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SPK-054

Krasue

Also known as Phi Krasue · Ahp

A nocturnal being seen as a woman's head drifting through the dark with luminous organs suspended beneath it. Names and origins vary…

ApparitionMainland Southeast Asia ? Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and neighboring traditions0 reports

SPK-017

Kuchisake-onna

Also known as The Slit-Mouthed Woman

A woman in a surgical mask — unremarkable in Japan, which is the point — who stops pedestrians, usually children walking home alone,…

ApparitionJapan — nationwide; 1979 flap peaked in Gifu and Kanagawa; modern reports from Tokyo suburbs1 report

SPK-020

La Llorona

Also known as The Weeping Woman

A woman in a white gown who walks waterways at night, weeping for the children she drowned — in grief, in madness, or in vengeance,…

ApparitionMexico and the American Southwest; reports track the whole Spanish-speaking Americas0 reports

SPK-034

Lilith

Also known as Lilītu · The Night Demoness

The night demoness whose file spans four thousand years. She begins as the Mesopotamian lilītu — night spirits that trouble sleep and…

Classical DemonMesopotamia into Jewish tradition; incantation bowls concentrated around Nippur, Iraq0 reports

SPK-005

Loch Ness Monster

Also known as Nessie · An Niseag

The archetypal lake cryptid. Surface accounts describe one to three smooth humps, a long neck raised periscope-fashion, and a wake…

Aquatic CryptidLoch Ness, Scottish Highlands0 reports

SPK-024

Loup-Garou

Also known as The Quebec Werewolf · Rougarou

French Canada's werewolf, and a distinctly Catholic one: the transformation is not a bite but a penalty. The traditional cause is a…

ShapeshifterQuebec, Canada — St. Lawrence valley and the old rangs; cousins in Acadian Louisiana1 report

SPK-012

Manananggal

Also known as The Self-Segmenter

By day, a striking woman. By night, she detaches at the waist: the upper torso sprouts leathern wings and hunts, while the abandoned…

ShapeshifterPhilippines — Luzon and Visayas0 reports

SPK-031

Monkey Man of Delhi

Also known as Kala Bandar · The Black Monkey

For roughly six weeks in the summer of 2001, something ran the rooftops of East Delhi. Witnesses — ultimately more than 350 of them…

Humanoid EntityDelhi and Ghaziabad, India0 reports

SPK-002

Mothman

Also known as The Point Pleasant Bird · Winged Man

A winged humanoid roughly seven feet tall with a ten-foot wingspan and eyes described in every credible account the same way: two…

Humanoid EntityPoint Pleasant, West Virginia — later reports worldwide0 reports

SPK-056

Nuckelavee

Also known as Nuckalavee · Sea Devil of Orkney

Orkney's most feared sea-being, described as a skinless horse fused to a gigantic rider. Black blood shows through yellow veins; the…

Malevolent SpiritOrkney, Scotland0 reports

SPK-025

Ogopogo

Also known as N'ha-a-itk · Naitaka

A serpentine lake creature described across two centuries of accounts as twelve to fifteen meters of dark, multi-humped body moving…

Aquatic CryptidLake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada0 reports

SPK-038

Paimon

Also known as King Paimon · Paymon

A great king of the Goetia, 'very obedient unto Lucifer,' commanding two hundred legions — and the tradition's most theatrical…

Classical DemonThe grimoire canon; Weyer places his arrival from the northwest0 reports

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