who kept watch in the night declared that there might well have been as many as twenty or thirty of them winding their horns as near they could tell. This was seen and heard from the time of his arrival all through Lent and right up to Easter."

The jackalope (it also appeared in various episodes of my little pony)

The Nameless thing of Berkley Square

Atmospheric jellys

El Chupacabra. Elusive and just plain fun to say out loud.

Fresno nightcrawlers, they’re adorable

Not sure if it’s a cryptid as much as a mythological creature… but the Bukavac. It’s nothing special, just a psycho-terriotorial demon toad… but DAMN idk I just love it.

hopkinsville goblins

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Bigfoot he's the man who started it all

North American tree octopus 🐙

the Van Meter Visitor, the fact of a 9 foot tall (2.7 meters) with wings, that shoots a red beam out its head, and is immune to bullets is crazy.

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The OG Puerto Rican chupacabra, the idea of it being a failed or escaped government attempt at gene editing is awesome

Mantis man

The Rugaroo or the black imp thing that was gripping the ceiling in a cabin I was staying in.

Realistic or more fantastical?

Realistic is the Thylacine

Fantastical is the Mothman.

I think my name sorta gives away the two at the top of my list 😅

Absolutely adore the Fresno Nightcrawlers

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THE SOLAR PLEXUS CLOWN GLIDER

Mothman edges out Bigfoot. I have been trucking 14 yrs. And crossed the Point Pleasant bridge multiple times. But the shear amount of sightings and Native stories makes Bigfoot a close 2nd.

The carnivorous camels of west Texas and southern New Mexico.

Hodag!

Sandown Clown

That big ass octopus in Oklahoma. Today is a close second

Hoop snake my beloved

MOTHMAN. Half moth, half man, all friend.

Shoutout to my boi AllColorsSam, the sand down clown!

I mean Sasquatch and the mysterious great apes are classics, but my heart will always belong to the one, the only…

…Grays. 👽

That big ol' cry baby with the weird feet!

SQUONK

Nightcrawler

The Sandown Clown. It was a cryptid only reported once, but the report was so wild!

MacFarlane Bear

Olgoi-khorkhoi aka the Mongolian Death Worm

Ogopogo and Partridge Creek Monster

Ennedi Tiger

OGOPOGO!

Either the Grootslang or the Mongolian Death Worm

The Fjörulalli for the simple fact it sounds cute as fuck, or the Under Water Abominable Snowman for how stupid it sounds

Mapinguari

Altie, the Altamaha River monster

The Pope Lick Monster

The Rougaroux

The Bunyip

Mothman is cool

Beebe’s Abyssal Fish

Jersey Devil. I live right in his territory and he's my buddy.

Aswang!

The goatman of Kentucky 

Slide rock bolter

Old green eyes in the southern US

i like the cactus cat. looks cool, gets drunk off fermented cactus juice.

Chupacabbra

Trinity Alps Salamander.

…but also Bigfoot

Sasquatch

Fresno night crawler

I have always been interested in the African ones like the Jba Fofi or the Mahamba and Ghabali, and someday, if I save up enough money, I want to go on my own expedition.😭🙏

i like jackalopes :)

Jersey Devil or the goatman

Indrid Cold.

The Australian giant black jellyfish mass

Snalygaster and Jersey Devil will always have special places in my heart since I lived in both places they originated

The Ahool

Loveland Frogmen

Snallygaster.

Kawuk, last surviving raptors on an Indonesian island.

Thunderbird, I don't know what it sounds like but I hope it's a loud ca caw

Umm... YOUR FAVOURITE CRYPTID?

Dogman cus his song goes hard

The Dover Demon/Mannegishi

el chupacabra

Parmesan

Sinkhole Sam

Beware the crab cat!

Fresno Nightcrawler

Loveland frog man

Mongolian death worm

Mothman, I love that guy

Mothman.

Thylacine 👀

Emela-Ntouka, plausible and I like afrotheres like this jungle rhino

I don’t have a clear favorite so Ima count my top two (no ranking)

Grootslang

The Untouchable Bathysphere Fish

The Comegato Weasel-Man of Maine

Orang Pendek

The Mongolian Deathworm

Mahamba

Trinity Alps Giant Salamander

Michigan Dogman

Loch ness monster?

The squonk

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My two husbands; Mothman and the Loveland Frogman

SKUNK APE :^D

I have to go with my Hometown hero, the dear woman

Rake bc my best friend had an encounter with one and it almost killed him

Pukwudgie

Hopskinsville Goblins

The Pukwudgie because they're like 10 minutes from where I grew up lol

Dr. Yakub

Honest answer is probably Chupacabra. I know it’s a pretty young one compared to the century old tales of hairy wild men and sea monsters, but I’m a sucker for canids.

Thunderbird