๐ฆถ Cryptids of United States
๏ผ File sighting36 cryptids and mysterious creatures reported in United States, with their legends and sightings.
The squonk is not a sighting, it is a signed joke โ and the signatures are the interesting part. Its entire life fits on page 31 of Fearsome Creatu...
In 1673 Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet saw two monsters painted on a limestone bluff above the Mississippi near present-day Alton, Illinois: a...
Montana's Flathead Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake by surface area in the western United States outside Alaska, and stories of a long, ...
The Bear Lake Monster has a birthday, an author and a newspaper. In the summer of 1868 Joseph Colton Rich โ son of the apostle who colonised the va...
This is one of the very few cryptid files with a physical specimen in it: a mounted, dark, wolf-like animal in a glass case at a small museum outsi...
Newport, Arkansas spent the summer of 1937 charging visitors twenty-five cents to stare at a bend in the White River. The story did not start with ...
The Ozark Howler is said to be a bear-sized black beast with shaggy fur, glowing eyes, a goat-like beard and horns, whose cry carries down the holl...
In July 1948 two men fishing on Fulk Lake, near Churubusco in north-eastern Indiana, said they had seen a snapping turtle the size of a dining tabl...
On the afternoon of Tuesday 11 July 1972, in the Mississippi river town of Louisiana, Missouri, Doris Harrison, 15, heard her younger brothers Terr...
The rougarou of French Louisiana is not an animal waiting to be described. It is a person: someone bitten, cursed or condemned for his own conduct,...
The yee naaldlooshii is not a creature. In Dinรฉ (Navajo) belief it is a person: a witch of what Clyde Kluckhohn called Witchery Way, a neighbour wi...
Tahoe Tessie is the nickname of a supposed serpentine creature in Lake Tahoe, on the California-Nevada line. The nickname is documented and recent:...
Goatman is the name shared by two unrelated American legends. In Prince George's County, Maryland, a goat-headed figure was blamed for the death of...
The Jackalope is a whimsical hybrid creature of American folklore, depicted as an ordinary jackrabbit sporting a pair of antelope or deer-like horn...
The Fresno Nightcrawler is the rarest thing in cryptozoology: a creature whose origin can be dated to the month. In November 2007 a man in south-ea...
Altamaha-ha โ โAltieโ โ is a serpent-shaped river monster said to live in the tidal creeks and abandoned rice canals at the mouth of the Altamaha R...
The wampus cat is usually introduced as an ancient Cherokee legend: a woman who spied on a men's ritual and was condemned to wear a panther's skin....
On the night of Wednesday 25 April 1973, Henry McDaniel, a fifty-year-old antique dealer in the village of Enfield, Illinois, heard something scrat...
The Pope Lick Monster is a Kentucky legend about a part-man, part-goat creature said to live beneath a railway trestle east of Louisville, and it i...
The Honey Island Swamp Monster is a hairy, upright animal, said to stand about seven feet tall and to have large amber eyes, reported from the floo...
The Fouke Monster is a Bigfoot-type creature reported in the creek bottoms around Fouke, a town of some 800 people eleven miles south of Texarkana,...
The Hodag is a squat, spiny beast from Wisconsin lumberjack folklore, described as having the head of a frog, the face of an elephant-like grin ful...
The Snallygaster is a winged monster of western Maryland folklore, usually pictured as half bird and half reptile, with an enormous wingspan and gr...
The Michigan Dogman is a cryptid of the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, described as a seven-foot bipedal animal with the head of a dog or wo...
The Wendigo is a gaunt, emaciated humanoid of Algonquian folklore, said to stand far taller than a man, with grey or ash-colored skin stretched tig...
In April 1948 four people in Illinois told United Press they had seen a bird bigger than an airplane. The best-known of them, Col. W. F. Siegmund, ...
The Skunk Ape is Florida's answer to Bigfoot: a large, hairy, ape-like biped said to roam the swamps and hammocks of the Everglades and other wetla...
The Loveland Frog is an Ohio legend tied to the town of Loveland, along the Little Miami River, with roots reaching back to a 1955 account by a loc...
The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp is a modern Southern legend rooted in Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina, dating to the summer of 1988. The ...
The Beast of Bray Road has an unusually precise birth certificate: pages 28 and 29 of The Week, a Walworth County Sunday paper, on 29 December 1991...
The Dover Demon is one of the shortest-lived but most vivid cryptid cases in American folklore, born from a single weekend in the quiet suburb of D...
The Flatwoods Monster, also nicknamed the "Braxton County Monster," refers to a tall figure reportedly seen near Flatwoods, West Virginia, in Septe...
Champ is the name given to a supposed lake monster inhabiting Lake Champlain, on the border of New York, Vermont, and Quebec, generally described a...
The Jersey Devil is a chimeric creature said to roam the sandy Pine Barrens of New Jersey: a kangaroo-like body on hooves, small forelegs, bat-like...
Mothman is a winged, humanoid creature said to have haunted the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, described by witnesses as roughly man-...
Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, is a towering, hair-covered, ape-like humanoid said to roam the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, ...