Category: Cryptozoology – Hominids

The name de Loys’ Ape refers to a 5-foot tall (1.5m) ape-man supposedly discovered by Swiss geologist François de Loys during an expedition to South…

Over the centuries many people have claimed to have seen strange humanlike animals that walk upright. The animal component of these man-beasts is most commonly…

Now widely considered to be a hoax created to make money at carnival sideshows, the Minnesota Iceman was a supposed man-beast, claimed to be a…

Also called Reptoids, lizard men are said to be amphibious bipeds that seem to be half-human, half-reptile. Reported sightings of such creatures are rare, but…

The yeren (“Wildman”) has figured in central and southern Chinese folk traditions for centuries. Many encounters are recorded in the thickly forested regions of central…

The Sisemite is a legendary creature from Central American folklore, bearing striking similarities to North America’s Bigfoot. Reported primarily in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, the Sisemite is…

The country of Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, is said to have once housed a small, hairy tribe of people called the Nittaewo, first…

From Siberia to infrequent appearances in places like Monroe, Michigan, one remarkable feature seems to set apart a group of seven-foot hairy hominids usually seen…

For Western scientists this former cryptids story begins in the late 1980s, when Tim Flannery, a senior research scientist with the Australia Museum in Sydney,…

While in the Malaysian state of Sabah in 1970, the British zoologist John MacKinnon, who would become world-renowned for his discoveries of new mammals in…