Are you, dear listener, a believer? Do you look for things that go bump in the night? Do you listen for a haunting call between the trees? Well then, buckle in, Jackie's taking us on a tour of three of the most popular cryptids in North America, including the rougarou, mothman and (of course) sasquatch, and their appearances in romance novels!
Questions/comments/suggestions/cryptid sightings? Email us at ragingromantics@nopl.org!
Books we mention:
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Sources:
- American Monsters by Linda S. Godfrey
- “The Science Behind Bigfoot and Other Monsters” (Hartigan, 2013)
- “Save the Swamp: But, Beware the “Rougarou”” (Renfro, 2019)
- ROUGAROU - The Cajun Werewolf EXPLAINED (Freaky Folklore Podcast)
- "Native American Legends: Stikini" (Native Languages of the Americas, 2020)
- "Uncanny Georgia: The Ishkitini" (Purciful, 2015)
- "The Atchafalaya Basin" (Atchafalaya.org)
- The Atchafalaya River Basin" (The Nature Conservancy)
- “History of the Rougarou: Louisiana’s Werewolf” (Kerner, n.d.)
- “New Orleans Bayou Creature: The Rougarou" (Poulton, 2019)
- "Legend of Bigfoot" (Washington National Guard)
- “Sasquatch” (Encyclopedia Britannica)
- “Beyond Bigfoot” (American Museum of Natural History)
- “Why Bigfoot is Getting Nervous” (Blake, 2014)
- “Bigfoot (Sasquatch) legend” (Walls, 2022)
- "Halq’eméylem" (Indigenous Education, Abbotsford School District"
- “How the Bigfoot Legend Began” (Little, 2020)
- “Big Foot, 1958” (Buhs, 2009)
- “The Legend of Mothman – Paranormal W.Va.” (Klein, 2021)
- “The Terrifying Tale of West Virginia's Legendary Specter: The Mothman” (Overdeep, 2022)
- “An Ode to a Hometown Creature: Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia” (Mallow, 2021)
- “All About the Blue Ridge Mountains" (Bluridgemountainlife.com, 2023)
- "The 8 Oldest Mountain Ranges in the World and Where to Find Them" (Haase, 2023)
- “Geology of the Appalachian Mountains” (Britannica)
- “Witchcraft in West Virginia” (ToSalem, 2022)
- “Cherokee had high regard for owls (Ellison, 2019)
