Okay, so it’s not an actual real-life bird and therefore not a true “cryptid” per se, but the Saqqara Bird is nonetheless an interesting and mysterious artifact from the ancient past with many ...

A mythical beast? Wisconsin's quirkiest high school mascot? A completely real creature that was blown up with dynamite in the Northwoods 130 years ago? The hodag is all of the above, depending on who ...

In the late 1880s, a mysterious creature haunted Clark Alley in York, disguising itself as a horse thief, a boy selling newspapers and even a bottle of beer. It was never caught, but what was it — a ...

We are a species that thrives on discovering the undiscovered, catching glimpses of the unseen and telling stories about the unverified. Our myths and tall tales are full of sea monsters, giants and ...

Dr. Carl Sagan once stated that the absence of evidence does not mean that evidence is absent. Thought processes like this give hope to people seeking to find things that aren’t yet proven by science.

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We’ve gotten a lot of great cryptid photos from people trying to win our Cryptid Summer bounty, and even some video. Here are a few of the pictures people have sent us over the past two weeks — some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Duncan Madden is a travel writer living in Köln, Barcelona and London. Vacations come in many shapes and forms. Among the more ...