A living archive of the world's cryptids, cursed things, and folk-horrors. Each entry pulls fresh sightings and lore from public archives — the Nexus grows as the world reports.
60 entries indexed · updated continuously
Africa · Vampiric
A firefly by night, a vampire when captured.
Asia · Winged
A giant bat with a three-metre wingspan seen over Javanese rainforests.
Asia · Vampiric
A shapeshifting Filipino night-witch that feeds on the unborn.
Europe · Witch
A crone who lives in a hut on chicken legs deep in the forest.
North America · Cryptid Canine
An upright wolf-thing haunting a Wisconsin back road.
Europe · Cryptid Canine
A wolf-like creature that killed over 100 people in 18th-century France.
North America · Hominid
A massive bipedal ape-man of the Pacific Northwest forests.
Europe · Spectral Hound
A massive black dog omen of East Anglia.
Oceania · Aquatic
An amphibious beast of Australian billabongs and swamps.
North America · Aquatic
The Lake Champlain serpent, first named by Samuel de Champlain.
Latin America · Vampiric Beast
A spined, hairless predator that drains livestock of blood.
Oceania · Fearsome Critter
A carnivorous koala that drops on tourists from the canopy.
Latin America · Bogeyman
The Latin American bogeyman that watches from the closet.
Latin America · Shapeshifter
Amazon river dolphins that come ashore as beautiful strangers at festivals.
North America · Extraterrestrial
A hooded metallic entity encountered after a fireball fell in 1952.
North America · Unknown
Two pairs of pale walking trousers filmed on a California lawn.
North America · Cursed Human
A hoofed axe-wielding hybrid of Prince George's County, Maryland.
Asia · Vengeful Spirit
A 2.4-metre woman in a white sundress who fixates on children.
North America · Fearsome Critter
A horned lumberjack terror of the Wisconsin north woods.
North America · Fearsome Critter
A jackrabbit with the antlers of a pronghorn.
North America · Demonic Entity
A hoofed, winged, kangaroo-bodied creature haunting the Pine Barrens for 300 years.
Asia · Shapeshifter
A 400-year-old spider that transforms into a beautiful woman to lure men.
Asia · Aquatic
A turtle-shelled water imp of Japanese rivers with a dish of water on its head.
Africa · Winged
A leathery pterosaur-like flyer of the Zambezi swamps.
Europe · Aquatic
A colossal cephalopod that swallows ships whole.
Europe · Horned Punisher
A goat-horned Alpine demon who whips wicked children at Yule.
Asia · Vengeful Spirit
A masked woman who asks if you find her beautiful before cutting your mouth to match hers.
Latin America · Vengeful Spirit
A ghost who drowned her children and weeps for them near rivers.
Latin America · Shapeshifter
A giant owl with a woman's face — a bruja who took bird form and cannot return.
North America · Reptilian Humanoid
A green scaled biped that attacked a car in 1988 South Carolina.
Europe · Aquatic
A long-necked plesiosaur-like beast in a Highland loch.
Asia · Vampiric
A woman who severs her torso from her legs to hunt at night.
North America · Cryptid Canine
A seven-foot upright canine reported across the Great Lakes.
Oceania · Anomalous Light
Floating orbs of light that follow travellers across the Channel Country.
Africa · Aquatic
A sauropod-like river beast of the Congo Basin.
Asia · Cryptid Invertebrate
A metre-long crimson worm that spits venom and electrocutes across the Gobi.
North America · Winged Humanoid
A red-eyed winged humanoid seen before the Silver Bridge collapse of 1967.
North America · Omen
A red-furred imp that appears before disaster in Detroit.
Africa · Cryptid Mammal
A hyena-like brain-eater of the Kenyan highlands.
Antarctica · Aquatic
A pale humanoid whale seen from Japanese research vessels.
Asia · Aquatic
A serpent-bodied woman found combing her hair by the shore.
North America · Aquatic
A serpentine lake monster of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia.
Asia · Hominid
A metre-tall bipedal ape of the Sumatran rainforest.
Europe · Winged Humanoid
A feathered humanoid seen over a Cornish churchyard in 1976.
Asia · Vengeful Spirit
The vengeful ghost of a woman who died in childbirth.
Africa · Incubus
A one-eyed bat-winged shadow that assaults sleepers in Zanzibar.
Oceania · Winged
A bioluminescent pterosaur-like creature of Papua New Guinea.
North America · Werewolf
A Cajun werewolf of the Louisiana bayous.
North America · Cursed Spirit
A Navajo witch who wears the skin of an animal to hunt.
North America · Winged
A metal-beaked dragon-bird of the Maryland hills.
North America · Fearsome Critter
A miserable wart-covered creature that dissolves into its own tears when caught.
Asia · Vengeful Spirit
The ghost of a woman cut in half at a rail crossing who chases on her elbows.
Antarctica · Anomalous Sound
A vast underwater sound recorded in 1997 off the coast of South America.
North America · Winged
A colossal storm-bringing raptor from many indigenous cosmologies.
Asia · Trickster
A tall horse-headed spirit that leads travellers astray in the forest.
Africa · Malevolent Sprite
A short hairy water-sprite sent by witches to torment the living.
North America · Cursed Spirit
A gaunt cannibal spirit born from the taboo of eating human flesh.
Oceania · Vampiric
A small red frog-man who drops from fig trees and drains victims through suckers on his hands.
Asia · Hominid
A shaggy white ape-man of the Himalayan high passes.
Oceania · Hominid
An Australian bipedal ape-man of the eastern ranges.