From the terrifying Mogollon Monster of Arizona to the curious race of Menehune in Hawaii,
here are ten terrifying mythological creature sightings in America!
10: The Flatwoods Monster An encounter back on September 12, 1952 left
a powerful stain on the small town of Flatwoods, West Virginia that would never leave.
The Flatwoods monster was first sighted by a group of young boys, their dog, and one
of their mothers.
The sighting of the beast made national news headlines and even prompted a UFO inquiry
by the U.S. Air Force.
Today, the small tourist shops in Flatwoods are still peddling T-shirts and other memorabilia
of the Flatwoods Monster.
But just what exactly happened on September 12, 1952?
It was dusk and a pair of brothers just finished playing in the schoolyard.
They noticed a pulse of red light streaking across the sky, which seemed to touch down
at a nearby farm.
When the boys arrived at the farm to investigate, bringing along a local mother with them, everyone
witnessed a giant monster at least 10 feet tall (3m).
The monster had a body completely blood red, a green and glowing face, and even claws for
hands.
It was a true freak, and those who saw it ran away screaming.
Of course, details about the monster soon became exaggerated.
Reports started coming in that the beast was actually 17 feet tall (5m).
And even though no spotting was ever made again, the Flatwoods Monster lives on in West
Virginia legend.
9: Mogollon Monster Arizona is home to something known as the
Mogollon Monster, another mythical creature that lives around the Grand Canyon.
The monster is often spotted on the hiking trails near sundown, when the leaves are rustling
and there is an eerie stillness in the air.
It’s sometimes spotted on the windy roads that lead through the canyon’s campgrounds.
The Mogollon Monster is a hairy, ape-like beast that stalks the landscape and sometimes
unleashes bloody screams that terrify humans.
The beast was spotted as early as 1903, with the first report being published by William’s
News.
The first eyewitness, a man named Mr. Stevens, claimed that he saw a man-creature with long
white hair, a beard that reached all the way to his knees, fingers like talons, and his
whole body coated in coarse gray hair.
The creature also apparently had burnt flesh around its face and bright green eyes.
Stevens claimed that he was charged by the monster, who was at the time brandishing a
large club.
But he fired his rifle and the monster ran away scared.
There were other sightings of the monster, including a Boy Scouts camping trip that witnessed
something similar in 1944 near Payson.
Nobody knows what the monster is, but considering there have been sightings as recently as 2014,
it's highly likely that some kind of monster is wandering around northern Arizona.
What it wants is another story altogether.
8: Fouke Monster The Fouke Monster was spotted in June of 1971
when a farmer found three-toed tracks at the edge of his soybean field.
The tracks were far too large to belong to any ordinary animal.
And the farmer wasn't the only one who found clues of the monster's existence.
A deer hunter reportedly saw the creature in the woods.
One man even moved his family to another town after he had a horrifying encounter with the
monster that left him traumatized.
Even a carload of residents from Texarkana witnessed the beast running across the highway
on a late spring evening.
There have been a few different descriptions of the monster.
Some claimed it looked like a howling ape, some claimed it had glowing red eyes, and
others still said it looked more like a swamp man.
Unfortunately, the Fouke Monster was never captured or photographed.
After 1971 it was never seen again.
The mayor of Fouke, Arkansas has since claimed that the monster was probably never real,
but simply hype.
He thinks it was all imagined.
But that hasn’t stopped the Fouke Monster from growing in popularity.
The original farmer who spotted the tracks at the edge of their soybean field made a
plaster cast of the footprints and sold about 5000 of them.
There was even a low-budget movie starring the residents of Fouke titled “The Legend
of Boggy Creek,” which made a handsome little profit.
To this day, nobody knows if it really existed.
7: The Slide-Rock Bolter The Slide-Rock Bolter is a mysterious creature
witnessed by North American lumberjacks in the early 19th century.
The monster supposedly lives in the Colorado mountains, but only in places where the mountain
has a slope of more than 45 degrees.
The beast allegedly has a giant head, small eyes, a huge mouth, and a tail that ends in
a fluke kind of like a dolphin’s.
The monster supposedly waits throughout the entire day for tourists or helpless creatures
to get near enough that it can open its mouth and swallow unsuspecting people whole.
Some reports claim that entire parties of tourists have been gulped up in a single bite
by the Slide-Rock Bolter.
Its body is so massive that it can crush trees.
Believe it or not, the Slide-Rock Bolter has caused quite a fuss in Colorado.
It spends its days watching gulches for tourists with its beady little eyes.
The bolter then speeds down the slope like a toboggan and scoops up its victims, before
hurrying up the next slope.
Nobody has ever gotten a picture of the bolter, nor has it ever been witnessed in the 21st
century.
But back in the 19th century, it was a fearsome monster that really did scare lumberjacks
working in the region.
It probably came into being as an old wives’ tale during the mining boom in the 1880s.
6: The Kirtland Melon Heads On a dark and stormy night in the 1970s, unbelievable
creatures were spotted in the woods of Ohio.
These creatures had abnormally large heads with no hair, and legend has it that they
still roam Ohio today.
These monsters are known as the Kirtland melon heads, and some believe they are quite dangerous.
There are two local legends of just how the creatures with giant heads came to be alive.
The most popular theory is that a man named Dr. Crow was a mad scientist doing procedures
on orphans.
During the procedures, the orphans developed brain swelling and grotesque deformities to
their heads.
The children then burned down the doctor’s house, killing him and his wife.
Since the disfigured teens had no place to go, they took to the forest and survived on
the land, scaring the occasional tourist or local who was unfortunate enough to spot then.
There is of course another legend, which says it was actually the government responsible
for experimenting on the children and giving them extra-large heads, before they escaped
to the wilderness surrounding Kirtland.
Mean locals came up with the name melon heads because of the children’s swollen skulls.
They were almost exclusively witnessed in the night.
Throughout the years, the sightings have changed as the children have grown into adults.
Many people still believe there is a small group of people with giant heads living in
the Ohio woods.
What would you do if you saw misshapen people like the Kirtland Melonheads wandering in
the woods?
Would you try to talk to them, or would you run away screaming?
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5: Florida’s Skunk Ape It was 1974 when Dave Shealy first witnessed
Florida’s Skunk Ape.
He was only 10 years old at the time.
This was several years after Dave's father had discovered a pair of footprints left behind
by Florida’s very own version of Bigfoot.
The skunk ape was named because of its gross, skunky older.
It’s like Bigfoot except stinky – which of course you would expect from Florida!
Dave was deer hunting with his older brother in the swamp behind their house, what is today
Big Cypress National Preserve, when he came face to face with the ape.
According to Dave himself, his brother spotted it first, and he couldn't get a clear look
at it because he wasn't quite tall enough.
Dave’s brother had to pick him up, at which point Dave spotted the beast about 100 yards
(90m) away.
They had heard about the Skunk Ape before but had never imagined seeing it in person.
It looked like a man but was totally covered in fuzzy white hair.
Dave and his brother then ran away horrified and traumatized for the rest of their lives.
Dave is now 50 years old and relentlessly pursues the Skunk Ape through the swamps of
Florida.
He's written a field guide about the ape, he makes TV appearances, and he even established
the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters on his own property.
This is where he teaches tourists all about the legendary southern Bigfoot and its stinky
white fur.
Unfortunately, the skunk ape is about as believable as the Sasquatch, and all the videos taken
of the creature are fuzzy and shot from far away, making every sighting less than reliable.
4: The Menehune of Hawaii The Menehune are an ancient race of small
people who allegedly lived in Hawaii before settlers ever arrived on the islands.
These are perhaps the most believable mythological creatures anywhere on United States soil.
Some scholars say that the ruins of the Menehune’s culture have been destroyed and covered up,
while other scholars say they never existed at all.
But there's no denying the mythology of the Menehune has captivated the minds of locals
for hundreds of years.
These tiny humans were basically hobbits, and they occupied Hawaii before the original
Polynesians arrived.
They built roads, temples, and all kinds of other cool stuff, like statues and dams.
Some experts, such as Katharine Luomala, claim that the Menehune were actually original settlers
of the island and the direct descendants of the Marquesas Islanders who occupied Hawaii
way back in 350 AD.
The Tahitians conquered the island in 1100, then referring to the defeated islanders as
Menehune, which translates to “people of low social status.”
In any case, the legend has morphed over the years and the Menehune today are seen as mythological
hobbits who once lived in Hawaii.
Some claim they’ve even witnessed curious, primitive creatures skulking in the remote
regions of Hawaii’s forests.
The only thing that really puts a damper on the legend is that no skeletal remains of
miniature humans have ever been found in Hawaii.
3: The Beast of Bray Road The Beast of Bray Road is the most terrifying
American monster you’ve probably never heard of.
Sightings of these freakish creature have been happening near Elkhorn, Wisconsin and
all the way to Illinois.
The Beast of Bray Road is said to resemble Bigfoot – only more terrifying.
It stands upright on two legs and if you’re not paying close enough attention, can easily
be mistaken for a bear or even a huge wolf.
But just what exactly is the Beast of Bray Road?
Depending on who you ask, it’s many things.
Some locals claim the beast is a very real werewolf, while others think of it more as
Wisconsin’s own sasquatch.
But that brings us to the sightings.
A reporter from the area named Linda Godfrey first covered the story of the Beast of Bray
Road.
Linda was so convinced by what the eyewitnesses told her that she wrote an actual book about
it.
And according to the eyewitnesses, the beast most closely resembles a werewolf.
Several people reported seeing it in their yards, their driveways.
They always said the same thing: it looked like a giant, bloodthirsty wolf!
Of course, the skeptics would have you believe the Beast of Bray Road is nothing but a wild
dog that caused mass hysteria.
But this unlikely, considering most people can tell the difference between a dog and
a 7-foot werewolf!
No physical evidence has ever been uncovered and nobody has managed to get a convincing
video of the beast, but enough people have seen something resembling a two-legged man-wolf
prowling around Bray Road for there to be some truth in the story.
2: The Van Meter Monster In 1903, some kind of winged monster descended
on the small town of Van Meter, Iowa.
Of course, angry locals attacked it with shotguns.
It all happened in this rural town, when prominent members of Van Meter witnessed something half
man and half animal, with huge wings like a bat creeping around their town.
It moved at incredible speeds and shot blinding light from a giant horn that protruded through
its head.
Each time locals saw it, shotguns were fired.
But no matter how many times they blasted it with their guns, the creature wouldn't
die.
The creature was seen perched on top of telephone poles, some claimed it hopped like a kangaroo,
and others suspected it was a type of dinosaur.
But here's where things get really wild.
The monster was last sighted with a smaller version of itself descending into the shaft
of an old mine nearby the town.
The locals waited outside the shaft of the mine for it to come out… but it never did.
To this day, nobody knows if the Van Meter Monster was truly some kind of prehistoric
beast that awoke from its slumber and then crawled back into the depths of the earth
– or if it was all just a big exaggeration by bored townsfolk.
1: Sinkhole Sam Albert Neufeld came across what would come
to be known as Sinkhole Sam roughly 70 years ago.
Albert was a young Mennonite boy living in rural Kansas when he found an enormous, snake-like
monster swimming in Big Sinkhole, just a few miles outside the town of Inman.
This creature has been described as anywhere from 15 to 30 feet (4.5-9m) long.
Apparently, everyone agrees it looks kind of like a giant worm, and nobody knows what
it really is.
Some claim Sinkhole Sam is some kind of plankton eating lake monster.
Some have compared Sam to the Loch Ness Monster.
But to be honest, nobody has gotten a good look at it and there haven't been any reliable
sightings since the 1960s.
Some say what the young boy probably saw was a gopher snake, which can appear larger than
it really is when swimming.
The legend sticks to this day, but Sinkhole Sam seems to have vanished in modern times.
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