The most creepy and scary monsters of all time. The most terrible monsters

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These findings - with rare exceptions - have never found any scientific explanation. Scientists are still wondering what they encountered. But the fact remains...

On the coast of Guinea West Africa A huge unknown animal was found on the shallows.

The dead monster washed ashore during a storm.

Judging by the photo, the possibility of discovering a new species of animal, hitherto unknown to science, cannot be ruled out.

The mysterious monster can clearly see its head, paws, teeth and tail...

All the residents of nearby villages gathered to look at the monster.

But on July 28, 2008, in the United States, another animal unknown to science washed up on the shore of Long Island.

While scientists are examining the corpse, many researchers are already speculating. Many are inclined to believe that the creepy corpse belongs to an ordinary turtle, only without a shell.

But fishermen in one of the ponds in the Konstantinovsky district of the Donetsk region caught an unknown creature, which was filmed mobile phone. Judging by the recording, the creature consists of a tail and a flat round body covered with a shell. When turned over on its back, numerous moving legs are revealed under the shell. The size of the animal has not yet been determined.

According to preliminary data, this is a shieldfish from the order Gilliapods. Shchitni are considered one of the most ancient animals on earth. Their morphology has been preserved since Triassic period(220 million years ago). They have about 70 pairs of legs, on which the gills are located.

Shields can live in any body of water, including puddles, on all continents except Antarctica. They are omnivores, burrowing in the mud, feeding on larvae, tadpoles, etc. Shields are the top predators in their ecological niche; they eat anything smaller than them. Cannibalism is widespread in most species.

USA, Texas. A resident of the city of Cuero, Phillips Canyon, found a strange dead animal on his ranch, previously unknown to science. Scientists have attributed this animal to the Chupacabra. The photo shows just the head of the animal.

Eyewitnesses claim that the one and a half meter creature walks on its hind legs and is somewhat reminiscent of a reptile or dinosaur. He has only three toes on his feet, so the marks remain like those left by a chicken, only much larger and with indentations from claws. The features of a baboon are clearly visible on the face, and the huge red eyes are exactly the same as those of the aliens depicted in the pictures.

Every now and then you can find photographs of the Chupacabra on the Internet, allegedly found by one of the farmers.

But the existence of this very Chupacabra has not yet been scientifically confirmed.

On one of the beaches Pacific Ocean Chilean fishermen found a 13-ton carcass sea monster. The body is a huge jelly-like body gray approximately 12 meters long and weighing approximately 13 tons. The carcass has already begun to decompose, which significantly complicates the identification process. Pending DNA analysis, scientists speculate that the organism could have been giant squid, the half-decomposed remains of a strange swollen whale or an octopus. Latest version seems most likely to them.

In April 1977, the whole world received a sensational message about the discovery of Japanese fishermen from the Tsuyo Maru trawler. While fishing for mackerel near New Zealand, the net brought back the half-decomposed corpse of an unknown animal. The condition of the find was deplorable. The thirteen-meter carcass, weighing about two tons, spread a stench. The fishermen discerned a shapeless body with four limbs (either fins or flippers), Long tail and a small head on a thin neck. The catch was measured, photographed, and then had to be thrown overboard.

On the island New Britain, part of the Pacific state of Papua New Guinea, local residents discovered a huge terrible beast. This news was first brought by a resident of a remote village, Kristina Samey, who personally witnessed the emergence of a 3-meter monster with the head of a dog and the tail of a crocodile from the swamp. The tribesmen were quite skeptical about her story, but with the growing number of eyewitnesses, as well as frightening details, passions began to heat up. In the end, the local administration considered it necessary to inform about unusual phenomenon central authorities, dubbing the swamp hybrid " prehistoric dinosaur"An animal unknown to science was captured on film: filmed by Robert Le Serrec, Hook Island, Australia.

And this photo went around the entire Internet. The miracle whale fish was caught by fishermen in Astrakhan. The fishermen were so amazed by the find that their imagination was enough to capture the monster on a mobile phone camera and throw the carcass back into the sea.

However, often mysterious finds still have their own explanation. Thus, near the village of Tangi on the northern and almost impassable tip of Sakhalin Island, fishermen discovered the carcass of a huge sea animal, which they identified as a pleosaur - an animal that lived millions of years ago, in the Jurassic period.

Soon, ichthyologists made a verdict - the Sakhalin “fossil lizard” turned out to be an ordinary large killer whale.

Large killer whale strong storm thrown onto the rocks, where the carcass got stuck in a twisted position.

The “thick fur” of the animal that amazed the fishermen turned out to be a huge amount of algae adhering to it, and for the “crocodile’s face” they mistook a skull flattened by the impact of the stones and exposed.

Horror films are inextricably linked with monsters. The horror genre in cinema began with Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the mummy and the werewolf. Over time, they were replaced by Freddy Krueger, Alien and Jason. But the world does not stand still. Humanity is changing, and with it, its fears are changing. Now it’s the 21st century - so what is the modern public afraid of? We bring to your attention the ten most terrible monsters of our days.

Human fear has evolutionary origins. He helped our ancestors survive in prehistoric times. An unexpected encounter with a fanged tiger in the forest is enough reason to sprint over a kilometer distance, and a crocodile swimming in a pond is the perfect hint that you need to find another place for swimming.

At first glance, the images of fictional monsters are composed of the same signals warning of danger: large size, unnatural behavior, strength and aggressiveness. But meeting a predator in the forest and in a zoo are completely different things. The monster on the screen always appears at a safe distance. The distance between him and the viewer is paradoxical: what in its pure form embodies our fear and should instinctively put us to flight turns out to be helpless, unable to escape from the screen.

Our fear is aestheticized; monsters not only do not frighten us - they attract us, we admire them. They stand at the junction of two worlds: ours, sorted into shelves, lived-in and understandable, and another, which we only vaguely guess about, not having the strength to look into it.

Clickers
The Last of Us game (2013)

Creators games The The Last of Us provided its zombie apocalypse with a scientific foundation, albeit not a very solid one. Cordyceps unilateral fungus, which causes all the horrors in the game, really exists. True, in nature it only affects small insects like ants, after which they begin to follow the orders of the fungus, spreading spores.

According to the plot, a mutated cordyceps is capable of turning a person into a puppet. Clickers are people in the third stage of infection with the fungus. Although it is already difficult to call these creatures people. The fungus infects the victim's brain and takes control of it. The skin of those infected is completely disfigured, and their aggressive behavior there is not even a hint of humanity left. Now they are soulless monsters, capable only of killing.

Clickers have no vision at all. IN environment They navigate through echolocation. The use of this ability can be recognized by the characteristic sounds that give the monsters their name. In battle, clickers are much stronger than ordinary opponents, so it is recommended to avoid them and kill them on the sly. Their unique ability also turns out to be a weakness - clickers can be easily deceived by creating artificial noise. The echolocation of creatures works within a radius of three meters, so it’s not difficult to get around them unnoticed.

Clickers, like Alien (partly inspired by wasp wasps), are monsters based on real natural phenomena, as terrible as they are natural. But still, basically they are all the same zombies, so they only deserved tenth place.

Nemesis
Resident Evil (1999–2004)

IN Greek mythology Nemesis (Nemesis) was the goddess of retribution and justice. But don't look for any semantic analogy between it and the most famous monster from the Resident Evil series of games. It's just that corporations like Umbrella, which create bacteriological weapons, like to call their brainchildren beautiful names.

Nemesis is depicted as a large, somewhat clumsy, tightly built monster, who always has a large gun in his arsenal - a minigun or grenade launcher. However, this is not the creature’s only weapon. Before each new battle with the player, the monster acquires a fresh set of “organic” weapons such as claws and tentacles. It has the ability to regenerate and can mutate very quickly, taking on new forms. Because of this, it is extremely difficult to destroy the monster.

However, in the film “Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse” the image of a soulless, inexorably cruel creature was spoiled. At the end of the picture, Nemesis wakes up human traits, and through the rage and cruelty pity and mercy peek through.

Film series of the same name (2009–2015)

The human centipede stands out among the rest of our top. It evokes not so much fear as a feeling of disgust. The centipede was created by a mad doctor by sewing together the mouths and anuses of several people, and this disgusting creature is capable of awakening the gag reflex of even the most resistant viewers. As well as a feeling of pity - one can only sympathize with the victims of a sadistic experiment. The centipede is a monster and a victim in one, and there is no contradiction in this.

The centipede causes real horror, but not because of its danger, like other monsters. Fear appears when the viewer tries to comprehend the phenomenon of the centipede, to understand what its elusive attractiveness is. It’s embarrassing to admit this even to yourself, but there is something about the monster that attracts and holds your gaze. It’s not he himself that frightens, but our indecent curiosity and desire to look at such disgusting things. Everyone you ask criticizes the film and scolds its creators, but somehow the film series continues to bring in the box office and has already acquired a third part.

Psychoanalysis often tells us what we least want to hear. The Human Centipede is a monster that brings out the monster in all of us.

Doctor Who series

What have you done, Schrödinger's cat! The assertion of physicists that the presence of an observer influences quantum processes could not fail to find a response in popular culture. And even more so in such an intelligent series as Doctor Who.

Weeping angels are monsters that are dangerous when you can't see them. If anyone looks at them, they turn to stone. But that is precisely why no one can figure out their true essence - in appearance they seem to be just stone statues. When there is no observer nearby, the monsters come to life. However, if several angels look at each other or one of them sees his reflection in the mirror, the stone “shield” will turn into an eternal trap for them.

In addition to quantum tricks, angels have many mysterious abilities. They can kill a victim with one kiss, turn a person into dust or send him into the past. The last option is of “gastronomic” interest for the angels - when the victim jumps in time, a special energy is released, which they feed on.

Doctor Who's angels are graceful, unusual and beautiful killers. Perhaps even too beautiful to climb to a higher place in our top.

Movie "Monstro" (2008)

Image giant monster, rampant in the metropolis, is not new and even textbook. King Kong and Godzilla are unlikely to scare anyone today. Yes, they are infinitely strong and unstoppable in their rage. They can crush people like ants and sweep away skyscrapers with an accidental wave of their paws. But they have a significant drawback: we know everything about them. They have been studied, tamed, and can even be classified biologically. They are not mysterious, and therefore predictable and not frightening.

As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said, “only the unknown scares.” Its embodiment is Clover - a chthonic beast, an irrational element, a force that cannot be comprehended, marching under the banner of blind rage. We know nothing about the creature: neither its origin, nor internal structure, or why the monster came up with the idea of causing an apocalypse on the streets of New York. Bullets for Clover are dust, explosions of rockets and bombs are light concussions. The monster is completely invulnerable, and the only salvation for city residents is the subway tunnels. But even there there is no complete safety: small creatures drop out of the monster’s body, capable of reaching the most protected places.

Clover is a horror that is beyond human strength. The authorities' decision to raze the entire city to the ground in order to get rid of the monster is akin to a hysterical scream, indicating a complete inability to cope with the situation.

Films in the Jeepers Creepers series (2001–2016)

The mythology of the Jeepers Creepers series is quite naive and goes back to the ideas of primitive cannibals, according to which whoever eats a person’s flesh gains his energy. Every twenty-third spring, the demon goes hunting to profit from human flesh and gain strength. And the limbs of the victims he absorbs replace his own. It sounds far-fetched and fabulous, but when you come across the monster’s regenerative abilities in practice, it becomes creepy.

Outwardly, he somewhat resembles Freddy Krueger: a disfigured face, an insidious smile, rags and a stylish hat create the image of a kind of demon in a cowboy outfit. The creeper cannot be destroyed: it easily replaces any damaged part of the body with a new one, devouring the necessary organ of the victim. Superhuman strength, razor-sharp teeth and an absolute sense of smell make the fatal outcome of any encounter with a monster almost inevitable. However, there is a small chance of salvation. The appearance of Creepers is preceded by the song Jeepers Creepers. If you ever hear it, you better just run.

Creepers is a little old-fashioned monster, but not outdated at all. It proves that some tried-and-true horror movie tricks still work today.

Dead Space games (2008-2013)

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of Alien for space horror films. What was remarkable about this film was not only the image of the monster itself, but also its well-thought-out biology. Ridley Scott uses xenomorphs human bodies to breed their offspring in them.

There are quite a few types of necromorphs, but they all have something in common: uncontrollable aggression towards all living things. And this is understandable, because they can only exist thanks to dead organic matter. Before us is a rare case: “living carrion”, completely different from zombies. Dead Space destroys our associations, and therefore the necromorphs reek of something illogical, unnatural and unbearably terrible.

Film "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006)

Guillermo Del Toro is one of the best monster creators in cinema. Even the occasional monsters from his paintings are unforgettable. And his best creation is a monster with eyes on his palms. On the Internet, many people call him “Rukoglaz”, but in the script he is called the Pale Man.

The image of the Pale is inspired by two mythical creatures. Firstly, Del Toro was impressed by Goya’s painting “Saturn Devouring His Son” - from it the monster got the habit of eating little fairies alive. Secondly, the director was influenced by the Japanese myth about Tenoma, a blind man killed by robbers. After death, the spirit of the unfortunate man acquired two eyes on his palms and boundless hatred for his killer. However, he did not know what the criminal looked like, and therefore punished everyone.

Same thing in Pan's Labyrinth Pale man personifies punishment for disobedience and weakness of will. While the girl Ophelia does not touch the delicious dishes, the Pale One sits motionless. But as soon as the girl gives up and tries a juicy grape, the monster comes to life, puts its eyes into its palms and begins to pursue Ophelia.

The film has many interpretations. According to one of them, the Pale is just one of the images of the Faun, who frightens the heroine for fun, which is why the eaten fairies are alive in the finale. According to another version, in general, all “magical” events take place in Ophelia’s imagination. However, this does not make the monster any less scary. Just because something happens only in your head doesn't make it any less meaningful. If you die in the Matrix, you die in the real world.

Thin Man
Internet folklore, films based on

The Thin Man, coined on the Something Awful forum, is the unknown personified. However, unlike the same Clover, the human “framework” is clearly expressed in him. The scariest monsters always resemble people. The absence of humanity in a person causes misunderstanding, a feeling of unnaturalness - and fear.

A monster doesn't necessarily need big fangs, claws, and tentacles to be awe-inspiring. He can be dressed in an elegant suit and still inspire genuine terror. All that Slenderman is notable for in appearance is his elongated limbs and lack of face. Nobody knows how he kills his victims. None of the surviving eyewitnesses saw the monster move or attack. He simply silently looks towards the victim, standing at some distance from her. And then the unfortunate people disappear without a trace.

Slenderman's traits vary from story to story. This is not surprising, because it is inaccessible to the human eye. As follows from the game Slender: The Eight Pages, an attempt to examine the creature in detail ends in death for the curious. You must always have your back to the monster - and this is the worst thing. Wandering around in the dark, knowing that a mysterious something is “breathing” at your back, is still entertainment.

Silent Hill games and movies

Silent Hill 2 is a cult horror game, not least thanks to its original story concept. Everything that happens is a symbolic expression of the psychological conflict in the soul of the main character James, who killed his wife. Unconsciously, James understands that he has committed a crime and deserves punishment, and this feeling finds expression in the figure of Pyramid Head. That is why the monster has the formidable appearance of an infernal executioner: a giant pyramid without slits for eyes instead of a head and a huge blade.

Pyramid Head is a sense of guilt come to life. Hence the sexual aspect of his image. James had to suppress his sexuality for a long time because of serious illness wives. Therefore, the hero several times catches Pyramid Head at the moments when he copulates with someone. So the monster wants to remind James that it was his hidden craving for pleasure that caused Mary’s death.

The monster turned out to be so bright that the creators used it in other parts of the series and in film adaptations. Unfortunately, at the same time, Pyramid Head ceased to be a symbol and turned simply into mysterious monster- without history and origin. The motive for punishment gave way to mad, blind rage. But the monster did not become any less terrible. There is something inexpressibly terrible in this cast pyramid, something that lies beyond all psychological interpretations.

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Thinkers of all times have argued that the most terrible monster is man. We ourselves invent monsters, but how can a creator put into a creation something that is not in it itself? Each monster is a mystery, and by solving it, we learn something new about ourselves. And often this knowledge is not as pleasant as we would like.

The 21st century has just begun and will probably give us dozens more charismatic, deceptively beautiful and insanely terrible creatures. The tops will change, and it is not so important who takes what place. The person himself will always be in the top position.

Since ancient times, people have come up with myths, legends and tales about unprecedented monsters. Artists depicted frightening creatures in their paintings, writers described the most nightmarish stories involving otherworldly forces... But only cinema gave us the opportunity to see how nightmarish a monster “really” can be.

Films about terrible monsters, including aliens, have become some of the most beloved by audiences. To see with your own eyes the creatures that you have heard so much about since childhood - what could be more attractive!

Monsters that existed only in incredible fantasies are right now looking at you from the screen and stretching out their monstrous little hands to you. The selection of this article presents a dozen and a half monster characters from films that have remained in the history of cinema forever.

15 Most Terrifying Monsters in Cinema History

1. Witches - "The Witches" (1990)

Perhaps no other witch movie has been so terrible. For many children of the 90s, it was these “beauties” that became the cause of nightmares.

2. Werewolves - “Underworld” (2003)

The story of the rivalry between vampires and werewolves is far from new and has become the basis for many books, films, TV series and even comics. However, regardless of whether these creatures are fighting each other or twisting romance novels, they still remain monsters. And in the film “Another World” werewolves look especially creepy. These are huge, muscular creatures with the head of a rabid dog. This is probably the last thing you would like to see in real life.

3. Predator - "Predators" (2010)

Now, someone, but a predator can fully be called a terrible creature. Absolutely everything about him is creepy, from his name to his appearance. Just look at the jaws like those of insects. In addition, Predators are not just some kind of monsters, they are a race of highly intelligent creatures, whose development is significantly ahead of ours and this makes them even more dangerous.

4. Pumpkinhead - "Pumpkinhead" (1988)

When you hear the name "Pumpkinhead" you might think of a funny cartoon character, but that's not the case at all. Pumpkinhead is an evil demon of revenge, summoned from the underworld by the father of a murdered boy, thirsting for retribution. You only have to see this creature once to understand that he is truly one of the most terrifying monsters in film history.

5. Clover - “Monstro” (2008)

6. Goblins - "Goblins 2" (1988)

Unlike most of the other monsters on this list, which are mostly much larger and stronger than man, Goblins are tiny creatures that take the concept of “ugliness” to the extreme. new level. Despite their size, these are evil and bloodthirsty creatures that attack people.

Humanity is striving with all its might to know solar system, and then the entire Universe. It seems to people that somewhere there are the most important secrets and riddles that must be solved. But how much do we know about our own planet? She is still capable of surprising not only ordinary people, but also famous scientists, presenting various surprises. After all, every now and then stories appear where monsters unknown to science appear, terrifying and trembling the entire population of the planet. It’s as if they penetrated our world from another reality. But is this really so? What is he like? fauna of our planet? And is there room for various monsters in it?

The real monsters of the world - who are they?

Human civilization has populated the planet so densely that it has driven many representatives of the animal world to the most remote corners of the Earth. Some of them simply disappeared from the face of the planet, while others are threatened with extinction. Animal rights activists are trying their best to preserve rare species of animals, but not a single official list includes monsters that humanity has been talking about for many centuries.

If you carefully study all the eyewitness accounts, you may get the impression that animal monsters have always existed. They were seen by people of different professions and social status, and each such meeting was accompanied by fear of contact with something unknown. Only at the end of the nineteenth century did scientists begin to take evidence of encounters with monsters seriously and even tried to photograph and video these extraordinary creatures. Every documented evidence of the existence of monsters issued to society was carefully studied, but most often classified as falsification. Until now, the scientific world has not been able to obtain real confirmation of the fact that we do not know everything about the creatures living on the planet. But this does not at all bother adventure lovers who are willing to spend a lot of time on expeditions in order to take one successful photo and give the world the truth.

Monster Classification

The most famous monsters in the world have long had their own classification. Seekers of the unknown divided them into the following three categories:

underwater;
ground;
anthropoid.

Of course, these categories are very conditional, but they still give some idea of what the most terrible monsters in the world look like and where they live. We have collected information about those monsters that were noticed by people and repeatedly invaded their normal life. It’s worth starting with underwater creatures, which are considered the most common.

Over the last century, there have been enough references to various lizards that live in lakes. Characteristic is the fact that they are found only in freshwater bodies of water. But experts say that in sea water the lizards will feel great.

Mentions of underwater lizards are found in different nations. The Scots, Yakuts, Canadians, Kazakhs and Chinese have similar evidence. This suggests that the legend about monsters living in lakes has a basis in reality.

Scientists, after analyzing sketches of monsters and video footage provided by eyewitnesses, came to the conclusion that they can be classified as the last dinosaurs on Earth. They resemble ancient plesiosaurs, which lived in large numbers in the water bodies of our planet. These creatures had a long, elongated body with small limbs in the form of flippers and a small head. The length of the neck of such lizards was similar to the body of the monster.

This structure of the monster explains why many eyewitnesses called it a snake. After all, the body and head of a monster usually appear on the surface, truly resembling a huge snake.

Loch Ness Monster

If you are interested in the most famous monsters, then you have probably heard about the Scottish lake Loch Ness. The monster that lives in its waters is known throughout the world. The lake itself is quite picturesque; it is more than two hundred meters deep and is the largest in the UK.

The Loch Ness monster was discovered at the beginning of the last century. Then it alarmed the company resting on the shore by leaning out of the water. From that moment on, crowds of adventurers flocked to the lake, dreaming of capturing the mysterious monster.

Four years later, Wilson managed to photograph the monster, and these photographs alarmed the public. They were published in all newspapers and magazines, and the scientific community tried to explain the presence of a strange creature in the waters of the lake. Almost thirty years later, the Loch Ness monster was caught on camera, where it was clear how fast it moved under water.

A little later, another video of the monster hit all the major television channels in Britain, and people again rushed to Scotland in search of a sensation. Over the past hundred years, more than four thousand people have claimed to have seen the Nessie monster (as the Scots affectionately called him) with their own eyes.

Scientists believe that the monster is completely harmless and lives in a reservoir with its big family. According to the official version, it fell into the lake as a result of the movement of tectonic plates and was unable to escape from the trap. During their existence, many generations of monsters have adapted to the changed habitat and food.

Lake Champlain - Nessie's brother

In Canada there is the famous Lake Champlain, which has joined the list of places where famous monsters of the world live. At the end of the nineteenth century, information appeared that the sheriff saw a fifty-meter snake with humps on its back in the waters of the lake. This evidence only confirmed the numerous words of eyewitnesses, which had accumulated in large quantities since the beginning of the seventeenth century.

The monster was named Champ; it appeared annually on the surface of the reservoir, allowing people to record new details about themselves. Thanks to this, it turned out that the monster has dark skin, a very large body and an elongated head with bumps and growths.

Scientists couldn't ignore this large number information about the monster, and in the seventies of the last century an initiative group was formed to study Champa. Seven years later, one of the local residents managed to photograph the monster, and the authenticity of the photo was proven in the laboratories of the Smithson Institute. Thanks to the availability of special technologies, scientists suggested the size of the animal, which seemed simply incredible - from five to seventeen meters.

Twelve years ago, a fisherman managed to film the monster, and FBI analysts proved the authenticity of the recording. Now scientists from all over the world are trying to figure out which class of the animal world Champa can be classified as.

Ogopogo - Canada's most famous "resident"

Scientists believe that if anywhere underwater monsters can live, it is in Canada. Numerous lakes in this country were once formed as a result of the movement of tectonic plates, and it is possible that some ancient monsters could remain in these reservoirs. The most famous Canadian pangolin is the Ogopogo from Okanagan Lake.

This monster, according to eyewitnesses, resembles Nessie and Champa - the same long body with fins and a small head. The Indians said that one day a monster capsized the boat of their leader and destroyed him. From this time on, the tribes tried to negotiate with Ogopogo, sacrificing animals to him and refusing to fish in some parts of the lake.

It is worth noting that this monster was seen quite often. There are especially numerous eyewitness accounts who crossed the lake by ferry at the beginning of the twentieth century. During this period, the monster constantly rose to the surface, and more than two hundred people spoke about it. At the end of the last century, video footage appeared in which a monster is clearly visible swimming underwater. Until now, information periodically comes from the shores of the lake about the next appearance of the monster, but science cannot provide a rationale for its existence.

Lake monsters: how many are there?

Today the scientific world knows about seven lakes located in different parts of the planet, where various monsters live. Three lakes belong to Ireland, where locals quite often see underwater monsters. For example, in Lough Ree a large animal of an unknown species was seen even by three priests in the middle of the last century. Scientists took their evidence seriously and at the beginning of the 2000s they assembled a real expedition to the shores of the ancient reservoir. But, unfortunately, they were never able to capture the monster.

In our country, Lake Labynkyr in Yakutia became the monster’s home. There have always been legends among local residents about an extraordinary creature that lives in the depths of the lake and on the rarest occasions looks out to the surface. In the nineteenth century, eyewitnesses called it the Labynkyr Devil, but no one has yet managed to photograph the creature.

The long-horned sabertooth is the most terrifying monster of the deep sea

In addition to monsters unknown to science, there are also those that have long been studied. For example, in the waters Atlantic Ocean lives a saber-tooth fish, the appearance of which can cause horror in any inhabitant of the planet.

Usually this monster does not grow more than forty centimeters in length, but has a dark color and a very menacing appearance. The fact is that huge fangs grow in the fish’s mouth, which do not even allow an adult to completely close its jaws. Scientists have found that the brain of this fish has two pockets that accommodate the tips of its fangs. This predator lives at a depth of more than five hundred meters; it has also been encountered at greater depths - it feels quite comfortable having descended to five thousand meters.

It is worth noting that this predator is very vulnerable to large fish. They eat it with pleasure, so the saber tooth prefers to hide in the water column and hunt only small fish.

Bigfoot - fact or fiction?

Yeti (also called Bigfoot) is a humanoid creature covered with fur and living in the mountainous regions of the planet. The yeti is especially common in North America. The local Indian tribes know a lot of legends about creatures of unprecedented power who lived high in the mountains and sought to avoid human eyes.

Eyewitnesses claim to have even seen entire families snow people, which allows us to draw conclusions about the abundance of this species. But, unfortunately, science has not yet received documentary evidence of the existence of these monsters.

In the middle of the last century, a short film was shot in which a video camera captured unusual creature moving through the forest. Experts carefully studied the film and remained in deep doubt about its authenticity. To date, no one has been able to photograph the Yeti or find its remains.

Vampire monster living in South America

Puerto Ricans scare naughty children with stories about the Chupacabra. It is believed that this monster lives near human settlements and destroys livestock. The chupacabra usually steals goats and drinks all their blood, which forms the basis of its daily diet. Sometimes the monster completely tears its victim apart, but does not eat it. Local residents claim that the chupacabra feeds on the blood of rabbits, chickens, and can even steal a child.

It has not yet been possible to photograph the Chupacabra on a camera or video camera, but eyewitnesses describe it as a large creature with large claws and fangs. Absolutely everyone notes the monster’s huge and glowing eyes, with which he sees perfectly in the dark.

Residents of South America believe that this monster was the result of secret experiments by the American military. But the United States is in no hurry to confirm or deny this fact.

Monster sculptures

The world's most famous monsters can also be objects of art. Many European cities have various sculptural groups depicting devils and monsters. Some of them are historical monuments.

All the inhabitants of the planet know the monsters on the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. These terrifying chimeras sit on the façade of the building and are winged creatures with bared snouts and fangs. Parisians consider these monsters one of the most striking symbols of the city. According to some polls, they are more popular than the Eiffel Tower.

In Norway, in the city of Torheim, a cathedral was built, which with its sculptures resembles its Parisian “brother”. Its facade is covered with images of various evil spirits, which (according to legend) were supposed to scare away real evil spirits. Tourists say that many of the figures on the cathedral look extremely ominous.

In Brest, on Gogol Street, there is a sculpture of the devil. This unclean spirit is made extremely realistically and is a symbol of the city, attracting crowds of tourists here.

Humanity has always lived side by side with various monsters. Some of them are dangerous to people, while others have not done anything bad to them, but still strike terror into the hearts with their very appearance. Scientists are trying to catch monsters in order to finally obtain proof of their existence and study how new look representatives of the animal world. However, the monsters are in no hurry to become a world sensation; they continue to lead their solitary lifestyle, established over millennia.

Looking at the many spineless, teenage and friendly vampire characters that are featured in modern books and movies, it's easy to forget that vampires were originally completely different and much, oh, much scarier.

The world is full of legends and tales of mythical monsters, mysterious creatures and incredible beasts. Some of these monsters were inspired by real animals or found fossils, while others are symbolic expressions of people's deepest fears.

Several centuries ago, our ancestors trembled and were horrified at the mere mention of the name of monsters, which is not at all surprising, given how nightmarish their mythology could be.

In this short review we will talk only about the 20 most terrible, and sometimes strange monsters- vampires, monstrous creatures and other undead creatures, which even by the standards of our ancestors were some of the most terrible and disgusting creatures in the world.

Callicanzaro

Callicanzaro spends most of the year in the underworld (which is unknown where it is) and appears only for the period of 12 nights between Christmas and Epiphany, because he knows that on these festive nights people are too drunk to escape. While the mere sight of his black, distorted face, red eyes, and fang-filled mouth is enough to drive the holiday spirit out of anyone, Callicanzaro is not content to ruin the fun for everyone. The monster tears apart anyone it meets with its long claws, and then devours the torn body.

According to Greek lore, any child born between Christmas and Epiphany will eventually become Callicanzaro. Scary, isn't it? But parents should not be afraid, because there is a cure. All one has to do is hold the newborn's feet over the fire until his toenails are scorched, this should break the curse.

But what kind of holidays would they be without a family reunion? Touchingly, Callicanzaro remembers his family from his time as a human and is known to eagerly go looking for his former siblings. But only to devour them when he finally discovers them.

Soukoyant

Soukoyant in the mythology of the Caribbean islands is a type of werewolf that belongs to the class of "jumbies", local disembodied spirits. During the day, the Jambi Soukoyant looks like a weak old woman, and at night this creature sheds its skin, places it in a mortar with a special solution and, turning into a fiery flying ball, goes in search of a victim. Soukoyant sucks out the night wanderers and then trades it with the demons for mystical power.

Similar to European vampire myths, if the victim survives, he becomes the same soukoyant. To kill a monster, you need to pour salt into the solution in which its skin lies, after which the creepy creature will die at dawn, since it will not be able to “put” the skin back on.

Penanggalan

It is quite possible that the creature we describe in this paragraph is the most disgusting of the entire list!

Penanggalan is a nightmare monster that looks like a woman during the day. However, at night, it “removes” its head and flies off in search of victims, with the spine and all the internal organs of the Penanggalan hanging from its neck. And this is truly a real Malaysian legend, and not an invention of modern filmmakers!

The monster's internal organs glow in the dark and can be used as tentacles to clear the road in Penanggalan. In addition, the creature can grow hair at will in order to grab prey with it.

When Penanggalan spots a suitable house, it uses its "tentacles" to try to get inside. If successful, the monster devours all the small children in the house. If it is impossible to get into the house, the mystical creature extends its incredible long tongue under the house and through cracks in the floor trying to get to the sleeping inhabitants. If the Penanggalan tongue reaches the bedroom, it digs into the body and sucks the victim's blood.

In the morning, Penanggalan soaks his entrails in vinegar so that they shrink in size and can fit into his body again.

Kelpie

Kelpie is a water spirit that lives in the rivers and lakes of Scotland. Although the Kelpie usually appears in the form of a horse, it can also take the form of a human. Kelpies often lure people into giving them rides on their backs, after which they drag their victims underwater and devour them. However, stories of the evil water horse also served as an excellent warning to children to stay away from the water, and to women to be wary of handsome strangers.

Ghoul

A ghoul may simply look like an ordinary Russian person. He may even have the ability to walk in broad daylight like a Russian. However, he is not Russian. Behind his harmless facade lies a vicious vampire who will gladly refuse all the vodka in the world if he is given even one drop of blood for it. Moreover, his love for blood is so great that after he rips you apart with his metal teeth, he might just eat your heart for fun.

The ghoul also loves children (though, you guessed it, not in a parental way), preferring the taste of their blood, and always drinking their blood before proceeding to drain their parents. He also doesn't mind the taste of frozen dirt, as according to lore he uses his metal teeth to chew his way out of his grave in the dead of winter when his hands freeze due to poor insulation in his coffin.

Basilisk

The basilisk is usually described as a crested snake, although descriptions of a rooster with a snake's tail are sometimes found. This creature can kill birds with its fiery breath, people with its gaze, and other living creatures with its usual hiss. Legends say that the basilisk is born from a snake or toad egg that was hatched by a rooster. The word "basilisk" is translated from Greek as "little king", so this creature is often called the "snake king". During the Middle Ages, basilisks were accused of causing plague epidemics and mysterious murders.

Asasabonsam

Chances are you're familiar with the old urban legend of Hook Man. Well, as it turns out, members of the Ashanti people in Ghana tell a similar (albeit much creepier) story about Asasabonsam, a strange vampire with curved iron hooks instead of legs who lives in the depths of the African forests. He hunts by hanging from tree branches and driving the aforementioned hooks into the bodies of those unfortunates who pass under the tree. Once he gets you up the tree, he devours you alive with his iron teeth, and then presumably spends most of the night removing your blood stains from his hooks so they don't rust.

Unlike most vampires, he feeds on both humans and animals (so someone should alert People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)). The strangest fact about Asasabonsama is that when its prey is a human, it bites off the human's thumb first before moving on to the rest of the body, possibly to prevent you from hitching a ride home if you somehow... Somehow you will be able to escape from his hooks.

Asmodeus

Asmodeus is a demon of lust who is mainly known from the Book of Tobit (a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament). He pursues a woman named Sarah and kills seven of her husbands out of jealousy. In the Talmud, Asmodeus is mentioned as the prince of demons who expelled King Solomon from his kingdom. Some folklorists believe that Asmodeus is the son of Lilith and Adam. Legend has it that it is he who is responsible for the perversion of people's sexual desires.

Varakolach

The Varacolach(s) are arguably the most powerful of all vampires, so it's not at all clear why so little is known about him other than the fact that he has a hard-to-pronounce name (seriously, try saying it out loud). According to legend, his skin is a dermatologist's worst nightmare - it is terribly pale and dry, and no amount of body lotion can cure it, but otherwise he looks like an ordinary person.

Oddly enough, such a terrifying creature as the Romanian Varacolach has only one superpower, but what a superpower! He can absorb the sun and moon (in other words, he can summon solar and lunar eclipses), which in itself is the coolest of all tricks. However, in order to do this, he must fall asleep, because, apparently, causing astrological phenomena that can frighten us even today, and which must have inspired terrible fear in people of more primitive cultures, takes up a huge amount of his energy.

Yorogumo

There are probably more bizarre cryptozoological creatures in Japanese myth than there are in all the seasons of The X-Files. One of the most bizarre is the Yogorumo, or “whore,” an arachnid monster of the Yokai (goblin-like creatures) family. The legend of Yogorumo originated during the Edo period in Japan. It is believed that when a spider reaches the age of 400 years, it gains magical power. In most legends, the spider turns into a beautiful woman, seduces men and lures them to her home, plays the biwa (Japanese lute) for them, and then entangles them in webs and devours them.

Upier

The Russian ghoul (above) has a terrifying Polish cousin named Upier, who is famous for being even more bloodthirsty. Moreover, his thirst for blood is so strong and insatiable that, in addition to drinking huge quantities of it internally, Upier loves to bathe and sleep in it. His body is filled with this a large number blood, that if you stick a stake into it, it will explode in a huge geyser of blood worthy of the elevator scene from the movie The Shining.

He takes particular pleasure in sucking the blood of friends and family members who were dear to him during his human life, so if one of your friends or family has recently turned into Upier, you should know that you're likely already listed as a dish on their menu. When he finally finds you, he immobilizes you with a powerful hug (sort of a farewell bearhug) and then plunges his spiked tongue into your neck and drains every last drop of blood from you.

Black Annis

A ghostly witch from English folklore, Black Annis is an old woman with a blue face and iron claws who haunted peasants in Leicestershire. Legend has it that she lives in a cave in the Dane Hills, and at night she wanders around looking for children to devour. If Black Annis catches a child, she tans its skin and then wears it wrapped around her waist. Needless to say, parents used Black Annis to scare their children when they misbehaved.

Neuntother

Attention! If you are a hypochondriac by nature, then you might be better off not reading about this monster!

The Neuntother is a walking biological weapon of mass destruction that does one thing and one thing only - it brings death wherever it goes. Neuntother lives in the myths of Germany and is the carrier of an endless number of terrible types of plague and deadly diseases, which he spreads around him like candy, no matter what city he is in, infecting everyone and everything that gets in his way. Therefore, it is not surprising that, according to legend, it appears only during massive and terrible epidemics.

Neuntother's body is covered in open sores and wounds, from which pus constantly oozes, and which, most likely, play an important role in the spread of deadly bacteria (if reading this sentence made you feel an irresistible desire to immediately bathe in a disinfectant, then you are not alone) . His well-chosen German name literally translates to "Killer of the Nine", and is a reference to the fact that it takes nine days for a corpse to fully transform into a Neuntother.

Nabau

In 2009, two aerial photographs taken by researchers in Borneo, Indonesia, showed a 30-meter snake swimming down a river. There is still debate over the authenticity of this photograph, as well as whether it actually shows a snake. Some argue that it is a log or a large boat. However, locals living along the Baleh River insist the creature is Nabau, an ancient dragon-like monster from Indonesian folklore.

According to legends, Nabau is over 30 meters long, has a head with seven nostrils, and can take the form of several different animals.

Yara-ma-yha-hu

Grab your didgeridoos, because this creature is truly strange. Australian Aboriginal legends describe Yara-ma-yha-hu as a humanoid creature 125 centimeters tall, with red skin and a huge head. Yara-ma-yha-hu spends most of her time in the trees. If you are unlucky enough to pass under such a tree, Yara-ma-yha-hu will jump on you and attach itself to your body with small suction cups that cover the fingers and toes of his hands, so no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to shake off.

Further - worse. Yara-ma-yha-hu made it onto this list primarily due to the peculiarities of its feeding method. Because it doesn't have any fangs, it sucks your blood through the suction cups on its arms and legs until you are weakened to the point that you can't run or even move anywhere. He then leaves you lying on the ground like a discarded, half-empty juice can while he goes off to apparently have fun with kangaroos and koalas.

When he returns from his evening of fun, he gets down to business and swallows you whole with his huge mouth, then after a while burps you out still alive and unharmed (yes, that's a gagging vampire). This process is repeated over and over, and each time you become smaller and redder as a result of it digesting you. In the end, yes, you guessed it, you yourself turn into Yara-ma-yha-hu. That's it!

Dullahan

Most people are familiar with Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and the story of the Headless Horseman. The Irish Dullahan or "dark man" is essentially a precursor to the ghost of the beheaded Hessian soldier who haunted Ichabod Crane. In Celtic mythology, the dullahan is a harbinger of death. He rides a large black horse with flaming eyes and carries his head under his arm.

Some stories say that the dullahan calls out the name of a person who is about to die, while others say that he marks that person by pouring a bucket of blood on him. Like many monsters and mythical creatures, the Dullahan has one weakness: gold.

Nelapsi

This time the Czechs came up with something truly disgusting. Nelapsi is a walking corpse that doesn't care about putting clothes on itself, so it goes out hunting in whatever clothes its mother gave birth to. The lack of clothing combined with glowing red eyes, long dirty black hair and needle-thin teeth is enough to make you want to leave the light on at night, but unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg.

In fact, Nelapsi can easily win the competition for the most powerful and inordinately evil of all vampires. He can destroy entire villages at once, and like that guy who is forbidden from going near the buffet, he doesn't stop until the morning, no matter how much he's already eaten that night. He is not a picky eater at all and feeds on cattle as well as humans, and kills his victims either by tearing them apart with his teeth or crushing them with his "Embrace of Death" which is so powerful that it can easily crush bones. However, if given the chance, he will try to keep you alive for as long as possible and will happily torture his victims for weeks before killing them (because to be called a true villain, you have to torture people for weeks ). However, even this is not all. If Nelapsi for some reason leaves the tormented people alive (this is very unlikely, as you may have guessed), they are quickly wiped out by a deadly Neuntother style plague that will follow the surviving person wherever they go.

Finally, if all of the above wasn't terrifying enough, Nelapsi can also kill people just by looking at them. One of his favorite pastimes is playing "I'm spying on you with one eye" from the tops of church spiers, causing anyone Nelapsy's gaze to die on the spot. We may have gone overboard in mentioning how evil Nelapsi is, but he's such a scoundrel that it's impossible to stress enough.

Goblins "Red Hoods"

Evil goblins in red caps live on the border between England and Scotland. According to legends, they usually live in ruined castles and kill lost travelers by throwing boulders from cliffs onto them. The goblins then paint the caps with the blood of their victims. Redcaps are forced to kill as often as possible because if the blood on their caps dries up, they die.

Evil creatures are usually depicted as old men with red eyes, large teeth, claws and holding a staff. They are faster and stronger than humans. Legend has it that the only way to escape from such a goblin is to shout a quote from the Bible.

Manticore

This fairy creature, similar to the sphinx. He has the body of a red lion, a human head with 3 rows of sharp teeth and a very loud voice, the tail of a dragon or scorpion. The manticore shoots poisonous needles at its prey and then eats it whole, leaving nothing behind. From a distance, she can often be confused with a bearded man. Most likely, this will be the victim's last mistake.

Indian vampire Brahmaparusha

Brahmaparusha is a vampire, but he is not at all ordinary. These evil spirits, which are told in Hindu mythology, have a lust for human brains. Unlike the suave, dapper vampires who live in Romania, the Brahmaparusha is a grotesque creature that wears the intestines of its victims around its neck and head. He also carries a human skull with him and when he kills a new victim, he pours his blood into this skull and drinks from it.

In fact, humanity has invented truly nightmarish monsters throughout its history (and continues to invent!) for more than two unfortunate dozens. It’s just that there are exactly 20 monsters in our selection. But there is also the vile Japanese sea spirit Umibozu, the American forest human hunter Heidbehind, a relative of the famous and no less terrible Wendigo, the huge cat Bakeneko, the incredibly fast cannibal Wendigo, the Scandinavian super-strong undead Draugr, the ancient Babylonian Tiamat and many, many others!