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Swamps are not the most inviting environments, hosting whole laundry lists of inconveniences, dangers, and surprises. And in the Tuttle Bottoms of Southern Illinois, an out of place creature has startled residents for generations, leading to confusion and parties of armed teens searching for the beast.

The vast continent of Africa is home to some of the most iconic and unique creatures on earth, with many such creatures going extinct regionally in other parts of the world. But along the riverways of central Africa, reports of giant fanged carnivores have spread across countries, with disconnected peoples all telling of great beasts that have taken the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path.

The Amazon is a giant expanse with many species still undiscovered, with creatures being discovered yearly. But one spider said to be larger and deadlier than any other may have discovered us first. And with its's tendency to bite people in their sleep, those involved in first contact wouldn't live to tell the tale.

To all familiar with cryptozoology, there is a sort of rule that if there's a lake, its got a lake monster in it. So it should come as no surprise that one of Africa's largest lakes is said to be home to multiple unknown titans, some peaceful and others extremely dangerous.

The kraken is a beast foreign in concept to just about nobody, as all have heard tales of the wooden boats of old being snapped by such powerful creatures. But in the 1970s, a steel destroyer forged by the most powerful navy to sail the world's waters would be under attack not by the soviets, the Chinese, or not by any human force for that matter.