๐ฆถ Cryptids of United States
๏ผ File sighting37 cryptids and mysterious creatures reported in United States, with their legends and sightings.
The Squonk is a wretchedly ugly, tear-soaked creature said to wander the hemlock forests of northern Pennsylvania, its loose, ill-fitting skin cove...
The Piasa Bird is a winged, dragon-like monster painted onto the limestone bluffs above the Mississippi River near present-day Alton, Illinois. Fre...
Montana's Flathead Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake in the western United States, has hosted stories of a large, dark, serpentine or hump-...
Along the Utah-Idaho border, settlers of the Bear Lake valley have described a serpentine creature since at least 1868, when local Mormon pioneer a...
Among the Ioway and other Plains peoples, the shunka warak'in โ roughly "carries off dogs" โ was described as a dark, hyena-like or wolf-like beast...
Since at least 1915, and with a major wave of sightings in 1937, residents near Newport, Arkansas, have reported a massive gray creature โ describe...
Deep in the Ozark Mountains spanning Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, rural residents have long described a stocky, black, bear-sized creature wit...
In 1949, the small farming town of Churubusco, Indiana, was gripped by "Oscar Fever" after farmer Gale Harris claimed to have seen an enormous snap...
Across the Rust Belt and New England, local legend tells of Melon Heads โ small, pale humanoids with bulbous, swollen heads and thin bodies said to...
In July 1972, the small Mississippi River town of Louisiana, Missouri, became briefly famous when several residents reported a seven-foot, black-fu...
Deep in the bayous of Acadiana, Cajun French settlers preserved the medieval European loup-garou legend, but gave it a swamp accent: the rougarou, ...
In Navajo (Dinรฉ) tradition, the yee naaldlooshii โ literally "it goes on all fours" โ is a malevolent witch who has broken the deepest taboos of th...
Tahoe Tessie is the affectionate nickname for a serpent-like lake monster said to inhabit Lake Tahoe, the deep alpine lake straddling the Californi...
The Goatman is a legendary humanoid with the head and horns of a goat and the body of a man, said to roam wooded areas and back roads, most famousl...
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 a modern cryptid known from a pair of short home-video clips, apparently filmed in a backyard in Fresno, California, sho...
Altamaha-ha, affectionately nicknamed Altie, is a serpent-like river monster said to inhabit the Altamaha River near Darien, on the Georgia coast. ...
The Wampus Cat is a fearsome feline creature from Appalachian and Cherokee-influenced folklore, described as a large cat-like beast that walks upri...
The Enfield Horror is a cryptid reportedly seen around the small town of Enfield, Illinois, in the spring of 1973, with the first and most detailed...
The Pope Lick Monster is a legendary humanoid creature said to lurk beneath the railroad trestle built in 1929 that spans Pope Lick Creek near Loui...
The Honey Island Swamp Monster is a reputed swamp-dwelling creature said to inhabit the dense, largely undeveloped wetlands of the Honey Island Swa...
The Fouke Monster is a Bigfoot-type creature said to haunt the swamps and bottomlands around the small town of Fouke in southwest Arkansas, describ...
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 fearsome hybrid creature from Maryland folklore, typically pictured as part bird and part reptile, with a metallic beak, tent...
The Michigan Dogman is described as a large, muscular canine-like creature that walks upright on two legs, standing roughly seven feet tall with a ...
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...
The Thunderbird is a colossal bird from Native American oral tradition, described across many tribes as a raptor-like being with a wingspan wide en...
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 belongs to the broader American 'dogman' tradition: a bipedal, wolf- or dog-headed creature said to prowl rural roads near E...
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, ...