Does anyone know of any cryptids/monsters in their hometown?

By the way, I'm new to UM.

No, not really. But there was a Bigfoot sigting around here just a couple of years ago.

That's cool.

Supposedly where I live we have our own monster. It's called the Gush-Gush. It is said to make a sound similar to walking in mud and is rumored to be around Lacamas Lake in Camas, Washington.

Anyone ever heard of it?

Nope, can't say as I have, and welcome to UM!!! How long has this "monster" been roaming around in your neck-o-the-woods?



Really? And may I respectfully ask where exactly is "around here"?

Have you heard of the Melon Heads?? I live in the town where they're most frequently sighted, sightings are reported in the paper all the time. I don't know of a good Melon Heads link, just Google it if you want to find out more. A group of my friends and I are planning a Melon Head hunt for next spring. We're not going to shoot them or anything, we just want pictures.

They've been mentioned here somewhere...

Here's the link.

Melon-head pics would be GREAT.

Well, I live in a small town in NW Arkansas, and the only monsters that have been spotted here are rednecks. Unfortunately, they're not as elusive as one would hope.

But, elsewhere in Arkansas we have The Fouke Monster and The White River Monster.

Wow, The Fouke Monster sounds interesting, I seem to vaguely remember a movie called The Legend of Boggy Creek, but I had no idea that it was about a monster of some sort..........thanks for the interesting links.

Wow cool you learn something new everyday.

I had no idea that stuff was in Arkansas.

Doesn't make me any happier to be here, but it's a start.

That IS in Arkansas, isn't it.....we should be asking the Fouke creature how it feels about living in the same state with someone of YOUR legendary stature and reknown, lol.....Boggy Creek my a**.

Nothing major but:

Bigfoot
Goatman

That's about it. -_-;

We're SUPPOSED to have "The Skunk Ape" in the state of Florida...but I don't think it ever makes it's way down to "The Hood"....at least not in the 34 years that I've lived here.

Seattle WA, so nothing but Bigfoot and Ghosts, but they dont count here uh?

You're welcome.




We have to take every small crumb we can get that makes life in Arkansas even remotely bearable.

I'm still confused as to how I ended up here.

Oh I know how I ended up here, the government put hubby here and I came with him. I guess there's little consolation in being forced?

Well, I live in Washington State, and we have Sasquatches and Cadborosaurus.

Why does the name Cadborosaurus make me want a chocolate egg of some sort?

Can you imagine the size of the egg?

YES! I was trying to think of the Cadborosaurus, but I couldn't remember the name. I too live in Washington.

Thank you all for your replies, I spent most of last night trying to get a picture of my monster. I could hear it, I think at least, but no sighting

The Monster Turtle of Big Blue — “I’ve heard rumors that there’s one as big as the hood of a Volkswagen, but I don’t believe it,” said Jim Wahl, a fisheries management biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources in Clear Lake. “The rumors I hear come through third-, fourth-hand, scuba-diving sightings. Whether it’s legitimate or not, I don’t know.”

Wahl said Big Blue, in Mason City’s Lester Milligan Park, is not a monster’s kind of hangout: snappers prefer small streams, creeks, marshes and shallow lakes.

Still, it’s a cool story.

“It’s like the 200-pound catfish that lays down in the dams on the Mississippi River,” he said. “You can’t confirm or deny it.”

* The Ventura Marsh Monster — Ken Borrill was raised in Ventura and remembers the late Squire Davis, an avid angler, telling kids about a big, hairy, marsh-bound something called the Mugwump.

“I remember that,” said Borrill, 73, of Clear Lake. “He always told us it came out at night. Just spooky stories. In fact, I tease my granddaughters about the Mugwump every once in a while.”

Ron Andrews, a furbearer biologist with the DNR in Clear Lake, has not heard of the Mugwump. But he’s not surprised it’s “out there.”

“It seems like every marsh might have a monster in it,” he said. “‘Monster’ has kind of a ring to it. You can also think about Martians (marsh-ans?), and I think it all fits together.”

* Bigfoot — According to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (www.bfro.net), there has been one claimed Sasquatch sighting each in Floyd and Franklin counties, and two in Hamilton County.

Humboldt County, smack in the middle of corn country, leads Iowa in “credible sightings” with eight.

“I keep hoping I might see him someday,” Andrews said. “Whenever I see a Bigfoot pamphlet, I always pick it up. There’s a certain mystique associated with Bigfoot. That mystique makes me pick up anything I see.”

* The pirate ship on Clear Lake — Gil Bovard of Clear Lake says it’s out there, a fierce pirate ship complete with black sails, fantails and kettles of fire.

And if you were looking at a regular boat with white sails and the pirate ship passed between you, the first boat “just plain disappeared” with all hands on board.

“You’d see these sails go by,” Bovard said, “and you’d hear moaning and weeping.”

Rescue boats would go out, but the rescuers never found anyone.

“This is an eyewitness account,” Bovard said. “But it was always in October, and it quite often was with the full moon, around Halloween time. I can see that in my mind’s eye right now. It was bigger when I was young, though.”
---------Personally I never heard of these but your question got me curious so I looked it up. My kids swim in Big blue.

We have hydrants, is that close? Your avatar is freaking me out.

I'm from Jogjakarta, Indonesia.

I'm not sure what we got here in my town...but I guess it's the Grandong, canine bloodsucker...not a very big thing, I guess...

I found some more Arkansas cryptids here

More crumbs, Coldethyl.

Oh my #@$. One on that list is called "CATTLE-MUTILATING SATANIC COMMUNIST SPACE ALIENS" I'm laughing my butt of. Thanks for posting that link Rachel.

^^^ That one was my favorite, too. I'm thinking it would make a great song title.

you know, all these different states have cool monsters like mothman (WV), jersey devil (NJ), lizard man (LA?); et cetra.

what does Florida have?

skunk ape.

why me?

^^^ Because you're lucky enough to get to live in Florida. Arkansas sucks so we have to have satan-worshipping, communist aliens with a beef with cattle.

Yes, as bad as it was, the pun was intended.

Edited: I'm a moron. Again.

I don't think people realise how desperate the Satan-Worshipping, Communist Aliens are for all that beef.

There's a lot at steak...


sorry...

I dunno.


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Wow.... Bigfoot, Jersey Devil, Mothman, Cadbosaurus.. just to name a few that you guys have local to you....

What do I have local to me... the fearsome Cottingley Fairies and 2 other Fairy Hot spots in a local wood.

LOL. Dosen't help that they were a hoax.

Don't go and shatter my World... I need at least some type of Cryptid to be able to look for locally.. LOL

Well, England has all sorts of... odd... things.

*sigh* well i suppose it isn't all bad, still, does Florida really have to be so dull?

You have the Skunk Ape.

yeah, true, one of the few things here that actually gives life to the place. i mean there's not much happening outside the major tourist attractions that cost an arm and a leg to get into.

Oh well.

Well I’m in Ohio, which is basically the center of everything weird and supernatural. It all winds up here in this weird state eventually. Anyways here’s a list of stuff in Ohio, that isn’t considered natural.



Bigfoot

Chupacabra (Which I have seen on a few occasions, if I post anything about my experiences, I want ericraven2003 to shut up and just listen, not talk or skepticise the conversation.)

Thunderbird ( Which I think I may have saw)

Gore Orphanage

The Devil’s Pit: Weaver Cave

Satan’s Hollow (Where Satanists once met)

Hell House on Clark Street

Gates of Hell AKA BloodBowl

The Oxford Ghost

Witch’s Tower

Moonville Tunnel

For more weird Ohio stuff buy the book “Weird Ohio” by James A. Willis, Andrew Henderson, and Loren Coleman.

Did the chupacabra look like a alien?

Hi and welcome to UM.

Where I live we have the large yowies and ABCs, possibly also some form/ mutation of the marsupial lion.

First, the Chupacabra's head looks something like the classic alien, but more primal and vicious. Second, Tia, if you were welcoming me to UM, I'm not new. I've been here for over a year I think.

That is true. Still, none of this makes me any happier to be stuck here. Oh well.

Here in bristol tennessee/virgina (border) there is only bigfoot and black panther sightings. Ive seen the bigfoot. Along with countless other people. And my mom lives up in the mountains she sees the panther from time to time.

FLorida HAS WOOKIES! FREAKING NICE! Chewie here i come.........

I think that the "Geriatrics with Cadillacs" are far more dangerous in the state of Fla....and smell worse.

But their heads are so soft.......

I know, I know......it's probably the "blue hair".

C'mon woman, I'm giving you what I can. But, I agree. The only thing that would make me happy about living here is if Johnny Depp moved in next door.

I would so be a stalker.

I was welcoming the person who started the thread, I may be dopey at times but didn't think I'd made that big a mistake.

XSAS, fairies are cute you should try to catch one. I can just imagine you in combats waiting out hiding trying to set a trap......