🦶 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," haunts the summit plateau of Ben Macdhui, the second-highest peak in the Cairngorms of Scotland. The case en...
Morgawr, Cornish for "sea giant," entered modern cryptid lore in September 1976 when a woman using the pseudonym "Mary F" sent Falmouth Packet news...
Welsh tradition places the Afanc in the deep pools of the River Conwy, most famously the pool of Llyn yr Afanc near Betws-y-Coed, and in Llyn Barfo...
Across the lochs of the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides, storytellers describe the Each-uisge as far more lethal than its cousin the kelpie, capabl...
On the Orkney island of Stronsay, islanders once whispered of the Nuckelavee, a creature that fishermen and farmhands preferred not to name after d...
Black Annis is a blue-faced hag of Leicestershire folklore said to live in a cave she clawed out of the sandstone of the Dane Hills, west of Leices...
The Barghest is a monstrous, shape-shifting black dog of northern English folklore, most associated with Yorkshire, where it is described as larger...
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, humanoid figure with owl-like features—large glowing eyes, feathers, and pincer-like claws—said to haunt the chur...
The Beast of Bodmin Moor is a supposed large, black, cat-like predator said to roam the wild moorland of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, in the far southw...
Morag is the name given to a large, elusive creature said to inhabit Loch Morar, the deepest freshwater loch in the British Isles, on the west coas...
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...
Selkies are shapeshifting beings from Scottish and Faroese-Norse folklore who live as seals in the ocean but can shed their skin to walk on land as...
The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately nicknamed "Nessie," is the best-known lake monster in the world, said to inhabit the cold, peat-darkened wate...