The Monster on the Bluffs: The Legend of the Piasa Bird in Alton, Illinois
A dragon painted on Mississippi River cliffs, and the tangled history of a much-embellished legend
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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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Melon Heads Urban Legend: Ohio, Michigan, and Connecticut
One creature, three states, and a shared anxiety hiding underneath the campfire scares.
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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 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 State Agency That Chose to Believe in Trolls
A blacksmith welded a monster to the Bay Bridge without permission. For twenty-four years, Caltrans quietly let it guard the span. The policy even had…
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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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Ogopogo Lake Monster: Canada’s Serpent Legend of Okanagan Lake
Before the Syilx people of the Okanagan Valley encounter any European who will later name it Ogopogo, they know it as N'ha-a-itk: the water demon.…
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White River Monster of Arkansas: Muddy Water, Old Reports, and Local Legend
The White River moves through the Arkansas Ozarks with a quality of ancient persistence: deep in places, opaque with limestone sediment, cutting through co...
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