Sorry, but it is impossible for a charismatic species to remain hidden, especially in a country like the USA, where you’re surrounded by all kinds of cameras, cell phones, and people. Let’s focus our efforts on searching for rare animals, such as the ivory-billed woodpecker and other species believed to be extinct. :(
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Well, that depends. With all the Halloween festivities, is anyone actually hanging around in a sincere pumpkin patch at midnight to see and photograph the Great Pumpkin? Maybe the lack of recent records only reflects a lack of belief, and therefore a lack of observers. Or, maybe it’s that sincerity has become so rare that nobody knows how to evaluate the pumpkin patches anymore; as with any other taxon, you need to observe in the right habitat.
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I Linus would be in his 50s by now. Maybe he has given up on the Great Pumpkin.
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Never! Linus would sooner give up on his blanket.
(Now, I’m imagining him as a modern-day Diogenes, only much more pleasant; wandering from pumpkin patch to pumpkin patch, buoyed up by his faith that a truly sincere one is right around the corner.)
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I doubt it. Maybe he’d be walking in the pumpkin patch wearing the sport coat he made from the blanket.
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After watching the show “Lords of the Gourd” about competitive pumpkin growing, I think sincerity might be very hard to find in any pumpkin patch.
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Going back to this kind of stuff- another “cryptid” I think exists in the Southeast US is the Jaguarundi. St. Marks National Wildlife refuge had jaguarundi on their pamphlets that said what animals could be found in the refuge. While there are infrequent sightings overall, almost all of the sightings of them are very consistent and in the same general areas- Florida panhandle and scattered locations in Alabama. They used to be fairly popular in the pet trade and I am aware of at least one case where a doctor has dozens of them and just let them all loose when he couldn’t care for them anymore.
When you have a small elusive, secretive cat that can be hard to find even in its native range, with a much smaller population, no one looking for it, and it mainly inhabiting remote areas, it becomes very unlikely to get evidence of it.
I always hesitate to bring it up because the very last thing I want is for it to turn into a “black panther” discussion (black panthers in terms of the southeastern US do not exist). I can share some of the reports and the old st marks pamphlet that mentions jaguarundi if anyone is interested.
Edit: I hate calling jaguarundi a cryptid, because they aren’t- they are just animals that are elusive, but because no concrete evidence of them has surfaced in the SE US, I think they fit here for now
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Jaguarundi is an interesting cryptid as it is a real species but regularly gets reported in some areas where it was never confirmed to exist or where it is believed extirpated. The last verified report in south Texas was in the 1980s. In Arizona, the species was reported in the scientific literature in the 1930s based on a sighting and was considered a possible member of that state’s fauna for many years but Arizona wildlife biologists have failed to confirm the species is or was ever there. I get reports in New Mexico but we have zero evidence that it ever occurred in the state. Because housecats are quite similar in size, it’s easy to dismiss any jaguarundi report in the US as a misIDed domestic cat, but there remains the lingering suspicion that one or more of these observations could be of a translocated jaguarundi. Or perhaps an undiscovered population.
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There are a number of videos on Youtube showing coatis walking around. When the video is reversed they look like baby brontosaurus. Below is just one example
https://au.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=coatis+in+reverse+videos&type=E210US1144G0#id=52&vid=92d8681e71444e9531aece1c6477f317&action=click
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That’s really funny!
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I’ve seen those before, they’re hilarious!
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Oh, I don’t know. If he’s in his 50s, Linus would be Gen-X, and we do things a little differently. I’d bet he’s still there. 
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The most likely that I’m aware of is the dobsegna. Someone from outside New Guinea saw a charred bone of a dobsegna that had been killed by a dog, then eaten by a New Guinean, but didn’t think (or whatever) to keep the bone. I’m wondering if the dobsegna and the Tasmanian thylacine are the same species or not.
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I didn’t know Brontosaurus was small, furry, and had a striped neck! 
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In my home country, Dominican Republic, we have the chupa cabra and of course witches that come at night to steal your children.
I don’t think any of these creatures exists. They are likely either stories parents told their children to keep them out of the woods like the movie The Village, or sightings of other real animals in poor lighting.
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The bloop. I don’t believe that the bloop it’self is a thing, rather I believe that there is something unknown that we call universally as the bloop. The ocean is so vast and unexplored, there very well could be something like it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop Bloop is thought to be the sound of ice moving
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Ye. Ik it seems unlikely, but there’s the possibility somethings out there
Personally, do y’all consider gods to be Cryptids?
Also, I think the Rougarou would most likely exist since there normally are not many ways to tell them apart from humans
I dunno, probably not.