IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, a bird with an obsidian black body, ebony dark as a night sky; an almost iridescent star-burnt plumage emboldened by a bolt of white lightning running from mouth to tail, and a ...

A CATFISH WITH THREE EYES lived in the Gowanus Canal. I can say this with confidence because I have seen the evidence. The catfish was shiny and pitch-dark. After a fisherman hooked it and reeled it ...

BIGFOOT ISN’T REAL, but black bears are—that’s the subtext of a recent study by Dr. Floe Foxon mapping bear populations relative to cryptid sightings. That study, published in 2024, sparked my ...

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I FIRST HEARD ABOUT cattle mutilations when a round of them popped up in Oregon. The details, I need to warn you, are graphic. In 2019, five bulls were found dead in a wooded area, fifteen miles from ...

the only goat you find in me—the one of scape.

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"This wide lawn is woven with sleeping addicts. / The Cloisters are empty of men." ...

CAN AN UNREAL CREATURE BE REAL? This question is on my mind—and on my skin, too, shivering across my thighs and belly, tingling over my shoulders and scalp—as I wade into the black midnight waters of ...

FITZROY GARDENS: Once it was swampland draining into the Yarra River, then it was turned into Victorian gardens in the high British style. Even landscaped, it still smelled like sewage run-off. A ...

A CRYPTID IS A SLIPPERY THING, hard to keep an eye on. Not just literally, as when a flash of something is glimpsed through the trees, but also conceptually. Apply a little pressure to the concept of ...