Cryptids and Monsters title card
Cryptids and Monsters is an internet anthology show created by Fernando of Godzilla Movie News, a blog that was started in 2011. The YouTube account for Godzilla Movie News is called williamdefalco and is the account that uploads the episodes of the series. According to Fernando, the username williamdefalco was a combination of his favorite first and last names, as his YouTube account was created before he started making videos. A spinoff series titled Urban Legends premiered April 1st, 2013.
History[]
The show premiered on December 12, 2012. The show was something Fernando had wanted to do for a while, having seen other videos on YouTube about cryptids, but not being satisfied with how they were presented, having "pictures posted but very little information about them". He created the series to show accurate pictures of the cryptids he covered, but actually speak about them and give as much information as possible about each subject in every episode. The show has since achieved success, having thousands of hits per video.
Overview[]
Each episode of the show features a cryptid or a monster from folklore. Most episodes of the show are generally unscripted. In each episode, Fernando simply explains what each subject is, then goes on to talk about it's history, and finally generally deduces whether or not the subject is real or not, often using scientific facts that prove or debunk whether the subject is real or not.
List of Episodes[]
The current list of episodes.
| Episode | Description | Premier Date |
|---|---|---|
| Bloop | An underwater sound frequency, alleged to be an animal larger than the blue whale. | Dec. 12, 2012 |
| Mongolian Death Worm | A giant worm that lives in the Gobi Dessert that is deadly poisonous. | Dec. 17, 2012 |
| The Grinning Man | An 8 feet tall humanoid figure with no hair, and a very large grin. |
Dec. 27, 2012 |
| Melon Heads | Small humanoids with giant bulbous heads. | Jan. 3, 2013 |
| The Grey Man | Scotland's version of Sasquatch, essentially. | Jan. 6, 2013 |
| Man Eating Tree | A tree that constricts and consumes large prey, typically human. | Feb. 3, 2013 |
| The Hopkinsville Goblins Case | An alleged group of extra terrestrial beings attacking a rural family in Kentucky. | Feb. 25, 2013 |
| Atmospheric Beasts | A flying beast that lives high in the atmosphere. | Mar. 12, 2013 |
| Spooklights |
Ghostly lights that appear in the distance in certain areas. |
Mar. 26, 2013 |
| Cherufe | A Chilean volcano monster that is lizard like that is said to cause volcanic eruptions. | May 14, 2013 |
| Jersey Devil | A demonic creature that lives in New Jersey. | May 27, 2013 |
| Sky Serpents | A variation of the sea serpent that flies. | July 12, 2013 |
| Nightcrawler | A 4 ft tall bipedal creature with no upper body. | July 14, 2013 |
| 50 Foot Congo Snake | A snake that was encountered in the 50's by Col. Remmy van Leardy, with photographic and eyewittness accounts. | July 24, 2013 |
| Chupacabra | A Mexican creature that kills livestock, reportedly coyotes with mange. | Aug. 8, 2013 |
| Genius Loci | A spirit that is confined to one place that is protective or malicious. | Aug. 9, 2013 |
| The Blue Hole | A pond reported to be a bottomless pit that leads to Hell, and allegedly the residing area of the Jersey Devil. | Sep. 3, 2013 |
| "Through a Misted Glass" review | book review of "Through a Misted Glass" by David Marsh. | Sep. 9, 2013 |
| The Suicide Forest | A Japanese forest where many suicides occured, that is claimed to be the home of angry spirits known as Yurei. | Sep. 9, 2013 |
| Burrunjor | The last living Tyrannosaurus Rex. | Oct. 20, 2013 |
| The Wawel Dragon | A famous dragon in Polish folklore. | Nov. 5, 2013 |
| Zaratan | A giant sea turtle that is even bigger than Bloop, whos shell is the size of an island. |
Nov. 13, 2013 |
| Oracular Trees | A tree that can speak to people with 2 personalities, male and female, depending on the time you visit it, and others. | Dec. 11, 2013 |
| Special Event Announcement | Announcement of a Special Event where Fernando posts 3 videos in a row according to fan suggestions. | Feb. 7, 2014 |
| The Enfield Horror | A bizzare looking entity that attacked several people in 1973. | Feb. 11, 2014 |
| Bunyip | A creature that lives in Austrailia, who's most recent sighting is around the mid-1800s. | Feb. 12, 2014 |
| Slide-Rock Bolter | A creature that lives in the mountains of Colorado, that bolts out of mountains, slides down the rock, and eats anything in its way. | Feb. 13, 2014 |
| Foo Fighters | Balls of light that followed airplanes involved in World War II. | Feb. 23, 2014 |
| Nightmarchers | Ghosts of ancient Hawaiian warriors that wander the islands. | Mar. 11, 2014 |
| Ningen | A huge human-like sea monster that lives in Antartica with pale white skin. | Mar. 12, 2014 |
| The Nameless Thing of Berkley Square | A killer monster that lives on the 2nd floor of Building 50 of Berkley Square, London, UK. | Mar. 13, 2014 |
| Regarding Slenderman and other Creepypasta requests... | The reason Fernando never did a Slenderman episode. | Mar. 16, 2014 |
| Blemmyes | A humanoid creature whose facial features appear on its torso. | Mar. 19, 2014 |
| Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp | A violent cryptid from South Carolina. | Apr. 1, 2014 |
| Dover Demon | A humanoid cryptid that lives in Dover, Massechusetts. | Apr. 7, 2014 |
| Death Crawler | A centipede like creature who feeds on frogs, tarantulas, etc. | Apr. 9, 2014 |
| Hidebehind | A demonic looking ape like creature from folklore. | May 6, 2014 |
| Minhocao | A giant worm-like creature that lives underground. | May 9, 2014 |
| Basilisk | A murderous bird and snake-like creature that instantly destroys anything it touches. | May 12, 2014 |
| The Ropen | Basically, a pterosaur with a tail that has a club shape. | June 3, 2014 |
| J'ba FoFi | Also known as the Congolese Giant Spider, it's essentially a giant spider. | June 8, 2014 |
| The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary | A lamb that grew from a plant........ | June 11, 2014 |
| Emela-Ntouka | A dinosaur-rhinocerous hybrid creature | June 22, 2014 |
| Hungry Grass | Also known as the Fear Gortach, a cursed patch of grass that gives you eternal hunger. | June 26, 2014 |
| The Zombie Chicken | Also known as Mike the Headless Chicken, a chicken that lived for a while after it's head was cut off (partially). | July 7, 2014 |
| The Shellycoat | A version of the Boogeyman from Scotland | Aug. 5, 2014 |
| El Tunchi | A version of the Boogeyman from Peru | Aug. 7, 2014 |
| The Dingonek | A fearsome creature with saber tooth-like tusks protruding out of its upper jaw, nicknamed "The Jungle Walrus" | Aug. 10, 2014 |
| The Gulon | A strange creature of Scandinavia known for its gluttonous eating habits. | Aug. 14, 2014 |
| The Popobawa | Located on the island of Pemba, a humanoid/bat-like creature known for assaulting people at night. | Aug. 18, 2014 |
| The Mahaha | A creature from the Arctic from Inuit mythology with incredibly long fingers. | Aug. 24, 2014 |
| The Van Meter Visitor | A monster from Van Meter, Iowa sighted around 1903 with bat-like wings and a bird-like face with a horn that emits a blinding beam of light. | Sep. 9, 2014 |
| The Funeral Mountain Terrashot | A creature with a box-like shape that roamed around the Funeral Mountains near Death Valley. | Sep. 10, 2014 |
| The Beast of Gevaudan | A wolf like creature that killed over one hundred people that lived around the 1700's. | Sep. 15, 2014 |
| The USS Stein Monster | A giant squid-like creature around 150 feet in length that attacked the USS Stein in 1976. | Sep. 19, 2014 |
| The Partridge Creek Monster | A creature that resembles a Tyrannosaurus Rex sighted in the Canadian-Alaskan area in the early 1900's. | Sep. 25, 2014 |
| Mix-Tape Vol. 1 | Introduction of a new section of the series where Fernando talks about creatures from viewer suggestions that didn't have enough information to be in their own episode. Monsters featured: Kasai Rex, Ghost Dinosaurs, and the Santer. | Sep. 26, 2014 |
| The Flatwoods Monster | A creature sighted in September 12, 1952 in Flatwoods, West Virginia. | Sep. 28, 2014 |
| The Gwyllion | A creature from Wales that follows travelers and disorients them into becoming lost. | Oct. 19, 2014 |
| The Banaspati | A flame-engulfed creature from Indonesia that walks in an upside down position. | Oct. 20, 2014 |
| The Black Shuck | A large black dog with red eyes that has been reportedly seen since the 1100's and is still reportedly seen in recent years. | Oct. 22, 2014 |
| The Green Children of Woolpit | Two children with green skin that were found by a wolf pit that claimed to be from a "Twilight Land". | Oct. 23, 2014 |
| Mix-Tape Vol. 2 | Monsters featured: Crawfordsville Monster and the Canvey Island Monster. | Oct. 27, 2014 |
| The Moon-Eyed People of North Carolina | A race of people with clear eyes, heavy beards, and white skin reportedly seen by many Native Americans. | Nov. 2, 2014 |
| The Spring-Heeled Jack | A creature first sighted in London known for leaping from place to place that reportedly attacked people. | Nov. 17, 2014 |
| Leviathan | An aquatic creature that is most known for being referenced in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, reportedly 300 miles in length. | Nov. 18, 2014 |
| Lagarfljot Worm, the Iceland Worm Monster | A giant lake monster first reported around 1345. | Nov. 20, 2014 |
| The UB-85 Atrocity | An attack on a German submarine during World War I that was reportedly by a large aquatic creature. | Nov. 25, 2014 |
| Mix-Tape Vol. 3 | Monsters featured: Maryland Goatman and Champ. | Nov. 28, 2014 |
| Aswang | A race of humanoid creatures without legs that fly around, attacking and eating people in the Philippines. | Nov. 30, 2014 |
| The NASA Gargoyle | In 1986, a NASA employee saw a Gargoyle-like figure perched on top of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. | Jan. 2, 2015 |
| The Kapre | A large Bigfoot-like creature that can become invisible. | Jan. 4, 2015 |
| The Black Stick Men | Humanoid creatures that are profoundly thin and have black skin. | Jan. 5, 2015 |
| The Manhattan Monster | The body of a strange creature was found under the Brooklyn Bridge during July 2012. | Jan. 7, 2015 |
| The Piasa Bird | A creature from Native American folklore that was sighted in 1673. | Jan. 10, 2015 |
| Boto, the Pink shape-shifting Dolphin | A pink, shape-shifting dolphin from the rivers of the Amazon. | Jan. 11, 2015 |
| The Dungavenhooter | An alligator-like creature with no mouth that lives around Maine and Michigan. | Jan. 23, 2015 |
| Hydrarchos | The skeleton of a large aquatic creature was put on display sometime during the 1800's, but it was later proven to be a hoax. | Jan. 30, 2015 |
| The Cardiff Giant | The body of a ten foot giant found in Cardiff, New York, later proven to be a hoax. | Feb. 4, 2015 |
| The Argopelter | A giant ape-like creature with elongated, whip-like arms, located in various wooded areas of the United States. | Feb. 10, 2015 |
| The Gargoyles of Chile | In 2004, a pair of Gargoyles reportedly followed a family's pick up truck during a trip to Arica, Chile on the Pan-American highway. Later another pair of Gargoyles attacked them. | Feb. 11, 2015 |
| Top 5 Cryptids and Monsters list | The Top 5 Cryptids and Monsters that Fernando has done in the series as of February, 2015. | Feb. 12, 2015 |
| The Tikoloshe | A creature created from dead bodies and summoned by various witchdoctors to terrorize various targeted victims. Located in Africa. | Feb. 13, 2015 |
| Behind the Scenes and Q&A | Fernando talks about the history of his channel, show and then answers various questions about himself and his channel. | Feb. 13, 2015 |
| Gef the Talking Mongoose | A mongoose that befriended a family sometime during the 1930's. | Feb. 16, 2015 |
| El Duende | A short goblin-like creature that exists in the forests of Mexico and South America. | Feb. 18, 2015 |
| The Machine Elves | Hyper-spatial entities that inhabit another realm that you can only get to by taking a psychadelic drug known as DMT. | Feb. 19, 2015 |
| Indonesian Coelacanth | A species of fish that has four distinct limbs thought to be extinct, but had been reportedly seen in the early 1900's, but recently has been proven to exist. | Feb. 20, 2015 |
| The Madagascar Tree | A man-eating tree from Madagascar. | Mar. 8, 2015 |
| U-28 Creature | Another aquatic monster that attacked a German U-boat during World War I. | Mar. 18, 2015 |
| The Cecil Hotel and Elisa Lam | A possible encounter with a Genius Loci at the Cecil Hotel where various murders happened and two infamous serial killers lived. | Mar. 20, 2015 |
| The Mothman | One of the most well known cryptid encounters in history. Located in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. | Mar. 23, 2015 |
| The Nandi Bear | A bear-like creature located in Kenya, Africa discovered by a tribe known as the Nandi, hence the name. | Mar. 26, 2015 |
| The Butterfly People | A group of humanoid-butterfly creatures that was encountered by various children during the 2011 Tornado in Joplin, Missouri. | Mar. 30, 2015 |
| The Oakville Blobs | In Oakville, Washington in 1994, various rain storms of a gelatinous substance occured for three weeks. | Apr. 1, 2015 |
| The Orang Bunian | Humanoid-elf creatures that live on Earth that live in a different dimension among humans, but most humans can not see them. | Apr. 2, 2015 |
| The Kappa | Small humanoid-turtle creatures that live in the various bodies of water in Japan. Some have been blamed as the cause for drownings. | Apr. 6, 2015 |
| Skunk Ape | A more humanoid Bigfoot-like creature with a distinct smell located in Florida. | Apr. 19, 2015 |
| Celebrities who also believe in Cryptids! | Fernando talks about celebrities that are into Cryptids. | Apr. 21, 2015 |
| Blackbird of Chernobyl (Chernobyl Monster) | An almost Mothman-like creature that was sighted in Chernobyl, Russia in April, 1986, just before the Chernobyl disaster occurred. | May 3, 2015 |
| Nguoi Rung "Vietnamese Wildman" | A Bigfoot-like creature from Vietnam. A lot of encounters were reported to have happened during the Vietnam War. | May 5, 2015 |
| The Huldufolk (The Hidden People) | Humanoid creatures that are invisible to humans much like the Orang Bunian, but native to Iceland. | May 7, 2015 |
| The Jinmenju | A tree that bears fruit that have faces on them. The fruit is known to smile, laugh, and generally put people in good moods. | May 14, 2015 |
| Ghostly Scarecrow | A humanoid creature with no arms sighted in Thailand in 2005, originally thought to be a scarecrow. | May 15, 2015 |
| The Wendigo | A humanoid, Bigfoot-like, shape-shifting, spirit that is found normally around Canada and the Northern United States. | May 17, 2015 |
| The Leshy | A humanoid shape-shifting entity whose body is plant-like of Slavic mythology. | May 24, 2015 |
| The Baba Yaga | A forest spirit found in Eastern Europe that is usually described as a witch-like entity. | June 3, 2015 |
| Pontianak | Vampiric ghosts of women who died while pregnant. | June 21, 2015 |
| Michigan Dogman | A werewolf-like cryptid found primarily in the American Midwest. | June 22, 2015 |
| Tulpa | A mystical creature or object created through the power of the mind. | June 25, 2015 |
| White Things | Monstrous creatures lurking in the backwoods of West Virginia. | June 26, 2015 |
| Skinwalker Ranch (plus some brief Skinwalker talk) | Looking at the notorious Sherman ranch, famed for being the site of numerous UFO encounters. | June 28, 2015 |
| Tripodero | A bizarre predator with telescopic legs from the California wilderness. | 30 June, 2015 |
| The Solomon Island Giants | A race of enormous humanoids said to dwell on islands deep in the Pacific Ocean. | 12 July, 2015 |
| Mix-Tape Vol. 4 | Monsters featured: The Bishop Fish and the Sea Monk. | 2 August, 2015 |
| Con Rit | A colossal sea centipede said to inhabit the waters off the coasts of Vietnam. | 4 August, 2015 |
| Mix-Tape Vol. 5 | Monsters featured: Ambize and the Black Demon Shark. | 7 August, 2015 |
| Mishipeshu, the Underwater Panther | A cross between a cougar and a dragon, which lived underwater and caused people to drown. | 9 August, 2015 |
External Links[]
- Official Website: http://www.godzillamovienews.com/