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.
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Black Shuck: The Hellhound of the English Coast
A giant dog skeleton made headlines. Radiocarbon dating spoiled the story.
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The Barghest: The Shape-Shifting Hound of Yorkshire
Rattling chains, a limestone lair, and a bloodline that runs to Harry Potter.
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The Defiance Dogman: Ohio’s Werewolf Summer of 1972
The one detail in the police report points away from a monster.
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The White Things of West Virginia: Appalachia’s Pale Predators
Sheepsquatch is not the White Thing, and telling them apart matters.
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The Serpent-Lizard That Broke Its Detective’s Logic
Roy Mackal followed a forked tongue and a serrated ridge to a conclusion herpetology still cannot confirm
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The Rougarou Legend: Louisiana’s Cajun Werewolf Folklore
A French curse that crossed an ocean, changed its name through a quirk of language, and learned to howl in the bayou.
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The Stegosaur That Was Never Shown Its Own Picture
How one witness, one afternoon, and one illustrated book built a dinosaur legend on the Likouala-aux-Herbes River
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The Winged Terror That Made a Future King Uneasy
A secondhand account of the Kongamato reached the Prince of Wales in 1925, decades before anyone suggested a stork could explain it
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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...
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