r/TrueCryptozoology

Strange flying creature over the British Columbia Wetlands near Radium, BC

I’m curious if anyone around Radium, BC has ever seen something similar.

A while back I was driving near the swampland/wetlands around Radium when I noticed something flying out over the open area. At first I thought it was probably a bird, but the longer I watched it, the stranger it looked.

It appeared to have two extremely long wings. I initially estimated the wingspan at around 20 feet, but honestly it may have been closer to 30 feet. It was probably a kilometer away or less, so obviously I can't accurately measure its size.

The weirdest part was how it flew.

The wings weren't flapping like a bird. They seemed to move almost like a manta ray swimming through water—a smooth, continuous, undulating motion. Not really flapping, more like a wave traveling through the wings. I couldn't make out any obvious bird-like features or a long neck/body; from my perspective it was primarily this large silhouette with these incredibly long wings.

It caught my attention enough that I actually veered off the road and followed it onto the logging roads, trying to keep it in sight. I followed for a while but eventually lost sight of it.

I'm not claiming I saw anything supernatural. I'm genuinely curious what I might have seen.

Has anyone around the British Columbia Wetlands/Radium area ever seen a large bird, glider, or anything else that flies with this kind of smooth, undulating wing motion?

The closest comparison I can give is literally a manta ray swimming through the sky.

From everything I have been able to find Neodinosaurs / any prehistoric animal thought to be living in the modern day is tied back to hoaxes (Surgeon's photograph, Kasai rex, etc) or are inventions of colonial expeditions / exploitation (literally every congo neodinosaur).

I have delved deep on this topic specifically before and honestly wonder why people even think of them as cryptids instead of fantasy. There should be some evidence of them surviving in the fossil record if there were any grounds to these ideas.

For a possible alternative explanation, perhaps its mis-identified animals such as large bats for supposed "pterosaurs".

Did anyone here used to watch a show called lost tapes. I watched it when i was younger it was quite scary but fueled my obession of cryptos

For years I’ve been trying to find this episode that probably aired on animal planet in the mid-2000’s - it wasn’t The Lost Tapes, but something similar. There was footage of a humanoid creature with red eyes jumping on this guy’s roof. Maybe had wings. Scared the shit out of me as a kid. Does anyone remember this or what show it was from?

This guy sent a GoPro on a fishing line down a mysterious hole in the forest, and claims to see something down there. The author of the video says he thinks it looks like a coyote or a dog, and that he sees a face, but later says he can’t make out what it actually is. I’m struggling to see it myself, but maybe others can see a canine or lupine type creature down there.

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