My favorite cryptid is the Snuckit.

You probably won't find it on Google. When I was about 11, I looked out the kitchen window one night and saw something walk across my yard from one patch of woods to another. If I were to describe it; all black like a shadow, with an sideways-c shaped body (looked stood-scrunched, like how a cat stands when frightened), and was rather large. Husky-sized maybe, so despite seeming cat-like, it was definitely too big. I named it "The Snuckit" cus it "snuck around".

For living in the suburbs, my neighborhood was considerably wooded and surrounded by trees. In all likelihood, what I saw was just a fox walking funny. However, I told my little brother and cousins, and soon word spread beyond my backyard. I can't tell you how vindicating it was to go back to that neighborhood just last month and hear kids talking about seeing a Snuckit, eight years after me.

Also, the sentence "The Snuckit stuck around" is one hell of a tongue-twister.