Manuel Blanco Romasanta is said to be the first serial killer in Spain documented as having admitted to thirteen counts of murder. What makes Romasanta a topic of discussion around cryptid circles is not what he did but how he did it. Romasanta maintained he was not responsible for the murders because he was under a malevolent curse that turned him into a …

This piece of vampire history comes from Manchester, Vermont and follows the story of Rachel Harris. Rachel was the stepdaughter of Esquire Powell and on March 8, 1789 she married Captain Isaac Burton who was a deacon in the congregational church of the town. Tragically, their marriage ended in February of the following year when Rachel contracted tuberculosis and died. Once a healthy …

If the tales told by the Inuits are true, there exists a secret race of cryptids in Greenland with humanoid bodies and wolf-like legs called the Adlet (or Erqigdlet). The first recorded stories of the Adlet came from the ethnologist Franz Boas who heard legends of their existence while visiting Cumberland Sound from an Inuit named Pakaq. The story was published in …

In my studies of teratoeconomics I’ve never encountered a currency designed by humans for cryptid usage – that is until now. Quite accidentally, a couple of months ago, I learned of the existence of three crytpocurrencies named Lycancoin, Zombiecoin and Vampirecoin which were created by an unknown developer who simply goes by the name Vampirecoin on blogs and forums. I …