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- Indonesian Hairy Blob. This giant, almost impossible to identify blob washed up on a beach in Indonesia in early 2017, and baffled thousands of people on Twitter...
- Hairy Blob. ... finally, experts concluded that it was nothing more than a waterlogged dugong, which had washed up after decomposing in the sea.
- Indonesian Sea Creature. This kraken-like creature washed up on the shores of the island of Seram in Indonesia last year, sending the locals into a tizzy.
- Indonesian Sea Creature. ... though scientists have suggested that the creature is most likely a whale, the creatures true identity still remains a mystery.
- 10 Mermaids
- 9 Kraken
- 8 Dragons
- 7 Pouakai
- 6 Roc
- 5 Unicorns
- 4 Griffins
- 3 Sea Serpent
- 2 Yeti
- 1 Gorillai
Tales of mermaids, a race of half-human and half-fish hybrids that live in the ocean are a common sailor’s tale. Surprisingly, many of those stories are actually real even though they may be exaggerated. Mermaids exist. Christopher Columbus even spotted three during his first trip to America. He described them as “not so beautiful as they are said ...
The kraken is probably the most fearsome sea monster ever imagined. According to sailors of old, it is a huge, octopus-like creature with a fondness for sinking ships and eating its crew. Legend says the kraken attacked and sank ships with its strong arms. If it was unsuccessful, it started swimming in circles until it created a whirlpool that sunk...
Dragons are probably the most common mythical creatures out there. Their looks vary but the most common descriptions indicate they had reptile-like bodies, bat-like wings and sharp claws. Lest we forget, they also breathed fire out of their mouths. Why do dragons have such varied description and why do many unrelated cultures attest to their existe...
Maori folklore tells of the existence of a giant flying bird with a fondness for snatching humans off the ground and carrying them away for consumption. They called the bird pouakai, which means “old glutton” in English. As Frederick Richardson Fuller, a taxidermist at Canterbury museum later found out in 1871, that bird really existed. The haast e...
If you thought the haast eagle was deadly, the roc is worse. It is a haast eagle on steroids. If a haast eagle could pick up a human, a roc would pick up a community. No one said it did but we are just trying to provide some perspective. However, there are claims the roc could lift a fully-grown elephant off the ground. Sailors of old claimed the r...
The unicorn is a mythical horse with a single horn in the middle of its head. Are they real? Yes, they were but they were not what you think. Unicorns were not horses but rhinoceroses, that is, if the extinct Siberian unicorn is really the origin of the unicorn myth. Like the unicorn it may have inspired, the Siberian unicorn walked on four legs an...
The griffin is another hybrid mythical creature. According to myth, they have the faces, wings and front legs of an eagle and the rear, tail and hind legs of a lion. They flew too, which makes them one creature early humans would have given a wide berth, if they existed that is. Talking of existence, griffins really existed but that was before the ...
The sea serpent is another ferocious creature believed to patrol the ocean. Seafarers of old told elaborate stories of its existence so much that it became folklore. The creature, as you may have guessed from its name, is a supposedly monstrous fish-snake hybrid. Like the kraken, the sea serpent really exists even though its features and stories ar...
The Himalaya people of Nepal and China have traditionally talked about the existence of a big and hairy six-foot tall creature they call the Yeti. The existence of this mythical and elusive creature only became widespread knowledge in 1921 when some British explorers claimed to have found its footprints while climbing the Everest. The explorers sai...
Sometime between the 5th and 6th centuries B.C., an explorer from ancient Carthage called Hanno the Navigator discovered a tribe of hairy and “rude people” while navigating the coasts of West Africa. In his reports, Hanno wrote that the tribe had more males than females who he referred to as “hairy women” and called gorillai. Hanno’s party chased t...
Several have been identified as real species, some have been confirmed as fiction, and still others remain the subject of passionate debate. Creatures not yet described by science are known as cryptids – denoting their ‘hidden’ status – and the study of these mysterious animals is cryptozoology.
Mar 3, 2011 · This web page explores 10 mythical creatures that are said to exist, such as Bigfoot, Nessie, Chupacabra, and more. It also provides some scientific evidence and explanations for why these beasts are likely not real.
Jun 3, 2019 · For years and years, there have been theories that a monster lived in Loch Ness - but there has been no real proof that it existed - save for a faked photograph of the 'monster' in...
Feb 28, 2022 · Could ‘Monsters’ Exist in the Modern World? Cryptozoologist Richard Freeman on why we should still believe in unseen animals.
Apr 9, 2018 · Learn about the scientific plausibility of some famous monsters, such as Frankenstein's monster, vampires and zombies, from experts at a panel discussion. Find out how parasites, viruses and fungi can turn animals into mindless slaves or bloodsuckers.
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