Cryptid Sightings

Hi there. Thanks for taking my call. My name's Daniel, and I'm calling from Bogor in West Java. My family's lived in this region for generations, and ...

Hey, thanks for taking my call. I'm a cryptozoologist, and I've spent the last six years researching Mesoamerican water cryptids. There's one case tha...

Good evening. I'm calling from Moscow. I'm a zoologist, been one for almost thirty years now, and I need to tell you about something that happened to ...

Evening. I'm a folklorist, been researching Scottish mountain phenomena for about fifteen years now, ever since I finished my graduate work at the uni...

Hey, thanks for taking my call. I've told this story a hundred times over the years, but people still want to hear it. This happened back in April of ...

My husband finally convinced me I should call. He listens to your show every week. I'm calling from Cardinham, here in Cornwall. This happened back in...

Thank you for taking my call. I was a bar manager for three years, I drove that road home every night, and what I encountered that October night in 19...

Thanks for taking my call. I've lived in Churubusco my whole life, I've been fishing since I was six years old, and what I saw in Fulk Lake that day i...

I'm a historian specializing in 18th century France, and I need to tell you about something that still haunts me after years of research. Between 1764...

Evening. I study East Anglian folklore, and there's one case I keep coming back to. Black Shuck. The devil dog of Suffolk. I've spent three years trac...

I've told this story a hundred times over the years, and it still gets me right here in the chest. People always want to hear about the weirdest thing...

Good evening. I'm a researcher who's spent years documenting unexplained creature sightings across rural Australia. There's one case that's haunted me...

Finlly I got on the show! Thanks for having me. This happened back in August of 1968, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Some things you just do...

Hello. This happened back in August of 1995, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Some things you just don't forget, you know? I was helping my mo...

Hi there. I'm calling from St. John's. My name's Timothy Pierce, and I'm a fisherman. Been working these waters my whole life, same as my father befor...

Listen, I've spent the better part of twenty years researching unexplained creatures in East Africa. I'm talking real research, not armchair stuff. Bo...

Thanks for taking my call. I've never wanted to talk about this. In a lot of ways it's kind of embarrassing to me, you know? But I definitely saw some...

Hey. I've told this story a hundred times, and it still gives me chills. Here's what happened. I live in Enfield. It's a little town in southern Illin...

Hey there. First time caller. Been listening to your show for a while now, figured it was finally time to share something that happened to me. Somethi...

Evening. I'm calling from Texarkana, and I need to tell you about something that happened back in '71. May 2nd, to be specific. My wife and I, we'd ju...

I'm a paranormal researcher here in California, and there's a case that's haunted me for years now. I need to tell you about it because the man who ca...

Evening. I'm calling from Wellington, and I need to tell you about something that happened to me back in '97. I was working on a commercial fishing ve...

Hi there. I'm a cryptozoologist, and I've spent the last five years researching African cryptids, particularly cases from the early 1900s. There's one...

Good evening. I appreciate you taking my call. I am calling from Japan, from Hiroshima Prefecture. I do not speak to many people about this anymore. M...

This happened forty-six years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Some things you just don't forget, you know? I was working a logging camp ...

I've been researching Louisiana cryptids for about fifteen years now, and there's one case I keep coming back to. It happened in August of 1963, deep ...

Hey. Thanks for picking up. My name's Cody, calling from Gillette, Wyoming. Born and raised here, forty-one years in this county, so I want to start b...

Hi, good evening. My name's Denise, I'm calling from Edinburgh. I've spent about twelve years now going through old expedition records, colonial-era j...

Hey there. I was a factory foreman for 15 years, I know the difference between what's real and what isn't. This was real. It was January 19th, 1909. T...

I know what I saw. I was there. Twenty-two years I kept my mouth shut because they made us sign papers, but I'm done with that. What are they gonna do...

Hi there, thanks for having me on. I'm a cryptozoology researcher, been studying lake monster cases for about fifteen years now. And there's one case ...

Hey there. My nephew told me I should finally call about this. He listens to your show all the time. So here I am. This happened back in 1977, July 25...

Hey there. I'm calling from Bishopville, and I need to tell you about something that happened to me back in the summer of '88. June 29th, to be exact....

Evening. I appreciate you taking my call. Been meaning to do this for a long time now, and that's the thing, I suppose I finally worked up the nerve. ...

Hello there. Thanks for taking my call. I've lived in Loveland my whole life, and I was a police officer here for most of my career. It's a good town,...

Good evening. I'm a commercial fisherman here on Andros, been doing it my whole life, learned from my father. I need to tell you about something I saw...

Hi there. I'm a wildlife biologist, but my real passion is cryptozoology, and there's one case that's haunted me for years. It comes from the Congo, f...

Heya, I've been sitting on this for years now. Almost two decades. And I know how it sounds, believe me, I know. But I'm an artist. I observe things f...

I'm calling from the western Amazon, from the Karitiana reservation. My people, we've lived in this forest for more generations than anyone can count....

Hey, thanks for taking my call. I've been meaning to do this for years now, and I finally just, I don't know, worked up the nerve I guess. This happen...

I've spent the last three years documenting wildlife encounters in the Congo Basin, and there's one case that keeps me up at night. I'm calling about ...

You ask about the Gobi. People think of it as just sand and emptiness. They do not know what sleeps beneath that sand. I know. I have seen it with my ...

I need to tell you what I saw. What we saw. My husband and I. November 15th, 1966. Just after midnight. And I know how this sounds, but I swear every ...

Look, I know how this sounds. I really do. But I need to tell you what happened to me and my cousin Alison back in August of 2009. We were driving alo...

My grandfather told me this story so many times I could recite it in my sleep. Thing is, I always thought it was just that. A story. Then I saw the cr...

Hey, long time listener. My wife finally convinced me to call, so here I am. This happened in sixty-nine, and I've never really talked about it outsid...

Hello. My name's Derek, calling from Two Rivers. I'm a bow hunter, been doing it most of my life, and I need to tell you about something that happened...

Hi there. Thanks for taking my call. I've lived in Kelowna my whole life, right on the shore of Okanagan Lake, and I'm calling about something I saw b...

Hi there. My name's Shane, calling from Waterford. I'm an artist by trade, and back in 2000 I was working on a tourist guide for Omey Island out in Co...

Hi there. My name's Rebecca, I'm calling from London. I'm a primatologist, and I need to tell you about something I encountered in Sumatra back in 200...

Thanks for taking my call. I would like to tell you my story of what happened the summer of '76. It was a hot summer, the driest I can remember. The w...

Evening. I'm calling from Louisville. Been listening to your show for years and I finally worked up the nerve to share this. I'm sixty-seven years old...

I need to tell you about something that happened to a woman I know. Her name is Carmen, and back in 1968, just after Easter, she had an experience in ...

Hi, thanks for taking my call. I'm a wildlife photographer, been doing it for fifteen years now. Spent time in Alaska, Svalbard, northern Canada. I've...

Thank you for letting me tell this. I have been waiting a long time to share what happened to us. My name is Bernard, and I am calling from Lae City i...

Hello? Yes. Thank you for taking my call. I... I need to tell someone about this. It's something I've barely spoken about in fifty years, but it feels...

It was the graveyard shift at the IKA-Renault plant. September, 1972. I was working security detail, same as Teodoro Merlo. You have to understand, th...

Good evening. I hope you don't mind, I'm calling from Copenhagen and my English isn't perfect, but I had to share this with your listeners. I'm a mari...

Alright, so this happened back in September of 1964, and I've told this story a hundred times, but it never gets less strange. I'm calling from Seljor...

Hey there. I'm calling from down in Ochopee, deep in the Everglades. I've got a story from when I was just a kid, ten years old, back in 1974. This wa...

Evening. I appreciate you taking my call. My name's Earl, calling from Durango, and I've been meaning to share this for a long time now. See, my grand...

Good evening. I've lived out here in Frederick County my whole life. Forty-nine years. Born in the valley, raised on the east slope of South Mountain,...

Good evening. I'm a folklorist, and I specialize in Alpine cryptid traditions. I've spent the last eight years documenting Tatzelwurm encounters, and ...

Evening. I spent thirty years as a wildlife ranger, fifteen of those in Tasmania. Before that I worked in Africa, observing everything from elephants ...

Evening. I'm a marine researcher, been studying unexplained ocean phenomena for about fifteen years now. I'm calling from Durban, which is maybe two h...

People talk about monsters in the woods or in the water. But nobody looks up. Not until the fall of nineteen-oh-three. I remember it like it was yeste...

Hi there. My name's Wei, calling from Wuhan. My father was a forestry worker back in the seventies, spent most of his life in the Shennongjia mountain...

I'm a researcher who's spent years studying Himalayan cryptid sightings, and there's one case that stands out above all the others. It happened in 192...

I wanted to call about something that happened a few years back. Summer of 2019. Five of us went backpacking through the Pyrénées. Southern France, ne...

This happened in the summer of 1991, February. I was working for a wildlife survey team in the Gran Chaco, the dry forest region in western Paraguay. ...

I worked night maintenance at the old Pennsylvania Railroad yard in Gary back in 1991. The yard had been mostly shut down for years by then, but they ...

We moved into that house in March of '96. Old Victorian place on Sycamore Street, needed work but the price was right. My husband travels a lot for wo...

Evening. I've thought about whether to share this for a while now. Finally decided I needed to get it off my chest. This happened in the autumn of 196...

I'm a freelance journalist. I specialize in folklore and cultural documentation, particularly in rural Scandinavian communities. That's how I ended up...

This happened in November of '96. I'd been planning this hunting trip for months. Elk season. My hunting partner had to bail last minute. Family emerg...

Hi, thanks for taking my call. I'm not really sure how to start this, so I'll just say it straight. Something happened in my house the other night. I'...

My father passed away three years ago. Heart attack, sudden. There's a lot I wish I'd asked him before he died, but there's one story he told me that ...

This happened in Iraq. October 2003, early in the deployment. I was with the 1st Marine Division, and we'd been operating in the area around Fallujah ...

I work in micro-assembly. You know, circuit boards, tiny soldering joints. I spend eight hours a day looking through a loupe, that magnifying glass je...

I work as a cryptozoologist. Independent researcher, mostly. I know how that sounds to some people, but it's legitimate work. I've spent the last fift...

Thanks for taking my call. What happened to me and my friends, you know what I mean? You are not going to believe it... But it happened. This was summ...

Thanks for taking my call. I worked as a lighthouse keeper for eleven years. People don't think that job still exists, but it does. Some of the older ...

Good evening. This happened in March of 1983. I was part of a geological survey team working up in the Northwest Territories. We'd been out there for ...

I grew up on a corn farm about thirty miles outside of Salina. This would've been late seventies, early eighties. The farm had been in my family since...

Evening. I wanted to share something that happened to me a few years back. My brother keeps telling me I should call in about it, so here I am. This w...

Hello my name is Robert I worked as a contract cook at a military facility near White Sands from late 1977 to early 1979. About eight months total. I'...

I was traveling through Tuscany in the summer of 1989. This was back when I was doing restoration work on historic buildings, churches, monasteries, t...

Good eveing. I ran cattle on the eastern plains of Montana for thirty-two years. Started in 1973, sold the place in 2005. This story is about somethin...

Heya. This happened in the summer of 1998. I was backpacking through Scandinavia, actually, my girlfriend at the time convinced me to go, she was real...

I work for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Have for about twelve years now. Most of that time I've been stationed up in the Flathead National Forest...

This happened in 1973. I was working security at one of the facilities near the Nevada Test Site, not Area 51 itself, but close enough. We were about ...

This happened in July of 1996. My buddy Mike and I had been planning this fishing trip for weeks. We wanted to scout out Chequamegon Bay before the bi...

I finally decided I needed to tell someone about this. It happened back in 2002, early October. I was living in Ganja at the time, working at a textil...

I need to tell someone about this. This happened back in 2003, when I was living alone on five acres outside of Whitehall, Montana. I'd just gone thro...

Hi, thanks for taking my call. I'm calling from Chile, so I hope the connection holds. This happened in February of 1999. I was twenty-six, working as...

This happened in October of 1996. I was up in the Monongahela, bow hunting. I'd been going to the same spot for years, my grandfather showed it to me ...

This happened back in March of 1991. I was working as a fisheries observer up in Homer, Alaska. Kachemak Bay area, if you know it. My job was basicall...

Yes, hello?, I was flying cargo routes between the islands back in 1991. Small plane, twin-engine Cessna, nothing fancy. Mostly medical supplies, mail...

Good evening. This happened in May of 2003. I was teaching fifth grade at the time, and we'd been planning this field trip for months. Nature walk up ...

This happened back in February of 1996. I'm a police officer here in Duluth, been on the force about twelve years at that point. I work mostly day shi...

I need to tell someone about this before I lose my nerve. What I'm about to describe, I know exactly how it's going to sound. But it happened. And I n...

I've gone back and forth on whether to share this. Been listening to your program for a while now, and I keep hearing stories that remind me of what I...

This happened in the spring of 1998. I was working as a stagehand at the Apollo Theater in Patras, been doing theater work most of my life, you know w...

I appreciate you taking the call. I've been listening for years now, but I never thought I'd have a reason to dial the number. I'm not a superstitious...

This happened in the fall of '84. October, maybe early November. I was working night shift at the GE plant back then, which meant I was home during th...

Hey there. Thanks for taking my call. Long time listener, first time caller. I don't really tell this story to people. They look at you like you're cr...

I farm about 340 acres in western Iowa. Been working this land since 1981, took it over from my father. Corn and soybeans mostly, some hay. Good land,...

Evening. Thanks for having me on. I've been meaning to call about this for a while now, if I'm being honest. Just never found the right moment. This h...