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In 1903, the residents of tiny Van Meter, Iowa, were faced with a terrible and fascinating sight: a strange and glowing creature—a visitor, perhaps—that seemingly manifested from the abandoned mines. 

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In the 1970s, Bigfoot fever was at a. . .well, fever pitch, and hairy bipedal creatures were spotted across the country. The Appalachian town of Spottsville, Kentucky was certainly no exception—and according to one unlucky family, their property had long been stalked by uncanny creatures.

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Works Cited
John Penn, “Don’t Go Monster Hunting.” Evansville Press, 1975.
John Penn, “Residents Report Spottsville Monster.” Evansville Press, 1975.
Barton Nunnelly, Bigfoot in Kentucky: Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition, 2017.
Keith Lawrence, “Simply Monstrous!” The Messenger-Inquirer, 1975.
Keith Lawrence, “In Search of Bigfoot.” The Messenger-Inquirer, 1977.
Keith Lawrence, “Area Missing the. . .” The Messenger-Inquirer, 1997.
Keith Lawrence, “Is Love in. . .” The Messenger-Inquirer, 2008.
Keith Lawrence, “CVB Turns to Bigfoot. . .” The Messenger-Inquirer, 2023.
Keith Lawrence, “Remembering the Fairview. . .” The Messenger-Inquirer, 2017.
Keith Lawrence, “Bigfoot Chasers.” The Messenger-Inquirer, 2018.
Jon Webb, “Here are 4. . .” Evansville Courier and Press, 2019.
John Webb, “44 Years Since. . .” The Courier-Journal, 2022.
John Webb, “A Monster Hounded. . .” The Courier Journal, 2022.
N/A, “Area Town Once. . .” Evansville Courier and Press, 2019.
John Webb, “Beast Creature, Cryptid?” Evansville Courier and Press, 2022.

A cemetery in Iowa City is famous — not really for anyone laid to rest there, but for a statue. The Black Angel is mysterious and otherworldly — and her metamorphosis, both physical and in legend, leaves us with a lot of questions. 

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In the midst of the ‘60s craze over mysticism and the otherworldly, two twins were born in suburban England. The twins were near carbon copies of each other, and of their two older sisters. There’s just one quirk: the older sisters died, 17 months before the twins were born. So when the twins started remembering their sisters’ lives as their own? People talked.

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Works Cited

John Macklin, “Have these twins…” Leicester Mercury, 1967.
NA, “Expert to eye…” Reuters, 1966.
NA “Twin girl may have…” Sydney Morning Herald, 1966.
NA, “Back from the dead?” The Montreal Star, 1966.
Evie Townend, “Twin sisters who family…” The Mirror, 2022.
KM Wehrstein, “Pollock Twins,” Society for Psychical Research, 2021.
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Fr. Gary Benz, “Can a Catholic believe…” Bismarck Diocese, 2023.

The Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey gave birth to one of America’s most famous cryptids—a beast known as the Leeds Devil. Of course, you might be more familiar with the moniker “The Jersey Devil”—whether or not you know much of the history of how the creature has come to haunt the northeastern imagination. 

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