Wolf Men and Lake Creatures

"Cryptids cryptids cryptids! Cristina kicks it off with a vicious wolf man prowling the east coast of America, while Chelsea talks about everyone's favorite Scottish lake monster."

Presented by: Cristina
Category: Cryptid

The Dwayyo is one of the many wolf-like creatures said to prowl North America. This one was native to Maryland and was said to be the arch nemesis of another lumberjack cryptid.

While the Dwayyo was sighted back in the 1890s, it's real heyday began in 1965. People driving through the woods at night found themselves chased and attacked by a large, hairy creature with the face of a wolf and a long, bushy tail.

The news ran with the story, with reporter George May writing a series of articles about the creature and stirring the public up into a frenzy. Posses formed to hunt the Dwayyo, in at least one story in armor and armed with machetes. A hunting license was issued to one of the alleged victims of a Dwayyo (though likely applied for by May himself).

The last documented sighting of the Dwayyo in 1980.

Takeaway: Don't follow screaming in the woods. Call 911.

Presented by: Chelsea
Category: Cryptid

Perhaps the second most famous Cryptid after Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster is the quintessential lake monster. Native to the North of Scotland, the creature has been sighted for more than 1000 years, though sightings really took on in the 1930s and its possible (if not probable) that the legend was attached to modern sightings to increase credibility.

The most famous photo is the Surgeon's Photo was captured in 1934. It was taken by gynecologist Robert Wilson and submitted anonymously to the Daily Mail. Called the Surgeon's Photo on the grounds that calling it the Gynecologist's Photo probably would have gotten the letter ignored, the hoax was perpetrated to get back at the news paper for an article about him. Instead, it launched the monster hunt and was not revealed until years later.

The most common theory about the Loch Ness monster is that it is a living dinosaur, despite the fact that the plesiosaur could not survive Scottish lake temperatures and that Loch Ness is millions of years to young to have trapped. Other theories include eels, a species of shark and even escaped circus elephants.

Takeaway: It's otters.