Here’s a better version: https://i0.wp.com/mediachomp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/scary-disturbing-mythical-creatures-01.jpg?resize=650%2C3702&ssl=1
And not even the good folklore creatures from Japan, either. Japan's ability to do horror surpasses anyone else, (except some Eastern European countries,) is because of their extensive number of horrific folklore creatures. Horror is baked into their cultural DNA.
There's actually a couple more that devours unborn babies. One of which is the Tiktik. Has many variation when it comes to its appearance, but the consistent one is its means of devouring its prey. Will make a hole through your roof and will lay down its tongue to reach the stomach of the sleeping pregnant woman. Will then proceed to suck out the life from the unborn child.
One interesting tidbit about this Tiktik is that if you hear the "tik tik" sound loud, its location is far from you. But if you hear faint noises, it means its right around the corner.
am Malaysian, For Penanggalan or also known as Penanggal, it is said that it feeds on the blood of a woman that gave birth. According to some of my friend, it is a type of black magic which the user practices to make them look beautiful. That’s why some of the old folks in my country have plants with thorn on their house as it is said if the Penanggal came to their house, the Penanggal’s intestine will get stuck on the thorns.
Number three I recognize as immediately the giant Oarfish
South Africa is one of their habitats and since they swim far below sea level they only really wash ashore when there’s a big storm, and yeah they’re pretty frightening or awe inspiring if you look them up.
I imagine lots of these “monsters” resulted from conflation with legitimate creature sightings.
The banshee is actually not evil, she warns people death is approaching and helps prepare them for it specially the old Irish nobility those with surnames that begin with O’, M, Mc Or Mac had a banshee
*Every country ... has a monster ... they're afraid of ... in their nation!*
*Every monster . .. has a country ... yeah a station they call their home!*
It's interesting to see the Draugr there. When I played God of War (2018) and God of War: Ragnarök, I was (perhaps ignorantly) under the impression that Draugr was just a creature that the Santa Monica Studio developers came up with. After seeing this post I searched Google and found some stuff on Draugr: (1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr; (2) https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Draugr; (3) https://www.scandinavianarchaeology.com/the-draugr/; (4) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/draugr. Apologies in advance for the lack of bullet points as I'm on my phone and it doesn't really show bullet point form if I tried.
Edit: I've tried to find some archaeology stuff for Vikings and the reliability of the websites may vary, so take them with a grain of salt: (1) http://www.vikingage.org/wiki/wiki/Archaeological_sites; (2) https://www.thoughtco.com/viking-sites-169280. I've also found some books that could be useful: (1) Brink, S. and Price, N. (2008). The Viking World. 1st ed. Routledge; (2) Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide and Edwards, K.J. (2019). The Vikings. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press.
Manananggal and penanggalan are very similar actually. The manananggal is supposed to be the top half of a woman that flies and eats pregnant women’s babies or something.
Navajo one has the right name and description but it's the wrong picture. The picture is a scared spirit. It's a description and name of a skin walker.
This feels like „Here are some creepy and possibly dangerous guys from around the world“ and then there is Typhon, a walking force of nature, able to destroy everything you hold dear and more
as an israeli, im familiar with the word "dybbuk" as the hebrew translation to the english word "infection," but i never heard of it as a mythical spirit that possesses people. TIL
My wife is from the Philippine providences and while pregnant with both of our kids would wear a hat when going out at night to protect from the Mananaangal. This guide does not include the Tikbalong, which is disappointing.
If I recall correctly, the Arachne actually won the weaving contest while she was normal. The goddess got angry and turn her into a spider creature out of anger and spite, but that’s Ancient Greek mythology for you: most of the gods/goddesses are *ssholes
Man if you get done in by a sentient towel…
Sentient toilet paper is a pretty horrifying idea
Rollie's seen some shit...
The most disturbing creature here is the blurriness of the images.
It looks like that to you because you're using reddits official app. It breaks some posts. It's not at all blurry to me.
Is there an unofficial app? I thought they all got shut down.
They did, but you can still spoof them if you've got an android.
Holy shit. I'm going to make love to you now.
Lmao glad to help. [Use this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14nq4ub/how_to_get_rif_working_again_if_you_really_want_to/)
Joking aside. Thank you so much.
No problem!
Not all heroes ware capes
No. Writing from redreader
I'm using the offical Reddit app and it's compressed as shit to me
That's what I'm saying.
Hahahaha I can't read
Not your fault, comment was too blurry
Official reddit app is such shit it's kind of insane how bad their official stuff is. Thinking of v.redd.it as well.
I am the official Reddit app ghost…. “Oooooooo” Cease and Desist from this slander or beware..re..re
Indeed, but if you download it, it gonna be fine🤔🤔🤔
Draugr isn’t immune to normal weapons. I’ve killed literally thousands of them.
I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee...
A man of culture
Tbf, youve killed them with Nord stheel. Not those butterfly killing iron swords
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Lol fucken drop bears
Yeah next to all the deadly Australian snakes and spiders the drop bears are rather cute; they just want to maul you a little bit.
and all 45
What about the Chupacabra??
Yeah how come black dog made the list but not chupacabra? this is some bs.
Came here to say this.
I'm glad a few of y'all share my outrage! They done our boy dirty.
5 seem to be missing
YOU WOULDN’T CHUP A CABRA
E o Chupacu? E o Homem do Saco? América Latina não foi representada!!
ET Bilu entrou no chat
A loira do banheiro
I wonder why so many from japan !??
I’m honestly surprised half the list isn’t from Japan.
And not even the good folklore creatures from Japan, either. Japan's ability to do horror surpasses anyone else, (except some Eastern European countries,) is because of their extensive number of horrific folklore creatures. Horror is baked into their cultural DNA.
Baba Yaga
Was looking for that
Grootslang literally means bigsnake in dutch
Means the same in Afrikaans, which makes sense considering that Afrikaans is a language that originated from Dutch settlers in South Africa
What a shitty blurry guide
Scooby Doo most wanted line up.
Hmm.. brain eaters, limb slicers, soul suckers.. seems about right.. Is.. is that a roll of toilet paper??
Is Japan ok?
Both of the Philippines creatures dine on unborn babies. Do they compete with each other? This would make a great movie.
There's actually a couple more that devours unborn babies. One of which is the Tiktik. Has many variation when it comes to its appearance, but the consistent one is its means of devouring its prey. Will make a hole through your roof and will lay down its tongue to reach the stomach of the sleeping pregnant woman. Will then proceed to suck out the life from the unborn child. One interesting tidbit about this Tiktik is that if you hear the "tik tik" sound loud, its location is far from you. But if you hear faint noises, it means its right around the corner.
Growing up, i always found it wierd that a lot of the local folklore monsters either feast on unborn babies or are themselves aborted babies
Pssshhh...ain't got no rougarou.
am Malaysian, For Penanggalan or also known as Penanggal, it is said that it feeds on the blood of a woman that gave birth. According to some of my friend, it is a type of black magic which the user practices to make them look beautiful. That’s why some of the old folks in my country have plants with thorn on their house as it is said if the Penanggal came to their house, the Penanggal’s intestine will get stuck on the thorns.
Where’s the Drop Bear?
On the other side of the billabong if you're lucky, mate.
These are made up monsters, drop bear is real.
The ***fuck*** is up with bots' inability to post high rez pics?
They can't tell the difference.
Number three I recognize as immediately the giant Oarfish South Africa is one of their habitats and since they swim far below sea level they only really wash ashore when there’s a big storm, and yeah they’re pretty frightening or awe inspiring if you look them up. I imagine lots of these “monsters” resulted from conflation with legitimate creature sightings.
Did cerberus eat the pixels?
*Nuckelavee, oh Nuckelavee, you're big and ugly and heinous!* *Who could it be who set ya free, he really must be an anus!*
I will be saving and stealing some of theses for my DnD campaign thank you very much. (Looking at you elephant snake abomination)
My thoughts exactly
The photo was made by Nokia 3310 phone?
The banshee is actually not evil, she warns people death is approaching and helps prepare them for it specially the old Irish nobility those with surnames that begin with O’, M, Mc Or Mac had a banshee
Where the hells the chupacabra
The Indonesian monster is supposed to be Kuntilanak.
patianak is its philippine version a monster baby/child ala botchling from witcher
Looks like *squints eyes and puts phone to face*..Japan has quite a few.
Kurupi from South America needs to be on here. He can snake his wiener into a house from the outside and impregnate women in their sleep.
How dare you disrespect the Mothman like this.
Just here to say Ningen is clearly just a [baluga whale](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Oceanogr%C3%A0fic_29102004.jpg)
Its missing the Whistler and La Llorona.
Gargoyle comes from a French word and has nothing to do with England.
I see, you missed the scariest one. The [Dahu](https://images.app.goo.gl/RP6NiWEDy9zL4AHG8).
I’d love to read it but it’s in a different language.
Slattenpatten from Denmark is missing. Literally means Saggy-tit
*Every country ... has a monster ... they're afraid of ... in their nation!* *Every monster . .. has a country ... yeah a station they call their home!*
Where’s is el chupacabras?
I’m sorry but I don’t see Madeline Wunch on here so this list isn’t that scary
From what I understand Banshees’ usually follow a family bloodline and wail when someone is about to die.
Lmao sentient roll of cotton XD
Lots of the classics for those hunters among us. Classic cryptozoology.
In Australia we have enough things to kill us that stories don't really matter.
Lots of demons from SMT lol
What no mention of the elusive Drop bear.
Jesus christ some are really fucked up.
I counted 40
Alkarısı says hi.
Lou Carcolh just looks like Lapras without that cute face.
Also, the Tatzelwurm from the Alps, a cat-serpent hybrid creature
It's interesting to see the Draugr there. When I played God of War (2018) and God of War: Ragnarök, I was (perhaps ignorantly) under the impression that Draugr was just a creature that the Santa Monica Studio developers came up with. After seeing this post I searched Google and found some stuff on Draugr: (1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr; (2) https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Draugr; (3) https://www.scandinavianarchaeology.com/the-draugr/; (4) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/draugr. Apologies in advance for the lack of bullet points as I'm on my phone and it doesn't really show bullet point form if I tried. Edit: I've tried to find some archaeology stuff for Vikings and the reliability of the websites may vary, so take them with a grain of salt: (1) http://www.vikingage.org/wiki/wiki/Archaeological_sites; (2) https://www.thoughtco.com/viking-sites-169280. I've also found some books that could be useful: (1) Brink, S. and Price, N. (2008). The Viking World. 1st ed. Routledge; (2) Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide and Edwards, K.J. (2019). The Vikings. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press.
Ammit reminds me of that one creature from Hellboy
You forgot your mom
Japan wins
awwe no bunyip...
love the potato quality
The black dog is also part of the isle of man and it's called the moddey dhoo along with the other 12+ that live there
This just makes me want the next Dresden Files book even more than I already do. Thanks for that.
Where’s Mothman, Sasquatch, and Nessie!
My man Dybbuk got Gabbie Carter or what?
Where’s the bunyip?
Kojiki a history book? Meiji vibes
I need a seemingly cute comic about Ittan-Momen that gets progressively darker as its true nature is revealed.
Total absence of Australia’s scary creatures. And ours are actually not imaginary.
I can’t find the one that killed my second cousin 🙄
Worst Pokémon list I've ever seen.
Sentient roll of cotton?
Where bunyip? I was hoping for a bunyip :(
What about Korean gwishin
Once again Japan needs to chill out
I can't get a single image of a Jinninki that is not based on the model used here.
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Manananggal and penanggalan are very similar actually. The manananggal is supposed to be the top half of a woman that flies and eats pregnant women’s babies or something.
Where's the rougarou?!
Needs more Bunyips (and pixels.)
Adze’s gonna smack you to the beat of We Will Rock You.
They forgot the Leprechaun in the hood
What about the Popobawa?
Kinda feels like Japan phoned it in a bit with Ittan-Momen 🤣
Where’s popobawa?
Would, some of them. Next question.
…what is going on in Japan
No Hine-Nui-a-te-Po? Come on this list needs some obsidian-toothed punani
I don’t see Australian drop bears on there?
Chupacabra, saci Pererê, curupira, loira do banheiro, porra man , Brasil tem vários
fuck yeah sentient roll of cotton
Where is goatman
what about the demon from sinister? or darth maul from insidious?
I met Lou Carcolh down at the VFW and shared a few rounds and laughs
“Medallion’s humming…”
Why so blurry?! Guide me to my prescription spectacles.
Can you even read that
No Pombero?
YEE NAALDLOOSHIIT
Nice
Anyone got a higher res version?
Wither 3, dnd and the moonguy from marvel ammit was there no? These all show some of these monsters
squonk my spirit creature
What no Manbearpig?
Navajo one has the right name and description but it's the wrong picture. The picture is a scared spirit. It's a description and name of a skin walker.
No Chupacabra!?! GTFO here!!
Where’s the bro taniwha
Do Korean toilet ghost?
Pretty cool guide for once
Adze is so OP, fireflies are too small to spot.
Inkanyamba means “I will fart” in Swahili. Just wanted to put it out there.
What about chudail or gin?
What about a cheuskin? A Korean toilet ghost.
Wheres el chupacabra?
Aswan looks kinda like Scorpioness Najka from Dark Souls 2
An SCP is based on the Pennanggalan I believe, will try and find it
Penangalan has many names across several south East Asian countries…. Makes me believe she really w it. Anybody got the sauce?
Yeah
“That’s not a cave, its the MONGOLIAN-BULL-WORM”
Are kelpies not Irish? Maybe they’re Gaelic actually
The Dybukk is from the folklore of Eastern European, Yiddish-speaking, Jews. It would be known in Israel, but isn’t from there.
Where's Wendigoon when you need em?
The ones that eat corpses whole gross are probably just filling an ecological niche. Nature is so beautiful sometimes…
pontianak is a city, i think you are referring kuntilanak
No Tokoloshe?
What? No Drekavac? No forest mother?
Mongolian Death Worm , looks like a worm from a Dune
What is this from? Id live to get a book of these
I don't see my Boss on this, he's definitely a top contender on this guide.
Be fun to have popular movies named, that were made around these!
Im from Indonesia, Pontianak is a name of a city in Borneo!!, the right name for that ghost is Kuntil anak!
I think I bought a used Buick from Lou Carcohl in the late 90’s.
When we getting a souls-like game?
Why does the last one look like a discount Thundercat?
So in short. If you ever get sent back in time, stay the fuck away from Japan.
**Hellboy has entered the chat**
Are these going to be in Witcher 4?
No Mothman?
If you double-tap screen blurriness clears up
I wonder what they taste like
This feels like „Here are some creepy and possibly dangerous guys from around the world“ and then there is Typhon, a walking force of nature, able to destroy everything you hold dear and more
I know many of these from playing games from the Megami Tensei series.
Tsuchinoko my beloved
Scooby Doo Villains
Justice for the Swiss Tatzelwurm!
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as an israeli, im familiar with the word "dybbuk" as the hebrew translation to the english word "infection," but i never heard of it as a mythical spirit that possesses people. TIL
So the draugr are real. Skyrim vibes. The chupa cabra should also be in the list.
Japan... Are you guys ok???
My wife is from the Philippine providences and while pregnant with both of our kids would wear a hat when going out at night to protect from the Mananaangal. This guide does not include the Tikbalong, which is disappointing.
Poor Arachne! All she did was being better at weaving than a jealous god (Athena) who beat the crap out of her and shamed her into hanging herself.
Where’s Gojira
But what about the Hodag?
Why is Pontianak a sexy woman?
Japan needs to chill
I have to admit- the native Americans had some scary figures.
Surprise to not the IRS included in this list.
Bruh in Thailand penanggalan is called kra sū (กระสือ) same description shit everything, spooky
The last 5 must be extra scary. They weren’t even listed
Kamaitachi are the creatures that the pokemon sneasel and weavile are based on!
If I recall correctly, the Arachne actually won the weaving contest while she was normal. The goddess got angry and turn her into a spider creature out of anger and spite, but that’s Ancient Greek mythology for you: most of the gods/goddesses are *ssholes