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Cryptid of the Day: Lake Ontario Monster (Kingstie)

Old Yellow Top is a cryptid sighted several times around the town of Cobalt in Ontario, Canada. It is described as a seven-foot tall, bipedal hominid, with dark hair on its body and a striking blonde mane, which gives it its nickname.

Old Yellow Top was first spotted in 1906, the same year as Cobalt’s founding. Encounters were then reported for a further sixty-four years, with the last sighting coming in 1970, when a group of miners saw the creature cross the road in front of them.

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Cryptid Aesthetics [2/?]: Bigfoot/Sasquatch

Supposedly a simian-like creature that inhabits forests, the term “sasquatch” is an Anglicized derivative of the Halkomelem word “sásq'ets”.  “Wild men" stories found among the Pacific Northwest coastal Indian tribes can be confidently related to Bigfoot and correspond to the areas where white Americans have reported sightings.  Similar accounts and legends are found on every continent except Antarctica.

Individuals claiming to have seen Bigfoot describe it as a large, hairy, muscular, bipedal ape-like creature, roughly 6–9 feet tall, and covered in hair described as black, dark brown, or dark reddish.  Some descriptions include details such as large eyes, a pronounced brow ridge, and a large, low-set forehead.  The top of the head has been described as rounded and crested, similar to the sagittal crest of the male gorilla.  The creature has been reported as having a strong, unpleasant smell.

The enormous footprints for which the creature is named are claimed to be as large as 24 inches long and 8 inches wide.  Some footprint casts have also contained claw marks.

Proponents of Bigfoot’s existence claim that the creature is omnivorous and mainly nocturnal.

The following version of the story of the Jersey Devil’s birth was one of the earliest versions printed, appearing in the Atlantic Monthly in 1859.

There lived, in the year 1735, in the Township of Burlington, a woman. Her name was Leeds, and she was shrewdly suspected of a little amateur witchcraft.

Be that as it may, it is well established, that, one stormy gusty night, when the wind was howling in turret and tree, Mother Leeds gave birth to a son, whose father could have been no other than the Prince of Darkness.

No sooner did he see the light than he assumed the form of a fiend, with horse’s head, wings of a bat, and a serpent’s tail.

The first thought of the newborn Caliban (the deformed slave from Shakespeare’s Tempest) was to fall foul of his mother, whom he scratched and bepommelled soundly, and then flew through the window out into the village, where he played the mischief generally.

Little children he devoured, maidens he abused, young men he mauled and battered; and it was many days before a holy man succeeded in repeating the enchantment of Prospero (again, from Tempest).