🦶 Cryptids of Chile
＋ File sighting8 cryptids and mysterious creatures reported in Chile, with their legends and sightings.
The Nguruvilu, or fox-snake, is a malevolent water serpent from Mapuche mythology reported around the rivers and lakes of Chile's Araucanía region,...
The chonchón is a shapeshifting witch-creature from Mapuche and central-southern Chilean folklore, said to be a kalku (sorcerer or witch) who, thro...
El cuero, literally "the hide," is an aquatic monster from the folklore of Chile's southern lake district, described as resembling a flattened, cir...
The imbunche is one of the darkest figures in Chilote folklore, a grotesquely deformed being said to be created by the members of the legendary Rec...
The colo colo is a shapeshifting creature from Chilean and Mapuche folklore, traditionally described as hatching from the smallest egg laid by an o...
The trauco is one of the most famous figures of Chilote mythology, a short, gnarled forest goblin from the Chiloé Archipelago, usually described as...
The camahueto is a legendary beast from the folklore of the Chiloé Archipelago in southern Chile, pictured as a young bull or calf-like creature be...
Peuchén is a shapeshifting, blood-draining creature from Mapuche folklore in southern Chile and Argentina, most often described as a giant flying s...