This planet is so old that there are so many unknown, unexplained, and unidentified creatures that were just plain terrifying. It’s these creatures that seem to have inspired science fiction films and books.
We’re all familiar with the dinosaurs but what about those who live in rumors, conspiracy theories, and legend?
It’s these creatures that border on the paranormal and the freaky. Check out this list and decide for yourself if they could have existed, or if they’re still around.
Montauk Monster Washes Up On A New York Beach
Hype: The story here is that a bunch of local youths found the creature, took pictures of it, then sold it to papers.
This happened near Plum Island Animal Disease Center, so that gave birth to theories that the government was doing weird experiments.The creature’s dinosaur beak was pointed out so people speculated that it could be an undiscovered prehistoric mammal.
Other possible identifications were proposed saying it was a dog or a turtle without its shell. But turtles don’t have teeth so rule that out.
Reality: Larry Penny is the East Hampton Natural Resources Director, so he and other experts confirmed it was just a decomposing raccoon carcass.
The carcass even matched dental and skeletal points, though it was missing its upper jaw.The case of the Montauk Monster was solved, but other carcasses were found in the same area.
A website called montauk-monster.com follows up on these cases with photographs. The site states that the similarities between the beasts means they are coming from Plum Island.
But another monster has washed ashore, this time on the other side of the country. The creature was discovered on the shore of Seal Beach, California. They say it looks a lot like the original Montauk Monster. Raccoon? Or… Not?
Eerie Monster On Deer Cam In Berwick, Louisiana
The Hype: On December 10, 2010, NBC 33 featured a picture that an anonymous hunter discovered on his deer cam when he returned to his destroyed camp in Berwick, Louisiana.
News outlets reported the same photo around the world, stating that if it’s printed somewhere in “letters,” local TV news will also cover the biblical apocalypse being here.
The creature is a thin, gangly, fast-moving, seemingly nocturnal being that looks like it feasts on wandering souls. What makes it creepy is how powerful and mobile the creature seems to be.
Reality: The mystery hasn’t been solved, but it seems to be a photoshopped hoax. Two different companies tried to exploit this by saying the creature is part of their viral marketing campaign.
A report for J.J. Abram’s “Super 8”, released in June of 2011, had the site Movieweb.com linking the creature to the film. In a video, Cameron Marie Saunders, who worked on “Super 8”, talks about running into a “zombie” then crying in the scene.
But afterwards, there was no further evidence that the creature was part of their marketing campaign. Playstation then claimed that the creature was a Grim from their Resistance 3 game.
Insomniac Games posted on Twitter saying, “Whoops…looks like one got out. If you see a Grim on the loose…please return to Insomniac Games,” which seemed to convinced people of the truth. But… if Playstation/Insomniac Games were really behind this, then they wouldn’t have made the image so bad.
Others proposed that it’s the same creature from a popular night vision video that still remains unexplained. It’s supposedly a “fallen angel” that was captured in the woods.
Two people on Reddit debated the pixels in the picture, but reached no conclusion. Captainpremise disproved the picture using one side of pixel analysis. But user atavus68 gave a strong argument in this response.
Alien Corpse In Thai Ceremony
Hype: A ceremony for an alien-looking creature held by Thai villagers in 2007 went viral, and they even offered it incense and baby powder. The photo resurfaced in 2010 through social media.
Naturally, many said it was an alien with its large, globe-like head and gray skin, while others proposed that it was a satyr with its tiny hooves and tail. A debate ensued over the nature of the ceremony, with some believing that it was a funeral rite for the creature, since they were treating it as a human, as there was apparent grief on the villager’s faces.
Others claim the ceremony was meant to dispel themselves from the evil surrounding the said creature, while some said the villagers were worshipping the creature as a deity.
Reality: It’s a cow, with many others guessing the same, saying it was a deformed cow. The villagers seemed to know all along, but it looked so terrifyingly humanoid what with that proper ceremony being given to it.
Speculators then began to point at the rising number of weird births of animals, suggesting that aliens are conducting experiments around the globe.
Tiny Humanoid Found In Chile
Hype: Julio Carrenon was vacationing with his family in Concepcion, Chile, when he found a tiny humanoid creature in a bush. It measured just 7.2 centimeters.
The creature had a large human-like head. It was alive and even opened its eyes before dying eight days later. It also had fingernails and slanted eyes. He found it pinkish in color before it turned darker, and the corpse even stayed warm before mummifying itself.
The family think that this occurred because they kept it in a first aid kit box in the refrigerator.
Several rumors spread, with people suggesting that the creature made telepathic contact with the mother of the family. Others say that it stood up, but the family denied this. Speculation on its identity included the possibility of the creature being a wild cat’s fetus or an alien.
Reality: The corpse was then studied by veterinarians in Santiago, confirming that it was neither a fetus nor the remains of a feline. Some matched its physical characteristics to a mouse opossum, a common animal found in Chile.
Others disagreed since it did not have the small, pointed teeth or tail of a mouse opossum, plus its head was double the size of one.
Chupacabra Sightings In Texas
Hype: People call this creature the Bigfoot of Latin America, and it has been sighted several times in Puerto Rico and the U.S, especially in Texas.
The legend behind this creature is that it kills their livestock then drinks their blood, as the name chupacabra literally means “goat sucker.” The Elmendorf Beast, or the real Chupacabra, was a twenty-pound dog or coyote-like creature. It was shot and killed in August 2004 by farmer Devin McAnally in Elmendorf, Texas after it mauled 34 chickens.
The creature had no hair but it had blue-graying skin. DNA was sent to UC Davis, where scientists confirmed that it was a coyote with mange. In August 2007, Phylis Canion found the remains of three coyote-like creatures similar to the Elmendorf Beast in Cuero, Texas.
She took pictures then froze one of the heads. Canion connected the beasts to the chupacabra legend since thirty of her chickens had bled out in the past few years without a single one being eaten or taken away.
DNA testing then confirmed that the animal was a hybrid wolf/coyote with mange. In September 2009, CNN featured a taxidermist in Blanco County who had preserved the body of a coyote-like creature. One that people were calling a chupacabra. The creature was poisoned after being discovered in a barn. Its body was given to the taxidermist Jerry Ayer.
Reality: University of Michigan scientists believe that the origin of the chupacabra legend started with these diseased coyotes. Though their ability to suck chickens and goats dry remains unexplained.
Alien Baby Drowned By A Farmer In Metepec, Mexico
Hype: On May 11, 2007 Mario Moreno Lopez discovered this creature in the steel trap intended for his rats. He had to drown it thrice just to kill it.
The creature is tiny, described as being 70 cm. long, with an elongated head, leading to speculations of an alien baby with a high level of intelligence. Skeptics called it a reptile or skinned squirrel monkey to explain the tail and spine, including its large head and eyes.
Mario Moreno Lopez strangely died in a car fire, which was at an unusually high temperature for a normal fire, some time after drowning the creature, leading UFO enthusiasts to think that the alien baby’s guardians took their revenge against Lopez.
There have been reports of UFO sightings and mysterious crop circles in Metepec.
Reality: Mexican UFO specialist Jaime Maussan discovered the story, buying the corpse from Moreno for $32,000. He said it was not a hoax, which convinced skeptics that the alien baby had been a scheme.
The alien baby was even featured by History Channel’s “MonsterQuest.”
The Metepec creature has stumped scientists, since its teeth are not rooted like human teeth. And to disprove the initial possibility that it was a skinned monkey, scientists found that it had a unique kind of tissue that had not been tampered with.
UPDATE: It’s fake. The man who claimed to be a veterinary assistant named Angel Palacios Nunez in the news was Urso Moreno Ruiz, Mario Moreno’s nephew and a taxidermist.
“I must say I didn’t claim it was real. That was Maussán who claimed it was real. He believed it. All the show was a hoax that got out of control, but after four years I’m happy to see one of my creations going around the world and through many scientists and tests and they still haven’t figured out what it is. I may have fooled science! LOL,” Ruiz stated in an Internet forum.
Alabama Boy Kills Giant Boar
Hype: On May 3, 2007, 11-year-old named Jamison Stone shot a boar weighing 1,051 pounds and measuring nine feet four inches.
He took it down with a .50 caliber pistol near Delta, Alabama. This meant Stone shot a pig bigger than Hogzilla, the famed boar killed in Georgia in 2004. Stone killed his first deer at 5, and he was out hunting with his dad Mike on the day he killed the boar. He shot it eight times, chasing it for three hours. When the pig went down, trees were cut down to move it out of the woods.
The father and son had the boar’s head mounted, displaying it as a prize and then made 500 to 700 pounds of sausage from it.
“It’s a good accomplishment. I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big,” Stone told the Associated Press. He was even offered a role in a horror movie based on Hogzilla.
Reality: Stone didn’t enjoy fame, though his dad put up a website called monsterpig.com for him. He began receiving death threats for making the boar suffer a long and painful death when he chased it down.
800 people even signed a petition world-wide advocating for his prosecution on charges of animal cruelty. Skeptics believe it’s all a hoax, and that the boar was a fattened up farm animal so they could make a sensational story. And according to this website, the image was an obvious Photoshop job too.
Charges were never pressed. Too much time had passed from the day of the said crime before an investigation was even conducted.
Yeti Trapped By Hunters In China
Hype: In April 2010, hunters trapped a hairless possum-like mammal which looked like a bear with a kangaroo-like tail. It was said to be making distressed cat noises.
The creature was dubbed the “Oriental Yeti.”
In legend, the Yeti is a bear-like figure that towers over men. This creature was just two feet long.
Reality: Bigfoot researcher Loren Coleman dismissed the speculations as “media madness.” “If the Asian press starts using the word ‘yeti’ for every unidentified animal, it’s going to muddy the waters of cryptozoology,” said Coleman.
He believes that it was a palm civet with a serious case of mange, so it was shipped to Beijing for DNA testing. Results were never released to the media.
Crab-like Creatures Found In A Trench In Russia
Hype: Crabs are sometimes called the cockroaches of the sea. This creature takes it to a whole new level of frightening proportions.
Found in an abandoned foundation pit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, these creatures have a hard shell, stacked appendages, and a tail poking out of the shell.
Speculations went from huge triops, horseshoe crabs, a facehugger from Alien, or even trilobites, which were extinct before the dinosaurs lived.
Reality: These crustaceans are a species that are 200 million years old who have not evolved after all this time.
These fascinating triops are not as large as initially reported, but they do exist and are always around to be found.
The Blue Hill Horror In Cerro Azul, Panama
Hype: In September 17, 2009, four young teenagers were playing in Cerro Azul, Panama. They claimed a rubbery E.T. look-alike ran out of a cave and began chasing them, so they threw rocks at it until it died.
They pushed its body into the water after.
The UK tabloids called it Gollum, as in the cursed creature from the Lord of the Rings, since it was living in a cave.
Other papers, however, gave the creature the name, “The Blue Hill Horror.”
Reality: The creature was a dead sloth. Scientists found the adolescents’ story false because the sloth was already decomposing before that day.
Decomposing in the river had removed its hair, giving the sloth its bloated and rubbery skin.
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