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He's just your average, ordinary, everyday massive turtle. Check out our sources! Ocker, J. W. The United States of Cryptids. Quirk Books, 2022, pp.158-160. “BEAST OF BUSCO.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Dec. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Busco. Accessed 24 May 2024.  “Churubusco Lake Home to the Legendary ‘beast of Busco’ Is on the Market.” WANE 15, WANE 15, 16 June 2021. Accessed 24 May 2024.  “BEAST OF BUSCO.” Cryptid Wiki, Fandom, Inc., cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Beast_of_Busco. Accessed 24 May 2024.  Cryptozoology, Contributors to Encyclopaedia of. “Beast of ’Busco.” Encyclopaedia of Cryptozoology, Fandom, Inc., cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Beast_of_%27Busco. Accessed 24 May 2024.  “Churubusco, Indiana.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Apr. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churubusco,_Indiana. Accessed 24 May 2024.  Jennings, Lucas. “The Beast of Busco’s Trail through Time and Tales.” Hangar1publishing, hangar1publishing.com/blogs/cryptids/beast-of-busco. Accessed 24 May 2024. Beals, Daniel. “21Country: Fulk Lake, Home of the ‘Beast of Busco’, up for Sale.” Https://Www.21alivenews.Com, 25 May 2021, www.21alivenews.com/2021/05/25/21country-fulk-lake-home-beast-busco-up-sale/.  Dickey, Elizabeth, et al. “Unsolved Histories: A Giant Turtle, a Stubborn Man, and Dredging up a Myth.” Michigan Quarterly Review, 18 Sept. 2015, sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2015/09/unsolved-histories-a-giant-turtle-a-stubborn-man-and-dredging-up-a-myth/.

Full-body scales and a diet of automotive metal would make anyone a bit grumpy. Check out our sources! Ocker, J. W. The United States of Cryptids. Quirk Books, 2022, pp.99-103. Lutz, Alicia. “Lizard Man Sightings.” The College Today, 27 Sept. 2023, today.cofc.edu/2015/07/03/lizard-man-sightings/.  Egan, Kerry. “Beware the Lizard Man!” Beware the Lizard Man!, discoversouthcarolina.com/articles/beware-the-lizard-man. Wikipedia. “Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Feb. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Man_of_Scape_Ore_Swamp.  Pearson, Michael. “Lizard Man Struts His Stuff in South Carolina.” CNN, Cable News Network, 4 Aug. 2015, www.cnn.com/2015/08/04/us/south-carolina-lizard-man-feat/index.html.  WCSC. “New Photos, Video Spark New Interest in ‘Lizard Man’ Legend.” Https://Www.Live5news.Com, 4 Aug. 2015, www.live5news.com/story/29699211/new-photos-video-spark-new-interest-in-lizard-man-legend/.

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The apple doesn’t fall far from the Squatch. Check out our sources! Choffel, Dorene. “The Albatwitch Haunts Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.” Chesapeake Bay, 21 Oct. 2022, www.chesapeakebay.net/news/blog/the-albatwitch-haunts-lancaster-county-pennsylvania. unchartedadam. “Meet Columbia’s Little Bigfoot-the Albatwitch.” Uncharted Lancaster, 1 Oct. 2021, unchartedlancaster.com/2021/10/03/haunted-lancaster-meet-columbias-little-bigfoot-the-albatwitch/. Luciew, John. “In Search of the Albatwitch: What’s the Evidence for Lancaster County’s Famous Cryptid?” Pennlive, 25 Oct. 2023, pennlive.com/uniquelypa/2023/10/in-search-of-the-albatwitch-whats-the-evidence-for-lancaster-countys-famous-cryptid.html. Wikipedia. “Pennsylvania Dutch.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch. Luciew, John. “The Albatwitch, a Creepy Creature Rooted in Folklore, Becomes Big Business for Pa. Town.” Pennlive, 12 Oct. 2023, www.pennlive.com/uniquelypa/2023/10/the-albatwitch-a-creepy-creature-rooted-in-folklore-becomes-big-business-for-pa-town.html. Knapp, Tom. “Little Bigfoot: Columbia’s First Albatwitch Festival Remembers the Apple-Snatching Creature of Local Lore | Entertainment | Lancasteronline.Com.” Lancaster Online, 24 Sept. 2014, lancasteronline.com/features/entertainment/little-bigfoot-columbia-s-first-albatwitch-festival-remembers-the-apple/article_7665c758-4380-11e4-b016-001a4bcf6878.html. USDA Forest Service. 2021. Forests of Pennsylvania, 2020. Resource Update FS-345. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 2p. https://doi.org/10.2737/FS-RU-345.Wikipedia. “Columbia, Pennsylvania.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_Pennsylvania.

Don’t try pronouncing it. Just know that gator-dragon-marsupial is coming for you. Thanks to David Fesliyan for the song "Get Ready" used in this episode: fesliyanstudios.com Check out our sources! “Gowrow Article.” Encyclopedia of Arkansas, 8 Sept. 2022, encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/gowrow-article-14157/.  Wiki, Contributors to Cryptid. “Arkansas Gowrow.” Cryptid Wiki, Fandom, Inc., cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Arkansas_Gowrow. Tabitca. “The Gowrow - Alligator or Dragon?” The Gowrow - Alligator or Dragon?, 19 Nov. 2009, cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-gowrow-alligator-or-dragon.html?m=1. Clements, William M. “Gowrow.” Encyclopedia of Arkansas, 30 June 2023, encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/gowrow-5669/.   Wiki, Contributors to High Strangeness. “Gowrow.” High Strangeness Wiki, Fandom, Inc., high-strangeness.fandom.com/wiki/Gowrow.Stegall, Amber. “Louisiana Man Captures 760 Pound Alligator.” Https://Www.Wafb.Com, 18 Sept. 2013, www.wafb.com/story/23455002/louisiana-man-captures-760-pound-alligator/.

Did you feel the Tremor coming from that Dune over there? Quick, hide in that giant peach! Check out our sources! New World Encyclopedia. “Gobi Desert.” Visit the Main Page, www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Gobi_Desert#Climate.  Dimri, Bipin. The Mongolian Death Worm: Nightmare Cryptid of the Gobi Desert?, 3 Sept. 2022, www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/mongolian-death-worm/26671.   Wikipedia. “Amphisbaenia.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 May 2024, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphisbaenia.  Wikipedia. “Amphisbaenidae.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 3 Nov. 2023, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphisbaenidae.   Wikipedia. “Mongolian Death Worm.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 12 May 2024, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_death_worm.  Bowie, Desiree. “Mongolian Death Worm: The Gobi Desert’s Deadliest Cryptid.” HowStuffWorks Science, HowStuffWorks, 15 Aug. 2023, science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/mongolian-death-worm.htm.  Ishak, Natasha. “Meet the 5-Foot, Venom-Spitting Death Worm Said to Stalk the Gobi Desert.” All That’s Interesting, All That’s Interesting, 22 July 2020, allthatsinteresting.com/mongolian-death-worm. Britannica. “Climate of Gobi.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., www.britannica.com/place/Gobi/Climate. Radford, Benjamin. “Mongolian Death Worm: Elusive Legend of the Gobi Desert.” LiveScience, Purch, 21 June 2014, www.livescience.com/46450-mongolian-death-worm.html. Didymus, John Thomas. “Mongolian Death Worm.” Fairy Tales and Myths, 14 Dec. 2023, www.fairytalesandmyths.com/mongolian-death-worm/. Shuker, Dr Karl. “The Mongolian Death Worm – a Shocking Surprise in the Gobi?” ShukerNature, 1 Jan. 1970, karlshuker.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-mongolian-death-worm-shocking.html?m=1.Heiner, Michael, and Joseph Kiesecker. “Gobi Desert.” Gobi Desert - an Overview | ScienceDirect Topics, 2020, www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/gobi-desert#:~:text=The%20Gobi%20Desert%20basin%20lies,Plateau%20(see%20map%20in%20Fig.

It’s a shootout with backflipping aliens in rural Kentucky. What more do you want? Check out our sources! Ocker, J. W. The United States of Cryptids. Quirk Books, 2022, pp.139-141. Mettler, Katie. Tales from the Path of Totality: 62 Years Ago Today, They Say, ‘Little Green Men’ Invaded This Kentucky Farm Town - The Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/21/tales-from-the-path-of-totality-62-years-ago-today-they-say-little-green-men-invaded-this-kentucky-farm-town/.  History.com Editors. “Project Blue Book.” History.Com, A&E Television Networks, 16 Dec. 2019, www.history.com/topics/paranormal/project-blue-book.  Wikipedia. “Kelly–Hopkinsville Encounter.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 Apr. 2024, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter.  Janssen, Volker. “How the ‘little Green Men’ Phenomenon Began on a Kentucky Farm.” History.Com, A&E Television Networks, 14 Sept. 2023, www.history.com/news/little-green-men-origins-aliens-hopkinsville-kelly.

Please hold all your giggling childish outbursts until the end. Check out our sources! Ocker, J. W. The United States of Cryptids. Quirk Books, 2022, pp.150-153. Merkel, Lindsay. “Creature Feature Friday: Giant Sky Clams.” The Confessionals, The Confessionals, 26 Jan. 2024. www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/the-blog/2023/5/29/creature-feature-friday-giant-sky-clams.   Morphy, Rob. “Rob Morphy.” Cryptopia Exploring The Hidden World, 12 Aug. 2018, www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/gargantuan-gliders-nevada-usa/.  Meszaros, John. “Giant Space Clams- Nevada.” Giant Space Clams- Nevada, statecryptids.blogspot.com/2017/04/giant-space-clams-nevada.html. Wiki, Contributors to Cryptid. “Atmospheric Beasts.” Cryptid Wiki, Fandom, Inc., cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Atmospheric_Beasts. Wiki, Contributors to Cryptid. “Atmospheric Jellyfish.” Cryptid Wiki, Fandom, Inc., cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Atmospheric_Jellyfish. Wiki, Contributors to Cryptid. “Flying Rays.” Cryptid Wiki, Fandom, Inc., cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Flying_Rays.

Beaks, wings, tentacles, and a giant eyeball! It’s a Lovecraftian dream come true.

Ever seen a giant, mountain-dwelling rock whale? Neither have we. Check out our sources! Ocker, J. W. The United States of Cryptids. Quirk Books, 2022, pp.237-240. Wiki, Contributors to Cryptid. “Slide-Rock Bolter.” Cryptid Wiki, Fandom, Inc., cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Slide-Rock_Bolter. Wanderingwhaleroad. “The Slide-Rock Bolter.” Wandering the Whale Road, 12 Oct. 2017, wanderingwhaleroad.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/the-slide-rock-bolter/.  Colorado Department of Public Safety. “Landslide / Rockslide.” Landslide / Rockslide | Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, dhsem.colorado.gov/landslide-rockslide#:~:text=Land%20movement%20related%20to%20landslides,%2C%20frequency%2C%20and%20severity%20fluctuate. Accessed 20 May 2024.  Colorado Geological Survey. “Landslides.” Colorado Geological Survey, 27 Nov. 2023, coloradogeologicalsurvey.org/hazards/landslides/#:~:text=Colorado%20experiences%20many%20landslides%20each,millions%20of%20dollars%20per%20year.