5 Cryptids That Could Actually Exist | Random Thursday

Our culture and mythology is littered with unknown creatures and monsters, known as cryptids. While most are misidentified animals or tall tales, there are some that could actually exist. Here are 5 of them.

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The Orang Pendek is a human-like primate thought to exist in Indonesia with a strangely human face - thought to possibly be a new species of orangutan.

The Nunda is a large cat species thought to live in Tanzania. It was blamed for a series of deaths in the 1920s.

The Dobhar-chú is a predatory otter-like sea creature from Ireland primarily around Sraheens Lough in County Mayo.

The Chupacabra is famous at this point for raiding livestock in the Southwest US and Mexico. Chupacabra means "Goat Sucker" in Spanish.

The Acurinis are thought to be an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon. What makes them different is they apparently have a very out of place European look to them. Their possible existence spawned many legends of a lost tribe.

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[darrellhart]

Saw this on Reddit: "If electric eels went extinct 1000 years ago we'd probably think they were just folk lore."

[garethbattersby]

I once saw a BMW driver using turn signals... Nobody believes me to this day

[mattvalcarc]

My favorite thing about the Orang Pendek
is that according to legend it abducts children and tries to get the children to teach them to cook

[iamme]

When I was a kid, there were these two bald eagles that would build a nest every year near the river by my grandparents house.
Grandpa called the wildlife people (I don't know who exactly), they said he must be mistaken as they were extinct where we live. He sent them photos and they still said it couldn't be.
Over the years many people, including a forest ranger and a newspaper reporter called in their sightings and sent in pictures. Finally, after about 15 years some scientist guy was down there studying the fish in the river and "discovered" the family of eagles. Now, it's official, what was already common knowledge. There are bald eagles near many of the lakes and rivers in my county.
I'm basically trying to say that just because the "right" people haven't seen something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[goldenbull]

to be fair I've lived in the woods all my life and never found any type of bear remains

[cannibalbananas]

When you mentioned how many in a species are needed to make it viable, you reminded me of the Northern Elephant Seals. They were down to less that 100 left and are now over 160, 000 strong.

[ZAGAD-ix]

The movie you described will get 12% on rotten tomatoes

[JeskaDax]

Interesting fact about large cats... If they have the voice box to roar, they can't purr... And vice versa.
So that little bit about that cryptid feline seems to pan out.

[Doctor.Trolling]

So what you're telling me is when my dad left for milk he was really just turning into a bigfoot?

[dillonqaphsiel]

The most elusive cryptid is my girlfriend. Some even say she doesn’t exist.

[rationalbushcraft]

There is no such thing as a platypus. Those are duck puppies.

[dallasworth]

I'm way behind to do this but I do know of a really interesting explanation for several crypids: Old old folklore. As in Ice Age old. It sounds a little crazy but we actually have instances of stories making it from that far back: the aboriginal people of Australia actually have stories documenting a rise in sea levels about 20, 000 years ago. There's also a story that I believe is Inuit about the king bear/ weasel bear: A massive polar bear that destroyed a village. We thought it was just a myth for a long time, and then remains of an animal fitting its description were found confirming the story.
For an example from the list the Orang Pendek sounds a lot like Homo Florensis, a short hominid native to Indonesia that overlaps with modern humans!
It obviously doesn't catch everything but I think that it's an interesting idea to consider! Ice age creatures get STRANGE.

[AgntfChas]

"Oh they're stockbrokers."
You win, eat my like.

[rexmundi]

Where are all the Bigfoot bones? I heard a retired forest ranger from British Columbia say that he had never found bear bones. The fact is bones don't last very long, usually because they get eaten by mice and other little creatures. Not saying Bigfoot exists, just that not finding bones doesn't man anything.

[neuromancer]

GIRAFFE : a leopard camel with long neck and horns *exist*

UNICORN : just a horse with a horn *doesn't exist*

[srice]

I think one of the reasons we’re so interested in Cryptides is because we actually know so much now. That nothing really surprises us anymore, and we’re secretly hoping/wanting to be amazed by something if not by anything at all.

[JSLeeds]

"...let nobody believe you in the comments!"
Damnit, I love this show.

[Tumasch]

I already don't like the CGI in that movie.

[milanhorvath]

Not tryna be mean but it sounds like a good 80’s movie

[wrendina]

Lol, I love cryptozoology, when I was a kid all I wanted was to make a living looking for cryptids, and giant squids didn't really help that obsession.