Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist (Darby Creek Publishing)

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Ts'ür'i and Aghay are protectors who use language revitalization to save the Earth from bad settlers and cyborg sasquatches in this fun YA comic book about colonialism. They do a great job of celebrating it, but then, I think last year, just a block away from the Flatwoods Monster Museum, they opened the West Virginia Bigfoot Museum.

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Most of our lives are really boring, mundane, so if anything is new and wonderful and beautiful, we’d love to welcome it. With his extensive experience, Coleman takes a historical, scientific, and personal approach in developing a valid argument for the existence of Bigfoot in North America. Now they’re dedicated to protecting the cryptid community—as long as it’s not chowing down on the neighbors.Look deeper into the mystery of the Mothman legacy with the most extensive collection of data ever assembled.

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We don’t charter boats and rent side-scan sonar systems to scrutinize lake bottoms for water monsters. A firm believer in the paranormal, he recounts his globe-trotting expeditions to prove that these creatures are real.

This work, created in the early 20th century by Odell Shepard, is one of the better works made through time to craft mythology (and cryptozoology of a fashion) together with more modern historical treatments of its subject matter. Whether you believe in bigfoot or not, this fully illustrated compendium is a fun, frightening, fascinating tour through American folklore and history, exploring the stories we tell about monsters and what those stories say about us. Obviously, all cultures have monsters, and there are rich traditions of stories about those monsters. While biologists regularly identify new species following established scientific methodology, cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the folklore record and rumour. That’s really the biggest difference, between how we handle our monsters and how other countries handle theirs.

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This book delves into four regions of the US (Northeast, South, Midwest, and West) and the cryptids that (supposedly) roam these lands.

Since cryptozoology was established in its modern form in the fifties, the definition has widened to encompass even more fantastical creatures as more people grow interested in the topic.

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That hybrid creature led me to the eagle-lion griffin and my first published book, The Book of Gryphons. When I was a pre-teen, my mom began to withdraw from friendships, church, and community, and she took me and my siblings with her. Noah is a trans boy whose best friend Lewis died in a car crash, and since his passing, Noah’s begun writing letters to Mothman, a cryptid that looks like a big moth with big red glowing eyes.

Once I became a little older, and my childhood love of zoos, museums, and dinosaurs became a broader love of science, I began to re-examine certain fantastic claims and beliefs with a skeptical lens. Professing to pull the veil aside and expose a variety of classified experiments and studies conducted not only by our own government, but also by everyone from the Kremlin to the British military, this credulous take on cryptid cover-ups by Nick Redfern is required reading for true believers, cryptid enthusiasts, and conspiracy fans. This is the first book in a young adult trilogy about Alex and Nadia's adventures tagging Kate as she tells amazing stories from all over the world.