Wildlife Expert Investigates 5 Infamous Cryptid Animals

Wildlife expert Forrest Galante breaks down and debunks some of the most infamous cryptid animals. You might be surprised at some of these mysterious creatures.

Forrest Galante is a world-renowned wildlife biologist and TV Host. His mission is to inspire and educate people about animals and adventure through the media, including hosting programs on Discovery Channel, on-camera expert interviews, and production of his own wildlife and natural history shows.

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[ForrestGalante]

Really glad my 20-year-old editor doesn't know the difference between lock and loch, make sure you all comment and give him a hard time about it!

[TazzieTiger]

I love the documentaries where you discovered that the Spectacled Bear and the Red Wolf were behind the stories about mysterious creatures. Neither of those animals are talked about as often as they should. So I'm grateful that someone like you put a spotlight on them.

[Nitrix]

"Whether it's whale penis, or waves"

Well done, you've said something that has never been said before.

[MrAnloup]

The moonshiners inventing a creature to keep people away is basically an episode of Scooby Doo

[santobell]

I like the theory that the Chupacabra is the missing breading pairs of Thylacine lost after a ship carrying them to a zoo in the Americas ran aground. Mostly because I want the good ole Tazzi Tiger to still be out there!

[dwwest]

When I was a kid my grandmother lived outside of Eureka Springs, Arkansas for a couple of years. One time visiting, she said she was going to be moving soon. When we asked why, she said she heard something howl in the woods behind the house one night and it scared her. She said she had never heard anything like that before. And she grew up in a log cabin on a 200 acre farm in east central Missouri.

[FaisalQuadri]

Bro, just bring back this show. I loved this show

[SpunkyP]

Do I care about cryptids? No. I will I listen to anything this man says? Absolutely!

[Tristan_Shuler]

I like that cryptozoology isn’t really the study of “magical animals” but is actively trying to apply real species to these stories.

[SurfingTheSoundwaves]

I'd love for you to come to Vancouver Island and do a Sasquatch search. I've lived here for over 20 years, am an avid outdoorsman and spend months every summer and fall off-the-grid, deep in the rain forest.

It isn't even that I believe in bigfoot, but I do find it remotely plausible. Based entirely upon the fact that we have a large, healthy cougar population, and in all my years here, have only ever seen one once. One other time, I jumped off a fallen tree into some grasses, heading out fishing, and a cougar was within 10 feet. I never saw it, but it made a yowling noise I'll never forget, and then I just heard the grasses whooshing as it took off. I've never found skeletons, and only rarely find tracks or droppings.

If a wild animal with just slightly more intelligence than a cougar lives here...well...it would just never be found, and only very rarely sighted. Like the Sasquatch seems to be.

[BeccaWaffle]

I love that you bring up the connection between the moonshiners howling to perpetuate the myth to keep people out of the woods, that's one of my favorite tidbits of moonshiner lore that's represented in the movie Lawless.

[JessWLStuart]

Love how your videos examine the culture and activities of human activity that contributes to Cryptid myths! Few cryptic researchers include that!

[tuckerseinberg]

How the hell do you not have more than a million followers?! I’ve never listened to someone so happy and knowledgeable about every aspect of their job. I also love when your accent sneaks out on words like can’t.

[bnutter]

I live in the Ozarks and we still hear reports of The Ozark Howler being spotted! Most descriptions seem to relay a large black hyena with a long cat-like tail.
Also, I've personally seen the non-existent "black panther". Twice!

[MourningCoffeeMusic]

“Mokele-mbwmbe” when translated means “I don’t understand”. Only once shown sauropod pictures did they start saying “yep that’s it”.

Being paid to guide eager explorers around on a wild goose chase isn’t such a bad way to make a living.

[ChrisVillagomez]

I'm pretty sure I remember watching a documentary about Nessie that talked about the eels in the Loch specifically. When they took water and soil samples from all over the Loch to test for animal DNA in the water, the researchers said there was so much eel DNA in their samples that the only way they could have found more was if they actually caught an eel in their samples

[sabaahjauhar-rizvi]

Sturgeon is another possibility for Loch Ness. They can get huge, their heads are equally big and sturgeon do go in and out of the loch via rivers.

[SvnofCrows]

You should look at the Aztec Ahuizotl and the water opossum that lives in that area, they're a perfect match, and I think more people should know about them!

[willmclaren]

I love how you debunk all of these in a very considerate and scientific way. Great video!

[shelleyhodgkinson]

Always appreciate your take on cryptids!