Storybook Research

So I did some digging and I found this website which is a branch of the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management that has a "Cryptid's of North America," website. Not only is there a whole map, but there is also clippings and pictures as well as stories about the Cryptid. I am actually amazed by how cool this website is with newspapers from the 1800s and timelines of different creatures and locations on where they'd be located. You can also access federal land conveyance records from 1788 to the present and I think that is crazy. People can access photographs and field notes ranging back that far as well.

Looking into the Jersey devil is interesting, the sightings go back to 1735 and people describe the creature as half human half devil. Here is an account of a man claiming he has seen it. There is also a page on the State of New Jersey's website discussing the Jersey Devil and what he looks like.

Photo from Wikipedia.

The Sasquatch is considered to be a human-like creature that lives in the Northwestern United States and Western Canada. Link. The first discovery of sasquatch footprints were in 1811. He is described to be about 6 to 15 feet tall and his footprints have been measured being about 24 inches.

I think I will keep digging into these websites, and looking more at the maps and different documentation of the cryptids, but I think it is super interesting that there are government records of these reports.

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