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Cryptid Aesthetics [1/?]: Mothman

On November 12, 1966, five men who were digging a grave at a cemetery near Clendenin, West Virginia, claimed to see a man-like figure fly low from the trees over their heads.  This is often identified as the first known sighting of what became known as the Mothman.

Shortly thereafter, on November 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette, told police they saw a large grey creature whose eyes “glowed red” when the car headlights picked it up. They described it as a “large flying man with ten-foot wings”, following their car while they were driving in an area outside of town known as “the TNT area”, the site of a former World War II munitions plant. During the next few days, other people reported similar sightings. Two volunteer firemen who sighted it said it was a “large bird with red eyes”.  Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson that when he aimed a flashlight at a creature in a nearby field its eyes glowed “like bicycle reflectors”, and blamed buzzing noises from his television set and the disappearance of his German Shepherd dog on the creature. After the December 15, 1967, collapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people, the incident gave rise to the legend and connected the Mothman sightings to the bridge collapse.

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Cryptid Aesthetics  [4/?]: The Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately referred to as Nessie since the 1940s, is an aquatic being which reputedly inhabits Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.  It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere.

The earliest report of a monster in the vicinity of Loch Ness appears in the “Life of St.Columba” by Adomnán, written in the sixth century AD.

Modern interest in the monster was sparked by a sighting on 22 July 1933, when George Spicer and his wife saw “a most extraordinary form of animal” cross the road in front of their car. They described the creature as having a large body (about 4 feet high and 25 feet long) and a long, wavy, narrow neck, slightly thicker than an elephant’s trunk and as long as the width of the road. They saw no limbs.  It lurched across the road towards the loch 20 yards away, leaving a trail of broken undergrowth in its wake.

In December 1933, the first purported photograph of the monster taken by Hugh Gray was published; the Secretary of State for Scotland soon ordered police to prevent any attacks on the creature.  In 1934, interest was further piqued by another image known as "surgeon’s photograph" revealing the creature’s head and neck.  Further purported sightings of the creature as well as investigations via sonar and submarine have occurred over the years, and Nessie has become somewhat of a cultural icon in Scotland.

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Cryptid Aesthetics [2/?]: Bigfoot/Sasquatch

Supposedly a simian-like creature that inhabits forests, the term “sasquatch” is an Anglicized derivative of the Halkomelem word “sásq'ets”.  “Wild men" stories found among the Pacific Northwest coastal Indian tribes can be confidently related to Bigfoot and correspond to the areas where white Americans have reported sightings.  Similar accounts and legends are found on every continent except Antarctica.

Individuals claiming to have seen Bigfoot describe it as a large, hairy, muscular, bipedal ape-like creature, roughly 6–9 feet tall, and covered in hair described as black, dark brown, or dark reddish.  Some descriptions include details such as large eyes, a pronounced brow ridge, and a large, low-set forehead.  The top of the head has been described as rounded and crested, similar to the sagittal crest of the male gorilla.  The creature has been reported as having a strong, unpleasant smell.

The enormous footprints for which the creature is named are claimed to be as large as 24 inches long and 8 inches wide.  Some footprint casts have also contained claw marks.

Proponents of Bigfoot’s existence claim that the creature is omnivorous and mainly nocturnal.

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