70 Creatures and Monsters of North American Folklore

[@MythosTheHistorian]

Do you have a favorite creature in the North American Folklore? Or maybe a creature not listed in this video?

[@lorddraco1359]

Lizards :D Make to European Folklore and Middle East Folklore :D

[@JohnLagow]

How about Mo-Mo? The Missouri Monster.

[@josieswanson7764]

You forgot Chessy, the Chesapeake bay sea serpent.

[@josieswanson7764]

I also got to give a shout out to the Bunny man of Ox road Bridge. His tale goes back to the 1950s. They were still telling his tale when i was a kid. Weilding an age, threatening people, or hacking up house porches.

[@casotkowy1558]

This is hardly “North American” legends when Canada, the largest country in North America, is barely mentioned. Also, you pronounced “ Okanagan” wrong” . British Columbia is not part of the Pacific Northwest. It’s Canada’s west coast.

[@WolfMaiden11]

The Thunderbird has always been my favorite creature of Native American mythology; it was also the first creature I learned of.

[@sarahhurst701]

Incredible video! Thanks for sharing all of these creatures with us!😊❤

[@garrettviewegh9028]

She’s not necessarily a monster of North American folklore, but there are some infamous spirits from urban legends. Her name was Jenny. Now known as Screaming Jenny. Her tale is as tragic as it is horrific. She was a kind and selfless woman, poor, but she gave what she could, and helped her fellow neighbors. She had no family of her own. However, on cold night in autumn, sitting next to a fire in her shake, her dress suddenly caught fire. She tried using her soup to dowse the flames, but it was in vain. She then rain, screaming from her home, across Harper’s Ferry, covered in flames. Engulfed in fire, she was so overcome with pain and terror, that she couldn’t hear the train rounding the bend. Her flaming body was struck by the train. The conductor even jumped from it, as it began to slowly stop. The next morning, Jenny’s scarred, burned, mutilated body was found next to the tracks. She had tried to run to the train station for help. Though the town mourned the kind woman, that would’ve be the end of her. If not for a sighting on the tracks a year later, on the anniversary of Jenny’s gruesome death. The train conductor reported a ball of flame, or burning woman, wailing a bloodcurdling scream, accompanied by the stench of rotting, burning flesh. The conductor stoped the train. But the screaming, fiery woman, was gone as suddenly as she appeared. So goes the legend of Screaming Jenny. Appearing on the tracks by Harper Ferry station, still calling out for someone to help her.

[@bradleymiles671]

I've seen the beast of bray road. I'm a truck driver and was on my way to a pickup in Elkhorn Wisconsin. It was a chilly night the moon was close to being full. I arrived to my pickup and was told it would be a few hours before my load was done. So I went back to my truck with the intention of taking a nap for a bit. I had to relive myself and this the middle of the night so I went behind my trailer I had my headlamp on so as not to trip. I was almost done taking a leak when I got an unshakable feeling of being watched. I turned around and was about to walk back around my truck when the light from my headlamp fell across something about 40 yards away from me in the field behind my trailer. At first I noticed the eyes which thanks to my light were illuminated however the eyes were too far to be a coyote or a wolf. I stood there perhaps longer than I logically should haveeven though my instincts are telling me to go back to my truck. I stood there in utter disbelief of what I was seeing. It was in a crouched over position at first and then it stood straight up in 6'2 and standing straight this thing was considerable taller than me we stood there staring at each other for a long minute I wasn't completely unprotected as I had my buck knife on me at the time. I finally listened to what my instincts were telling me and started walking backwards towards the front of my truck not for a second taking my eyes off this monster. Aa I continued to walk backwards it initially mimicked me and took three steps forward. I walked back a little farther and reached behind me and was relieved to find my door handle. I have never gotten into my truck quicker than I did that night. Once inside the truck I looked in my mirror and could see the creature sniffing the back of my trailer and a little bit in front of the very back wheels of the trailer. Thankfully the shipper called me with a door number not too much longer after that. I know about the beast of Bray road I have watched countless documentaries and red numerous stories about it. And I know there are those who will not believe my story but I know damn good and well what I saw that night

[@alanloewen4148]

Brilliantly done, I appreciate the obvious research and hard work you put into this presentation. Thank you for a fascinating video well worth the investment of time.

[@MythosTheHistorian]

Thank you! Glad you like it!

[@sharonmedeiros9819]

Living right outside of the Bridgewater Triangle, I was pleasantly surprised that Puckwudgies were included in this compilation. About 20 years ago, as I was walking alone along a pretty creek in the woods in Westport, Mass, I noticed on the opposite bank, a little brown man with a face that looked like a wrinkled dried out apple. He was wearing an odd looking cap and a vest with no shirt. His arms were very muscular and I wondered if he was cold because it was a chilly autumn day. He was crouched down looking at me over his shoulder, and when he saw I had noticed him as I continued walking he slowly turned into a tree stump. I was astonished and thought it was an optical illusion and if I backtracked, the tree stump would again resemble the little man. But as I slowly walked back, never looking away, it remained a tree stump. Then I got a strong feeling that I was not welcome there and I suddenly felt frightened and quickly walked away. I never went back there again. Puckwudgies are not to be trifled with. They have been seen here by the Wampanoag indians since before there were white settlers.

[@nshockley123]

Grew up Bridgewater, live in Mansfield. I was too!

[@OctopusWithNoFriends]

Very. Cool! Thanks for sharing! I'm planning on some investigatory camping trips in the Bridgewater Triangle next year! Great to hear a first hand experience with a pukwudgie!

[@m1herrmann160]

Whatsup locals!!! :)

[@ryu9687]

They’re in jk rowlings Harry Potter lore. It’s one of the houses in the American school of wizardry ilvermony

[@bunnyluver2176]

Wow that's crazy. I heard a similar story once but the details are fuzzy. But basically a humanoid creature that turned into a scrub I believe.

[@LeonScheppink]

Despite beings somewhat of a cryptid connoisseur, so to speak, quite a few of these were new to me. Well done.

[@corvinreigar]

FYI Windegos don't have antlers, they remain emaciated parodies of humans and increase in size commensurate with how much they consume, this represents the insatiable hollowness of gluttony

[@ryanconder2296]

The windego is a demon that possesses people, who make eye contact with it, with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. It has antlers.

[@-RONNIE]

Thank you for showcasing these creatures of legend 👍🏻

[@carolyncolebeck6945]

My favorite North American creature is probably the wendigo

[@Janchito]

OMG! Your voice and storytelling are the best! Mythologies are my newest hyperfocus and I really appreciate there is a chanel that is this captivating. Thank you!

[@MythosTheHistorian]

Thank you for the kind words! Glad you love the channel. Hope to not dissapoint :)

[@lovely1762]

This is awesome....😊😊😊😊

[@AdamTehranchiYT]

Something that I was thinking about when I was watching this video. Is how many of the lake critters looked kind of similar to viking long boats. Not really here or there but fuels the imagination for the older legends. Enjoyed the video a big variety of Cryptids and it didn't feel long at all. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@warbunny13203]

long boats shape was based on sea creatures to instill fear in their enemys🤔🤔🤔🤔😁😁🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲

[@julius9943]

im curious, who did the art we see in the video? its really well done and has some very fresh takes on cryptids i've never really thought about before.

[@jesusknight1]

Thank you!

[@912spvrky9]

I live 10 minutes from the altamaha river and fish there regularly I’ve heard numerous stories of sightings of alti

[@douglastarvestad186]

I bet you, you could combine several of these creatures and get a great horror movie. At least two movies, maybe three if done right. And use these images as reference. Very well done.

[@MythosTheHistorian]

Indeed! :) thank you!

[@dragowolfraven3806]

Cool.

[@itallia666]

Thank you for this compilation of quick reference creatures of myth & legend! Just yesterday i was listening to a story of the Welsh & Cornish Knockers. These creatures are ancient & are too, cryptids from mines The Cornish Knockers go back over 1,000yrs from the Tin Miners of the area. I think many legends were brought over from Europe by Settlers & blended in with local Legends from Native American lore. Also i believe many of these cryptids were once actual creatures from prehistoric Earth Once living creatures & recorded in memory & rock art. Maybe there are still pockets of unexplored regions where these Beasts still continue to exist, probably in modified form or smaller than they once were. Id even say we still have some surprises, regarding cryptids & mythical beings, existing still in some deep jungle, primeval forests & unexplored lakes. Thanks once more! Thought i recognised your voice Mr Mythos! 😁 Peace 🇬🇧👧

[@MythosTheHistorian]

Glad you loved it!

[@drew-shourd]

These are great, awesome job compiling them, I'd say over half I had never heard of, being a writer of short stories about cryptids and the paranormal, these are very interesting indeed. @11:42 it is wearing the latest swim fashion from Paris, but how?? Ok, @22:50 now THAT is scary!!!....but you did leave one out, a very scary one, from the Philippines, but came to Southern California by boat, the LindaLuLu....my ex-mother-in-law!!...hahahahahah

[@kalekain3521]

These are some fantastic beasts and now I know where to find them. Also, what’s sad is, if these were real, they’d have more to fear from us then vice versa.

[@kintero27]

We also have the Sasquatch here in North Carolina. It’s also a mascot for the Baxter plant up in Marion.

[@peanutbuttersunfish2927]

I used to work there, I had no idea lol

[@MichelleMarie80]

I am originally from Louisiana I remember as a child hearing about the Rougarou we had a German Shepherd as a child my father was a police officer and he trained German Shepherds the house we lived in was surrounded by woods one night the dog was outside we started hearing weird noises then the dog barked then was whimping really hard by the time my father went outside with his gun in hand to check on the dog my father saw some dragging the dog into the woods my father gave chase whatever it was was standing on two legs and very tall and stocky build my father shot off a few rounds and nothing a few days later while walking in the woods a few hunters stumbled across a dog remains not long after we moved.....

[@OctopusWithNoFriends]

😮 poor doggie! Could have been a bigfoot, too... They don't always love dogs, especially big smart protective dogs like shepherds.

[@Phil-Des]

Im from Quebec, and I wonder if Rougarou comes from ‘loup garou’, which is the French canadian word for werewolf.

[@ganjahtron]

menehune! that’s awesome you put them in here. that was my elementary school’s mascot.

[@brentbonham4398]

There are Native tales of a race of large, hairy, cave - dwelling canibals living on and around Mount McKinley (Denali). Many of your examples can also be likened unto the Sasquatch and Yeti stories. These creatures have been the focus of a centuries long game of whisper down the lane - different descriptions are inevitable.

[@oxylepy2]

YES! A REAL PERSON. Sub'd

[@MythosTheHistorian]

Welcome on board :)

[@lilesmw]

5:29 I AM GROOT!! 😂

[@sseeaahhaawwkkssrule975]

8:34 the Whirling Whimpus reminds me of the Bumble from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 😂

[@kierraogden6771]

Champ! New Englanders love our Champ.

[@DaZanchi]

this is the second video of yours I have watched and I just love that you explain the allegory/lesson that these stories are meant to teach

[@MythosTheHistorian]

Glad you like them!

[@TheLooterArmy]

The ash scale. Massive rattlesnake of ridiculous size and variable camouflage that changes between that of either oak or pine bark and granite. From the Yosemite and outlying foothills where such trees and exposed stone make up most of the landscape. Reclusive in nature but not above making a meal of the occasional lone hiker.

[@bossfan49]

I've heard of exactly 7 of these. Unbelievable.

[@RedArrow808]

Believe me if there were a dog man in the backwoods of Michigan it would be mounted in sitting in someone’s garage.

[@Acertainfrog]

That altamahama ha got me rolling cause my friend had just randomly shouted kame hame ha and fell

[@johnandrews1025]

I'm from Iowa and you forgot about the Vanmeter monster.

[@Mustafa70116]

Watching this while in North America

[@Slicer1475]

I'd love to see an Alaskan Bullworm or a Man Bear Pig from Colorado.

[@alexoblivion9295]

What you want is a 1979 movie called 'Prophecy'.

[@lennierivera8455]

A wendigo, i love wendigo stories. The flesh eater. And cannibalistic monster.

[@derekmason1881]

Dogmen are my favorites and Jersey Devil are my favorites

[@kylekusmerz3462]

Really awesome art work!!

[@icemountaindragon5057]

Hey Mythos. Not too long ago, I found a new north american mythology. The Yellowstone Dragon. It’s a Cave Dragon from Native American origins, depicted as a Drake. It lives in the caverns of Yellowstone National Park. Its firey breath and power is responsible for the eruptions of geysers. Its depiction is a reference to the Dragons Mouth at Yellowstone

[@becausereasons5235]

First time I’ve heard of anyone talking about stick indians outside of the local native community

[@AndThereYouGo]

Agropelter sounds like tribal memories of ancient Sloths who were 7 feet tall 30,000 yrs ago & would have been very tree noticeable.

[@MrChristianDT]

It's not Native American, though. It derives from lumberjack & Appalachian lore. Occasionally, they would pick up some stuff from the Native Americans, but it was rare & very slight & they would then just fill in the rest with random bull. Examples are the Agoa- comes from the Lenape word for snake & was probably a polite way of referring to the Underwater Spirit that inspired many of eastern North America's lake monster stories, but the actual story told by whites said it was a giant, two headed, man-eating snapping turtle. The Wampus Cat- probably also based on the Underwater Panther. When not described as a sea serpent, other tribes described it as a giant lynx with a human face & a long tail & many stories with this second version talk about I having once been a man who was transformed after an attempted revenge spree against the woman who denied him. Wampus Cat shares the backstory, but the animal is a six legged mountain lion &, to this day, we have not been able to work out which language they got the word Wampus from. Piasa- based on a real piece of rock art on the Mississippi River that no longer exists & a real word for the Thunderbird, but the rock art was depicting an Underwater Panther & all the details of the Piasa are made up & do not relate to Thunderbirds in any way. Mugwamp- giant sturgeon in a lake in Canada. MIGHT have been based on a real Native legend associated with that lake, but we have a written admission that the name was made up by a white person from Native language & he did not get this name from the Natives.

[@stealthy1498]

Poor Mr. Squonk. Bro needs a hug 😭

[@egbru7655]

Loveland frog is my favorite

[@Ringgo733]

The Hoop snake 🐍 is real I saw one in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin.

[@lordofpain3476]

Don't ever underestimate the fieresome Jack-a-lope , they are fast , intelligent and carnivorous . If you encounter one and try to run away , you will only die tired ........ Then you will be devoured.

[@michaelthomas1843]

You left out "Chessie", a serpentine creature living in the Chesapeake bay.

[@monaevans8966]

I love the thunderbird ! & jack a lope

[@kevinwilt3918]

You should have also mentioned the Billywhack monster of Santa Paula California

[@Rogue-element101]

Usa has a lot of freaky things. I think i speak for many people when we would enjoy more in depth of these cryptids. Maybe sorting it by region?

[@H0r53f7y]

How the heck did Tailypo not get mentioned??

[@arlenedavis5770]

The dude who made up the Ozark Howler in 1986 fessed up.

[@sparky92258]

How did you miss the Taily Po?

[@monaevans8966]

Ive heard of a lot of these.i wonder how they came to be???

[@Joshuazx]

I had no idea America had this many myths

[@6661313]

this is hardly a dent in the number really

[@YoungTeeza1990]

You forgot the bunny man from baltimore 😂

[@susandolan9543]

The Hoop Snake sounds an awful lot like Ororobus or Urorobus who also swallows its tail to roll around. Jormondgundr or Midgard Serpent is the largest of these types of snakes.

[@donnuttall269]

Ogopogo is my fav. I live rigt by Okanogan Lake. And great video

[@petropetro6076]

Can i do a series going in depth on all of these

[@tylerbabitz5875]

That specter moose me and a handful of my naibors saw that moose pass by our naiborhood and disappearing into the fog .

[@bradleymiles671]

The squonk looks like jabba the hutt 😅😅

[@corvinreigar]

The Saabe, derived from older words used to describe giant humanoids that represent wisdom and knowledge, walking between the physical and spiritual world, often the basis for or blended into tales of Sasquatch type sightings. Hmm, Saabe versus Windego...

[@vonStahlmach]

The Jackalope is just the US version of the german - or better said bavarian - Wolpertinger.

[@johnathandoane5006]

I really want to see these creatures and some I want them like who wouldn't want a dragon and a water panther and werewolves and the serpents and explore there habitats and most of these cryptids are apparently a bad omen if seen or something catastrophic is about to happen

[@aaronsaunders6974]

urayuli looks like the creature from critters

[@RNAxRibose]

what the background music?

[@MythosTheHistorian]

Martian Cowboy by Kevin MacLeod

[@UP_ALL_KNIGHT247]

many similar themes

[@atsfwolf2583]

Hey where is da nightcrawlers.

[@ot_ajs]

13:24 shunka means dog in my culture here in nebraska

[@VelkynUss]

The Hoop Snake is, as far as I know actually real. It's the Dwarf Reed Snake

[@andrwng]

Momo and the fouke monster (more big foot family members) to add to the list; black eyed children too

[@lindseycolvin7434]

Does anyone in idea of what might be in Arkansas that turns into an incomplete deer? We are to far away for it to be a skin-Walker or a Wendigo.

[@zealkurusuthegatorman5439]

What about the Aniwye?

[@A0.917]

I want to see those melon heads. They are super cute.

[@6661313]

0:20 Hawaii is not part of North America... 14:00 neither is Greenland, 22:38 neither is England

[@danielsfunhouse15]

Oh😊

[@rusnikfromtranscarpathia]

Arizona: Mogollon Man; Gulf States: Skunk Ape; Florida: Okie Serpent; Southwest USA: Apache Wasachie

[@rusnikfromtranscarpathia]

As well as Missouri: Blue Man!

[@ajaverill08]

Im like 3 hours from Sharlie and never heard of it lol

[@seantaylor424]

I had no idea the part of North America the US covers had so many legends besides Paul Bunion and John Henry. Also surprised that a good number of them are from the US and not just all Native American.

[@lewisosborne5346]

1:54 this is more or less how I imagined Lord Voldemort to look.

[@snafubar447]

It took me too long to figure out that whenever he says, "Muhsheegun," he actually means, "Michigan."

[@ThatGuyRomero]

Yea ..the ManBearPig.. IThhs real..thuper serial

[@wesleyvalk9129]

I love myth and cryptid monsters, but I hate the ones called Real-Lake Name + Monster, they are all just Plesiosaurs or brown Yeti's and they are so boring to me. All others though, PERFECTION.

[@lewisgoldsberry2201]

What about Skunk Ape

[@sunitafisher4758]

🌸 that’s Bigfoot, he covered it earlier in vid 3:30 Later did red ape etc

[@lewisgoldsberry2201]

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[@johancampos1657]

fun fact the ozark howler was made up by the local moonshiners to scare the people away lol forest galante discovered this in one of his shows

[@DerpyD123]

The squonk is me frfr

[@ThatGuyRomero]

Also ..i call it the Madrastra , my evil stepmother

[@binkyvonbinky6483]

You didn't do Old Green Eye! The Bigfoot in a cape that was seen during the Civil War. And funny enough my cousin's now ex-wife's dad was the one who accidentally started The Lizard man with his buddy. When I first moved to SC they were telling me about it. He's since died, but it was a funny story about them messing with someone and it got out of hand really quickly.

[@nancyM1313]

💓🐺💓

[@ForzaSongs1991]

Bruh, why can’t we have elves or fairies? Nah. we got wendigo and skinwalkers bro

[@Volf1916]

Black dog. Malevolant K9 appears on roads as a bad omen or tiding harm or death to come.

[@hjkjccdggjhvb]

america got alot of crazy creatures

[@BrendanSitkiewicz]

For the wendigo it's I sounds like e not ee

[@Kawaragi_Senju96]

I am the sharlie

[@devinfaucette]

Did you say Nevada? The Alkali Lake Monster is in Nebraska? 🤷🏽‍♂

[@HellHazAtTheZoo]

Personally, I heard him say Nebraska

[@corvinreigar]

Or the Legend of Sleeping Giant

[@mitchellbutler7068]

Bigfoot is a classic California legend, anyone else watch harry and the Hendersons? I think a darker version would do well . Say a bigfoot banged a predator and that grew up and made a movie

[@EliVue-v1v]

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