The Ahool

 The ahool, named after it's call of 'ahoool', is a supposedly giant bat. It's said to live deep in the Java rainforest and can be found across most of Indonesia.

It is said to be the size of a small child (around 4ft),leather wings with an astounding wingspan of 12ft (3m). It's covered in short grey fur, has large black eyes, a flat face that makes it almost like a monkey. It has been seen squatting on the forest floor, it's feet appearing to point backwards.

The ahool is said to be nocturnal creature, sleeping in caves during the day. It feeds on fish but has been know to attack large mammals, including humans.

 Some researchers have said that the ahool could be a living pterosaur, a flying reptile that was last alive during the time of the dinosaurs, some 65 million years ago. The description of the ahool does match what we currently know of about the pterosaur. A third theory, although less popular, is that this maybe the worlds first reported case of a flying primate. But the overall thought is agreed that the ahool is most likely a form of unknown giant bat.

 The naturalist Dr. Ernest Bartel had the first reported account with the ahool in 1925. He was exploring near the Salek mountains when an unknown giant bat flew directly over his head. It was another two years before he would have another encounter with the ahool, he was sleeping in a hut close to the Tjidjenkol river when he heard the cry of the bat directly over head, he proceeded outside to see if he could see the bat, it called out again but came from an incredible distance downstream.

At one point the good Doctor had thought that the creature may not have been a bat but possibly a large owl. This theory didn't go down well with others and assured him that they where capable of distinguishing between a bat and a bird. This could fit in with what some people think. The appearance and behavior matches the Javan wood-owl to the ahool's. Observer error by being dive-bombed in remote gloomy forests and the wing-span can be greatly over estimated from far away or when swooping down could be matched with the owls as well as they look grey from below, having flat faces and big black eyes with dark feathers that ring the eyes that can make them look even bigger.

Like many cryptids, it isn't well documented with little reliable information or material evidence. Just a few eye witness accounts.

The Hydra

The Hydra, which was also called Lernaean Hydra, is a nine headed sepent-like monster from Greek and Roman mythology. It wasn't just in the Greek and Roman mythology that it appears, it has many parallels in near ancient eastern religions too, like Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian mythology. It was also associated with Bashmu (the venomous snake) constellation (even though it only has a single head) and with the constellation from the Babylonian Marduk's dragon (the Mushhushshu).

It is the child of Typhon and Echidna. The Hydra lived in the lake Lerna in the Argolid, under this lake was the entrance to the Greek and Roman underworld which it guarded.

It is said that when you cut the a head off of the Hydra, two more will grow back, it also has poisonous breath, blood do virulent that even it's scent was deadly and the middle head was said to breath fire.

Heracles (Greek) or Hercules (Roman) was sent by Eurystheus to kill the Hydra in the second of his twelve labours. Hera raised the Hydra just so that it could kill Heracles one day, but in the mean time it would come out of it's cave to terrorise the near by villages. On entering the area where it lived, Heracles had to cover his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect against the poisonous fumes. To confront the Hydra he first had to shoot flaming arrows into the Hydra's lair from there he wielded his weapon, being anything from a harvesting sickle (from very early renditions on vase-paintings) to a sword or his very well known club. He began to cut off the Hydra's heads, but as we know they grow back, which would have dishearten anyone but our hero. The Hydra is invulnerable but only if it still has it's one immortal head, so in one version Heracles enlisted the help of his nephew Iolaus who figured out that if they used a firebrand to scorch the neck stumps right after each decapitation then they couldn't grow back (this was possibly inspired by Athena). So Heracles would cut off the heads and Iolaus would cauterize the necks. Seeing that Heracles was winning, Hera sent a large crab to distract him, who crushed it with his mighty foot. Once the immortal head of the Hydra was cut off (which is mostly known to be cut off with a golden sword given to him by Athena) he placed the still alive and writhing head under a giant rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius. Heracles would then dip his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood to be used later in his other labours.

The alternate version is that after cutting off one head Heracles would then dip his weapon in it's neck and use it's own venom to burn the wound so it couldn't grow back. Hera, being upset that both her creatures where slain, raised them up and placed them in he dark vault in the sky turning them into constellations.

Sprite

The Sprite is often depicted as a small fairy, they have wings and if seen are normally mistaken for large exotic insects because of their wings.

The word sprite comes from the lain Spiritus meaning spirit, there are a few other variations like the Celtic spriggan or spright. It's often used to mean elves and fairies in European folklore although it's rarely used now.

The belief in these sprites which include tree spirits, elves, fairies, pixies, the Spanish duende, Japanese yokai and many other fairy types has been common all over the world and to some extent be found in neo-spiritual movements like Asatru and druidism. In some elemental magic and rituals the sprite is often believed to be the air element. The belief in these spiritual creatures like ghosts and fairies is nearly universal over the human culture.

They often live in big groups in the deep woods with other fairy beings. They have a short attention span but are curious and like to harass flying insects like butterflies. They can fly far and fast without rest, tending the fairy gardens, eating the bugs that feed on the flowers.

Although they look small and sweet they can be vicious, biting ans swarming if felt threatened. Attacking people that get to near to their gardens, threaten or endanger the trees and plant life around them or themselves.

They have been in fairy tales and even movies for a long while, although they aren't as popular or well known now a days.