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Now i know that mammoths are technically a cryptid but I'd love to think that somewhere in siberia there is a family of furry mammoths surviving without having being discovered :) also my partner *loves* mammoths so this stencil was always coming :) all light painting, one single exposure, straight from camera
...design by myself, executed by the fabulous Louise Chong using old-school acid-etching.
Kraken
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Pukwudgie
Loveland Frog
Iliamna Lake Monster
Nessie
Glawackus
Look 'em up!
Great Escape
89 Six Flags Drive,
Queensbury, New York.
Washington County, USA.
(from Wikipedia)
Sasquatch is an S&S Worldwide combo drop tower at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York. It opened on May 10, 2009.
The ride was previously located at Six Flags New Orleans under the names Bayou Blaster and Sonic Slam; after the park closed due to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the ride was moved to Great Escape. The current name is derived from the cryptid Sasquatch. The ride stands at 192 feet tall.
Ride History
The ride first opened in 2000 as Bayou Blaster and Sonic Slam at a new park called Jazzland. Then Six Flags took over the lease of the park in 2002 and changed the name to Six Flags New Orleans in 2003.
After Hurricane Katrina hit the park on August 29, 2005, the park was severely flooded from the hurricane and has remained closed since. Six Flags decided to relocate several rides, such as Batman: The Ride, which was removed in 2007 and taken to Six Flags Fiesta Texas where it was refurbished and reopened on April 18, 2008 under the new name Goliath.
The Bayou Blaster and the Sonic Slam were dismantled in 2008 and relocated to Great Escape, where the ride was refurbished, repainted, and renamed Sasquatch. The ride was officially opened on May 10, 2009 on the former spot of Rainbow, which closed after the 2007 season.
Ride experience
The ride contains two shafts or towers, a lift tower and a drop tower. On the drop tower, riders are easily brought to the top and then dropped extremely fast down most of it, then brought up not as high, then dropped at the same speed. This continues several more times before the ride ends. On the lift tower, riders are shot to the top in three seconds, then dropped not as fast as the drop tower drops, then brought back up at the same speed, then dropped slowly. This continues until the ride ends like the drop tower.
The correct name for the two towers are Launch and Drop. The Launch Tower shoots passengers over 150 feet (46 m) into the air in 3 seconds and slowly drops them down. The Drop tower launches passengers slowly and drops them in three seconds.
AI creation with Leonardo
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Detailed (drawing by artist Otto Rapp 1.5) at the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum in post apocalyptic Wonderland, drawing by H.R. Giger, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymus Bosch, Alphonse Mucha, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, Bogomils Universe tattooed albino contortionist freak created by the cryptid taxidermist Dr. Moreau using (body parts from chimeras and dragons 1.0) based on the island of Dr Moreau
All pictures taken at "Sovereigns of Elyona - Medieval Fantasy RP" @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Forest%20Song/24/217/2999
Wearing corpse paint like any Nordic Pagan should, and carrying an album of family photos (family is important to trolls).
On a whim I decided to take part in Inktober 2018 by making dodgy sketches of Cryptids featured on the wonderful podcast "The Cryptid Keeper". These are the results.
Commentary.
Spring in the Highlands.
South-West from Dores beach this image shows nearly the whole length of Loch Ness.
It certainly shows twenty of the twenty-five miles of its length
from Fort Augustus to Abban Water and Loch Dochfour.
The two-hundred-mile fault line of which it is a part, extending from the north part of the Moray Firth to Ireland, reaches a vertical height of over a mile, when adding the height of Ben Nevis to the depth of Loch Ness.
At Urquhart Bay the chasm created by tectonic movement and subsequent glaciers, reaches two miles in width.
In this view, Urquhart Bay, is seen on the right, just below the snowy heights of Meall-Fhuar Mhonaidh, at 700 metres or 2,300 feet.
The plain rocks and pebbles, the calm waters and the benign ducks contrast dramatically with the metre-high waves, stormy skies and howling gale that a south-westerly gale can bring.
On this day it was no more than a giant mill-pond but in misty conditions, as darkness descends, its mood can become malevolent, sinister and un-nerving.
Whether prehistoric cryptids swim in its murky, peaty waters
or not, it can stir the blood and the imagination.
In this shot, it was a delight.
Peaceful and full of promise, that spring was about to be “sprung.”
AI creation with Dreamwombo
various different models, same prompt for all.
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by Michael DeForge and derek hess: creature with disembodied gaping mouth made of used syringes! ,sixpack eyes, ruptured photomontage by bobby neel adams , milk running out of mouth by Simon Bisley, igor Morski , Bogomils Universe, cryptid taxidermy by Art of the Mystic Otto Rapp
"I guess they're not as dead as we thought."
Journalist Claude Laughlin and photographer Elmer Morrow document the first living dodo birds seen in over 250 years.
(Rare two-colour process print)
AI image created with Kandinsky 2.2
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Untidy cryptid taxidermy beast sitting in nest made of garbage in Wonderland woods, rubbish, odds-and-ends. Messy. 8k resolution concept art hyperdetailed intricately detailed Unreal Engine phot illustration HDR, by Otto Rapp in Bogomil's Universe
Back in 2020 I painted this vest with great big cute mothman cryptid (Yes, I live nearby to where the mothman legend came about.) and a parade of Fresno Nightcrawlers around the bottom edge. Sadly, I don’t really wear it as I typically like my vests cropped above my big stupid butt. I have some more ideas of additional things to add to it. My brain is bubbling over with creative ideas because I am not able to sit down and work on them. I forgot how much fun I had making this vest. Here’s to me staying motivated through this busier time so when winter comes around I am able to actually bring these tenuous ideas to fruition.
“Faeries are nice beings, they grant wishes. Right?” – Unknown
While some certainly do nice things and some may even grant wishes; others still play harmless pranks to fool the mortals they encounter.
To most the fae are mischievous tricksters on the surface and no true threat. However the fae hierarchy stretches and grows like the roots of the oldest trees in the forest and for every bit of light and shimmer as branches raise high in the sky; there is dark and shadow as roots dig deep into the earth.
The Duskfall Court is the seat of shadow and where pranks are rarely harmless. Those who abide by its laws find themselves watched over by the nobility of the court.
Those who tread these woods best watch out because the woods watch back and will not hesitate to ensnare the unwary.
The Duskfall Court is sponsored by Quills & Curiosities and Cryptid
The region is magically created by Dacien & Marcel Blackwood, Crow, and Lemony Nova
In just 4 days, The Cryptid Event will have its Grand Opening on March 10th @ 4pm SLT, ft. a set by Severus Seven
We're all super excited for you all to see the event, and the hard work that was put in to make this everything we wanted in a Goth exclusive event, and more, featuring some of Second Life's very best, very loved goth creators!
Join the discord to stay updated in the meantime!
So what's the best thing to help recovering from overdoing the wine last night? An ice cold abominable snow person and quality time in a dark room! #SOOC except for slight crop, multiple layers of cardboard stencil, cotton wool, led lenser, fibre optic brush, no photoshop, single exposure :) hope you all had a splendid weekend! See more at www.facebook.com/tywyllagolau
#lightpainted #lightpainting #lightstencil #stencil #ledlenser #fibreoptic #fiberoptic #nikon #d5100 #10-24mm #longexposure #cryptid #cryptozoology #yeti #abominable #snowman #nophotoshop #photography #series
AI creation on Dreamwombo
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Chimera at the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum in post apocalyptic Wonderland, in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, painting by H.R. Giger, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymus Bosch, Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, imperial colors; Bogomils Universe
All pictures taken at "Sovereigns of Elyona - Medieval Fantasy RP" @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Forest%20Song/24/217/2999
All pictures taken at "Sovereigns of Elyona - Medieval Fantasy RP" @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Forest%20Song/24/217/2999
The original Jenny Haniver looks nothing like this - it's kind of a mutilated skate with fur glued on. The first Monster in my Pocket was an AWESOME monster, but nothing like the Jenny Haniver. This, the 2006 remix... is also an awesome monster and nothing like the original.
But it's a cool piranhafrog.
Igopogo - Kempenfelt Kelly (Lake Simcoe)
Lake Simcoe is a mere hour's drive north of the thriving metropolis of Toronto, Ontario, Canada which boasts a population of three million people. Yet despite its proximity to Canada's largest city and its many denizens, Lake Simcoe holds a secret that has been revealed to only a select few over the years.
Canada is an unusual country in that it contains more lakes containing unidentified swimming animals than any other country in the world. Lake Simcoe is one of those lakes. Its unusual inhabitant has been given the nickname Igopogo - an obvious parody of the name bestowed upon the aquatic marvel of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia. As Igopogo has been frequently sighted in Kempenfelt Bay on the northwestern side of this roughly circular lake, it is also known as Kempenfelt Kelly.
Those who have obtained a sighting of the reticent and elusive beast have described it as having a stove-pipe neck with a head resembling that of a dog and with a face to match. The largest specimen sighted was a mere 12 feet long - a small enough creature when compared with the lurking hulks said to dwell at Loch Ness and Okanagan Lake. This midget-sized monster is also a much slower swimmer than the other more illustrious denizens of cryptid-infested lakes. Igopogo only appears to amble along at a leisurely pace when spotted by surprised humans. the animal has a penchant for gliding up to startled picnickers on shore and has manifested itself to unwary boaters who are frequently overwhelmed by the creature's sudden manifestation.
However to add confusion to the mix, a few sightings and a couple of sonar contacts have revealed an animal that is larger than the one described above. A Handful of people have described a more serpentine creature so the question that begs to be asked is: Does Lake Simcoe, like Storsjon in Sweden and Flathead Lake in Montana, contain more than one type of cryptid?
It is thanks to a boater that the mystery of Lake Simcoe may have been partially solved. For years Igopogo would mesmerize all and sundry who saw the cryptid, but the eyewitness descriptions of the beast did not tally with those of creatures seen elsewhere. It was readily apparent that what was being described was more mammalian in appearance than the reptilian or amphibian-type cryptids seen at Lakes Champlain, Pohenegamook, Memphremagog and Okanagan. The brown colouring and the dog-like face were at odds with the horse or sheep-like heads of other freshwater cryptids and the shortness of body length in comparison with the bigger creatures seemed to indicate that this was not your run-of-the-mill lake monster or sea serpent of yore. Instead the scenario featured a mammal which seemed to be very unusual and extremely shy. Igopogo sightings are very rare and only surpassed for infrequency by that other low-profile beast - Manipogo of the Manitoba lake systems.
Few cryptozoologists had probed the waters of Lake Simcoe in search of Igopogo and one of those who did investigate was BCSCC President, John Kirk. Having circled the entire periphery of the lake as well as the fringes of adjacent Lake Couchiching, Kirk found no trace of any unusual activity at the lake and was of the opinion that whatever once dwelt in Lake Simcoe had died or had migrated elsewhere. Few reports had emanated from the lake since the 1970s so it was not unreasonable that Igopogo was no longer resident in the lake.
Kirk's opinion changed in 1991 when he was shown a videotape of a cryptid in Lake Simcoe shot the same year. In March of that year, Kirk had appeared on a television talk show along with a panel of cryptozoologists and eyewitnesses to anomalous zoological phenomena. Among the participants was an Englishman named Don Hepworth who spoke of his encounter with a pair of Sasquatch crossing a remote Idaho highway. Kirk, who is also British was pleased to meet a fellow countryman who had had his own experience with a cryptid in North America. The two men spoke about general cryptozoological topics after the program and then parted ways. Several months later, Hepworth called Kirk with the news that he had been contacted by a viewer who had seen the cryptozoological chat show. The viewer indicated that he was in possession of a videotape of mystery animal in Lake Simcoe and "would Hepworth like to have a look at it?"
Naturally, the former British army officer leapt at the chance and a meeting was arranged to view the tape. It seems the cameraman was enjoying a day of taping a friend as he raced his powerful hydroplane around the lake in preparation for a future race. During the trials the hydroplane experienced a breakdown at the southern end of the lake and was forced to make repairs while still out in the lake. As the racer lifted the front hatch of his boat, those on shore watching and recording the scene noticed a sudden disturbance in the water immediately in front of the boat. Suddenly, a large animal rose vertically out of the water, shocking the driver of the boat and bemusing the others on shore. There was a moment of panic and indecision amongst the viewers as they pondered what to do about what was clearly a monstrous animal much larger than the beavers sometimes seen in the lake. After gazing at the driver for a few moments the creature sunk downwards and peered upward with only its head visible above the surface. Shortly thereafter, the creature sank out of sight not to return.
Hepworth was sufficiently impressed by the footage that he contacted Kirk and asked him to examine the videotape and let him know what he thought was causing the unusual apparition in the lake. On receiving the tape Kirk immediately got down to the task of identifying the mystery resident of Lake Simcoe and ran the tape over and over again as he attempted to make sense of what he was seeing. Having worked at an oceanarium for four years Kirk was familiar with most of the pinnipedia (sea lions, seals, elephant seals and leopard seals amongst others) and was convinced that what was seen in the video was one of the types of pinniped named above. As to its exact identity, there was insufficient clarity in the video to precisely identify the species. this seal or sea lion was a big specimen possibly measuring between 9 and 12 feet long and had the muzzle so often associated with Igopogo, but it was also very sea lion-like at the same time.
Kirk got back to Hepworth who then asked him what he thought the creature resembled and the BCSCC president immediately replied he thought it was a pinniped of some sort. Hepworth said that it was exactly what he thought it was. It seems that Hepworth had read of other reports of seals appearing in areas such as the Niagara River, the St. Lawrence seaway and some of the other Ontario lakes that were all hundreds of miles from the sea. How had these seals managed to move so far inland and how did they survive for so long? Igopogo the seal remains somewhat of a mystery, but the probe at Lake Simcoe continues. So far the seals have not been located nor have any traces of their presence been discovered. It may well be that they move around Simcoe and to other nearby lakes and as they are air breathers have no problem crossing areas of dry land from one body of water to the next.
In 2005 skeptics and also BCSCC members, Joe Nickell and Ben Radford, were featured in a Discovery Channel segment on the Lake Simcoe creature. Despite maintaining an open mind, Nickell and Radford were unable to find any evidence of the creature’s recent activity.
The BCSCC is interested in working with anyone who lives near the lake and would be willing to act as an observer at lakeside. If you would like to join the club and perform this task please email us at cryptozoologybc@yahoo.ca.
“Faeries are nice beings, they grant wishes. Right?” – Unknown
While some certainly do nice things and some may even grant wishes; others still play harmless pranks to fool the mortals they encounter.
To most the fae are mischievous tricksters on the surface and no true threat. However the fae hierarchy stretches and grows like the roots of the oldest trees in the forest and for every bit of light and shimmer as branches raise high in the sky; there is dark and shadow as roots dig deep into the earth.
The Duskfall Court is the seat of shadow and where pranks are rarely harmless. Those who abide by its laws find themselves watched over by the nobility of the court.
Those who tread these woods best watch out because the woods watch back and will not hesitate to ensnare the unwary.
The Duskfall Court is sponsored by Quills & Curiosities and Cryptid
The region is magically created by Dacien & Marcel Blackwood, Crow, and Lemony Nova
Lagarfljótsormur is an Icelandic lake cryptid which is purported to live in Lagarfljót in Egilsstaðir. Sightings have been logged since 1345 and continue into the 21st century. An origin of the creature is given in Jón Árnason's collection of Icelandic folktales and legends published in 1862 and 1864.
sooc all light painting no computer processing :) kraken stencil, fibre optic brushes, cotton wool, led lenser, random plants
The skunk ape, also known as the swamp cabbage man, swamp ape, stink ape, Florida Bigfoot, Louisiana Bigfoot, myakka ape, swampsquatch, and myakka skunk ape, is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit the U.S. states of Florida, North Carolina, and Arkansas, although reports from Florida are most common. It is named for its appearance and for the unpleasant odor that is said to accompany it.
Handmade faux fur yeti/abominable snowman with wool arms, face, and eyes, and embroidered mouth. Arms are jointed with plastic safety joints and include a wire armature for full posability.
Yes, it doesn't look like much but that's by design.
A shed, that's all? Well, not quite. Not many people know it, but this "shed" is well-fortified on the inside. Strong enough to hold captive the most legendary cryptid said to inhabit the earth.
According to the most popular legend, the Jersey Devil was spawned in the 18th century when Deborah Smith from England immigrated to the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey to marry a Mr. Leeds, a rather vain man who wanted several heirs to continue the family name. Consequently, the new wife was continually pregnant. After bearing twelve healthy children, she was dismayed to be pregnant with her thirteenth. She cursed the unborn child, declaring a preference to bear the Devil's child rather than another Leeds. Apparently, her wish was granted as the new child had cloven hooves, claws, and a tail. The horrific newborn proceeded to eat the other Leeds children and the parents, before escaping through the chimney to begin its reign of terror.
The Jersey Devil indeed. Not many know that in in 1989, the Devil itself was actually captured. After being transported around the state - one step ahead of the poachers looking to make millions - It ended up here, at a discrete location in Central NJ. A fortified prison of sorts was designed, right under the noses of the local community. After all, who would want the Jersey Devil living in their midsts?
But I've heard the high-pitched wails and I've seen the long, yellow brown nails scraping the portal-like windows. And the smell. Oh, the smell. The piles of bones that collect out back are a testament to the fact that the Devil needs to be kept well fed on lost puppies and vulture turkeys. Or else.
I've peered in the windows...and looked the Devil in it's red, bloodshot eye.
Care to look in tonight, on this Mischief Night?
#291of 365 Days of Photos 2007
Panthera pardus
A black panther is typically a melanistic color variant of any of several species of larger cat. Wild black panthers in Latin America are black jaguars (Panthera onca), in Asia and Africa they are black leopards (Panthera pardus), and in North America they may be black jaguars or possibly black cougars (Puma concolor – although this has not been proven to have a black variant), or smaller cats.
Black panthers are also reported as cryptids in areas such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, and if these do exist, their species is not known. Captive black panthers may be black jaguars, or more commonly black leopards. Black panthers have sometimes been regarded as forming different species from their normally-colored relatives.
The name "panther" is often limited to the black variants of the species, but also commonly refers to those that are normally-colored (tawny or spotted), or to white color variants: white panthers.
Black leopards are reported from most densely forested areas in southwestern China, Myanmar, Assam and Nepal, from Travancore and other parts of southern India and are said to be common in Java and the southern part of the Malay Peninsula where they may be more numerous than spotted leopards. They are less common in tropical Africa, but have been reported from Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia), from the forests of Mount Kenya and from the Aberdares. One was recorded by Peter Turnbull-Kemp in the equatorial forest of Cameroon. Skin color is a mixture of blue, black, gray, and purple.
Jungle World
Bronx Zoo New York
Created with Kandinsky 2.2 Mode in zoo.replicate.dev/
Head and Shoulder Portrait of a Cryptid Neptune with long white beard in post apocalyptic Wonderland Harbor, in heaven by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, painting by H.R. Giger, Hieronymus Bosch, Art Nouveau, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, imperial colors; Bogomil's Universe
AI creation on Dreamwombo
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Chimera at the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum in post apocalyptic Wonderland, in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, painting by H.R. Giger, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymus Bosch, Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, imperial colors; Bogomils Universe
Commentary.
Spring snow in the Highlands.
South-West from Dores beach this image shows nearly the whole length of Loch Ness.
It certainly shows twenty of the twenty-five miles of its length
from Fort Augustus to Abban Water and Loch Dochfour.
The three-hundred and fifty-mile fault line of which it is a part,
extending from the north part of the Moray Firth to Ireland,
reaches a vertical height of over a mile, when adding the height of Ben Nevis to the depth of Loch Ness.
At Urquhart Bay the chasm created by tectonic movement and subsequent glaciers, reaches two miles in width.
In this view, Urquhart Bay, is seen on the right,
just below the snowy heights of Meall-Fhuar Mhonaidh, at 700 metres or 2,300 feet.
On this day it was no more than a giant mill-pond
but in misty conditions, as darkness descends,
its mood can become malevolent, sinister and un-nerving.
Whether prehistoric cryptids swim in its murky, peaty waters
or not, it can stir the blood and the imagination.
Today, peaceful and full of promise,
spring was here!
The skunk ape, also known as the swamp cabbage man, swamp ape, stink ape, Florida Bigfoot, Louisiana Bigfoot, myakka ape, swampsquatch, and myakka skunk ape, is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit the U.S. states of Florida, North Carolina, and Arkansas, although reports from Florida are most common. It is named for its appearance and for the unpleasant odor that is said to accompany it.
Baby Honey Blossom has taken too much of an interest in eating poor Sloog, it is for this reason that she is now on ebay.
The left and the right disagree on the dangers of Covid-19(Coronavirus), the leader of the Italian Democratic Party contracts the illness, and the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gets an infection scare. Listen to the episode here: radiowasteland.us/news/the-politics-of-coronavirus/
AI image created with Kandinsky 2.2
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The Exorcist arrives at the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum to banish the ghost of Jabba the Hut. Nightmare In Wonderland, Surreal Setting, Colorful, horror, Vibrant, Whimsical Creatures, By Patrick Woodroffe, By Aeron Alfrey, by Alex Grey, H.R. Giger with Otto Rapp in Bogomil's Universe