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...
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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....
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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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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...
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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…
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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…
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Yowie Sightings in Australia: Wildman Folklore Beyond Bigfoot
Australia is not supposed to have a Bigfoot. The continent's mammalian fauna developed in isolation after the separation from Gondwana, producing an ecosys...
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Bigfoot Sightings in Portage County, Ohio: Local Legends and Reports
Ohio is not a state that typically comes to mind in conversations about Bigfoot. The Pacific Northwest, with its dense old-growth forest and established research…
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