Van Meter Visitor Legend: Iowa’s Winged Cryptid with a Strange Light
In October 1903, the residents of Van Meter, Iowa, a town of about one thousand people in the rolling farmland of Dallas County, experienced five…
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The Bela Lugosi Mirror: Hollywood History or Cursed Object?
A Las Vegas museum draws crowds to Dracula's haunted mirror, but the paper trail tells a very different story.
Read More →Southwest Cryptids List: Desert Monsters, Canyon Legends, and Strange Tracks
The American Southwest is a landscape of extreme conditions: heat, aridity, dramatic geological formations, and vast distances between population centres....
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Friend-of-a-Friend Urban Legends: Why Scary Stories Sound True
Someone at work told you a story last week. A colleague's neighbor found a stranger hiding under her car in a parking garage, reaching up…
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Thunderbird Sightings and Folklore: Giant Birds in American Legend
On July 25, 1977, in Lawndale, Illinois, a ten-year-old boy named Marlon Lowe was grabbed by a large bird and lifted partially off the ground…
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Campfire Ghost Stories as Folklore: Why We Tell Scary Stories in Groups
Picture the moment the last story ends. Not a gasp, not a punchline, just silence. The fire has burned low. Nobody reaches for their phone.…
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Mokele-Mbembe Legend: The Congo River Dinosaur Cryptid Story
Somewhere in the vast, underpenetrated swamps of the Congo Basin, in the area where the borders of the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of…
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Dover Demon Legend: Massachusetts’ Strange Small-Town Cryptid
The Dover Demon appeared over two consecutive nights in April 1977, was seen by four witnesses in three separate encounters, and has not been reliably…
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Owlman of Cornwall: Britain’s Eerie Winged Cryptid Legend
The church of St. Mawnan and St. Stephen in the village of Mawnan Smith, Cornwall, sits on a headland above the Helford River estuary, surrounded…
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Batsquatch Legend: The Winged Cryptid of Mount St. Helens Lore
Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, with the force of 24 megatons of thermal energy, flattening 230 square miles of old-growth forest and…
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