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What is a cryptid?

What is a cryptid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (cryptozoology) Any creature that may or may not exist. Sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved.
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The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.
This also reminds me a bit of the legend of the orang-pendek, which is a hominid cryptid which some claims still exist in Sumatra.
In Tanzania, a winged bat cryptid known as Popobawa, is believed to be a shapeshifting evil spirit that assaults and sodomises its victims.
The three speakers focused their statistical analysis on sea monsters, Paxton saying that he prefers the term monster to cryptid.
The Jersey Devil is what is known as a cryptid, a creature not documented by science.

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