10 Most Metal American Cryptids

Monsters. Monsters rule, right? I thought you’d agree. In case you’re wondering, yes, yes you can study monsters for something maybe like a living. It’s called Cryptozoology, or the study of “hidden” animals. You may have seen a cryptozoologist on TV before. More than likely it was a program about Bigfoot and the guy with the coke bottle glasses and the shirt pocket bulging with pens and pencils was the channel’s go-to cryptozoologist. His job, and the job of most of cryptozoologists, is to be the credentialed name that says something similar to Hamlet’s advice to Horatio: “There are more things in heaven and earth…Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” In other words, don’t count out Bigfoot’s existence so fast. After all, what about the coelacanth?

But we came here to talk about metal cryptids, not actual sea beasts or Shakespearean characters. Obviously, cryptozoologists study cryptids, or “hidden” animals. According to cryptozoologists, cryptids are animals that have yet to be conclusively identified by mainstream science, despite decades upon decades of eyewitness accounts. Well-known cryptids include Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti, El Chupacabra (literally “goat-sucker” in Spanish), the Loch Ness Monster, and others. Some popular cryptids will appear in this list, but many might be unfamiliar to you. So much the better. All cryptids, even those that make a rational, scientific explanation damn near impossible, are pretty metal, but the following ten are the most metal of all.If Sasquatch is supposed to be a giant, prehistoric ape (Giganthropithecus to be exact), then Sheepsquatch is a giant…sheep. According to Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author ofMonsters of West Virginia (which sits proudly next to my john, by the way), the dreaded Sheepsquatch of West Virginia and southwestern Virginia is “about the size of a bear with woolly white hair.” Its front paws are “more like hands,” while its tail is “long and without hair.” Worst of all, the Sheepsquatch’s ugly mug has a “doglike snout and single-point horns like those of a young goat.” A horned giant sheep that apparently smells like sulfur? That’s totally metal.

Making Sheepsquatch all the more terrifying is the fact that many sightings have been reported in the so-called TNT Area of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, which just so happens to be the location of the Mothman sightings in the mid 1960s. Like a house in a Stephen King novel, the TNT Area was just born bad.READ MORE-http://www.metalinjection.net/lists/10-most-metal-american-cryptids