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Folklore
Other longtime residents are said to have their own stories.
Folklore
The witness notes the Fouke monster legend is well known in the area.
UFO sighting
The guest retold an Aboriginal legend from a plaque at Coolatops National Park about a god in a ball of light cruising treetops. Seven women climbed trees for a better view and were taken up into the stars to become the Pleiades, one dimmer star being the less pretty woman.
Sasquatch sighting in North Dakota
As a six or seven year old at a North Dakota gathering, the guest heard an announcer tell in the traditional language how a boy playing with cousins along a creek was chased and taken by a Bigfoot. A multi-day search party was lured and misled by mimicked voices and bonfire activity, and the child was never found.
Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia
A contact told the guest a story heard from elders about a smallpox period when a Bigfoot family brought diseased young and sick adults to the edge of a human village seeking help. The humans were also pocked and dying and could do nothing, so the family turned and walked back into the bush.
Folklore near Lovelock, Nevada
The hosts retell tribal accounts of tall red-haired cannibalistic giants who trapped and ate local people and were eventually trapped in a cave, burned and killed after a multi-year war. Later miners reportedly found large mummies, oversized sandals and artifacts, and a large hand-like mark was seen on the cave wall.
Folklore
The witness recalled a school rumor that a sasquatch lived in a nearby park.
Scream
Locals have long called a wooded stretch along the river the Monkey Den after reportedly being screamed at there for many years.
Folklore
Local lore told of a swamp monster called orange eyes living in the river bottom.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
A few years after the 1918 incident the community reportedly captured another hair-covered figure in the same swamp area. The teller suggests this individual and the 1918 figure were humans with a hair-growth condition from a family that arrived in 1901, distinct from the original 1884 wild man.
Sasquatch sighting near Waynesville
An old mountain legend tells of a hairy creature living near a hotel that collected gems in a cave. Guests sometimes saw it watching women bathing in a creek. One woman went to live with it and they had children before greed for gems ended the relationship.
Scream
People have reported late-night screams in late fall and early winter from a valley north of town, locally nicknamed for a screaming woman.
Sasquatch sighting
State mappers reportedly found caves in the marsh with 15 to 20 gutted deer carcasses stacked outside and left the area.
Sasquatch sighting near Bovey, Minnesota
Local residents tell a traditional story of a young person lost in the swamp said to have survived there, with hunters and others reporting sightings and nighttime sounds over the years.
Folklore
An old local legend around the Payson area tells of a large hairy creature near the rim that attacks people.
Folklore
Elders reportedly say homes now stand where trails were once walked.
Cryptid sighting near Tripp County
Long ago before horses, a thirty-foot giant attacked a small village at night, destroying lodges and swallowing several women whole. Eight men tracked him, dug a massive trench, lured him to trip into it, and buried him with rocks and earth until he suffocated. They cut open his belly to recover the women, and his grave is said to be a lone oblong butte.
Folklore
Locals and early settlers told of a legend that stole hogs and cattle and ruined gardens.
Folklore
The witness stated similar animals have been seen in the area for many years and locals refer to them by a traditional wildman name.
Folklore near Bosque County
Older residents told stories of a wild man in the area that the witness had dismissed as tales to scare kids.