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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Akhlut Legend: The Wolf-Orca Hybrid That Hunts the Bering Sea
The popular hybrid image is a modern invention. The original tradition was subtler, and stranger.
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Qalupalik Myth: The Sea-Ice Monster of Arctic Inuit Folklore
A green-skinned child-snatcher that is really a lesson about thin ice, now being reclaimed by Inuit storytellers
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Champ of Lake Champlain: The Monster Legend of New York and Vermont
Lake Champlain is a working lake. Ferries cross it. Sailboats race it. Commercial fishing boats have worked its cold, dark water for generations. The Vermo...
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The Elephant Killer’s Missing Frill: Rethinking the Emela-Ntouka
A single footprint from 1966 complicates every theory about the Congo's horned swamp beast
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Flathead Lake Monster: Montana’s Deep-Water Cryptid Legend
Flathead Lake sits in the Mission Valley of northwestern Montana, cradled between the Mission Mountains to the east and the Salish Mountains to the west.…
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Bessie the Lake Erie Monster: Great Lakes Cryptid Lore and Sightings
Lake Erie does not feel like monster country. It is the shallowest, warmest, and most intensively used of the Great Lakes, bordered by Cleveland, Toledo,…
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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 American Southwest is a landscape of extreme conditions: heat, aridity, dramatic geological formations, and vast distances between population centres....
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Goatman Bridge Legend: Crybaby Bridges, Dark Roads, and Cryptid Folklore
Old Alton Bridge in Denton County, Texas sits on a now-unpaved road between the towns of Copper Canyon and Denton, crossing Hickory Creek in a…
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