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Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen!

Just wanted to see how many of my fellow Dakkaites are also interested in the fascinating world of Crpytozoology. As you might have guessed, I have quite the interest in this, being an amateur Fortean myself.

Be it Bigfoot or Chupacabra, to other more innocuous beasties, I firmly believe there are species out there which we have missed, despite their sheer size! Anyone got any tales of encounters etc, either first hand or local? Always found it hard to find good stories myself!

I have a fleeting interest and research into such things often. I usually keep an eye out online to look for things.

Mystery perks my interest.

I know this is just a Wiki, but it serves as an interesting jumping off point for those looking into the exotic.

In fact, why not throw the thread open to the whole of Forteana?

Where I live we have midget deer. They're called 'Kyon'. They are about the size of a regular dog. I never knew they existed at all until I moved to this particular location in Japan. The first one I saw I thought was a baby deer or something, but then I saw one with antlers standing in a canal between rice paddies on the other side of town a month or so later. Then I saw a group of about 5 of them in the bamboo thicket behind our place one early Saturday morning. The last one I saw was a carcass in the middle of the road over by the supermarket.

No one else in Japan seems to know about them except the people who live in this area.

The big Cryptozoological mystery in Japan is the Kappa. Just like in the Mario games. Turtley frogmen who live in the river with 10th century monk hair cuts. Every so often the get some guy on TV who has seen one. I reckon a lot of this stuff are entities whose atoms are oscillating at a different frequency to ours. Every so often there is an overlap and we can perceive one another with our regular senses.

Khornholio wrote:Where I live we have midget deer. They're called 'Kyon'. They are about the size of a regular dog. I never knew they existed at all until I moved to this particular location in Japan. The first one I saw I thought was a baby deer or something, but then I saw one with antlers standing in a canal between rice paddies on the other side of town a month or so later. Then I saw a group of about 5 of them in the bamboo thicket behind our place one early Saturday morning. The last one I saw was a carcass in the middle of the road over by the supermarket.

No one else in Japan seems to know about them except the people who live in this area.

The big Cryptozoological mystery in Japan is the Kappa. Just like in the Mario games. Turtley frogmen who live in the river with 10th century monk hair cuts. Every so often the get some guy on TV who has seen one. I reckon a lot of this stuff are entities whose atoms are oscillating at a different frequency to ours. Every so often there is an overlap and we can perceive one another with our regular senses.

That sounds awesome...

Especially the dog deer.

My top 5 Shows
1] Burn Notice
2] Destination Truth
3] Ghost Hunters [Internatial]
4] Monter Quest / Mystry Quest
5] Fact or Faked

Loch ness monster, aliens, mothman, big foot. all that i like

Khornholio wrote:
The big Cryptozoological mystery in Japan is the Kappa. Just like in the Mario games. Turtley frogmen who live in the river with 10th century monk hair cuts. Every so often the get some guy on TV who has seen one.

You neglected to mention where they bite you to suck your blood.

In the place that we lived in New Hampshire for a while we would occasionally spot a large black cat. By large I'm talking about Mountain Lion/Puma sort of big. My grandmother saw it first, and my grandfather and I would spot one here and there as we hunted and hiked and fished in the surrounding countryside. We let the game warden know what we had seen, and they informed us that it was impossible. So that was weird.

I try hard to believe in these things but am often disapointed due to hoaxes.