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Creature Feature Friday: The Snallygaster

Maryland, home to the majestic Chesapeake Bay, delicious crab cakes, and a fearsome winged creature. Enter the Snallygaster, a cryptid that has captured the imagination and fear of Marylanders for centuries. Like a creature out of Lewis Carroll literature, the Snallygaster is part dragon, part bird, and 100% legendary cryptid.

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Creature Feature Friday: The Wampus Cat

You may easily recognize Bigfoot’s enormous footprint in the mud, but what in the world (…or otherworld…) is leaving behind six-footed tracks? A legendary figure shrouded in mystery and mischief, one bizarre feline has been the subject of campfire stories and local legends for centuries. Let's pounce into the history and uncover some purr-tinent facts about the Wampus Cat in today’s Creature Feature Friday.

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Creature Feature Friday: The Whiffenpoof

You’ve probably never heard of the Whiffenpoof. You’ve probably never wanted to. But now you’ll never forget it! Here’s everything you need to know about this cheese-eating aquatic cryptid of the Lumberwoods.

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Creature Feature Friday: The Gumberoo

There are a lot of strange things you don’t want to encounter in the woods, and one of them includes a fat, bald exploding bear. The Gumberoo comes out of lumberjack legends, hailing from the foggy region along the Pacific Coast. It bears a resemblance to black bears, except that it is completely hairless but for its bristly beard and big eyebrows.

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Creature Feature Friday: The Tomten, a Temperamental Christmas Gnome

Have you ever heard of the Tomten? It may be an important folklore figure to know since legend says every home has a Tomten. A Scandinavian version of a house elf, Tomten are gnome-like creatures that watch unseen over children and animals, protecting homes and farms from evil and misfortune… but don’t let the Tomten’s protective role or diminutive stature fool you…

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Creature Feature Friday: The Pugot

It’s not here for your soul - it’s here for your underwear. Meet the Pugot, a ghastly figure out of Philippine mythology and today’s Creature Feature! Is the Pugot a flesh-and-blood creature? A shapeshifting spirit? Some chilling combination of the two? Whatever the case, the Pugot is one strange, underwear-stealing entity.

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Creature Feature Friday: The Ahool

If you’ve been swept up in the latest Stranger Things craze following the recent release of Season 4 (guilty), you’ll definitely remember the vicious Demobats from a few key scenes (that we’ll probably never get over). But those little razor-toothed monsters from the Upside Down are pure science fiction… right? Meet the Rightside Up’s version of the Demobat in this edition of Creature Feature Friday: the Ahool.

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Creature Feature Friday: Belsnickel, the Cantankerous Christmas Gift-Bringer

Impish or admirable? Cheer or fear? If you’re a diehard fan of the legendary show The Office, then 1) there’s a good chance we can be best friends, and 2) you’ve definitely heard of the cantankerous Yuletide folk figure known as Belsnickel. So just who is this grim, grimy Christmas legend?

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Creature Feature Friday: The Apparition of the 'Woman in White'

Today we will be exploring the beautiful and haunted Burn Brae Mansion in New York! Burn Brae Mansion holds tales of different ghosts and paranormal activity within its many rooms, including one of the more famous figures of ghost lore - the “Woman in White.” The apparition of a pale lady in a white gown has become a common sighting over centuries of ghost stories, but remains no less chilling across history and culture. What do you know about the Woman in White?

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Creature Feature Friday: Kushtaka, the 'Land Otter Man'

TODAY, April 30, The Confessionals Podcast and Anointed AK are dropping three new paranormal beard oil scents, in the form of Wendigo, Rake, and Kushtaka. While the two former creatures may be notorious enough to strike fear in your heart, the latter may not be so widely known. What IS Kushtaka… and just how frightening is it? Creature Feature Friday breaks the legend down!

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