Skyfish
A rod-shaped cryptid that flies through the air too fast to see with the naked eye. "Discovered" in video footage in the 1990s, it became popular on TV. It has been shown to be insects captured as rod shapes by camera blur.
Mystery Timeline｜1989–present
Mysteries of the Heisei & Reiwa
Scary stories born on internet forums, the filming of deep-sea creatures, UAP hearings and other mysteries from 1989 to the present.
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1990s
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1995
Chupacabra
A blood-sucking cryptid said to drain the blood of livestock. It caused a sensation in Puerto Rico in 1995 and spread to Latin America and the United States. The leading explanation is coyotes or feral dogs suffering from mange.
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1999 onward
Flying Humanoids
Flying cryptids shaped like people that seem to float through the air. Sightings and footage came one after another mainly in Mexico from the late 1990s. The leading theory is that they are balloons or kites.
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Early 2000s
Ningen
A giant white humanoid creature tens of meters long said to be seen in the Antarctic Ocean. A cryptid that spread on internet message boards in the early 2000s, it is told of as a sighting by crew members of a research whaling ship.
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2007
Nightcrawlers
Strange creatures caught on a home security camera in Fresno, California, in 2007, looking like pairs of white pants walking by themselves. Their form, seemingly nothing but two long, thin legs, became a sensation.
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2008
Montauk Monster
The carcass of a strange animal with a beak-like mouth that washed up on a beach in Montauk, New York, in 2008. Its photo spread online, but it is thought to have been a decomposed raccoon.
