America’s Fearsome Creatures By Aoty 1 43. A Composite Monster 1. The Abbagoochie 44. Commodore Preble’s Monster 2. The Alkali Monster 45. The Cougar Fish 3. The Altamaha-ha 46. The Cuba 4. Amhuluk 47. The Devil-Jack Diamond Fish 5. Angont 48. The Dewayo 6. Apotamkin 49. The Dew Mink 7. The Argopelter 50. The Ding-ball 8. The Arkansas Snipe 51. The Dingbat 9. The Augerino 52. The Double Rat 10. The Axehandle Hound 53. The Dubuque Monster Reptile 11. The Backus Monster 54. The Duck-Footed Dum DUm 12. The Balloon Fish 55. The Dungavenhooter 13. The Bassigator 56. The Fire-Starter Beast 14. The Bear Lake Monster 57. The Fish-Fox 15. The Beazel 58. The Fish-Hound 16. The Bildad 59. The Flittericks 17. The Biloxi Bay Devil Fish 60. The Flying Serpents 18. The Bird of Winnemucca 61. The Funeral Mountain Terrashot 19. The Black Dog 62. The Gaasyendietha 20. The Black Newfoundland DOg 63. The Galliwampus 21. The Black Hodag 64. The Gallywampus 22. The Black Fox of Salmon River 65. The Gazerium and Snydae 23. The Boat Hound 66. The Gazunk, or The Flute Bill 24. The Bone-Headed Penguin 67. The Godaphro 25. The Booger Dog 68. The Golden Bears 26. The Boont 69. The Gollywog 27. The Brazilian Trench Digger 70. The Goofang 28. The Bright Old Inhabitants 71. The Goofus Bird 29. The Bull of Durham 72. The Giant Lobster 30. The Cactus Cat 73. The Giddy Fish 31. Caldera Dick 74. The Gigantic Feathered Creature 32. The Camelce 75. The Gillgaloo 33. The Camp Chipmunk 76. The Glass Snake 34. The Canadian Great Cats 77. The Glawackus 35. The Canandaigua Indian Serpent 78. The Growrow 36. The Celofay 79. The Great Leach 37. The Central American Whintosser 80. The Guerrero Serpent 38. The Champlain Animal-Fish 81. The Gumberoo 39. The Chaw-Green 82. The Gwinter 40. The Club-tailed Glyptodont 83. The Gyascutus 41. The Columbia River Sand Squink 84. The Haakapainizi 42. The Come-at-a-Body 85. The Hangdown 2 86. The Hansen Monster of Puget 128. Piasa Sound 129. The Phillyloo Bird 87. The Hibou Blanc 130. The Pinnacle Grouse 88. The Hidebehind 131. The Poopampareno 89. Hill’s Sea Serpent 132. The Powder Snake 90. The Hodag 133. The Prudence Ilse Sea-Beast 91. Hoopajubas 134. The Purington Lake Monster 92. Hoop Snakes 135. The Rhinelapus 93. The Hoot Pecker 136. The Roperite 94. The Horn Snake 137. The Rubberado 95. The Hugag 138. The Rumtifuself 96. The Humility 139. The Santer 97. The Hyampom Hog Bear 140. “The Serpent” 98. The Ice Worm 141. The Seven Headed Dragon 99. The Jimplicute 142. The Side-hill Winder 100. The Joint Snake 143. The Skeeteroo 101. The Jonah 144. The Sliver Cat 102. The Kangaroo Cat 145. The Silurian Salamander 103. The Kickle Snifter 146. The Snallygaster 104. The King Buzzard 147. The Snake Monster 105. The Kingdoodle 148. The Snawfus 106. The Lava Bears 149. The Snoligoster 107. Leprocauns 150. The Snow Snake 108. The Leviathan 151. The Snow Wasset 109. The Log Gar 152. The Shoofly 110. The Lucive 153. The Splinter Cat 111. The Luferlang 154. The Split Dog 112. Madrone Monkeys 155. The Squasholiger 113. The Malacca Salamander 156. The Squidicum-Squee 114. The Milamo 157. The Squonk 115. The Milk Snake 158. The Stone County Monster 116. The Mi-ni-wa-tu 159. The Stone Spirit Dragon 117. The Mississippi Monster 160. The Sturgeon 118. The Monster Boar of Georgia 161. The Swamp Auger 119. The Monster Mosquito 162. The Swan Valley Monster 120. Moskittos 163. The Sysladobosis Monster 121. Old Al, the River King 164. The Tahoe 122. Old Joe, the Legendary Catfish 165. Tailypo 123. The Old Fire Dragaman 166. The Teakettler 124. Old Spider Legs 167. The Teelget 125. The Oomph 168. The Terrible Blue Racer 126. The Ozark Great Cats 169. The Three-tailed Banalorous 127. The Painters 170. The Timmerdoodle 3 171. The Tonnage Rat 14. The Hairy Man 172. The Tote-road Shagamaw 15. The “Hairy Toe” 173. The Tree-frog 16. Kuku, The Giant 174. The Tree Octopus 17. The Maryland Goatman 175. The Treesqueak 18. The Michigan Dogman 176. The Tripodero 19. Molly Pitcher 177. The Underground Panther 20. Nain Rouge 178. The Upland Trout 21. The Needle Men and the Black 179. The Wapaloosie Bottle Men 180. The Wamp 22. Old Ferro 181. The Wampahoofus 23. Old Mammy Redd 182. The Wampus Cat 24. The Old Man of the Sea 183. The Whaperknocker 25. Old Meg 184. The Whangdoodle 26. Old Tush 185. The Whippoorwill 27. The Popelick Monster 186. The Whiffenpoof 28. The Ramapo Salamander 187. The Whiffle-Pooffle 29. Razor-shins 188. The Whing-Whang 30. The Rougarou 189. The Whirling Whimpus 31. The Salem Alchemist 190. The Whirligig 32. The Salt Witch 191. The Whistling Whoo-Hoo 33. The Serpent Queen 192. The White Deer of Ononta 34. The Stone Throwing Devils 193. The White River Monster 35. The Soucouyant 194. The Will-am-alone 36. Uncle Kaler, the Windjammer 195. The Windigo 37. The Water-Devils 196. The Windyo 38. The Wisconsin Goatman 197. The Wunk 39. The Witch of New Haven 40. Wizard Dimond 1. The Arctic Giants 2. Big Black and the Her-girls 3. The Burrokeet and Sou-Marie 4. The Catskill Witch 5. The Crab-Claw Zoarites 6. Detroit Werewolves 7. De Witch-’oonman an’ de Spinnin’-Wheel 8. The Fay 9. The Florida Pigman 10. The Giants of the Cordilleras 11. The Gnomes of Catskill 12. The Great Bear Swamp Frankenstein’s Monster 13. The Hairy Kentucky Monster 4 1. The Abbagoochie been suggested as explanations for the beast. >The abbagoochie (pronounced In addition to sightings, it has been the abba-GOO-cheez) is a fierce little creature subject of many myths and lore during the resembling a cross between an owl, a fox, time of its "discovery" by the local Tama and a deer. It is indigenous to Costa Rica, where people refer to it as a "dryland Indian Tribe in the state of Georgia, which piranha" because it will eat anything, predates British-English colonization. The including creatures far larger than itself such Altamaha-ha is described as having a as horses and cows. If cornered, an sturgeon like body including the bony ridge abbagoochie will consume itself "in a on its top. Front flippers and no back limbs, devilish whirlwind" rather than allow itself swimming like a dolphin or porpoise and to be captured. They mate only once every 6 ½ years. having the snout of a crocodile. The coloring is said to be gray with a whitish-yellow 2. The Alkali Monster underbelly. So far, no physical evidence of >This gargantuan, mono-horned, foul the Atlamaha-ha has been found. It is smelling, reptilian beast is reputed to lurk in sometimes shown to be green, so it can the depths of Nebraska’s famed Alkali Lake, camouflage. devouring all who come near it. Located in central Nebraska, Walgren Lake (formerly 4. Amhuluk known as Alkali Lake) is an eroded volcanic >The monster Amhuluk, whose home is the lake near forked mountain, Oregon, had but outcropping that is reputed to be the nesting one passion-to catch and drown all things; place of one of the most unusual lake and when you look into the lake you see that monsters ever recorded and, if the legends he even drowned the sky in it, and has made are true, the habitat of the only aquatic the trees stand upside down in the water. monster ever reported in the state of Wherever he set his feet the ground would Nebraska. Originally chronicled in Native soften. As three children were digging roots at the edge of the water he fell on them and American folklore, this creature has been impaled two of them in his horns, the eldest described as a gargantuan alligator-like only contriving to escape. When this boy beast with some unique attributes. reached home his body was full of blotches, Eyewitnesses claim that the beast is and the father suspected how it was, yet he approximately 40-feet long, with rough, went to the lake at once. The bodies of the grayish-brown skin and a horny outgrowth children came out of the mud at his feet to meet him, yet went down again and emerged located between its eyes and nostrils. later across the water. They led him on in this way until he came to the place where 3. The Altamaha-ha they had drowned. A fog now began to >Local legend reports a 20-foot-long water steam up from the water, but through it he serpent that dwarfs the size of alligators in could see the little ones lifted on the the region. It lives where the Altahama monster’s horns, and hear them cry, “We River dumps into the Atlantic Ocean, and have changed our bodies.” Five times they had came up and spoke to him, and five thus a host of very real sea creatures have 5 times he raised a dismal cry and begged for >Leading a vengeful existence, resenting the them to return, but they could not. Next intrusion of the logger, the agropelter deals morning he saw them rise through the fog misery to the lumber jack from Maine to again, and building a camp, he stayed there Oregon. Ill fares the man who attempts to and mourned for several days. For five days pass a hollow tree in which one of these they showed themselves, but after that they creatures has taken up its temporary abode.