Field Guide
A cryptozoologist’s reference to every cryptid documented on Cryptid Maps — identification, lore, and regional context.
48entries · 6 continents
North America15
- BigfootThe continent's most-reported hominid cryptid.Pacific Northwest, Appalachia, and forested regions across the United States and Canada
- MothmanThe winged harbinger of the Silver Bridge.Point Pleasant, West Virginia and the Ohio River valley
- ChupacabraThe blood-draining "goat-sucker" of the Americas.Puerto Rico, Mexico, the American Southwest, and rural Latin America
- ThunderbirdA massive bird of prey of Indigenous tradition and frontier sighting.Appalachian Mountains, the Great Plains, and the Pacific Northwest
- Jersey DevilThe flying horse-headed terror of the Pine Barrens.Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey
- WendigoA starvation spirit and emaciated forest predator of Algonquian tradition.Boreal forests of Canada, the Great Lakes, and the northern United States
- DogmanA bipedal canine humanoid reported from the Upper Midwest to Appalachia.Michigan, the Upper Midwest, Appalachia, and the eastern United States
- Pale CrawlerThe pale, hairless quadrupedal humanoid of the deep woods.Rural Appalachia, the Ozarks, and forested rural America
- SkinwalkerThe shape-shifting witch of Navajo tradition.Navajo Nation, the Four Corners, and the American Southwest
- Fresno NightcrawlerThe pant-leg-shaped beings caught on a Fresno security camera.Central Valley of California
- Dark WatchersTall silhouetted figures who watch from the high ridges.Santa Lucia Mountains and the Big Sur coast, California
- Char-ManThe burned humanoid haunter of Creek Road.Creek Road and Camp Comfort, Ojai, Ventura County, California
- Billiwhack MonsterThe half-goat hominid of an abandoned dairy.Aliso Canyon near Santa Paula, Ventura County, California
- ChampThe long-necked lake monster of the New York–Vermont border.Lake Champlain, between New York, Vermont, and Quebec
- OgopogoThe serpentine lake monster of the Okanagan.Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada
South America6
- Monster of Lake TotaA black aquatic serpent of Colombia's largest lake.Lake Tota, Boyacá Department, Colombia
- PinchaqueA high-altitude cryptid resembling a vampiric tapir.Andean páramo of Colombia and Ecuador
- MapinguariA foul-smelling, ground-sloth-like beast of the Amazon.Amazon basin of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru
- MinhocãoA massive subterranean worm of the South American interior.Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and northern Argentina
- NahuelitoPatagonia's long-necked lake monster.Lake Nahuel Huapi, Patagonia, Argentina
- UcumarThe bipedal "Bigfoot of the Andes."Andean puna of northwest Argentina and Bolivia
Europe12
- Loch Ness MonsterThe world's most famous lake monster.Loch Ness, Scottish Highlands, Scotland
- Big Grey ManThe presence that walks the Cairngorm plateau.Ben Macdui and the Cairngorm plateau, Scottish Highlands, Scotland
- BasajaunThe "Lord of the Forest" of Basque tradition.Pyrenees mountains of Spain and France
- Fish-man of LiérganesA 17th-century Spanish account of a man transformed into a sea creature.Cantabria and the Bay of Cádiz, Spain
- CuélebreA winged serpent of Asturian tradition.Asturias and Cantabria, northern Spain
- TatzelwurmThe "claw-worm" reptile of the high Alps.Bavarian, Austrian, and Swiss Alps
- Morbach MonsterA werewolf cryptid bound to an eternal flame.Wittlich and Morbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- OwlmanA winged feathered humanoid of Cornish church grounds.Mawnan, Cornwall, England
- Beast of Bodmin MoorA large black cat of the Cornish moors.Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England
- Black ShuckThe phantom black hound of the East Anglian coast.East Anglia — Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, England
- Surrey PumaA puma-like felid sustaining a six-decade English flap.Surrey and the Home Counties, England
- Brosno DragonA long-necked aquatic creature of European Russia.Lake Brosno, Tver Region, Russia
Asia4
- AlmasThe Soviet "wild man" investigated as a possible relict Neanderthal.Caucasus mountains, Mongolia, the Pamirs, and Central Asia
- Labynkyr DevilA lake monster of one of Earth's coldest inhabited regions.Lake Labynkyr and Lake Vorota, Sakha Republic, eastern Siberia, Russia
- MechenyThe "Marked One" — a Mansi-named Siberian hominid.Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Western Siberia, Russia
- ChuchunyaA tall, broad-shouldered hominid of the Siberian taiga.Yakutia (Sakha Republic) and the Verkhoyansk Range, Siberia, Russia
Africa6
- Mokele-MbembeA long-necked aquatic creature of the Congo swamps.Likouala swamp region, Republic of the Congo
- KongamatoA pterosaur-like flying cryptid of central African swamps.Jiundu swamps of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Nandi BearA large bear-like predator of the Kenyan highlands.Nandi Hills, Western Kenya
- PopobawaA bat-winged shape-shifting entity of the Swahili coast.Zanzibar and coastal Tanzania
- Ninki NankaA dragon-like swamp creature of West Africa.Wetlands of Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Guinea
- Emela-NtoukaA horned semi-aquatic mammal of the Congo basin.Likouala region of the Republic of the Congo
Oceania5
- YowieAustralia's hair-covered bipedal hominid.Forested regions of eastern Australia, particularly the Blue Mountains and southeast Queensland
- BunyipA water-dwelling cryptid of Aboriginal tradition and colonial sighting.Rivers, lakes, and wetlands across southeastern Australia
- ThylacineThe "Tasmanian Tiger" — declared extinct in 1936, but persistently reported.Tasmania and, more controversially, mainland Australia
- BurrunjorA bipedal reptilian cryptid of remote Aboriginal lands.Arnhem Land and the Northern Territory, Australia
- Hawkesbury River MonsterA large aquatic cryptid of New South Wales's Hawkesbury estuary.Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia