Cryptids & Unknown Creatures of the World
Nessie, Bigfoot, the Chupacabra and the Yeren — creatures science hasn't confirmed and folklore won't release.
Leeds Point — The Leeds Devil's Birthplace
A · Galloway Township, New Jersey, United States — The Pine Barrens hamlet where, by New Jersey's official state legend, Mother Leeds's thirteenth child was born in 1735 — and flew up the chimney as the Jersey Devil.…
Lake Tele — Mokèlé-mbèmbé, the One Who Stops the Flow of Rivers
B · Likouala Department (Lake Télé Community Reserve), Republic of the Congo — In the flooded forests and lakes of the Likouala interior lives Africa's most famous cryptid: the mokèlé-mbèmbé of Bantu legend, a water spirit half elephant and half serpent, its …
Point Pleasant — Thirteen Months of the Mothman
A · Main Street, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, United States — For thirteen months between November 1966 and December 1967 the Ohio river town of Point Pleasant saw America's biggest cryptid sighting wave — a seven-foot winged figure with glow…
Flatwoods — The Braxton County Monster
B · Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia, United States — On the evening of 12 September 1952, seven named witnesses — the brothers May, their mother Kathleen, a National Guardsman and the neighbourhood children — climbed a Flatwoods hill…
Canóvanas — Where the Chupacabra Was Born
B · Canóvanas, Puerto Rico (fold: United States), United States — The town where the world's most famous modern monster began: in March 1995, eight sheep died near Canóvanas with puncture wounds and no blood, and within three months the reports h…
Dover, Massachusetts — Twenty-Five Hours of the Dover Demon
B · Dover, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States — Over twenty-five hours in April 1977, four Dover teenagers in three separate encounters reported a hairless creature with a watermelon-shaped head and glowing eyes — a case built o…
Loveland, Ohio — The Frogman of the Little Miami
B · Loveland, Clermont/Hamilton/Warren counties, Ohio, United States — Ohio's beloved river cryptid: the legend of the four-foot frog-faced men of the Little Miami — first reported by a motorist in 1955 — made canonical in 1972 when two Loveland polic…
Loch Ness — Nessie, the World's Most Searched-For Animal
A · Urquhart Bay, Loch Ness, Highlands, Scotland — The world's most famous cryptid lives in Britain's largest lake — a serpentine animal reported from a shore road that opened in 1933 and never closed again: the Spicer land sightin…
Bluff Creek — Bigfoot and the Fifty-Nine Seconds that Started Fifty Years
A · Bluff Creek, Six Rivers National Forest, Del Norte County, California, United States — The world's most famous wildman, anchored at the creek where the famous film was shot: on 20 October 1967, at Bluff Creek in northern California, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin ret…
Pangboche — The Yeti's Monastery
B · Pangboche, Solukhumbu District, Khumbu, Nepal — The Abominable Snowman of the high Himalaya, anchored at the Sherpa monastery that kept its relics: the village of Pangboche in the Khumbu held the yeti's scalp and withered hand t…
Okanagan Lake — N'ha-a-itk, the Ogopogo
B · Okanagan Lake (Kelowna), British Columbia, Canada — Canada's lake monster and one of the world's most institutionally adopted: the serpentine being of Okanagan Lake that the Syilx (Okanagan) people have known for thousands of years …
Port Henry — Champ, the Lake Champlain Monster
B · Port Henry, Essex County, New York, United States — America's lake monster, on the hundred-mile lake between New York and Vermont: a serpentine being in the file since Samuel de Champlain's own era, the town of Port Henry as its sel…
Shennongjia — The Yeren, China's Wild Man and Its State Expeditions
B · Shennongjia Forestry District, Hubei, China — The wild man of the Shennongjia forests — China's Bigfoot, red-haired and man-shaped, recorded in the region's texts for two millennia and in the modern file since 1976, when a car…
Springbrook — The Yowie and the Senator's Classroom
B · Springbrook, Gold Coast hinterland, Queensland, Australia — Australia's wildman: the yowie of the Aboriginal canon — the hairy man-beings the first nations' traditions placed in the ranges long before the colony — and of a sighting file tha…
Heaven Lake — The Tianchi Monster of Changbai
B · Heaven Lake, Changbai/Paektu Mountain (Jilin/North Korean border), China — The crater lake atop Changbai Mountain — Heaven Lake, Tianchi, a volcanic caldera two kilometres wide at the summit of the border mountain — and China's flagship lake monster: firs…
The Amazon of Acre — The Mapinguari's Ground
B · Acre (Rio Branco gateway), Western Amazonia, Brazil — The great ground-sloth-shaped legend of the Amazon: the mapinguari, a huge, foul-smelling, one-eyed or mouth-bellied being of the Indigenous and rubber-tapper traditions — tracked …
The Aare Gorge — The Tatzelwurm's Alps
B · Aareschlucht, Meiringen, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland — The Alps' cat-faced serpent, three centuries in the naturalists' margins: the tatzelwurm — the 'claw-worm' or Stollenwurm of Swiss and Austrian valley tradition, a stubby, lizard- …
Lake Van — The Soda Lake's Serpent
B · Lake Van, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey — Turkey's great soda lake and its ancient serpent: the vishap water-dragons of the Armenian highland tradition, an 1889 Ottoman newspaper report of a lake-dweller that dragged a man…