<![CDATA[Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense.]]>Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. "Well, you see there are these primates from the last Ice Age and ... " or " ... this lake is very old and catfish never stop growing so you can't rule out that one is the size of bus..."

But not NJ. "There is a devil in the woods. It's gonna get you."

"so... how did it get there? what's the deal?"

"... it's the devil."

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Not THIS big, of course...

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zirk.us/users/LJ/statuses/116517780616598521https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zirk.us/users/LJ/statuses/116517780616598521Mon, 04 May 2026 18:43:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 18:23:16 GMT]]>@LJ @futurebird Felton, CA (home of Henry Cowell Redwoods and one of my favorite places ever) has the Bigfoot Discovery Museum which is ... really something (photos attached, no alt text because the photos are basically all text, plus some interesting casts of footprints, skulls, newspaper clippings, maps, etc.)

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116517699364641417https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116517699364641417Mon, 04 May 2026 18:23:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 09:08:15 GMT]]>@futurebird I actually grew up in New Jersey! I remember we had an overnight class trip to the Pine Barrens, and I stuck away from the group activity bullshit and spent the entire time searching for the Jersey Devil.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/alexpsmith/statuses/116515516966919352https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/alexpsmith/statuses/116515516966919352Mon, 04 May 2026 09:08:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 06:18:14 GMT]]>@futurebird
Wikipedia has an explanation involving the lack of birth control in the 1700s.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/dlakelan/statuses/116514848414368823https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/dlakelan/statuses/116514848414368823Mon, 04 May 2026 06:18:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 06:14:58 GMT]]>@cinebox @Jaicup @futurebird they're called mimmoths
https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Mimmoth

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I'm reading this in the voice of the bait shop clerk in the Catfish Lake episode of The Simpsons.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/TobyBartels/statuses/116514808481737857https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/TobyBartels/statuses/116514808481737857Mon, 04 May 2026 06:08:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 04:07:51 GMT]]>@futurebird @goaty Apparently J, K. Rowling thinks it's a magical American creature as it drew the attention of one Newt Scamander, expert on magical creatures. Well hey--she's British.]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://friendica.myportal.social/objects/e65e1095-2669-f81b-970c-669486592300https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://friendica.myportal.social/objects/e65e1095-2669-f81b-970c-669486592300Mon, 04 May 2026 04:07:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 04:01:52 GMT]]>Just curious, are there any extinct species of ants larger than any of our surviving ones? It seems like, given the size of some other terrestrial arthropods (tarantulas, giant beetles, coconut crabs, to name a few) that much, much larger ants might at least be POSSIBLE.
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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/ap/users/115781998167970441/statuses/116514312174406202https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/ap/users/115781998167970441/statuses/116514312174406202Mon, 04 May 2026 04:01:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 03:57:56 GMT]]>Wow! This is like a person standing next to a semi-truck!

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I used to live in Sacramento, but sadly never heard of that one.
It’s especially good since that river confluence creates currents and undertows that are notorious for drowning people every year.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Gorfram/statuses/116514026394809519https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Gorfram/statuses/116514026394809519Mon, 04 May 2026 02:49:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 02:47:30 GMT]]>@futurebird @jrdepriest @wordshaper

There are rumors of monster catfish inhabiting the bottom of Canyon Lake in Texas. The lake, as one might surmise from the name, is very deep near the dam that forms it. (Texas has only one large natural lake. All others are dammed.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://darkmoon.social/users/bruce/statuses/116514019768153222https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://darkmoon.social/users/bruce/statuses/116514019768153222Mon, 04 May 2026 02:47:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 02:44:49 GMT]]>@Jaicup @futurebird and nobody will ever believe you!

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…after sensing Bandage Man riding with them.
He’s not a exciting cryptid: he doesn’t do anything (but sometimes shed), and he doesn’t have an origin story or a truly proper name.
But I can attest that, when you’re alone with nothing but absolute darkness beyond road conditions that are trying to kill you, it’s hell to get him back out after you’ve once let him into your thoughts.

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…or, preferably, the empty bed of your pickup truck and sits there, wrapped from head to toe in bandages like a mummy in a 20th century horror movie. Presumably these are from all the collisions he’s endured on what is, on a clear dry day, a fairly dangerous road. Some drivers (always a friend of someone’s cousin or something) are supposed to have found a small piece of bandage, sodden with rain & other fluids unfathomable, in the bed of their truck…
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There’s an Oregon coast cryptid with no origin story that I know of.
Bandage Man prefers the kind of rainy nights when the darkness seems impenetrable, and you’re alone with nothing but raindrops, pavement, and the huge empty void of the Pacific waiting at the bottom of the cliff on one side of the road.
(Have I spent too much time driving in exactly those conditions? Yes, oh yes.)
He doesn’t do anything- he just appears in the back seat of your car…
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Having gills, but not quite fish shaped, is the Humboldt Tree Squid. This squid lives in trees in and around Arcata, CA. It can shoot out a cloud of psychotropic gas that will absolutely have you seeing stuff and get lost in the woods. It is fully iridescent, but generally isn't noticed because nobody in the woods remembers to look up.

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There is the giant sturgeon that sucks down swimmers at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/undead/statuses/116513843556872939https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/undead/statuses/116513843556872939Mon, 04 May 2026 02:02:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 01:43:58 GMT]]>@kate @waitworry @scattapilla @Jaicup

I don't know if we can know if these ants of different species do. Though I think they might since ants treat adjacent colonies different from lone individual insects.

But what about ants with a vast size difference who are from the same species? They don't just recognize each other but will share food, cooperate to do various tasks.

Alex Wild has a great photo showing the size difference in leafcutter ants. These are sisters.

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Hundreds of ant species live as farmers in the warmer regions of North and South America. These insects- a single evolutionary radiation comprising the subtribe Attina- cultivate an edible fungus fed with bits of vegetative debris, or in the case of the leafcutter ants, with live vegetation.

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(www.alexanderwild.com)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116513769976398772https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116513769976398772Mon, 04 May 2026 01:43:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 01:39:24 GMT]]>@futurebird @wordshaper

I would never, in one million lifetimes, utter the phrase "catfisting". That's just... it's... No. It's a "no" from me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jrdepriest/statuses/116513751991751858https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jrdepriest/statuses/116513751991751858Mon, 04 May 2026 01:39:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 01:34:26 GMT]]>@waitworry @scattapilla @Jaicup

Ants really lean into the whole "I'm hardly worth eating, made mostly of parts to sting and bite and you'll get beat up by my sisters if you do" strat a lot.

It's why there are so many creatures that mimic ants. Most things leave ants alone. (with notable exceptions, but even anteaters are going for the larvae not the adults.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116513732483459954https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116513732483459954Mon, 04 May 2026 01:34:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 01:33:06 GMT]]>@futurebird can the water bear see you through the same magnifying glass??!??!!!???!!?!????

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mindly.social/ap/users/116244818589910115/statuses/116513727214410509https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mindly.social/ap/users/116244818589910115/statuses/116513727214410509Mon, 04 May 2026 01:33:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 01:32:22 GMT]]>@futurebird @scattapilla @Jaicup yeah I guess the adults are mostly exoskeleton

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sakurajima.moe/users/waitworry/statuses/116513724338267085https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sakurajima.moe/users/waitworry/statuses/116513724338267085Mon, 04 May 2026 01:32:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Most places with a cryptid try to make it make a little sense. on Mon, 04 May 2026 01:30:29 GMT]]>@waitworry @scattapilla @Jaicup

Larger ants don't often attack smaller ants since they could get swarmed.

Ants that feed on other ants tend to do "nest raids" taking eggs and larvae which have many more calories than adult ants.

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