#yeti

[pink-key]

New friend

[boog-how]

Pretty girl Abigail Bominable

[snejkha]

More attacks and revenges//

Ushiko for @roccoco-co

Chilly for @lilmisskiwi-art

[thestuffedalligator]

I’ve talked about this before but I feel obligated every now and then to talk about the time Jimmy Stewart smuggled a yeti finger from a Nepalese Buddhist monastery to America.

The Pangboche Hand was the skeletal hand of a yeti who was a disciple of Lama Sangwa Dorje, and the finger of the hand was stolen in 1959 by a Bigfoot researcher named Peter C. Byrne after the monks refused to let him take the hand for research. Once Byrne got the finger into India, “It’s A Wonderful Life” star Jimmy Stewart, James “Anatomy of a Murder” Stewart, smuggled the finger out of India and to the States by — allegedly — hiding it in his wife’s lingerie case, because no gentleman would ever check a woman's lingerie case.

Byrne, by the way, was hired to steal the finger by eccentric millionaire oil tycoon Tom Slick, who spent the ‘50s obsessed with cryptozoology before dying in a plane crash in Montana. Not important for the story, important to me personally that you know this.

And I tell you this because “Jimmy Stewart smuggled a yeti finger in his wife’s lingerie case” is a fun collection of words and also to remind you that cryptozoology is awash with colonial assholes who will step over other cultures to find the “proof” they feel entitled to.

[zetrystan]

Ok winter is coming, so I'm putting on my winter coat. I'm a yeti now.

[hazoret]

My latest kickstarter is now live! Eldritch Beans Series 2 features cryptid kitty designs I was unable to get to with Series 1.

Come help make these beans a reality!

And if you're interested in anything from Series 1, those can be purchased here!

We already have the Purrsey Devil and the Mongolian Cat Worm Funded! Help us get the rest :D

And each pin pledge comes with a free waterproof sticker!

[wailingrock]

Lil mukumuku painting doodle 🍄👌

[socialbutterfly19]

A little pep in my step

[snootyfoxfashion]

Handmade Cryptid Plushies from NerdBirdStudios

Mothman // Fresno Nightcrawler // Loch Ness Monster Jersey Devil // Mandrake // Imp // Bigfoot // Will O the Wisp Hodag // Flatwoods Monster // Yeti // Hopkinsville Goblin Mongolian Death Worm // Kappa

[brokehorrorfan]

Austin Pardun has released vintage-inspired cryptid Halloween decorations featuring Bigfoot and Jersey Devil. 11x14 prints are $25 each, or $30 if you want them hand-cut.

[chasingvoidmonsters]

I dunno if I ever shared this here, but last summer my youngest brother spent a couple of weeks at camp and family got to send letters. I, being the extra big sister that I am, made him a whole cryptid field guide. I printed it and bound it in a nice folder for him

**Names have been covered and Cryptid histories have been edited down to be appropriate for a generally anxious 11 year old, so don't get mad at how washed out The Jersey Devil's history is. I didn't want to give his over active imagination nightmare fuel while at camp.

Made in canva with all of the free stuff I could get my hands on at the time.

[purplehoover]

GUYS HELP I GOT A CUTIE PATOOTIE PLS RATE ON BOOP SCALE (Snow Conda / Yeti Morph)

[bestiarium]

Am Fear Liath Mór, or the Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui [Scottish cryptid]

The high passes of Ben MacDhui – the second largest mountain in Scotland – are haunted by tales of a mysterious creature that supposedly stalks hikers. Usually it is described as an impossibly tall, grey spectre, thereby earning it the name ‘Am Fear Liath Mór’, meaning ‘the big grey man’.

The story starts in 1891 with professor Norman Collie of the Royal Geographic Society, who happened to be a passionate hiker as well. The professor had just climbed the cairn on the summit of Ben MacDhui when he heard something that vaguely sounded like footsteps. I should mention that this area is notoriously misty, so you can imagine how easy it is for a lone hiker to get anxious when hearing strange noises.

The footsteps continued, but they were oddly spaced: for every ‘step’ the professor heard, he himself took three or four. It was as if this mysterious spectre was taking giant leaps or had huge legs. Eventually the professor was overtaken by panic and fled. Much later, in 1925, he recounted his tale and shared it with the newspapers, who were eager to publish and often exaggerate the story of a supposed monster or cryptid living in the Scottish mountains. At the time, the mystery creature was dubbed ‘the Ben MacDhui Ghost’ in the media.

Afterwards, multiple people came forward with claims about the mountain ghost, some of which were believable (hearing unidentified sounds) and some were more fantastic (Richard Frere and Peter Densham claimed to have had a conversation with an invisible, psychic creature).

Richard Frere would later claim that while he was hiking on the top of the Ben MacDhui, he had an unshakeable feeling that someone else was there with him, and he would hear a strange high-pitched noise that seemed to come from the soil beneath his feet.

Frere also gave a physical description of a creature he claimed to have seen (but it is difficult to verify whether this is the oldest actual ‘sighting’ of the supposed ghost): a large, brown creature was seen swaggering down the mountainside. It stood about 20 feet (6m) tall, was covered with short brown fur and had a disproportionally large head supported by a thick, muscular neck. It had broad shoulders but walked upright and did not resemble an ape.

Interestingly, only a single sighting happened on a nearby mountain, rather than on the Ben MacDhui itself: in the 1920’s, Tom Crowley, the president of the local Moray Mountaineering Club, claimed to have seen an apparition while descending from Braeriach to the Glen Eanaich. It was a very tall, misty grey figure with a humanoid shape, albeit with long legs that ended in strange talons (described as resembling fingers more than toes) and a head with pointy ears.

Dr. A. M. Kellas, himself a famed mountaineer, also claimed that a giant grey humanoid creature haunted the mountain. Among the many supposed sightings, I am uncertain which one is actually the oldest description of the ‘Grey Man’ as a tall, grey spectre, but it is certainly the most popular one. The grey apparition had cemented itself as a local cryptid and urban legend and many more supposed sightings followed.

Though it is often claimed that the creature is connected to ancient Scottish or Celtic mythology, this is most likely false. Gray Affleck, the author of ‘The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui’, attempted to research this link but could not find a single connection with actual Highland mythology.

In 1958, the June edition of ‘Scots Magazine’ told the story of Alexander Tewnion’s 1943 expedition to the mountain. While he was descending the mountain, a giant grey shape suddenly loomed over him. Having none of this bullshit, Mr. Tewnion immediately pulled out his revolver and fired three bullets at the thing. The mysterious apparition seemed not to notice, however, and kept walking towards him, upon which Tewnion fled.

Sources: Barrie, A., 2005, Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Customs of Britain, The History Press, 480 pp. Gray, A., 2013, The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui, Birlinn, 183 pp. (reviewed edition, first edition published in 1970) (image source 1 : Attila Nagy on Artstation) (image source 2: ManthosLappas on Deviantart, ©Fear Liath)

[cyphyra]

Commission for @turbojawdo! Design for a large yeti lady sona ^^

[goobersplat]

Vintage Quirky Yeti Troll Plush

(Image ID: A handmade plush of a furry, white yeti creature. It has a blue nose, ears and arms, red eyes and chest fury, and yellow legs.)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

St. Peter visited a party and many things happened but the one I remember most is him losing his Xavier-like mind power to a yeti so now his detective skills are a few level behind Sherlock and the yeti is winning.