• The Lost Ship of the Desert is the subject of legends about various historical maritime vessels having supposedly become stranded and subsequently lost...
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    (Mexico) began to hear rumors of "Seven Cities of Gold" called "Cíbola" located across the desert, hundreds of miles to the north. The stories may have their...
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    Squonk (redirect from The Squonk)
    celebrates the Squonk at the Squonkapalooza in August. The first written account of the squonk was from the 1910 book Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods...
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    Mothman (redirect from The mothman)
    .. Something". The national press soon picked up the reports and helped spread the story across the United States. The source of the legend is believed...
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    of the Whale-Ship Essex, was published in 1821 and would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick. Chase was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the son...
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    Hodag (redirect from The Dag)
    from the ashes of cremated oxen, as the incarnation of the accumulation of abuse the animals had suffered at the hands of their masters. The history of the...
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    rounding Cape Horn. Mocha Dick was quite docile, sometimes swimming alongside the ship, but once attacked he retaliated with ferocity and cunning, and was widely...
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    being shipwrecked in Florida as a boy. In his Memoir he tells of the curative waters of a lost river he calls "Jordan" and refers to de León looking for it...
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    La Llorona (category Fictional female murderers of children)
    Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; 'the Crying Woman, the Wailer') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children...
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    Paul Bunyan (redirect from Babe the Blue Ox)
    customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox, his pet and working animal. The character originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers, and was...
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