A grotesque creature that drinks the blood of livestock and is reported to exist in North and South America.
A mythical nocturnal creature that is reported chiefly from rural Maryland, is reputed to be part reptile and part bird, and is said to prey on poultry and children.
A person transformed temporarily or permanently into a wolf or capable of assuming a wolf's form : lycanthrope.
A mythical animal reported chiefly from Wisconsin and Minnesota, noted for its ugliness, lateral horns, and hooked tail, and reputed to be outstanding in both ferocity and melancholy.
An evil spirit or the wandering soul of a dead person believed in Jewish folklore to enter and control a living body until exorcised by a religious rite.
The ghost of a person killed in a mine.
A hairy creature like a human being that is reported to exist in the northwestern U.S. and western Canada and is said to be a primate between 6 and 15 feet (1.8 and 4.6 meters) tall.
A supernatural creature originally in Germanic folklore and conceived of in many forms but usually as having the form of a woman or as half human and half fish, dwelling in fresh water usually in a beautiful palace, and usually unfriendly to man.
A specter or ghost especially in the form of an animal.
A fabulous animal usually represented as a 2-legged winged creature resembling a dragon.
A three-headed dog that in Greek mythology guards the entrance to Hades.
A cannibalistic creature of Algonquian mythology believed to have been a lost hunter forced by hunger to eat human flesh and thereafter to have become a crazed man-eating ogre roaming the forest.
A will-less and speechless human capable only of automatic movement who is held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated.
A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster perhaps imagined on the basis of chance sightings of giant squids.
An imaginary creature regarded as an embodiment of absolute absurdity.
Appearing otherwise like normal children except for their black eyes, these creatures invoke a deep sensation of terror in all whom they encounter. Often, the children appear in pairs in unexpected places, and they claim to be in distress. They then ask to be let into cars for rides, homes to use the telephone, or similar scenarios.
These beings were human-like creatures that were believed to have lived in Libya. They have their faces on their chests because their heads were removed by gods as a result of a rebellion.
This character depicted as an unnaturally tall, thin, spectral man with a featureless white face and a black suit and tie, sometimes with long black tentacles and sometimes without. He's considered a Tulpa.
This is a legendary creature said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of South Jersey. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many variations. The common description is that of a kangaroo-like or wyvern-like creature with a goat- or horse-like head, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, legs with cloven hooves, and a forked tail.
A goat/man/sheep hybrid, this Kentucky creature is said to use hypnosis to lead its victims to their demise.
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