From Sasquatch in the northern forests to the Mongolian death worm in the Gobi, here are the world's best-known cryptids sorted by type and region, with what witnesses report, what the record shows and the ordinary explanations proposed for each.
From a cursed thirteenth child at Leeds Point to a week of panic in 1909, the Jersey Devil is America's most famous regional monster. Here is the legend, the real Leeds family behind it, and what the record shows.
Nessie has survived every debunking, from a 7th-century tale about a saint to a toy submarine photographed in 1934. Here is what witnesses reported, what investigators found, and what still has no clear explanation.