Region // 43 files

North America

Modern cryptozoology's reigning continent: Bigfoot rules immense forests, every state grows its local monster, and the fearsome critters were born in its logging camps. Nearly half the archive concentrates here.

• Case file Nº001 1958

  Bigfoot

  Hominid / 41.44°N 123.87°W

  A giant forest hominid of the Pacific Northwest — filmed once, never caught, argued over for sixty years.

  Class 3

• 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 Nº004 1966

  Mothman

  Aerial / 38.85°N 82.14°W

  A red-eyed winged figure reported around Point Pleasant in 1966-67, tied to the Silver Bridge disaster only after the fact.

  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 Nº006 1995

  Chupacabra

  Critter / 18.38°N 65.90°W

  The "goat-sucker" born in Puerto Rico in 1995 — every carcass tested has come back as a mange-ridden canid, identified by DNA.

  Class 4

• 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 Nº010 1955

  Loveland Frogman

  Aquatic / 39.27°N 84.26°W

  Ohio's bipedal "frog", seen by two police officers in 1972 — the second later explained he had shot an escaped pet iguana.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº011 années 1960

  Skunk Ape

  Hominid / 25.90°N 81.30°W

  Florida's foul-smelling swamp ape — reported since the 1960s, photographed under dispute, never verified.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº012 1971

  Fouke Monster

  Hominid / 33.26°N 93.89°W

  Arkansas's swamp-bottom wild man — famous since a reported 1971 attack and a 1972 drive-in film, never substantiated.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº013 1903

  Mogollon Monster

  Hominid / 34.24°N 111.32°W

  Arizona's high-forest bigfoot, reported along the Mogollon Rim since 1903 — a century of testimony with no physical trace.

  Class 2

• 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 Nº016 1969

  Lake Worth Monster

  Hominid / 32.80°N 97.45°W

  The white 'goat-man' that gripped Fort Worth in the summer of 1969 — a flash flap, one blurry photo, a hoax suspected but never proven.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº017 1893

  Hodag

  Critter / 45.64°N 89.41°W

  Wisconsin's horned beast — Eugene Shepard's confessed 1893-1896 hoax, now the proud official symbol of Rhinelander.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº018 1909

  Snallygaster

  Aerial / 39.44°N 77.55°W

  Maryland's dragon-bird — a documented 1909 newspaper hoax grafted onto German-American folklore and weaponised in the Jim Crow era.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº019 Début du XXe siècle

  Wampus Cat

  Phantom cat / 35.96°N 83.92°W

  Appalachia's phantom cat — half woman, half cougar in some tellings — a living oral tradition with no sighting file behind it.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº020 1910

  Squonk

  Critter / 41.66°N 77.95°W

  The saddest creature in American folklore, dissolving into tears when caught — a documented literary invention of 1910.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº021 Folklore ancien

  Thunderbird

  Aerial / 40.22°N 89.28°W

  Impossibly large birds reported across the United States — waves of testimony, but not one feather or verifiable photo.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº022 1994

  Batsquatch

  Aerial / 46.99°N 122.23°W

  A winged, ape-faced giant reported near Mount St. Helens — a file resting almost entirely on one 1994 witness.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº023 XIXe siècle

  Sheepsquatch

  Critter / 38.03°N 81.71°W

  A woolly white, ram-horned beast of Appalachian back roads — old "White Thing" folklore revived by a cluster of 1990s sightings.

  Class 2

• 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 Nº027 1872

  Ogopogo

  Aquatic / 49.77°N 119.72°W

  The serpent of Okanagan Lake: a sacred Syilx water spirit turned tourist emblem — often filmed, never identified.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº028 1819

  Champ

  Aquatic / 44.05°N 73.46°W

  America's Nessie, anchored by the 1977 Mansi photograph — genuine, striking, and entirely compatible with a waterlogged log.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº029 XXe siècle

  Manipogo

  Aquatic / 51.00°N 98.80°W

  The serpent of Manitoba's lakes, named in 1957 after Ogopogo — decades of reports, one blurry photo, nothing more.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº030 1816

  Memphre

  Aquatic / 45.05°N 72.27°W

  The serpent of Lake Memphremagog, curated by a diver-archivist who logged two centuries of sightings — and never once met his creature.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº031 1933

  Cadborosaurus

  Aquatic / 48.46°N 123.29°W

  British Columbia's sea serpent: centuries of coastal accounts, one carcass photographed in 1937, still no specimen.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº032 Années 1920

  Altamaha-ha

  Aquatic / 31.35°N 81.44°W

  Georgia's river monster: a century of sightings on the Altamaha, with a giant sturgeon as the leading suspect.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº033 1868

  Bear Lake Monster

  Aquatic / 41.95°N 111.33°W

  A lake serpent invented in an 1868 newspaper piece; author Joseph C. Rich later confessed the hoax. A solved case turned tourist folklore.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº038 Folklore ancien

  Lusca

  Aquatic / 24.70°N 77.90°W

  The blue-hole monster of Bahamian folklore, part octopus, part shark; tidal currents account for most of the file.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº039 1638

  Gloucester sea serpent

  Aquatic / 42.61°N 70.66°W

  In August 1817 dozens of Gloucester residents swore to a sea serpent in the harbor; the learned inquiry ended in a zoological fiasco.

  Class 2

• Case file Nº040 1741

  Steller's sea ape

  Critter / 55.10°N 159.75°W

  A sea animal seen once, in 1741, by naturalist G.W. Steller — most likely a young fur seal with its flippers out of sight.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº043 1936

  Chessie

  Aquatic / 38.97°N 76.33°W

  A sea serpent reported in Chesapeake Bay since 1936; the 1982 videotape remains 'animate but unidentifiable'.

  Class 3

• Case file Nº086 1932

  Jackalope

  Critter / 42.76°N 105.38°W

  Wyoming's antlered rabbit, invented as taxidermy by the Herrick brothers in 1932 — yet 'horned' rabbits genuinely exist.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº087 1910

  Hidebehind

  Critter / 46.78°N 92.11°W

  The logging-camp predator nobody has ever seen — always hidden behind something, by definition. A documented folk invention.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº088 1910

  Cactus Cat

  Critter / 32.22°N 110.97°W

  The spine-furred desert cat that gets drunk on fermented cactus sap — a campfire invention of the Southwest, printed in 1910.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº089 1910

  Slide-Rock Bolter

  Critter / 37.69°N 108.03°W

  Colorado's mountain whale, tobogganing down slopes mouth-first — an openly invented lumberwoods tall tale, printed in 1910.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº091 XIXe siècle

  Fearsome Critters

  Critter / 45.64°N 89.41°W

  The tall-tale bestiary of American logging camps — creatures invented for laughs, catalogued as pure folklore as early as 1910.

  Class 5

• 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