| Bird people | The widely recurring motif in legends and fiction of birds who are people, or people who are birds. |
| Behind the sofa | Where youngBritish children hid from menacing scenes insci-fi TV, now recalled humorously and nostalgically by British adults. |
| Bigfoot trap | Believed to be the world's onlyBigfoot trap. |
 Cottingley Fairies | A successful photographic hoax in 1910s England. |
| Easter Bilby | How do you have anEaster Bunny in acountry that has hada bad experience with rabbits? With anEaster Bilby of course! |
| Kaspar Hauser | A German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell, and was once thought to be linked to the princelyHouse of Baden. |
| Icelandic Elf School | Possibly the only school granting elf-spotting degrees. (Though certificates are also available fromJohn Oliver.) |
| Josiah S. Carberry | An expert oncracked pots, and one of only three fictional people to have won theIg Nobel Prize. |
| Machine elf | An entity that people claim they become aware of after having takentryptamine basedpsychedelic drugs such asDMT. |
| Man-eating tree | Hoaxes and unsubstantiated reports inMadagascar and elsewhere. |
| Monkey-man of New Delhi | Reports in 2001 of a strange monkey-like creature appearing inNew Delhi at night and attacking people. |
| Phantom social workers | Mysterious claims of "social workers" seeking to abduct infants and children. |
| Proverbs commonly attributed to be Chinese | ...although they're probably not. |
| Reptilian humanoid | A recurring theme in fiction, especially science fiction,pseudoscientific theories andconspiracy theories. |
| Rods | Photographic anomalies which some think are undiscovered flying creatures or miniature UFOs. |
| Russian reversal | In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia edits YOU! |
| Spring Heeled Jack | A mysterious character said to have existed inEngland during theVictorian age. |
| Telling the bees | An alternative explanation for the declining bee population. |
| Titivillus | The patron demon of scribes, responsible for many errors. |
| Tsukumogami | According to Japanese folklore, if you keep your straw sandals (or any other household items) around for 100 years, they may become "alive and aware" and develop eyes and sharp teeth. |
| Vampire pumpkins and watermelons | A folk legend from theBalkanpeninsula of south-easternEurope based upon the idea that any inanimate object left outside during the night of a fullmoon will become a vampire. |
| Vril | A belief that aliens controlled Nazi Germany and helped Hitler and others to escape to the South Pole when the war was lost. |
| Well to Hell | A 9-mile (14 km)borehole drilled by Soviet scientists uncovers the sounds of millions of damned souls. Hot stuff. |
| Witch window | A superstitious practice in the State ofVermont to prevent witches from flying through open windows at night. |
| Monsters under the bed | I promise to write this one so I can be on the main page on 4/1/2019 – Barbara |
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| Bonnacon | A mythical ox which flings burning dung at its enemies from its rear and horn. |
| Cattle mutilation | The alleged killing and subsequentmutilation ofcattle,sheep orhorses by unknown perpetrators. Some say they may bealiens. |
| Chupacabra | Alegendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, generally reported in Latin America, that preys on livestock. An episode of theX-files proves this is true. |
| Dog spinning | Do Bulgarians really twizzle their domestic canines to foretell prosperity? The BritishGreen Party thinks so, and they're not happy about it. |
| Drop bear | A fictitiousAustralianmarsupial supposedly related to thekoala. |
| Entombed animal | Tales of live toads and other creatures encased in stone. |
| Fearsome critters | North American lumberjack folklore, withAxhandle hounds andjackalopes. |
| Flying pig | The classic impossibility has been officially proved possible by theInternet Engineering Task Force: "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine." |
| Gef the talking mongoose | Apoltergeist-like creature which claimed to have been an 80-year-oldIndianmongoose, alleged to have haunted aManx cottage during the 1930s. |
| Humanzee | A hypothetical(?) human/chimpanzeehybrid. |
| Hodag | The animal of Rhinelander, Wisconsin and has been confronted by Scooby Doo |
| Jersey Devil | A mythological creature said to inhabit the New JerseyPine Barrens. This another reason why we should just give New Jersey to Canada as a gesture of good will. |
| Liver bird | A legendary cormorant or eagle that is the symbol of a major English city. |
| Lluvia de Peces | It's raining fish inHonduras. |
| Mongolian death worm | A large, bright red worm that kills using acid and electrical discharges – allegedly. |
| Montauk Monster | Actually a decaying raccoon... or is it? |
| Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus | An endangered creature, whose major predator is theSasquatch. Apparently. |
| Phantom kangaroos | They're not just found in Australia. |
| Popobawa | A bat-winged monster fromZanzibar said tosodomize people during election campaigns. |
| Pig-faced women | A lesson never to compare a person's children to pigs when pregnant, lest you be cursed. |
| Rat king | Not the rodent monarch familiar fromThe Nutcracker, but a rare (some say nonexistent) phenomenon in which a group ofrats grow up with their tails tangled in a knot. |
 Rhinogradentia | A fictitious mammalorder documented by an equally fictitious German naturalist. |
| Sidehill gouger | Fictional creatures said to inhabit theRocky Mountains ofBritish Columbia and the southwestern sandhills ofSaskatchewan. |
| Spherical cow | "Consider a spherical cow in a vacuum..." |
| Vegetable Lamb of Tartary | Money might not grow on trees, but maybe sheep do. |
I thot I would just browse through these quickly, but there are some fascinating links! thanks, --Doncram (talk)08:06, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
