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Bessie (Lake Erie Cow Monster or Lorain Ocean’s Lake Monster)

Described as looking like a cow and having multiple heads in some sightings (yes you read that correctly). Sightings around Lake Erie started in 1907 and have continued ever since with sometimes basic or stranger description of the creature. One of the weirder descriptions was made by two brothers in 1937 as a creature made up of a hundred cows combined into one with arms.

Manipogo is a lake monster living in Lake Manitoba in Canada. Manipogo is described as a giant creature with flippers a sheep-like head, and razor sharp teeth. Many think it could be a thought to be extinct Mosasaur. The town of St. Laurent holds a Manipogo festival every year during the first week of March in honor of the legendary lame monster. People claim to have been seeing the Manipogo since the 1800′s but still with no concrete evidence of its existence.

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Thylacine. Vintage lithograph book plate.

Cryptid of the Day: Javan Tiger

Description: Tigers were hunted to extinction in the mid 1970s, but only declared extinct in 2008. Despite this, reports of the tiger’s survival were recorded in that same year. Many beilve there’s a some tigers alive around Mount Merbabu National Park, in Central Java. The latest sighting was recorded in August of 2017.

Jackalope: A North American cryptid that has been talked about since American colonial times. The real origin of this creature was a 1930s taxadermied hare with antlers grafted on. Since then, hundreds of similar mounts were created by several people, even into the 21st century. Due to the commonality of these mounts, many people were fooled into believing that jackalopes really existed. They aren’t cryptids in the same way that lake monsters are, but horned rabbits have existed in various cultures for centuries.

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Thylacine model in a natural setting. [x]

837: Cabbagetown Tunnel Monster

Primate matches the body type the most but really could have been another skinny and wet animal like a cat perchance? Raccoon even, depending on how much light the witness had when viewing.