AC— Atlas of Cryptids

100 case files // 7 categories // 6 continents

Atlas of
cryptides

Bigfoot, Nessie, the Beast of Gévaudan: one hundred creatures witnesses swear they saw and science never caught — or exposed. No belief, no mockery: one case file per creature.

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Case file Nº001

Bigfoot

Hominid / 41.44°N 123.87°W

A giant forest hominid of the Pacific Northwest — filmed once, never caught, argued over for sixty years.

Class 3

Case file Nº026

Loch Ness Monster

Aquatic / 57.30°N 4.44°W

The world's most famous lake monster: founding photo confessed a hoax in 1994, the loch DNA-surveyed in 2019 — no unknown animal found.

Class 4

Case file Nº076

Beast of Gévaudan

Entity / 44.93°N 3.49°E

The Gévaudan attacks of 1764-1767 killed about a hundred people — historical fact; only the animal's identity is still debated.

Class 4

Case file Nº004

Mothman

Aerial / 38.85°N 82.14°W

A red-eyed winged figure reported around Point Pleasant in 1966-67, tied to the Silver Bridge disaster only after the fact.

Class 2

Case file Nº046

Yeti

Hominid / 27.98°N 86.92°E

The Himalayan snowman: living Sherpa traditions, famous footprints — and bears behind every DNA sample ever tested.

Class 4

Case file Nº041

Kraken

Aquatic / 66.00°N 5.00°E

The Norse sea monster whose real core is identified: the giant squid Architeuthis, described in 1857 and filmed alive in 2004.

Class 4

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