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Fouke Monster / Boggy Creek Monster

Fouke and the Boggy Creek area, Miller County, southwestern Arkansas

Reports of a tall, red-eyed, hair-covered creature around Fouke, Arkansas became nationally famous after a 1971 encounter and the film The Legend of Boggy Creek.

Ape-Men & Hairy Humanoids

Grassman

Ohio, especially eastern and southeastern Ohio; strongly associated in modern lore with Salt Fork State Park and Guernsey County

Ohio's Grassman is the state's regional Bigfoot tradition, centered on reports of large hair-covered bipeds in the wooded hills around Salt Fork and eastern Ohio.

Alien Types & Beings

Grey Aliens

The Black-Eyed Visitors of UFO Lore

Worldwide; especially American UFO lore

Small bodies, oversized heads and enormous black eyes: Grey Aliens have become the default face of extraterrestrial encounters, despite having no verified existence outside reports and popular culture.

Fearsome Critters

Hodag

Rhinelander's Impossible Monster

Northwoods of Wisconsin

The Hodag began as a Wisconsin lumberman's elaborate hoax, complete with a fake captive beast. Rhinelander liked the monster so much it decided to keep it.

Alien Types & Beings

Hopkinsville Goblins

Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky

The Hopkinsville Goblins are the small, long-armed figures a Kentucky family said surrounded their farmhouse during a bizarre night of gunfire in 1955.

Fearsome Critters

Jackalope

The Horned Rabbit of the American West

American West

Part jackrabbit, part antelope and entirely improbable, the Jackalope began as a taxidermy joke and escaped into American folklore.

Cryptids

Jersey Devil

The Monster of the Pine Barrens

New Jersey Pine Barrens

For generations, the isolated forests of southern New Jersey have been home to tales of a screaming, winged creature with hooves, horns and an extremely complicated family history.

Aliens

Kecksburg UFO Incident

Kecksburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

A brilliant 1965 fireball seen across several states became a Pennsylvania UFO legend after witnesses said something acorn-shaped came down near Kecksburg.

Aliens

Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky

A 1955 Kentucky family's report of small figures repeatedly approaching their farmhouse became one of the strangest and most enduring early close-encounter cases.

Alien Types & Beings

Little Green Men

Not place-specific; strongly associated with Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky

The phrase "little green men" became one of America's most familiar alien stereotypes, even though one famous encounter associated with it described no green creatures.

Aliens

Lubbock Lights

Lubbock and the South Plains of Texas

In 1951, Texas Tech professors repeatedly watched formations of bluish-green lights cross the Lubbock sky, while a student captured five disputed photographs.

Alien Types & Beings

Mantid / Insectoid Aliens

Not place-specific

Tall insect-like figures resembling praying mantises form one of the stranger recurring entity types reported in modern alien-abduction and extraordinary-encounter narratives.