Welcome to The Lycaeus Frequency’s Cryptid of the Day, a month-long series detailing a cryptid one day at a time for the month of October—by Redwood Voice’s Sebastian Monroe.

Today’s cryptid is the one and only, Bigfoot. Bigfoot is a familiar phenomenon to us here in Del Norte County, but where did he come from? Reports of the massive hairy gentleman have been traced back to the time before the Europeans arrived on the continent, with many Native American tribes having cave paintings of the big hairy fella. The earliest recorded report of him was in 1811 made by one David Thompson. Thompson spoke to The Spokane, a local Native American tribe in Washington State.

According to Thompson, The Spokane told him of a race of hairy giants that lived in one of the nearby mountains (Possibly Mt. Saint Helens or the Cascade Mountains) that would steal salmon and people while they were asleep. This was also the first time a foot-print was mentioned for a Bigfoot. Thompson said that the “giants” left footprints one and a half feet long.

In 1957 a report came from someone supposedly abducted by the giant hairy men. A man named Albert Ostman reported being “stolen” in his sleep by a Sasquatch, similar to the stories of giants told by the Spokanes. He claimed that in 1924, when he was searching for gold, he felt that someone was carrying him while he was sleeping. Ostman claimed when he woke up he could see eight feet tall Sasquatches with long arms and hairy bodies except for the padded feet, which lacked hair. Ostman also stated that the Sasquatches appeared to live as a family, like modern apes.

This situation is similar to modern accounts where baboons have reportedly stolen infants while they were sleeping. It is unknown why primates perform such behavior, however it may be related to the Ostman account. I’m sure you brave listeners all have heard a story or two about Bigfoot here in these parts, but it sure is interesting to hear where he came from.

This has been the Lycaeus Frequency Cryptid of the Day.

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Edited with Pictures & Context by Persephone Rose. Thumbnail by Sebastian Monroe.

Welcome to The Lycaeus Frequency’s Cryptid of the Day, a month-long series detailing a cryptid one day at a time for the month of October—by Redwood Voice’s Sebastian Monroe.

Today’s cryptid is the Stamoy, also known as House Bats. Arguably one of the cutest and most dangerous cryptids in my grimoire, the Stamoy can live lives that are extremely similar to that of most North American Bat species, but thrive in the homes of humans. That’s us (very convincing, Sebastian), and they feed on us should they dwell in our homes.

In the early 18th century there was a family of seven found dead and drained of blood, lying on their cabin floor. They were devoid of wounds aside from several insect like bites on the neck, arms, legs, and abdomen. The home was empty of food and valuables, but was also coated in a thick layer of guano. A nearby cave was deemed the culprit of some beastly plague. This is the story of a family who were consumed by the Stamoy.

They act as any normal bat would unless they see an entrance into a home where they will switch their mindset from a scavenger lifestyle to a parasitic one. They start by releasing pheromones into the air that calm and cause affectionate emotions to wash over the inhabitants of the house, combined with their generally cute faces this makes them extremely effective at joining in to the household. The humans often keep them as pets, not noticing that the bat is feeding on their blood and weakening them over time.

They will reproduce and feed on their human hosts until either they are evicted by pest control, or the humans are dead. Otherwise they’re functionally the same as any other bat in North America. So far there haven’t been sightings in the area, which I am grateful for.

This has been the Lycaeus Frequency’s Cryptid of the Day.

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Edited with Pictures & Context by Persephone Rose (thankfully, no longer transcribing by audio.) Thumbnail by Sebastian Monroe.

Welcome to The Lycaeus Frequency’s Cryptid of the Day, a month-long series detailing a cryptid one day at a time for the month of October—by Redwood Voice’s Sebastian Monroe.

Today’s Cryptid is Indrid Cold, also known as the Smiling Man. A relatively human appearance is what you would see immediately upon greeting the Smiling Man, although he lacks ears or a nose, or hair for that matter.

He wears reflective suits and gets his name from the fact that he has smiled at almost everyone he has encountered. As time has gone on, it appears that Indrid Cold has gotten better at integrating into our society, as in more recent reports he has slick-backed hair and a regular suit, looking like a tan, but not dark, human man.

He asked the first person to report an encounter with him several questions. Indrid pointed to Parkersburg, a city in West Virginia. “What do you call that? Over the hill?”

The witness said that we call it a “city.” This conversation continued for approximately 10 minutes, all the while Indrid tried to calm the witness down with statements such as, “We eat and bleed the same as you do,” and, “We wish you only happiness.”

Since then there have been many reports in the area and are thought to be related to the Men In Black phenomenon. They supposedly refer to themselves as “Merilgians” (though many other reports suggests he calls himself a Lanulosian from the planet Lanulos in the Galaxy of Genemedes—you know, if that clarification helps.)

This all props up the theory that they are in fact aliens. All I’ve got to say on the matter is that they sound creepy as all-get-out and I’d rather not meet one.

This has been the Lycaeus Frequency’s Cryptid of the Day.

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Audio transcribed, alongside images and context, by Persephone Rose. Thumbnail art by Sebastian Monroe.

Welcome to The Lycaeus Frequency’s Cryptid of the Day, a month-long series detailing a cryptid one day at a time for the month of October—by Redwood Voice’s Sebastian Monroe.

Today’s Cryptid is the Spleenwort! The Spleenwort is a five to seven inch tall humanoid part of the classification of gnomes. Males and females are nearly identical, it’s only a slight variation in beard length and body shape as an indicator of the difference.

The gnomes keep their stringy, brown, wheat, or slight-colored hair about shoulder length and unwashed. They are very expressive creatures with jovial yet rough faces and very large eyebrows. They create their clothing from animal hides and furs tied together with belts and bits of leather. They will often go shirtless in the Summers, wearing a grass hat to keep the sun off.

The interesting thing about gnomes is that gnomes cannot see or hear the opposite sex without a four leaf clover. The plant allows communication between the round little creatures so that they might… reproduce. Once a male gnome reaches maturity at around four years old, he searches out a four leaf clover to leave in front of a small hut of his design. He will check on this clover every day until half of it has been eaten, where he will then eat the other half. The two gnomes will then see each other and will fall in love.

Males raise the males and females raise the females seeing as they cannot otherwise *see* each other. They will gather four leaf clovers once per year so that they might all see each other, and after two years of no other showing up to the meeting are assumed dead. The gnome will either move on or live alone. Older gnomes are more likely to take on the solitary lifestyle.

They live up to 30 years in the wild, though no captive studies have been conducted.

This has been the Lycaeus Frequency’s Cryptid of the Day. The information for this Cryptid comes primarily from the book In the Land of Cattawampus by Kristen Nicole Puckett.

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Audio transcribed, alongside images and context, by Persephone Rose. Thumbnail art by Sebastian Monroe.

Welcome to The Lycaeus Frequency’s Cryptid of the Day, a month-long series detailing a cryptid one day at a time for the month of October—by Redwood Voice’s Sebastian Monroe.

Today’s Cryptid is the Fresno Nightcrawler! These five foot tall little pants men originate in California, with sightings in Fresno and Yosemite National Park. They appear as long, light, slim humanoids with no arms and extremely long legs. I think they look like pairs of pants walking around. It’s suspected that this creature is extraterrestrial or a misidentification of a deer walking on its hind legs.

Either seems pretty spooky to me. The Fresno Nightcrawler phenomenon was originally reported by a man named Jose in – surprise surprise – Fresno, California. He was awoken by his dog barking at something outside, which, when he went to his closed circuit TV system he spotted the creature walking across his lawn. He had his cousin look at it as well as law enforcement, but unfortunately the original footprint of evidence has been lost to… sprinklers.

Nothing came of the report since, but it is now a Fresno legend and a fun piece of pop culture for the area

This has been the Lycaeus Frequency’s Cryptid of the Day.

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Audio transcribed, alongside images and context, by Persephone Rose. Thumbnail art by Sebastian Monroe.