Because some cryptids are just obviously better than others. (Non-exhaustive, but pretty exhaustive.)
Bunyip
The bunyip is a swamp-dwelling marsupial/seal-like hybrid originating in Australia.
Scoring: While visually interesting and scary to think about, the bunyip is found lacking in substantiated evidence, cool anecdotes, and modern-day application (the creature is largely a 19th century phenomenon).
non-aliencreatures.wikia.com
Bear Lake Monster
The Bear Lake monster, residing in Bear Lake on the Utah/Idaho border, is said to, and I quote, "resemble a serpent, but with legs about eighteen inches long on which it marauds along the shoreline." Also, its size is "at least ninety feet long, at most two hundred feet and certainly not less than forty." Certainly not!
Scoring: The reporter of the original monster sightings, Joseph C. Rich, would later reveal that he made the whole story up, which is a bummer. Curiously, this did not stop sightings — the last reported incident was in 2002. A boat recreation of the monster (seen above) offered a scenic cruise around the lake for years, which is fun.
susettefisher.blogspot.com
Mothman
The Mothman was/is a tall, silvery, red-eyed winged humanoid seen by a number of separate witness groups around Point Pleasant, West Virginia between 1966-1967.
Scoring: The Mothman has had a strangely widespread pop cultural presence for something with such a narrow window of reported sightings, but for the same reason lacks the believability required for sustained interest.
monster.wikia.com
Beast of Bray Road
The Beast of Bray Road is a very tall bear-ish or wolf-ish creature, depending on the witness, that lives for unknown reasons on the rural Bray Road in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.
Scoring: What the Beast of Bray Road lacks in compelling evidence, uniqueness, and consistent imagery, it makes up for in being a thing that supposedly just lives on this one road in rural Wisconsin.
writerstevensymes.blogspot.com
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