May 26, 2013

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The Jersey Devil

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The portrait of the monster is beyond imagination: a creature with a horse’s head, two small arms, a forked tail, and leathery wings. It became known as the Jersey Devil.

The Loch Ness Monster

1934 photo of Nessie taken by Dr. Robert K. Wilson

The first flurry of the Loch Ness Monster sightings, or Nessie, coincided with the completion of the roads alongside the loch in the first half of the 20th century.

The Bloop Mystery

The Bloop Spectrogram courtesy of the NOAA

The Bloop — its very name sounds mundane or, at most, something that isn’t proper to bring up in polite society.

Evidence of Bigfoot

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A giant ape-like creature with human posture, covered in hair and notoriously elusive, Bigfoot is both terrifying and amazing, but is it real?

The Mothman

The Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, West Virginia

In the following months, the creature would continue to appear and terrify the residents of the area. Writer John Keel claimed that no less than 100 people had some kind of encounter with Mothman.

The History of the Werewolf Legend

King Lycaon being turned into a wolf

The legend of the werewolf has sprung up independently or spread to virtually every area of the Earth. It is also one of the oldest legends of human monsters in recorded history.