I feel like the Loch Ness monster has been talked about to no end and as someone who is somewhat interested in cryptids, what are some of your favorite Scottish cryptids besides Nessie?

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  2. We’ve got selkies, faeries, the Minch men, nucklavees, kelpies, ghosts and witches. 

    My kids like selkie stories and tam lin. I prefer the grey lady or headless horseman of Montrose myself. 

  3. Kelpies! Hear there’s a few kicking about in Falkirk this time of year.

    The lesser known Blue Men of The Minch are also fun to talk about

  4. Faeries! Scottish faeries are not dainty little girls with butterfly wings. Scottish faeries will fuck you up.

    Kelpies! They’re water spirits who take many forms, not just horses.

    My favourite though is probably the Grey Man of Ben Macdui. Yeah, it’s probably Brocken spectres, but there’s eyewitness testimonies from noted academics that proper give me the willies.

    > I was returning from the cairn on the summit in a mist when I began to think I heard something else than merely the noise of my own footsteps. Every few steps I took I heard a crunch, and then another crunch, as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own. I said to myself, this is all nonsense. I listened and heard it again but could see nothing in the mist. As I walked on and the eerie crunch, crunch sounded behind me, I was seized with terror and took to my heels, staggering blindly among the boulders for four or five miles nearly down to Rothiemurchus Forest. Whatever you make of it, I do not know, but there is something very queer about the top of Ben Macdui and I will not go back there again.
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    > J. Norman Collie, 1925

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_Fear_Liath_M%C3%B2r

  5. The mythical Dee-Dee. Some say this creature stopped by Yoker in a Spaceship made of tinfoil and cardboard…

    Others claim he can be seen wandering aimlessly around Glasgow at night.

  7. The bean-nighe. 

    Depending on how freaky you want to get with her, she can be an omen of your own death or the death of your enemies. 

    Bringing her round to the latter involves surreptitiously sucking her incorporeal boobs, somehow without her noticing. 

    She was the folklore prelude to the banshee. 

    Read on:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean-nighe

  8. The YouTube channel “Liath Wolf” tells the old Scottish folklore and creature stories really well, lots of examples on there.

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