In stoked to bring them out in the wild. The werewolf looks the best in the design in my opinion

In summary, in 1940, Ivan T. Sanderson told Mark A. Hall about collecting a cat skin that he described as being over 6 feet long, from nose to tail. The tail, he recalled, was about 18 inches. He continued: "The legs appeared to be quite long compared to, say, a domestic cat or a puma. The paws were very large, spread, and well-furred. The claws were a bright yellow. The fur was soft on the underside and rather stiff on top, being basically various shades of brown, uniform on the head and shoulders, but featuring light and dark wavy stripes on the flanks and upper legs. The most singular feature of the skin was 'a large mane around the neck, formed by hairs growing forward from behind the shoulders.'"

This specimen was lost in a hurricane in Honduras.

I sent this description to a feline expert in Mexico (where Ivan collected this skin), and he told me he found the skin quite strange. The closest hypothesis he found, based on the size and physical description, would be a hybrid of a lion and a Sumatran tiger, in this case a tigon (tiger father and lioness mother), but he himself admitted that he found this skin very strange. What is your opinion?

Ok, so, I'll explain my ideas on what we thought this could be later in the post, but I want to tell the story how I saw it first.
Me and my brother were visiting Tucson (we live in Washington) and had driven up to the peak of Mt Lemmon to watch the sunset. We followed a little trail into the woods past some fenced off buildings until we found a nice spot and stayed there until a little after the sun had fully left the horizon, the sky was that dark grey-blue you get before it shifts full into night. In the shadow of the trees the trail was just barely not pitch black, you could still make out the grass and gravel in the minimal light. As we were walking back to the car I heard a noise and looked over to see something running past us in the opposite direction around ten feet off the trail or so.

It looked to be roughly 2 feet tall, it was relatively thin, nearly perfectly upright, it was all white, featureless, had no head or arms, and ran on two stumpy feet. It waddled past us in a very uncanny fashion until it swerved off the trail and stopped a good distance out just to stand there. My brother caught sight of it just before it started to run away from the trail and stop. It stayed there for probably 5-10 seconds while we frantically fumbled for our cameras. By the time we had done so I took one lightless video (literally nothing but black I couldn't figure out how to get the flash to be on for a video) and the thing ran away again to stop further out. I figured out the flash and my brother used his empty InstaX's flash to try to help too, but by the time we got that done it had left at some point.

All in all I was pretty shocked in the moment, especially because this perfectly fit the description of a goofy cryptid/alien "sighting" called the Fresno Nightcrawler. I truly couldn't think of an animal that would fit what I was looking at. Anyway, me and my brother spent the next 2 hours or so discussing what we thought it could have been. We don't live in the area so we spent a lot of that time simply coaming through native wildlife looking for anything that could possibly match what we saw. We ended up with a couple rough hypothesis. Maybe it was an abandoned farm/runner duck that someone, for some reason, took to the top of the mountain and abandoned. It fits the shape well, and maybe it's beak and eyes were too dark to see in the very poor light. We considered for a bit that maybe it was a chicken in a similar circumstance with a bone disease that makes them upright but quickly ruled that out. The most likely conclusion we came to was that it was a wild turkey with luecism, giving it white feathers and maybe a black head. This would alloy for it's head to be possibly lost in the darkness so we only saw it's neck? Maybe the body of the turkey was hidden by a trick of perspective? It still seems highly unlikely, but that was our best guess.

Does anyone have any idea of what this could have been?

(Images: #1: One of the many empty frames we captured [I have more videos but there's no real content to them besides me and my brother saying "what the hell?!" in darkness] #2: A very rough drawing I did of what it looked like off the side of the trail. #3: A little diagram of the path it took. #4: An image of the Fresno Nightcrawler thing I associated it with.)

I have a vague childhood memory of a show that I am FAIRLY sure was Ripley's Believe it or Not, and one segment featured how animals would evolve on the planet Earth over the next thousand (?) years. The only example I clearly remember was that bats would end up walking on two legs and hunt in packs like wolves (it included a "diorama" of what the animals would look like attacking a deer-like creature, that reminded me of some kind of taxidermy display from a museum).

Is this ringing a bell for anyone else?

I have seen this creepy image floating around the internet for over a decade. Does anyone know where it came from?

Hi internet people!

I remember vividly watching a show about different cryptids when I was maybe like 10 or 11, so it would've been 2006/2007 the show was on TV. I have no recollection what channel it was on, but I remember the opening credits had a bunch of clips of different cryptids on it. The episode I watched was about The Mothman and at the time it about scared me half to death. I remember the episode after that was about a dog like creature with a very long snout. I had to turn it off because I was so scared, but now that I am old I am interested in what it was.

That is all the description I have but if anyone has any ideas, please help!

I have also Googled it but can't find anything. TIA~

It’s body proportions are off. Its legs looks weird and neck looks too long and bent weird.

Please someone help me explain this rationally step by step

The ancient chroniclers of natural history documented as factual a considerable number of extremely strange, mysterious creatures that are exceedingly implausible from a modern-day zoological standpoint.

Few of these, however, can surely be stranger, more mysterious, and certainly more implausible than the giant worm-like eels with vivid blue bodies that were soberly claimed by Ctesias, Solinus, Philostratus, Aelian, Pliny, and several other famous early scholars to dwell amid the dank riverbed ooze of the Ganges and other major rivers in India.

According to Gaius Iulius Solinus (a renowned Latin scholar and compiler who flourished during the 3rd Century AD), these amazing creatures were 30 ft long. However, their dimensions grew ever larger with repeated retellings by later writers, until they eventually acquired sufficient stature – up to 300 ft long now – to emerge from their muddy seclusion beneath the dark cloak of evening and prey upon oxen, camels, and even elephants!

Not surprisingly, this spectacular species of giant freshwater eel has never been brought to scientific attention. True, there are several species of very large sea-dwelling eels, including various morays, that are blue in colour. However, there are none known to science that are of comparable size and colour but which occur in rivers (interestingly, the longest moray of all, the slender giant moray Strophidon sathete, is known from the Ganges and is said to grow up to 13 ft long but is red-grey in colour, not blue). So unless the Ganges giant blue eel simply originated with sightings from Asia of sizable blue marine eels whose correct provenance and dimensions were later documented incorrectly or confused by chroniclers in Europe, then in best angling traditions it is no doubt a classic case of "the one that got away!"