Articles and research written exclusively by the Haunted Auckland team and our international researchers covering strange and out-of-place creatures reported to dwelling in the forests, lakes and seas of New Zealand. A “cryptid” is an animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated. These are our uniquely New Zealand Cryptids:
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Maero (or Mohoao). NZ's Bigfoot?
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Cryptozoologist Scott Mardis passes
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The Cryptid in the Sky
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The Lake Pupuke Monster
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The Dunedin Dog boy
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Hatupatu and the Birdwoman
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Taniwha Art
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The Goatman
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The Saurian Monster - New Zealand Herald, 1st October 1886
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Full Little Bush Moa skeleton at Dunedin Airport
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Patupaiarehe
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Moa and Various Skeletal displays at the Auckland War Museum
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Manaia (mythological creature)
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The Zuiyo-maru carcass
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New Zealand Globster
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Big Bird's Last Stand
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The Laughing Owl
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New Zealand South Island Panther
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New Zealand Moose
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Kumi Lizard - NZ's Giant Enigmatic Lizards
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Kawekaweau - Giant New Zealand Gecko
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Waitoreke - Giant Otter
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The Taniwha
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The Moa
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Giant Moa wasn't so robust
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Moehau Man - New Zealand's Bigfoot
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Otter Sightings In Southland
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Elusive 'panther' may be on the move
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The Possiblity of Mosasaurs breeding off the New Zealand Coast.
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Distortions of time
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Friends and family farewell moa seeing mountaineer
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Paddy Freaney, Moa Man, is dead
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Scientists find 'supergiant' from the deep [Stuff.co.nz]
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Big Feet Musing
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Alien Big Cats in New Zealand
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Dinosaur footprints in South Island revealed
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Maori legend of man-eating bird is true
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Hunting mythical creatures - Sunday Star Times - Jan 31 2009 by Kim Knight
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Where have all the cryptids gone?
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Hunting mythical creatures
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Death of a legend: NZ's Moehau