Rare Monsters

  The llamhigyr y Dwr was a troublesome water spirit from Wales, especially well known from the lakes of Llyn Gwynant and Llyn Glas. Its name means water leaper. The llamhigyr y dwr had a large frog like head, bat wings for forelegs, no back legs and a long lizard like tail ending in a spike. The creature was quite large, comparable to a crocodile. While the llamhigyr y dwr was capable of flight it preferred to hide beneath the water. The llamhigyr y dwr would devour anything that would fit in its mouth. Shepherds wouldn't bring their flocks to the lake to drink, and people would keep their dogs and children away from the waters edge. If the llamhigyr y dwr's target managed to escape its reach it would use it tail like a whip to grab and pull its prey back into the water. Otherwise it would just leap out from the water's edge mouth first and swallow its prey whole. The llamhigyr y dwr would also rob bate and catches off fishing lines, and even overturn boats in an attempt t...

  The knucker dragon was a water dragon who lived in a pond in Sussex England during the medieval and renaissance periods. It was a water dragon, but didn't have many water like features to its appearance. It looked like a stretched out western dragon with a long serpent like body. It is consistently depicted as red in color. The dragon was also considered unusually clever and conniving, and was capable of talking, which usually wasn't something dragons were capable of doing until modern fantasy. The name knucker is derived from words like nix or nacken, showing a connection back to malicious water fae. The pond the dragon inhabited is known as the knucker hole, and still exists on the Somptings Estate. Legend goes that the knucker dragon was quite a threat to the surrounding communities, coming out of its pond at night and eating livestock and people. The people begged an authority figure, in some version the local mayor of Lyminster, in other version they went all the way t...

  The jimplecute is a vampiric reptile from Ozark legend. It is a rarely heard of fearsome critter and shouldn't be confused with the gowrow, the more famous reptile from the region. There are two different descriptions of the jimplecute. The original appearance is of a long serpentine reptile, yet still baring short legs. It has skin the texture of dead leaves, which allows it to hide better in the forests. It even had the chameleon like ability to change color, so to blend in with leaves of different seasons. This jimplecute is able to wrap around its victims like a python to immobilize them while it feeds on their blood. The more modern version of the jimplecute is of a vampiric dinosaur, usually something similar to a raptor. This interpretation comes from the book We Always Lie to Strangers by Vance Randolph, which is a book about Ozarks folklore. There Mr Randolph describes the jimplecute as a prehistoric. Although I think he meant that all reptiles are primitive in his e...

  During the early 1990's, in the village Petropavlovsk, Russia, was an encounter with one of the strangest cryptids I've ever heard of. This location was hardly a stranger to fortean weirdness, as it was the home to ghost lights, ufos and sightings of flying humanoid creatures. Yet the Ivanitsky creature stands out even among such sightings. The Ivanitsky family had just moved into the area, likely not knowing about the local's history with high strangeness. The first unusual thing they encountered was unexplained chirping noises coming from various parts of their house, in the walls, the attic, and so forth. Yet the family just assumed it was crickets. After a little over a week of these occurrences, the chirping started to come from under the bed of one of the sons. Father Ivanitsky took a look under the bed and saw a ball of fur. He assumed it was a stray dog that had somehow entered the house and curled up there. Father Ivanitsky used a broom handle to force the creatu...