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Pale Crawler

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  Pale cralers are a type of cryptid that is reportedly seen by people all over the world. They have an overall humanoid appearance. They are very light in colour, with pale, white, pink or grey skin, almost like a corpse. Pale crawlers are very skinny, to the point of looking emaciated, often with twig like limbs and the outline of bones visible under their skin. Crawlers are always hairless all over, having no body hair, head hair, or even eyebrows. Their eyes are extremely sunken in, giving them a skull like appearance. They can have jet black eyes, or glassy cataract like eyes, or eyes that shine in dim light like an animal’s. Pale crawlers are rarely reported with ears, any that have them are small and vestigial. Pale crawlers sometimes have animal like claws, other times they have more human like nails. The fingers are always long and skinny, regardless of what they’re tipped with. Pale crawlers stand very tail when fully upright, somewhere between eight to ten feet tall. M...
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Nachtkrapp

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  The nachtkrapp is a boogeyman that haunts Germany, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Poland. It’s name in German means night raven. The exact details of the legend vary quite a bit regionally. Sometimes it appears as a raven, or as a more human like undead being, or as a shadowy, shape shifting ghost. It also varies in size from huge, to human sized, to the size of an ordinary raven. The nachtkrapp is used as a cautionary tale to scare children into behaving. It’s said the nachtkrapp only comes out at night. If the nachtkrapp sees a child out at night it will carry the child off to its nest, rip the child apart limb from limb and eat its heart. Some tamer versions of the legend only have the Nachtkrapp putting children in a large bag it carries over its back and doesn’t say what’s done with them after that. The nachtkrapp has hollow skeletal eye sockets. If anyone looks into its empty eye holes they die instantly. Depending on the region the nachtkrapp is said to ha...
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Sigbin

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   The Sigbin is a vampiric monster from the Philippines. It’s especially popular in the Visayans and Mindanao regions. It exists somewhere between folklore and cryptozoology, with some people, especially in rural areas, still believing in the creature. Occasionally a mangy animal from the jungle will be captured and shown off to travellers as a real sigbin. Sigbins look like a cross between a goat, dog and kangaroo. They are hairless, emaciated and ugly. They have long ears that clap when they move, and long skinny tails that they use like whips. Sigbins often walk backwards, with their head held under their bellies. Their feet are positioned backwards on their legs to make walking like this easier. Other times sigbins are depicted as a bipedal creature that looks somewhat like a kangaroo. Sigbins are said to smell really bad. Sigbins come out at night and feed on human blood. They do so by draining it through their shadows, somehow. Sigbins also eat charcoal, an i...
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Hyakume

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  The hyakume is a yokai from Japan. It’s name means one hundred eyes. The hyakume is roughly human shaped, but made out of flabby flesh lumps. It had a hundred eyes poking out from under the flesh flaps all over its body. It’s also about the size of a fat human. The hyakume looks somewhat similar to the nuppeppo, which is another yokai made of flabby flesh roughly in the shape of a human. Although the nuppeppo doesn’t have any eyes. Hyakumes live in abandoned places, usually temples or large houses. They live alone and shy away from interacting with any other being. They also come out only at night as the sunlight hurts their eyes. Hyakumes are not aggressive and just want to be left alone. However they will defend their home from intruders and thieves. Each night the hyakume will remove one of its eyes and send it out to patrol its territory for intruders. The eye floats around on its own like a will-o-wisp fireball. If the eye spots anyone it will attach itself to the...
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Iku Turso

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  Iku Turso is a war god, a giant and a sea monster from Finnish Mythology. He is a character who I’ve occasionally heard referred to as the Finnish Cthulhu. He’s almost certainly a composite character, with similarly named gods and monsters being condensed into one character over time. He has many epithets. The name Iku Turso means the eternal giant. He’s also known as The Bearded One, The One Who Stands on the Brink, the Ox of Death, The Thousand Headed, The Thousand Horned. One of his alternate names, Meritursas, is today one of the Finnish names for the common octopus. Iku Turso is able to take on multiple forms, one being that of a giant dressed in warrior’s armour, another that of a sea monster. In sea monster form his appearance is variable and unclear. He’s described as having a slimy beard of tentacles, walrus tusks, and horns or antlers. However it’s unclear if this form is bestial or humanoid. Iku Turso was fathered by the god of old age. He burst out of his m...
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Kotobuki

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   The kotobuki was a chimeric beast from Japan which was made of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. It had the head of a rat, the ears of a rabbit, the beard of a ram, the comb of a rooster, the horns of a bull, the neck of a dragon, the mane of a horse, the back of a boar, the belly of a tiger, the front legs of a monkey, the back legs of a dog and the tail of a snake. It’s name in Japanese means congratulations or long life.  It was said that the kotobuki lived in India, which often features as a place of holiness or goodness in Japanese stories as it’s the homeland of Buddhism. The kotobuki was also said to be able to understand human speech. Other than these two facts there’s little else said about the kotobuki as a creature, no legends or stories about it. The kotobuki was seen more as a luck charm that would grant people luck based on its association with the zodiac. It became popular to carry small woodcuts with images of the kotobuki during the Edo period....
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Cetus

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   In ancient Greece cetus referred to sea monsters in general, as well as whales, as they didn’t see a difference between the two, and it was seen as the ocean equivalent of the draikon, or dragon. While cetus was thought of as a type of monster, rather than an individual, there are two myths about notable individual cetus, the Trojan cetus, which was killed by Heracles, and the Ethiopian cetus, which was killed by Perseus. There were two main ways the cetus was depicted. One was as a bulky sea beast with the head of a boar and the tail of a whale, sometimes with paws. Another was a more serpentine creature, with the head of a greyhound, and it’s long serpent tail ending in a whale fluke. Even though there are two major cetus myths, both appearances were equally associated with both myths interchangeably, rather than each being a specific monster. The Trojan Cetus was sent by Poseidon to torment King Laomedon. Laomedon had asked Poseidon to build the walls of Troy f...
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