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From Mongolian death worms to mothmen: 7 legendary mysterious creatures that kept you up at night as a child

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1. Loch Ness Monster

"Discover the Loch Ness monster again!" The September 25, 2021 edition of the New York Post announced. Drone footage recently uploaded to the internet appears to show Loch Ness — a giant long-necked animal beneath a 22-square-mile (56-square-kilometer) lake in northern Scotland, The Post reported. But it turned out that the video turned out to be a hoax, apparently edited by someone, and the "monster" in the video was strikingly similar to a mass-produced plesiosaur toy.

According to records, plesiosaurs were pelagic reptiles that coexisted with dinosaurs about 201 to 66 million years ago, and many species had long necks, small heads, and needle-like teeth. The first time modern people "witnessed" a giant monster in Loch Ness dates back to August 1933. Many later reports described an animal that sounded a bit like a plesiosaur. Maybe what people are really seeing is some kind of misidentified native fish, or maybe Scottish geology is playing tricks on us. Loch Ness is bounded by a natural fault line that sometimes shakes. Those that can send bubbles and waves dancing on the surface of the water, from a distance, such a commotion may well be mistaken for the lapping of a giant beast in the lake.

From Mongolian death worms to mothmen: 7 legendary mysterious creatures that kept you up at night as a child

2. Snowman

Most "eyewitness" testimonies say the mysterious animal has brown, black, or reddish-brown fur. So why are Hollywood snowmen almost always full of gray hair?

The snowman is a furry biped associated with Central Asian folklore and is said to inhabit the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Occult zoologists often interpret it as some kind of primate — possibly similar to an orangutan. At the beginning of the 20th century, stories about strange footprints on snowbeds on Mount Everest made the snowman world-famous. Eventually, the U.S. government took notice. On November 30, 1959, the U.S. Embassy in Nepal issued a document outlining the official regulations for snowman hunters in the area.

From Mongolian death worms to mothmen: 7 legendary mysterious creatures that kept you up at night as a child

3. Mothman

The riverside city of Point Pleasant in Point, West Virginia, has a museum, a statue, and a recurring festival, all dedicated to the only "Mothman." Believers will tell you that this creature has glowing red eyes. Other attributes include huge wings and a tall, fuzzy humanoid body.

In 1966, the "Point Pleasant Register" began reporting mothman sightings. On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge over the nearby Ohio River collapsed, killing 46 people, and at the time rumors were rumored to be linked to the disaster. These rumors inspired John Gere's 1975 book, The Mothman Prophecy, and its 2002 film adaptation (starring Richard Gere and Laura Linnie).

From Mongolian death worms to mothmen: 7 legendary mysterious creatures that kept you up at night as a child

4. Mokra-Mbian Be

In fact, Mothman isn't the only mysterious figure making its way into Hollywood.

"Baby: The Secret of the Lost Saga" is a 1985 Disney film that tells the story of a 20th-century dinosaur living in the Congo River Valley. The painting was inspired by the African legend of Mokele-mbembe. The creature is believed to be a giant water monster, similar to the herbivorous, long-necked, extinct dinosaur Brontosaurus.

In the early 20th century, animal merchant Carl Hagenbeck popularized the belief that non-avian dinosaurs were still at large in Africa. In his time, many museum displays depicted Brontosaurus and its relatives as creatures of a lake in the water. However, there is no evidence to support this. In fact, thanks to evidence of bones and footprints, there is now the fact that these magnificent animals are entirely land dry ducks.

From Mongolian death worms to mothmen: 7 legendary mysterious creatures that kept you up at night as a child

5. Zhuo Pa Cabra

What exactly drove the mayor of Puerto Canovanas, to assemble an armed contingent of 200 people and a goat in a cage? Monster stories, that's it.

It was 1995, and there were some horrific reports of mysterious beasts slaughtering domestic animals. The creature is said to have sucked the victim's blood dry, leaving fatal injuries. Eventually, the mysterious animal became known as "El Chupacabra," which means "goat-sucking man" in Spanish. However, in Mexico and the southwestern United States, some coyotes and raccoons suffering from scabies have hair all over their bodies and are occasionally mistaken for Zhuo Pa Cabra.

From Mongolian death worms to mothmen: 7 legendary mysterious creatures that kept you up at night as a child

6. Mongolian death worm

American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews heard the story of a bizarre animal called "allergorhai-horhai" during his Mongolian expeditions in the 1920s. Since then, it has had a vicious nickname: "Mongolian Death Worm".

As narrated by Scientific American, he told these stories in a 1922 article in Asia magazine, writing that the organism "was shaped like a sausage about two feet long, had no head or legs, and was so toxic that touching it meant immediate death." It lives in the most inhospitable part of the Gobi Desert where we are going. Occult zoologist Ivan Mackerle later joined the myth, claiming that the worm could kill adult men with high-voltage electric shocks.

From Mongolian death worms to mothmen: 7 legendary mysterious creatures that kept you up at night as a child

7. Bigfoot Savage, aka: "Bigfoot"

Bigfoot Savage should be familiar to everyone. The term "Bigfoot" originated in a newspaper column in 1958. The article, written by Andrew Gonzoli of the Humboldt Times, describes mysterious footprints found at a construction site in Northern California.

Fast forward to 2003. That year, Raymond Wallace, a lumberjack who had worked at the site, died at the age of 84. Wallace's surviving children told the media that their late father forged these monster footprints in '58. What is his choice of tool? Foot-shaped wood carving, ironic enough.

From Mongolian death worms to mothmen: 7 legendary mysterious creatures that kept you up at night as a child

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