What lived in our forests?...

[Flysmallie]

Or the Ozarks Howler

[fshndoug]

or my wife

[snagged in outlet 3]

18 minutes ago, fshndoug said:

or my wife

Beat me to it.  My Mother in law...

[fishinwrench]

A new creature would be great, because Scientists are apparently running out of things to study. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-described-a-dinosaur-s-behind-in-exquisite-detail/amp

[Gavin]

Then there is the Piasa Bird.

[Mitch f]

I scanned a dinosaur skull for a guy last year, he sold it the next week for darn near 6 figures.

[FishnDave]

49 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

I scanned a dinosaur skull for a guy last year, he sold it the next week for darn near 6 figures.

Where did he find it?

[Mitch f]

2 minutes ago, FishnDave said:

Where did he find it?

Not sure, he’s a fossil collector and has his own business in downtown St. Louis

[MoCarp]

 

[Al Agnew]

I didn't know somebody else came up with the idea of weird critters actually passing back and forth between dimensions...I had that idea years ago, and even started writing a novel based upon it.  

Momo, Sasquatch, and Yeti are surviving members of what was thought to be an extinct pre-human hominid, like Homo erectus.  They've survived by being able to pass back and forth between dimensions...and are intelligent enough to avoid humans as much as possible.  All sightings are mistakes they made in keeping hidden.  (There are also large, human-like creatures found in African folklore as well, so add them to the list.)

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels had Tarzan being raised by an unknown species of great ape.  The books have at least a grain of truth; there really was a Tarzan, he really was English nobility, but he was raised by these African hominids, not apes.  Tarzan is still alive and well, by the way.  In two of the books, he discovered elixirs that stop aging (two separate ones, kinda like taking two different Covid vaccines).  So though he was born in the late 1800s, he still appears to be a middle-aged man.  He has had to change his name and supposed history several times.  The British government knows his secret, but nobody wants an elixir of youth to become known...can you imagine everybody rich and influential enough to obtain it living on indefinitely?  He is extremely rich, having taken more than a ton of gold from the lost city of Opar before it was buried in a huge landslide that covered part of the city and impounded a deep lake that buried the rest.  He now travels the world, seeking out surviving members of the Mangani, the hominids who raised him, and protecting them from being discovered and exploited by humans.  He also knows the secret of traveling inter-dimensionally.  Some of the lost cities found in the old Tarzan novels really existed, but in other dimensions, as was Pellucidar, which ERB thought was inner Earth. (The earth being hollow, with gravity being centered in the crust, so that you can walk around in the inside of the crust just as you do the outside, with a nuclear core suspended by gravity in the center, furnishing a "sun" for the inner Earth.  Of course, we know gravity doesn't work that way, so the earth isn't hollow, but Pellucidar does exist in a different dimension, complete with dinosaurs and tailed humans!)  Tarzan has estates in England, America, and Canada.  He sometimes does missions for MI6, the British secret service, in return for the British government keeping his existence and longevity a secret.

At least that was my original novel idea.  I've since decided to dump Tarzan as the protagonist, and have my hero, whose name is Shakespeare (Speare for short, haven't decided on a last name), raised by Sasquatch in a remote region of British Columbia, where his mother, who was a woman pilot transporting war planes to Alaska during WWII (which did happen) crashed and was found by Sasquatch (she was in the early stages of pregnancy at the time).  There was an old man living with the Sasquatch, who helped raise him, and who was a rich man who had retreated from society into the wilderness to die after his wife passed away.  Eventually the old man got Speare back to American civilization.  Speare, like Tarzan, ages extremely slowly, thanks to a fungus that grows in caves in the volcanic mountains of British Columbia, which the Sasquatch had him eat.  They are extremely long-lived because of this, but nearly sterile, raising very few offspring.  And of course they know the secret of traveling between dimensions.  My idea for the conflict in my story is an uber-rich industrialist who is also extremely religious, and rejects the idea of evolution.  When he finds out that not only are Sasquatch real, but that they are a sort of missing link that will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt to be the direct ancestors of humans, he sets out to eradicate them from the face of the earth because he believes their existence to be either Satanic or a test by God of faith.  Speare, of course, finds out about his plot, and seeks to stop him.

Heck, I might even get some black panthers into the story as Speare's childhood enemies and enemies of the Sasquatch--they move between dimensions as well.