Monsters in America: A Cryptozoological Map of the U.S.

Being as people try to smuggle all kinds of critters into our country, I wouldn't put it past it that this could have possibly been one

Would have been cool if she was able to take a picture, but without one, it's just speculation


Having said that...



This is just part of it off the govt site

All in all, including ivory trade sales and illegal animal smuggling, in the 2008 report, Global trade in illegal wildlife is a growing illicit economy, estimated to be worth at least $5 billion and potentially in excess of $20 billion annually....and that being 7 years ago, so you know it's increased since then on both accounts
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So yea, it could be possible at one time it was smuggled in here and for unknown reason, is now on the loose

The same way people let boas and pythons loose in the Everglades in FL upsetting the ecosystem down there

I've seen a lot of monsters through the years, and it's rather nerve-wracking. Some days I couldn't take any more, and would tell them to go home and play in their own yard.

Not to change the Topic or anything like that, because it's a Great Topic and very interesting,,,,, But I thought For Sure Daitengu Was Going To Inform You That His Ex- Wives Have Been Left Off That List! 

Bigfoot. November, 1979, West Virginia. Probably the most scared I've ever been, and that's saying something. I was armed with a 12 gauge shotgun and wouldn't shoot it, for fear that it might only piss it off. There have been other sightings more recently in that same area.

My dad swears that when he was 12 or so, around 1941, that summer he saw on several occasions the track of a huge snake in the road dust and mud in that same area. He said that it looked like someone dragged a 14" stovepipe in a serpentine track up the road. He swore that was true right up to the day he died.

One moonless night I was out walking around in West Virginia, and walking down the road that ran along the ridge top, I saw something that looked like 2 glowing red eyes in the woods under the road bank. They were about the size of dinner plates, and about 3 feet apart. I don't know what it was, so can't say it was a "monster". It made no noise and never moved - I did all the moving. Might have just been an occurrence of foxfire or something, although that usually glows a soft greenish color. Could've been anything, so I make no claims on that one.

I recall seeing and tracking panther tracks in this area back in the 80's. Once was in the mud of a cave, which could have been hundreds of years old (there were numerous kitten or cub tracks in that same mud), and once was next to the body of a freshly killed dog, which I got a plaster cast of before tracking it down a holler to a river. The track that I cast was about 4" across side to side, and was of a front paw. Of note, the cave I found the tracks in was on the same river, about 2 or 3 miles upstream at the top of a cliff. Fish and Game said there were no panthers in Virginia at the time, so I did not see what I saw. Several dogs were killed around that time in about a 1 mile circle. None of them eaten, but some were tore up pretty bad. That was in Russell County. Some years later there was a rash of sheep killings just south of there near Lebanon. Fish and Game never could figure out what did it, only that it couldn't be a panther, because there were no panthers in Virginia.

Only panther tracks, I guess.

Outside of the cave where I found the tracks, there was a little stream running up from beside the cave into an open field, with moss-covered boulders all along the stream in the woods, before you got to the field. Some of those boulders had the moss knocked off of them and scratches in the substrate where the moss had been growing. it looked to me like something had been running along them, and using claws to gain purchase on them, scraping off the moss in patches in the process.

Not exactly a cryptid, unless you consider "ABCs" where they are assured not to exist as "cryptids".

While I lived there, in the 80's, I saw exactly one bear, and it was about a thousand meters away on a mountainside. I thought it was a Black Angus bull until it reared up against a tree and used it for a scratching post - which is something I've never, ever seen a cow or bull do. I was told a tale by an old woman that she had seen a bear with two cubs years before that in that area while she was out picking berries - but when I saw it, there weren't supposed to be any bears there, either. Now I guess things have changed, and the wild is moving back in. About two weeks ago, the wife of a guy I knew a long time ago reported that two bears had tried to get into their house in the night before, so I presume the bears are returning to that area. I know there are some here, and have video of one going down my sister's driveway in the next county. Now bears are not cryptids, and I mention this only as evidence that the wild is returning here to claim it's rights.

@snarky412,Glencairn,Nugget,Daitengu,@guohua,@ninurta,

For those who like the "Big Foot" subject, I'd thought I'd share this Bigfoot Special – MU Podcast with you:  link

Wow! That would have scared the crap out of me! I'm sure there will be tons of people saying 'gorilla suit', and maybe they're right....but I still get a wee bit nervous when I'm in the wilderness.
Reading Missing 411 while camping was not one of my better ideas. but I find it such a fascinating subject. The legends go back for eons, and come from all over the world, so what the heck is it???

@ninurta, Mystic Wanderer, whatever it was it took 7-8 steps before it disappeared. they slowed the vid and brightened it at the end where you can get a good look at it but the slow pace it was moving at says hoax/prank for me.