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• Case file Nº001 1958

  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 Nº002 1887

  Michigan Dogman

  Entity / 44.33°N 85.58°W

  A bipedal canid reported in Michigan's northwoods since 1887, revived by a 1987 radio song — never backed by physical evidence.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº003 1936

  Beast of Bray Road

  Entity / 42.67°N 88.54°W

  An upright wolf-like animal reported on a rural Wisconsin road from 1989 to 1992, chronicled by a local journalist, never substantiated.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº004 1966

  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 Nº005 1735 (légende)

  Jersey Devil

  Entity / 39.54°N 74.44°W

  A winged creature of Pine Barrens colonial folklore, born of an 18th-century family feud and "seen" by hundreds in 1909.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº006 1995

  Chupacabra

  Critter / 18.38°N 65.90°W

  The "goat-sucker" born in Puerto Rico in 1995 — every carcass tested has come back as a mange-ridden canid, identified by DNA.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº007 1952

  Flatwoods Monster

  Entity / 38.72°N 80.65°W

  The towering "entity" of one 1952 West Virginia night — since reconstructed as a bright meteor followed by a startled barn owl.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº008 1977

  Dover Demon

  Entity / 42.25°N 71.28°W

  A small, big-headed creature seen by three teenagers within 25 hours in April 1977 in Dover, Massachusetts — never seen again.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº009 2007

  Fresno Nightcrawler

  Entity / 36.75°N 119.77°W

  Two blurry security videos of white "walking pants" gliding through California nights — most likely puppetry, never proven either way.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº010 1955

  Loveland Frogman

  Aquatic / 39.27°N 84.26°W

  Ohio's bipedal "frog", seen by two police officers in 1972 — the second later explained he had shot an escaped pet iguana.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº011 années 1960

  Skunk Ape

  Hominid / 25.90°N 81.30°W

  Florida's foul-smelling swamp ape — reported since the 1960s, photographed under dispute, never verified.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº012 1971

  Fouke Monster

  Hominid / 33.26°N 93.89°W

  Arkansas's swamp-bottom wild man — famous since a reported 1971 attack and a 1972 drive-in film, never substantiated.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº013 1903

  Mogollon Monster

  Hominid / 34.24°N 111.32°W

  Arizona's high-forest bigfoot, reported along the Mogollon Rim since 1903 — a century of testimony with no physical trace.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº014 1971

  Maryland Goatman

  Entity / 38.98°N 76.77°W

  The axe-wielding goat-man of Maryland's back roads — an urban legend on record since 1971, with no physical evidence behind it.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº015 XXe siècle

  Pope Lick Monster

  Entity / 38.22°N 85.51°W

  The goat-man of a Louisville railroad trestle — pure urban legend attached to a bridge that has genuinely killed monster-hunters.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº016 1969

  Lake Worth Monster

  Hominid / 32.80°N 97.45°W

  The white 'goat-man' that gripped Fort Worth in the summer of 1969 — a flash flap, one blurry photo, a hoax suspected but never proven.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº017 1893

  Hodag

  Critter / 45.64°N 89.41°W

  Wisconsin's horned beast — Eugene Shepard's confessed 1893-1896 hoax, now the proud official symbol of Rhinelander.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº018 1909

  Snallygaster

  Aerial / 39.44°N 77.55°W

  Maryland's dragon-bird — a documented 1909 newspaper hoax grafted onto German-American folklore and weaponised in the Jim Crow era.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº019 Début du XXe siècle

  Wampus Cat

  Phantom cat / 35.96°N 83.92°W

  Appalachia's phantom cat — half woman, half cougar in some tellings — a living oral tradition with no sighting file behind it.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº020 1910

  Squonk

  Critter / 41.66°N 77.95°W

  The saddest creature in American folklore, dissolving into tears when caught — a documented literary invention of 1910.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº021 Folklore ancien

  Thunderbird

  Aerial / 40.22°N 89.28°W

  Impossibly large birds reported across the United States — waves of testimony, but not one feather or verifiable photo.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº022 1994

  Batsquatch

  Aerial / 46.99°N 122.23°W

  A winged, ape-faced giant reported near Mount St. Helens — a file resting almost entirely on one 1994 witness.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº023 XIXe siècle

  Sheepsquatch

  Critter / 38.03°N 81.71°W

  A woolly white, ram-horned beast of Appalachian back roads — old "White Thing" folklore revived by a cluster of 1990s sightings.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº024 1973

  Enfield Horror

  Entity / 38.10°N 88.34°W

  A grey, pink-eyed creature said to have clawed at a Enfield, Illinois door in April 1973 — ten days of frenzy, then nothing.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº025 1964

  Grafton Monster

  Entity / 39.34°N 80.02°W

  A headless-looking white mass glimpsed at night by a reporter in 1964 Grafton — a week of monster hunts, no trace left behind.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº026 1933

  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 Nº027 1872

  Ogopogo

  Aquatic / 49.77°N 119.72°W

  The serpent of Okanagan Lake: a sacred Syilx water spirit turned tourist emblem — often filmed, never identified.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº028 1819

  Champ

  Aquatic / 44.05°N 73.46°W

  America's Nessie, anchored by the 1977 Mansi photograph — genuine, striking, and entirely compatible with a waterlogged log.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº029 XXe siècle

  Manipogo

  Aquatic / 51.00°N 98.80°W

  The serpent of Manitoba's lakes, named in 1957 after Ogopogo — decades of reports, one blurry photo, nothing more.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº030 1816

  Memphre

  Aquatic / 45.05°N 72.27°W

  The serpent of Lake Memphremagog, curated by a diver-archivist who logged two centuries of sightings — and never once met his creature.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº031 1933

  Cadborosaurus

  Aquatic / 48.46°N 123.29°W

  British Columbia's sea serpent: centuries of coastal accounts, one carcass photographed in 1937, still no specimen.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº032 Années 1920

  Altamaha-ha

  Aquatic / 31.35°N 81.44°W

  Georgia's river monster: a century of sightings on the Altamaha, with a giant sturgeon as the leading suspect.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº033 1868

  Bear Lake Monster

  Aquatic / 41.95°N 111.33°W

  A lake serpent invented in an 1868 newspaper piece; author Joseph C. Rich later confessed the hoax. A solved case turned tourist folklore.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº034 1750

  Selma

  Aquatic / 59.47°N 8.72°E

  The serpent of Norway's Lake Seljord: sightings since 1750, sonar hunts that found nothing, and a place on the town's coat of arms.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº035 1635

  Storsjöodjuret

  Aquatic / 63.12°N 14.37°E

  Sweden's Great Lake monster: recorded in 1635, hunted in 1894, legally protected 1986-2005 — and never shown to exist.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº036 1975

  Morgawr

  Aquatic / 50.13°N 5.03°W

  Falmouth Bay's sea serpent, famous for the 1976 'Mary F' photographs — a case entangled with the hoaxes of Doc Shiels.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº037 1345

  Lagarfljót Worm

  Aquatic / 65.20°N 14.41°W

  Iceland's glacial-lake serpent, first recorded in the annals in 1345; the viral 2012 video was shown to be a stationary object.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº038 Folklore ancien

  Lusca

  Aquatic / 24.70°N 77.90°W

  The blue-hole monster of Bahamian folklore, part octopus, part shark; tidal currents account for most of the file.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº039 1638

  Gloucester sea serpent

  Aquatic / 42.61°N 70.66°W

  In August 1817 dozens of Gloucester residents swore to a sea serpent in the harbor; the learned inquiry ended in a zoological fiasco.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº040 1741

  Steller's sea ape

  Critter / 55.10°N 159.75°W

  A sea animal seen once, in 1741, by naturalist G.W. Steller — most likely a young fur seal with its flippers out of sight.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº041 XIIIe siècle

  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

• Case file Nº042 1910

  Nahuelito

  Aquatic / 41.05°S 71.50°W

  A 'plesiosaur' reported in Lake Nahuel Huapi since 1910, hunted by a zoo expedition in 1922, never verifiably photographed.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº043 1936

  Chessie

  Aquatic / 38.97°N 76.33°W

  A sea serpent reported in Chesapeake Bay since 1936; the 1982 videotape remains 'animate but unidentifiable'.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº044 1978

  Issie

  Aquatic / 31.23°N 130.55°E

  Dark humps seen on Japan's Lake Ikeda since 1978; ambiguous photos, very real giant eels, and no confirmation.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº045 1995

  Lake Van Monster

  Aquatic / 38.63°N 42.90°E

  A monster reported in Turkey's Lake Van since 1995; the much-disputed 1997 video has never convinced scientists.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº046 1921

  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 Nº047 1923

  Orang Pendek

  Hominid / 1.70°S 101.26°E

  A small bipedal hominid reported in Sumatra for a century; cryptozoology's most serious primate case, still unresolved.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº048 1976

  Yeren

  Hominid / 31.45°N 110.40°E

  China's Hubei wildman, hunted by official state expeditions; every hair and footprint has traced back to known species.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº049 XVe siècle

  Almas

  Hominid / 46.50°N 91.50°E

  The wildman of the Caucasus and Mongolia: five centuries of accounts, no evidence — and the Zana case solved by DNA in 2015.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº050 1926

  Olgoi-Khorkhoi

  Critter / 43.50°N 103.50°E

  The Gobi death worm of Mongol nomad accounts: a century of consistent stories, no specimen despite repeated expeditions.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº051 Folklore ancien

  Tsuchinoko

  Critter / 35.65°N 137.32°E

  A short, thick-bodied snake from Japanese folklore, backed by real municipal bounties yet never once captured.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº052 1970

  Hibagon

  Hominid / 35.11°N 133.04°E

  A squat, ape-like figure reported around Mount Hiba from 1970 to 1974, never firmly identified and never seen again.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº053 1805

  Bukit Timah Monkey Man

  Hominid / 1.35°N 103.78°E

  A small grey hominid said to haunt Singapore's Bukit Timah reserve; science sees macaques and an urban legend.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº054 Folklore ancien

  Mande Barung

  Hominid / 25.51°N 90.22°E

  The Garo Hills 'forest man': steady sightings, but the only hair evidence tested belonged to a goral.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº055 Folklore ancien

  Batutut

  Hominid / 18.30°N 105.43°E

  Vietnam's jungle wildman, hunted by official North Vietnamese army expeditions, never confirmed by any evidence.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº056 1925

  Ahool

  Aerial / 6.71°S 106.73°E

  A giant bat said to haunt western Java's volcanic forests — most likely a misjudged flying fox or a large owl.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº057 1909

  Mokele-mbembe

  Relict / 1.34°N 17.15°E

  A water being of Likouala tradition, recast by Westerners as a living dinosaur; every expedition has returned empty-handed.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº058 1923

  Kongamato

  Aerial / 11.73°S 24.43°E

  The 'breaker of boats' of Zambia's swamps, read as a pterosaur; big waterbirds and bats account for the case.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº059 Années 1900

  Nandi Bear

  Relict / 0.10°N 35.18°E

  Colonial Kenya's night predator; behind the monster, the spotted hyena accounts for most of the file.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº060 1954

  Emela-ntouka

  Relict / 1.35°N 17.46°E

  Congo's one-horned 'killer of elephants', most plausibly a displaced memory of the rhinoceros; no scientist has ever seen it.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº061 Folklore ancien

  Mngwa

  Phantom cat / 9.99°S 39.71°E

  A donkey-sized grey cat blamed for deadly night attacks on Tanzania's coast in the 1920s; the killer was never identified.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº062 1931

  Marozi

  Phantom cat / 0.42°S 36.70°E

  The spotted lion of Kenya's Aberdare Range: one very real skin shot in 1931, and no confirmed population before or since.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº063 1938

  J'ba Fofi

  Critter / 2.50°S 23.50°E

  A giant spider of the Congo basin known from a handful of tales; spider physiology makes such an animal very unlikely.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº064 XIXe siècle

  Mahamba

  Aquatic / 2.00°S 18.28°E

  An outsized crocodile of Congo's waters; the stories double the length of the largest crocodiles ever measured.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº065 1980

  Mbielu-mbielu-mbielu

  Relict / 1.25°N 17.25°E

  A Congo animal said to bear planks on its back, cast as a stegosaur by creationists; the file rests on a few local accounts.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº066 Folklore ancien

  Yowie

  Hominid / 33.72°S 150.31°E

  Australia's hairy bush giant: ancient Aboriginal traditions, modern sighting waves, and no physical evidence at all.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº067 Folklore ancien

  Bunyip

  Entity / 35.43°S 139.13°E

  An Aboriginal water being turned colonial monster; stray seals and booming bitterns account for most reports.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº068 1871

  Queensland Tiger

  Phantom cat / 18.27°S 146.03°E

  A striped cat reported in Queensland since 1871; some saw a surviving marsupial lion, but nothing tangible ever surfaced.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº069 1994

  Ropen

  Aerial / 5.59°S 147.87°E

  A glowing “living pterosaur” of Papua New Guinea pushed by creationist expeditions; frigatebirds and bats explain most of it.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº070 1976

  Owlman

  Aerial / 50.10°N 5.09°W

  An owl-man reported by Mawnan church, Cornwall, in 1976; an escaped eagle-owl or a hoax remain the strongest explanations.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº071 1992

  Beast of Bodmin Moor

  Phantom cat / 50.55°N 4.62°W

  A dark phantom cat reported on Cornwall's granite moor since 1992; a six-month government inquiry found nothing verifiable.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº072 Années 1970

  Beast of Exmoor

  Phantom cat / 51.14°N 3.63°W

  A phantom big cat blamed for killing a Devon farm's sheep in 1983 — hunted, without result, by Royal Marines marksmen.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº073 Années 1960

  British big cats

  Phantom cat / 52.56°N 1.46°W

  Thousands of exotic-cat sightings across Britain: a few genuine captures on record, but no established population ever proven.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº074 Folklore ancien

  Dobhar-chú

  Aquatic / 54.37°N 8.37°W

  Ireland's « water hound » — a giant, aggressive otter of lake folklore, its one famous attack recorded on a 1722 gravestone.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº075 XVIIIe siècle

  Tatzelwurm

  Critter / 47.05°N 10.50°E

  The Alpine « worm with claws »: a stubby, cat-headed reptile of herders' tales since the 1700s — never caught, once faked on film.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº076 1764

  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 Nº077 1577

  Black Shuck

  Entity / 52.46°N 1.44°E

  East Anglia's spectral black dog, a folkloric death omen made famous by the deadly storm at Bungay and Blythburgh in 1577.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº078 1802

  Beast of Dean

  Critter / 51.77°N 2.55°W

  The huge « moose-pig » reported near Parkend around 1802 — best read as an outsized wild boar, in a forest boar now roam again.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº079 Années 1990

  Beast of Buchan

  Phantom cat / 57.53°N 2.00°W

  A black big cat reported for decades across Buchan's farmland in north-east Scotland — persistent testimony, no physical proof.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº080 Années 1990

  Beast of Dartmoor

  Phantom cat / 50.58°N 3.92°W

  The black big cat reported on Dartmoor since the 1990s — the newest layer on England's most legend-laden moor, never proven.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº081 Folklore ancien

  Mapinguari

  Relict / 9.97°S 67.81°W

  Amazonia's reeking forest giant, argued by one zoologist to be a surviving giant ground sloth — never proven.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº082 1847

  Minhocão

  Relict / 27.82°S 50.33°W

  Brazil's giant burrowing 'worm', blamed for huge trenches in the 1800s — reports stopped entirely after 1880.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº083 1929

  De Loys' Ape

  Hominid / 8.90°N 72.70°W

  The 1920 'American ape' photo: a staged spider monkey, later weaponised by racist anthropology — a demonstrated hoax.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº084 Folklore ancien

  Giant anaconda

  Relict / 9.70°S 65.36°W

  The anaconda is real; only the extraordinary sizes — Fawcett's 19 metres — have never been backed by a shred of proof.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº085 Folklore ancien

  Ucu

  Hominid / 24.79°S 65.41°W

  The hairy wild man of Argentina's Andes, whose Quechua name literally means 'bear' — the spectacled bear fits the file well.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº086 1932

  Jackalope

  Critter / 42.76°N 105.38°W

  Wyoming's antlered rabbit, invented as taxidermy by the Herrick brothers in 1932 — yet 'horned' rabbits genuinely exist.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº087 1910

  Hidebehind

  Critter / 46.78°N 92.11°W

  The logging-camp predator nobody has ever seen — always hidden behind something, by definition. A documented folk invention.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº088 1910

  Cactus Cat

  Critter / 32.22°N 110.97°W

  The spine-furred desert cat that gets drunk on fermented cactus sap — a campfire invention of the Southwest, printed in 1910.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº089 1910

  Slide-Rock Bolter

  Critter / 37.69°N 108.03°W

  Colorado's mountain whale, tobogganing down slopes mouth-first — an openly invented lumberwoods tall tale, printed in 1910.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº090 XIXe siècle

  Wolpertinger

  Critter / 48.14°N 11.58°E

  Bavaria's taxidermy chimera — a hare with roebuck antlers, wings and fangs — openly manufactured since the 19th century.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº091 XIXe siècle

  Fearsome Critters

  Critter / 45.64°N 89.41°W

  The tall-tale bestiary of American logging camps — creatures invented for laughs, catalogued as pure folklore as early as 1910.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº092 1899

  Phantom Kangaroo

  Entity / 41.88°N 87.63°W

  Kangaroos sighted far from Australia since 1899 — best explained by escaped or feral wallabies, never by an unknown species.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº093 1936

  Thylacine (alleged survival)

  Relict / 41.05°S 144.95°E

  Officially extinct in 1936, the Tasmanian tiger keeps being reported — hundreds of sightings, no confirmed proof of survival.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº094 1955

  Kelly–Hopkinsville Goblins

  Entity / 36.90°N 87.47°W

  A Kentucky farm family besieged by 'goblins' in 1955 — a classic case now best explained by territorial great horned owls.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº095 1962

  Kinderhook Blob

  Entity / 42.40°N 73.70°W

  A floating white shape reported around Kinderhook, New York, from 1962 into the late 1970s — a handful of witnesses, no trace.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº096 1973

  Sandown Clown

  Entity / 50.66°N 1.16°W

  In 1973 two children on the Isle of Wight described meeting 'Sam', a clown-like figure never seen again — a one-off case file.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº097 1994

  Rods

  Aerial / 33.27°N 104.38°W

  'Flying rods' caught on video worldwide turned out to be an optical artefact — motion-blurred insects, reproducible on demand.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº098 2007

  Ningen

  Entity / 65.00°S 145.00°E

  A giant white humanoid of Antarctic seas, born on the 2channel forum in 2007 — an internet cryptid with no identified witness.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº099 1983

  Gambo

  Aquatic / 13.44°N 16.71°W

  A carcass measured on a Gambian beach in 1983 by a single witness, then buried and lost — most likely a decomposed beaked whale.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº100 1919

  Atmospheric Beasts

  Entity / 34.33°N 116.39°W

  The conjecture that living organisms drift in the upper air, from Fort to Constable — speculation never backed by a specimen.

  Class 1