The following written confession was submitted via email: …When I was about 18-19 years old me and my all time best friend were huge outdoorsman. We loved to deer hunt and turkey hunt…We would go hunting every chance we got over there. We had no fear of the outdoors. Worst thing we thought might be out there were ticks and snakes... But that all changed one day…

You may easily recognize Bigfoot’s enormous footprint in the mud, but what in the world (…or otherworld…) is leaving behind six-footed tracks? A legendary figure shrouded in mystery and mischief, one bizarre feline has been the subject of campfire stories and local legends for centuries. Let's pounce into the history and uncover some purr-tinent facts about the Wampus Cat in today’s Creature Feature Friday.

There’s more than corn in Iowa! The Van Meter Visitor is a very unusual cryptid characterized by its sudden appearance around the turn of the 20th century, its unique physical characteristics, and the sheer number of named witnesses who reportedly saw the monster during its nights of terror in Van Meter.

The following written confession was submitted via email: …maybe we were all just being paranoid, but we all got a similar feeling that we were being watched. After about five minutes of walking through the dense woodland, one of my friends said that he had seen movement in the distance. He pointed forward, and to all our shock, there in plain sight, we laid eyes on the strangest, most obscure creature we had ever seen…

The following written confession was submitted via email: I have a story where I saw something very unusual as a teen with my parents while driving on our country road. It was only a few seconds but I’ve never forgotten it…

It seems like UFOs are everywhere nowadays. Although many reports have yet to be identified, what if some of these UFOs have existed for decades because they are, in fact, large biological entities soaring through the skies - like, say, giant sky clams? Hear me out. Or rather, hear out the story of Don Wood Jr., whose incredible UFO account is one of extra-terrestrial proportions.

In a short clip posted to Youtube, a man appears to capture an unsettling encounter with an unidentified creature on his roof. Between the large head, huge glowing eyes, and the dubious skeletal carcass its seems to leave behind, the sighting provides many more questions than answers. Do you think this video is an entertaining hoax, or the real deal?

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: Around 2005, right after college, I moved back to my home town San Diego. A lot of my friends still lived there so it was a super easy transitions. It was also super easy to find friends to go ghost hunting as we all loved to get creeped out. I am from Chula Vista so the legend of the Proctor Valley Monster was nothing new. It’s a folkloric story about a few different tropes….

The following written confession was submitted via email: I live in Redding ca about an hour south of mount shasta. Last Tuesday ago around 9 pm I was driving home and came inches away from hitting a dog man. Most terrifying moment of my life….

The following written confession was submitted via Reddit: …If I remember correctly it was the 2nd of May 2022 and as I said I was in the forest near the village of Giron to pick berries. I was alone there was no one around but it was not something strange because it's a very sparsely populated part of France. The thing that felt strange was the fact that I did not see any animals. No deer, no wild boars, no foxes. It was silent…

There are a lot of strange things you don’t want to encounter in the woods, and one of them includes a fat, bald exploding bear. The Gumberoo comes out of lumberjack legends, hailing from the foggy region along the Pacific Coast. It bears a resemblance to black bears, except that it is completely hairless but for its bristly beard and big eyebrows.

The following written confession was submitted via email: …He and a friend were walking through a field in East Tennessee. They were finished with their hunt and it was near dark. As they were walking they noticed something walking toward them. As it got closer they could see it was what they described as a werewolf or dogman…

Is it Bigfoot in broad daylight? An intriguing video emerged online late last month that seems to show a dark, hulking figure in arguably clear view on a property in Tennessee. The creature itself looks on curiously as it is filmed, at one point stretching some pretty long, strong arms from tree to tree as it creeps around. There is little context for the video, and it frustratingly cuts off too soon, but many people do believe the clip is evidence of Bigfoot.

Is the Hugag the world’s silliest looking-moose, a leftover dinosaur, or something else entirely? Learn more about this Lumberwoods cryptid legend - like why it cannot lie down - in today’s Creature Feature, excerpted from our blog 9 Cryptids That Are (Probably) Too Absurd To Be Real.

The following written confession was submitted via email: I wanted to share a brief encounter I had when I was about 10 or 12 years old. While on a field trip to a mine about an hour away I think it was called empire mine in grass valley California about 90 percent sure it was that one. So for about maybe 10 minutes or more I decided to look around apart from my group…