Fearsome critters

also known as the Leeds Devil, legendary creature said to inhabit southern New Jersey, USA

The jackalope is a mythical animal of North American folklore described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns. The word jackalope is a portmanteau of jackrabbit and antelope. Many jackalope taxidermy mounts, including the original, are made with deer antlers.

The squonk is a mythical creature that is reputed to live in the hemlock forests of northern Pennsylvania in the United States.

Legendary creature

right|thumb|300px|Hodag "captured" by Eugene Shepard, 1893 thumb|E. S. Shepard, circa 1915 thumb|E. S. Shepard's residence in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, the den is to the right where he kept the Hodag thumb|The Hodag

practical joke in which an unwitting victim is sent in pursuit of something that doesn't exist

creature from lumberjack folklore

In American folklore, the snallygaster is a bird-reptile chimera originating in the superstitions of early German immigrants later combined with sensationalistic newspaper reports of the monster. Early sightings associate the snallygaster with Frederick County, Maryland, especially the areas of South Mountain, Braddock Heights and the Middletown Valley. Later reports would expand on sightings encompassing an area to include Central Maryland; Berkeley County, West Virginia; and the Washington, DC, metro area.

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