Creatures of the Mountains
and the American South

A soft-bodied, warty animal of Pennsylvania's hemlock country, reported since the lumber camp era. It cries and weeps constantly, travels at dusk, and leaves a tear-stained trail that makes it one of the easiest creatures in Appalachia to follow. Catching it is a different problem. Every documented capture has ended the same way, with a wet sack and nothing in it.

A large hairy bipedal creature, 7–8 feet tall, with piercing orange eyes that glow from within mist near water. Sightings cluster around Charles Mill Lake and Ohio's marshy lowlands, always after dark.

The Booger Bear is a massive, bear-like predator reported across central Appalachia that doesn't match any cataloged species in the region. Witnesses describe an animal with bearish bulk but a shortened, flat face more like a cat or bulldog, elongated forelimbs, and a preference for traveling on hind legs. It raids livestock with a regularity that distinguishes it from opportunistic black bear predation. A specimen was shot and recovered in Kentucky in 1967. The Bureau considers the file active.

The Not Deer is exactly what the name says it isn't. A creature wearing a deer's shape the way a coat fits wrong; close enough at fifty yards, deeply incorrect at twenty. Reports describe front-facing eyes, joints bending backward, and a stillness that has nothing to do with prey behavior. The Bureau has cataloged encounters across every Appalachian state, and the pattern holds: witnesses know something is wrong before they can say what.

A tall, apelike figure roughly 6 to 8 feet in height, covered in dark brown to black hair. Cleveland County's wildman mascot, known for bothering dogs, moving through yards, and watching homes from the woods.

A 7-foot-tall entity built out of plant matter rather than flesh—green stalks, vines, and fibrous tissue. Known for telepathic communication and using thorned suction cups to draw blood. A one-time visitor who never returned.