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For generations, people living among the rugged mountains and remote ranches of northwestern Mexico told stories about a cat that didn't quite fit with the animals they already knew. They knew the jaguar. They knew the puma. And they knew the onza. The creature was said to roam the mountains of Sinaloa and the surrounding... Continue Reading →
Deep in the mountains of northern Italy, where old stone villages cling to the slopes and thick forests stretch into the Italian Alps, there is said to live a creature that spends most of the year hidden among the trees. Its name is the Badalisc. The legend belongs particularly to Andrista, a small village in... Continue Reading →
In October 1955, William Roe set out alone into the mountains of British Columbia. He had no idea that before the afternoon was over, he would find himself sitting only feet away from a creature he could neither comfortably call human nor animal and that the experience would remain with him strongly enough that he... Continue Reading →
The Wampus Cat is one of those Appalachian creatures whose story seems to change depending on which mountain, hollow, or small town you happen to be standing in. Sometimes it is described as an enormous black panther with glowing yellow or green eyes. Other accounts give it an almost human posture, capable of rising onto... Continue Reading →
High in the Himalayas in 1951, a group of experienced mountaineers stumbled upon something that would become one of the most famous mysteries in the history of cryptozoology. They weren't searching for the Yeti. They were looking for a way up Mount Everest. British explorer Eric Shipton was leading a reconnaissance expedition into the remote... Continue Reading →
Across the vast Arctic landscape of Nunavut, the sea has always been a source of life - and a place deserving enormous respect. For generations, Inuit oral traditions have told of strange beings inhabiting the cold waters along the shoreline and beneath the sea ice. Among the most mysterious are the Qallupilluit. Stories about the... Continue Reading →
In the summer of 1995, two teenage girls headed into the woods near Carmacks, Yukon, looking for a little privacy. They crossed a gravel road and followed a trail leading toward a small lake, eventually finding a place to sit among the trees. It was broad daylight, reportedly sometime around two in the afternoon, and... Continue Reading →
Lake of the Woods is enormous. Spreading across northwestern Ontario and into Manitoba and Minnesota, the lake is a sprawling labyrinth of islands, narrow channels, rocky shorelines and secluded bays. Much of it feels remarkably remote even today. Somewhere within those waters, according to Canadian cryptid lore, is said to live a mysterious serpent-like creature... Continue Reading →
For generations, Newfoundland fishermen have returned from the Atlantic with stories of things they couldn't explain - enormous shapes beneath their boats, serpentine bodies breaking the surface and creatures unlike anything they recognized from a lifetime spent on the water. But during the summer of 1953, something particularly strange happened. Over the course of just... Continue Reading →
Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories is the kind of place where mysteries can survive. Vast, isolated and surrounded by seemingly endless wilderness, parts of the enormous lake stretch into the Arctic Circle. In the summer of 2001, three people reportedly travelled into one particularly remote corner of that wilderness—and came away with a... Continue Reading →
