This map, created by Neil Parkinson of Púca Printhouse in 2021, showcases the monsters of America's mythology.

Among the many myths that the author recovers in this map, some of the most iconic are worth highlighting:

• Bigfoot, the large hominid whose existence has been the subject of debate since the 19th century, frequently sighted in the forests of the north-west of the country, in California.
• Kushtaka, the otter man In Tlingit mythology, a being capable of taking on human or otter form to lure its victims into the water and trap them between two worlds, in Alaska.
• Wendigo, the spirit from Algonquin folklore associated with cannibalism and winter, which, according to tradition, can possess humans and transform them into creatures consumed by an insatiable hunger, in the Great Lakes region.
• Mothman (the Mothman), the red-eyed, winged creature sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, just before the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967 in West Virginia.
• Jersey Devil (the Jersey Devil), a creature with the body of a kangaroo, the head of a horse and the wings of a bat, which, according to legend, was born to the thirteenth child of the Leeds family in 1735, in New Jersey.
• Nain Rouge (the red dwarf), the ominous spirit from 18th-century French mythology who is said to have been sighted prior to major historical tragedies in Detroit, Michigan.
• Rougarou, the werewolf of Acadian and Creole folklore in Louisiana, whose legend blends medieval European traditions with the popular Catholicism of the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana.
• La Llorona, the ghostly woman who wanders along rivers and riverbanks, weeping for the children she herself drowned, one of the most widespread figures in Hispanic folklore in North America, particularly in New Mexico and Texas.
• The Dead Man, the Headless Horseman of South Texas, who first appeared in the 1850s when the Rangers tied the decapitated body of a bandit to a wild horse as a warning; since then, sightings of the Headless Horseman have continued in Texas.
• Hodag, the creature with horns and sharp teeth that the woodcutter Eugene Shepard claimed to have captured in 1893 in northern Wisconsin, whose prank became a symbol of local identity for the town of Rhinelander, in Wisconsin.

Many of the myths depicted are typical of a much wider region than the one in which they are located on the map.

Sources

• Mythical Beasts of the United States of America
• Mythical Beasts of the United States of America
• Mythical Beasts of the United States of America - Illustrated map