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Cryptids
Stories and accounts connected to cryptids.
UFOs & Encounters
The Flatwoods Monster: What Did They Encounter on the Hill in 1952?
On September 12, 1952, a group of children in Flatwoods, West Virginia, watched a brilliant object cross the evening sky and appear to descend onto a nearby hill. When they climbed the hill with two adults, they encountered a towering figure with a glowing face, strange eyes, and a dark hood-like shape. They ran. Within days, the Braxton County Monster became national news.
Folklore & Legends
The Jersey Devil: The Monster That Haunted the Pine Barrens
For centuries, stories have described a winged creature stalking the forests of southern New Jersey: a horse-headed, bat-winged thing supposedly born as the cursed thirteenth child of Mother Leeds. But the history behind the Jersey Devil may be stranger than the legend. Religious feuds, colonial politics, Benjamin Franklin, newspaper hysteria, hoaxes, and a remarkable week in January 1909 all helped transform the Leeds Devil into one of America's most famous monsters.
Folklore & Legends
Mothman: The Winged Creature That Haunted Point Pleasant
In November 1966, two young couples near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, reported a towering winged figure with glowing red eyes beside an abandoned World War II munitions plant. Over the next thirteen months came more sightings, UFO reports, strange phone calls, Men in Black stories, and warnings of disaster. Then the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River, killing 46 people. The creature became known as Mothman.
Folklore & Legends
The Wendigo: The Insatiable Hunger in the Northern Woods
Long before the Wendigo became an antlered monster of modern horror, stories across several Algonquian-speaking cultures described something more disturbing: a cannibalistic being of winter, starvation, greed, and endless hunger. Humans could become Wendigos, communities feared them, and historical cases ended in real deaths. The legend has survived for centuries—but the creature most people picture today is not the one found in the oldest traditions.
Cryptids
Footprints Beside the Frozen River
The tracks began at the water's edge and disappeared halfway across the ice.
Cryptids
The Patterson–Gimlin Film
In October 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed a large unidentified figure walking through a Northern California river canyon. More than half a century later, the short film remains one of the most debated pieces of alleged Bigfoot evidence.