Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch, Skunk Ape, and Grass Man are a few names we call this furry humanoid creature. There have been sightings all over the world. Videos have made their way onto Youtube and the internet. Most of the sightings in the states have come out of the Pacific Northwest. What many people don’t know ...

I have family living in Richmond, Virginia. I have visited them during the holidays. Richmond also houses the museum of my favorite author and hero, Edgar Allan Poe. The museum has been on my bucket list of places I want to see but haven’t yet. I wonder if Poe haunts the museum. With Richmond’s bloody ...

San Antonio, Texas, brings to mind the Alamo and the River Walk. I took a trip out to San Antonio and had a blast at both places. I never knew about the unusual cryptid that haunted the outskirts of San Antonio.  The Donkey Lady haunts a bridge just outside the city. It is an isolated ...

Content Warning: The following work of fiction contains themes of violence, distribution against the disabled, and child abuse. The story you are about to read is fictionalized. However, there are cases of children being subjected to unethical medical procedures and unfair treatment due to societal stigma.   Stella loved to listen to the rain hitting the ...

It has been an exhausting day, and you are ready for a good night’s sleep. Your tired body sinks into the soft mattress, and you drift into dreamland. However, something wakes you up out of a sound sleep. You jerk upwards. Well, you try to, but you cannot move.  You cannot scream or move, and ...

This week’s cryptid comes from the tiny state of Rhode Island. Well, it was supposed to be a cryptid. However, during my research, I came across a fascinating story.  New England got battered in the 1800s by Tuberculosis. Although, the New Englanders called it consumption. The deadly disease ate the life force of its victims. ...

I researched North Dakota’s cryptids for this week’s article, and there are a couple of interesting ones. The one that is the most fascinating is the Miniwashitu. The Miniwashitu is a famous Native American legend passed down by the Dakota tribe. A river monster that terrorized the Missouri River, and Melvin Randolph Gilmore wrote a ...

New York has two fascinating lake monsters worth writing about. I only have time this week to write about one, so I will be writing about ‘Champ.’ Champ haunts Lake Chaplain in upper New York. He shares similar characteristics with Nessie of Loch Ness monster fame. Like the Highlands of Scotland, the cities and towns ...

It has been an exciting journey researching monsters from across the United States. This week’s monster, though, isn’t a cryptid; it is a lake. You read correctly. The monster lake is Pyramid Lake, an enclosed lake 15 miles long and 11 miles wide. Its maximum depth is 350 feet deep, and the lake’s haunted. The ...

There have been numerous legends and stories about monster wolves throughout history. The ancient Dire Wolf lived in North America and Eastern Asia. It is larger than the average wolf, but did it die?  That is the question many scientists are asking themselves. Especially when there have been reports about a strange wolf-like creature called ...