A CATFISH WITH THREE EYES lived in the Gowanus Canal. I can say this with confidence because I have seen the evidence. The catfish was shiny and pitch-dark. After a fisherman hooked it and reeled it ...

BIGFOOT ISN’T REAL, but black bears are—that’s the subtext of a recent study by Dr. Floe Foxon mapping bear populations relative to cryptid sightings. That study, published in 2024, sparked my ...

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the only goat you find in me—the one of scape.

"This wide lawn is woven with sleeping addicts. / The Cloisters are empty of men." ...

I FIRST HEARD ABOUT cattle mutilations when a round of them popped up in Oregon. The details, I need to warn you, are graphic. In 2019, five bulls were found dead in a wooded area, fifteen miles from ...

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CAN AN UNREAL CREATURE BE REAL? This question is on my mind—and on my skin, too, shivering across my thighs and belly, tingling over my shoulders and scalp—as I wade into the black midnight waters of ...

WHAT DIFFERENTIATES THE CRYPTID from other monsters is that cryptids come with reports of local sightings. Unlike the unicorn—representations of which are known to be totally fantastical—the cryptid ...

PEGASUS COULD NEVER GET OFF LIGHTLY. Born of Poseidon’s salt sea and blood dripping from Medusa’s severed head, the winged horse was saddled with the task of bearing Zeus’s thunderbolts, then tamed by ...

"There is no single way to grieve / the world, any more than there is some sure / way to praise it." ...