Pop goes the cryptid! USPS announces #cryptid stamps for 2027 including Mothman, Squonk, Champ and Bigfoot.
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Pop goes the cryptid! USPS announces #cryptid stamps for 2027 including Mothman, Squonk, Champ and Bigfoot.
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Recently updated my local #AI image model to #MOSS from #SDXL. It uses #Gemma4 26B-A4B model to enhance your prompt.
My prompt was: a full diagram (fully describe it) with two rows showing the "white" and "black" sets of chess pieces that fit a "cryptids" theme. make it a plain chart with the "white" pieces up top and the "black" pieces below, with each column labeled "king", "queen", and so on.
I'm actually pretty impressed.
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West Virginia is for cryptids
Cryptid central of the US is definitely West Virginia. They have the most individually named pop cryptids of any state simply because residents have made an effort to pluck obscure stories from the past, remix them, and commodify them for the 21st century. They also had help from Hollywood, tabloids, and even Japanese artists and writers that took the kernel of some of the stories and made them into something totally outrageous.
This week the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles announced the release of a new license plate template for special purchase featuring nine of the state’s infamous cryptids. The plate’s artwork was designed by the West Virginia artist Jesse Corlis, who died in 2023.
The art depicts, most prominently, the Flatwoods Monster, also called Braxie or Braxxie (for Braxton County). The Flatwoods monster has its origins in one event from 1952 . Since 1987, it has been featured in no less than 33 different digital games and is a well known UMA (unidentified mysterious animal) in Japan where it was introduced into Japanese pop culture through paranormal magazines in the 1960s and 70s. The legendary monster developed a massive reputation as a robot alien and as a “momster” (because it looks like it has a dress) that is still growing today.
Also featured on the license plate is Mothman, of course, fluttering just behind Braxie. On the opposite side is Bigfoot who has a large presence in the state in shadowy blue. The rest of the cryptids are more in the background where you might have to do a bit of I Spy to find them. Sheepsquatch is a type of giant goat-man or Bigfoot with horns. Batboy is an absurd Weekly Weird News type creature who is said to live in the cave system of Greenbrier County. Vegetable Man is a blood sucking alien with vine like appendages described from one person’s harrowing story from 1968. The Grafton Monster is a pale massive, muscular creature with no visible head, established to be a 1964 hoax. But who cares about that part, right? The Ogua is a reptilian water creature from the Monongahela River. And a werewolf, which is depicted as just a wolf, but meant to honor the Webster County Werewolf, a wolf-like humanoid beast that is now popular nationwide as a “dogman.”
The new plate was announced on Oct 29, just in time for Halloween. By Nov 4, the DMV states they sold over 1000 of the new plates. People on the DMV facebook page were complaining that the plate was sold out at their local offices. The DMV noted that this is not a limited time offer but the plate will be in long term circulation, the supply will be restocked. So, I expect we’ll see a lot of these eventually.
The license plate follows a successful cryptid municipal promotion by the Granville Police Department. In April 2026, they released cryptid-inspired police patches that sold out in 24 hours. “The community response to the cryptid one has been crazy,” Granville Police Chief Craig Corkrean told 12 News. “Everyone’s kind of gone nuts over them.” The patches showed Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster and the Grafton Monster.
West Virginia may soon have to remove the “almost heaven” as their logo and go with “cryptid land” as their new motto. WVa is certainly serving as a prime example of how cryptids=cash these days.
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Happy Halloween from Mothman!
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Happy #Halloween Everyone! 👻 🎃
Made a quick video of #Mothman on the P-U tube.
Eat lots of candy ... stay up late ... and watch a scary flick!
Cheers
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My ex-wife’s favorite Cryptid was and is Mothman.
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Scientific knowledge about megalodon is ignored by #cryptid fans. What a surprise: "So many papers are behind paywalls while nonsense posted by a blogger online is free to access for anybody.”
www.varsity.co.uk/science/32314
The meg-a conspiracy theory ab... -
Scientific knowledge about megalodon is ignored by #cryptid fans. What a surprise: "So many papers are behind paywalls while nonsense posted by a blogger online is free to access for anybody.”
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Been a while ... I soured on a lot of social media.
But I built this for a Halloween Group Build.MOTHMAN!
Roughly 1/8 in scale from Pegasus Hobbies. I challenged myself not to use an airbrush for it ... and stick (mostly) to craft paints. I think it turned out quite well.
Until next time and Happy Halloween! May the Mothman's prophecies bring you good fortune instead of bad.
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Day 5 of the 12 Masks of Halloween tackles modern internet folklore with an unbranded Siren Head latex piece. We examine the mesh viewport, glasses limits, and how to build a wire-strewn cryptid outfit. #Cryptid https://www.geeknative.com/243645/12-masks-of-halloween-5-creepy-siren/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-GNBlogWave1
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Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 23: Cryptid
He’s a good boy - but he’s dead. A friendly little Black Shuck (means hairy fiend or devil) for you today from British folklore. A spectral dog known to haunt the countryside.
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Today's Useless Fact: #Irkutsk, part of modern Russia, features an accidental mythical creature on their coat of arms, called a Babr.
Originally a Siberian tiger, the animal was assumed to be a typo by officials under Alexander II and "fixed" by their office, becoming a beaver-thing, in 1878. St Petersburg then gave the beast webbed back feet and a beaver tail. The mistake went unnoticed until 1997. The error stuck.
I give you the stupidest #cryptid, the Heraldic Babr.
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Day 2 of the 12 Masks of Halloween brings West Virginia to your wardrobe with this overhead Mothman mask. We discuss the faux fur reality, glasses compatibility, and why you should skip the angel wings. #Cryptid https://www.geeknative.com/243515/12-masks-of-halloween-2-mothman/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-GNBlogWave1
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Braxie aka the Flatwoods monster.
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Just out: Podcast episode with @[email protected] #cryptid #fortean
Squaring the Strange: Episode 290 - Monsters and Cryptozoology Today, with Darren Naish and Sharon Hill squaringthestrange.libsyn.com/episode-290-...
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Woodbooger vs Bigfoot: Are They The Same? #bigfoot #cryptid #appalachia
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At Knoblin Fest, Donelson local cryptid. #knoblinfest #cryptid
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Doing Drawlloween again! Here’s Day 1: Moth Maiden - but minus the maiden. Just couldn’t get my head around it so defaulted to Mothman - they are kinda genderfluid any way! Come along for spooky month with me and watch me slowly lose my mind creating a new piece every day 😅 #linocut #mdwc26d1 #mothman #cryptid
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Georgia's "Nessie" is called Altamaha-ha. Said to be a quite large & long creature, Altamaha-ha has been seen in the Darien coastal region & elsewhere in McIntosh County. #WyrdWednesday #Georgia #Cryptid
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Theory: #Bigfoot is a macroscopic #quantum object in superposition coupled to camera autofocus. But the collapse isn't 50/50. Every camera resolves him to "doesn't exist." Observation doesn't just measure Bigfoot - it actively selects against him. #Cryptid #QuantumMechanics #Cryptid #cryptozoology
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#microfic #microfiction #cryptid Everyone around here knows about the Salt River Rattler, with its six scaly arms and radium eyes and all that. But only a handful have truthfully seen it over that last hundred years. And now I'm one of them. A night a week ago, a flutter outside the back porch, a slithering hiss, and then there it was, the Rattler itself, standing just a couple arm lengths in front of me, glistening as if moist, filling the air around it with an ozone charge. 1/4
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Oh. My. Gawd. Someone get this for me!!!!
#cryptid #horsehttps://www.breyerhorses.com/products/cryptid-freedom-series-halloween-horse
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Need more #wolf lore? WHO DOESN'T?!
Shout out to another one of our favorites on this week's #lore and #myths related to #wolves (listen here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/lupus-myths-and-reconstellations/) -- ROUGAROU!
📷 : Daniel Eskridge/Alamy Stock Photo via https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rougarou-louisiana
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In May 2001, Delhi panicked over a “monkey man” attacking rooftop sleepers. Descriptions ranged from hairy ape-man to helmeted robot. #monkeyman #cryptid https://connectparanormal.net/2026/09/14/monkey-man-of-delhi-the-2001-panic-that-terrified-a-city/
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