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| 4 | [[quoteright:287:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hodag_Photo_1409.jpg]] |
| 5 | [[caption-width-right:287:The terrible Hodag, captured on film (allegedly) by Eugene Shepard, 1893.]] |
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| 7 | The Fearsome Critters are a group of mythical beings from the {{Tall Tale}}s [[TallTalesTeller told by European colonists in North America]], mainly in New England (naturally), and to a lesser degree in forested Midwest states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite that, there are stories of Fearsome Critters spread all across the country, including several notable "species" specific to the southwest. Fearsome Critters are notable for being described primarily by their behavior, not by their appearance, and for often having names that reflect that (Hide-Behind, Come-at-a-Body, ''et cetera''), meaning that what they actually ''look'' like fluctuates wildly from tale to tale in the style of Myth/PaulBunyan--whose loyal friend and partner, Babe the Big Blue Ox, might well be a Critter himself. |
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| 9 | Genuine belief in the Fearsome Critters was never widespread; even in most of modern America they're relatively obscure, and almost completely unheard-of in other parts of the world. They originated, variously, as exaggerated accounts of native fauna unfamiliar to the European travelers who described them and as a humorous means of describing the strange goings-on in the woods by lumberjacks, carnies, and other outdoorsy types. Fearsome critters are not [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]], nor are they associated with Native American faiths; the [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti sasquatch]] and the {{wendigo}} are ''not'' Fearsome Critters. |
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| 11 | For further research: [[http://www.fearsomecritters.org Fearsome Critter Database at http://www.fearsomecritters.org,]] [[http://www.lib.lumberwoods.org/fclw/title.html Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, by William T. Cox (1910)]], [[http://www.lib.lumberwoods.org/fc/title.html Fearsome Critters, by Henry H. Tryon (1939).]] The [[https://pinebarrensinstitute.com/ Pine Barrens Institute]] also has [[https://pinebarrensinstitute.com/fearsome-critters/tag/fearsome+critter some great articles.]] |
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| 13 | Some of the notable Critters are: |
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| 17 | [[folder: The Guyascutus]] |
| 18 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sidehill_Gouger_4864.jpg]] |
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| 20 | Known by [[IHaveManyNames myriad]] other names, including the Guyanoosa and Sidehill Gouger, the Guyascutus is a terrible predator variously described as being like an alligator covered in protective plates, like an armadillo's, or like a deer with the ears of a rabbit and a mouth full of fierce teeth. Its most notable feature, however, is that the legs on one side of its body are much shorter than the ones on the other, so it can move about easily on the steep mountain slopes where it makes its home; therefore, to escape a Guyascutus, one need only run onto even ground. The creature, with its mismatched legs, will be unable to follow. |
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| 22 | The most famous legend of the Guyascutus involves an old carnival grift. A traveling carnival show rolls into town, claiming to have wild animals from all around the world on display--including, incredibly, a live Guyascutus. The people paid their fees and flocked to see the alleged beastie, at which point the leader of the plan would run before the crowds, looking desperate and beat-up, claiming that the creature had escaped. The people, terrified, would immediately run to their homes, leaving the carnival troupe to ride away with their "earnings". |
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| 25 | [[folder: The Squonk]] |
| 26 | [[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/squonk_2985.jpg]] |
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| 28 | Perhaps the most famous of the bunch (and the subject of more than one popular song), the Squonk is a miserable animal, "the most melancholy of creatures", that allegedly inhabits the coniferous forests of northern Pennsylvania. Because its skin is covered in warts, blemishes, blisters and abrasions, the Squonk is disgusting to look at -- and it ''knows'' this, which is why it hides underground during the day, hoping not to offend any other creature with its hideous appearance. At night, the Squonks all come out into the open and openly weep; the strange sounds lumberjacks and other frontiersmen heard in the forest at night were attributed to their crying. |
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| 30 | The Squonk also has a legend surrounding it. This one tells of a man named J.P. Wentling, who wanted to capture a live Squonk and prove its existence to the world. One night he succeeded, trapping the creature in a bag; but when he took it home and opened the bag to show his friends and family, he found nothing but water inside. The Squonk, more miserable than ever, had dissolved into a pool of its own tears. |
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| 33 | [[folder: The Jackalope]] |
| 34 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jackalope_5138.jpg]] |
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| 36 | The most famous southwestern Critter, popular in Texas, New Mexico, and southern California.[[note]]Douglas, Wyoming, claims to be the hometown of the legend--and does appear to be the origin of the "stuffed Jackalope" taxidermy gag--but stories of "horned hares" date back to medieval Europe.[[/note]] The Jackalope is a wild hare or jackrabbit with the antlers of a deer, reportedly ''very'' difficult to catch or even to spot (though U.S. President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan ''did'' claim to have caught one once -- purely as a joke, we expect). Jackalopes are highly elusive and will run at the very sight of a human, but at night, they all gather in the desert and sing harmoniously with their strange, enchanting voices. The best bait for them is said to be their favorite drink, whiskey. Of course, that's only ''one'' interpretation; it's occasionally described as a vicious {{killer rabbit}}, and residents of snowier parts of the West will sometimes troll tourists by claiming that the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_fence snow fences]] along highways are actually seating for watching Jackalope races. To this day, the "stuffed Jackalope" is a fairly common sight in southwestern bars and taverns. |
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| 38 | Sadly, any reported Jackalope sighting is much more likely to be a regular rabbit [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shope_papilloma_virus afflicted with the Shope papilloma virus]], a disease endemic among cottontail rabbits in North America that causes the growth of large, horn-like carcinomas from the head and face. |
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| 40 | Interestingly, there are jackalope-like creatures in folklore from other countries; Arabia has the ''{{Miraj}}'' (carnivorous rabbit with a {{unicorn}} horn), Sweden has the ''Skvader'' (half rabbit, half wood grouse, usually depicted as a winged rabbit), and Germany has both the ''Rasselbock'' (a rabbit with roe deer antlers) and the ''Wolpertinger'' (whose depictions vary between regions, but the most iconic is either a winged Rasselbock or a creature with [[MixAndMatchCritters a rabbit's head, deer's antlers, bird's wings, and squirrel's body & tail]]). |
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| 43 | [[folder: The Hodag]] |
| 44 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hodag.png]] |
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| 46 | Still quite popular in Wisconsin, where it makes its home (and particularly in the city of Rhinelander), the Hodag is a fierce beastie with "the head of a frog, the grinning face of a giant elephant, thick short legs set off by huge claws, the back of a dinosaur, and a long tail with spears at the end". Several hoaxes regarding the animal, from the way it terrorized the lumber community to its eventual capture (using chloroform and ''dynamite'', no less!) were perpetrated in the late 19th century by the prankster Eugene Shepard. Today, the creature is more or less a fondly-regarded local curiosity; it's even become [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Rhsflag.jpg the mascot of Rhinelander High School.]] Bears a suspiciously strong resemblance to a Native American creature called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_panther Mishipeshu]], with rock art depictions and legends of the latter monster often being found in areas the hodag has been popularized. |
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| 49 | [[folder: Others]] |
| 50 | Lesser-known (but no less Fearsome) Critters: |
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| 52 | * The '''Agropelter''', a little-seen forest creature resembling an ape with long arms. It hides among the trees and throws sticks and stones at anyone intending to cut down its home. |
| 53 | * The '''Averasboro Gallinipper''', a hawk-sized mosquito from North Carolina able to drain a man of his blood in one bite. |
| 54 | * The '''Axehandle Hound''', a scraggly white dachshund-like dog with an axe-shaped head that feeds on axe handles left unattended in the woods at night. |
| 55 | * The '''Ball-Tailed Cat''', a large puma-like feline with a long tail that ends in a club similar to an ankylosaur, which it uses to stun prey. Also known as the '''Digmaul''' or the '''Slivercat'''[[note]]sometimes spelled '''Dingmaul''' and '''Silvercat''' instead[[/note]]. |
| 56 | * '''Bedcats''' are strange creatures that were the results of bedbugs that were mutated into bobcat-hybrids after feasting on the blood of bobcat themselves after being driven out by Paul Bunyan. |
| 57 | * The '''Bearbehind''', a strange creature with the lower half of a bear but with the upperhalf of a human, most notably either a minister or a politician. It's also a sort of a con-artist. Not to be confused with the Hide-Behind. |
| 58 | * The '''Bildad''', a strange hybrid with the body of a beaver, the limbs of a kangaroo, and the beak of a bird; it's so quick, it can dive into the water and catch a fish before it even makes a splash. |
| 59 | * The '''Boont''', a bear with deer's antlers, similar to a Jackalope in how easily a specimen can be made by creative taxidermy. The Boont is notable as the symbol of Booneville, California, a small town in the mountains which, sometime in the late 19th century, began using a new and distinct language. The Boont is also the symbol of the Anderson Valley Brewing Company, a beer manufacturer located in Booneville. |
| 60 | * The '''Cactus Cat''', which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pretty much exactly what you're imagining]]. It loves to get intoxicated on fermented cactus juice, becoming rowdy, noisy, and aggressive. |
| 61 | * '''Camp Chipmunks''', '''Tigermunks''' or '''Vilas County Tigers''' are simply chipmunks that grew into the size dimensions and ferocity of tigers after eating prune pits that were discarded by Paul Bunyan. They were later exterminated by Bunyan and his group after the chipmunks were killing the bears and mountain lions in the area. |
| 62 | * The '''Central American Whintosser''', an aggressive carnivore with a long tent-shaped body covered in legs that allow it to walk sideways and upside down. |
| 63 | * The '''Coachwhip Snake''', which constricts its prey and lashes it with its whiplike tail. Shares its name with an actual species of nonvenomous North American snake. |
| 64 | * The '''Cobra Chicken''' is really [[CallingARabbitaSmeerp a recent slang term for the Canada Goose]] but it doesn't stop artists from depicting it as a [[BasiliskandCockatrice cockatrice-like creature with features of both the Canada Goose and a typical cobra]] |
| 65 | * The '''Columbia River Sand Squink''' of Washington has the body of a coyote, the fur pattern of a bobcat, the tail of a squirrel, and the ears of a jackrabbit. Its fur is charged with electricity due to its diet of electric eels, and it [[WhaleEgg lays eggs]] made of bakelite (a type of plastic). |
| 66 | * The '''Come-at-a-Body''' resembles a small lion, named because it loves to jump out of the bush and charge at people while making a terrible roar. However, it always stops when just in front of its victim and leaves them behind unharmed. |
| 67 | * The '''Cuero''', an octopus/stingray-like creature that resembles a piece of cowhide left out to dry when still (its name means "leather" in Spanish), but with tentacles tipped in hooked claws on its underside. Said to live in the shallows of streams and rivers, it's an ambush predator that snares prey with a taste for human and donkey flesh. This one hails from further south than the rest, being originally from Chile. |
| 68 | * The '''Dingbat''' is a winged creature with antlers from Wisconsin that flies so fast it can catch bullets in mid-air and drinks gasoline from cars - all in order to frustrate hunters. |
| 69 | * The '''Dog-Mosquito''' is a hybrid of dog and mosquito that allegedly is from Mexico and it said to come out at night where it would be more difficult to spot. The females bring their young out where they sit on tree branches and bark incessantly. |
| 70 | * The '''Duck-Footed Dum-Dum''', named for its webbed feet, is a cat-like critter with two tails it uses to beat its drum-like body as it walks. |
| 71 | * The '''Dungavenhooter''' resembles an alligator, except that it has no mouth, a club-like tail, and massive nostrils. It attacks drunken loggers, pounding them into a gas with its tail before inhaling the gas for consumption. |
| 72 | * The '''Flambeau Ambler''' is a fish with legs it uses to get to different rivers. Even weirder however, is that its flesh tastes different depending on how it's cooked (like chicken when fried, like lobster when boiled, like pork if roasted, and like steak if broiled) |
| 73 | * The '''Funeral Mountain Terrashot''', which resembles an open casket on four legs. They migrate across Nevada in single file, but many die, exploding in the process and leaving coffin-shaped holes in the ground. |
| 74 | * The '''Fur-Bearing Trout''', a fish that grows a downy white coat to survive cold winters in the Great Lakes. A popular choice for taxidermist humor. |
| 75 | * The '''Gazunk''' is a bird with holes in its beak that allow it to play music in a similar manner to a flute. |
| 76 | * The '''Giddy Fish''', a small and unremarkable-looking fish that is as stretchy and bouncy as rubber. |
| 77 | * The '''Gillygaloo''', a bird that inhabits the Pyramid Forty built by Myth/PaulBunyan; it lays cube-shaped eggs, which are hard-boiled by outdoorsmen and used as gaming dice. |
| 78 | * The '''Glawackus''', a mixture of every (real) dangerous predator that stalks the northeastern American wilderness. |
| 79 | * The '''Goat Man''', any of several entities at the center of a number of regional legends, Prince George's County, Maryland; Pope Lick, Kentucky; and Lake Worth, Texas being three of the most famous. Descriptions vary even within an area, but generally agree on it being some mixture of human and goat, the Lake Worth version notably having [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent scales and vague aquatic features]]. |
| 80 | * The '''Goofang''' is a perch-like fish that only swims backwards in order to keep the flow of water out of its sensitive eyes. |
| 81 | * The '''Goofus Bird''', a goose-like bird that flies backwards because it likes to see where it's ''been'', not where it's ''going''; maintaining the "backwards" theme, the Goofus Bird builds upside-down, igloo-shaped nests on tree branches, with the eggs resting on the ceiling. [[AchievementsInIgnorance Nobody ever figured out how it managed to do it.]] |
| 82 | * The '''Gowrow''' is a twenty-foot-long reptilian monster from the Ozarks of Arkansas that resembles a wingless dragon with the tusks of a warthog and a tail that ends in a blade. It's every bit as ferocious as you can imagine it to be, and is named for the sound of its roar. |
| 83 | * The '''Gumberoo''', a bear-like creature native to the Pacific Northwest with hairless, rubbery skin that deflects all bullets. Forest fires cause them to explode, for some reason, leaving behind only a smell akin to burning tires. |
| 84 | * The '''Gyanther''' or '''Guyanther''', a horse-sized leopard-like creature with a unicorn horn on it's forehead and its feet were round and the toes and claws evenly spaced around its circumference. |
| 85 | * The '''Hellidid''' is a creature that resembles a hybrid between a zebra and an anteater with four ostrich-legs that's a specialist of yucca leaves. |
| 86 | * The '''Hide-Behind''' is generally impossible to physically describe, as it's always hiding behind something: a tree, a rock, [[ParanoiaFuel your chair as you read this entry...]] |
| 87 | * The '''Hoop Snake''', a shy creature that [[{{Ouroboros}} bites its own tail]] and rolls away like a wheel at the sight of danger. It is known to attack people by rolling at them to [[BewareMyStingerTail impale them with its tail]], which administers a near-fatal poison. [[YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy Also sighted in Australia.]] |
| 88 | * The '''Hugag''', a gigantic, vaguely moose-like animal with a hairless head, floppy ears, an oversized upper lip, and fur like pine needles that ooze pitch (caused by its diet of pine trees). Because it has no knees, it sleeps by leaning on its side against a tree or some other large object.[[note]]This critter bears interesting similarities to legends told about elk living in the forests of Central Europe to the Roman historian Pliny the Elder, who reported that the creatures likewise had no knees and slept leaning against trees.[[/note]] |
| 89 | * The '''Icegedunk''', a seal-like beast found in Canada and Alaska. As it lives entirely on land, it has evolved a wheel-like appendage in place of hind flippers that it uses to scoot around the ice like some freaky tricycle. It will even stop at service stations as a way to "refuel" itself by getting its "wheel" patched up. |
| 90 | * The '''Joint Snake''', a snake that can [[SegmentedSerpent split into many different segments]] that each go their own way when it's threatened; [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant it does not, as far as we know, enjoy marijuana.]] |
| 91 | * The '''Lucive''', or '''Loup-Cervier''', which looks like an adorable fawn but is in fact a bloodthirsty predator with the terrible jaws of a wolf. |
| 92 | * The '''Luf(f)erlang''', a ferocious horse-like monster with a venomous bite, triple-jointed spider-like legs that allow it to crawl in any direction, and a blue-striped tail on its back. It can only be repelled with a mirror, as the only thing that terrifies it is its own hideousness. Often confused with '''Old Spider Legs''', a similar creature that’s basically a horse-spider hybrid. |
| 93 | * The '''Melon Heads''' are beings from Ohio, Michigan, and Connecticut generally described as small humanoids with bulbous heads who occasionally emerge from hiding places to attack people. |
| 94 | * The '''Milking Snake''' loves to sneak into barns and gorge itself on the milk of cows directly from the udder. The real-life milk snake gets its name from this Fearsome Critter. |
| 95 | * The '''Pamoola''', or '''Pomola''' is a large sabertooth cat-like predator with the body build of a panther and four saberteeth in it's upper jaw. It apparently has a taste for women and only lighting strikes can kill it. |
| 96 | * The '''Piasau''' is a large minotaur-like creature with wings, a very long tail and the ability to breath fire. It's a corruption of the myth of the Native American Piasa Bird. |
| 97 | * The '''Pinnacle Grouse''' has only one wing, so it can only fly in a circle, usually around the circumference of a hill or a mountain. Its feathers change color with the seasons. |
| 98 | * '''Razor-Shins''', an immortal humanoid resembling a Native American man with razor sharp shin bones and a thrist for liquor during the Prohibition Era. New employees were encouraged to leave a jug of Bangor whisky outside of the camp door on the night of the full moon. If Razor-Shins emptied the jug by morning, he might use his razor-sharp shinbones to fell a tree for the new man. But there were tales of new employees caught in the woods by Razor-Shins and scalped or otherwise mutilated after failing to offer the customary tribute. |
| 99 | * The '''Roperite''', a flightless bird with a lasso-like appendage at the end of its beak which it uses to catch prey. Found in the Sierra Nevada. |
| 100 | * The '''Rumtifusel''', a forest creature that looks like a misplaced fur coat... until it devours those who try it on. The remains of its victims resemble owl pellets. |
| 101 | * '''Saskipogo''', or '''Saskapogo''', is a StockNessMonster from Saskatchewan, Canada with the head of a wombat and the body of a goldfish. Named after British Columbia's Ogopogo, Saskipogo lives in the (entirely fictional) Lake Saskatchewan[[note]]There ''is'' a Saskatchewan Lake, but it's in eastern Ontario[[/note]]. Supposedly, the story was invented by the people of Saskatchewan because their province is the only one without a prominent lake monster. |
| 102 | * The '''Shagamaw''' has the front half of a bear and the hindquarters of a moose. It eats the unguarded clothes of lumberjacks and alternates the usage of its mismatched feet to confuse hunters. |
| 103 | * The '''Sizzerbill''' is a waterbird with a beak that opens sideways like a pair of scissors, which it uses to cut fishermen's lines. |
| 104 | * The '''Slide Rock Bolter''' is a huge whale-like monster from Colorado that lies in wait at the top of mountain slopes, latching on with its clawed tail. When prey walks underneath, it slides down, tearing through all obstacles and swallowing its victim. |
| 105 | * The '''Snallygaster''', a one-eyed, blood-drinking dragon-like creature from Maryland with a beak as tough as steel and tentacles for a tongue. Its mortal enemy is the '''Dwayyo''', or '''Dewayo''', a bipedal wolf-like beast every bit as ferocious and aggressive to humans as its archenemy. Battles between these two monsters result in vast acres of countryside being torn up. |
| 106 | * The Snallygaster should not be confused with the '''Snoligoster''', which resembles a hairy, legless crocodile with a propeller on its tail and a big spike on its back that it uses to to carry kills until it gets hungry. |
| 107 | * The '''Snow Snake''', a vicious white reptile that hides in the snow with only its pink eyes sticking out, stalking (often human) prey. It is often cited as the cause of ski or snowboard accidents, as it kills by tripping its prey. |
| 108 | * The '''Snow Wasset''' is a large weasel-like animal that swims through deep snowdrifts like a shark and hibernates in summer. |
| 109 | * The '''Splinter Cat''', a cat with a hard skull it uses to slam against tree trunks and knock its food from the branches above. Native to the Pacific Northwest. |
| 110 | * The '''Squasholiger''', a very large kind of squash that grows legs upon reaching a certain age and promptly walks away from the place it was planted. |
| 111 | * The '''Swamp Auger''', a part-bird, part-fish critter that drills holes in the bottom of boats with its corkscrew-like snout. It can be driven away by irritating its nose (such as tickling it or sprinkling it with pepper). |
| 112 | * The '''Teakettler''', a shy corgi-like animal named for its incessant whistling and the steam that issues from its mouth. |
| 113 | * The '''Tree-squeak''' is heard more than it is seen, for this weasel-like creature can change color like an octopus and imitate any sound. |
| 114 | * The '''Tripodero''', a tube-snouted bird with telescoping legs that spits pellets of mud at small prey like a sniper. |
| 115 | * The '''Upland Trout''' is a fish with wings that dislikes water, so it builds its nest in trees. Can often be seen in taxidermy. |
| 116 | * The '''Wamp''', a bag-shaped, raccoon-sized animal with a saltshaker at the end of its tail that it uses to deposit salt at the base of trees for deer to lick up. |
| 117 | * The '''Wampus Cat''', which resembles a cougar but with six legs, but [[WasOnceAMan is in fact a Cherokee woman]] cursed with a feline form. Its yowl is said to be an omen of death, and it has been blamed for many disappearances and attacks in Tennessee and neighboring states. Also the mascot of a number of institutions in its home range. There's also a variant from Idaho that's called a '''Catawampus''' that’s bipedal with four limbs and also has extendable arms that uses them to capture it’s preferred prey, birds of prey mid-flight with, one of which is known as the '''Turkeagle''', a hybrid between a turkey and an eagle, hence the name. |
| 118 | * The '''Wapaloosie''', an arboreal creature from the Pacific Northwest resembling a mouse with a caterpillar-like body. Its fur is extremely soft, but anything made from it becomes animate, with a penchant for climbing things. |
| 119 | * The '''Whirling Whimpus''', a gorilla-like monster that spins itself around like Taz from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' to pursue prey, which turns into syrup when hit at it's high speeds. |
| 120 | * The '''Will-Am-Alone''' is a squirrel-like creature that rolls hallucinogenic lichens into balls & then drops the round pellets into the ears & eyelids of sleeping lumbermen, mostly drunks. The unforunate victims are then subjected into violent fits of hallucinogenic rage, combined with their alcoholism. |
| 121 | * The '''Wouser''' or '''Wowzer''', a creature resembling a very large hybrid between a cougar and a bear that prefers the blood of ranchers' cattle, rather than their flesh. |
| 122 | * The '''Wunk''' is a retiring skunk-like critter that hides by digging a hole, jumping in, and then [[PortableHole pulling the hole in after it.]] |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | See also: YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy and TheJerseyDevil. Contrast OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious. |
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| 128 | !!Examples in fiction: |
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| 130 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 133 | * Lunchables commercials features a jackalope named Jackie as a co-mascot to a platypus. |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 137 | * Episode 5 of ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'' features the Inbyos, a species of wiry-limbed ape-like creatures that live qin the Inverted Forest and throw rocks and sticks at people, highly reminiscent of the Agropelter. |
| 138 | * Episode 10 of ''Literature/Saving80000GoldInAnotherWorldForMyRetirement'' has Mitsuha learning that her firearms' instructor was having a cookout, so she popped over to the other world using her DimensionalTraveler abilities to hunt some of the horned rabbits there. Naturally, the others make the comparison to Jackalopes when she brings them to the cookout. |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | [[folder:Card Games]] |
| 142 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' features a card called [[https://magiccards.info/ex/en/111.html "Jackalope Herd."]] |
| 143 | -->''There is little more demeaning than having your butt whupped by a bunch of bunnies.'' |
| 144 | [[/folder]] |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 147 | * ''ComicBook/{{Hillbilly}}'' features the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailypo Taily-Po,]] a sort of cat-like creature from Appalachian folklore, as a recurring villain. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 151 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobsBrokenSleigh'': a Ball-Tailed Cat, Hidebehind, and Fur-Bearing Trout all appear as main characters. |
| 152 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': The prehistoric rabbit mannequin at the museum has a pair of small, Jackalope-like antlers along with huge saber-tooth canines. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 156 | * ''Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf'' has the lead character show the Fur-Bearing Trout to French aristocrats until one catches onto the forgery. It allows him to talk about his theory on the nature of the Wolf. |
| 157 | * ''Film/TheFieldGuideToEvil'': "Beware the Melonheads" revolves around an American family that moves to a cabin in the woods, but when their son meets an 'imaginary' friend, things take a dark, creepy turn. |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 161 | * Creator/AlanDeanFoster wrote a short story collection about Mad Amos Malone, a mountain man in the Wild West. One of his adventures involved taking a British GreatWhiteHunter to bag a jackalope, only for him to lose it when [[OhCrap they discover the jackalope's natural predator]]. |
| 162 | * ''Literature/BookOfImaginaryBeings'': |
| 163 | ** Several are described under "Fauna of the United States", including the axehandle hound, which is shaped like a hatchet and eats the handles of the same; the gillygaloo, a bird whose square eggs lumberjacks hard-boil to use as dice; the goofang, a fish that swims backwards to keep the water out of its eyes; the goofus bird, which flies backwards and makes upside-down nests; the hidebehind, which is always hiding behind something and is impossible to escape; the pinnacle grouse, whose single wing forces it to fly in circles around a single mountain peak; the flightless roperite bird, which uses its lasso-like beak to ensnare rabbits; the teakettler, a dog with feline ears that makes noises like boiling kettles, issues smoke from its mouth and walks backwards; and the winged upland trout, which nests in trees and fears water. Borges notes that, in all likelihood, nobody ever believed that these things really existed. |
| 164 | ** The squonk (''Lacrimacorpus dissolvens'', meaning "dissolving tear-body") is given a chapter of its own. They live only in hemlock forests in Pennsylvania, and are in a state of constant grief due to their ill-fitting, wart-covered skin. They weep wherever they go, making them easy to track, and if caught, cornered or even simply surprised they dissolve into tears. |
| 165 | * ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Magic'': ''Byrd Song'', a 1996 short story by Nancy Springer, centers around an outcast girl who meets a Squonk bird. |
| 166 | * The SpeculativeBiology book ''Literature/{{Cryptozoologicon}}'' includes a hypothetical real-life interpretation of the Hoop Snake. |
| 167 | * ''Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'': The 2017 edition includes the Hidebehind, the Snallygaster, the Wampus Cat and the Hodag as new additions. |
| 168 | * ''Literature/InCryptid'': Many of these have been mentioned as real creatures, plus an additional one of the author's own creation, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin screaming yams]]. Jackalopes are noted as being delicious and requiring annual hunts to trim their husks (i.e. herds) of aging males who might otherwise slow their migration. In one short story, Alice finds a baby hodag and temporarily keeps it as a pet. |
| 169 | * ''Kickle Snifters and Other Fearsome Critters'', by Creator/AlvinSchwartz, is a bestiary of these beings. |
| 170 | * ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': In ''The Titan's Curse'', Artemis offhandedly mentions turning a boy into a jackalope [[DisproportionateRetribution for having stumbled upon her Hunt]] (and considering what happened in the original myths to people that did this, that's getting off light). Given how she later says she likes making jackalopes, this was likely a repeat event. |
| 171 | * ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': In ''Cookies and Campers'', in the camp's nature barn, there's a Jackalope on exhibition: |
| 172 | --> '''Moll Carle:''' The Jackalope. Made by skilled taxidermists to rope in gullible dopes in the hopes that they'd spend their cash in town while they tried to hunt down one for their own. |
| 173 | * "The Raggedy Man": The eponymous subject of this James Whitcomb Riley poem is an expert in this field of study. |
| 174 | * Creator/SidFleischman: Several critters appear in the [[TheMunchausen [=McBroom=]]] series, notably ''[=McBroom=]'s Zoo''. They include the Desert Goo-fang, the Compass Cat, and the Great 17-Toed Hairy Prairie Hidebehind. |
| 175 | * ''Literature/SilverJohn'': Several stories feature such critters, particularly "The Desrick on Yandro", which features several varieties. John himself may be the only man ever to have seen the Behinder (aka the Hidebehind) and lived (it was concentrating on being behind someone else at the time); he declines to describe it, saying only that he'd have been happier not to have had to look at it. |
| 176 | %%* ''Literature/TheTerribleHodag'': |
| 177 | * ''Literature/{{Timberjak}}'': A significant number of these creatures live on another planet. |
| 178 | * ''Literature/TedsCavingPage'': The Hodag is mentioned in passing. |
| 179 | * Creator/UrsulaVernon: "Jackalope Wives" depicts jackalopes as a desert version of SelkiesAndWereseals. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 183 | * ''Series/AmericasFunniestPeople'' has a recurring sketch featuring a KarmicTrickster jackalope named Jack Ching Badda Bing. |
| 184 | * ''Series/EerieIndiana'': One episode features a jackalope, with the revelation that the ones that people are familiar with are [[spoiler: [[GiganticAdultsTinyBabies babies, while an adult is]] Franchise/{{Godzilla}}-sized]]. |
| 185 | * ''Series/OddSquad'': The mascot of the organization is a jackalope, which makes all sorts of different animal noises during transitions between scenes. According to a Facebook interview video with Oprah, the jackalope was picked as the organization's mascot because many agents stated it was their favorite animal when surveyed. |
| 186 | * ''Series/LostGirl'' depicts a squonk, like almost every other supernatural being, as a type of [[TheFairFolk fae]]. Instead of a hideous creature, they look human, and are often used by a drug lords for their tears which can [[FantasticDrug make one feel happy when consumed]]. In an allusion to the original myths, squonks can't be moved against their will or they'll literally [[PopGoesTheHuman burst into tears]]. This means drug Lord's have to manipulate them into captivity, and also makes rescuing them even harder for heroes like Bo. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 190 | * Creator/DonBodin recorded a song called "Ghost of the Jackalope" on his fourth studio album, "The Radioactive Werewolf". |
| 191 | * Music/{{Genesis|Band}}: The song "Squonk" is entirely about the title creature and the famous legend that surrounds it: a man manages to capture the elusive being, trapping it in a bag; however, when he tries to show off his find to others, he finds that his bag is full of water. The Squonk, morose, has dissolved into its own tears. |
| 192 | * Jakalope, a Canadian industrial music band, names itself for the animal. |
| 193 | * Music/MCFrontalot mentions the creature in "Scare Goat", with the lines "Got a Mongolian Death Worm at my house, right next to Squonk and the Aqueous Mouse..." |
| 194 | * Music/SteelyDan: A line from "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" runs "Have you ever seen a Squonk's tears? / Well, look at mine" |
| 195 | * Music/MiikeSnow have the silhouette of a jackalope as their logo, which appears in each of their albums' cover arts. |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 199 | * ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' has a basselope -- a cross between a basset hound and an antelope. The original version crossbred with a rabbit to make jackabasselopes, while in the 2016 revival, his antlers are actually inflated with helium.. or something.. and allow him to fly. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 203 | * ''TableTopGame/D20Modern'' includes various American monsters, such as the Montauk Demon (a trans-dimensional evil EnergyBeing race that was attracted to Earth by the Philadelphia Experiment). |
| 204 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFifthEdition'': The ''Tome of Beasts'' series of {{sourcebook}}s by Creator/KoboldPress have several examples. |
| 205 | ** Wampus cats are created when a priest curses a woman, transforming her into a carnivorous beast that maintains her old head but now fixed to the body of a mountain lioness. They have a CompellingVoice they use to seek revenge on men, ''especially'' the male priests who created them in the first place. |
| 206 | ** Hodags are vicious woodland brutes vaguely resembling giant cats with toad-like heads sporting both sabre teeth and bull's horns, a row of spikes down their back, and covered in green-and-brown-striped fur. |
| 207 | ** Aniwyes are an unusual example in that they are based on Myth/NativeAmericanMythology rather than the folklore of the colonists. They're a race of giant [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent wereskunks]], able to assume to switch between the form of an ogre or a hill giant and the form of a bear-sized predatory skunk armed with lethally poisonous musk. Their "human" forms can be distinguished by the fact they always have jet black hair parted by a white stripe. |
| 208 | * ''TableTopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' has Fearsome Critters among its "abominations", such as jackalopes (corpse-eaters who manipulate luck to cause fatal accidents) and catamounts (evil, supernatural versions of the mountain lion). |
| 209 | * ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Fantasy Bestiary'' includes several types of fearsome critters. |
| 210 | ** Cactus cats are very speedy felines with sharp projections of bone growing from their paws. Their favorite method of attack is to run quickly by their targets, slashing them with their blades as they go. They are also known to enjoy eating psychoactive cacti, hence their name. |
| 211 | ** Hodags are fierce, swamp-dwelling beasts about as big as a moose, with a ridge of spines down their backs. They have no knee joints, and thus sleep by leaning against trees. People hunt them by partially sawing through the trees they sleep against, so that these break when the animal leans against them and tip the hodag to the ground. They are also known to walk backward, making them difficult to track. |
| 212 | ** Hoop snakes are highly venomous and can outrun any creature alive while rolling with their tails in their mouths, but must straighten out to pass through rough terrain or over obstacles -- as they're much slower when doing this, people pursued by hoop snakes are advised to head for broken terrain. |
| 213 | ** Sliver cats, or ball-tailed cats, are puma-like felines with long tails tipped with bony maces. They wait in trees for passing prey, which they brain with their tails. If a group passes by its hiding spot, a sliver cat will strike the hindmost member and hope the rest won't notice. |
| 214 | * ''TableTopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has quite a few other cryptids and American folkloric beasts in it: |
| 215 | ** Hodags are fierce, hulking reptilian quadrupeds found in isolated wildernesses. They are tenacious and fearsome predators and have gained a reputation for being actively cruel and malicious among the loggers and pioneers that deal with them most often. |
| 216 | ** Digmauls are stout, puma-like cats with tails ending in spiked clubs, and hunt by ambushing prey from high branches and beating it to death with their tail clubs. Silvercats are a variety of rare, bluish-grey digmauls with smooth, rather than spiked, tails. |
| 217 | ** There's even an {{Expy}} of the JerseyDevil in the form of the equine, rather than cervine or caprine, Sandpoint Devil. |
| 218 | ** The snallygaster appears pretty much as described above, as a vicious, ChaoticEvil predator. It's said the one thing they enjoy more than drinking blood is [[TheAlcoholic drinking alcohol]]. |
| 219 | ** A more obscure Fearsome Critter, the Gowrow (of Arkansas folklore) also shows up as a kind of small, tusked dragon. The tusks are carried over from folklore, but the wings are a new addition. |
| 220 | ** The cuero appears as a stingray-like river predator known for attacking farmers' livestock, draining them of their blood and leaving the husks on the shore. It's said they seem to have a particular taste for the blood of ungulates. |
| 221 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' features numerous American folkloric creatures in its monster books, usually as Awakened animals -- that is, normal wildlife transformed into magical creatures by the return of magic to the world. |
| 222 | ** ''Paranormal Animals of North America'' includes the agropelter (small humanoids descended from Awakened rhesus monkeys and known for making nuisances of themselves), the hoop snake and the Devil Jack Diamond fish (Awakened pike three meters long). |
| 223 | ** ''Parazoology'' includes a few additional critters in its section on mutated animals (creatures mutated from normal and Awakened animals by further magical surges and good old-fashioned mutagens). Cactus cats are mutated bobcats native to the Southwest, with green fur and thorny hides; they ambush prey by blending in with cactuses. Jackalopes are the standard antlered rabbits; there are also wolpertingers, which live in Europe and mutated from local European rabbits rather than North American jackrabbits, but the two strains are functionally the same species and produce fertile offspring. |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 227 | * Although she outwardly lacks horns, Amiya from ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'' is based on a jackalope, being of the Cautus race (thus having rabbit ears) and also being the legitimate Sarkaz King (i.e king over a demon-based race who usually bear horns). She later appears wearing a pointed black crown (the Civilight Eterna), giving the image of a horned hare. As a bonus, she is one of the many characters who suffer from an illness that causes hard 'tumors' to grow on skin. |
| 228 | * ''VideoGame/{{Culdcept}}'' features the Squonk as a playable creature card. |
| 229 | * ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': The "rabbits" have antlers, implying they are really jackalopes. |
| 230 | * ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' has numerous mutated creatures that are based off creatures from Appalachian folklore, such as the Beast of Grafton from Grafton, West Virginia, and the Snallygaster, among half a dozen others. |
| 231 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV: Heavensward'', Squonk is the name of one of the B-class hunt marks in the Sea of Clouds. It doesn't look anything like its namesake, however, being merely a giant version of one of the Paissa enemies in the area. |
| 232 | * ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'': In ''Rampage: Total Destruction'', there's a monster known as Jack the Jackalope. |
| 233 | * ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' will rarely have a jackalope show up in the wilderness; not capturable, no less difficult to hit than regular rabbits, but with the added bonus of skinning it for extra antlers and an achievement. |
| 234 | * ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'': Jackalopes are enemies in ''Redneck Rampage Rides Again''. A giant version also appears as the final boss. |
| 235 | * ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' described jackalopes as the bastard sons of Piltdown Man. |
| 236 | * ''VideoGame/SushiStrikerTheWayOfSushido'': A few of the Sushi Sprites resemble some of these creatures, most notably Pyonten evoking a jackalope and Batten with the dingbat, due to the general pattern they have of taking a common animal and giving it horns. |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Visual Novel]] |
| 240 | * ''VisualNovel/MagicalDiary: Horse Hall'': One monster that can be found in the dunegons, is a Hodag, furry, bipedal, spikes running down its back, horned, and [[FangsAreEvil fangish canine teeth]]. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 244 | * ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'': Pellinore shoots a jackalope in the Western arc, apparently the setting's equivalent of the Questing Beast. |
| 245 | * ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'': Kavonn hates jackalopes with a passion, as his MagicHat is infested with them and they [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat often land on his head]] while he's wearing it. |
| 246 | * ''Webcomic/DarwinCarmichaelIsGoingToHell'': The Hodag makes an appearance as a conceptual artist living in the woods of Upstate New York. He moved there from Wisconsin to go to art school because apparently you get some crazy scholarships for being a SingleSpecimenSpecies. |
| 247 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': A jackalope is among the residents of Gillitie Forest. Gillitie Forest is in the UK but appears to attract mythical creatures from all over the world. |
| 248 | * ''Webcomic/{{Huckleberry}}'': A [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/51/ newspaper]] shows an artist's depiction of a hoopsnake -- a snake spinning hula hoops around its body. |
| 249 | * ''Webcomic/PennyBlackfeather'': Antelabbits, also known as snow spirits, are basically talking jackalopes. The townsfolk think they're rats. |
| 250 | * ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'': A Jackalope is a resident in the Liverpool Avalon. |
| 251 | * ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'': During a camping weekend, Blossom tells a ghost story about the Hide Behind as the start of an elaborate hoax to troll Fran and Olive. ''(Apparently, there is a "real" Hide Behind. His name's Travis and he's visiting his parents in Arizona.)'' |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 255 | * ''Art/BeastFables'': Jackalopes are hares who become chimeras, animals capable of limited shapeshifting, and develop the ability to grow antlers. They're known to be most common in areas where they are lots of antlers and bones for them to gnaw on. |
| 256 | * ''WebAnimation/LongGoneGulch'' 's long-suffering mayor, Rhubarb, is a jackalope, as were his (taxidermied) predecessors and his secretary Marigold. In the pilot he loses one antler in a BarBrawl started by Rawhide and Snag and takes their sheriff badges as a result. |
| 257 | * ''Website/{{Mortasheen}}'' has the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/skwunk.htm Sqwunk,]] based on the Squonk, a useless byproduct of monster creation. Incredibly ugly, it weeps openly if its face is seen and dissolved into tears if it sees itself in a mirror. |
| 258 | * ''WebAnimation/NoEvil'': Jackalopes are the size of horses or cattle, and domesticated as beasts of burden. |
| 259 | * The [[https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus]], while really a creation of the Internet rather than bored lumberjacks, fits the bill as a pseudo-legendary, tongue-in-cheek North American cryptid invented for the purpose of fooling gullible people. The Other Wiki has more information on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octopus this famous Internet hoax here]]. |
| 260 | * Deviantart user [[https://www.deviantart.com/monstrumamericanum MonstrumAmericanum]] has a large collection of Fearsome Critter legends (with accompanying art), including many of the creatures described above. |
| 261 | * The Fur-Bearing Trout (or [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-2600-ex#:~:text=Description%3A%20SCP%2D2600%2DEX,covering%2090%25%20of%20their%20bodies SCP-2600-EX]]) is listed as an "Explained" by the Website/SCPFoundation, the result of an overzealous researcher who believed too much childhood folklore. Just because your job is to investigate UnknownPhenomenon [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome doesn't mean that everything you investigate will turn out to exist]]. |
| 262 | * ''WebVideo/TierZoo'': The Jackalope is one of the "cryptid" builds discussed in the AprilFoolsDay episode (despite, as noted above, not being a proper cryptid). In order to unlock the jackalope, a player would need to select a rabbit build and get infected with the shope papilloma virus. While the idea of a rabbit with antlers sounds promising, in reality, these antlers are actually tumorous growths. Because the virus significantly reduces the playtime of rabbit players, the jackalope was placed at the bottom of the game's tier list. |
| 263 | * WebVideo/JennyNicholson made an ASMRVideo about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZz-zGwTY4A converting]] a plush toy of a trout into a fur-bearing trout with a little bit of needlework. |
| 264 | [[/folder]] |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 267 | * ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'': One episode features the Giant Fur-Bearing Trout, an ancient being of sacred wisdom. |
| 268 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': |
| 269 | ** One of the shorts focuses on the Hide Behind, depicted at the end as a dark, slender, skeletal silhouette that contorts itself in various ways to hide behind things. |
| 270 | ** There's a [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gravityfalls/images/f/fe/S1e6_cute_biker_at_mystery_shack_fur_trout.png/revision/latest?cb=20120816014757 mounted fur trout]] for sale in the Mystery Shack's gift shop. |
| 271 | ** [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gravityfalls/images/3/32/Opening_monsters.png/revision/latest?cb=20131026193703 A picture of a jackalope]] appears in the show's opening. Mabel insists on calling them [[InsistentTerminology Antle-abbits]], claiming that Jackalope "doesn't sound right". |
| 272 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Jackalopes often appear as background fauna. They get along well with normal rabbits -- at the very least, a jackalope and a rabbit in Fluttershy's menagerie seem to share a den. |
| 273 | ** In ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]]'', a jackalope is the first creature to enter the human world when Twilight starts to open portals by accident. Spike starts chasing it, and that's what leads him into jumping into the stream of magic that gave him the ability to speak. |
| 274 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue1To4 the first arc]] of the IDW comic, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are attacked by [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] jackalopes with bright pink, blue and yellow coats and sharp fangs, at least one of which has moose rather than deer antlers. As the names suggest, these are very much the aggressive kind of jackalope and are also the natural enemies of the {{Chupacabra}}. |
| 275 | * ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': In "Where the Deer and the Mousealopes Play", Brain and Pinky put on fake antlers and pretend that they are [[LastOfHisKind the last "mousealopes"]] in a scheme to take over UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}. |
| 276 | * WesternAnimation/PixarShorts: ''Boundin'' features a sheep, despondent after having been sheared of his wool, receiving comfort and wisdom from a passing "Great American Jackalope". |
| 277 | * ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': |
| 278 | ** A Hodag appears as a monster of the week in Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''. |
| 279 | ** A jackalope appears in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheAlienInvaders''. Even Shaggy'd thought they were fake. |
| 280 | ** The DC ''Scooby Doo'' comics featured a segment, in which Velma describes several to the readers. [[http://johnrozum.blogspot.ca/2013/10/31-days-of-halloween-day-29.html See here.]] |
| 281 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'', the Cactus Cat makes an appearance in the episode "Cryptid vs. Cryptid". |
| 282 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheriffCalliesWildWest'': Bo maintains a pen filled with jackalopes. They're somewhat feisty and prone to trying to escape, but Sheriff Callie is able to rope them up with her trusty noodle lasso. |
| 283 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': One episode features a monstrous Jackalope named One-Eyed Jack. |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 287 | * There's a beer that's named after the [[https://untappd.com/b/nine-band-brewing-cactus-cat-kolsch/969435 Cactus Cat.]] |
| 288 | * Version 9.04 of the Linux distro Ubuntu was named Jaunty Jackalope. |
| 289 | * In a 1953 article of ''Life'' magazine, writer Whittaker Chambers referred to Senator Joseph [=McCarthy=] as a snallygaster. |
| 290 | * Sprecher Brewery, based in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, make a watermelon soda with a picture of a hodag on the label. |
| 291 | * Postcards for sale featuring pictures of various Fearsome Critters abound in tourist spots and gift shops across America. One such postcard is a photograph of the "Western jackalope"; the description on the back claims the photographer lured the animal to within range of his camera by using "a combination of bourbon, baloney and beer." |
| 292 | * In the early 20th century, the Cascade, Iowa Pioneer newspaper reported that it had been "reliably informed" that a creature composed of several different animals was seen in a pasture near Bernard, Iowa "eating up a horse." |
| 293 | [[/folder]] |
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