Who are the Mythical Beasts of the United States of America?

The USA, a nation filled with many amazing, exciting things. The Statue of Liberty, The Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and oh my dear god so many culinary delights. But if you’re like me and a get a twinge in the nether regions at just the thought of creatures from folklore and mythology, then you my friends have come to the right place. In today’s video, we’ll be travelling across the states and looking at the creatures from American folklore.

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Written by Jason Collier
Narrated by Adam Brown

[theicywasp]

I always found it interesting at how the wendigo is sometimes described as being a pale person, and sometimes with the head of a deer skull with antlers

[kodytiffany]

One factor of big foot calls you did not mention is that they last a long time.
The one I heard was over a minute long. I forget what show had it on there claiming it was real recording of one.
Craziest sound I ever heard.

[kodytiffany]

Is this the second+ video where you covered USA Mythic critters?
I think I remember one from the past 6 months that covered a bunch like that...?
Maybe that was a different group?

[kodytiffany]

I only knew of 4 of them outside of this list.
Big Foot the best. Then Moth man; then wendigo; and least the Jersey Devil.
I will say that I find it amazing that Humans and Dogs have the relationship they do these days given how many scary creatures use canine heads or parts as an aspect of the scary creature.
When I think of animals (as in not bugs or insects or parasites) that scare the sh*t out of me dogs are in my top 5 but that is limited to certain breeds that does not include pitbulls.
1) Bears; most knightmares with scary animals chasing me are bears... lets just say my dad did not always need to go far from camp to bag his bear growing up.

2) Mountain Lions I have never had a nightmare with one... but yeah one got way to close for comfort one day while I was pissing in the woods in Montana. Rather than screaming in response to its yowl from nearby I told it that I was not afraid and to bring it in the least scared voice I could manage. Still alive so must have worked. soundless stalkers of hunters and anything else meat.

3) Sharks are just scary looking since they look demonic/souless with their black eyes and jagged teeth. Plus the idea they might come after me because of an open wound in an area full of razors (ocean reefs) is just more than I like to consider.

4) Snakes are either big enough to see me as food or venomous/poisonous... so nope. Plus owning a python is asking destiny to ensure your dead by asfixiation so no thank you.

5) Rotwhilers/Doberman Pinchers/German Shepards/ Wolves/ Coyote or Dingo like things Most my nightmares with animals beside bears are these breeds of dog jumping through the driver side window and removing the neck of the driver... people in said dream have passengers normally and the car crash kills the rest; further more my mom was one of those drivers in those dreams. So yes I do not feel happy with those breeds until I know the dog to be kind and good.

[kodytiffany]

Once again the Boo Hag got the wrong name written down; so it says Ozark Howler twice in a row.

[jdlech]

I have a theory about the wendigo. I believe that the legend has a basis in fact. These were a people of semi feast and famine. They stored up food for the winter. But what happens when that food disappears? Famine strikes. Common among any food insecure people are always someone who either hoards food, or steals it - often eating what they steal right away. They break into the stores and glut themselves - virtually guaranteeing the famine they fear so much. The wendigo explains everything about this. The disappearing food, the guilty party's coverup, even the disappearance of people - who may attempt to escape punishment, or are murdered once they discover the real culprit. And so the legend of the wendigo grows each time someone within the community begins to steal food in the middle of winter. Especially in years when game is hard to come by. It all just kind of fits together.

[kodytiffany]

I like to make monsters scary by using certain attributes and design choices.
Some stuff obvious like lots of nasty long and sharp teeth; but specifically I prefer the teeth to curve > < > < serrated but first forward then backward alternating like an actual chain saw chain of teeth.
But often I use the the mouth of a hag fish I think it is... the entity that has rows and rings of teeth and a mouth that yawns open big. The teeth do not go up and down but rather flayed outward then snap shut locking into place then spin like a wood chipper grinding things to dust and mush.
Lots of mouths in weird locations and many eyes also.
The scariest part is rarely as simple as spikes or claws and most often just an undulating mass of madness or dragonish and doll like in some capacity at once.
Then again a lot of critters I make might be considered scary when I am not trying to make that the visual point.
Its what I do not draw that actually is the scariest part.
Use my Hydden as an example; weird mouths are scary yes but most of the time they look human; but never are they anything but horrendous.
I do have one entity that I consider to scary and dangerous to use in most stories of mine; reserving it as a threat to things that warp reality easily.
"the one from behind the Gate" Its name is its description as it is mostly formless and exponentially infinite in number while having hive mind 100% focused on devouring all things including all deities and primal forces. The Gods had to make a Universe of infinitely expanding and insane initial size to seal it since it cannot be destroyed or smited or slain... quicker than it can grow or multiply. Physical description is skin colored Ooze with 2 devil horns one of which is broken in half with jagged edges (the unnamed and nondetectable forever MIA True entity of seals being the only one to leave perma damage but nearly died to do it) and its mouth looks like a spiral of transparent darkness with a sense of attraction to it greater than the largest blackholes currently known... basically the mouth if seen has already vaporized your subatomic particles and you are seeing after being dead and before your soul is threaded. It has 2 tenticles of its weird fluid looking body that it holds out like a mummy/zombie does its arms. it drips itself constantly and each drip becomes another in the time it takes a photon to travel a picometer... one from each tenticle so 1 becomes 3 and 3 becomes 9 so forth and so on... infinitely exponential.
In videogame terms... imagine the toughest raid boss you know... now have that thing mid fight multiply as I just described each drip hitting the ground as quickly as the drips expand to full size.
Yep its that scary.

[johat]

Is The headless horseman from Sleepy Hollow based in El muerto?