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Description: The most famous of Appalachia cryptids, the big guy himself, BigFoot.

Description: The Loveland Frogman is a cryptid that looks like a big ol' frog-man.

Description: An imposing tall woman cryptid dressed in black. Huggin Molly doesn’t harm anyone—instead, she grabs folks, squeezes them tightly (hence the “hug”), and then screams loudly in their ears before vanishing.

Description: The Wood Booger is a bigfoot-like creature rumored to roam the forests of southwest #Virginia.

Description: A supernatural critter that is either a bigfoot or a supernatural figure who appears before storms with the appearance of a skeleton covered in electricity.

Description: The Devil Monkey is cryptid described as resembling a monkey with blackened, shaggy fur, a long tail, and devil-like features. It's said to screech loudly, perform high-speed leaps across trees, and attack livestock.

Description: The Phantom Hitchhiker of Roan Mountain is a vengeful spirit of a woman who was murdered in the Roan Mountains.

Description: Rumored to roam the remote Arkansas and Missouri woodlands, Ozark Howler is believed to be a "guardian" of the woods. The creature is said to resemble a cross between a bear/wolf with huge horns and a ferocious howl.

Description: In Appalachia there is a tale involving a trapper who cuts off and eats the tail of tailypo. The creature returns nightly, scratching and crying for its "tailypo" before ultimately taking its revenge on the trapper.

Description: From Wampanoag folklore, the name translates to "little wild man of the woods that vanishes" It's a wild critter of the woodlands said to look like a lil man.

Description: From South Carolina, the Boo Hag is a skinless vampire-witch that skulks around at night to steal your breath.

Description: Albatwitch lives near Columbia, Pennsylvania. It spends time in heavily forested areas sitting in trees, and they’re known for stealing apples from forest visitors.

Description: A mysterious pale-skinned nocturnal mountain dwellers cryptid who feared the sun. The Moon-Eyed People could simply be albinos of extraterrestrial inhabitants of the the ancient world.

Description: The Not Deer is best described as a creepy pasta turned cryptid. It's a deer that is not a deer. Looks like a run-a-the-mill deer then contorts into a carnivores monstrosity.

Description: The Grafton Monster is a cryptid from West Virginia said to be a across between an ape and stone.

Description: The Vegetable Man, a big mean green mother (possibly from outer space). West Virginia is filled with many beasties and this one is made of veggies. Warning: It aims to impale you with its spear-like fingers to drain your blood. The moral: Eat your vegetables before they eat you.

Description: The Men in Black are the ghosts, the government men, the ones who work from the shadows... and if they were government employees the bureaucracy and red tape would make the job an impossible venture. So them being aliens rather than covering up aliens would seem more plausible.

Description: The Wampus Cat is a six-legged feline haunting the mountains across Appalachia America. Stories of this creature varies from frightful to comical. Imagine the Totoro Catbus and it just knocks stuff off shelves.

Description: From areas such as Central Maryland, Berkeley County, West Virginia, and the Washington DC the snallygaster is a gnarly winged bird-reptile chimera and is rumored to have a cyclopean eye and tentacles that lurch from it's beak. This one happens to be part pigeon so just toss some seeds and you'll be fine as it coos about.

Description: The Sheepsquatch is a West Virginian cryptid, sometimes called the "White Thing". It's said to be basically a big foot with sheep features.

Description: September 1952, The Flatwoods monster was said to appear in the Flatwoods of Braxton County, West Virginia.

Description: West Virginia's most famous cryptid, The Mothman was first spotted in November 1966, near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where a pair of young couples reported seeing a winged creature with glowing red eyes.

Description: Winter, 1967, a Missouri farmer had an extraterrestrial experience with beings said to have the appearance of a green space penguins this is the Tuscumbia Space Penguin.

Description: Support your enjoyment of Isekai, the anime/manga genre that has you being spirited away to worlds of magic and wonder.

Description: In Journey to the West there is three demons based on animals. This is one of the three whose true form is a black bear.

Description: The Journey to the West is a path filled with demons. So... so many demons. The Lady Bone Demon is but one.

Description: Wife to Demon Bull King and mother to Red Son. The matriarch of the demon bull family. Princess Iron Fan.

Description: Husband to Princess Iron Fan and father to Red Son. The patriarch of the demon bull family. The Demon Bull King.

Description: Guardian of the monk. The legendary Monkey King.

Description: From China the Golden Cicada was banished to the Mortal-World to be reborn as a mortal monk and sent on the Journey to the West.

Description: A japanese yokai from the bones of warriors or travelers. Behold the bones of a fallen Ronin.

Description: An artifact spirit which manifests out of the emotions attached in piles of love letters stored in fuguruma carts.

Description: The Enenra is a Japanese yōkai made up of smoke from takibi bonfires which farmers light to dispose of the remains of their harvests. As the smoke rises, the smoke forms a human-like faces.

Description: A headless Japanese yokai with a face of an elderly man presented on it's abdomen.

Description: A Japanese yokai a paper lantern ghost based on a different form of Chochin style lantern.

Description: A Japanese yokai a paper lantern ghost based on a Chochin style lantern.