A whimsical creature from Germany morphed stateside into a newspaper headline frenzy that swept

the region for decades. The truth behind its fame may be sinister, but this monstrous beast's

playful rebrand has landed it amongst the most beloved of cryptids. dread, probably a murder or who wants you dead.

It could be a ghost, a demon or worse, perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse.

It's hopeless, you're doomed, you'd witch's curse. It's hopeless.

You're doomed.

You'd call a priest if you could.

You'd rather just listen to who.

Sinisterhood.

I'm going to kill you.

While we do have to shout out our juniorist of junior crypto zoologists for saying this name in the cutest way that we've ever heard, that we were like, that's our next cryptid episode.

Smalleygast.

And he just went, because he was listing cryptids for us, right?

Mm-hmm.

He knows all of them.

There's ones I've never even heard of, and he'll be like, Yate Veo, you know, from Brazil.

I'm like, yeah, buddy.

One day, you're following my footsteps.

Hell yeah, world-renowned.

Well, yeah, him saying, smelligasto was just so cute that we had to jump on and figure out what this, it looks sort of like a dragon A to octopus, in my opinion, kind of thing is all about.

And also, you know, sometimes your kids think something's real cute.

And then you dive into it and you're like, well, this was born out of a horrible thing so thanks a lot of america cool cool cool once again america takes up the happy fourth of july

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