10 Obscure Cryptids and Why You’ve Never Heard of Them

10 Obscure Cryptids and Why You’ve Never Heard of Them

We all know the big ones. Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Mothman. A good creepy story about a twisted, gangly figure sitting in the shadows has always captured the imagination, sending a chill up many a spine. These popular names aren’t the end-all that be-all when it comes to cryptids, though. A cryptid straddles the line between a mythological creature and simply an animal with no conclusive proof it exists. Bigfoot isn’t meant to be magical or something supernatural; he’s a big monkey whose existence has never been proven. That’s all it takes. The Griggstown Cow was a cryptid, after all, and that was literally just a cow someone had lost track of. With a net that wide, ranging from mistaken identity to literal legend, there are far more things to have entered the modern mythological catalog than you would ever believe. So here are 10 stories of obscure cryptids.