Ape Canyon, Mount St. Helens
In the summer of 1924, gold prospectors on Mount St. Helens said seven-foot 'ape-men' bombarded their cabin with rocks all night, and the gorge has carried the name ever since.
Linked to: Bigfoot
United States
Bear Lake
A turquoise lake on the Utah-Idaho line whose serpent was invented by a newspaper writer in 1868, admitted as 'a wonderful first-class lie', and then kept being seen anyway.
Linked to: Bear Lake Monster
Big Thicket
A tangled mix of pine forest, bayou and cypress slough in East Texas where hunters, motorists and a churchyard visitor have described tall, dark, hairy figures crossing their path.
Linked to: Bigfoot
Bluff Creek
A remote creek in the Six Rivers National Forest where the name 'Bigfoot' was born in 1958 and where, nine years later, two cowboys filmed the most argued-over 59 seconds in cryptozoology.
Linked to: Bigfoot
Bray Road, ElkhornWisconsin
Bray Road, Elkhorn
A quiet farm road outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin, where drivers since the 1980s have described a six-to-seven-foot wolf-headed thing that stands up on two legs.
Linked to: Beast of Bray Road
Bridgewater Triangle
Some 200 square miles of swamp and forest south of Boston where locals report giant birds, hairy figures, huge snakes and little tricksters, all inside the borders a cryptozoologist drew on a map.
Linked to: Bigfoot, Thunderbird, Pukwudgie
Everglades and Big Cypress
Along the lonely Tamiami Trail through the Big Cypress swamp, a tiny town has a skunk ape research headquarters, and a fire chief's 1997 photo of a dark upright figure still sparks arguments.
Linked to: Skunk Ape
Flatwoods
On a September evening in 1952, a group of boys chased a falling light up a hill in Braxton County and met something ten feet tall with a glowing face and a choking mist.
Linked to: Flatwoods Monster
Fouke and Boggy Creek
A small Arkansas town near Texarkana where a hairy, red-eyed creature reportedly reached through a window in 1971, and a low-budget film turned the bottomland swamps into Bigfoot legend.
Linked to: Fouke Monster
Honey Island Swamp
One of America's least-altered river swamps, on the Louisiana-Mississippi line, where a retired air traffic controller said he met a gray-haired, yellow-eyed giant in 1963 and left behind a reel of film.
Linked to: Honey Island Swamp Monster
Kelly and HopkinsvilleKentucky
Kelly and Hopkinsville
For one long August night in 1955, a farm family near Kelly, Kentucky, said small glowing-eyed creatures kept creeping up to the house, and they kept shooting at them.
Linked to: Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins
Lake Champlain
A 107-mile lake between Vermont and New York where a long-necked 'serpent' has been reported since the 1800s, and where one 1977 snapshot still divides believers and skeptics.
Linked to: Champ
Louisiana, Missouri
A Mississippi River town where, in the summer of 1972, children and a fire chief said a seven-foot hairy thing with a pumpkin-shaped head walked out of the woods, and a posse went hunting for 'Momo'.
Linked to: Momo, the Missouri Monster
New Jersey Pine Barrens
More than a million acres of pine, sand and cedar swamp in the most crowded state in America, and the home, legend says, of a winged devil born at Leeds Point in 1735.
Linked to: Jersey Devil
Point Pleasant
A small river town where, in late 1966, couples, firemen and families described a man-sized winged thing with red eyes, and a year later a bridge fell into the Ohio River.
Linked to: Mothman
Pope Lick TrestleKentucky
Pope Lick Trestle
A tall railroad bridge over a creek on the edge of Louisville is home to a goat-man legend, and to a real, repeated tragedy: people who go looking for the monster keep getting killed by trains.
Linked to: Pope Lick Monster
Scape Ore Swamp, Bishopville
A blackwater swamp in rural South Carolina where, in the summer of 1988, a teenager said a seven-foot green creature with red eyes jumped on his car, and the whole country came looking.
Linked to: Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
Skinwalker Ranch
A fenced-off cattle ranch in Utah's Uintah Basin where owners and researchers have reported glowing orbs, vanishing cattle and large, red-eyed animals that bullets did not seem to stop.
Linked to: Skinwalker, Michigan Dogman
Willow Creek
A river town of about 1,700 people in the Trinity River country that calls itself the Bigfoot Capital of the World, and backs it up with a museum, a festival and a highway named for the beast.
Linked to: Bigfoot
Beyond the U.S.
Khumbu and Everest
The high Sherpa valleys below Everest, where climbers photographed giant tracks in the snow, monasteries kept a 'yeti scalp', and the Abominable Snowman got its English name.
Linked to: Yeti
Loch Ness
A dark, deep Highland loch holding more water than every lake in England and Wales combined, and the world's most famous lake monster since a 1933 newspaper story.
Linked to: Loch Ness Monster
Okanagan Lake
A long, deep lake in British Columbia's wine country where the Syilx people honor a spirit of the water and settlers, tourists and video cameras have chased a serpent called Ogopogo for 150 years.
Linked to: Ogopogo