Derry Fairy
subject: Cryptozoology
description: The Derry Fairy is a cryptid reportedly found in Massachusetts. It is typically described as a little green man approximately two feet in height. It is said to have a dome shaped head with holes where its eyes should be and short stubby legs and arms.
creator: Richard Holmes
source: https://www.derrynews.com/opinion/tales-of-old-derry-the-legend-of-the-derry-fairy/article_7e1d2749-daf8-5bd6-b474-1efe050a4890.html
publisher: Derry News
contributor: Kelsey Shannon

Dover Demon
subject: Cryptozoology
description: The Dover Demon is a cryptid reportedly found in Dover Massachusetts. It is typically described as a small humanoid like creature with pale peach colored skin and glowing red eyes. The head is said to be oblong and nearly the same length as the body but with a featureless face besides its eyes.
creator: Strange New England
source: http://www.strange-new-england.com/2015/10/21/dover-demon/
contributor: Kelsey Shannon

Dublin Lake
subject: Lake . . .
description: Dublin Lake, located in Cheshire County New Hampshire, is reportedly the home of the Dublin Lake Monster. In the 1980's a freediver went missing after a routine dive and was found days later naked and incoherently babbling about a lake monster.
creator: Nicholas Handy
source: https://ledgertranscript.com/2017/07/26/lake-monster-11413244/
publisher: Monadnock Ledger
contributor: Kelsey Shannon
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Wendigo
subject: Cryptozoology
description: The wendigo is a cryptid from Native American folklore reportedly found in the Northern United States and Canada. It is typically described as an tall, emaciated, human-like creature with gaunt, pale skin and is associated with winter famine and cannibalism. "The wendigo is a personification of the ice and hunger, cold and death, despondence and desperation that rime the winter wastelands of North America."
creator: Victoria Ellis
source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wendigo-cryptid-ocker
publisher: Atlas Obscura
contributor: Kelsey Shannon
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Casco Bay Sea Serpent (Cassie)
subject: Cryptozoology
description: The Casco Bay Sea Serpent is a cryptid reportedly found in Maine. It is typically described as a "great serpent" 80-100 feet in length with dark brown coloring streaked with white.
creator: South Portland Historical Society
source: https://southportlandhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/the-casco-bay-sea-serpent/
publisher: South Portland Historical Society
contributor: Kelsey Shannon
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International Cryptozoology Museum
subject: Cryptozoology
description: The International Cryptozoology Museum is located in Bangor Maine, opening Spring 2026. Featuring with a wide variety of cryptozoological specimens, oddities, artifacts, and novelty items surrounding the study of unknown creatures, this family friendly museum is open to all ages.
creator: International Cryptid Zoology Museum
source: https://cryptozoologymuseum.com
contributor: Kelsey Shannon
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Squonk
subject: Cryptid
description: Reputedly lives in Pennsylvania's hemlock forests. It is described as a pig-like creature with warts and moles, so unhappy with its ugly appearance that it weeps constantly and can dissolve into a pool of tears when cornered.
creator: Fearsome Critters
source: https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Squonk
date: 1910
contributor: Caitlin Hattaway
identifier: Lacrimacorpus dissolvent ("dissolving tear body")

Melon Heads
subject: Cryptid
description: Melon Heads are American urban legends depicting small, humanoid creatures with bulbous, oversized heads and feral behavior, primarily centered in Ohio, Michigan, and Connecticut. Often described as remnants of medical experiments on children, they are said to inhabit forests, particularly near rural roads, and attack visitors to their territory.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_heads
contributor: Caitlin Hattaway

Lordship Mermaids
subject: Cryptid
description: The Lordship Mermaids are a series of19th and early 20th-century mermaid sightings reported near the Stratford Point Lighthouse in the Lordship section of Stratford, Connecticut.
creator: Theodore Judson, Lighthouse Keeper
source: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-146-the-lordship-mermaid/
publisher: New England Legends
date: July of 1915
contributor: Caitlin Hattaway
relation: Mermaids

Glastonbury Glawackus
subject: Cryptid
description: The Glastonbury Glawackus is a 1939 Connecticut cryptid legend, described as a fierce, unidentified creature (part-cat, dog, or bear) that terrorized the area with blood-curdling screams and livestock attacks. Coined by The Hartford Courant editors, the name combines "Glastonbury," "wacky," and "us". It is likely a Fisher cat.
creator: Caitlin Hattaway
source: https://www.damnedct.com/the-glawackus-glastonbury/#google_vignette
publisher: Damned Connecticut
date: 1939
contributor: Caitlin Hattaway