Catálogo de críptidos.

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List of cryptids

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This is a list of cryptids, which are animals presumed by followers of the cryptozoology pseudoscientific subculture to exist on the basis of anecdotal or other evidence considered insufficient by mainstream science. While biologists regularly identify new species following established scientific methodology, cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the folklore record and rumour. Entities that may be considered cryptids by cryptozoologists include Bigfoot, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, or Mokele-mbembe. Related pseudosciences include young Earth creationism,^[1][2] ghost hunting, and ufology. Some dictionaries and encyclopedias define the term "cryptid" as an animal whose existence is unsubstantiated.^[3][4]

Contents

• 1List
  • 1.1Animals
    • 1.1.1Aquatic or semi-aquatic
    • 1.1.2Terrestrial
    • 1.1.3Winged
• 2See also
• 3Citations
• 4References
• 5External links

List

Animals

Aquatic or semi-aquatic

See also: List of lake monsters

Name	Other names	Description	Purported location	Depiction
Altamaha-ha[citation needed]	Altie	Sturgeon or plesiosaur-like river animal	Georgia, United States
Bear Lake monster[citation needed]		Lake monster	Idaho/Utah, United States
Bessie[citation needed]	Lake Erie Monster	Lake monster	Lake Erie, North America
Brosno dragon[5]	Brosnya	Lake monster	Lake Brosno, Russia
Bunyip[6]		Lake and cave animal	Australia
Cadborosaurus[7]	Caddy	Sea animal	Pacific Coast of North America
Champ[5][8]	Champtanystropheus americanus, Champy	Lake monster	Lake Champlain, North America
Chessie[citation needed]		Sea animal	Atlantic Coast of the United States, especially Chesapeake Bay
Dingonek[9]	Jungle walrus	A tusked water-dwelling animal	Western Africa
Dobhar-chú[10]	Water Hound	Extra-large otter-like carnivorous aquatic mammal	Ireland
Giant anaconda[11]	Megaconda	Giant snake	South America
Igopogo[5]	Kempenfelt Kelly	Lake monster	Lake Simcoe, Ontario (Canada)
Isshii[5]	Issie	Lake monster	Japan
Kraken		Sea animal	World's oceans
Kusshii[5]	Kussie	Lake monster	Japan
Lagarfljót Worm[12]	lagarfljóts ormurinn	Lake monster	Iceland
Lake Van Monster	Van Gölü Canavarı	Lake monster	Lake Van, Van, Turkey
Loch Ness Monster[13]	Nessie, Nessiteras rhombopteryx	Lake monster	Loch Ness, Scotland
Mamlambo[5]		Lake monster	South Africa
Manipogo[5]	Winnipogo	Lake monster	Lake Manitoba, Canada
Mokele-mbembe[7]		Dinosaur	Republic of the Congo
Nahuelito[5]	Nahuel Huapi Lake Monster	Lake monster	Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina
Ogopogo[5][8]	N'ha•a•itk, Naitaka	Lake monster	Lake Okanagan, Canada
Sea serpents[14]		Sea animals, dinosaurs	All bodies of water
Selma[5]	Seljordsormen	Lake monster	Lake Seljord, Telemark, Norway
Steller's sea ape[15]		Sea animal	Pacific Ocean
Tahoe Tessie[citation needed]	Lake Tahoe monster	Lake monster	Lake Tahoe, in California and Nevada, United States
Trinity Alps giant salamander		Giant salamander[16]	California, United States

Terrestrial

Name	Other names	Description	Purported location	Depiction
Almas[5][8]	Abnauayu, almasty, albasty, bekk-bok, biabin-guli, golub-yavan, gul-biavan, auli-avan, kaptar, kra-dhun, ksy-giik, ksy-gyik, ochokochi, mirygdy, mulen, voita, wind-man, Zana	Non-human ape or hominid	Asia/Caucasus
Barmanou[5]	Barmanu, Big Hairy One	Ape or hominid	Middle East/Asia
Beast of Bodmin Moor[17]		Large felid	Cornwall, England
Beast of Exmoor[11]		Big cat	England
Bigfoot[18]	Sasquatch	Large and hairy ape-like creature	United States and Canada
British big cats[17]	Alien big cats (ABCs), phantom cats, mystery cats, English lions, Beast of Bodmin, Beast of Exmoor	Carnivorous mammal	Great Britain
Bukit Timah Monkey Man[19]	BTM, BTMM	Forest-dwelling hominid or other primate	Singapore
Chuchunya[20][5]		Large hominid	Russia
Chupacabra[21]	Chupacabras (Brazilian Portuguese for goat-sucker)		Puerto Rico (originally), South and Central America, Southern North America
Ebu gogo[22]		Small primate, possible early hominid	Flores, Indonesia
Elwetritsch[23]		Mammal	Germany
Fouke Monster[citation needed]	Jonesville Monster, Southern Sasquatch, Boggy Creek Monster	Hominid or other primate	Arkansas, United States
Great Spider[citation needed]	Jba Fofi, Congolese Giant Spider, Giant Spider	Enormous Spider	Congo, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Louisiana, United States, Zimbabwe
Honey Island Swamp monster[citation needed]	Letiche, Tainted Keitre	Hominid or other primate	Louisiana, United States
Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp[citation needed]	Lizard Man of Lee County	Bipedal	South Carolina, United States
Mapinguari[24][25][26]	English: Brazilian bigfoot,[27] Karitiana: kida harara,[28] Machiguenga: segamai[29][30]	Alternately described as a hairy humanoid cyclops with a gaping mouth on its belly, or a relict giant ground sloth	South America, particularly Brazil
Minhocão[5]	Big Earthworm	Caecilian	South America
Mngwa[17]	Nunda	Carnivorous mammal	Tanzania
Mogollon Monster[citation needed]	Mug-ee-yun Monster	Bipedal primate	Mogollon Rim, Arizona, United States
Mongolian death worm[11]	Allghoi (or orghoi) khorkhoi	Worm-like animal	Gobi Desert (Asia)
Monkey-man of Delhi[11]	Black Monkey	Big black monkey	Old Delhi, India
Orang-bati[5]		Bipedal	Indonesia
Orang Mawas[5]	Mawas, Orang Dalam, Hantu Jarang Gigi	Primate	Malaysia
Ozark Howler[citation needed]	Ozark Black Howler	Carnivorous mammal	Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas, United States
Shunka Warakin[citation needed]		Carnivorous mammal; wolf-like, boar-like, hyena-like	Western United States (especially Montana)
Skunk ape[31]	Stink Ape, Myakka Ape, Myakka Skunk Ape	Primate	Florida, United States
Yeren[32][31]	Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman	Primate (possible hominin)	China
Yeti[33]	Abominable Snowman	Large and hairy human-like entity, various other descriptions	Himalayas (Asia)
Yowie[34]		Large and hairy human-like entity, various other descriptions	Australia

Winged

Name	Other names	Description	Purported location	Depiction
Jersey Devil[13]	Leeds Devil	Winged bipedal horse	United States, mainly the South Jersey Pine Barrens, as well as other parts of New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania
Mothman[35]	Popularized by John A. Keel's book The Mothman Prophecies	Winged bipedal	Mason County, West Virginia, United States
Thunderbird[36]		Giant bird	North America

See also

Listas de criaturas legendarias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_legendary_creatures

Megafauna encontrada en tiempos modernos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megafauna_discovered_in_modern_times

List of urban legends

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This is a list of urban legends. An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, cryptids, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture.

Contents

• 10–9
• 2A–F
• 3G–L
• 4M–S
• 5T–Z
• 6See also
• 7References

0–9[edit]

• 999 phone charging myth is an urban legend which claims that calling the police and fire services, then hanging up, charges mobile phone batteries.^[1]

A–F[edit]

• Aerial water bomber picking up scuba diver: about a water bomber, or a helicopter with a dangling water bucket, scooping up a scuba diver and dumping him or her on a wildfire site. Urban legend debunking site Snopes.com reports there are no proven cases of this happening in reality.^[2]
• The Ankle slicing car thief or The man under the car is an urban legend that tells of a driver that keeps hearing noises under their car when they are driving. When they step out of the car to investigate, their ankles get sliced open with a knife. And when they are rolling around on the ground in pain, a car thief emerges from underneath the car and steals it.^[3]
• Baby Train is an urban legend which claims that a small town had an unusually high birth rate because a train would pass through the town at 5:00 am and blow its whistle, waking up all the residents. Since it was too late to go back to sleep and too early to get up, couples would have sex. This resulted in the mini-baby boom.^[4][5]
• Black-eyed children (or black-eyed kids) are an urban legend of supposed paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. Tales of black-eyed children have appeared in pop culture since the late 1990s.
• Black Volga refers to a black Volga limousine that was allegedly used to abduct people, especially children.
• The Blue star tattoo legend refers to a modern legend that LSD tabs are being distributed as lick-and-stick temporary tattoos to children.
• Bloody Mary is a folklore legend consisting of a ghost or spirit conjured to reveal the future. She is said to appear in a mirror when her name is called multiple times. The Bloody Mary apparition may be benign or malevolent, depending on historic variations of the legend. The Bloody Mary appearances are mostly "witnessed" in group participation games.
• Bunny Man is an urban legend that probably originated from two incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1970, but has been spread throughout the Washington D.C. area. There are many variations to the legend, but most involve a man wearing a rabbit costume ("bunny suit") who attacks people with an axe.
• Castilian lisp – An urban legend claiming that the prevalence of the sound /θ/ in Spanish can be traced back to a Spanish king who spoke with a lisp, and whose pronunciation spread by prestige borrowing to the rest of the population. This myth has been discredited by scholars for lack of evidence.^[6][7]
• The chupacabra (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾa], from chupar "to suck" and cabra "goat", literally "goat sucker") is a legendary cryptid rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas, with the first sightings reported in Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats.
• Cow tipping purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment.
• Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copy-pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare readers. They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide, and otherworldly occurrences. People often (falsely) believe them to be true.
• The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition evolving from the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.

G–L[edit]

• Hanako-san is a Japanese urban legend of the spirit of a young girl who haunts school bathrooms, and can be described as a yōkai or a yūrei.^[8] To summon her, individuals must enter a girls' bathroom (usually on the third floor of a school), knock three times on the third stall, and ask if Hanako-san is present.^[8]
• Hippo Eats Dwarf. An internet-spread urban legend about a circus performer being accidentally swallowed by a hippopotamus.^[9]
• The Hook, also called Hookman, is a classic example of an urban legend. Originating in post-war America, it recounts a story of a murderer with a hook prosthesis in place of a hand.
• JATO Rocket Car started as a Darwin Award winner where a driver strapped a pair of Jet Assisted Take Off (JATO) units to the rear of his car and ended up smashing into the side of a hill in Arizona. No police agency in Arizona took a report of this type of accident. The Arizona Department of Public Safety even issued a press release on their website debunking the report.
• Killer in the backseat (also known as High Beams) is a common car-crime urban legend well known mostly in the United States and United Kingdom. The legend involves a woman who is driving and being followed by a strange car or truck. The mysterious pursuer flashes his high beams, tailgates her and sometimes even rams her vehicle. When she finally makes it home, she realizes that the driver was trying to warn her that there was a man (a murderer, rapist, or escaped mental patient) hiding in her back seat. Each time the man sat up to attack her, the driver behind had used his high beams to scare the killer, after which he ducked down.^[10]
• Killswitch is a fictional video game. According to the legend, this game can only be played once - If your character dies or you manage to complete the game, the game will delete itself, and will leave no trace. It has also been cited as the primary inspiration behind the creepypasta Ben Drowned.^[11]
• Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女, "Slit-Mouthed Woman") is a Japanese urban legend about the malevolent spirit, or onryō, of a mutilated woman. She is said to partially cover her face with a mask or object, and reportedly carries a sharp tool of some kind, such as a knife or a large pair of scissors.
• The Licked Hand, known sometimes as possible the Doggy Lick or Humans Can Lick Too, is an urban legend popular among teenagers. The story describes a killer who secretly spends the night under a girl's bed, licking her hand when offered, which she takes to be her dog.

M–S[edit]

• Melody is dead is an urban legend claiming that Spanish singer Melody died in a plane accident.^[12]
• Men in black is an urban legend and conspiracy theory claiming that men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses or victims of alleged Alien Abductions to keep them quiet about what they have seen.^[13]
• Nale Ba is a popular folk legend which features prominently in areas across Karnataka, India. "Naale Baa" (ನಾಳೆ ಬಾ in Kannada) has been found written on walls of small towns and villages for years now. Villagers write this on walls to deter the entry of malevolent spirit into their homes. The myth is that a witch roams the streets in the night and knocks on doors. The witch apparently speaks in the voices of one's kin so that one would be deceived into opening the door. When the house dweller opens the door he dies.
• The Monkey-man of Delhi was a mysterious creature or criminal that was reported attacking locals near New Delhi in mid 2001. Most sources consider the monster an urban legend, and a creation brought on from exaggerated media hysteria, often compared to the Spring-heeled Jack epidemic during Victorian times.
• Paul is dead is an urban legend suggesting that Paul McCartney of the English rock band The Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike.
• Phantom P-40 Airplane/pilot In its original form the pilot is a survivor of the 1941 Battle in the Philippines who wages a one-man war against the Japanese until his heavily-damaged aircraft crashes in China;^[14] a modern variation is that he crashes after flying from the Philippines to Pearl Harbor.^[15]
• Polybius is a fictitious arcade game, the subject of an urban legend that emerged in early 2000. It has served as inspiration for several free and commercial games by the same name.
• Sewer alligator is an urban legend based upon reports of alligator sightings in rather unorthodox locations, in particular New York City.
• Skeleton in a tree is an urban legend alleging that years after the defeat of St. Clair in 1791 at Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio, the skeleton of a Captain Roger Vanderberg was found in Miami County, Ohio inside a tree, along with a diary. However, no one of this name was a casualty of the 1791 battle; the story originated in 1864 from a Scottish novel.^[16]
• Slender Man (also known as Slender man) is a fictional character that originated as an Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Victor Surge in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face and wearing a black suit. The Slender Man is commonly said to stalk, abduct, or traumatize people, particularly children. The Slender Man is not tied to any particular story, but appears in many disparate works of fiction, mostly composed online.^[17]

T–Z[edit]

• Teke Teke (テケテケ) is the ghost of a young woman or schoolgirl who fell on a railway line, which resulted in her body being cut in half by a train. She is an onryō, or a vengeful spirit, who lurks around urban areas and train stations at night. Since she no longer has lower extremities, she travels on either her hands or elbows, dragging her upper torso and making a scratching or "teke teke"-like sound. If she encounters a potential victim, she will chase them and slice them in half at the torso with a scythe or other weapon.
• The Spider Bite or The Red Spot is a modern urban legend that emerged in Europe during the 1970s. It features a young woman who is bitten on the cheek by a spider. The bite swells into a large boil and soon bursts open to reveal hundreds of tiny spiders escaping from her cheek.
• Vanishing Lady a.k.a. Vanishing Hotel Room: During an international exposition in Paris, a daughter leaves her mother in a hotel room; when she comes back her mother is gone and the hotel staff claims to have no knowledge of the missing woman. It is later revealed that the mother was dying of plague and, fearing for the negative impact on the hotel's public image, the staff just disposed of the mother, redecorated the room and pretended as nothing had happened. Inspiration for the movie So Long at the Fair. Based upon a turn-of-the-century Philadelphia newspaper story.^[18]
• The Vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, the disappearing hitchhiker, the phantom hitchhiker or simply the hitchhiker) story is an urban legend in which people traveling by vehicle meet with, or are accompanied by, a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle. Vanishing hitchhikers have been reported for centuries and the story is found across the world with many variants. The popularity and endurance of the legend has helped it spread into popular culture.

Animalia Paradoxa

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Table of the Animal Kingdom ("Regnum Animale") from the 1st edition of Systema Naturæ (1735)

Animalia Paradoxa^[1] (Latin for "contradictory animals"; cf. paradox) are the mythical, magical or otherwise suspect animals mentioned in editions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of Carl Linnaeus's seminal work Systema Naturae under the header "Paradoxa". It lists fantastic creatures found in medieval bestiaries and some animals reported by explorers from abroad and explains why they are excluded from Systema Naturae. According to Swedish historian Gunnar Broberg, it was to offer a natural explanation and demystify the world of superstition.^[2] Paradoxa was dropped from Linnaeus' classification system as of the 6th edition (1748).^[3]

Paradoxa[edit]

These 10 taxa appear in the 1st to 5th editions:

• Hydra: Linnaeus wrote: "Hydra: body of a snake, with two feet, seven necks and the same number of heads, lacking wings, preserved in Hamburg, similar to the description of the Hydra of the Apocalypse of St.John chapters 12 and 13. And it is provided by very many as a true species of animal, but falsely. Nature for itself and always the similar, never naturally makes multiple heads on one body. Fraud and artifice, as we ourselves saw [on it] teeth of a weasel, different from teeth of an Amphibian [or reptile], easily detected." See Carl Linnaeus#Doctorate. (Distinguish from the small real coelenterate Hydra (genus).)
• Rana-Piscis: a South American frog which is significantly smaller than its tadpole stage; it was thus (incorrectly) reported to Linnaeus that the metamorphosis in this species went from 'frog to fish'. In the Paradoxa in the 1st edition of Systema Naturae, Linnaeus wrote "Frog-Fish or Frog Changing into Fish: is much against teaching. Frogs, like all Amphibia, delight in lungs and spiny bones. Spiny fish, instead of lungs, are equipped with gills. Therefore the laws of Nature will be against this change. If indeed a fish is equipped with gills, it will be separate from the Frog and Amphibia. If truly [it has] lungs, it will be a Lizard: for under all the sky it differs from Chondropterygii and Plagiuri." In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Linnaeus named the species Rana paradoxa, though its genus name was changed in 1830 to Pseudis.^[4]
• Monoceros (unicorn): Linnaeus wrote: "Monoceros of the older [generations], body of a horse, feet of a "wild animal", horn straight, long, spirally twisted. It is a figment of painters. The Monodon of Artedi [= narwhal] has the same manner of horn, but the other parts of its body are very different."
• Pelecanus: Linnaeus wrote "Pelican: The same [sources as for the previous] hand down fabulously [the story] that it inflicts a wound with its beak on its own thigh, to feed its young with the flowing blood. A sack hanging below its throat gave a handle for the story." This source^[5] writes: "Linnaeus thought [pelicans] might reflect the over-fervent imaginations of New World explorers."
• Satyrus: Linnaeus wrote "with a tail, hairy, bearded, with a manlike body, gesticulating much, very fallacious, is a species of monkey, if ever one has been seen."^[6]
• Borometz (aka Scythian Lamb): Linnaeus wrote: "Borometz or Scythian Lamb: is reckoned with plants, and is similar to a lamb; whose stalk coming out of the ground enters an umbilicus; and the same is said to be provided with blood from by chance devouring wild animals. But it is put together artificially from roots of American ferns. But naturally it is an allegorical description of an embryo of a sheep, as has all attributed data.". This source^[7] says: "Linnaeus [...] had seen a faked vegetable lamb taken from China to Sweden by a traveler."
• Phoenix: Linnaeus wrote: "Species of bird, of which only one individual exists in the world, and which when decrepit [arises?] from [its] pyre made of aromatic [plants?] is said fabulously to become again young, to undergo happy former periods of life. In reality it is the date palm, see Kæmpf".
• Linnaeus wrote: The Bernicla or Scottish goose & Goose-bearing Seashell: is believed by former generations to be born from rotten wood thrown away in the sea. But the Lepas places seaweed on its featherlike internal parts, and somewhat adhering, as if indeed that goose Bernicla was arising from it. Frederick Edward Hulme noted: "[The] barnacle-goose tree was a great article of faith with our ancestors in the Middle Ages."^[8]
• Draco: Linnaeus wrote that it has a "snakelike body, two feet, two wings, like a bat, which is a winged lizard or a ray artificially shaped as a monster and dried."^[6] See also Jenny Haniver.
• Automa Mortis Linnaeus wrote "Death-watch: It produces the sound of a very small clock in walls, is named Pediculus pulsatorius, which perforates wood and lives in it".

The above 10 taxa and the 4 taxa following were in the 2nd (1740) edition and the 4th and 5th editions (total 14 entries):^[9]

• Manticora: Linnaeus wrote merely: "face of a decrepit old man, body of a lion, tail starred with sharp points".
• Antilope [sic]: Linnaeus wrote merely: "Face of a "wild animal", feet [like those] of cattle, horns like a goat's [but] saw-edged".
• Lamia: Linnaeus wrote merely: "Face of a man, breasts of a virgin, body of a four-footed animal [but] scaled, forefeet of a "wild animal", hind[feet] [like those] of cattle".
• Siren: Linnaeus wrote: "Art. gen. 81 Syrene Bartol: As long as it is not seen either living or dead, nor faithfully and perfectly described, it is called in doubt".
  

  Linnaeus's reference is to Peter Artedi's writing about the Siren: "Two fins only on all the body, those on the chest. No finned tail. Head and neck and chest to the umbilicus have the human appearance. ... Our or Bartholin's Siren was found and captured in the sea near Massilia in America. From the umbilicus to the extremity of the body was unformed flesh with no sign of a tail. Two pectoral fins on the chest, with five bones or fingers, staying together, by which it swims. Its radius in the forearm is scarcely four fingers' width long. Oh that there could arise a true ichthyologist, who could examine this animal, as to whether it is a fable, or a true fish? About something which has not been seen it is preferable not to judge, than boldly to pronounce something.". Among references and quotations from other authors Artedi quoted that "some say that it is a manatee and others say completely different."^[10]