Bang's Blogs: Cryptids Battle Royale

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” - H.P Lovecraft

Bigfoot, the Overgrown Ape of the Pacific Northwest.

The Loch Ness Monster, the Lake Dweller of the Scottish Highlands.

El Chupacabras, the Goat Sucker of Puerto Rico.

The Jersey Devil, the Flying Death of the Pine Barrens.

The Mothman, the Winged Creature of Point Pleasant.

The Goatman, the Human-Goat Hybrid of Prince George’s County. 

What is real? Is the supernatural a superstition? Is folklore just a fairytale? Or is the Earth truly hiding mythical creatures that humanity has yet to discover? For centuries mankind has claimed such beings are real, with ghost stories of people seeing them face to face, and catching them on flimsy cameras, but the townsfolk don’t buy it, seen as nothing more than a hoax. But they’re out there somewhere, living as legends, animals or creatures claimed to be real despite no such physical evidence…cryptids, if you will. But which man-made monster is the one to beat? Stay close by the campfire in this DEATH BATTLE!

Before We Start…

These aren’t really your traditional Death Battle combatants, and the approach we have to take to all these cryptids are pretty much the same approach. The main media considered would be documentaries, articles, and books documenting these creatures. Any produced pieces of media that aims to inform about or investigate the characters would be considered (i.e. Finding Bigfoot, the Mothman Museum, Loch Ness Monster: New Evidence, etc). Besides that, basically any information gathered from alleged sightings will also be used, as these characters originate from folklore, so it's only fitting to include all sorts of statements from documented sightings. 

While this does sound convoluted, weirdly enough, there are databases documenting all manner of sightings for all these cryptids, so it's actually fairly reasonable. That being said, these creatures combined have thousands upon thousands of sightings, and you could just as easily find someone in your extended family who may also have a story for you, so we will not have everything, but we will certainly try to find out as much about these creatures as we can!

For pieces of media excluded, anything that's clearly an adaptation of the character for an external piece of media, not a legitimate attempt at informing about these "real" creatures (the Chupa movie, the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot SCPs, The Mothman Prophecies Movie, etc) will not be used, as the spirit of the MU is focusing on folklore, so only using media that treats these characters as real and attempts to document or research them makes more sense. However, to give the blog more vibrance, we will use gifs or images from fictitious media, but not for research.

According to Legend…

Bigfoot

“I think there’s a squatch in these woods…”

Many cultures throughout history have told the tale of a looming figure who stalks the unbeknown countryman through the woods. Even in medieval times, there were stories of wild men of the woods from Pan in Greece to Silvanus in Rome. Dating back over 1000 years, the Yokuts tribe labeled him “Mayak Datat” or “The Hairy Man”, the Cherokee named him “The Tsul ‘Kalu”, meanwhile the Spanish explorers into the new world knew him as “Los Vigilantes Oscuros” or “The Dark Watcher”, but a man of the Sts’ailes Nation in 1924 known as J.W. Burns gave him his modern moniker, the name used to this very day - Sasquatch. 

However it would take until 1958 for the most popular name to be made. A bulldozer operator by the name of Jerry Crew in Humboldt Country California made a striking discovery whilst at work, a set of 16 inch human-like footprints etched into the mud of the Six RIvers National Forest. When Jerry told his coworkers about his find, they replied with stories of their own, like how they had seen similar footprints at their prior places of work, or how an oil drum weighing over 450 pounds was suddenly moved over night despite how difficult moving it would be. These men started calling this mysterious culprit “Bigfoot”. They took a plaster cast of the footprint Jerry found and sent a copy around to media like the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, resulting in their name for this entity to spread like wildfire across the country.

In the October of 1967, the first ever recorded footage of this hairy beast would be documented by a Bigfoot enthusiast known as Roger Patterson and his friend Robert Gimlin in Bluff Creek California. The pair claimed to have stumbled upon Bigfoot in the woods whilst searching for him and managed to record their encounter, with this recording going on to be dubbed the Patterson-Gimlin Film (or the PGF), this short film is what can be pointed to for having set the fervour to find Bigfoot into overdrive.

Even the FBI got involved with trying to discover if Bigfoot was truly out there in the American or Canadian wilderness. In 2019, the FBI declassified documents which included an analysis on an alleged 15 Bigfoot hairs attached to a small skin fragment sent to them by a Bigfoot researcher by the name of Peter Byrne. While the FBI may have concluded that the hairs were in fact of deer origin, the fact that the FBI thought that the hairs were credible enough to expend resources on discovering their origins speaks volumes of how Bigfoot has been perceived by the public.

However, tales differ as to what this Sasquatch truly is - is it a tribe of hairy wild men? A cannibalistic giant? Some sort of unidentified gorilla using vast tunnel networks? No one knows for certain as to what Bigfoot truly is - as he has managed to evade capture for countless years despite people’s best efforts at finally proving his existence and moving him from myth to fact. Bigfoot lives on today with thousands of people combing the North American continent for him everyday, for he lives a life of mystery and secret, never allowing anyone enough time to truly identify him, despite the different tracks he may have left behind.

In the end, the only thing we know for certain about this Sasquatch is his impact he has left upon the world, the undisputed king in terms of popularity in the realm of cryptozoology has managed to shape the face of American legends for centuries, far preceding that of the founding of the nation he roams today. He is always somewhere in the forests, hiding just beyond the sight of those curious adventures hoping to find him yet always leaving with but the scantest of glimpses and the most scarce evidence one could hope for, the Bigfoot shall always roam his home.

The Loch Ness Monster

“What your monster may be differs from person to person. I think for me, there’s a mystery here, and that’s what I firmly believe in”.

In the highlands of Scotland, amid the ancient mist-veiled lochs and brooding hills, there lies a stretch of water shrouded in legend, mystery, and fear. Loch Ness, long, deep, and black as pitch, has been the center of a myth that stretches back centuries, long before cameras and tourist traps ever graced its shores. In the olden times, the Picts, one of Scotland’s earliest tribes, carved images of strange beasts into stone near the loch. These creatures bore elongated necks and serpentine bodies, unlike any known animal of the land. To them, the waters were sacred and dangerous, a realm not meant for man, ruled by something ancient and unseen.

But the true explosion of the myth would not come until much later. It was in 565 A.D. when the first written record of something unusual in the loch was set down. The Irish missionary Saint Columba, traveling through the region to spread Christianity, was said to have encountered a great beast in the River Ness. After it attacked a swimmer, Columba made the sign of the cross and commanded it to retreat, and, as the legend says, it did. Was it a divine miracle, a powerful encounter with a cryptid, or perhaps a tale meant to emphasize Christian dominance over pagan fears? Whatever the truth, the seed had been planted, something ancient dwelled in the waters of Loch Ness.

For the next thousand years, tales would ebb and flow like the loch’s own tide. Locals whispered of a creature that lurked beneath the water’s surface, surfacing only rarely, like a phantom. Descriptions varied, a massive aquatic animal with a long neck, humps breaking the surface like waves, eyes as dark as the loch itself. But what was it? A spirit? A survivor of the prehistoric age? 

The 20th century would bring the legend into global fame. In 1933, a couple driving along the newly finished road beside Loch Ness claimed to see a tremendous creature lurching across the road and into the water. The story captured the imagination of a world between two wars, starved for wonder and mystery. Soon, photographs began to surface, most famously, the “Surgeon’s Photograph,” a grainy black-and-white image of a swan-like head and neck breaching the water. For decades, it was considered proof, until it was revealed to be a hoax in the 1990s. But by then, it didn’t matter. The Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie as she was endearingly called, had already become folklore.

But like all myths, Nessie refuses to be confined by logic or debunking. Sonar scans, underwater drones, DNA testing, all have failed to produce definitive evidence. Sightings continue to this day, sometimes by locals, sometimes by tourists, all with differing details but the same uneasy awe. Some claim Nessie is a plesiosaur, a holdover from the Jurassic period somehow surviving in the loch’s icy depths. Others theorize it’s a sturgeon, a giant eel, or a collective hallucination, a psychological phenomenon rooted in the human need to believe in what lies beyond the veil.

And some believe nessie is more than flesh and blood. That she is the guardian of the loch, a spiritual entity woven from Celtic folklore, perhaps tied to the old water spirits known as kelpies or the Each-Uisge, creatures known to lure people into the water to drown. In this sense, Nessie serves not as a monster, but a mythic warning, a reminder that there are places we do not belong, places that hold onto their secrets tightly, places where modern light has yet to reach.

To the Scottish Highlands, the Loch Ness Monster is more than a creature. It is a cultural totem, an economic engine, a cryptic shadow cast over centuries. It asks of us an age-old question, what if? What if the world is not as tame, as rational, as explained as we want it to be? What if something ancient, something primal, still swims in the black waters just beyond our understanding?

Whether a hoax, a relic, or a spirit of the loch itself, the legend persists, not because it has been proven, but because it has not. And in that space between disbelief and faith, the monster endures, watching from the dark, waiting for the next curious soul to peer too long into the water, the Loch Ness Monster.

El Chupacabras

“Take care of your herd, never leave its side. Take care of your blood, el Chupacabras is hungry.”

Puerto Rico is a country of many unique beliefs, such as the spirits inhabiting daily objects known as Zemi, a woman with backwards feet who lures men to devour their souls dubbed la Ciguapa, or perhaps this one you’ve more than likely heard of. The one that stands above the rest, quite literally in fact.

Follow us back to the year of 1995. Dozens of farmers reported unusual and sudden deaths to their local farm animals occurring at night, particularly goats. There was nothing wrong with the animals, no scratches, no injuries, no damage, and hell! No feral animal would’ve left such precious goods without a bite… although, once time had dwelled enough and the carcasses were examined, the animals lacked blood and had two tiny punctures on their necks that were noticed by the terrified locals.

Whoever, or better yet, whatever monster was responsible for killing the animals was not feasting on their remains, but their blood; and seemingly, all it took was one sole bite from its ferocious fangs. The townsfolk could not comprehend the severity of the situation, as this strange phenomenon started occurring all over more and more towns. They wanted someone to blame, and by its very nature, their blame brought to life El Chupacabras.

Literally translating to Goat Sucker, the people were quick to point fingers at its origin. Some say it’s a mutated experiment of the government with its various animalistic characteristics, others believe its alien inter dimensional interference as implied by the many times sightings have coincided with strange lights in the sky, and some really wild people suspect it's the radioactive defect birthed from the Philadelphia experiment in 1943.

Regardless of origin, they shouldn’t have been asking the what, who, and why? But rather the where, as their supernatural critter managed to migrate to ANOTHER CONTINENT! Not even a year later el Chupacabras started being reported on South America as its influence slithered to northern countries like Mexico, the United States, and (sometimes) Canada!

Always remember dear viewers, if you find yourself in the midst of danger of the unknown as scrounging noises appear closer and closer and blood fills the air, be wary of the darkness that surrounds you, be sure to keep a close eye on animals if any, for you may never know what lurks in the abyss that stares back. Que dios te acompañe, amen.

The Jersey Devil

“Each time you go into the woods late at night, take care. And when you hear the sudden crack of the twig behind you, beware. Beware…of the Jersey Devil.”

In the age of the Native Americans and the colonists, the new world was considered a new dawn. A place full of wondrous new land and terrain, and as oral tradition says, a place where creatures of all shapes and sizes roamed the mountains and the forests at night. But not all animals look the same, or take the same form. Some in particular are described as very mythical, and the local Native American tribe of the Leni Lenape, saw something across state lines. In what is now Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a creek was marked and named by the inhabitants, being called Popuessing, which translates to “place of the dragon.” Something was flying across the geographical boundaries as a legendary monster. But what was it? These are just the isolated events of the first sightings of one of cryptids’ most evil terrors. However, the actual myth/legend tells a much different story. 

Unlike most cryptids, this “devil” has actual stories about how it came to be, though there are still a handful of conflicting accounts of the hows and the whys. One such story says that a young girl fell in love with a British soldier during the Revolutionary War, and the townsfolk put a curse on her offspring to be born as a monster. Another account says a gypsy cursed a girl because she didn’t give the gypsy food, and her baby would come out as a monster. But the most popular and accepted account bears similar origins to these two, but the rest is much different. 

It was around the end of the 18th century that the most predominant story of the creature came alive. In the year 1735, there was a family living in Pine Barrens; a woman named Deborah “Mother” Leeds was about to have her 13th child. Life was not kind to her family, and despite her Quaker lifestyle, they were very poor and had little to eat, blaspheming the Lord and the unlucky 13th, she shouted to the heavens, “Let this one be the devil.” The birth took place on a stormy night, and the 13th child came out, but changed into a creature from the depths of hell. It grew leathery bat wings, had the head of a horse, grew hooves and razor sharp claws and fangs, turning into what would be called the “Leeds Devil”. It devoured the midwife, mother, and most of its siblings, before flying out of the chimney and disappearing into the pines. 

But Atlantic County would not see the last of the creature. It continued to be sighted by humans living there. Most famously, naval hero Commodore Stephen Decatur spotted a huge pterodactyl-like creature and shot it with a cannonball, but it disappeared in a gust of smoke. Joseph Bonaparte, former king of Spain would also come face to face with the monster, as would the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1740, a paranoid clergyman would perform an exorcism hoping to be rid of the foul beast, promising that for at least 100 years, the people of Pine Barrens would be safe. But they couldn’t have been more wrong. 

In 1909, a spike in sightings of the mysterious creature would leave the counties in fear. Thousands of New Jerseyians would claim to spot some sort of half-kangaroo half-canine flying monster, and many hunts took place, and despite being allegedly shot down or attacked by the authorities, the creature would appear around the town all week, even reaching to other states like Delaware. The creature was blamed for countless livestock maulings that took place over the years, and people tried to make sense of what this creature was. Some think of it as a prehistoric animal that somehow survived underground for millions of years, escaping limestone caves after volcanic activity. Others think that this is some kind of embodiment of the devil itself, haunting Pine Barrens as a warning. Whatever it may be, people, including the Science School of Philadelphia, tried to make sense of what this harbinger of doom was. 

John Keel, a famous American ufologist and journalist, proposed a couple of theories to the creature’s existence and what it is; one, that it could be an interdimensional intelligence that is traveling to our reality through some kind of energy signature. Two, an extraterrestrial that has been here all along. And three, a crypto-terrestrial. Something that belongs to our planet, but something we cannot begin to imagine what it is. Whatever theory one may believe, it didn’t answer the truly haunting question; what does it want? We will never know; besides the lifeless images of hoof tracks in the snow, we have no physical evidence or DNA of the winged demon, and are only left with clues or theories as to what it is. 

For many 18th and 19th century parents in the states of New Jersey or Pennsylvania, this cryptid serves as a warning to the children; come home before dark, or the forest flier will getcha! The legend and myth is used as a mechanism of fear…but how can you fear something you don’t understand? Fear the unknown? The intersection between the creature’s motif and the negative reinforcement of 18th century parenting seem to paint a horrifying picture; maybe this creature aligns itself with the idea of folklore and cryptids to strengthen the hand-gripping fear of the population. To make the people of New Jersey, and maybe society as a whole not just fear the unknown, but stay away from its uncharted territories. A warning to anyone wanting to investigate further or uncover the truth to turn back and stay on the trail. A form of control that we can’t comprehend. One that has seeped its claws into the lives and memories of people lost to time, and all of their intellectual pursuits, land grabbing, religious bigotry, and witchcraft, all of which fall on the blame of an 18th century legend filtered out of any Lenape heritage. Whether you may be a hunter of it, a denier, a truth-seeker, or a skeptic, one thing is for certain; it comes from Pine Barrens, New Jersey, and when you hear those blood-curdling shrieks echo through the pines, be warned…of the Jersey Devil.

The Mothman

”Sometimes all you can do is put a name to what haunts you. Fear. Loss. Mothman".

On the eastern side of America and in West Virginia, the heart of all mountaineers everywhere, there lies a peculiar and small town by the name of Point Pleasant. In this secluded town of less than 20,000 people, a legend persists in the minds of the people, whether it be in fear or celebration. This is not any ordinary folklore or old piece of history, but rather a creature that haunted the town as recently as the 1960s and terrorized the people for months on end. Culminating in disasters and ailments widespread across the town, it was originally documented as “The Birdman” but the newspapers, influenced by the upcoming Batman villain Killer Moth, referred to this cryptid as none other than The Mothman.

The first sightings didn’t send any alarms to the mainstream immediately, a few graveyard diggers saw him flying overhead and other minor sightings but these never really took off. It was only until one night, November 15th, 1966, where two young couples, now married, by the names of Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Malette were driving home one night until they came across a sign with something underneath. Whatever it was, it stuck Roger dead in his place as he stopped the car right at it, giving the 4 kids a good look at the creature. They described it as a slender, muscular man standing at seven feet at least and with a wingspan of ten with red, ominous eyes that absorbed their attention into them. For several seconds, they didn’t say a word and couldn’t move, until Linda snapped back into consciousness and screamed at Roger to pump the gas. The creature put up a pursuit, following them with its wings even as they were going over 100 MPH with their car. They raced down town until they found a police station, where they told them everything that had happened.

When the news was published as a cryptid sighting, the town was hysterical. Remember, Point Pleasant, especially at this time where it was much lower, is a very small town so this type of news from its respected youth spread like wildfire. Soon the entire town was reporting Mothman sightings, like it appearing in their apartment, backyard, stalking them from afar or in the previous bomb storage unit called The TNT Area. There were also real, actual reports of mutilated cows and dead dogs at points. The community of Point Pleasant was convinced that the devil had set foot in their town, and its name was The Mothman. And as Mothman sightings increase, so did the repercussions from viewing the creature, people were seemingly cursed with physical ailments, complicated social life and sometimes even death. 

But Mothman wasn’t the only odd occurrence at Point Pleasant, far from it, when The Mothman phenomenon really took off in the town there were two figures that appeared. The first was The Ingrid Cold, a forever smiling entity that spoke telepathically and told certain people that it came from an alien planet through a UFO. How this relates to Mothman is still very up for debate. The other was The Men In Black, a term coined to people who had viewed The Mothman being approached by people in all black with a hat in sunglasses asking about their experience with the creature. These men were relentless and would follow you anywhere, seemingly disappearing when the conversation was over. It is heavily theorized that The Men In Black were trying to cover up The Mothman’s appearance and take notes of all who saw it. For what reason? We don’t really know but it may correlate to the next event which would bring the town to its knees.

Up to this point, it had only been a year of The Mothman lurking in the sky and TNT area of Point Pleasant, and its final appearance in the town would be at The Silver Bridge. As it hovered over it, cars passed along the bridge until the bridge collapsed with Mothman now nowhere to be seen. This catastrophe ended the lives of 46 people, which UFOlogists were able to notice that a majority of them were Mothman witnesses. Was The Men In Black, who took notice of people who had seen Mothman, responsible for this?  Or was The Mothman to blame? Despite investigators pointing out how the collapse was actually caused by a fractured eyebar, the people of Point Pleasant, in all their hysteria and panic, continued to point fingers to The Mothman and Men In Black. After all, The Mothman never showed up again after this.

Mothman’s disappearance after this event may be true, but saying it was entirely responsible wasn’t the truth. But then, what was Mothman doing the day of the collapse? This was when a theory came in which is now accepted by the Point Pleasant community as fact. You see, Mothman never caused any actual harm to people, only animals and the only people who saw The Mothman were people who were hit with misfortune afterwards. Mothman’s behavior at the bridge suggests that it was never trying to hurt us, but warn us. Every sighting was it trying to communicate to the witness that something in their future was going to go wrong. It acted as an omen of disaster to the people, not as a cause of it. 

This revelation changed everything people thought of it as, which caused other theorists to present their own ideas as what it could be. Notable ones include it being some sort of animal mutation caused by radiation in the TNT Area, others say its a spirit inflicted on the town by The Curse of Cornstalk, a curse laid by a dying Native who was wrongfully betrayed, and others simply think it's an alien much like The Ingrid Cold, or that it is the Ingrid Cold itself. We have no confirmation, the most widely accepted theory is by paranormal investigator extraordinaire, John Keel. Who said that Mothman was a tulpa, a thought originating from a different plane of energy and light called the superspectrum and briefly brought into our world by strong belief in its existence. He also proposed that Mothman was an Ultraterrestial, a being which operated on a different timeframe then us and watching milestone events at different points in time, which explains its ability to know the future and willingness to warn others of it.

Whatever it may be, the tale of The Mothman has long since been put to rest. Though there have been more recent sightings outside of Point Pleasant, there is no way to know if these are correlated or even The Mothman. But the legacy of The Mothman lives on, since it is now known as a creature that warns humanity of incoming disasters in their future, it is celebrated in Point Pleasant every year. This festival brings people all over the world to Point Pleasant, making its own small town into a booming success that documents all Mothman history alike. In many ways, Mothman may have very well accomplished its goal in saving the lives of Point Pleasant as its symbol of protection. Who could’ve foresaw that a creature so widely regarded as a menace saved a whole town from obscurity? And who knows, maybe so many people remembering the story of the fabled Mothman will bring this winged omen of the unspeakable back to its town. So when you see the flight of a dark figure and the shine of red from its head, know that you have been paid a gruesome warning by The Mothman.

The Goatman

“I just think he’s cool.” -ThiccGrimes

In Greek Mythology it is said that born from the blood of the castration of Uranus by the hands of Cronos came the Satyr, mischievous Goat like creatures that inhabited the Mountain Nymphs. Often playing tricks on travelers who trespassed on their territory. Like many tales, these creatures lived on through word of mouth and grew into public consciousness. But in the modern age, they are far from forgotten. 

In the American South, there lies a legend of a half goat, half man that's all monster. His origins are clouded in mystery. Some say he's an escaped circus performer, seeking vengeance after being tormented by his captures. To others, it seems more likely that he's a scientist that fell victim to his own experiments of crossing human and animal DNA. Or maybe he's a Demon, forged from a deal gone bad with the Devil himself. 

Regardless of the version you focus on, one thing always stays the same. The Goatman haunts an old abandoned bridge that is said to surely bring any trespasser's demise if they dare cross it, or decide to knock on its foundation three times. Calling the Goatman to their presence and surely to their doom. Even as far back as the 1950s, this mysterious creature lived on and brought fright to Southern locals, but others revel in its presence. Many people throw festivals in its name but some speculate that a secret cult resides close to the haunted bridge, often making human and animal sacrifices in its name, in hopes to gain its favor and to never let the legend of The Goatman fizzle out without blood.

Intelligence

Bigfoot

It's a common belief in Native American legend that Bigfoot is a guardian of the earth. They’re seen as the ultimate strength of mother nature and are a world wide species. Probably unsurprising to some of you, Bigfoots are sighted to do typical ape-like activities. Bigfoot can climb and hang onto thin trees no problem, swinging around the tops of trees and baby Bigfoots can perform gymnastics beyond any human. They also will urinate on their territory to mark it, as a lot of stories do suggest male bigfoots are highly territorial. With this, it’s also a common habit that they will throw rocks to scare off intruders but use rocks to distract people away from their young. They have no fear of going into water and are actually great swimmers, will make nests to sleep in, have amazing tracking abilities, they migrate with Elk to continue to hunt them and have formed ambush trails.

Of course, Bigfoots are seen as incredibly intelligent, sometimes even humanly so. A female could speak a few words and could aid in work. They have a brain more powerful than most animals and a natural curiosity and depending on the crack-pot theorist you’re talking to, they apparently pilot UFOs… lmao. We’ll go over that stuff later, but just know for now that Bigfoots being weirdly smart is wildly consistent, extraterrestrial stuff or not. They seemingly understand the concept of trade and people will offer Bigfoot rifle shells and pocket knives as peace offerings. This also ties into just how damn stealthy they are, they can be around you while you’re camping and you’ll never know it. Some suggest that Bigfoot is hiding on purpose, waiting for humanity to be ready for its presence.

But this species isn’t just adept at surviving, they’re fighters too. Bigfoots are also said by many to occasionally get into fights with Dogmen, others say they'll also work together from time to time. The dogman is said to be “omnipotent” and has telepathic powers, saying that it knows everything about you and can kill you at any time. Giving them experience against other supernatural monsters in battle. But on top of that they will occasionally wrestle each other and some Bigfoots were fucking TRAINED in combat by Native American Tribes to aid them in war, with some other stories telling about wars against Sasquatches themselves. 

The Loch Ness Monster

She has been sighted since the 1200s but is supposedly has been documented as early as the 6th century. and is theorized to come from outer space… yeah.. She is stated to be millions of years old, surviving the extinction of the dinosaurs and has been through several ice ages. Meaning she is very old and a very experienced hunter. Nessie is also considered to be a trickster among locals of Scotland, tying into the Water Kelpie origins. Nessie will bury herself in sand/mud to avoid radars, similar to sting rays and flounder, and obviously has been sighted for hundreds of years but nobody has been able to capture, let alone get a solid picture of this fucking thing. She even once managed to avoid a gang of 20 poachers with a specialized harpoon gun and Operation Deep Scan, which was basically when 20 boats scoured Loch Ness trying to find her. 

El Chupacabras

El Chupacabras’ earliest sightings can be traced back to 1995, though some speculate it might have been spotted as far back as 1915 with reports of Gargoyle-like creatures. Throughout all this time, el Chupacabras has fully dedicated itself to hunting down and killing as many things as it can find, moving down the continent of South America to Argentina and even affecting places as far off as Russia. It primarily uses its absurd stealth to avoid detection and kill as many things as possible unimpeded, having been able to avoid being properly caught on tape or leaving behind any decisive evidence of its existence all this time; it’s been stated to leave no feathers, no traces, and no prints on the animals it kills besides the single puncture wound, and when it hunts, it can even sneak up on a person till it is literally right next to them without them noticing it. As you can imagine, it primarily relies on cover to ambush its prey, though that doesn’t mean that’s its only trick, as it will nearly ALWAYS rely on its hypnotic capabilities to make prey unable to defend itself or make any noise, giving it an easy hunt and getaway.

Even beyond this, it’s noted to be highly more intelligent than any other animal, unlocking locks and windows to reach protected prey, and it can identify any potential threat that isn’t afraid of it and use dirty tactics to circumvent them, like when it lured a veterinarian aiming to kill it away from the village he defended to feast upon the residents unimpeded. This degree of intelligence and cunning is likely what has allowed it to go so long without ever being truly stopped, racking up a jaw-dropping kill count of over 50,000 animals in Chile alone, truly establishing how deadly of a creature this is.

The Jersey Devil

The Devil has lurked within the shadows of the unending pine trees for close to 300 years, and is suggested to be even older. While the legend of the creature wouldn’t come until a few centuries ago, some believe that the Jersey Devil is a prehistoric creature that survived by hiding underground in limestone caves beneath the Gulf Stream, and was released when volcanic activity occurred, meaning it has existed for many centuries. It is an extraordinary force of nature that has appeared during times of economic turmoil, such as Civil War, World War I, and Pearl Harbor. It is clearly aware of the Pine Barrens as its home, and has been theorized to protect the pines, operating on the outside fringes of the Forest for territory protection. It's smart enough to use this environment to its advantage, using its gray coloration to camouflage with the tree branches, and has made a guy who never felt like he was being watched feel like he was being watched.

It is also extremely elusive, and has been outsmarting humans for centuries, evading capture from several wealthy individuals and experienced hunters and their many traps. It couldn’t be killed by the best marksmen in New Jersey, evaded capture from the French emperor Joseph Bonaparte even after he turned into a spirit, and evaded capture during the 1804 Manhunt. Some people have theorized that it came from a government facility, and it still manages to pop up even after being declared dead several times. 

Another sign of its intelligence is rooted in what the creature truly is. If the Jersey Devil is believed to be an interdimensional entity, its motivation could possibly be from acting as a fear mechanism of the collective consciousness to limit societal progress. It aligns and shapes itself with folklore and the Jersey Devil, strengthening the fear over the population of uncharted territories (literally and metaphorically). This is backed up by the fact that 18th and 19th century parents told their children to come home before dark or the Jersey Devil would come to get them, further proving it is used as a fear mechanism in order to reinforce a halt on society in some controlling way.

The Mothman

Mothman is one of many extraterrestrials that have taken refuge in the whereabouts of Point Pleasant, and as to be expected, these intelligences are pretty extreme. Which seems to be the reason why Mothman has not been spotted more often, having been speculated by the most iconic witness that it is too smart and too fast to be captured and hardly photographed. Beyond this, Mothman created its own UFO by modifying energy within the superspectrum to form a piece of heavily advanced technology that is under its control at all times and  the extraterrestrial intelligence that is Mothman has also been manipulating mankind to perform important events through something known as Mystical Illumination. 

Illumination affects mankind mostly due to religion, as false interpretations of it somehow caused religion to exist in the first place, meaning that Mothman’s kind of extraterrestrial life has existed since at most 100,000 BC and is implied to have existed since mankind did. And we know that this can be applied to Mothman, as under various birdman creatures being connected to the monster, it has apparently been with us for centuries to millennia. Making it an incredibly old cryptid spanning to the furthest depths of our history.

The Goatman

While sometimes the Goatman is just depicted as a mindless monster, most origins tell a much different story. In the most recurring origin, the Goatman is a former scientist, who experimented in blending human and animal DNA and in others he was a former goat farmer or just a farmer in general, with apparitions of the Goatman often being seen with a herd of goats following him. In most origins, Goatman seeks vengeance on his former tormentors, or protects his bridge from trespassers. Which he consistently succeeds at, according to legend. So the Goatman is very much humanly intelligent and has showcased the ability to use weapons and stalk victims. Playing into its obvious ties to the Greek legends of Satyars, Goatman is a trickster and will use its paranormal abilities to lure its victims into traps and due to the color of its fur, the Goatman will capitalize on this and use its natural camouflage to blend in with the woods and some stories bring up its ability to swim, sometimes using this skill to sneak up on unsuspecting victims. He is also consistently suggested to have knowledge in dark magics, being able to harness it to perform demonic rituals and it is what has given him various powers.

Equipment

Bigfoot

Various Primitive Tools

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Bigfoots are well documented to use primitive tools or improvised objects to make their lives a bit easier. They will do things like steal insolation to build nests and while hunting, Bigfeet will lure their prey into traps. There’s even a report of one using metal lunch boxes to gather water, using it like a canteen of sorts. Russian Bigfoots are known to use fire and tools, as are American Bigfoots. Some older Native American legends, Bigfoots carry a basket for kidnapping children and of course, they consistently are known to use simple tools on occasion. Such as sticks, rocks and buckets.

Bow and Arrows

This actually started out as a joke before research started but there is actual proof of them using bows and arrows, as well as wearing animal skins. There’s also some more iffy reportings of Bigfoot using fucking guns… not really something we’ll use but it’s funny to mention.

Clubs, Spears and Axes

In certain origins, The Stone Man is a cursed human forced to live in the woods and carries large clubs. Many believe this to be connected to Sasquatch, as is The Mogollon Monster, who is also commonly portrayed carrying a club. This isn’t too farfetched to consider, since some reports say they are even capable of crafting primitive tools, like axes and perhaps even spears.

UFOs/Alien Technology

Something that’s gonna be pretty recurring is Bigfoot’s ties to aliens. So it’s no surprise there’s plenty of evidence to suggest them having access to high level alien tech. This dude specifically even suggests that Bigfoots are actually the pets of extraterrestrials. There are reports of Bigfoots carrying around glowing orbs, seemingly the same ones that people see fly around the sky at night. According to one Native American story, a “hairy giant” resided within a large flying object that could burrow through the ground, fire “lasers and particle beams” and seemingly had a form of auto-pilot. The giant also had a pair of “rock eyeshades” though the story teller says it was likely metal. So yeah, Sasquatch just has access to UFOs, which according to other stories are strong enough to carry….orcas? 

This also has an effect on Bigfoot’s environment. There's an 18ft long portal in the woods that Bigfoots can stand in to cloak when they hunt and Bigfoots can make use of natural “vortexes” which can cause visual distortions and aid in cloaking, it’s even said these vortexes have healing properties as well.

The Loch Ness Monster

Loch “Lake” Ness

Loch Ness itself is suggested to be an interdimensional portal and others simply just speculate that Loch Ness is home to a “time portal”, saying that the Loch holds electromagnetic fields that paired with its quartz rich soil can hold open wormholes to the past. It’s possible to see “time effects” (??) that allows a viewer to see into the past and potentially grants the Loch slower passage of time, even with the possibility of visitors of the Loch being able to be transported millions of years into the past.

UFOs and Alien Technology

According to random witnesses and crackpot conspiracy theorists, there’s a portal to “hollow earth” in the loch and others say there’s a space ship down there. Nessie and other lake monsters are suggested to come from the same alien source. With their technology hiding them from our own. Which would explain the hundreds of failed attempts to find the creature, even hiding from the efforts of the government.

El Chupacabras

UFO

Many origins to el Chupacabras tie its unnatural and unexplainable appearance to that of alien origin, and what’s an alien creature without an iconic UFO? Many of el Chupacabras’s early sightings note strange lights in the sky that appear alongside the creature, with some theories pointing to said UFO being used to pick it up after it has completed a hunt to facilitate its escape unseen. Some on-lookers have described the UFO as being v-shaped and being capable of zooming away, though it's also surprisingly strong, as it's said it could pick up and kidnap up to 3 cows without making any sound or light, then dropping them off kilometers away.

The Jersey Devil

The Pine Barrens

Covering over a million acres in seven counties (aka 1,700 square miles), the New Jersey Pine Barrens are quite the supernatural ecosystem as even simply entering the desolate forest can give those an uneasy feeling with its negative energy. Similarly, being near the crystal pond can make one feel high, lightheaded and like the energy is moving within your body. Now this isn’t without reason as the pond was used for a satanic sacrifice which supposedly opened a “doorway to another world”. These doorways, otherwise known as inter-dimensional portals, are contained all throughout the trees and can be used by the cryptids for many different purposes from slipping in and out of reality without humans knowing to stealthily take you in. The Barrens are actually kind of perfect for stealth purposes, as they’re so quiet that you can hear the ringing in your ear. Alongside the portals; the Pine Barrens also contains swarms of bugs that tend to show up near demonic presences such as Jersey Devil and spiritual presences. 

Cursed Objects

According to legend, if you take objects from the old deeds family house which is where the jersey Devil was born, you will experience weird dreams and paranormal happenings at your house like stuff falling off of the wall

UFO

UFO sightings are very common in the Garden State of New Jersey, possibly suggesting a link between them and the Jersey Devil. John Keel suggests UFO sightings or other cryptid-related sightings are a result of an actual physical sighting, but not from a zoological animal, and is likely a being or creature from another dimension or reality.

The Mothman

UFO

By now you can’t say you aren’t used to cryptids having access to UFOs, in Mothman’s case, even though it can fly perfectly fine, it has flown into a UFO for a more carefree flight experience. This UFO is actually built by Mothman, its energy from the superspectrum harvested and modeled by Mothman into a highly advanced flying machine referred to as a Tulpa. What’s more is that this UFO not only flies, but it can badly damage your eyesight and potentially give you temporary blindness with its harsh lights, hypnotize you if you view it and extend claw-like appendages out of its sides to grab onto other vehicles.

The Goatman

Large Axe

This is the Goatman’s iconic and signature weapon. The kind of axe varies from story to story, but typically it's portrayed as a pretty big battle axe with two blades and is often said to be rusty.

Rope Noose

Sometimes playing a part in the origin of the Goatman, in other stories it is used by Goatman to summon portals to the underworld. Either for traversal or taking his victims to hell itself.

Paranormal Light Orbs

In Huntsville Texas, there are reports of cars being chased down by aggressive orbs of light, described in various colors like orange, red, yellow, green etc. These are seen in the same area as the Goatman and are speculated to be related, potentially adding a connection to extraterrestrial activity that is reported within the area.

Goatman’s Bridge

Goatman’s most recurring location and a gateway to the underworld. There are several variations of it depending on which part of the American South you’re in, but usually they’re all the same. Sometimes the train tracks run on the bridge, sometimes they’re under it but regardless, knocking on Goatman’s bridge or even stepping foot on it will alert him to your presence on his turf and he will soon arrive to either scare you off or hypnotize you into staying put so a train can run your ass over.

Abandoned School Bus

Around Goatman's bridge lays an old School Bus, usually said to be infested by the ghosts of dead children, or houses an Old Hermit with a shotgun. Given that Goatman is usually portrayed as humanly smart, or was at one point human, we could potentially have some Tokyo Drift shit at play here.

Miscellaneous Objects

Goatman’s bridges will usually have various creepy shit strewn around it. Usually reported to be stuff like saw blades, bones, rusty knives… used syringes. Goatman likely will just use whatever is around his environment to fight or scare off adversaries. Like Bigfoot, Goatman will just throw rocks at people to either fuck with them or to scare them off.

Official Hot Sauce

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Abilities

Bigfoot

Sasquatch Physiology

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It is said they are the ultimate strength of the forest, possessing wisdom over all of it and are described as “uncatchable shadows”, unable to be locked away. There are many suggested origins for the species, some say them to be a gigantopithecus or some sort of evolved descendant, while to others Bigfoot is the result of alien experiments. Basically though, they’re bigass hairy buff monkeys.

Regardless, physically they are suggested to weigh more than 1,500 lbs with certain bigfoots being reported to be over 2,000 lbs. Bigfoots are typically said to be around 7 - 8 feet tall but in more extreme cases, some stories insinuate Bigfoots can get around 14ft tall with tallest Bigfoot on record reaching 19 ft. They can walk on all fours, are considered surprisingly agile and can jump 22 ft horizontally and 8 ft vertically, along with being graceful swimmers, being able to swim over a mile underwater. They have some natural capabilities, such as “sticky hands”, hide as tough as oak bark, and are stated to be nocturnal and have glowing eyes used to communicate. On top of this is some decently impressive stamina, as a group of them once continuously attacked a cabin for 3 - 6 hours straight.

Stealth/Camouflage

According to some, Bigfoot consistently has the ability to “cloak or disappear". It is said they can turn invisible within the blink of an eye. Potentially this could be compared to the Yeti’s ability to get into a target's mind to make them believe it's invisible, however, Scientists (apparently) performed experiments on Bigfoot hair, one of which being that they shined lights on a strand which made it change color. Explaining how Bigfoot manages to avoid camera lights. On this note they know what inferred and cameras are and will purposefully avoid them and some hunters have reported that Bigfoots make absolutely no noise when hiding, being quieter than squirrels. They will use their surroundings to aid in stealth and according to James “Bo Bo” Fay, they often swim underwater to sneak attack ducks and geese. There’s also more terrifying cases of Bigfoots stealthily snatching up a group of men and tearing them apart in the dead of night.

Mind Powers

Bigfoot is theorized to have powerful mind control/reading/hearing and they are stated to have intuitive abilities, which includes Claircognizance, Clairsentience, Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, Clairolafactory/ Clairalience and Clairgustus. It is stated that Bigfoot is capable of psychic communication and can transfer information to a target “like a spark of lightning”, even being able to transplant information into a target’s brain in order to cover up their existence. Bigfoot's telepathy can reach people even while they're in their own homes and have reportedly overwhelmed psychic mediums before.

Thanks to his psychic abilities, Biggie is precognitive and knows when people are searching for him and chooses when to show himself, so they are able to use this in offensive and defensive means. Bigfoot has the ability to erase memories and is able to instill uncontrollable fear or paranoia into a target, causing hunters to flee from its territory. With these attacks appearing as “symptoms of danger or psychic disruptions”. Bigfoots are also said to have strange paralysis powers, akin to a “taser”, which can paralyze you just by being near them. Which, the Snenitc, a creature similar to Bigfoot, is capable of shooting beams of paralyzing light from its eyes. (The man being interviewed here says he considered them the same species, just different races.) It is advised to not speak ill of the Snentic, as you can think and speak them into existence.

Enhanced Senses

Bigfoot is stated to have animal-like senses, having fantastic hearing and eyesight, far greater than humans and can even see inferred. Potentially even having some form of danger sense. Like deer and dogs, they can sense changes in the weather and their eyes have "cryptochrome" which allows them to see electromagnetic waves. They can hear ultrasonic and high frequency pitches that humans cannot and have nocturnal vision.

Voice Mimicry 

Biggie can mimic the sounds of children or crying to lure in victims and can mimic the calls of other animals, like wolves, coyotes, owls, turkeys and even the voices of adult humans. Giving them a neat trick to get a leg up on anyone in their territory that they deem as enough of a threat.

Teleportation/Time Portals

Naturally… we come to this. It's of little shock at this point that Bigfoots are documented as teleporting within the blink of an eye and have vanished in flashes of light. When Bigfoot is in danger it can change the energy frequency of its body to travel between other frequencies in other desired areas. And Bigfoot can use portals to exit other realities through “wormholes or portals” and can travel through dimensions that we are not able to, traveling through “many dimensions” as he pleases. It’s even said they can time travel, are telepathic and can step between the physical and etheric worlds.

Healing/Immortality

Interestingly, Bigfoot are reported to utilize plants for medicinal purposes. But on the more supernatural end of things, Bigfoots have shown that they have some level of healing powers and even resurrection. Within the afterlife Bigfoot will teach the souls of the deceased about healing and medicine. In one story, despite being killed, within seemingly moments several Bigfoots came back to life seemingly through some sort of passive magic. These Bigfoots were unfazed by battle wounds and are stated to have healing factors. In this same story it is said that Bigfoots cannot be killed by physical means and the way they accomplish this is through removing their still beating hearts and leaving them in a secure place.

Soul/Curse Manipulation

Bigfoot has “spiritual powers” and is said to have a shriek that can shake a man's soul. In Native American cultural practices, “The Hairy Man’s” power is used to help guide souls to the afterlife. Biggie is capable of blessing, cursing, inflicting illnesses and has inflicted a mysterious illness on this man… apparently. It’s even said they can steal your spirit if you look into their eyes.

Shapeshifting

Like a lot of mystical creatures, Bigfoot's commonly said to be able to change their forms at will and are capable of complex shapeshifting, able to turn into other animals, like coyotes and even inanimate objects. This documentary here says Bigfoot is reported as being able to change its form into a log and in some Native American legends they could turn themselves into bushes.

Intangibility

In Native American Folklore, Biggie is seen as a Spirit Being. James “Bo Bo” Fay from Finding Bigfoot says that Bigfoot can travel around in their “spirit form” which is similar to a ball of light with others saying it to be able to raise or lower their vibrational density, and they can “glide through the forest as if the trees weren’t there”. It would seem they are just sometimes non-physical, seemingly able to switch between solid and not. It is backed up by other reports of them to be inter-dimensional, with a physical and non-physical component to it. 

Elemental Manipulation

Some people have reported that Bigfoot has the capability to send out electric shocks as a sort of projectile attack and this same video also brings up weather manipulation, specifically that one made the sky turn a different color and this is supported by other accounts saying that Bigfoot can control the weather. In the novel River Horse Across America, it brings up superstitions about “forest-beings” (suggested to be Bigfoot) that they often cause “bad storms” for settlers.

Miscellaneous Magics

There are various other versions of Sasquatch type creatures that possess their own special capabilities. In a variation of the origin, the Mogollon Monster was a Native American Chief who used a magic ritual to give himself supernatural strength and fighting abilities. In some stories, Urayuli is a type of Bigfoot. If considered, they have hypnosis and can plant seeds down the throat of a victim to slowly turn them into another Urayuli and there are tales of a “Wild Woman” putting a curse on a man to “never kill another bear in his life”, which in the tale itself, seems to just straight up take the fight out of him and his dog. Keeping that fucker “nailed” to that same spot for 15 years.

The Loch Ness Monster

Plesiosaur Physiology

Early speculation suggests it may be a Mosasaurus, 75ft in length. But Plesiosaurs are the most popular interpretation. They were efficient swimmers and predators, they had no sense of smell, but could detect the slightest drop of blood in the water. They are considered one of nature's crowning achievements, surviving for billions of years… but Nessie isn’t a typical plesiosaur, she is reported to move at 70 km per hour and sometimes has a serpent-like body. It is proposed that Nessie has boney armored plates along her back, similar to the Atlantic Sturgeon and with some sightings depicting the creature with a horned head, has natural camouflage, on occasion has up to six flippers and inflatable back humps to aid in resurfacing assumedly. It is theorized to be able to breathe underwater, unlike its real life counterpart, which it’s often brought up that Nessie would realistically need to come up for air every hour or so. Furthermore, Nessie can survive off of Loch Ness’ insanely low food supply, insinuating that the creature is adept for harsh survival situations and can survive off the bare minimum, despite its large size. She is reported anywhere around 35ft in length to measure over 300 ft in length and weigh as much as 10,000 lbs. While regular plesiosaurs ranged from 12 - 15 meters in length.

A consistent question, which will play a role in this debate, is if Nessie can even go on land, which, yes, she can. Champ, a creature that people speculate is the same creature as Nessie has been seen walking on land on multiple occasions and the 2nd and 3rd documented sightings in history reports Nessie herself walking on land, likely an evolutionary adaptation developed since the cretaceous period. Scientists also question how the monster is able to survive the extreme temperatures at the bottom of the Loch, especially during the winter months. They speculate it can hibernate, further playing into the evolution theory.

Echolocation/Psychic Abilities

It is suggested that Champ is capable of echolocation, again, a creature closely tied to Nessie and is considered a close relative. Nessie also has "psychic skills” and can apparently drive people to become obsessed with it, making them abandon their families and everything just by seeing it. Nessie was apparently blamed for locals getting addicted to drugs and alcohol thanks to this ability. Neat! We also have a range on this as well, with it being capable of psychic communication on a global scale.

Elemental Manipulation

Nessie is stated to give off supernatural energies and early drawings depict monsters in the Loch and other sea monsters with wings (Mistaken flippers possibly) and with the ability to spray water from its mouth and some sort of projectile from its eyes and another creature similar to the Loch Ness Monster was reported to have the ability to have the ability to shoot nerve-targeting electricity and can shoot water, akin to blue flames, that paralyzed men for hours. It is also a recurring cliche that Nessie can breathe fire, although, we have found no reports of this directly.

Accelerated Evolution 

Of course, like all living creatures, Plesiosaurs and other aquatic reptiles evolved over billions of years to have specific features and abilities to aid in their reproduction and survival. But in Nessie’s case, there’s a bit more going on here. According to many paleontologists and scientists, Nessie would have to have insanely fast evolutionary capabilities, going from being saltwater animals to fresh water animals in just a few thousand years. It is suggested that Nessie is an evolved species of Plesiosaur, giving it adaptations not found in fossil records.

Kelpie/Water Horse Powers

Some theorize that Nessie and the Kelpie/Water Horse are the same, so we should go over what Kelpies are capable of. Water Horses are notorious tricksters with magic powers and use the ability to force victims to be stuck to its body so it can drown them (They’re assholes). Water Horses can grant wishes and have been able to teach humans how to sail so they can lead them into storms lmao. After murdering and eating you, Water Horses could send you to hell according to certain legends.

Intangibility/Non-Physical Interaction

Yeah that's right. We started with aliens, now we’re on ghosts. Nessie is stated to be a spirit and gives off supernatural energies. Some theorize that Nessie is a spirit of a long dead dinosaur that haunts Loch Ness. Ghosts in other Scotland legends can fight and kill each other, meaning the spirit of Nessie should be capable of the same.

Teleportation/Time Travel

Of fucking course it can teleport….This is one of the more… insane theories about the Loch Ness Monster. Nessie is suggested to be able to time travel and is able to move through wormholes and dimensions. This is often used to explain how Nessie can appear and disappear at will, so people speculate that she can traverse dimensions and time itself.

Shapeshifting

Water Horses are suggested to be able to shape shift, able to take whatever form they could want. They are reported to shapeshift into humans and animals and can shapeshift into flying birds and even inanimate objects at will. This could also be used as an explanation for some of the drastic differences in reports of the monster’s appearance, such as the serpent body.

El Chupacabras

Goat Sucker Physiology

Due to there being hundreds of sightings of this specimen across international regions, tellings of its appearance drastically vary in forms. Originally in Puerto Rico, it was conceived as a bipedal reptile with alien-like characteristics, but as its myth migrated to the Americas, it became closer to a nearly hairless quadruped with obscenely sharp claws and spikes spread across its entire body (in various iterations, it’s said the spines can glow in all sorts of different colors); although other times, it’s described as capable of flying as if it were some kind of giant bat or gargoyle, likely added to explain how it was seen multiple times across different states. Its weight varies from dozens up to six hundred kilograms and heights from a meter or two, sometimes less, with an impressive jumping height of 17 meters, though some sources put it as high as 50 meters.

Blood-Sucking

The trademark feature behind our preying amalgamation. The Chupacabra has multiple ways of sucking blood, most commonly through fangs that serve the straightforward purpose of draining all of its hunt’s blood in minutes, leaving it as a rotting husk with such precise incisions they’ve been compared to surgical ones. The injury its bite performs have been stated to cause euthanasia on the animal and stop blood from coagulating. While it tends to aim for the neck or other parts of the body, it has been able to puncture tougher parts like a Siamese cat’s skull. Besides fangs, some locals have witnessed a form of “tube like projection” from its mouth that it uses to suck all the blood from victims.

Chupa’s blood-sucking capabilities are extremely precise, leaving 1/4'' holes resembling biopsy punctures that can cut right through muscle tissues, and one time, Chupa was able to inflict wounds onto the inner tissue of an animal without leaving any form of mark on the outer layers, implying a form of supernatural attribute to its blood-sucking. These abnormal aspects are especially emphasized with its sheer speed, being able to drain crowds of living beings at abnormal rates, consuming absurd quantities of blood, and kill them before they can even fight back.

For specific examples of its potency:

• El Chupacabras drank the blood of 70 chickens in a day.

• It’s been stated el Chupacabras can drink over 100 liters of blood.

• In a minute or two, el Chupacabras could kill and drain 40 animals of blood.

• El Chupacabras left a grown man in a delirious state near-death after sucking his blood for only a second.

• Sucked out all the blood from hundreds of animals in a barn, gulping down a total of 60 liters of blood in that night alone.

• Drank “thousand and thousands” of liters of water in a single night to such a degree that even the mud itself was left completely dry, being compared to the water outright vaporizing.

Odor

El Chupacabras’ sheer aura is so foul it can make any unfortunate soul who comes across it choke from it and cough violently while being oddly lured by it. The stench even remains in places it has hunted and is so powerful it can’t be wiped off clothes and requires burning of the fabrics to vanquish it, being described as smelling like a rotting corpse but multiplied many times over. In one case, the remains of its prey ended up being radioactive. The stench can actually operate as a downside however, as perceptive enough individuals aware of its existence are able to use its sheer smell to identify when el Chupacabras is near, even when it’s hiding.

Hypnotism

A strangely consistent ability all around for our goat sucker; many tales state its ability to paralyze entire herds of prey to the point of falling unconscious caused by its sheer presence. While the direct method does vary a bit, it’s generally associated with its eyes or face. For instance, sometimes it generates a bright hypnotic light to take over its victims and leave them defenseless. Its hypnotism has affected groups as large as 50 chickens all at once in the past, and it isn’t restricted to animals either, being said to even work on humans staring at it. The most direct record of this is when a 50 year old woman encountered el Chupacabras outside her home as it killed one of her chickens, and yet as she tried to stop it, simply looking at it prevented her body from moving and her mind to not even acknowledge or think of the creature, almost as if she was put to sleep.

Shapeshifting/Adaptation

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El Chupacabras’ appearance is by far one of the least consistent compared to any other cryptid here, yet this very inconsistency in itself has been the source of speculation. A theory that’s been brought up is how el Chupacabras is capable of undergoing genetic mutations to shift its own biology depending on its environment; adapting to certain climate conditions, camouflaging with its environment to hide, and utilizing it to pass through impossibly small obstacles like a tiny hole in a fence only a cat or rabbit could have fit through; or perhaps it can shift its own morphology at will depending on what it wishes to look like. Some interpretations of el Chupacabras have even compared it to a hupia, or o’pa. These beings originate from the Taíno’s culture, a group of Indigenous people within the Americas; it was believed that they could freely control their shape due to a lack of individualism and definite form, letting them freely become things like fruits or the living relatives of those they appear before.

Whether it be through its man-made, alien, or spiritual origin, el Chupacabras is never limited to a single form for long.

Demonic Powers

Strangely, el Chupacabras is frequently tied back to demonic beliefs, I suppose befitting given its ties to, you know, cabras. As a creature of evil, it seeks to inflict fear onto as many people as possible, and thus it holds the ability to sense when others aren’t afraid of it to act accordingly, and this connection even reaches spiritual levels, as it can, somehow, detect the souls of people, and specifically identify if their soul is noble and pure, thus turning them into its enemy.

Beyond supernatural senses, its role as a creature of darkness allows it to grow in strength when it's dark, though it also becomes weaker in daytime, so it prefers to wait it out in the dark. This does indicate a notable weakness however, as its demonic capabilities can be warded off through the power of religious faith. For instance, it was once unable to harm a man because he held a religious amulet, thus his faith defended him from its attacks, and in a previously mentioned instance regarding its hypnotism, the 50 year old lady it had put under its control could break free from its hypnotic trance through prayer, scaring el Chupacabras away.

Despite these weaknesses, its demonic connections make it extremely hard to kill, given some speculation indicates it may have been a man who made a deal with the Devil to return to life, though that’s better left for the next section...

Resurrection

El Chupacabras has been hunted for nearly its entire life, so it's no wonder that it’s been reported dead numerous times. El Chupacabras has been killed or found dead numerous times throughout its history, though even beyond the aforementioned demonic resurrection, it’s been recorded being shot by a shotgun or having its bones degrade upon death until there was nothing left to study, only for it to come back as it always has to continue terrorizing all living beings on this Earth.

Spiritual Form

Tying nicely into the last section, el Chupacabras’ nature can go beyond death as there’s been reports describing it taking the form of a phantom. In a direct eyewitness report, el Chupacabras was seen becoming a ghost, giving it a highly-malleable shadowy form as it easily enveloped defenseless animals, and don’t believe that the shadows at the corner of your eyes cannot harm you, as seconds after enveloping said creatures, they would drop dead (likely from somehow having their blood drained) as their caretaker would be paralyzed by its presence, all before the spirit would split itself apart and fade into the shadows, disappearing as if it was magic!

It being directly described as a ghost gives precedent to the idea that its nature allows it to live beyond death, especially when, as mentioned earlier, el Chupacabras has been directly compared to the hupia or o’pa, which are the spirits of the dead with heavy ties to bats (sounds familiar…) capable of vanishing into thin air and messing with the living, though more notably, they can also freely travel between the lands of the living and the dead. This is important as the land of the dead, Coaybay, is located on another “side” of the island Soraya, whose name can be translated to mean “remote, inaccessible, unreal place,” and is separated from the land of the living through a sort of boundary that identifies it as an entirely different place, ruled by Maquetaurie Guayaba. Depending on your interpretation of things, this could very well imply el Chupacabras could return from death as a spirit whenever it wishes, which would give some explanation as to how it always returns.

The Jersey Devil

Hell Spawn Physiology

The Jersey Devil perhaps has the biggest range of descriptions for what this thing is compared to any other cryptid. Most consistently, the Jersey Devil is stated to have the “head of a horse”, but its other body parts have an extremely wide range for what they have been described as. Its body/torso has been described as that of a really large horse, but also a kangaroo, some have even said it resembles a monkey and a dog. Sometimes it has the feet of a goat, or the feet of a pig. Other legends say it is a blending of a human and devil. It has alligator skin, and emits a glow like a firefly, and has glowing eyes. Its tail is stated to be a long serpentine tail that can move with ”unnatural agility”, with a tip as sharp as a blade or an arrowhead. It has sharp claws that can slice a woman’s throat open, sometimes described as razor sharp eagle-like talons. It has the feet of a goat that leave tracks larger than human hands. And finally, it has the wings of a bat, twice the size of its body that sound like a muffled buzzsaw when flapping.

For centuries, people have tried to figure out if this creature is based on an animal or not, often being compared to something like a sandhill crane or more biblical monsters such as a winged chimera. However, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, thought the Jersey Devil originated from the Jurassic period, but could not locate any record of a living or dead species resembling the Jersey Devil. As a result, some say the Jersey Devil was born normal and gained his bizarre characteristics later, though others say it mutated immediately. Its appearance is described as a windstorm in the trees, and it can climb trees and leap from rooftop to rooftop.

Similarly to other cryptids however, deeper more unnerving theories have arisen over what the Jersey Devil actually is. The creature could exist as one of three possible existences; interdimensional, extraterrestrial, or cryptoterrestrial. This is due to its links to UFO sightings, suggesting that the Jersey Devil may not even exist within our reality the way we perceive it, only appearing in finite intervals. John Keel suggests UFO sightings or other cryptid-related sightings are a result of an actual physical sighting, but not from a zoological animal, and is likely a being or creature from another dimension or reality, and the Jersey Devil is merely a projection from an entity with intelligence but no physical shape. As a reminder, the three theories of a cryptids’ existence are as followed:

• Interdimensional: Beings from another dimension that coexist with our own, but we cannot perceive with them or interact with them as such. Due to the creature’s habits of vanishing from its sighting scenes almost without a trace, this is a very common theory.

• Extraterrestrial: The simple idea of beings coming from outer space, which is usually what UFOs are classified as. There isn’t much talk about the Jersey Devil falling under this category. 

• Cryptoterrestrial: A much newer hypothesis that intelligent, non-human beings live amongst the planet, either underground or among us humans. This is another prevailing theory about the Jersey Devil, often being compared to scientists that observe and study, the Jersey Devil could be a being that observes and controls humans through fear and advanced technology in order to do so, being a subset of humans that can change their appearance.

This has led to an even bigger question of if the Jersey Devil is a physical being or not. Many sightings indicate the Jersey Devil is in fact physical, due to seeing grass and shrubs move through the foliage, thus he is not a visionary creature. If you also count reports, eyewitness accounts, and livestock mutilations, then the evidence is certainly there. The argument against this on the other hand is the simple fact that there is no physical evidence (i.e. (DNA, biological samples, or unassailable video or photos) we have of this creature, and most carcasses recovered were merely hoaxes. Whether physical or not however, one theory seems to be the strongest. Due to the many appearances/disappearances of the creature, the interdimensional theory seems to be the strongest one of the main three theories. However, the main three aren’t the only theories as some have also speculated that the Jersey Devil is in fact the manifested negative energy surrounding the actual 13th Leed’s child. Crazy. 

The Devil’s Howl

Part of the terror in the Jersey Devil comes from the blood curdling, ungodly scream it emits, and it has been noted to be able to freeze a person in a catatonic suspension of fear. E. W. Minister described its call as a combination between a squawk and a whistle, the beginning very high and piercing and the ending very low and hoarse. It has been described as sounding like a pack of wild dogs, or a cult worship.

The Devil’s Stare

The Jersey Devil’s bright red eyes aren’t just for show as they’ve been able to freeze its victims, or even outright hypnotize them.

Shapeshifting

The Jersey Devil can take on a variety of forms, and has been called a spiritual manifestation and a shapeshifter. It is theorized to be part of a subset of advanced humans that can take any form, possibly via technology, or a skinwalker that can transform into whatever you’re most afraid of. It can morph between frames into anything it desires, appearing to a young kid as a wolf in a denim jacket. It can borrow its form from the nearby environment and the wildlife within, or manipulate its appearance to make blood come out of its face.

Intangibility

The Jersey Devil’s encounter with the soldier Stefan Decar has been retold a number of times, with some iterations of the tale saying that the devil phased through the attack and turned into smoke; and others saying that it passed right through his body. 

Fire Breath

Despite being a fellow guardian of the forest, the jersey devil is no stranger to pulling one over Smokey the Bear and setting things ablaze as he’s been noted to spout flames from his mouth, leave scorching hot tracks, and even boil streams to the point of causing massive droughts. Its breath is also extremely corrosive, and can breath poison or deaden natural water sources to the point of killing every single fish in a lake with a fetid smell. It seems to be able to mess with temperature as well, making it feel hotter or colder.

Weather Manipulation 

Ever since its birth, the Jersey Devil has been associated with storms and their creation.

Fear Manipulation

It is theorized that the Jersey Devil’s supernatural powers extend to the manipulation of human emotions, particularly ones based around fear. Assuming you believe this is an interdimensional entity studying humanity, the Jersey Devil has a control mechanism that intersects with parents using the creature as a fear factor for children to come home, lest the Jersey Devil snatch them up, implying that this supernatural phenomenon produces anxiety-inducing effects in the population, manipulating the fear of the unknown, using this as a form of control. Other instances seem to suggest the ability to instill fear, such as the famous French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who was allegedly too frightened to shoot at the Jersey Devil or how hunting dogs would mysteriously refuse to follow the trails of the Jersey Devil and turn away in fear. The Devil is also reportedly able to mess with your senses.

Invisibility

Noted to have appeared for 20 yards, only to suddenly vanish suddenly, suggesting it can camouflage its presence.

Size Manipulation

Like its shape, the Jersey Devil can also manipulate its size. Numerically, it can vary in size between three to six feet tall, or eighteen inches to twenty feet. In terms of direct comparisons, it can vary between as small as a cute little fox, to as large as a small elephant.

Mind Reading

The Jersey Devil can read your mind, and it can sense the intentions of those who wish to view it, and that he tends to prefer those who don’t try to summon or conjure him over those who do.

Biological/Plant Manipulation

The Jersey Devil has stopped cows from producing milk and its presence has been able to stop crop production. Making the lives of New Jersey residents even worse.

Illusion Creation/Voice Mimicry

The Jersey Devil has been able to make people see different images and make it so that they’re unable to properly see and hear it. The Jersey Devil can also make it sound like two people are talking at once.

Technology Manipulation 

The Jersey Devil was able to kill a device’s battery. This is supported by how a similar cryptid known as The Batsquatch was able to stop a car’s engine from starting 

Immortality

The Jersey Devil seems to be capable of coming back from dying. Though many alleged defeats of the Jersey Devil were merely hoaxes, there have been some reports that indicate the Jersey Devil was gone for good, only to pop up again some time later. Two reports of the Jersey Devil’s death remained inconclusive, including being in a brawl and being shot dead. In another instance, an electric railway explosion melted the tracks for 20 feet in all directions, and there were no remains of the Jersey Devil whatsoever, and yet the Jersey Devil persists. It has been reiterated that the Jersey Devil has been “exorcised, electrocuted, shot, incinerated, and declared officially dead”, but it continues to pop back up and spread terror.

The Mothman

Moth Humanoid Physiology

Standing at an impressive 6-10 feet tall with a wingspan of over 10 feet with a pair of red eyes as strong as bicycle reflectors on its head, or whatever the equivalent is in this case, and weighing in at 200 pounds, Mothman is a scientific anomaly yet reports of its physique have been recorded for ages. It's described as hunched, usually grey in color yet surrounded by darkness, and with two huge wings which it of course uses to pursue its victims at speeds far exceeding 100 MPH. All without ever flapping its wings, it just sorta floats like a helicopter. But its most iconic feature is those beating red eyes, which has many who view it to develop eye problems and damage to eyesight, sometimes even temporary blindness and only glows more if lights hit it. A part that many couldn’t agree upon is Mothman having arms or purely just wings, it's mostly split but it was settled in the making of the Mothman statue in Point Pleasant which had two arms in addition to its wings.

The self-luminous eyes seem to suggest that Mothman is a paraphysical entity mostly seen by people with latent and active psychic abilities. Although people without them have reported seeing the creature just as much and there have even been reports of it interacting with things physically. Being only partially physical means that Mothman will not be affected by environmental; conditions such as the incineration of cities, pollution of water and the decreasing breathability of our atmosphere. 

Mothman is no stranger to having many theories about its origin, the most popular logic based hypothesis told about this creature is simply a misidentified Sandhill Crane. Others claimed Mothman was a bird or bat with mass hysteria causing the outlook on said animal to appear more threatening than otherwise. Many theories about what Mothman is have come and gone, with no definitive answer for what Mothman really is. There are a whopping 5 main theories around Mothman’s origin relating to supernatural phenomena that have been spread over the years. These include a genetically mutated animal, a magic being from a ritual, a tulpa, an alien from another planet and a being from outside of our reality and space-time continuum. 

• Mutated Animal: Mothman’s “nesting site” is considered to be the TNT area at Point Pleasant, where it is usually spotted, this is an abandoned facility that used to make explosives. It's theorized that a spill of chemicals caused a genetic mutation in the wildlife that made Mothman a sort of embodiment of our ecological sins.

• Magic Ritual: A lesser theory, this is connected to many religious viewpoints of Mothman theorizing that the creature was brought into our world from a ritual by a warlock at some point in history.

• Tulpa: Tulpas are paranormal creatures said to be materializations of human thoughts, in essence, this makes Mothman a thought projection composed of invisible energy operating on another spectrum of light, Mothman was brought into existence by cognitive human minds, being an aberration of the human mind in what is known as the superspectrum given form by our minds. This makes it so that Mothman is incorporeal and invisible when residing in the superspectrum, only becoming physical due to intense concentration of human minds for a short time before being sent back to the superspectrum.

• Extraterrestrial: Pretty simple, Mothman has been shown to have a UFO and there have been other reports of UFOs and extraterrestrial activity in Point Pleasant in entities like The Indrid Cold. Suggesting that Mothman is like these entities coming from another planet.

• Ultraterrestrial: A new name given to various paranormal activities and presented by John Keel, Ultraterrestrials are entities and forces which coexist with us but on another timeframe, originating outside of our reality and space-time continuum from a state of pure energy.

It is important to note that some of these theories are actually able to coexist with one another while others are incompatible. For example, John Keel’s explanation of Mothman’s existence as a Tulpa and Ultraterrestial are hand in hand with one another. Since Ultraterrestrials come into our world from their state of energy, with this state of energy being said by John Keel to be the superspectrum, which is the same as Tulpas. Others, like the animal mutation, magic ritual and even by affiliation the extraterrestrial theory are not as consistent of theories. 

Precognition

By far the most iconic and recurring interpretation on Mothman is one depicted as a sort of omen of doom, coming to warn mankind of catastrophes and choosing Point Pleasant as its nesting site not for any malicious intent but because it is an area known for supernatural sightings and phenomenon. People seeing Mothman often have reported experiencing various medical conditions not caused by it and Mothman was seen circling The Silver Bridge the day of its collapse. John Keel’s writings suggest that Mothman, and other entities at Point Pleasant, were causing an increasing number of people with precognition. Apparently one of the few people that had gotten this precognition was able to have a vision about 9/11 all the way back in 1967 at West Virginia, meaning that Mothman’s level of precognition can see at least 34 years into the future from distances up to 480 miles away.

Dream Manipulation

Mothman blessing other people with visions of the future is typically experienced with horrible nightmares, which once again was related to the collapse of The Silver Bridge, giving people dreams of people drowning and their christmas presents floating in the water and giving the dreamer a feeling that something terrible is going to happen once they wake up.

Mental Manipulation

The trademark red eyes used to identify the Mothman serve a purpose beyond just intimidation, they are constantly described as “hypnotic” and alluring, once looked into you cannot run, walk or move all together as you are left in a supernatural state of mind and being where you start having morbid dreams that forget what you went through and induce a paralysis so bad you can’t move or speak. There’s really no time limit either, people have been transfixed by the burning fiery in the creature’s eyes for several minutes without any concept of the passage of time until Mothman flies away. You don’t even have to look directly at the eyes for this effect either, if you look close enough to its face you are drawn to its eyes and the eyes consume your vision to where you cannot see anything but them 

Teleportation

If its normal flying doesn’t do the trick, Mothman can disappear from sight with no trace of where it went to avoid car lights shining upon it, adding another element to its unsurprising stealth abilities.

Sound Manipulation

Being called “Birdman” at one point, with this idea being taken very literally as shown above, it's to be expected Mothman can surely pitch its voice like one. Causing deafening screeches and weird noises similar to a record playing at high speed and the squeak of a mouse. 

Technology Manipulation

During a sighting near Merle Partridge's house, Mothman was confirmed to be responsible for causing his television to glitch out and play a herringbone-like pattern on the screen to the point where the TV exploded.

Empathetic Manipulation

By far the strangest ability out of this whole list, Mothman and the poltergeist of Point Pleasant in general have been stated to be able to manipulate the romantic relationships of others and their love for one another, backed up by the fact that Mothman apparently causes… divorces?

Fear & Ultrasonic Manipulation

Mothman can create “fear zones” through the use of ultrasonic waves, these are areas that induce unspeakable fear and paranoia on whoever steps into the area. This is far from normal fear, this is a weird kind of fear that grips you and gives you the sense that something isn’t right.

Immortality & Non-Existent Physiology

Now to get into Mothman’s most consistent and commonly believed true origin, Mothman is a tulpa existing within the superspectrum, essentially a thought projection brought into existence through the intense concentration of of paranormal activities that are unable to be seen by those without psychic abilities due to operating on a narrow spectrum of light, hence the superspectrum. Tulpas are aberrations of the human mind, invisible and incorporeal beings of raw energy that do not exist at all yet materialize into our world from their superspectrum beyond our senses and scientific instruments. 

The more people believe in Mothman and its existence, the more it can remain in existence and play its “games” under a physical form, able to continue to exist so long as it can feed off of the energy and minds of those who come into contact with it. A man simply reading The Mothman Prophecies got visited by Mothman himself, though Mothman only seems to be able to keep a physical form with mass hysteria and multiple people believing in it. Once the jig is up however, Mothman will dematerialize back into the superspectrum, literally going through the various spectrums of light while glowing.

Energy Manipulation

With the existence of Mothman now dissected, we can get to abilities tailored to its existence, like how the extradimensional intelligence that is Mothman transmogrified energy to create its own UFO. It has complete control over its UFO because of this and given that UFOs are highly advanced technology and Tulpas themselves, Mothman’s energy creation and transmodification abilities apply to beings similar to its own existence, or lack thereof. Similar to how it can create invisible walls of superspectrum energy that stops anyone in place.

Biological Manipulation/Avatar Creation

Tulpas like Mothman aren’t too keen about not being able to interact with the physical world, go figures. Luckily for them, they can always construct a physical form by salvaging biological material like the blood and flesh of nearby animals. In some cases, draining them of their blood and organs all together and in others, leaving their corpses completely charred with no explanation as to how.

Acausality & Time/Dimensional Travel

Along with being a Tulpa originating from the suspectrum, Mothman is a part of a group of entities John Keel refers to as an “Ultraterrestrial” in his writings. Which are beings of pure energy who coexist with us but exist in a different time frame, operating on an outside of our space-time continuum with the ability to cross over into our reality from their energy composed state. Not only do they experience a faster rate of time than us in their field outside of our space-time, hence why they can really only be seen by certain people, but they are constantly and randomly transported backward and forward in time. In fact, they often confuse the past and future because of this. Figures, because information is sent between places in the superspectrum at speeds faster than light. Though this doesn’t apply to Mothman’s physical speeds. This is exactly how Mothman’s able to tell the future and give others similar visions in the first place, also meaning Mothman is a time traveler. Truly the answer we wanted all along.

Mystical Illumination

By enlightening specific humans with the knowledge of its existence and linking them to the superspectrum, Mothman can briefly show whoever it wants information for a few moments in order to manipulate events in history, with religion being a sort of long term awareness of this illumination. The details are far more messy however, for the short time the recipient is shown this information, they truly understand the workings of the entire universe while perceiving all of history; past, present and future totally and all at once, making you feel like you are part of the superspectrum with Mothman and one with the cosmos. This information “re-programs” your subconscious for the role you must play in history, and this is if you get lucky, side effects of Illumination include hallucinations, mental trips akin to LSD, muscle spasms, temporary stunning, headaches, amnesia, mental unbalance, nervous breakdowns and suicide.

There’s variants of Illumination as well, primarily “False Illumination”, where the brain cannot handle it whatsoever and misinterprets the experience. Causing them to be manipulated disastrously and be just as vulnerable to repeated Illumination as regular people. This type of illumination targets your belief, the more people believe in UFOs or Mothman, the more their minds can be manipulated by these entities like some sort of game of chess.

The Goatman

Supernatural Goat/Human Hybrid Physiology 

Obviously, he’s a big ass buff Goat person and due to this, on top of his already existing information, we can further compare him to various species of goats as well. He’s consistently reported as 6 - 8 ft tall, 350 lbs. Sometimes reported at 700 - 1,000 lbs. His appearance is often followed by a horrid stench and he’s naturally armed with sharp claws and massive goat horns or antlers. It is said to have senses keen enough to pick up on even the faintest of noises and will know and show up if anyone utters his name. Goats also have fantastic binocular vision and can see 340 degrees almost all around them, as well as having excellent night vision. Their sense of smell is rather good too, aiding in detecting predators and communication with other goats.

He’s also just simply built different. During his years in a sideshow circus, he was whipped daily and hardly fed. Regular goats are known for their high stamina and adaptability, being able to survive in most environments and can travel up to 12 miles in a single day, with their hooves being specially evolved to be able to climb on even the smallest of surfaces and some are even able to jump around 5 feet in a single bound. Some also say the Goatman will lay dormant for years at a time, only coming out occasionally to hunt. Of course the Goatman is usually said to be a supernatural creature, sometimes demonic in origin, which grants him a smorgasbord of otherworldly abilities. 

Hypnosis/Voice Mimicry

Notoriously, The Goatman’s main way of claiming victims is luring or confusing them towards train tracks via hypnosis. In some accounts, looking into its eyes forces the victim to be entranced and are powerless to resist it, in others its voice is capable of the same. Often it is said to mimic the sounds of crying children and voices of people begging for help, even mimic the sounds of loud incoming trains or people that you know personally. In order to either scare off intruders on his territory or to draw them in for a trap or attack. These two paired together is a unique and deadly combination. 

Demonic Power

On Ghost Adventures, caused a dying fire to roar back to life, much to the very believable shock of the crew. There are also various reports of strange flashing lights of various intensities within tunnels that Goatmen are said to inhabit. Some even believe the Goatman can become these orbs. Some variants of his origin deal with demonic resurrection and says he harnesses occult knowledge, able to reform rituals to enact vengeance on those who wronged him. This of course also gave him sharp claws and massive goat horns. According to eyewitnesses testimony, the creature vanished before their very eyes on multiple occasions and can reportedly create portals to the underworld. In some stories he was a former biologist, doing experiments on goats and successfully merged himself with one. There's also reports of Goatman changing the color of people’s hair.

Shapeshifting

It can take on “various forms” to trick its targets. This could explain the Deer Man or Sheep Man, as they are often considered to be the same creature, but typically people say it’ll take the form of various other animals.

Technology Manipulation

Reportedly has remotely forced cars to break down and has caused them to lock and unlock at will. In other cases it apparently tampers with lights and televisions. 

Emotion Manipulation

Hosts on Ghost Adventures claimed that their experience investigating the legend caused them to be irrationally angry and violent, later according to Zak the spirit caused them to feel unnaturally afraid and were turning on each other. Induced fear and anxiety on another woman. According to a woman who had an encounter with the creature, she believes that it purposefully triggered a panic attack with her, and others have reported to have been made to feel sick by the creature.

Soul Manipulation

These Paranormal Investigators claimed that their “dizziness” was due to the Goatman draining their energy. It is said that he can drag your soul to hell and while doing so, will make your soul smell like piss, apparently. Fun! This should also mean Goatman is capable of interacting with the non-physical, of course. 

Possession

Took control of Zak Bagans and forced him to choke himself. Others claim to have been possessed as well and have heard of him doing this.

Apparitions

In some tales, the Goatman will appear to victims as a ghostly figure along with a herd of goats, which he can seemingly switch between it and a physical form and in an episode of Ghost Adventures, it is said the phantasm of the Goatman attacked four women. There are also reports of demonic spirits of dogs connected to the Goatman and will instill bad luck or sickness onto unsuspecting victims and themselves can shapeshift. 

Invisibility

In the Ghost Adventures episode, he beat the shit out of the crew and they couldn't see him. Their reactions to this event are very believable, that dude was totally gushing blood everywhere!

Immortality/Resurrection

In more popular versions of its origin, he is a farmer who sacrificed Goats to the devil in exchange for Immortality which turned him into the Goatman. Elaborated that this means he’ll live for all of eternity in service of the devil. In one version of the story, moments after his death the Goatman came back to life and replaced body parts with those of goats, such as his head.

Resistances

Bigfoot

• Disease:  Apparently tested negative for covid lol.

• Freezing Temperatures: Bigfeet have various ways of preparing for cold weather and their hair makes them naturally resistant to harsh temperatures. Some temperatures as low as 50 degrees below freezing, included.

The Loch Ness Monster

• Extreme Cold: Loch Ness is notoriously ridiculously cold. Loch Ness is regularly 4 degrees c and Loch Ness has been through several ice ages, with Nessie and any close relatives surviving all of it.

• Magic Banishment: In certain variations of the supposed first recording of Nessie, she resisted being exorcised from the Loch by Saint Columba.

• Piercing: Her skin is often compared to sturgeons, as well as other lake monsters and is said to protect from daggers.

El Chupacabras

• Radiation: Various of its origins state it’s a mutated result of radiation exposure, with one such sighting of it leaving a radioactive mess.

• Biological Manipulation: Its capability to freely alter its own biology to adapt to its circumstances should allow it to undo any shifts to said biology if it desires.

• Stench: Able to withstand its own stench, which is so bad that even the areas it has merely traveled through smell like a decaying corpse but multiplied many times over, and thus being so bad people begin choking and coughing from just being near it, while also possessing strange luring properties (which el Chupacabras is also seemingly unaffected by).

The Jersey Devil 

• Extreme Temperatures: In addition to generally being pretty chill with New Jersey’s chillier climate, the Jersey Devil was able to travel miles through the snow on a particularly cold day. This resistance extends to the heat as well since the Jersey Devil was just fine being nearby volcanic activity. 

The Mothman

• Radiation Manipulation: Mothman was sighted near Chernobyl the day of the explosion, and reportedly was seen after the explosion while being unaffected by the radiation produced by the incident.

• Matter & Energy Manipulation: Mothman’s pseudo-physical form’s composition differs from our own due to its totally unique energy and molecular structure.

The Goatman

• Heat/Fire: Has supposedly survived harsh flames.

• Toxins: Goats are naturally evolved to be able to digest plants that are too toxic to other animals.

• Parasites:  Some goats are naturally more resistant to infectious parasites, such as worms due to inheriting it through breeding.

Feats

Bigfoot

Overall

• The world’s most well known Cryptid and has made large impacts on pop culture and even some parts of human history. 

• An entire family of Bigfoots made an entire town evacuate.

• Avoided Bob Sagat and the Finding Bigfoot Crew for 12 Seasons.

• This dude compares Bigfoot to Manbearpig, unironically.

• According to this dude, Aliens brought Bigfoot to earth to protect them from fucking dinosaurs

• Bigfoot is considered “wise in the way of anything with his own natural wisdom”. 

• Have engaged in grand scale battles like that of the Sasquatch Wars and the Battle of Ape Canyon.

• Is the official mascot of several brands of Beef Jerky, Soap, Football Teams, Hot Sauce and Beer.

• Despite being fake as shit the Patterson Gimlin video has become one of the most recognisable pieces of film in history.

Power

• While hunting they will break deer's legs and overpower them.

• It is reported to rip men and deer in half and has strength compared to a vise.

• Biggie could hit a tree hard enough to shake the ground and can break birch trees with ease consistently.

• Threw a 70lb Cooler about 15 ft, can toss large rocks over entire 40ft lakes and can throw around tree logs.

• Said to have torn apart logs and broken tree trunks.

• This dude says Bigfoot is stronger than chimps and can rip people in half, later says Bigfoot can snap high powered rifles in half.

• Manhandled multiple grown men at once and could lift up 200 lbs hogs with ease.

• Could rip apart a car's fender at 360 lbs of force, the test of which broke a tool made out of steel.

• Could break through a trailer and throw a rock the size of a basketball, sometimes at distances of 60 ft.

• One showed it can shake a fishing cabin to its foundation. 

• Another once threw a rod case at a cabin so hard it shook.

• Said to lift 100lbs easily on average, but in better cases… They are stated to be able to lift 3,000 - 4,000 lbs or at best 8,000 lbs.

• Can break small trees to make markers and are considered responsible for twisting trees into knots and uprooting them to flip them upside down. 

• They are also reported to be able to knock down trees barehanded.

• Can tear apart goats and uses its thumb nail to cut open prey.

• The Yowie was reported to be able to rock a car and dented its roof significantly, it took 3 members of the Finding Bigfoot crew to replicate this.

• A group of Bigfoot threatened to destroy a cabin by rolling boulders at it.

• This guy says superhuman strength is required to trek through the snow of this area.

• The Orang Pendek can rip trees out of the ground and break through walls.

• Could push down large trees and could pull cars around with one arm 

• Bigfoot could carry wooden stoves and dent house ceilings.

• Bigfoot could snap branches and trees so hard the hunter nearby thought it was rifle shots.

• Strength compared to an Elephant and are said to be twice as strong as a gorilla.

• One could shake a cabin down to its foundation and one Bigfoot could shake a trailer.

• Can break necks and rip off a man’s head.

• Could twist an adult Elk’s head off bare handed. Yowies, the Australian bigfoot, can tear the heads off Kangaroos.

• Could smash down wooden walls and break canoes.

• They regularly can fight off Grizzly Bears, one shot a charging horse and the Mogollon Monster killed and ate a Mountain Lion. (23 Kilojoules) 

• In the novel River Horse Across America, it brings up superstitions about “forest-beings” (suggested to be Bigfoot) that they often cause “bad storms” for settlers. (134 Kilotons of TNT-402 Kilotons of TNT)

Speed

• It is stated to be as fast as lightning and can jump like a kangaroo.

• Walked a yard's length in a few steps and crossed a highway in three steps.

• Could catch deer and Zana, a Russian bigfoot, could outrun “the swiftest horses”.

• Yeti could cover 250 yards in a short timeframe.

• Female Bigfoot could dodge clubs swung and rocks flung by humans.

• Are said to run around 50 MPH.

• Others say they can run anywhere from 35-60 MPH.

• One could hop into the roof of a muscle car in the 1960s before the driver could speed off.

• Was able to run beside a police cruiser. (152 MPH-170 MPH)

• A juvenile Sasquatch was reported as keeping pace with a motorbike playfully. 

• Adult Sasquatches are reported as keeping up with motorcycles and dirt bikes. 

• Orang Pendek has reportedly escaped motorbikes on foot.

Durability

• Could take a shotgun blast within close range and teleports away.

• Took a rifle shot and ran away.

• Unaffected by gunfire and snatched up this dude’s dog.

• Thugged out close range buckshot, several rounds.

• Survived being hit by a car and being hit by a moving van.

• Took musket fire from several angles, killing several men before going down.

• Got hit by a car and was thrown into a ditch and proceeded to take several gunshots.

• Bigfoot took a gunshot to the kneecaps from The Turtleman from Call of the Wildman.

• Continued to attack despite being torn into by pistol fire.

• Were reportedly completely unfazed by gunshots and sticks of dynamite. (1-7 Megajoules) (Potentially higher if stone-walling is accounted for)

The Loch Ness Monster

Overall

• Likely the 2nd most well known cryptid in human history.

• Has been a resident of Loch Ness since 500 AD.

• Millions of dollars of hard earned tax payer money has went into finding this fucking thing.

• People pussied out of storming Loch Ness to find the creature, something that not even the US Government could stop with Area 51.

• Has a world famous roller coaster named after it, which is the world’s first with interlocking loops.

• Took on Sherlock Holmes, Scooby-Doo, Godzilla, Superman, The Incredible Hulk, The Cast of Apex Legends and Momo from Dandadan.

• Appeared on British 10p coins alongside Agent 007, James Bond.

• Despite being fake as shit the Surgeon’s Photograph has become one of the most recognisable pictures in history.

Power

• Has reportedly tore livestock and humans apart on several occasions.

• Nessie is often compared to crocodiles, which have a bite force of 3,700 lbs of force.

• Plesiosaurs are suggested to weigh around 45 Tons and have a bite force of 33,000 psi.

• Could throw rocks out of the Loch from 600 ft within it.

• Was stated to be large enough to upturn a car.

• An Alaskan Lake monster that’s similar to Nessie could move a 38lb anchor 50 yards and is reported to create small waves.

• Produced waves that could've been made by a large steamer.

• Comparable to Old Hitler, a giant Hammerhead Shark who could drag a jeep into deep waters.

• Astronauts can visibly see giant circles in ice that are two and a half miles in diameter, they are claimed to have been carved by Sea Dragons.

• In old legends monsters within the Loch were blamed for recurring earthquakes. 

• In 2013, there was a series of minor earthquakes ranging from magnitude 3 - 4.  (2-15 Tons of TNT)

• An earthquake around the same time as these suggested sightings was said to be around magnitude 5. (476 Tons of TNT-3 Kilotons of TNT)

Speed

• Plesiosaurs were slow as fuck. 10 mph is the best we found.

• Nessie evaded a motorcycle, and in some retellings is said to have been faster than it. (150-200 MPH)

• It is reported to move 70 km per hour.

• Swam to the far side of the Loch within a short timeframe.

• Speed has been compared to a speed boat. (70-100 MPH)

• The monster’s speed is compared to a “torpedo” and covers the distance of a football pitch in 10 seconds.

• It is often suggested the creature is a seal, the fastest of which can swim up to 35 MPH.

• On land, Kelpies can take the form of a Stallion, which can run 30 - 40 MPH.

Durability

• Rammed into a motor boat and took a shotgun blast.

• Was hit by a boat’s propeller.

• Champ nearly sunk a steam ship that ran into him.

• Nessie can travel down to the very bottom of the Loch, which is 750 ft deep.

• Champ and Nessie are protected by armor similar to a sturgeon, which is stated to protect from daggers.

• Some claim that Nessie is the reason the Crusader speedboat wrecked, because it just drove into her.

El Chupacabras

Overall

• Become one of the most iconic Cryptids despite being sighted more recently.

• Has terrorized countless farmers across Puerto Rico, Mexico, and America for over 30 years.

• Has a body count in the 50 thousands.

• Got an entire animated movie as part of the Las Leyendas franchise.

• Got his own Netflix movie in 2023.

• Has repeatedly resurfaced despite being “found dead” like over a dozen times now.

• Technically one of the few cryptids with a scientific reasoning behind their existence.

• Tiene el poder de Latinoamerica!!!!

Power

• Breaks through metal cages.

• Ripped open a bedroom window of a house.

• Snaps entire trees by moving.

• Flips animals weighing 400 kilograms.

• Frequently takes down large animals like cows and horses.

• Easily chucked a 35 kg dog repeatedly and over a 2 meter fence.

• Can seemingly drain entire Australian water tanks in a singular night as “thousands and thousands of water (were) gone in a night.”

• Drains 40 goats dry in a minute or two (1.2-2.4 liters per second)

• For reference, an average human has 5 liters of blood

Speed

• Faster than its prey which includes chickens, cows, horses, and goats.

• Many reports state it moves as a blur or shadow and “was everywhere.”

• Ran at ”superhuman” speeds to surround a group of kids.

• Snatched a chicken so fast it only appeared as a blur on camera.

• Stated to move at 50 - 60 meters (presumably m/s)

• It’s believed it flew from one side of the country to another in the same day (116.67-174.99 MPH)

Durability

• A thrown machete snapped in two on its body.

• Survived gunshots from a rifle and attacked the shooter soon after.

• Can jump up 50 meters and survive the fall back down (11.77-294.2 Kilojoules)

The Jersey Devil

Overall

• One of the most legendary creatures in American folklore

• Attacked 30 different towns in a single week in January of 1909

• Has been seen and sighted by policemen, government officials, postmasters, businessmen, and decorated war heroes

• Superintendent Robert D. Carson, of the Philadelphia Zoo, offered a $10,000 reward for the Jersey Devil's capture

• Had a ham and egg breakfast with a Republican named Judge French

• Would be worth $1,000,000 at the box office (which is a lot considering this is the 60s)

• Foreshadows war and disaster, seeming to appear before every war such as Pearl Harbor or the Vietnamese War

• Is the mascot for the state's professional hockey team, the New Jersey Devils

Power

• Responsible for hundreds of years of livestock death

• Has claws so sharp that can slice a woman’s throat open

• Gouged out a midwife eyes

• Ripped a bunch of midwives, limb from limb

• Destroys a chimney whilst trying to get out of the leed’s house

• Attacked a poultry farm, killing livestock, thirty-one ducks, three geese, four cats, and two large dogs, one of which was a ninety pound German Shepherd

• Knocks down trees to crush people (513 kg/m³)

• Slaughtered an entire herd of pigs 

• Crushes the roofs of cars

• Blows the tops off of trees

• Supposedly ate every member of the Ledd’s family 

• Attacked a trolley car

• Broke through the roof of a bag loading plant 

• Cleanly severed a deer’s head

• Tore a large chunk of flesh from a dog

• Shook a taxi car back and forth

• Tore a terrier to pieces and killed two other dogs

• Jacob F. Hope said the Jersey Devil tore a big cat limb to limb

• Could rip off a human’s head

• Compared to a sandhill crane, which can drive through a human's eye into the brain with its beak

• Boiled a stream to the point of causing extreme droughts (25.1 Kilotons of TNT)

Speed

• Flew onto a woman’s roof ”in a split second”

• “Runs and flies at incredible speeds”

• His tail moves with ”unnatural agility”

• Outran a group of dogs

• Has been compared to Eagles and Bats in flight speed (35-45 MPH)

• His movement is described as “a windstorm in the trees” (65-75 MPH)

• Dodged a cannonball in some interpretations of the Stephen Decantur account. (855.2 MPH- Mach 1.51) (Note: This is the cannonball's speed) 

• According to over thirty different sightings, he flew over the Delaware river to visit Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware all in a week’s time 

• Flew from the Pine Barrens to the New York-New Jersey Border

• Thack Cozzens, one of the first witnesses in 1909, said the Jersey Devil moved fast “like an auto”

• Can fly, swim, and run like a deer, which can run up to 35-40 MPH

• Flew across the Delaware to Burlington, New Jersey

• Ran up the pike on its hind legs faster than the speed of an automobile

• Outran a fire hose and ran 150 feet down a street

• Could fly across the continent of North America in a single night (414.95 MPH)

Durability

• Was only a little annoyed after getting blasted by a fire hose

• Survived being shot at with a revolver 

• Survived two police officers completely unloading their revolvers at it 

• Survived being shot at by two different city’s police forces

• Was unbothered upon getting hit by the cannonball in some iterations of the story 

• The cannonball had “no effect” on the creature and it flew away

• Another account says he shot the cannonball through the Jersey Devil, and that it was unscathed despite there being a massive hole in his body

• Has been exorcised, electrocuted, shot, incinerated, and declared officially dead

• Can still fly despite having its wing broken by a gunshot

• Throwing sticks and stones at the Jersey Devil had no effect on it

• Some theories suggest the Jersey Devil is a prehistoric monster that has survived underground for millions of years in limestone caves beneath the Gulf Stream, and was released when volcanic activity occurred (1.27 Megajoules) 

• Has been compared to a cryptid known as The Batsquatch, which was able to survive the Mount Saint Helen’s eruption (2.6-16.6 Tons of TNT) 

The Mothman

Overall

• Haunted Point Pleasant for several months, where sightings of it were the norm.

• Forewarned a multitude of medical conditions, deaths and disasters all the way up to the collapse of the Silver Bridge.

• Became one of the most popular Cryptids in America and the whole wide world.

• Got its very own museum with annual festivals!

• John Keel probably had a body pillow of this thing.

Power

• Mutilates Cattle and drains it of all of its blood and organs. (13 Kilojoules) 

• Ripped an abandoned generator plant’s door off of its hinges. (56.5 Kilojoules) 

• Regularly slams its body against cars going high speed while weighing well over 200 pounds. (90.6 Kilojoules)  

• Physically tore through leaves and whole trees when chasing people. (3.7-13.9 Megajoules)

• UFOs similar to its own blacked out a cloudy sky upon its arrival.  

Speed

• Flies faster than “any man could ever run.”

• Constantly moves at split second speed.

• Consistently has kept up with cars, including ones that can exceed 75 miles per hour. (33.5 M/S)

• Can fly at speeds of 70 to 100 miles per hour. (31-44.7 M/S)

• Its top speed ever recorded was 105 miles per hour while keeping pace with a car. 

• Circled around the TNT area, which is over 3655 acres of land.

• Has its own UFO, which are consistently compared to airplanes when flying and are much more advanced technology then these commercial airplanes at this time such as the Douglas DC-4. (101 - 125 m/s) 

Durability

• Significantly tougher than humans and cattle.

• Got back up after falling off of the roof of a car going over 58 miles per hour.

The Goatman

Overall

• Became a well known and feared legend in multiple parts of the United States and even other parts of the world.

• Has been terrorizing Southern locals since the 1950s.

• Has inspired many movies, comics, novels and characters in pop culture.

• Has a shitty cheap beer named after him.

• The legend became so popular, the USDA had to come out and deny its involvement with human/animal DNA experimentation.

• Scared off a group of cops by throwing shit at them.

• Beat the dog shit out of Zak Bagans, one of the biggest douche bags in television.

• Moist Critical's favorite cryptid.

Power

• Made Zak Bagans choke himself out, who is stated to have "immeasurable strength”.

• Is constantly stated to possess superhuman strength.

• Broke the branch off of an oak tree “like a tooth pick”.

• Overpowered and killed dogs, decapitating them in some cases.

• Tore the head off of a goat and has chopped the heads off of cows.

• Reported to be able to smash through windshields.

• Consistently overpowers humans, decapitating them in some cases.

• It is said to have “torn men to bloody shreds” and could tear men in half. 

• Threw a man 20 ft easily and could throw large rocks.

• Threw a car tire 500 ft towards a group of people, which included the rim.

• The Deer Man stabbed a branch through a soldier's leg.

• Can rip the doors off of cars.

• Left an 18-inch gash in the side of a car.

• Has reportedly damaged passing cars and in some cases forced them off of his bridge.

• Reportedly shook his bridge just by walking on it.

• It’s stated by some that “no man is that strong” when discussing the Goatman. At the time, the strongest man in the world claimed to be able to squat 1,200 lbs and back-lift over 6,000.

• Could pull around and partially lift up a car, in other stories it threatened to tip over a pick-up truck.

• Slammed a SUV off of his bridge and halted moving cars.

• Broke through his iron cage, said to be built more like a jail cell than an animal cage.

Speed

• Should be faster than normal goats, which can run faster than 15 mph.

• Has outran humans easily.

• The Deer Man outran a group of armed soldiers.

• Sheep can run around 25 mph when escaping predators.

• Deer can run anywhere from 35 - 50 mph.

• Antelope aka “Speed Goats” can run up to 35 mph.

• Caught a car as it was driving down a highway.

• Can leap onto moving cars and can chase them down. (60-120 MPH)

• Is directly stated to be able to move at speeds nearly 60 mph.

• Swam to greer island within a short timeframe. (18 - 90 mph)

• Can move faster on all fours.

Durability

• Regular goats have survived being hit by cars.

• Gave no fucks about two dogs biting at it’s legs.

• Survived a car crashing into a tree while he was hanging onto the hood.

• Unfazed by a fall from a tree onto a car, which then sped off and flung him away.

• Is said to be able to leap from the train trestle down onto the cars below it, which is a 90 ft drop. (21 Kilojoules)

• In certain origins, he survives a train derailing.

Weaknesses

Bigfoot

Bigfoots are very strong and graceful creatures but hardly perfect combatants. They are, for the most part, seen as pacifists and gentle giants. Hardly ever engaging in direct fights, more so just trying to protect their young or land from intruders by trying to lead them the wrong direction or just scaring them off. There are plenty of instances of them being tracked via special equipment and of them falling for traps and human tricks. Sometimes to the point of being somewhat gullible, like this one instance brought to light in Monster Quest, where obliviously, a Bigfoot just stepped on a large board riddled with screws. This also plays into their natural curiosity, which is often to blame for their thousands of sightings across the globe.

The Loch Ness Monster

Well, quite obviously, Nessie is just an animal. Typically anyways. She runs off pure animal instinct more often than not and you're not gonna get instances of Nessie doing anything you wouldn't expect from a wild animal, even if this one is exceptionally intelligent admittedly. Nessie’s resistance to being exercised by holy magic is a tad iffy as well, as most stories do tell that Saint Columba did successfully repel the beast from attacking anyone else under his watch. It's also worth pointing out that while Nessie’s large size could be an asset in a direct confrontation, it would also likely make her a more obvious target compared to the others in this battle. 

El Chupacabras

Despite its sheer lethality, el Chupacabras is prone to quite a few weaknesses. For starters, it almost entirely relies on ambushing prey, and hasn’t been in direct scuffles much, and while it’s absolutely tough and has survived bullets fairly well, it’s not invincible and has died to them quite a few times. Besides this, it does have a surprising number of showings to struggling against holy defenses, like when it was unable to bite a target’s neck due to the religious amulet he was wearing, or when a middle-aged woman broke free from its mind control by reciting holy prayer. Finally, its odor has been used against it to identify when it is near, meaning a knowledgeable opponent with keen enough senses could likely shut down a potential ambush by detecting its stench in the air.

The Jersey Devil

Due to the Jersey Devil’s quite…devilish nature, there have been some methods that are viable to dispose of the creature, such as when a clergyman in the 1740s performed an exorcism on the monster. While it did come back, it only did so after 100 years, showing it is vulnerable to rituals such as exorcism. And despite its elusive nature and ways to blend in, ghost detector devices seem to be capable of tracking it.

The Mothman

Though The Mothman remains a near untouchable and unseen cryptid to many, it is not without its own flaws. It is a creature that thrives in the air, and when moving on foot it is described as a clumsy runner that struggles to keep its balance at points like a crippled chicken. Meaning that if it's ever caught out of the air, it’ll be hard for it to properly defend itself. The most important limitation of Mothman’s being lies within its Tulpa physiology and immortality, it may be able to manifest itself as a corporal entity based on people believing in its existence but it still has a time limit on how long it can haunt someone depending on how many people believe in it. Mass hauntings like what happened during the peak of its history only have occurred when the mass of Point Pleasant believed in and feared it. Essentially meaning Mothman’s stuck on a timer for how long it can maintain a physical form, though this can be minimized through harvesting biological material and of course people’s belief.

The Goatman

The Goatman is fearsome and powerful, but he has his fair share of shortcomings. The Goatman specializes more so in instilling fear into his targets and has absolutely no real showcases of combat prowess, its more so than he just murders people or just fucks with them so they leave his bridge. It is also a recurring thing in his stories that he is slowly losing his humanity and reverting into a rabid beast, so him being incredibly smart isn't something that's gonna stick in the long haul. None of this is super surprising, he is a cryptid after all and his stories are going to be mostly focused on the scare factor, not really expanding on his lore or capabilities as a combatant. He also just got bitched on by Buzzfeed. L

Before The Verdicts

Where Is Dimensional Tiering Bigfoot?

(Garf) 

Gonna cut right to the chase with this one, dimensional tiering Bigfoot is a bunch of misinterpretations of what some sightings talk about. Most everything you see regarding dimensional Bigfoot is not referring to higher spatial dimensions or anything of the sorts, and really only classifies as interdimensional. Bigfoot being described as “interacting with dimensions beyond human cognition” does not spell out anything about higher dimensions, and most supporting evidence just calls him “extradimensional” or talks about his abilities to cross into our dimension and exist in another. It isn’t too far off from other cryptids such as the Jersey Devil being called interdimensional, and most descriptions about these guys being “beyond human comprehension” is because in real life…we don’t have a defined cosmology at all. 

These dimensions could be just about anything, and in real life there are about a billion things a dimension could mean with the modern scientific theories and quantum mechanics we have in place, but just because we cannot comprehend this ability to be in other dimensions implies anything about outright transcending space, time, and dimensionality altogether unless explicitly stated. We are not going to dedicate more time and effort to try and piece together “real life cosmology” just because people get mad that we “draw the line here” despite dealing with creatures where their sightings and legends are also mostly theories. Trying to blend VSBW standards for higher dimensions or outerversal with real life is a really messy idea. And news flash: This idea would be lame as balls if Bigfoot just existed on a higher dimension and nuked everyone and you know it so even if it was real, on principle we would’ve ignored it.

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Verdict

6th Place: The Jersey Devil

In a surprising turn of events, the Jersey Devil actually takes last place in this battle royale. Which on paper shouldn’t happen, right? The Jersey Devil undoubtedly has the best firepower out of all the cryptids with his fire breath, and no one on the roster would be able to tank it outright without burning to death or just getting incinerated. On top of that, he’s one of the fastest cryptids on the roster, clocking in at Mach 1! How does he get last place? Unfortunately there is one extremely detrimental complication: 

Ignoring the fact that the Jersey Devil isn’t actually Mach 1 (that’s just the cannonball’s speed itself), the Jersey Devil has an insanely crippling weakness; it lacks any known instances of Non-Physical Interaction, which is the power to interact with or harm intangible, non-corporeal, or ghostly beings/objects. You would think for a creature such as the Jersey Devil that there would at least be something since it's so associated with hell and devils but our research was a cold trail. At most, all we could find was that the Jersey Devil is friends with ghosts and that hunters long after their deaths still hunt the Jersey Devil, but we didn’t find anything that suggested the Jersey Devil is out here fighting ghosts and ghouls or using soul-related abilities. Why is this so important you may ask? Every other cryptid in the royale has non-physical interaction, or soul related abilities relating to them being able to persist/fight as spirits, which is crucial in ending the fight beyond physically, or being able to come back to life. But, let’s go over each individual matchup to get the bigger picture:

• Jersey Devil vs Bigfoot: Bigfoot pretty firmly outclasses the Jersey Devil across the board. In terms of abilities, they cancel out in a lot of ways, both having the ability to mimic voices, go intangible or invisible, hypnotize people, read minds, and of course come back to life. While Bigfoot’s storm stuff wouldn’t really be applicable to AP, the Jersey Devil’s fire breath would probably torch Bigfoot beyond repair, but that’s all he really has going for him, all the while Bigfoot has his ways to avoid this such as going intangible. If for some reason Bigfoot was incinerated, he could easily resurrect himself, and though Jersey Devil could do the same in a fistfight, his resurrection has less of a defined timeframe. On top of that, Bigfoot’s spiritual powers and magic abilities hard counter the Jersey Devil, such as being able to snag his spirit with just a glare, or simply casting a curse on him, akin to the exorcism tactics used against the Jersey Devil in the past. Bigfoot’s UFO equipment and overall intelligence would also be decent leg-ups against the Jersey Devil, having more experience fighting people compared to just giving them a spook or appearing to them, and the Jersey Devil’s UFO stuff is way less outlined, so it's unlikely he’d fare well in a battle of arsenals. 

• Jersey Devil vs Loch Ness Monster: While Nessie lacks regeneration or resurrection, her ability to persist and fight as a spirit means she won’t go down easy against the Jersey Devil. The fire breath’s poison and corrosive abilities boiling streams on paper seems like such an easy counter to Nessie…if it wasn’t for the fact that we have sightings of Nessie being able to survive and move outside of bodies of water, though it certainly helps as a homefield advantage, but Nessie can leave the water if it starts to heat up. While the Jersey Devil’s regeneration means he could survive more basic energy or electricity attacks, there are some powers he has no answer to, such as Nessie dragging Jersey Devil’s soul to hell, which would also classify enough as an exorcism and take Jersey Devil out of the fight, and Nessie can certainly reach this point if a kill is required since her electricity is more potent with its nerve-damaging capabilities.

• Jersey Devil vs El Chupacabras: Oddly enough, El Chupacabras has the means necessary to at the very least put down Jersey Devil for just long enough to matter in a match where having your soul vulnerable spells death. In a physical bout, the Jersey Devil would more then likely shred El Chupacabras in strength and speed, especially with its fire breath, but that isn’t enough to put it down for good. They have similar mind manipulating abilities and both have the best AoE attacks possible, with Jersey Devil being able to use his screech to stun and El Chupacabras having a huge range for their hypnosis, thus these things would cancel out. Both have pretty deadly ways of killing the other physically, Jersey Devil with its fire breath and El Chupacabras with its blood sucking. Weirdly enough, El Chupacabras can fly, meaning mobility isn’t all too much of an advantage, albeit El Chupacabras’ teleportation as a shadow would still give it a notable edge. What you are left with is immortality. Jersey Devil has a vague timeframe for coming back to life, meanwhile El Chupacabras can freely move around as a ghost, which means in a war of attrition, if El Chupacabras doesn’t die to another combatant, eventually it can get the drop on the Jersey Devil, and has the means to stay alive and avoid the fire breath to do so, and blood sucking would put Jersey Devil down long enough for the fight, or to leave him vulnerable to more offensive soul based abilities from the other cryptids.

• Jersey Devil vs Mothman: While the Jersey Devil has a pretty big stat advantage over Mothman here, it isn’t going to help him in the long run. Once again, fire breath is something that would probably torch Mothman if given the opportunity, but Mothman can just…make a new body from the superspectrum. Meanwhile, Mothman has plenty of wincons to incapacitate or contest Jersey Devil physically, the big one being mystical illumination, something the Jersey Devil can’t really counter at all. Worst case scenario if you argue due to his intelligence he does somehow comprehend the entire history of the universe, he has his entire consciousness reprogrammed and he is now a meat shield for Mothman to use against the other cryptids, so he’s not beating Mothman any time soon. 

• Jersey Devil vs Goatman: And finally, we have Goatman. Like most of the other cryptids, the Jersey Devil really only has stats and mobility going for him against this guy. However, the Goatman’s versatility allows him to keep up and end the fight pretty soundly. Like the Jersey Devil he has plenty of options for defensive measures against the fire breath, such as intangibility and invisibility of his own, and being able to toggle in and out of his physical and ghostly forms. Lots of their powers cancel out such as hypnosis, voice mimicry, and emotion manipulation, but ultimately Goatman is more equipped to bounce back if he for some reason was to die, being able to come back to life momentarily and like Nessie and Bigfoot, seals the deal against the Jersey Devil with the ability to drain his energy or send him back to hell. 

The Jersey Devil

"When I was a boy…I was never threatened with the boogey man…we were threatened with the Jersey Devil, morning, noon, and night."

Advantages:

• Has the second highest attack potency in the royale

• Will dominate a physical fight with anyone other than Nessie

• The fastest cryptid in the royale with or without dubious ends

• No one can really survive his fire breath/poison abilities…

• Has a mobility advantage with flight.

• Intangibility and invisibility are great defensive options…

• Mind Reading and Intention Sensing could clue him in as to what the other Cryptids are thinking 

• Illusion Creation and Sensory Manipulation could make him hard to find…

Disadvantages: 

• Lacks any sort of way to attack or destroy the non-physical, crippling any options of permanently killing virtually any of the other cryptids

• His resurrection lacks a solid timeframe

• …But plenty of cryptids have ways to avoid the fire breath or can come back to life from it

• Nessie can leave the water if the Jersey Devil boils it 

• …But Bigfoot and Mothman could get past this with clairvoyance, heightened senses, or precognition 

• His weakness to exorcism leaves him vulnerable to Bigfoot, Nessie, and Goatman’s soul hax

• Has no defense against Mothman’s mystical illumination

5th/4th Place: El Chupacabras vs Goatman!?!?!??!

Shockingly, between the beast that most iconically hunts down goats and the monster that takes the form of a goat themself, neither truly has a way of taking a true advantage over the other, thus ultimately forcing this to be… a stalemate!?

That’s right. This particular debate was one of the most evenly matched, with both being comparable in most ways. Both were solidly within the wall level tier, with el Chupacabras likely being a bit weaker as its showings of surviving 50 meter falls and smashing through trees aren’t quite as notable as Goatman tearing through large iron cages and slamming goddamn SUVs off his bridge, however el Chupacabras is comparatively a decent bit faster, with its flight speed reaching up to 175 mph while Goatman is more comfortably sitting at up to 120 mph without dubious high-ends, though it's barely relevant enough to matter here.

What truly matters are their abilities, and comparing them, it becomes clear how neither truly has a way of taking the upper hand. Both have ways of hypnotizing with a glance or spreading said hypnotism across a large area with Goatman’s hypnotic voice and el Chupacabras’ hypnotic light, both have powerful stealth allowing them to become borderline undetectable AND ways of bypassing each other’s stealth (el Chupacabras can sense souls and those who do not fear it, allowing it to track Goatman, while Goatman has incredibly adept senses to let it smell el Chupacabras’ scent and track it down that way), both can manipulate differing emotions (el Chupacabras freezing people with fear and Goatman making others become violent through warping their emotions), both can shapeshift their physical form to varying degrees, el Chupacabras becomes stronger in darkness while the Goatman can generate light, el Chupacabras has a UFO while the Goatman has a school bus (peak climax tbh), and both of their strange spiritual and demonic aspects allow them to resurrect from all sorts of damage, with el Chupacabras coming back from its bones degrading to the point there was nothing left to analyze and Goatman coming back from having his head cut off, though more notably the two of them are also just able to become ghosts, el Chupacabras taking the form of a shadow while the Goatman can become a ball of pure light, making them essentially unkillable.

More importantly, despite their unique spiritual capabilities, neither has outright destroyed a spirit, meaning neither really has a good way of winning through brute force. The main argument you could bring up for Goatman would be his ability to drag souls to Hell or create portals to suck, which one could argue might let him get rid of el Chupacabras for good, but this has a fair few issues. For one, el Chupacabras can fly extremely efficiently, making it vastly more difficult for the Goatman to catch it, and even if he did grab it, el Chupacabras’ spirit form is shown to be extremely malleable, able to freely split apart or engulf others, meaning it would be extremely hard for the Goatman to grab onto it well, not to mention the fact it could just teleport to get away. Even assuming the Goatman got insanely lucky and managed to send el Chupacabras through a portal to Hell, this isn’t even guaranteed to work. Many interpretations of el Chupacabras already believe it to be a demon, and one in particular notes that it was a deceased man who made a deal with the Devil to simply return to Earth, meaning there’s a very real chance it could return in a similar way. If you don’t buy that, then look no further than its ties with the Taíno culture, and it specifically being compared to the spirits of the dead from said belief, which are able to freely traverse between the land of the living and the dead whenever they desire. While the view of the afterlife is obviously different within said culture, the land of the dead is still portrayed as being spiritually disconnected from the land of the living, with the living being unable to cross into the land of the dead and it being divided as an entirely different place that only spirits are capable of getting through, thus meaning that there shouldn’t be much stopping el Chupacabras from crossing the spiritual gap between Hell and Earth as it has done before to simply teleport back, good as new.

With it all being laid out, it ultimately becomes clear that neither has a solid option for actually winning here, simply being too evenly matched in all categories and having no good overt advantage that would push one to take the edge here, thus meaning that despite everything these two opposing forces clashing fiercely, neither could realistically put the other down for good. It’s truly poetic in a way.

Regardless, this is about as high as either gets, since despite their powers, they’re simply outclassed by the rest of the cryptids in the top 3. Starting with el Chupacabras:

• El Chupacabras vs Bigfoot: Sadly, el Chupacabras just lacks any sort of solid advantage against the absolute beast that is Bigfoot. Variants of Bigfoot can rip trees out of the ground, and he can solidly match el Chupacabras’ flight speed through his own feat of keeping up with cars moving at 170 mph, so there is no real way for it to outmuscle him, and that’s before mentioning how Bigfoot’s magic can reach into the kilotons of TNT range, which just absolutely demolishes el Chupacabras. Besides this, Bigfoot can basically do everything el Chupacabras can do and more. El Chupacabras can control the minds of those who look into its eyes, while Bigfoot can steal the souls of those who look into its eyes, which would bypass el Chupacabras’ immortality. It has identical soul forms, comparable showings of immortality, can detect incoming danger and has a degree of precognition to shut down any surprises el Chupacabras could pull out, which would also give him a way easier time going for his deadly wincons like erasing el Chupacabras’ memories or cursing it to essentially seal it away. No matter how you slice it, Bigfoot has nearly every advantage and his precognition would always let him know exactly how to counter el Chupacabras. Oh and like Bigfoot can fucking time travel and shit what-

• El Chupacabras vs Loch Ness Monster: Similarly to Bigfoot, el Chupacabras is just physically overwhelmed here, with Nessie being able to upturn cars and cause earthquakes, meaning el Chupacabras should reasonably be unable to properly harm her. Nessie is also able to reach speeds up to 200 mph, putting her as slightly faster. From here, both have similar mind-altering powers activated by merely looking at them, so el Chupacabras isn’t special, and it soon runs into the issue that it cannot kill Nessie’s ghost form, similar to Goatman. However, unlike Goatman, Nessie’s ghost form is fully capable of killing el Chupacabras with a well-placed energy blast, which would absolutely get around el Chupacabras’ malleability and obliterate it for good, giving it no real solid option for taking down Nessie in comparison to Nessie just hitting it really hard. Oh and like Nessie can fucking time travel and shit why-

• El Chupacabras vs Mothman: Much like the two prior, el Chupacabras finds itself very, very outmatched. Mothman’s tree breaking feats can get to 13.9 Megajoules, far above anything else el Chupacabras has shown off, and the Mothman’s speed for piloting its UFO can get up to 125 m/s, which would be above el Chupacabras’ best flight speed, which when translating to m/s only gets around 70-ish. From here, Mothman has comparable mind manipulating and paralyzing effects alongside actually resisting them himself, which shuts down el Chupacabras’ go-to option, and while el Chupacabras’ ghost form and resurrection would at least keep it in the game for a bit, it really doesn’t have any way of getting around Mothman’s precognition letting it know everything el Chupacabras will do. Also, yeah, time travel, el Chupacabras just has 0 options against that lmao. Combine this with Mothman having numerous instant win buttons with its Mystical Illumination and own mind manipulating effects which would actually work on el Chupacabras, sadly knocking it out of the top 3.

Similarly, Goatman is just heavily outclassed by the rest of the cryptids here, so let’s break those down too:

• Goatman vs Bigfoot: Goatman and Bigfoot are actually rather similar when it comes down to their basics. Some people even speculate that there is no Goatman and people are just seeing Bigfoots. Beat for beat though, Bigfoot just takes every imaginable advantage against the Goatman, except maybe intelligence and for the fact that their speeds are rather similar, being around 200 mph. Bigfoot has more ways to keep the Goatman down via battlefield removal, his curses, and soul stealing. Goatman could attempt to drag Biggie to hell, but that’d leave him wide open to just simply getting his ass beat in a physical fight. Both have hypnosis methods, but Bigfoot overall has more incapacitation options as well and while you can argue Goatman is smarter academically, with him being a scientist experienced in dark magic, Bigfoot is also very experienced with magic. On top of being an actual fighter too.

• Goatman vs Loch Ness Monster: Goatman just quite simply lacks any sort of way to beat Nessie for much of the same reasons as Bigfoot. Nessie can also send the Goatman to hell as well as being capable of destroying his soul. Any sort of physical altercation would not bode well for the Goatman either, as Nessie is by far the physically strongest cryptid we’ve discussed today. She has better shapeshifting, better ranged attacks and Goatman has no answers to time or dimensional travel. The Goatman is simply out classed here.  

• Goatman vs Mothman: Physically, the Goatman could likely keep pace with Mothman and most definitely has the higher lifting strength. Goatman should actually be a tad faster too. On paper, this seems like Goatman could pose a threat to Mothy but physicality is not enough to win here. Mothman’s nature as a tulpa makes him exceedingly difficult to put down for good, let alone by anything Goatman has. Try to drag him to hell? Mothman can time travel and traverse dimensions. Try to hypnotize him? Mothman can do that too, so it’d naturally just cancel out. Goatman also just gets thrashed by the plethora of hax that Mothy can whip out, most notably the information overload.

El Chupacabras

“I'll write a check for 10,000$ if someone can bring to me what I feel is destroying thousands of lives, destroying lives everyday. And I know that you know it's a little thing called Chupacabra”

Advantages:

• Shadow form and splitting make El Chupacabras insanely hard to tag.

• Decently faster than the Goatman.

• AoE hypnosis and passive fear paralyzing effects makes it highly dangerous.

• Ambushing and blood-sucking would kill the physical forms of nearly everyone here instantly…

• Could likely return from being sent to Hell either via its own hellish origin or spiritual existence.

• Cannot be outright killed by the Jersey Devil or the Goatman due to its spirit form.

Disadvantages: 

• …but most had forms of immortality or ghost forms to get around it.

• Lacking direct ways to destroy souls.

• Simply outclassed in stats and hax by the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Mothman.

The Goatman

“He’s not human and he’s not a fairy tale, he’s real. He comes straight from hell and God help anyone on that bridge.”

Advantages:

• Arguably the most intelligent of the cryptids here, given the Scientist origin. 

• Physically stronger than El Chupacabras.

• Resurrection makes him difficult to keep down.

• Can drag the Jersey Devil and el Chupacabras to Hell, permanently incapacitating the former…

• Cannot be outright killed by Jersey Devil or El Chupacabras due to his spirit form.

• Can avoid BFR via portals.

Disadvantages: 

• … but el Chupacabras' shadow form would make this exceedingly difficult to land and it could likely just return from Hell anyways.

• Lacking direct ways to destroy souls.

• Simply outclassed in stats and hax by the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Mothman.

3rd Place: The Loch Ness Monster

This may come as a shock to a lot of people, as from what we've seen most casual consensus is that The Loch Ness Monster likely just wins this entire battle. And while not for any lack of trying, Scotland’s legendary myth snags a solid 3rd Place.

Nessie is easily the physically strongest cryptid in today's royale thanks to her earthquake feats and is surprisingly not the slowest of the group either, even on land she can still keep up at 200 mph. Her powers are also doing a lot of heavy lifting. Nessie being able to time travel and hop between dimensions makes her much more evasive than the others below her, helped by her paralysis blasts and Water Kelpie powers. Nessie proves that she is not to be taken lightly but she's just simply outdone by our last two combatants.

• Loch Ness Monster vs Bigfoot: The classic debate. However, while Nessie is definitely physically superior, Bigfoot matches her in speed, lifting strength and is by far more evasive and intelligent. It’s important to remember that Nessie is, at the end of the day, an animal and isn’t going to be able to comprehend the battle tactics of an almost humanly intelligent foe like Bigfoot. It’s also important to keep in mind that Bigfoot by far has the highest attack potency of all the cryptids here via his magic and encapsulates Nessie’s physical advantages. Bigfoot also has similar hax to Nessie that would cancel out, such as soul manipulation and shapeshifting. But at the same time Bigfoot has a much more versatile set of abilities and experience, even if Nessie is technically older in some interpretations. Nessie has no answers to Bigfoot’s curses or mind control, which would incapacitate her and leave her wide open for Biggie to finish her off. It’s also worth throwing out Bigfoot’s experience fighting other Cryptids and according to some of the more insane theories, Dinosaurs as well. Meaning that while Nessie technically has far more life experience, Biggie’s is far more meaningful in terms of a fight. 

• Loch Ness Monster vs Mothman: Nessie loses against Mothman for many of the same reasons as Bigfoot, though there’s a couple differences. Mothman is most certainly coming up short in the stats department here but Nessie lacks solid win conditions. Not only is Mothman smarter and has a drastic mobility advantage but Nessie’s soul attacks would be hard pressed to affect a tulpa like Mothman, which lacks anything of the sort. While Nessie does have a form of slight mind control, it does not out right incapacitate and thus, would not take Mothman out of the fight, while the same cannot be argued vise versa along with the plethora of Mothman’s other hax.

The Loch Ness Monster

“Whatever the truth is, there’s no denying that Nessie will continue to intrigue the world for years to come.”

Advantages:

• Likely the physically strongest cryptid here and has the 3rd highest AP of the group.

• Likely the most experienced and oldest cryptid in general.

• Soul Destruction and BFR ensures she can keep Goatman, El Chupacabras and Jersey Devil down for good. 

• Being able to persist as a spirit makes her difficult to take out of the fight.

• Being able to traverse land, sea and air gives her a considerable terrain advantage over the others.

Disadvantages: 

• Almost certainly the slowest by a decent amount. 

• Her insane size would make her a likely target for everyone.

• Has hardly any cases of tactical thinking and runs off pure animal instinct.

The Final Showdown: Bigfoot vs Mothman

(Art by Smaggle)

Team Bigfoot

Stats

We’re at the end of the road… finally! And boy, is this debate absolutely nuts. Like most debates, stats are rather important and unsurprisingly Bigfoot and Mothman are rather close but are not one to one. 

Starting with physical strength and durability, both can easily get up into the megajoules. With 13.9 in favor of Mothman and 7 for Bigfoot at their highest ends, however, while this may seem it leans Mothman, Bigfoot can be pushed a tad further. As the story about Bigfoot surviving dynamite mentions how it was unfazed by the blasts. So you can argue that Bigfoot should significantly up scale this feat to match or maybe even surpass Mothman by a decent degree. Physicals aren't the only thing here though. Bigfoot’s magic has been able to conjure storms according to certain novels, with weather manipulation being a pretty recurring ability throughout its history. In one account, they were blamed for a storm covering the Hudson Highlands, which comes in at a whopping 132 kilotons of TNT at its lowest end, with 402 Kilotons at its absolute best. Even assuming it took 50 Bigfoots at once to accomplish this, it’s still significantly above any feat Mothman or his UFO performs. Lifting Strength also just isn’t a contest, with Bigfoot’s being suggested to be able to lift things as heavy as 4 Tons, while Mothman doesn’t particularly have anything near that. So if Mothman tried to square up with Sasquatch, he'd get his ass handed to him.

Speed also favors Biggie in most areas. While their regular speeds aren't too different admittedly, they are still notably in Bigfoot’s advantage. With Mothman capping at 105 mph and Bigfoot clocking in around 170 mph at his best. This is very important given that either of them can win off of one ability, speed is insanely valuable but Bigfoot’s attacks just utterly blitz the Mothman simply. Bigfoot is reported as being able to shoot beams of light from its eyes to paralyze its victims and Bigfoot’s own UFOs are said to shoot particle beams, which move at 99% the speed of light. This is faster than anything Mothman has done, or has. Even its spaceship falls short of this, with its best speed being compared to aircrafts as 125 m/s. Which is something that can of course be argued for Bigfoot’s UFO as well, given that it had fully functioning lasers before humanity even had cars. 

So with that all said, Bigfoot's physical ap and durability matches Mothman, but Biggie's lifting strength, physical speed and his weaponry’s speed just utterly dwarf Mothman.

Arsenal & Abilities

All in all, physical might isn't going to win this fight for Bigfoot. But his abilities are absolutely the key to his success. 

Bigfoot has better and faster paralysis methods to incap Mothman that cannot hope to be avoided thanks to lightspeed attacks. Mothman's mental attacks resistances are not that strong and we find it incredibly iffy to suggest mind reading wouldn't work on Mothman due to him being a thought projection, as Mothman very clearly acts on his own accord. Hence all of Bigfoot's mental attacks would work such as memory erasure, reading his mind or just hearing his thoughts. Mothman is not going to be doing anything that Bigfoot would not just know about from the get go. While Mothman may not be able to be affected by Bigfoot’s own precognition, a curious leg up on this is through Bigfoot’s mind reading and mind hearing, as any thoughts that come to Mothman would just be revealed to Bigfoot, including any revelations made through Mothman’s own precog.

Bigfoot being able to get into Mothman’s mind is quite possibly his most useful tool here, as he can just learn of any strengths Mothman has or any tricks he has up his sleeve, while at the same time potentially being able to delete memories from Mothman to keep him from using something dangerous for at least a short moment. Or even plant false memories into the Mothman to just cover up the fact of Bigfoot being involved in this fight to begin with. Giving Biggie the chance to better capitalize off of his speed advantages and another work around for precognition. It’s also worth throwing out that Mothman needs to specifically look into your eyes to incapacitate you, something that is just never suggested for Bigfoot’s own hypnosis or paralysis methods, which rely more on Bigfoot looking at you instead of the victim looking at him. 

While we can’t argue that Bigfoot can actually kill Mothman for good, Mothman’s thought-based regeneration should be too complex for Bigfoot to find a deadly solution, however, he is more than capable of incapacitating him quite literally forever and his mind reading would tip him off to this. With Bigfoot being faster than Mothman he could inflict a curse on him to take the will out of Mothman to continue the fight, locking him in whatever location they're in forever, which would wait out the timer on Mothman just existing. Mothman can only exist for a single night, while Bigfoot’s curse was able to keep someone unwilling to kill and unable to move for over 15 years. This means that Bigfoot would be able to simply leave the fight after inflicting this curse to Mothman and he would have no path of recourse other than… just sitting there.

Other than this, Bigfoot can also time travel and hop between dimensions just like Mothman, having a much wider documented history of doing such things as well and he has better means of healing in the middle of the fight thanks to his natural healing factor, medicinal herbs and healing magics, while Mothman would need to use the corpses of fallen enemies around the battlefield, which we also have no solid timeframe for how long this process takes. On top of this, Bigfoot is effectively physically immortal as long as he keeps his heart in a secure location, being able to come back from death in mere moments. Paired with this, Bigfoot can exist as a spirit being even beyond death, as suggested by Bigfoot’s teaching others magic in the afterlife. This makes it exceedingly difficult for him to be put down by any normal physical method Mothman may consider using against him. 

Mothman being able to transform Bigfoot’s essence into something else to get around this also seemingly falls short. While Mothman was able to transmogrify energy to create his own spaceship, Bigfoot’s regular shapeshifting could potentially work as a counter. As there are reports of Bigfoots being able to not just turn into other animals, but inanimate objects like logs or even plants. On the topic of shapeshifting, this can also work as an answer to Mothman’s mobility. Bigfoot’s are said to be able to transform into flying orbs of light and there’s really no reason why Bigfoot couldn’t turn into a bird or something as well. With Bigfoot having his own UFO and teleportation capabilities, Bigfoot can ironically match The Mothman’s mobility. While also being much more nimble and agile to boot. Even Bigfoot's more plentiful ranged options helped out here like bows & arrows, electric blasts and spears, Bigfoot could just simply aim up.

Tertiary Factors

Without beating around the bush, Mothman may be academically smarter… Bigfoot is an actual fighter, survivor and as a spirit being has a much longer history of just doing… everything. Bigfoots are almost always portrayed as incredibly intelligent, sometimes even humanly so and this is backed by dozens of stories. Bigfoots have been trained in the arts of war and have engaged in them, like the Sasquatch War and the Battle of Ape Canyon. Hell, some Native American chiefs have been rumored to have become Bigfoot, meaning that he should be a very skilled combatant in terms of battle prowess.

It’s also worth saying that something that should not be overlooked is Bigfoot’s experience fighting other cryptids with similar abilities to Mothman, like Dogmen. Who are said to be omnipotent and know everything about you before they attack, likely thanks to their own theorized psychic and precognitive abilities. This gives Bigfoot a very large advantage over practically all the other cryptids in this battle royale, as the only one to have actually fought similarly hard to kill opponents, and ones which would have a solid grasp of his abilities as well, still fail to put him down.

While obviously Mothman creating a UFO is incredibly intelligent, this is hardly anything that matters in a battle royale, which Mothman has never even engaged in a fight with a regular person before, let alone someone else (or several) within his weight class (or above).

Mothman typically only sticks around for single nights at a time and works more as a harbinger of things to come, never once taking action himself outside of occasionally scaring off or hypnotizing people off and on with huge gapes in time between appearances. While Bigfoots, even if we go with the interpretation of them being regular living creatures and ignoring the spirit being stuff, live their entire 60+ year lives utilizing their abilities to hide from humanity and survive their harsh conditions, which are often shared with fellow vicious mystical cryptids. While Mothman’s most recent documented sighting was almost 4 years ago as of this blog’s creation. Meaning that if the two were in a fight to the death, Bigfoot’s experience and fighting skills would push him to capitalize on his advantages and go for his win conditions before Mothman by far more consistently, whose inexperience is undoubtedly a huge hindrance.

Additionally, due to the nature of this being a battle royale, Bigfoot is likely to be able to figure out how some of Mothman’s abilities work when he is interacting with other combatants within the fight. Considering that many of Mothman’s most powerful abilities require eye contact in order to activate, if Bigfoot is capable of figuring out that fact it is likely that he can strategise to keep his eyes closed during combat with Mothman, instead relying on shouting out the curse in order to incapacitate him.

A massive advantage for Bigfoot is that if he can figure out Mothman’s best abilities requiring eye contact, then he can counter them, but Mothman does not get the same advantage likewise. If Mothman figures out that Bigfoot’s abilities require Bigfoot to either see him or make him hear the curse, there is not a huge amount Mothman can do to easily counter those abilities, other than directly leaving the battlefield or something equally unlikely like that. This means that the longer the battle royale goes on, the more likely it is for Bigfoot to figure out his win condition, assuming he doesn’t figure out his win condition even sooner by reading Mothman’s mind.

Conclusion

Bigfoot 

“Believe in yourself, even when no one else will.”

Advantages:

• By far the most powerful cryptid here in terms of AP, even Jersey Devil and Nessie.

• Most definitely has the highest lifting strength of the group.

• Is one of the fastest cryptids in this royale.

• The most experienced in fighting other cryptids and fighting in general. Meaning he could capitalize on his advantages before the others.

• Mind Reading, Precognition and Clairevoyance would give him a leg up over most of everyone here.

• Memory Manipulation and Erasure are pretty good to have.

• Has the most and the fastest healing options. As well as some of the fastest resurrection.

• His sealing curse would incapacitate everyone here.

• Despite being a “thought projection”, Bigfoot’s mind reading/hearing should work on Mothman.

• Paralysis methods either blitz or require less work to activate compared to Mothman.

• Would be unaffected by BFR via time and dimensional travel. 

• Spirit form and Intangibility ensure he can avoid physical damage.

• Could likely resist being transmogrified and match others mobility via shapeshifting.

• Is by far the most consistent with using his powers.

• Has the most versatile gear of any cryptid and some of the most versatile powers, likely only challenged by Mothman.

Disadvantages: 

• Cannot directly kill Mothman, even soul hax would not work on him.

• Destroying his heart would counter physical resurrection. 

• Mothman has a few win cons that could definitely take Biggie out.

• Is less academically intelligent than Goatman and Mothman.

• Would get bodied in a physical altercation with Jersey Devil and Nessie.

• Precognition is countered by Mothman.

Overall, while this is certainly an extremely close match (for real), we do believe Bigfoot should come out on top in the end. While mothman certainly had some powerful abilities and couldn’t be killed traditionally by Sasquatch, he didn’t have too much that could reliably take down Bigfoot either. His precognition may be countered by the moth, but we believe that his mind reading should still be able to work to give him the rundown on Mothman’s stuff quickly. Combine that with Bigfoot's superior speed and combat experience, particularly against other cryptids? He should be able to buy enough time in the royale to land his paralyzing curses to leave mothman trapped long enough for his time limit to run out. Bigfoot certainly didn’t stomp, but he did leave his encounter with the Mason County Monster to be nothing but water under the bridge. The winner is Bigfoot.

Team Mothman

Stats

As the last standing cryptids, both Bigfoot and Mothman had extraordinary and fascinating physicalities that easily outmatch us humans and out did most of the cryptids in this field with few exceptions. They were also the closest in this regard to each other out of the whole royale, Bigfoot is able to kill animals like mountain lions and bears, which both can get up to 18 and 23 Kilojoules respectively, rock whole cars, break down walls, snap trees, shake cabins, lift up to 8,000 pounds and is durable enough to survive gunshots and even dynamite like nothing. Even one stick of dynamite packs a punch of 1 Megajoule, and a typical bundle has on average 7 of them, combining a total energy of 7 Megajoules. Mothman meanwhile had less feats across its short span of appearances, but it still had feats to offer, like how Mothman can mutilate cattle, which can get up to 13 Kilojoules, rip metal doors off its hinges with 56 Kilojoules of force, ram people at 100 MPH with its 200 pound body for 90 Kilojoules and even tear through whole trees as its chasing people, yielding an energy of up to 3.7 - 13.9 Megajoules. 

Physicals weren’t the only field they could showcase their power on, Bigfoot’s magical powers are able to cause harsh storms, an effect needing 134 Kilotons Of TNT. This doesn’t scale to Bigfoot physically, but it’d still be an incredibly strong attack dwarfing Mothman in power. Comparable UFOs to its own however were able to black out the sky and clouds of a mountain range upon its arrival, so Mothman’s UFO would still be fairly comparable. 

For the strength comparison, you can see how they match each other, but in the Attack Potency category, Mothman has Bigfoot beat in both Kilojoule and Megajoule ends. He was nearly 4x stronger with Kilojoule ends, and at both Megajoule ends he was either 3.7x stronger at a low end or 1.9x stronger at the high end. With his claws and advantage in this field, Mothman would overpower Bigfoot if it ever came to sheer physical power. But it wasn’t a complete wash by any means.This wasn’t the only factor here though, Mothman may have the greater Attack Potency, but Lifting Strength was a different story. Mothman could fly high speeds with its 200 pound body, but Bigfoot could lift up to 8,000 pounds, 40x heavier than Mothman’s recorded weight. Meaning that Bigfoot could outwrestle Mothman in struggle. There was always the discussion on Bigfoot’s magic and Mothman’s UFO reaching storm levels of power, with Bigfoot’s being calculated at 134 Kilotons, but these didn’t scale to them physically. However, Bigfoot does have a noticeable edge considering that his magical abilities are inherently more combat applicable than Mothman’s UFO, latter of which would hardly be a factor in the fight.

Speed might seem like it’d go to Mothman no doubt, but surprisingly they were pretty even here too. Based on their reported speed, Mothman was faster, he’s been shown to fly at bare minimum 70 MPH and at his peak he can fly at 105 MPH. Meanwhile, Bigfoot are said to run at a variety of speeds from between 30 to 60 MPH on their own. However, Bigfoot has been seen to catch up to a full throttle police cruiser on foot. Judging by how the report is 2006 and using the low end for the average police car at the time and the high end for fastest police car, that would mean Bigfoot would be matching speeds with a car that went 130 to 152 MPH. Both greater than Mothman’s greatest speed by 1.2 - 1.4x. This is a favorable speed gap for Bigfoot, but not a super significant gap that would qualify for a blitz. Another thing to mention was that despite Bigfoot’s agility in climbing and jumping well, his mobility was always going to ironically fall short of Mothman’s own given Mothman’s capability of natural flight without any need for propulsion or abilities. 

For a recap, Mothman had the edge in Attack Potency and Mobility while Bigfoot had greater Speed and Lifting Strength. Both’s edge in Attack Potency and Speed was noticeable, but minimal, and only made less so with Mobility and Lifting Strength considered. Bigfoot’s magic trumped everything Mothman could put out however, even if it couldn’t scale to him physically, and was more combat applicable than the UFO. Though that is more of ability territory, since as said before, it doesn’t scale to Bigfoot physically. Leading to both being very comparable in stats all around.

Arsenal & Abilities

Now onto the most important aspect of this debate, both’s abilities and powers were fittingly on par with each other as well. To start us off, let’s discuss the elephant in the room, could either even kill each other? Bigfoot was borderline unkillable by any physical means, existing as a forest spirit able to resurrect itself if ever killed. While Mothman was a Tulpa, a non-existent entity able to manifest itself onto our world with enough belief in its existence. Both make the other incredibly hard to put down permanently, but there are fine details in these immortalities that favor The Mothman.

Mothman’s cognitive immortality no doubt was an overall better means of resurrection then Bigfoot’s own, but it also rendered many of Bigfoot’s magical abilities meaningless. His more powerful magic, that could reach up to town level, would outmatch Mothman in sheer power but with no way of interacting with non-existent entities, it was ultimately meaningless in dealing with Mothman. This was true for many of Bigfoot’s kit, Mothman’s regular state existing as a thought projection and his non-existent physiology meant a ton of Bigfoot’s abilities were dead weight. Mothman being a thought projection meant he had no soul or mind to target and considering that Mothman’s non-existent self exists in the superspectrum, which even those with psychic and precognitive abilities are unable to detect as they are beyond any earthly senses and technology, as they only see Mothman fading back into it. This meant that Bigfoot wouldn’t even be able to devise a plan to counteract Mothman’s immortality with his psychic abilities in the time he has. 

However, there is the argument that Bigfoot could potentially outlast Mothman since Mothman relies on limited energy to sustain a form. This process usually is shown to last about a night or roughly 12 hours. Even ignoring how the fight likely wouldn’t last for that amount of time, Mothman has a sneaky way of getting around this time limit by refreshing this time limit by constructing bodies out of the biological material of fallen cryptids, in particular, the huge corpse of the Loch Ness Monster. Regular dogs have been able to sustain Mothman’s form for whole nights, so comparing the weight of an 88 pound German Shepard to Nessie’s 10,000 pounds meant that Mothman could make 113 bodies for itself out of Nessie’s remains alone. And this is without accounting for the other cryptids or even outside animals. It's unlikely Bigfoot would be able to take advantage of this time limit directly.

To answer the question of could either kill each other, Bigfoot couldn’t kill Mothman but he did have the capabilities of incapacitating him while Mothman could kill Bigfoot directly and incapacitate him the same. Starting with Bigfoot’s methods of incapacitation, these rely on his curses and mind powers. Bigfoot’s magic is comparable to a “Wild Woman” of the forest, who put a curse on a man to never kill a bear again, which took away his will to fight and made him never go out of his house for, reportedly, 15 years. This could make Mothman simply stop in his place until his timer on how long he can remain in existence ran out. As for Bigfoot’s mind powers, while Mothman didn't have a mind for him to target, Mothman does have memories and Bigfoot can erase memories from a person. Letting him get rid of snippets of Mothman’s memories, but only snippets, is never shown to completely wipe someone of them. Given Mothman’s estimated 325 years of existence, it won’t be a surefire way of putting Mothman out of the fight entirely.

Conversely, Mothman had just as many methods of winning that were very direct and didn’t rely on the potential set up for a curse or only erasing bits and pieces of one's memory. His methods lay in Mystical Illumination and Energy Manipulation. Being entirely blunt, there is no possibility where Bigfoot could withstand Mystical Illumination. That process overloads the target with the inner workings of the universe and all past, present and future information at once. Bigfoot almost had a sneaky counter to where it could transfer this information to another Cryptid or even back to Mothman at “lightning speeds.” However this information would hit Bigfoot all at once, not overtime, and he still would have to process it beforehand, even if you were to take lightning speed processing literally, the superspectrum that Mystical Illumination hooks the target up to sends information at the speed of light. Completely blitzing Bigfoot’s processing and giving Mothman the ability to reprogram him however he likes or just leave him with the side effects which he couldn’t possibly fight with. Energy Manipulation could negate Bigfoot’s immortality directly, after all Mothman was able to mold the invisible energy of the superspectrum into his UFO, which is a Tulpa. Aka, a non-existent entity. This meant that Mothman had the potential of turning the mental energy of Bigfoot into something that just doesn’t exist. Bigfoot’s shapeshifting was able to turn him into animals and plants, but never anything on that level that would let him withstand such transmogrification. 

With both having the same number of wincons over each other, the debate now is mostly who could pull theirs off first. And in this field, Mothman had the overall advantage. Despite Bigfoot being faster, Mothman’s mobility in flight that didn’t require propulsion was always going to be better than Bigfoot’s acrobatics and shapeshifting. The speed gap was also really insignificant, 1.4x speed gap at most was not going to give Bigfoot too much of an advantage especially regarding the previously mentioned mobility. 

But there is one detail that gives Mothman way more leeway then Bigfoot’s only slightly superior speed, precognition. Bigfoot did also have this ability, however this could not successfully work on Mothman, who is an ultraterrestrial that exists outside of our space-time continuum and experiences time at a faster rate than the normal space-time, constantly being transported backward and forward in time. This irregular acausality meant that Bigfoot could not use his precognition on Mothman, while Mothman could use his against Bigfoot. Mothman’s precognition could reach 34 years into the future and 480 miles away from him, meaning Mothman would know Bigfoot would be the biggest danger far before their 1v1 would start. Giving him countless opportunities to get the jump on Bigfoot and use his wincons, this also meant that Mothman having the knowledge of what Bigfoot could do lets him cut to the chase and help him avoid these abilities. 

With precognition out of the way and his psychic abilities already not working, Bigfoot’s only means of knowing Mothman’s capabilities would be through mind reading. One problem though, Mothman is a thought projection, a manifestation of the concentrated thoughts of his own existence. Bigfoot reading his mind would be him reading the thoughts of everyone who ever believed in Mothman, or a whole town that is likely hundreds of miles away from where the fight is taking place. Bigfoot’s mind reading has worked on several people before, but never to an extent where he could affect a whole town with it. The other argument is that with this mind reading, he could read Mothman’s own thoughts on the future, ignoring the thought projection argument previously said. Mothman’s time vision lets him see and experience the past and the future at random, in fact ultraterrestrials often confuse the past and the future because of this so the same would logically happen to Bigfoot. Mothman meanwhile is shown to tell the difference just fine, evident in his role as an omen of disaster. So in the end, only Mothman is going into the fight and is able to in general know what Bigfoot can do, and Bigfoot couldn’t do vice versa. 

Now for their other abilities which could potentially help with either landing their wincons, let’s talk hypnosis and paralysis abilities. In most cases, these abilities cancel out but it is important to know the exact details on how they compare to one another. Bigfoot has paralysis abilities akin to a taser which when active, stop you in place by just being near them, and creatures of the same species like Snentic can shoot beams of light that paralyze you. These beams being light beams naturally mean Mothman would have trouble avoiding them, but given its mobility, knowledge of these abilities and the fact that reaction speed is even across the board, aimdodging them is possible. Comparatively, Mothman’s paralysis abilities lie in its trademark red eyes, which consume your vision and make you look at them: paralyzing you and in other cases hypnotizing you in a supernatural state of mind. In the end, Mothman’s methods of paralyzing Bigfoot were way easier purely based off of the fact that Bigfoot doesn’t even have to fully look at Mothman’s eyes, looking at its face will be enough to draw you into the eyes. Bigfoot’s paralysis beams would blitz but they are not impossible to avoid via aimdodging through mobility, Mothman’s eyes meanwhile just had to have Bigfoot look in their general direction for them to stun him. Way easier, especially considering that Mothman would, again, have the knowledge of Bigfoot being able to do this while Bigfoot wouldn't know about the eyes. Mothman could also easily follow up on this stun with Mystical Illumination, considering that is a mental attack and his eyes leave people in a state where this is very simple to pull off.

For other abilities, going back on what we said before about Mothman’s Tulpa and Ultraterrestrial physiology shutting down a lot of Bigfoot’s kit, that thoroughly reduces his versatility. Most of his mind attacks, his soul attacks, his psychic senses and his overall stronger magic. There’s more to this too. Mothman’s Technology Manipulation counters any of Bigfoot’s alien technology like the vortexes, Mothman’s Acausality made Bigfoot trying to pull a Hal Jordan ineffective while Mothman could do the same with no issue and his Weather Manipulation wouldn’t phase Mothman as Tulpa nature means he ignores environmental conditions. 

Meanwhile, Mothman was just as versatile on paper and he didn’t suffer from Biggie’s problems in practice. His Sound Manipulation could deafen Bigfoot and leave him open for ambushes, Empathetic Manipulation could make him be infatuated with Mothman and lets Mothman do his wincons then, his Energy Manipulation being able to make invisible constructs allow him to limit Bigfoot’s mobility and overall gives him better battlefield control and Mothman matches in Fear Manipulation with his ultrasonic waves.

For a fun extra addition to this verdict, both had access to UFOs with crazier abilities then the norm, Bigfoot’s could shoot out particle beams and lasers along with lifting whole orcas, which weigh 6,600 - 8,800 pounds, while Mothman’s could hypnotize or blind people with its signals and lights and extend a giant claw to pick up vans, which weigh 3,000 - 6,000. Given Bigfoot’s UFO could lift 1.46x- 2.2x more and had access to fucking lasers, he would win the UFO battle. This is really niche and definitely would not come into play in an actual fight, but hey, it's fun.

This was undoubtedly a close call for who had the edge here, both had the same amount of wincons and Bigfoot was slightly faster with way greater attack speed with his paralysis beams, but Mothman’s precognition allowed him to know everything Bigfoot could do while Bigfoot couldn’t do the same with his precognition or mind reading. Along with this, Mothman had a significantly easier time outmatching Bigfoot’s versatility with his physiology and many counters. Bigfoot couldn’t shut down basically any of Mothman’s own abilities the same, meaning Mothman’s versatility was the overall more efficient one of them too. His paralysis was also more simple to land then Bigfoot’s own and without any prior knowledge, Bigfoot unknowingly looking near Mothman’s face and getting drawn into his eyes is a greater possibility then him hitting a beam on a flying target that he’s only slightly faster then. Mothman just didn’t have Bigfoot’s issues, meaning his wincons, precognition and counters would ultimately win the war of abilities.

Tertiary Factors

Obviously, in a battle like this where anything helps the two in winning the day, tertiary factors like skill, experience and intelligence are without question crucial. And in this field, both have their own advantages to varying degrees but as you might expect, we think Mothman can contend in this field more than you might think.

Right off the back, it was apparent that Bigfoot did have the edge in terms of skills and experience in how they apply in a direct fight. Bigfoots learn invaluable survivalist skills at a young age, such as their gymnastics on trees while young, intimidation, tracking and hunting. They practically live in the forest so they have regular run-ins with its wildlife, including bears, mountain lions and other supernatural entities, like the Dogman or each other. Other Bigfoots are reportedly trained in combat by Native Americans and fought wars against other Sasquatches. Mothman has no such survivalist skills and hasn’t even killed or mauled a human, leading to him having much less fighting experience then Biggie.

On the opposite side of things, Bigfoots are more of a collective species instead of one specific creature, along with Bigfoots needing to age the same as the lifespan of other primates. Under a hypothetical Bigfoot, he wouldn’t be nearly as old as Mothman, who existed since the 18th century under The Curse of Cornstalk and has been observing the people of Point Pleasant since, manipulating the people till he ultimately came into being as a warning. Mothman made his own UFO, a highly advanced piece of advanced technology that outclasses anything humanity had access to at the time, meaning he was more book smart compared to Bigfoot, who was more a crafty and battle smart creature by comparison.

This meant that Bigfoot was more skilled in combat with much more experience in fighting under his belt while Mothman was the older and more intelligent and cunning creature. The specifics on how these benefit or hurt either or vary depending on circumstance, but taking a look at their fighting styles paints a clearer picture. Across its fights, Bigfoot’s survivalist style shines through as its main method of attack is through usage of the environment, much less its crazier abilities. Mothman sightings meanwhile always document the red eyes pulling people’s perception close to them and hypnotizing them, it's a trademark in the legacy of Mothman that this occurs. This isn’t to say Bigfoot is incapable of using any of his powers, but his style of fighting is one that wouldn’t traditionally effect Mothman, as it matches in brute force and keep creating physical bodies, meanwhile Mothman’s style when he’s approached is to paralyze or hypnotize with its eyes. Far more effective in this fight since Bigfoot had no defenses against that.

Bigfoot could still adapt as the fight went on, but given that little of its psychic senses or mind reading would work on someone like Mothman, he would have little information to go off of. Mothman would start the fight with the knowledge of Bigfoot's capabilities and danger given its precognition, and its genius intelligence would have a plan to take Bigfoot out before Bigfoot could do the same. Think about it this way, Bigfoot’s skill could give him the advantage in some scenarios, but with their main fighting styles and kit at hand, Mothman would be more likely to use his advantage in this field in a way that would end the fight before Bigfoot became too much of a problem. 

Conclusion

The Mothman

"I hope others do see it. I hope it scares them as much as it did us. Maybe then they'll believe things exist and we're not dreaming."

Advantages:

• Stronger than Goatman, Chupa and slightly more than Bigfoot.

• Faster than Chupa and Goatman. 

• Strong contender for the smartest in the royale, only rivaled by Goatman.

• Immortality and Non-Existent Physiology made it borderline unkillable by anything in the field.

• Its immortality also made a lot of abilities unable to even affect its incorporeality, even with NPI.

• Could take advantage of Nessie’s corpse to make many physical bodies, along with any other cryptid remains.

• Abilities such as Mystical Illumination and Energy Manipulation were ones no one could resist and were able to end the fight there and then.

• Dimensional and Time Travel made it immune to any attempt to BFR it.

• Precognition gave it any warning on the biggest threats.

• Countered Bigfoot’s psychic senses, including his own precognition, which meant Bigfoot wouldn’t be able to know of Mothman’s danger to him.

• Bigfoot’s mind reading would likely not work due to Mothman’s physiology.

• Paralysis and Hypnosis methods were ultimately easier and in character to land on Bigfoot then vice versa.

• Mothman’s pool of abilities shut down a lot of Bigfoot’s own, while Bigfoot couldn’t do the same.

• Overall older and more cunning than Bigfoot.

• Flight gave it a mobility advantage over Bigfoot.

Disadvantages: 

• Far weaker than Nessie, Jersey Devil & Bigfoot’s magic.

• Slower than The Jersey Devil, Chupa, Nessie and only slightly slower than Bigfoot.

• Ran on a timer on how long it can fight for no matter what.

• Had the least experience fighting out of everyone.

• Can be dispatched fairly easily if taken out of the sky, although not permanently.

• Vulnerable to Bigfoot’s Curses and Memory Manipulation.

We won’t try to make it seem otherwise, this showdown is incredibly close and comes to very specific details about how the cryptids operate. They’re very evenly matched in just about everything, Bigfoot was slightly faster and had greater lifting strength along with being more skilled in combat and experienced in dealing with supernatural entities while Mothman was slightly physically stronger and had greater mobility while also being the smarter and more cunning of the two and overall older. 

The real decider is in abilities, while Bigfoot certainly put up a fight here, Mothman just had too much favoring him. Mothman’s precognition and countering Bigfoot’s own meant that only he would have the knowledge of what the other can do beforehand, and it's unlikely that Bigfoot’s mind reading would do him any good considering Mothman being the thoughts of the people of Point Pleasant, even if you were to buy this, precognition will always beat out mind reading in how they help the other in scenarios. With this in mind, Mothman would logically go for his trademark red eyes to lock Biggie in place and leave him in a supernatural state of mind, following it up with either Mystical Illumination and Energy Manipulation. It may not be easy, but for the winner of this fight, all things point to the pleasant omen of disaster, who spelled the end for legendary Sasquatch, squashing his chances of victory and leaving him with cold feet. The winner is The Mothman.

Final Tally

Bigfoot (6)- ThiccGrimes, Yerm, Echo Awakens, Tario, 27thUltra, Garf

The Loch Ness Monster (0)-  

El Chupacabras (0)-  

The Jersey Devil (0)-  

The Mothman (5)-  Bang, Coach Boomer, Spycrab, iceking, NormallyNormal 

The Goatman (0)-