As a child back in the mid-80s in South Carolina, I lived around the Lee County–Florence County border. One night, the children revolted and burned down the doctor’s house and they now roam the woods looking for human contact.” - davekoen The story was that there was a doctor who lived in the woods who somehow acquired a bunch of children, possibly from a mental hospital, and performed experiments on them that caused their heads to become bulbous and misshapen. “Growing up, we always heard stories about the Melon Heads that lived in the woods between Kirtland and Chardon, Ohio. “We’re all about some Bigfoot here in Oklahoma what with a festival and all, but my personal favorite is … the terrifying menace that is the Oklahoma Octopus (extra points for being alliterative)!” - shatomica There’s now a festival held in Kelly, Kentucky.” - ohthesunshinesbright
#Fleshy fun bridge skin#
They were assumed to be aliens and while they are called the Kelly Green Men, their skin was actually gray. In 1955 two families were terrorized by aliens or goblins or something. “I grew up in Kentucky and heard stories about the Kelly Green Men, aka Hopkinsville Goblins.
Hopkinsville Goblins Christian County, Kentucky It’s a big, scaly, fish-type thing, about 12 feet long, with a single horn on its head, that supposedly sank a riverboat or two. “In Arkansas, there is what is known as the ‘White River Monster,’ a large creature reportedly first spotted off the banks of the White River as far back as the Civil War. An escaped experiment from the local USDA or University of Maryland laboratories?” - mafisc “A ‘lovers lane’–type of cryptid that reportedly attacks parked cars with an axe. I really hope he’s more Swamp Thing than Bigfoot.” - Samir Patel “Cuyahoga Valley National Park has a giant hominid called the ‘Grassman’ and he has three toes for some reason. Never saw it myself, but it caused a big scare in the area.” - bubbahargo “In the wilds on north Tarrant County roamed the Lake Worth Monster, supposedly caught on camera in 1969. “Here in Louisiana, the local cryptid is the rougarou, which has many spellings, and derives from the French loup-garou, which literally means ‘werewolf.’ Although relatively common across the French-speaking world, like so many things, it appears to have gained particular prominence in the swamps of Louisiana.” - theinsomniac4life The other is the same except, there’s an experiment that goes horribly wrong (like all good cryptid tales) at the facility and he becomes … HALF MAN/HALF BUNNY!” - jonathancarey
One story is that he was a man who escaped a state facility and lived in the forest and wore rabbit pelts to stay warm. “Virginia, it’s the Bunny Man, but I don’t know if we can consider it a cryptid or a ghost story.
Those who believe the two cryptids are the same surmise that the animal swam down the Big Muddy River in Murphysboro to the Mississippi River and, thence, north to the Missouri River, by which it swam to a bend in the river near Creve Coeur.” - flashgourd This is an animal often likened to Sasquatch in size and appearance, but with a distinct ‘skunky’ smell. Many believe it may be related to (if not the same as) the Creve Coeur Monster, sighted near the St. “Murphysboro, Illinois, (near Southern Illinois University-Carbondale) has repeated sightings (and smellings) of the Big Muddy Monster. You can well imagine that hearing that story, the imagination of six-year-old me latched in to what that must have been like for my grandfather’s 10-year-old self back in the 1920s!” - yodaddeo My grandfather claimed to have seen it as a boy, serpent-like and scaly and swimming very quickly across the lake. ‘Old Ned,’ they call him, and sightings go back into local indigenous folklore. “Apparently there’s a monster in that lake. If you want read about more local cryptids, or tell us about a favorite unknown creature of your own, head to the Community forums and join the conversation! The truth is out there… but the myths are a lot more fun. You can see some of our favorite responses below. We recently asked the readers in our Community forum to tell us about their favorite local cryptids, and to paraphrase a great (fictional) person, the responses make us want to believe.įrom a creature that’s more rabbit than human, to a herd of extremely local Bigfoots, to a mad scientist’s escaped “Melon Heads,” our readers (and staff!) told us about a wide variety of incredible beasties from their regional folklore. I’m well aware of how utterly unlikely it is that cryptids and other folkloric creatures exist, but I’m certainly not alone in my blinding enthusiasm for them. I like the idea that there are strange, undiscovered creatures hidden in the shadows of our world.
#Fleshy fun bridge full#
Full disclosure: I choose to believe in the possible existence of cryptids.
0 kommentar(er)
