Wow. Just wow. This is amazing.
Also, you’ve earned your badge as well!
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Whoa.
You guys! All these stories have reminded me about a childhood encounter of my own. My parents divorced when I was four and I used to travel and visit my mom during the summer. My mom lived in Yuma, Arizona for a spell and I remember one summer the local kids talking about a horse-headed witch in a cloak who lived inside a giant shrub. Funny part is I feel that I remember seeing her and even though I know that memory is funny and doesn’t always tell the truth, I remember the opening in the bush and I can stil faintly see her in my mind.
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Wow. We have our own family cryptid, but its so much more innocent. We have the Hooten Frog. We travelled across country a lot and if we were really loud in the backseat, my parents would make a thumping noise and claim Hooten Frogs were on the roof of the car. My Dad would threaten to open the windows and let them in. If they got in they would jump on your head and mess up your hair. To this day, if someone is talking to much about something, we will say, “Did you hear that? I think it was a Hooten Frog” and laugh. Its our fun family way of saying shut up.
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and you saw her. Just wild.
So this one had me legit laughing.
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I have an only-sort-of cryptid. I lived in Albany, California (small city on the North border of Berkeley) during my middle school and high school years. The local urban legend was that there was a huge bear kept in a cage on Albany Hill in the forest behind a rich resident’s property. There were many middle of the night trips to find the bear and many many people who swore they saw it. Even more that definitely heard it roar, including me, though I may not have been in full control of my faculties at the time. Last I heard, still there!
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Maybe this goal was to get you to go INTO the forest?!
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OMG this whole thread is cracking me up! I have a very colorful family that we can date back centuries and absolutely NO folklore/cryptids at all…There are 3 Popes and a lot of scandals but they’re true and don’t involve any square headed baby bears in a woods or anything!
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This is what happens when you live in the middle of nowhere with no cable tv-you have lots of kids and make up tales!
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I am going to close up sign-ups at noon Eastern time. If you are on the fence, hurry up! You only have a few hours to join this fun swap!
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LOL I’m Italian/solvak/Ojibway they have lots of kids and superstitions they guilt you with I am sure the tribal members have some of this but none that were ever passed to me. I was raised almost fully by the Italian side they just guilt you into believing every action will cause someone to die…eat the veggies some how if you don’t Nonna will die!
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Lol. I can’t think of any either. I had a friend in HS who said she saw a cougar in her back yard. But, where we lived, it was plausible, lol.
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Ours was “every time you don’t clear your plate, Jesus cries”
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Also, it’s a new week. Don’t forget to post at least once a week on the thread! I don’t think I will have to say this too much since we have such an awesome group here.
I almost forgot, our Hooten Frog would say, “Hooten Ribbit” when it got closer and closer.
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My Dad was a mountain guide when I was a kid. You’d think I’d have heard a million and one Sasquatch stories, but NOPE. It’s never even occurred to me to ask him what he thinks about it!
I have an uncle, though, who retired from the navy who swears aliens are real (are aliens cryptids?). It seems he’s seen them or had some sort of dealings with them. They terrify him to the point that he refuses to speak of them other than to say you don’t want to mess with them.
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was he a seal by any chance? I have had 2 friends in my life that were retired seals and something must have happened to them! They didn’t really have all the crayons in a box after that experience! Great guys but really off! Ones wife would call me when he was on his way with things like “Ok today the color red is a NO, we can’t discuss rain and any discussion of kittens should be shut down” just randomness like that
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No he wasn’t a seal but woah… that’s some bizarre PSTD.
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Hooray for a new week and the swap closing today so we can see our partner’s list soon!
I don’t have anything to add, but am loving all of these family stories. So interesting.
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I hope the Hooten Frog is on your cryptid list! It sounds awesome!
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I can’t wait to see who my partner is!
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I also have an uncle story… My uncle Tom was a state trooper in Oregon for as long back as I can remember. He’s retired now. He tells a story where he and another officer were stopped somewhere in the country where they witnessed something they describe as a flying saucer, over the nearby hill. There were flashing lights and it moved across the sky, stopped for several minutes, then moved on. He has a newspaper clipping where the local paper printed a short account of the encounter.
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