Bennington Monster: Bigfoot, Blood, and the Ghost Towns of Glastenbury Mountain
Explore the Bennington Monster legend, Glastenbury Mountain's abandoned towns, and the bear explanation behind Vermont's enduring mystery.
Read More →
Bigfoot in the San Juans: Colorado’s Sasquatch Country
When people think of Bigfoot country, they usually picture the dense old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. But Colorado's San Juan Mountains, partic...
Read More →
Florida’s Swamp Cryptids: The Real Stories Behind the Legends
A field guide to the Skunk Ape, the Snoligoster, and the strange creatures said to haunt the Sunshine State's wetlands
Read More →
Ohio Grassman Legend: The Bigfoot-Like Cryptid of the Buckeye State
Ohio is not supposed to be Bigfoot country. The mental image of Bigfoot involves ancient Pacific Northwest rainforest, not Midwestern farms, strip-mine rec...
Read More →
Wood Booger Folklore: Virginia’s Strange Name for a Bigfoot Legend
The name alone tells you something important about the creature's cultural position. In the Virginia and West Virginia highlands, the Bigfoot-type creature...
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....
Read More →
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…
Read More →
Mogollon Monster of Arizona: Bigfoot Lore in the High Desert
The Mogollon Rim is a 200-mile escarpment of Precambrian basement rock that forms the dramatic southern edge of the Colorado Plateau in Arizona, rising abr...
Read More →
Cryptid Festivals in America: Where Monster Lore Becomes a Local Celebration
The Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia takes place on the third weekend of September, and it has been doing so since 2002. In…
Read More →
Cryptid Museums Guide: Mothman, Bigfoot, and Monster-Lore Road Trips
The road trip logic of cryptid museums is straightforward: they are usually in places that have no other obvious reason to attract visitors, which means…
Read More →