North America

The towering ape-man of the Pacific Northwest, glimpsed in fog and legend for centuries.

A winged humanoid with blazing red eyes, haunting Point Pleasant before disaster struck.

The largest shark that ever lived went extinct 3.6 million years ago, unless the deep ocean is hiding something.

A Navajo witch who wears the skins of animals and walks between worlds.

A gaunt, insatiable spirit of the frozen north that was once human.

The blood-draining predator that left livestock drained across Latin America.

A bat-winged, hoofed terror born from a colonial curse in the Pine Barrens.

An upright canine terror first reported in 1887, stalking Michigan's north woods ever since.

A colossal bird from indigenous legend with a wingspan that blots out the sun.

Florida's foul-smelling answer to Bigfoot, lurking in the Everglades heat.

A pair of impossibly long legs walking through the night, captured on security cameras.

The antlered rabbit of the American West, born from taxidermy humor and frontier tall tales.

Louisiana's Cajun werewolf stalks the bayou, cursing the sinful and haunting those who break Lent.

A red-eyed winged humanoid haunting the skies above Chicago since 2011.

The hairy hominid of Boggy Creek, Arkansas, that inspired one of horror's first docudramas.

A watermelon-headed creature spotted three times in two nights, then never again.

America's own lake monster, surfacing in the waters between Vermont and New York.

Canada's answer to Nessie, coiling through the depths of Okanagan Lake.

Two fishermen claim robotic, claw-handed beings floated them aboard a craft in 1973.

A small, troll-like trickster from Wampanoag legend that lures victims off cliffs.

A six-legged panther-witch from Cherokee legend that screams through Appalachian hollows.

A half-bird, half-reptile terror from Maryland with a taste for livestock and legend.

A shaggy, upright canine prowling a rural Wisconsin road since the 1980s.

Towering shadow figures that haunt California's Santa Lucia ridgelines at dusk — and vanish the moment you look directly at them.

A towering, ace-of-spades-headed figure that appeared after a UFO streaked overhead.

Hundreds of witnesses watched a giant serpent patrol Gloucester Harbor for weeks in 1817.

A half-man, half-goat said to roam the back roads of Maryland with an axe.

A web-footed, amber-eyed beast haunting one of America's most pristine swamps.

A blood-stained, three-toed giant that terrorized a small Missouri town in the summer of 1972.

A dragon-bird painted on Mississippi River bluffs by the Illini, feared as a man-eater.

A spiny, fire-born beast from the Wisconsin woods with a taste for white bulldogs.

Small silver beings that besieged a Kentucky farmhouse for hours in 1955.

A 7-foot reptilian biped that attacked a teen's car in a South Carolina swamp.

A horned, shaggy beast whose eerie howl echoes through the Ozark hills at night.

A winged, light-emitting creature that besieged a small Iowa town for three nights in 1903.

A purple-skinned, bat-winged ape seen near Mount St. Helens after the eruption.

A serpentine lake dweller hiding in the frigid depths of Lake Tahoe since Washoe legend.

A horse-headed sea serpent weaving through the waters of the Pacific Northwest.

A scaly, goat-like creature that charged a crowd of onlookers at a Texas lake in 1969.

A bipedal frog-like humanoid spotted by police on an Ohio road at night.

A woolly, horned quadruped lurking in the hills of West Virginia since the 1990s.

Hunted to extinction just 27 years after Western science discovered it, some believe pockets of this gentle giant survive in remote Arctic waters.

Georgia's river serpent, a long-necked mystery lurking in the murky Altamaha.

The largest Great Lake may harbor the largest Great Lake monster, a creature linked to Ojibwe legends of the underwater panther.

A massive, foul-smelling humanoid stalking the Mojave near Joshua Tree, where the desert watches back.

A serpentine terror of Bear Lake, first reported by Mormon settlers and Shoshone alike.

Massive, fleshy, unidentifiable masses that wash ashore worldwide, defying easy explanation until the lab results come in.

Lake Manitoba's serpentine lake monster has been reported by Indigenous communities for centuries and photographed at least twice.

A half-man, half-goat lurking beneath a railway trestle in Louisville.

An enormous gray creature that churned the White River and earned state legal protection.

A lake monster lurks in the cross-border waters of Lake Memphremagog, spotted from both the Quebec and Vermont shores.

A headless, pale giant spotted lumbering through a West Virginia town in 1964.

Something massive moves beneath Alaska's largest lake, and the locals know to stay clear.

A giant snapping turtle the size of a dining table, spotted in an Indiana farm pond.

A three-legged, gray-skinned creature that terrorized an Illinois town for three nights.

A Bigfoot-like creature with a distinctive blonde mane has been spotted near mining towns in northern Ontario since the 1900s.

A whale-shaped mountain predator that slides down Colorado slopes to swallow hikers whole.

A 40-foot beast in a shallow Nebraska lake, where something that size should have nowhere to hide.