Best Cryptid Encounters Post

The Cryptid Encounters cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.

1. Three Of Us Heard It. Only One Of Us Remembers It The Same Way.

   We were camped at the top of a valley, three of us, all in our thirties, all sober, all boring. Something came through the camp at about 03:…

   312 Upvote · 74% of readers believe this story

2. The Man Who Sold Us The Land Told Us Not To Whistle At Night

   We bought eleven acres and a barn from an old man who wanted out. Nice deal. Fair price. He had lived there fifty-one years. At the signing,…

   298 Upvote · 75% of readers believe this story

3. The Kid I Babysat Drew The Dog Man Six Months Before I Saw It

   I babysat for a family down the lane through my last two years of school. The girl was four and drew constantly, and most of it was the usua…

   279 Upvote · 73% of readers believe this story

4. It Used My Sister's Voice And It Got The Wrong Word

   We grew up on the last house before the road turns to gravel, and my sister and I had a whole language of shouted words, because our mother …

   271 Upvote · 75% of readers believe this story

5. The Trail Camera Took Forty Photos Of Nothing And One Of Something

   I put the camera out for foxes. I am not a hunter. I like foxes. It takes a frame on motion and a frame every minute regardless, which is a …

   258 Upvote · 71% of readers believe this story

6. The Charity Shop Bought A Box Of Photos And One Of Them Should Not Exist

   I volunteer in a charity shop two mornings a week, mostly for the company, and I sort donations because nobody else wants to. The album came…

   251 Upvote · 73% of readers believe this story

7. The Hunting Camp Rule Nobody Would Explain To The New Guy

   I got invited to a camp by my brother-in-law, which is how most bad ideas enter a marriage. Four men, two of them in their sixties, a cabin …

   249 Upvote · 76% of readers believe this story

8. Our Dogs Would Not Go Past The Fence Line For Eight Days

   Working dogs are not pets. They are colleagues with poor conversation. Ours would go through a hedge, a stream and a bad mood to do their jo…

   239 Upvote · 74% of readers believe this story

9. It Ran On Two Legs For Eleven Strides And Then It Did Not

   I drive a gritter in winter and a road-repair truck the rest of the year, and I have seen more roadside wildlife than any human being needs …

   232 Upvote · 73% of readers believe this story

10. The Bridge Crew Saw It Swimming And The Log Says "Debris"

    I do not want to lose my job, so I am going to be careful with the geography. We were making a night crossing, calm, radar clean. The mate w…

    226 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story

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