🦶 Cryptids of United Kingdom
＋ File sighting15 cryptids and mysterious creatures reported in United Kingdom, with their legends and sightings.
Am Fear Liath Mòr, the Big Grey Man, is said to haunt the summit plateau of Ben Macdui, at 1,309 metres the highest of the Cairngorms and the secon...
Morgawr is the sea serpent said to haunt Falmouth Bay, and it is the rare cryptid whose whole history can be dated. There is no old Cornish traditi...
The oldest surviving account of the afanc of the River Conwy is a letter written in 1693 by the naturalist Edward Lhuyd, printed a century and a ha...
In Gaelic tradition the each-uisge is not an unidentified animal. It is the deep, still loch, given four legs. The fullest account is John Gregorso...
The nuckelavee has one source. Everything written about it descends from four pages published in January 1891, when Walter Traill Dennison, a farme...
Black Annis is a blue-faced hag of Leicestershire folklore, said to have lived in a cave in the Dane Hills, on the western edge of Leicester. Her n...
The Barghest of northern English folklore is not an animal, and the printed record says so from the start. The earliest definition anyone has been ...
Black Shuck is the spectral black dog of East Anglian folklore, said to roam the coastline, churchyards and lonely lanes of Norfolk and Suffolk as ...
Spring-heeled Jack is the demonic, athletic figure who terrorized Victorian London and its suburbs beginning in 1837, described in newspaper report...
The Owlman of Mawnan is a winged, man-sized figure with owl-like features said to have been seen in 1976 above the tower of St Mawnan church, a med...
The Beast of Bodmin Moor is a large black cat-like animal reported on the granite uplands of Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall in south-west England, since ...
Morag is the creature reported from Loch Morar, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands: at 310 metres the deepest freshwater loch in the Briti...
The Kelpie is a shape-shifting water spirit from Scottish folklore, most often a beautiful black or grey horse that lurks near lochs, rivers, and s...
Selkie is the Orkney and Shetland word for seal, and the folklore attached to it is narrower than the version that circulates online. Walter Traill...
The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately nicknamed "Nessie," is the best-known lake monster in the world, said to inhabit the cold, peat-darkened wate...