Bizarre Legendary Monsters
THE BEAST OF TRURO – As pet cats were found slaughtered
in the Cape Cod area of Massachusettes, speculation grew
as to whether the beast was a mountain lion even though
none existed in the region. Its identity remains a mystery
today.
GOATMAN – Described as having the upper body of a human,
the legs of a goat and cloven hooves, Goatman has been
known to leap out on unsuspecting courting couples parked
in lover’s lanes in Virginia. It is theorized that the
creature was the result of a science experiment on goats
that went wrong.
THE JERSEY DEVIL – The story goes that somewhere in the
wooded Pine Barrens area of New Jersey lurks a monster with
a large horse-like head, wings and a long serpent’s body.
In 1951, strange screams were heard coming from the woods,
which were said to be the cry of the Jersey Devil.
MO-MO – In the summer of 1971, two girls stopped for a
picnic near the town of Louisiana, Missouri, when a half-
ape half human emerged from some bushes and tried to break
into their car. Monster hunts in the area failed to reveal
the culprit.
THE FLATHEAD LAKE MONSTER – Visitors to Flathead Lake,
Montana, have sometimes spotted something “huge and black”
in the water. A major sighting was in 1963 by Ronald Nixon
who calculated the creature to be around 25ft long. A
reward was offered for the first good photograph of the
beast went unclaimed.