The Lost Ship of the Desert is the subject of legends about various historical maritime vessels having supposedly become stranded and subsequently lost...

(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...

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...

.. 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...

narrowly lost in 1835, prompting his angry departure to Texas (then the Mexican state of Tejas) shortly thereafter. In early 1836, he took part in the Texas...

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...

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...

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...

in the U.S. are named after Geronimo: one each in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Texas. Also named after him was the SS Geronimo, a WWII Liberty ship. In the U...

The hoop snake is a legendary creature of the United States, Canada, and Australia. It appears in the Pecos Bill stories; although his description of...