rd period 21315 Cryptids Ahool Arabhar Beast of Bray Road Beast of Gevaudan Bili Ape Buru Champ Chupacabras Ebu Gogo Giant Sloth Honey Island Swamp Monster Jersey Devil Kongamato ID: 811440
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Cryptids
Jordan Peppers
3
rd
period
2-13-15
Slide2Cryptids
Ahool
Arabhar
Beast of Bray Road
Beast of
Gevaudan
Bili
Ape
Buru
Champ
Chupacabras
Ebu
Gogo
Giant Sloth
Honey Island Swamp Monster
Jersey Devil
Kongamato
Loch Ness Monster
Mngwa
Mokele-Mbembe
Mongolian Death Worm
Mothman
Ogopogo
Skunk Ape
Thunderbird
Ucu
Yeren
Yeti
Sasquatch
Slide3Ahool
The
ahool
is a flying cryptid, supposedly a giant bat, or by other accounts, a living pterosaur or flying primate. Such a creature is unknown to science and there is no objective evidence that it exists as claimed.
Slide4Arabhar
Arabhars
are what people believe to be unconfirmed flying snakes which are located in the Arabian Sea region.
Slide5Beast of Bray Road
The
Beast of Bray Road
(or the
Bray Road Beast
) is a cryptid, or
cryptozoological
, creature first reported in 1936 on a rural road outside of
Elkhorn, Wisconsin
. The Beast of Bray Road is described by purported witnesses in several ways: as a bear-like creature, as a hairy biped resembling Bigfoot, and as an unusually large (2–4 feet tall on all fours, 7 feet tall standing up) intelligent wolf-like creature apt to walk on its hind legs and weighing 400-700 pounds. It also said that its fur is a brown gray color resembling a dog or bear
.
Slide6Bili Ape
Bili
ape, also
Bondo
mystery ape, is the name given to large chimpanzees that inhabit
Bili
Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Slide7Buru
The Buru was an aquatic reptile said to have lived in
Ziro
valley, a small town in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India, at some undefined time in the past. there has been speculation that the Buru was an unidentified member of the order
crocodilia
Slide8Champ
Champ or
Champy
is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, The Champ legend has become a revenue-generating attraction
Slide9Chupacabras
The legend of "El
Chupacabra
" began when goats and chickens started turning up dead in Puerto Rico in the 1990's, drained of blood and with telltale puncture wounds in their necks but otherwise completely intact. Literally translated as "goat sucker" in Spanish, reports of
Chupacabra
spread from Puerto Rico to Mexico, Chile, Brazil and into the United States, from Texas to Florida, Michigan, Maine and even Oregon. Soon
Chupacabra
became a worldwide urban legend as news spread far and fast on a wave of Internet enthusiasm, taking hold of imaginations worldwide.
Slide10Ebu
Gogo
The
Ebu
Gogo
are a group of human-like creatures that appear in the mythology of Flores, Indonesia
.
The
Nage
people of Flores describe the
Ebu
Gogo
as having been able walkers and fast runners around 1.5 m tall. They reportedly had wide and flat noses, broad faces with large mouths and hairy bodies. The females also had "long, pendulous breasts
."
They were said to have murmured in what was assumed to be their own language and could reportedly repeat what was said to them in a parrot-like fashion.
Slide11Giant Sloth
Giant Sloth was
a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the late Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene
.
Its size was exceeded by only a few other land mammals, including mammoths and
Paraceratherium
.
Slide12Honey Island Swamp Monster
The Honey Island Swamp monster is a legendary hominid cryptid reported to have been seen in Honey Island Swamp, Louisiana, since 1963. Native Americans call this creature
Letiche
.
Cajuns call it the Tainted
Keitre
. The creature is described as bipedal, 7 feet (2 m) tall, with gray hair and yellow or red eyes, and accompanied by a disgusting
smell
.
Footprints supposedly left by the creature have four webbed toes
Slide13Jersey Devil
The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many different variations. The common description is that of a kangaroo-like creature with the head of a goat, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked tail. It has been reported to move quickly and often is described as emitting a "blood-curdling scream
."
Slide14Kongamato
The
kongamato
("breaker of boats") is a reported pterosaur-like creature said to have been seen by the people of and explorers in the
Mwinilunga
district's
Jiundu
swamps of Western Zambia, Angola and Congo
.
Suggested identities include a modern-day
Rhamphorhynchus
, a misidentified bird (such as the very large and peculiar saddle-billed stork), or a giant bat. No film has ever been taken, nor have any bodies been examined, leaving all of the stories to rely on large wounds and eyewitness accounts
Slide15Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid who reputedly inhabits Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next, with most describing it as large in size. Popular interest and belief in the animal's existence has varied since it was first brought to the world's attention in 1933. Evidence of its existence is anecdotal, with minimal and much-disputed photographic material and sonar readings. The creature has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie
Slide16Mngwa
Mngwa
or
Nunda is a gigantic, ferocious, dark gray or black nocturnal feline, said to stalk the East African country of Tanzania. Described as, "the size of a donkey," English contact with this animal first began in the 1900s. In 1938, an open-minded discussion of this animal appeared in the then-world-famous British scientific journal Discovery. William Hichens, a British administrator working in Tanzania reported that several natives were attacked by this animal. He thought it to be a giant, man-eating lion that was responsible, but both fur-samples and tracks were different from those of a
lion.
Slide17Mokele-Mbembe
Mokèlé-mbèmbé
, meaning "one who stops the flow of rivers" in the Lingala language, is a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore, sometimes described as a living creature, sometimes as a spirit, and loosely analogous to the Loch Ness Monster in Western culture. It is claimed to be a sauropod by some cryptozoologists
.
Slide18Mongolian Death Worm
The Mongolian death
worm"large
intestine worm") is an alleged creature reported to exist in the Gobi Desert. It is generally considered a cryptid, an animal whose sightings and reports are disputed or unconfirmed.
It is described as a bright red worm with a wide body that is 2 to 5 feet (0.6 to 1.5 m) long
.
The worm is the subject of a number of claims by Mongolian locals, such as the ability of the worm to spew forth an acid; that, on contact, will turn anything it touches yellow and corroded (and which would kill a human
);
and the ability to kill at a distance by means of electric discharge
.
Slide19Mothman
Mothman
is a moth-like creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from 15 November 1966 to 15 December
1967.
Slide20Ogopogo
Ogopogo or
Naitaka
is the name given to a cryptid lake monster reported to live in Okanagan Lake, in British Columbia, Canada. Ogopogo has been allegedly seen by First Nations people since the 19th century. The most common description of Ogopogo is a 40 to 50-foot-long (12 to 15 m) sea serpent.
British cryptozoologist Karl
Shuker
has categorized the Ogopogo as a 'many hump' variety of lake monster, and suggested it may be a kind of primitive serpentine whale such as
Basilosaurus
. However, because the physical evidence for the beast is limited to unclear photographs and film, it has also been suggested that the sightings are misidentifications of common animals, such as otters, and inanimate objects, such as floating logs
.
Slide21Skunk Ape
The skunk ape, also known as the swamp ape, stink ape, Florida Bigfoot,
myakka
ape, and
myakka
skunk ape, is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit the U.S. states of Florida
,
North Carolina, and Arkansas, although reports from Florida are more common. It is named for its appearance and for the unpleasant odor that is said to accompany it. According to the United States National Park Service, the skunk ape does not exist
.
Reports of the skunk ape were particularly common in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1974, sightings of a large, foul-smelling, hairy, ape-like creature, which ran upright on two legs were reported in suburban neighborhoods of Dade County, Florida. Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell has written that some of the reports may represent sightings of the black bear (
Ursus
americanus
) and it is likely that other sightings are hoaxes or misidentification of wildlife
.
Slide22Thunderbird
The thunderbird is a legendary creature in certain North American indigenous peoples' history and culture. It is considered a supernatural bird of power and strength. It is especially important, and frequently depicted, in the art, songs and oral histories of many Pacific Northwest Coast cultures, and is found in various forms among the peoples of the American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains.
Slide23Ucu
The
Ucu
, sometimes called
Ucumar
or
Ukumar-zupai
, is a reported Bigfoot like creature thought to live in the mountainous regions in and around Chili and Argentina. The
Ucu
is described to be the size of a large dog and walks erect, it is also thought to prefer the more tropical regions of the Andes mountain range. According to natives the
Ucu
likes to eat
payo
, a plant with an inside similar to cabbage, and emits a sound like
uhu
,
uhu
,
uhu
, which Ivan T. Sanderson compared to the noises reported by Albert
Ostman
, who claimed to have been held captive by a family of Sasquatch in 1924
Slide24Yeren
The
Yeren
, or
wildman
, is a yet undiscovered bipedal hominid reported to reside in the mountainous and forested regions of China. The
Yeren’s
height often ranges between 6 to 9 feet and is said to be covered from head to toe in reddish brown hair. It is said to have a sloping forehead which rises up above the eyes like a humans, its eyes are set deep and its whole face, with the exception of its nose and ears, is covered in short hairs. The
Yeren’s
arms hang below its knees; its hands are about half a foot long and its thumbs only slightly separate from its fingers.
Slide25Yeti
The Yeti
or
Abominable Snowman
("
mountain man") is an ape-like cryptid taller than an average human that is said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet
.
The names Yeti and Meh-
Teh
are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology. Stories of the Yeti first emerged as a facet of Western popular culture in the 19th century.
The scientific community generally regards the Yeti as a legend, given the lack of conclusive evidence
,
but it remains one of the most famous creatures of cryptozoology.
Slide26Sasquatch
Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch) is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that reputedly inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. The term sasquatch is an anglicized derivative of the
Halkomelem
word
sásq'ets
.
Most scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and
hoax,rather
than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding
population. Scientists
Grover
Krantz
and Jeffrey Meldrum have focused research on the alleged creature for the greater parts of their careers
.
Slide27THE END