For me it was mothman
>>17501387
Jersey Devil
Chupacabra. No pics because I'm a lazy bastard about to go to sleep. And fuck you, that's why.
>implying I have a chapstick in my hand
Stupid bug-man. It's my dick :(
>>17501444 here,
I've also had this book for as long as I can remember. I read it a lot as a kid. It's divided into sections about monsters, paranormal phenomena, disappearances, and the like. It's from Readers Digest. No idea where I got it.
Dunno. Maybe the bunyip.
SATAN
griffins
>>17501387
Bigfoot. Has to be some type of portal entity...
>>17501387
Bigfoot, probably because I live in the pacific northwest
>>17501743
Dat evergreen state
Chupacabra
I'm not sure if it was either Bigfoot or Chupacabra
Chupacabras
I remember hearing about it all over the tv. It was 1994 or 95 I'm not sure but I remember coming home from dinner with family (I was a little kid) and found a piece of meat outside of my house, my uncle said it was a "chupacabras snack" and I was terrified thinking one of those things was stalking my home. I live in Mexico btw.
>>17501387
Loch Ness monster for me. Sparked an interest like nothing else and I learned about all kinds of creatures/monsters back when I was just a little tyke. I remember they didn't even used to have the name "cryptid"
Bigfoot
For me, it was Sasquatch. My dad gave me a book with pictures and details about Sasquatch and I've always been fascinated by it. Every once in a while I go on BFRO to read some spine-chilling stories about Sasquatch. We even went so far as to go searching for Sasquatch a couple of times in state parks.
Dead Indian buried in the woods .
>>17501450
This.
I got a book when I was younger that was called "Things that Suck" and had a little on the Chupacabra.
Scared the shit out of me because it listed sightings and some were in FL.
>>17501387
Then I saw the Mothman Prophecies.
I don't remember which one was exactly first but it could've been bigfoot, lochness monster or grey aliens.
![bulgaria-torbalan[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bIP8j7r.jpg "bulgaria-torbalan[1].jpg")
torbalan /тopбaлaн/
It's a creature that is used by elders to make children behave, otherwise the torbalan (sackman) will take the naughty kids away.
EL CHUPACABRAS
Bigfoot. Quite honestly if you're American I'm sure how you'd here of anything else first, except for maybe generic ghosts.
technically probably the devil? was scared of demons and devil stuff pretty badly through church
aside from that, i do remember getting told stories about the bell witch. not a creature per se but i remember hearing that lots of creatures roamed that area. like weird giant mutated cat dogs. pic related, the bell manor
another early memory was of spearfinger, probably one of the best as far as setting and whoever told it. was camping innawoods and scared shitless all night.
>>17501387
For me it was your mother's vagina. An eldritch horror and putrid stench.
>be 3
>fuck around and refuse to sleep
>grandma fed up with my shit
>parents sell kids like you to gypsies if you don't behave
>get the fuck under the sheets in terror every time I heard their voice through speakers
>mfw grandma was half right
>>17503173
this F.a.m. Me and my grandfather watched some animal planet bigfoot special as a kid and it honestly scared the shit out of me.
Besides bigfoot? I remember learning about black dogs from reading Harry Potter when I was about 9. Wendigos and Chupacabra and La Llorona are also things I've heard about since I was little.
>>17503221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg6qR0M8ZWU
Pretty gud shit. Also, how do they keep edgy Satanic teenagers out?
All the Golden Oldies:
Bigfoot
Mothman
Loch Ness
We had a cool little cryptozoology book in my middle school.
baba roga in the attic
ogopogo
fuck man all those times we as kids would pretend to be sucked into the lake by the ogopogo
apparently it was a tale told by the natives there to their kids so they would never go swimming alone
but still, cute 'quirk' of my town
Bigfoot on In Search of hosted by Leonard Nimoy back in 1977.
>>17501387
Ghosts
only to later find out they aren't real
I think it was either
Bigfoot or Ness
Would la lechuza or la llorona count ?
>>17505253
Anything paranormal.
>>17505230
Or................................. are they?
>>17501387
had a dream about mothman once...
scared the shit outta me
cucuy
In order: god, angels, the devil, demons, the great beast, ghosts, vampires, bigfoot, a bunch of scooby doo baddies, pokemon, digimon, chupacabra. I can't remember how the list goes from that point on
>>17502810
lol! I fought one of those in Bloodborne! xD
This guy. The one on the right. The mothman.
For me it was Krampus
>>17501387
gnomes
>>17501387
Does Casper The Friendly Ghost count?
Probably i heard about ghost first, but i remember hearing a lot about el chupacabra
>>17501387
Dont remember but wanna say ghosts
>>17501387
My mom read me a book about Baba Yaga when I was 4 so, so witches in general I guess.
>>17505218
I WANT THAT FUCKING SWEATER!!!
>>17501387
Nessie,of Loch Ness.
>>17501457
>>17501457
My grandfather had that, too. I read it cover to cover in an afternoon.
My first paranormal creature was Nessie.
>>17501387
Jeresy Devil.
>>17501387
I think Bigfoot. Probably thanks to that sitcom of the 80/90s.
>>17507159
You could probably get an online shirt store to make one.
>>17507588
Harry and the Hendersons?
>>17502810
Our next man uses the screen name torbalan86, and has told our decoy he wants to "put her in his sack"
La Llorona
>>17507605
Laugh out loud.
>>17501457
I had it too.
Damn, some shit bout that book really scared me when I was a kid.
>>17507605
Kek
>>17501387
as a latin american, la llorona, it scared the shit out of me when i was a child, now its just a tale.
>>17502810
Oh! I had forgotten about him.
Here we calll him Homem do Saco.
He puts all the bad children on his infinitely large sack, only letting the good kids to live ree.
in laws....
MÖRKÖ
>>17505270
loch ness monster. hasn't that practically been proven to be without a doubt fake?
>>17508151
oh fuck me dude.
You know the Finns are tough when they have kids-stories with monsters from hell to haunt your dreams for all eternity
>>17508929
>>17508151
>Wherever she stands, the ground below her freezes and plants and grass die. She leaves a trace of ice and snow when she walks the ground. Anything that she touches will freeze. On one occasion, she froze a campfire by sitting down on it. She seeks friendship and warmth, but she is declined by everyone and everything, leaving her in her cold cavern on top of the Lonely Mountains.
That's not haunting, that's depressing desu
Lagarflóts Ormurinn AKA: The Wyrm of Lagarflót River. It's Icelandic folklore I grew up with. We have plenty of beasts in our folklore, but this one I think counts as a cryptid because sightings continue to this day.
>>17508978
She?
>>17501387
First year of highschool our class at library supposed to be researching ww2, grab spoopy ghost and aliums book, first page was about that house with the weird faces in the concrete floor or whatever, next article is about mothman
Nope it back to reading ww2 books
Noped it back to ww2 books
>>17509210
>implying women can be lonely
I was like 6 so it had to be around the year 1999 when some redneck relatives first told a story around the campfire of demons in the woods with goat heads called the goat man. It never made sense to me that they acted like they were a species but somehow also a singular entity like the devil. It made no sense. Wouldn't hear the term goat man again until it trended on here recently, and I feel like it was a big part of a lot of kids childhoods and we just forgot about it then loved it out of nostalgia when the stories suddenly cropped up again.
well the boogey man of course
A Brainwashing Demonic Quartet
Aicha Kondicha this is a memory from my childhood in Africa i need more info about "her"
>>17506282
Christ, I feel like I've seen this before.
Where's it from?
>>17501457
Still got that book. Love the story about the Green Children, the one about the guy who got little pancakes from some aliens, the cattle mutilations, the still-living pterodactyl that some miners found in a cave in England, the 200-ton steel wrecking ball that just disappeared off its cable, the story of Judge Crater, etc. Really spoopy stuff in there. Still take it off the shelf to go through it from time to time.
>>17512921
Love this book, too.
I remember checking out a book from the library once.
It was titled Aliens or something, I remember the text being green and kinda cyber-y.
There was a dark purple alien on the front cover.
It was a collection of short stories, and one of them featured a girl who was abducted by aliens and then put into a zoo for aliens. She was fed peaches if I remember correctly.
It was one of my first boners, and probably explains a lot.
There was also a more sinister story that had to do with an boy finding human skin shavings and then found his dad's skin carcass in his shed. A type of, body-snatcher story if you will.
>>17511396
Guess I am a man then
>>17508151
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=279ycpjclig
how do thgey show this to kids nigga
also WOW /x/ FINN
>>17502630
Same, sort of. It was Champ on Unsolve Mysteries, which led to me looking up every similar water-based monster I could find in the library.
>>17509010
Is that like that stupid Mongolian Death Worm, that shoots lightning or some shit?
For me it was wendigo. Pretty creepy dude desu
Am fear liath mor was fucking scary because I lived in a really foggy hilly area when I was a kid.
Fog makes me comfy but also sort of scared nowadays but I was always terrified to go near the mountains.
>>17515143
Forgot photo.
>>17501387
came from a catholic household so deff satan and god
>>17501387
The boogeyman. My closet had a habit of opening itself occasionally in the middle of the night which made those stories a million times worse. I got good at pretending I was asleep, though.
>>17515120
This.
Living in sorta northern Canada probably had something to do with it.
>>17501387
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tRUvtyAMOg
Can't even remember, I grew up reading this book, which I just realized I still have.
>>17501457
>>17507380
>>17512921
>>17509010
more info?
recent sightings?
>>17516158
Did you parents tell you about the whole cannibalism thing or no?
>>17501387
god
>>17513052
hey bby
Wendigo niggas
la llorona
either "kurent" or "parkel"(krampus)
Poison killer squad lider.
>>17507774
Brazilian spoted.
>>17501387
Good taste
Brazilians.
Those beings scared the shit out of me.
>>17509210
Yep, the groke is a female. Perhaps the last of her kind. She was merely sad and lonely, but her freezing aura kept the world away.
>>17507774
same, but i thought he was a normal man i think, i never thought of him as monster, there was a guy that used to ask 10 cents to everyone and had a sack on his back, i thought he was the ''homem do saco'' lol
Nicole Polizzi a.k.a. the Snooki
This creature seasonally lives on the shore of New Jersey and survive solely on whatever sustenance she can attain from the genitalia of men. This creature's main source of energy is attention.
bigfoot. im pretty sure i had some dumbass child imagination of what it really was at the time, like some weird guy with feet. anyways, ive been a skeptic since.
always liked this video though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZkdfdi_lU
Dogeman, From michigans U.P, first heard about it around 05-06 when it was mostly our thing. Now everybody knows about it
>>17501387
Mothman probably like the rest of the thread
>>17506929
That's really weird, I had not heard of krampus up until like 5 years ago and didn't think he was all that well known
>>17501387
The Hoboken Monkey Man!
Probably a witch. Fairy tales are full of those. You guys had weird childhoods.
>>17501387
Jesus
>>17506320
I got sacked by one
>>17501457
Same here,, sparked my interest in spooky things!
mothman for me too, i saw a documentary on uk tv, i think it was on of the history channels, about unsolved mystery's and such and it was a mothman episode, freaked me out for years and years
>>17501387
näkki
slenderman
>>17501387
bigfoot
9 years old
>spent the following years searching the internet and finding some really creepywebsites
was much spook
Nessie
or maybe bat boy
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