Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist (Darby Creek Publishing)

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This page-turning guide will inspire curious readers to investigate more on their own, and maybe even help to prove if a cryptid is a hoax or is real. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in unexplained mysteries, folklore, mythology, and the supernatural.

Since childhood, growing up in a family with spiritualist beliefs, I’ve been fascinated with mysterious phenomena.

Late in 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by the World Book encyclopedia company of Chicago, left on his famous expedition to Nepal in pursuit of the “Abominable Snowman. While practicing her magic one night, Bea accidentally summons a demon in the form of an alligator who offers to grant her wishes.

Arguably one of the best-known cryptid books of all time, The Mothman Prophecies is the definitive account of one of America’s strangest cryptid legends. There are so many different Bigfoot stories and legends out there from folk tales to movies, from Sasquatch to Boston Bahumagosh, Mart and Cabre have collected them all here. However, the study itself has no basis in the scientific method or folklore studies (a branch of anthropology), and is instead related to other pseudosciences like ufology or ghost hunting. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Through his reliably great writing, which fuses horror and psychological suspense, Tremblay explores grief, heartbreak, substance abuse, trauma, and the general horror of existing in our world today.Each entry includes eyewitness accounts or other possible evidence for the creatures, and will undoubtedly pique the curiosity of young investigators-to-be. In Monster Files, not only does author Nick Redfern argue that cryptids are indeed real, but governments are hiding the truth about them.