Category // 19 files

Entity

Not quite animals, not quite spirits: entities escape the categories. Goatmen under bridges, spectral black dogs, one-night visitors never seen again. These files say less about fauna than about fear, rumour and the memory of places.

• Case file Nº002 1887

  Michigan Dogman

  Entity / 44.33°N 85.58°W

  A bipedal canid reported in Michigan's northwoods since 1887, revived by a 1987 radio song — never backed by physical evidence.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº003 1936

  Beast of Bray Road

  Entity / 42.67°N 88.54°W

  An upright wolf-like animal reported on a rural Wisconsin road from 1989 to 1992, chronicled by a local journalist, never substantiated.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº005 1735 (légende)

  Jersey Devil

  Entity / 39.54°N 74.44°W

  A winged creature of Pine Barrens colonial folklore, born of an 18th-century family feud and "seen" by hundreds in 1909.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº007 1952

  Flatwoods Monster

  Entity / 38.72°N 80.65°W

  The towering "entity" of one 1952 West Virginia night — since reconstructed as a bright meteor followed by a startled barn owl.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº008 1977

  Dover Demon

  Entity / 42.25°N 71.28°W

  A small, big-headed creature seen by three teenagers within 25 hours in April 1977 in Dover, Massachusetts — never seen again.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº009 2007

  Fresno Nightcrawler

  Entity / 36.75°N 119.77°W

  Two blurry security videos of white "walking pants" gliding through California nights — most likely puppetry, never proven either way.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº014 1971

  Maryland Goatman

  Entity / 38.98°N 76.77°W

  The axe-wielding goat-man of Maryland's back roads — an urban legend on record since 1971, with no physical evidence behind it.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº015 XXe siècle

  Pope Lick Monster

  Entity / 38.22°N 85.51°W

  The goat-man of a Louisville railroad trestle — pure urban legend attached to a bridge that has genuinely killed monster-hunters.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº024 1973

  Enfield Horror

  Entity / 38.10°N 88.34°W

  A grey, pink-eyed creature said to have clawed at a Enfield, Illinois door in April 1973 — ten days of frenzy, then nothing.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº025 1964

  Grafton Monster

  Entity / 39.34°N 80.02°W

  A headless-looking white mass glimpsed at night by a reporter in 1964 Grafton — a week of monster hunts, no trace left behind.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº067 Folklore ancien

  Bunyip

  Entity / 35.43°S 139.13°E

  An Aboriginal water being turned colonial monster; stray seals and booming bitterns account for most reports.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº076 1764

  Beast of Gévaudan

  Entity / 44.93°N 3.49°E

  The Gévaudan attacks of 1764-1767 killed about a hundred people — historical fact; only the animal's identity is still debated.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº077 1577

  Black Shuck

  Entity / 52.46°N 1.44°E

  East Anglia's spectral black dog, a folkloric death omen made famous by the deadly storm at Bungay and Blythburgh in 1577.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº092 1899

  Phantom Kangaroo

  Entity / 41.88°N 87.63°W

  Kangaroos sighted far from Australia since 1899 — best explained by escaped or feral wallabies, never by an unknown species.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº094 1955

  Kelly–Hopkinsville Goblins

  Entity / 36.90°N 87.47°W

  A Kentucky farm family besieged by 'goblins' in 1955 — a classic case now best explained by territorial great horned owls.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº095 1962

  Kinderhook Blob

  Entity / 42.40°N 73.70°W

  A floating white shape reported around Kinderhook, New York, from 1962 into the late 1970s — a handful of witnesses, no trace.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº096 1973

  Sandown Clown

  Entity / 50.66°N 1.16°W

  In 1973 two children on the Isle of Wight described meeting 'Sam', a clown-like figure never seen again — a one-off case file.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº098 2007

  Ningen

  Entity / 65.00°S 145.00°E

  A giant white humanoid of Antarctic seas, born on the 2channel forum in 2007 — an internet cryptid with no identified witness.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº100 1919

  Atmospheric Beasts

  Entity / 34.33°N 116.39°W

  The conjecture that living organisms drift in the upper air, from Fort to Constable — speculation never backed by a specimen.

  Class 1