#cryptid festival

[statecryptids]

Merry Cryptidmas! Got my Grafton Monster ornament from the Grafton Monster Museum in West Virginia!

[devondraws]

Countdown to Christmas // Advent day 11! cryptid Christmas party

[plush0fairy]

Wisconsin-ae-Miku

Have to give credit to @thedragonitus for that Culver's cup!

[big-low-t]

West Virginia Cryptids

[possumcollege]

Crittertongues Past: Pumpkin's Not Dead

[paraemporium]

Day 4 of my Advent Emporium for 2024, Gingerbread!

The Fresno Nightcrawler, Jackalope, Flatwoods Monster, Mothman, and Loveland Frog all turned into baked treats. I really want to turn this one into a sticker sheet.

Everyday will have a cryptid twist to it, and I aim to accomplish 3 goals: Improve my digital art skills, apply the same nostalgia of Calvin and Hobbes, and make all of these pieces work as stand alones and a set!

Check out the timelapse over on tiktok!

Tomorrow is Lights!

[gachacatt]

Day 7 - Amphibious the Loveland Frog man is not only a very popular folklore in the local areas, but also the Loveland mascot! First spotted in 1955 in Loveland, Ohio. The most recent sighting claimed to be 2016. Standing at 4 feet tall, this frog has festivals held in it's name on every leap year. Get it?

[wilderbas]

seasonal dynamics

[leasthaunted]

Hogfather Read Along on Discord

Join in on a community read along of Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather, a hilarious satirical take on the Christmas Season, holly things being jolly, and other things rhyming with “olly”… When the Discworld’s present distributing fat man “The Hogfather” goes missing, it is up to the anthropomorphic personification of DEATH to save not just the holiday of Hogswatch, but possibly the entire Discworld itself!

So come join the Least Haunted Discord and start reading the book with us on December 1st as we build up to watching the miniseries adaptation and celebrate the holidays together!

[inga-don-studio]

OBTAINED

[officialwindywoods]

Don't sleep on Mothman... He's at 81% and we're SO close to unlocking him and opening up pre-orders for Rigel!

[statecryptids]

Went to the first annual Glawackus Day at the Historical Society of Glastonbury! Glad to see the town finally celebrating its local cryptid.

Also got some cool cryptid books from the River Bend Bookshop:

Connecticut Cryptids by Patrick Scalisi and Valerie Ruby-Omen

The United States of Cryptids by J. W. Ocker

[smolwormadventures]

“Went and searched for some cryptids! I hope none of them hold grudges against us.”

[patrickjesson]

MOTHMAN FESTIVAL 2022

A painting I made of a moment I saw at the Mothman Festival 2022 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. This was painted with acrylics on a 10"x8" wood panel.

Prints are available at https://www.artstation.com/patrickjesson/prints

[eggcatsreads]

All the books I've gotten so far! I might get more once the Mothman Festival actually starts tomorrow, but these are all the ones I've gotten before then.

I saw the "Local Author" tag on these first two books, and spooky books are my forte, so I ABSOLUTELY had to grab Stix and The Hills Know by Breanna Leslie! Hopefully I'll have the energy to read them while I'm at this cabin in the woods,to really sell the vibe!

My mom wanted to know what on earth we were in West Virginia to find, so I got her Monsters of West Virginia by Rosemary Ellen Guiley at the Flatwoods Monster Museum so she could learn for herself.

While in Sutton, I also grabbed Sasquatch by Jeff Meldrum at the West Virginia Bigfoot Museum so I could learn more, since my Bigfoot knowledge is woefully lacking.

Today at the Mothman Museum, I alao grabbed:

Bridging the Tragedy by Bill (phD) and Jacqueline Kousoulas, since I have quite a few Mothman books but not this one (I even accidentally have two copies of The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel, with two separate names for them, lol!)

Cryptids, Creatures and Critters by Rachel Quinney, since I needed the art in person.

And finally, the Crème de la crème, Mothman Baby! by Elias Barks and Zoe Persico, as it was simply too cute to pass up!

(To quote Chris Fleming - "I know it's for babies, but I NEED it!")

Can't wait to dig in to these books, and hopefully I'll find more treasures tomorrow and Sunday at the festival

[buonasara]

Mothman my beloved