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Mothman 60th Anniversary: Point Pleasant Marks Six Decades of the Winged Watcher
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, USA
On the sixtieth anniversary of the November 1966 sightings, Point Pleasant gathered for commemorations, a museum expansion, and a fresh wave of reported encounters along the Ohio River corridor.

The 2025 Bigfoot DNA Study: Results from a Decade of Sample Collection
Pacific Northwest, USA
A long-running North American Bigfoot DNA study published its consolidated results in September 2025, reporting that a decade of submitted hair, scat, and tissue samples produced known animal matches but no unknown primate.

Florida's 2025 Cryptid Wave: Skunk Apes, Frogmen, and Coastal Anomalies
Florida, USA
Across the summer of 2025, Florida produced an unusual concentration of cryptid reports — Skunk Ape encounters in the Big Cypress, Loveland Frog–type sightings on the I-4 corridor, and coastal humanoid reports along the Gulf — drawing renewed attention from researchers.

Loch Ness 2025: The Quest Sonar Expedition Returns Anomalous Contacts
Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Loch Ness Centre's 2025 Quest expedition recorded several substantial sonar contacts at depths consistent with the loch's deepest basins, reigniting debate about what — if anything — moves beneath the dark Highland water.
All Cryptid Encounters · 376
- 3000
Asag - Stone Demon
- 2026
Mothman 60th Anniversary: Point Pleasant Marks Six Decades of the Winged Watcher
- 2026
Appalachian Anomalies: Cryptids and UAPs Converge in the South
- 2026
The Beast of Beckley Returns: Four-Eyed Creature Spotted in West Virginia
- 2026
Ohio Bigfoot Flap: Eight Sightings Rock Portage County
- 2025
Centre County Bigfoot Sighting
- 2025
The 2025 Bigfoot DNA Study: Results from a Decade of Sample Collection
- 2025
Florida's 2025 Cryptid Wave: Skunk Apes, Frogmen, and Coastal Anomalies
- 2025
Loch Ness 2025: The Quest Sonar Expedition Returns Anomalous Contacts
- 2025
Centre County Bigfoot Sightings
- 2025
Credible Bigfoot Sightings Near Penn State Campus
- 2025
Loch Ness Monster: 2025 Sightings Surge Past Previous Year
- 2025
San Antonio Dogman: Wolf-Like Creature Stalks City Parks
- 2011
The Chicago Mothman: Winged Humanoid Haunts the Windy City
- 2011
Ogopogo 2011 Video
- 2009
Slender Man
- 2008
The Montauk Monster
- 2007
Metepec Creature
- 2007
The Fresno Nightcrawlers
- 2007
Fresno Nightcrawlers
- 2006
Bownessie
- 2005
The Rake
- 2004
Hogzilla
- 2003
The Lion of Glynde
- 2001
The Monkey Man of Delhi
- 2000
Pale Crawlers: The Internet Era's Cave Monsters
- 2000
Ningen
- 2000
Xing Tian
- 1997
Mamlambo: The Brain-Eating River Monster
- 1996
Black-Eyed Children
- 1995
Puerto Rico Chupacabra Wave
- 1995
El Chupacabra: The Goatsucker
- 1995
Chupacabra
- 1995
El Chupacabra
- 1995
The Chupacabra: From Puerto Rico's Blood-Draining Terror to Global Legend
- 1994
Batsquatch
- 1994
Sheepsquatch
- 1990
The Beast of Barcombe
- 1989
Beast of Bray Road
- 1986
Black Bird of Chernobyl
- 1982
Catford Cat Encounter
- 1982
The Beast of Land Between the Lakes
- 1980
The Sussex Big Cats
- 1978
The Beast of Bodmin Moor
- 1978
Beast of Bodmin Moor
- 1978
The Minerva Monster: Ohio's Most Terrifying Bigfoot Encounter
- 1977
Dover Demon Encounters
- 1977
Yorba Linda Bigfoot Footage
- 1977
Dover Demon Encounter
- 1977
Dover Demon Sightings
- 1977
Dover Demon
- 1977
The Dover Demon
- 1977
The Zuiyo-maru Carcass: Japanese Plesiosaur Catch
- 1976
The Owlman of Mawnan
- 1975
Moca Vampire Puerto Rico
- 1975
The Moca Vampire
- 1973
Charlie Red Eyes Creature
- 1973
Enfield Horror
- 1972
Missouri Monster (MOMO) Sightings
- 1972
Loveland Frog
- 1972
Momo Louisiana Missouri 1972
- 1972
Momo - Missouri Monster
- 1971
The Fouke Monster
- 1971
Fouke Monster
- 1971
Momo: The Missouri Monster
- 1971
Fouke Monster (Boggy Creek)
- 1971
Momo (Missouri Monster)
- 1970
Beast of Exmoor
- 1970
The Beast of Exmoor
- 1969
Lake Worth Monster
- 1969
The Lake Worth Monster
- 1967
Silver Bridge Collapse and Mothman
- 1967
Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film
- 1967
Patterson-Gimlin Film
- 1967
Bigfoot: The Patterson-Gimlin Film and Beyond
- 1967
Bluff Creek Bigfoot Film
- 1967
Bigfoot - Patterson-Gimlin Film
- 1967
The Patterson-Gimlin Film
- 1966
Point Pleasant TNT Area Sightings
- 1966
The Mothman of Point Pleasant
- 1966
The Mothman: Point Pleasant's Prophetic Winged Terror
- 1966
The Mothman Prophecies: The True Story Behind the Legend
- 1965
Popobawa
- 1964
Hook Island Sea Monster
- 1963
The Honey Island Swamp Monster
- 1963
Honey Island Swamp Monster
- 1962
The Inkanyamba of Howick Falls
- 1961
Issie: Japan's Lake Monster
- 1960
The Florida Skunk Ape
- 1960
Skunk Ape of Florida
- 1960
Dewey Lake Monster
- 1960
The Melon Heads
- 1959
The Surrey Puma
- 1959
Devil Monkeys of Appalachia
- 1959
Devil Monkeys
- 1958
Bluff Creek Bigfoot Footprints
- 1958
Bigfoot: The Evidence, Sightings, and Science Behind Sasquatch
- 1957
Florida Skunk Ape
- 1957
Skunk Ape
- 1957
The Maryland Goatman: Half-Man, Half-Goat Terror of the DC Suburbs
- 1957
Goatman of Maryland
- 1957
Maryland Goatman
- 1957
The Goatman of Maryland
- 1957
Prince George's County Goatman
- 1955
Hopkinsville Goblins Case
- 1955
Hopkinsville Goblin Siege
- 1955
Sutton Family Goblin Siege
- 1955
The Loveland Frog
- 1955
The Loveland Frogman
- 1955
Loveland Frogman
- 1954
Beast of Bladenboro
- 1953
The Canvey Island Monsters
- 1952
Flatwoods Monster Encounter
- 1952
Flatwoods Monster
- 1952
The Braxton County Monster
- 1950
The Skunk Ape of Florida
- 1950
Tessie
- 1950
Tessie of Lake Tahoe
- 1950
Tessie (Lake Tahoe)
- 1949
The Beast of 'Busco: Oscar the Giant Turtle
- 1949
Beast of Busco
- 1949
Beast of Busco Giant Turtle
- 1949
The Beast of Busco
- 1949
Oscar - Churubusco Giant Turtle
- 1948
Oscar the Giant Turtle
- 1948
Oscar the Turtle of Churubusco
- 1944
Ropen
- 1940
The Pope Lick Monster
- 1940
Pope Lick Goat-Man
- 1940
Pope Lick Monster
- 1939
Glawackus
- 1938
The Cape Cod Spring Heeled Jack
- 1936
Chessie: The Chesapeake Bay Monster
- 1936
The Beast of Bray Road
- 1936
Chessie - Chesapeake Bay Monster
- 1936
Thylacine Survival Sightings
- 1936
The Thylacine: Tasmania's Ghost Tiger
- 1936
Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Sightings
- 1934
Surgeon's Photo of Loch Ness Monster
- 1933
Cadborosaurus: The Pacific Sea Serpent
- 1933
Cadborosaurus
- 1933
Cadborosaurus (Caddy)
- 1933
Cadborosaurus: The Sea Serpent of the Pacific
- 1933
Cadborosaurus of the Pacific
- 1933
Cadborosaurus Sea Serpent
- 1932
The Kongamato of Africa
- 1930
Mapinguari Giant Sloth
- 1926
The Mongolian Death Worm
- 1926
Olgoi-Khorkhoi Death Worm
- 1926
Mongolian Death Worm
- 1925
The Ahool: Java's Giant Bat
- 1925
The Ahool of Java
- 1925
Ahool
- 1925
Ahool Giant Bat
- 1925
Ahool of Java
- 1924
Ape Canyon Attack
- 1924
Trunko South African Sea Monster
- 1924
Trunko: The South African Sea Monster
- 1924
Albert Ostman Kidnapping
- 1924
Trunko
- 1923
Kongamato
- 1923
Kongamato of Africa
- 1923
Short Man of Sumatra
- 1923
Kongamato: Africa's Living Pterosaur
- 1922
Mngwa of Tanzania
- 1922
Nahuelito
- 1922
Trunko: The Margate Sea Monster
- 1920
The Ahool
- 1920
The Phantom of Ashdown Forest
- 1920
The Trinity Alps Giant Salamander
- 1920
The Skunk Ape: Florida's Stinking Swamp Monster
- 1920
The Skunk Ape
- 1918
Megalodon Survival Reports
- 1918
Orang Pendek of Kerinci
- 1917
The Grootslang of the Richtersveld
- 1915
White River Monster
- 1912
The Hastings Sea Serpent
- 1909
Congo's Living Dinosaur
- 1909
Snallygaster
- 1908
Manipogo
- 1906
The Brighton Sea Creature
- 1906
Giant Anaconda
- 1906
Morgawr: The Cornish Sea Serpent
- 1903
The Mogollon Monster
- 1903
Van Meter Visitor
- 1903
The Van Meter Visitor
- 1902
Lukwata: The Serpent of Lake Victoria
- 1900
Mokele-mbembe: The Congo's Living Dinosaur Legend
- 1900
Lusca
- 1900
Mapinguari of Brazil
- 1900
The Mapinguari
- 1900
The Nandi Bear of Kenya
- 1900
Orang Pendek
- 1900
The Ozark Howler
- 1900
Ozark Howler Sightings
- 1900
Ozark Howler
- 1900
Drop Bear
- 1900
Portlock, Alaska: The Village Abandoned Because of a Monster
- 1900
Orang Pendek of Sumatra
- 1897
Nahuelito the Patagonian Monster
- 1897
Nahuelito: Patagonia's Lake Monster
- 1896
Globsters
- 1896
Globster Strandings Worldwide
- 1896
The Globster Phenomenon
- 1895
Wild Man of Connecticut
- 1894
Pressie: The Lake Superior Monster
- 1891
Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui
- 1891
Crawfordsville Monster
- 1891
The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui
- 1890
The Thunderbirds of Pennsylvania
- 1890
The Tombstone Thunderbird
- 1890
The Thunderbird Photograph Mystery
- 1890
Thunderbird Photo Mystery
- 1887
Morag of Loch Morar
- 1887
Michigan Dogman
- 1886
The Kalanoro of Madagascar
- 1884
Tepuis Lost World Cryptid Expeditions
- 1883
The Red Ghost of Arizona
- 1880
Maori Taniwha Modern Sightings
- 1876
Alton Giant Skeleton Discovery
- 1874
The Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar
- 1872
Canada's Ogopogo
- 1872
Ogopogo
- 1872
Ogopogo: The Lake Monster of Okanagan
- 1872
Ogopogo: Canada's Lake Monster
- 1872
Ogopogo - Lake Monster of Okanagan
- 1872
Okanagan Lake's Ogopogo
- 1867
Giglioli's Whale
- 1860
Ogopogo Lake Monster
- 1850
The Bunyip of Murray Bridge
- 1848
HMS Daedalus Sea Serpent Encounter
- 1840
Sasquatch of the Pacific Northwest
- 1837
Spring-heeled Jack in Kent
- 1837
Spring-Heeled Jack
- 1832
Yeti Abominable Snowman
- 1832
The Yeti of the Himalayas
- 1832
The Yeti (Abominable Snowman)
- 1830
Altie - Georgia River Monster
- 1821
Bunyip of Australia
- 1818
Bunyip Australian Water Monster
- 1818
The Orang Pendek of Kerinci
- 1817
Gloucester Sea Serpent
- 1800
The Almasty of the Caucasus
- 1800
The Bunyip
- 1800
The Bunyip: Australia's Water Monster
- 1800
The Bunyip of Australia
- 1800
Chuchunya, The Siberian Wildman
- 1800
The Lusca of the Blue Holes
- 1800
The Lusca
- 1800
Tahoe Tessie
- 1800
Thunderbird Sightings
- 1800
The Yeti: Abominable Snowman
- 1800
The Lusca: Caribbean Blue Hole Monster
- 1800
Melon Heads
- 1800
Moehau Man
- 1800
The Ozark Howler: Terror in the Mountains
- 1800
Thunderbirds
- 1790
The Wild Man of Hampshire
- 1779
Tatzelwurm Alpine Dragon
- 1779
Tatzelwurm of the Alps
- 1779
Tatzelwurm
- 1779
The Tatzelwurm: Dragon of the Alps
- 1776
Mokele-mbembe: The Living Dinosaur of the Congo
- 1776
Mokele-Mbembe Congo Dinosaur
- 1776
Mokele-mbembe: The Living Dinosaur
- 1776
Mokele-mbembe of the Congo
- 1776
Mokele-mbembe - Living Dinosaur
- 1764
The Beast of Gévaudan: History's Deadliest Cryptid
- 1764
Gévaudan Beast Attacks
- 1764
The Beast of Gévaudan
- 1764
The Monster of Gévaudan
- 1764
Beast of Gévaudan
- 1750
Selma (Lake Monster)
- 1741
Steller's Sea Ape
- 1735
The Jersey Devil
- 1722
Dobhar-Chú
- 1700
Albatwitch
- 1700
Altamaha-ha: Georgia's River Monster
- 1700
The Boto Encantado of the Amazon
- 1700
The Wild Man of St. Leonard's Forest
- 1700
Rougarou
- 1684
Dobhar-chú - Irish Lake Monster
- 1614
The Cuckfield Serpent
- 1609
Champ: Lake Champlain's Legendary Lake Monster
- 1600
The Black Dogs of Kent
- 1600
The Alpine Tatzelwurm
- 1600
The Tatzelwurm
- 1600
The Jasy Jateré of the Guaraní Forests
- 1580
The Golem of Prague
- 1577
Black Shuck: East Anglia's Phantom Hell-Hound
- 1577
Black Shuck: The Demon Dog of East Anglia
- 1577
Black Shuck
- 1560
Sightings of the Curupira
- 1531
The Bishop Fish of Poland
- 1500
The Aswang
- 1500
The Giant Squid: From Cryptid to Reality
- 1500
The Tatzelwurm: Alpine Dragon of Central Europe
- 1500
The Lusca: Bahamas Blue Hole Monster
- 1500
Mapinguari: The Amazon's Ground Sloth Cryptid
- 1500
Moon-Eyed People of Fort Mountain
- 1500
The Yeren: China's Wild Man of the Mountains
- 1400
The Almas (Mongolian Wildman)
- 1300
The Ahuizotl of the Tlatelolco Canals
- 1200
The Brosno Dragon
- 1180
Kraken Giant Squid
- 1180
The Kraken
- 1150
The Werewolf of Yorkshire
- 1127
The Black Dogs of Britain
- 1100
The Dorking Cockerel Legend
- 1100
The Phantom Ponies of the New Forest
- 1000
Atmospheric Beasts
- 1000
Bunyip
- 1000
Baku - Dream Eater
- 1000
Basan - Fire Rooster
- 1000
El Cadejo
- 1000
Cat Sith
- 1000
The Wendigo
- 1000
Dokkaebi
- 1000
Duende
- 1000
Each-uisge - Water Horse
- 1000
Encantado
- 1000
Hellhounds and Black Dogs
- 1000
Ijiraq
- 1000
Jorōgumo - Spider Woman
- 1000
Kallikantzaroi
- 1000
Krampus
- 1000
Kumiho - Nine-Tailed Fox
- 1000
Leshy
- 1000
Mapinguari
- 1000
Mokele-mbembe
- 1000
Namazu - Earthquake Catfish
- 1000
Ninki Nanka: West Africa's Dragon
- 1000
Puca
- 1000
Skinwalker: The Navajo Shape-Shifter
- 1000
Tikbalang
- 1000
Vodyanoy
- 1000
Wampus Cat
- 1000
Zmeu
- 800
Barghest
- 800
Blue Men of the Minch
- 800
The Dragons of Wales
- 800
Cù-Sìth
- 800
Each-Uisge
- 800
Jenny Greenteeth
- 800
Selkie
- 712
Tsuchinoko Japanese Snake
- 700
Tsuchinoko
- 600
The Dragons of Sussex
- 565
The Loch Ness Monster: Every Major Sighting and Scientific Investigation
- 500
Afanc
- 500
Camazotz - Death Bat
- 500
The Afanc: Welsh Lake Monster
- 500
The Each-Uisge: Water Horse of Scotland
- 500
The Pooka: Ireland's Shapeshifter
- 500
Kapre
- 500
Leyak
- 500
Manananggal
- 500
Menehune
- 500
Phi Pop
- 500
Pishacha
- 500
Thunderbird Sightings Across North America
- 500
Tiyanak
- 500
Yowie
- 1
The Almas: Mongolia's Wild Man and the Neanderthal Theory
- 0
Congo Living Dinosaur
- 0
Each-Uisge (Water Horse)
- 0
Kelpie
- 0
Mapinguari of the Amazon
- 0
Nuckelavee
- 0
Thunderbird
- -200
The Shennongjia Yeren (Chinese Wildman)
- -500
Aswang
- -500
Cŵn Annwn
- -500
Kappa
- -500
Tengu
- -3000
Hellhounds