River Monster Folklore: Why Strange Creatures Haunt Deep Water
Water hides things. This is the fundamental truth that river and lake monster folklore processes: the surface of any large body of water is a…
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Kushtaka Folklore: Alaska’s Otter-Man Legend and Coastal Mystery
The Tlingit people of the Alaskan and British Columbia coast have maintained a tradition about the Kushtaka, the Land Otter Man, for as long as…
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Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp: South Carolina’s Clawed Cryptid Legend
On the night of June 29, 1988, seventeen-year-old Christopher Davis was changing a flat tire on a rural road near Bishopville, South Carolina, when he…
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Cryptids in the Ozarks: Strange Creatures and Local Legends
The Ozark Plateau covers roughly 47,000 square miles across Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. It is one of the oldest upland regions in North America,…
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