Something stirs beyond the treeline.
A 130-foot single-rail coaster named for New Jersey's most famous monster. Here is how the Jersey Devil ride at Six Flags Great Adventure works, why it is obsessed with the number 13, and the Pine Barrens legend it borrows from.
Nessie is usually drawn as a long-necked plesiosaur, a holdover from the age of reptiles. Here is where that image came from, why paleontology and the loch's own history rule it out, and what still keeps the idea alive.
A light fell from the sky over Flatwoods in 1952, and a group of children and adults climbed a dark hill to find it. What they described became one of America's strangest close encounters. Here is the account, the record and the explanations.
From Aldie Mackay's 'whale' beside the A82 to the surgeon's photograph and a 1954 sonar contact, a case-by-case look at the most famous Loch Ness Monster sightings and what each one actually shows.
Why does the Loch Ness Monster keep asking Chef's parents for tree fiddy? How the South Park running gag works, and the strange real history of Nessie sightings and hoaxes that the joke quietly mirrors.
A seven-foot canine that walks like a man, a howl like a human scream, and a prank song that would not die. Here is the Michigan Dogman: the sightings, the record, the explanations and the questions still open.
A calm loch, a hotel manager's startled glimpse in 1933, and a toy submarine with a putty neck. The story of Nessie, from a 7th-century saint's tale to sonar fleets, and what the record actually shows.
In November 1966, two couples outside Point Pleasant said a winged figure with glowing red eyes chased their car. Here is how the Mothman reports unfolded, what the record supports, and why the legend outlived them.
From the hairy giants of British Columbia's oral traditions to a bulldozer driver's 16-inch footprints and a famous 1967 film, here is what sightings of Bigfoot actually rest on: the cases, the hoaxes and the open questions.
Loch Ness is deep, cold and dark with peat, the perfect stage for a legend. Here is the lake behind Nessie: its size and depth, how the monster story grew from a saint's tale to a 1933 sensation, and what sonar has really found.
From Sasquatch in the northern forests to the Mongolian death worm in the Gobi, here are the world's best-known cryptids sorted by type and region, with what witnesses report, what the record shows and the ordinary explanations proposed for each.
From a cursed thirteenth child at Leeds Point to a week of panic in 1909, the Jersey Devil is America's most famous regional monster. Here is the legend, the real Leeds family behind it, and what the record shows.
Nessie has survived every debunking, from a 7th-century tale about a saint to a toy submarine photographed in 1934. Here is what witnesses reported, what investigators found, and what still has no clear explanation.
