Category: North American Folklore

• Bigfoot

  Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is a large, hairy, upright humanoid cryptid said to inhabit the forests and mountain regions of North America, especially the Pacific Northwest. The legend combines older Indigenous traditions about wild forest beings with modern sighting reports, footprint evidence, expedition culture, film footage, and decades of media attention. Although stories of similar beings long predate the twentieth century, the modern Bigfoot phenomenon took shape in the late 1950s and became one of the most enduring cryptid traditions in American and Canadian popular culture.

• Dog Man

  Dog Man, more commonly called the Michigan Dogman, is a North American cryptid legend describing a towering canine-headed humanoid said to move on two legs, emit a terrifying scream-like howl, and appear in remote wooded areas. The story is most closely associated with Michigan, especially the northwestern Lower Peninsula, where folklore places early encounters in the late nineteenth century. The legend expanded dramatically in the modern era after a 1987 radio song by Steve Cook popularized the creature, transforming a regional monster story into one of the best-known dog-headed cryptid traditions in the United States.