Legends 9: Monsters of the Woods (ad-free)

The woods can be a place of peace and tranquility. But if the legends from around the world have anything to teach us, it’s that there are always exceptions to the rule.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Harry Marks and research by Cassandra de Alba.

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Further Reading:

1. “After the Colored People.” Shepherdstown Register. February 4, 1909. https://www.newspapers.com/image/466194882/
2. “All Ready For The Fair.” The New North. September 3, 1896. https://www.newspapers.com/image/8598929/
3. Apps, Jerry. When the White Pine Was King A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2020).
4. Blank, Trevor J. & David J. Puglia. Maryland Legends: Folklore From The Old Line State (Arcadia Publishing, 2014).
5. Bos, Brittney Ann. “Toronto’s Haunted Secret Tunnels.” Haunted Walk. Accessed October 17, 2022. https://hauntedwalk.com/news/torontos-secret-tunnels/
6. “Bovapolus Snallygaster Swoops Down On Village.” The Evening Sun. November 25, 1932. https://www.newspapers.com/image/369630737/
7. Boyton, Patrick. Snallygaster: The Lost Legend of Frederick County (Lulu.com, 2011)
8. Bright, Emily. “The Legend of the Hodag.” Wisconsin Life. April 1, 2016. https://wisconsinlife.org/story/the-legend-of-the-hodag/
9. Brown, Charles E. Paul Bunyan Natural History: Describing the Wild Animals, Birds, Reptiles and Fish of the Big Woods about Paul Bunyan’s Old Time Logging Camps (C.E. Brown, 1935).
10. “Capture of a Hodag.” The New North. October 28, 1893. https://www.newspapers.com/image/8683345/
11. Careless, James Maurice Stockford. “Toronto.” The Canadian Encyclopedia. March 11, 2022. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/toronto
12. Chainey, Dee Dee, & Willow Winsham. Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests: Wild Gods, World Trees and Werewolves (Batsford, 2021).
13. Cox, William T. & Coert Du Bois. Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts (Judd & Detweiler, 1910).
14. Dimri, Bipin. “The Leshy: Slavic Monster that Inspired a TV Franchise.” Historic Mysteries. October 17, 2022. https://www.historicmysteries.com/leshy/
15. Dixon-Kennedy, Mike. Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic Myth and Legend (ABC-CLIO, 1998).
16. Edmonds, Michael. Out of the Northwoods: The Many Lives of Paul Bunyan, With More Than 100 Logging Camp Tales (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2010).
17. Fair, Susan. “Mountain Monster: The Snallygaster.” Blue Ridge Country. January 1, 2012. https://blueridgecountry.com/archive/favorites/snallygaster-monster/
18. Fair, Susan. Mysteries and Lore of Western Maryland: Snallygasters, Dogmen and other Mountain Tales (Arcadia Publishing, 2013).
19. Goldstein, Lorrie. “Tunnel monster of Cabbagetown?” Toronto Sun. March 25, 1979. https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/20130204tunnelmonster.jpg
20. Gonzalez, Inigo. “A ‘Living Nightmare’ Lurks In Toronto’s Underground Waterways... Waiting.” Ranker. January 11, 2018. https://www.ranker.com/list/cabbagetown-tunnel-monster-myth/inigo-gonzalez