Cryptids Vocabulary List

a legendary wild animal usually described as a monstrous swamp-dwelling man-eater

a grotesque creature that drinks the blood of livestock and is reported to exist in North and South America

a specter or ghost especially in the form of an animal

a mythical animal reported chiefly from Wisconsin and Minnesota, noted for its ugliness, lateral horns, and hooked tail, and reputed to be outstanding in both ferocity and melancholy

a mythical animal that is reported chiefly from the western U.S. and is reputed to be the size of a small deer and to have the body of a jackrabbit and the horns of an antelope

a fabulous Scandinavian sea monster

a large, long-necked creature that has long been reported to exist in the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland

a large, hairy creature that walks on two feet like a man and that some people claim to have seen in the northwestern U.S. and western Canada

a mythical nocturnal creature that is reported chiefly from rural Maryland, is reputed to be part reptile and part bird, and is said to prey on poultry and children

a bird that causes lightning and thunder in American Indian myth

a cannibalistic creature of Algonquian mythology believed to have been a lost hunter forced by hunger to eat human flesh and thereafter to have become a crazed man-eating ogre roaming the forest

a mysterious creature with human or apelike characteristics reported to exist in the high Himalayas