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Why This Giant Icelandic Cat Will Eat You If You Don’t Get New Socks for Christmas

November 9, 2025 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Forget Santa, Iceland has the Yule Cat (Jólakötturinn), a giant monster that eats children who don’t get new clothes for Christmas.

Meet the Real-Life ‘Headless Chicken Monster’ of the Antarctic Deep

September 15, 2025 by Andrew 1 Comment

A strange, translucent creature known as the ‘headless chicken monster’ is helping scientists push for a new Marine Protected Area in Antarctica.

Just what is the boogeyman?

October 31, 2023 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Each nation’s idea of a scary threat that might whisk away naughty children varies.

Where you might actually find Fantastic Beasts

December 8, 2016 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Fan of Harry Potter and the spin-off Fantastic Beasts? Many of the monsters from the Potterverse are drawn from mythology, inspired by old folktales and stories. Sykes Cottages have put together a collection of monster posters to follow on from the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Is the idea you’re supposed to […]

Is this video evidence of a weird monster in the Mekong River?

December 2, 2013 by Andrew 1 Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npNUZ-3KUEw Is this the Mekong Monster? The Mekong is a large river; the 7th-longest in Asia that crawls into Thailand where this video was filmed. The name comes from “Mae Man Khong, a term similar in Thai and Lao, which means mother river or mother water. Only the Amazon has more animals per cubic foot […]

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