🦶 Cryptids of Chile
＋ File sighting8 cryptids and mysterious creatures reported in Chile, with their legends and sightings.
The Nguruvilu or fox-snake is a water being of Mapuche tradition, tied to the fords, pools and whirlpools of the rivers of La Araucanía and of Neuq...
The chonchón is the flying head of a kalku, a Mapuche sorcerer: it comes off at night, its outsized ears beating like wings, and crosses the dark a...
El cuero — "the hide" — is an aquatic being of Mapuche and Chilean tradition, described as an octopus the size and shape of a cowhide stretched fla...
The imbunche is the deformed being that Chilote tradition places inside the caves of the brujos, above all the Cueva de Quicaví. Its written record...
The colo colo of Chilean folklore is a creature nobody has seen. That is not a turn of phrase: when the folklorist Julio Vicuña Cifuentes tallied h...
The trauco is a forest being of the Chiloé Archipelago in southern Chile: small, misshapen, dressed in quilineja creeper, his feet shapeless stumps...
The camahueto belongs to the folklore of Chiloé, the rain-soaked archipelago off southern Chile, and to the mainland shore around the Río Maullín. ...
The Mapuche pihuicheñ — printed as pihuychen, piguchén, piuchén and, only late and rarely, peuchén — is a winged serpent that whistles as it flies ...